Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-04
Hosts Turned Away,
Failing to Gain
Admittance
Resolutions of Inquiry
Regarding Negro
Troops Filed
Ignoring the Presidents Message, to
Which Custom Gives Right of WAY,
Senators Press Browns
willie Incident
BY Associated Press.

by Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The fifty
ninth congress began it's last session
at noon today.
1t took the senate fifteen minutes to
arrange it's prelimnaries, and the house
an hour
The senate received from President
Roosevelt a long list of appointments
for its confirmation, and in an executive
session of nineteen minutes decided, as
the nominations had been received be-
fore the body had been organized for
mally, to make no combinations until
the presidents annual message had
been received and the session fairly
started.
Senators Penrose of Pennsylvania
and Foraker of Ohio came forward with
resolutions of inquiry regarding the
discharge of the negro troops of the
Twenty-fifth infantry. One was .ad-
dressed to the president and the other
to the secretary of war.
After the ripple os surprise had
PISSED and Vice President Fairbanks
had suggested that it was unusual to
transact any business until the presf-
dents message had been received, the
resolutions went over by unanimous
consent.
Senator Dupont of Delaware took the
oath of office.
The opening of the two houses was
witnessed by an animated throng
which filled the galleries to their
capacity Hundreds went away disap-
pointed in not gaining admittance to
witness the session of either senate or
house.
New Members There
Not in years has larger number of
members elect of the lower house of
congress presented themselves at the
speakers desk to take the oath of
office.
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 O-aplain
Coudar feelingly called the attention
of the body to the work of the grim
reaper during the months since ad-
jcurnment.
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.
The galleries of the house We're
crowded at an early hour. The absence
OF flowers from the desks of the men,
bers was much commented on, but the
order of the speaker prohibiting the
floral display was generally COM
mended for it's good sense. The similar
rule was made in the senate two years
ago.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, daughter of
the president, occupied seat in the
executive gallery, accompanied by Miss
Hagner, social secretary of the wife of
the president.
Three Hundred Present
The routine work of the house Incl
dent to the opening day was quickly
dispatched, the roll call showing nearly
800 members present.
Representative Bourke Cochran of
New York, who recently married Miss
Ide, 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
was laid before the house by the
speaker.
After the appointment of the usual
committee to wait on the president and
inform him that the house was or
ganized and ready to receive any COM
munication 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 RoQsevelt's message will
he received both in the house and
senate tomorrow.
No bills were introduced in the
senate.
In the house there were thirty-eight
public measures and $50 Of a private
character.