The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-04
Senate Requires Only Fifteen
Minutes to Get Through;
House an Hour.
BURROWS WILL CALL UP
THE SM00T CASE MONDAY
President Sends to Senate Ap-
pOintments to Make Nu-
merOus Cabinet Changes.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The Fifty
ninth Congress began its last session at
| noon TODAY Ii took the Senate fifteen
minutes to arrange its prellminaries, and
| the House an hour. The Senate received
! from President Roosevelt a long list
of appointments for It's confirmation,
| and in executive session of nineteen
minutes decided, as the nominations had
| been received before the body had been
organized formally, to make no con
frmations until the President s annual
message had been received and the ses~
sion fairly started.
Senators Penrose OF PENNSYLVANIA and
Foraker of Ohio came forward with
resolutions of inquiry regarding the dis"
charge of the negro troops of the Twen-
ty-ffth infantry One was addressed to
retary of War. After the ripple of sur
prise had passed and Vice-Presldent
Fairbanks had suggested that it was
unusual TO transact any business until
the President 8 message had been re-
celved, the resolutions went over by
unanimous consent.
New Senator Sworn In.
Senator Dupont of Delaware took the
oath OF office. The opening of the two
houses was witnessed by an animated
throng which filed the galleries to their
capacity. Hundreds went away disap-
pointed in not gaining admission to
witness the session of either Senate or
House
Not in years has a larger number of
members select of the lower house of
Congress presented themselves at the
Speaker s desk to take the oath of of
flee. Death has been unusually active
among the membership during the clos
ing days of the last session and the be-
ginning of the present, and Chaplain
Couden feelingly called the attention of
the body to the work of the grim reaper
during the months since adjournment
Speaker Cannon appointed Represen-
tative James r. Mann of Illinois as a
member of the Board of Regents of the
Smithsonian Institution. vice Robert r.
Hit of Illinois, deceased.
Galleries Crowded Early.
The galleries of the House were
crowded at an early hour The absence
of flowers from the desks of the mem
bers was much commented on, but the
order of the Speaker, prohibiting the
floral display, was generally commended
for its good sense. A similar rule was
made in the Senate two years ago
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, daughter of
the President, occupied a seat in the
executive gallery, accompanied by Miss
Hagner, social secretary of the wife OF
the President.
The routine work of the House Incl
dent to the opening day was quickly
dispatched, the roll call showing nearly
300 members present.
Representative Bourke Cochran of
New York, who recently married Miss
lde, was the subject of hearty laughter
when his personal request that he be
permitted TO absent himself for an in
definite period on account Of business
NyoS 1or hatn IN 4 L.,
Speaker.
House Soon Adjourns.
After the appointment of the usual
committee to wait upon the Presid ent
and inform him that the House was
organized and ready to receive any
communication he might desire to make
OF interest to the public service, the
House adjourned out of respect to the
memory of the deceased members.
President Roosevelt s message viii be
received, both in House and Senate,
the Senate In the House there were
thirty-eight public measures and $50
OF private character.
smoot Case Up Monday.
Senator Burrows, chairman Of the
Senate Committee on Privileges and
ELECTIONS, has announced that he will,
on Monday next, bring up the report
against Senator Reed Smoot of Utah
being permitted To retain his seat.
The President today sent the follow
ing nominations TO the Senate;
Secretary of the Treasury-George 3.
Cortelyou.
Attorney General-Charles j. Bona.
partc.
Postmaster. .General-George L.. Won
Meyer.
Secretary of the Navy-Victor H.
Metcalf
Secretary of the Interior-James r.
Garfield
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Oscar s. Straus.
Associate Justice Supreme Court
William II. Moody.
Arthur w Merrifeld. United States
Marshal for the district Of Montana.
The first Cabinet shift will take
place about the first of the year, when
Mr.. Moody will take his place on the
Supreme Court bench, Mr Bonaparte
Will then go to the Department Of Jus.
tice. Mr.. Straus will enter the Cabinet
as Secretary Of Commerce and Labor
and Mr.. Metcalf Will become Secretary
of the Navy. Mr. Shaw will retire
the treasury portfolio, and will be sue
ceeded AS Postmaster General by
George Won l.. Meyer. the present EN-
bassador to st. Petersburg. Mr.. Gar.
hcld Will succeed Secretary Hitchcock
as head of the Interior department at
the same time.
Senator Foraker Explains,
Senator Foraker explained tch pur~
poses of his resolution in an interview.
as follows:
1.-THE resolution speaks for itself. I
cannot discuss it. L will say, however.
l have no purpose Of raising the race
question, The question involved is
broader, 1t would be unfortunate to
have it narrowed down by drawing the
collar Line, il concerns white as well