The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-12-07
SHORT Session
CONGRESS BEGINS
OPENING DAY Is GIVEN UP TO
PRELIMINARIES IN BOTH
HOUSES.
Brilliant Throng in Galleries-Senate
Receives the Presidents Appoint
ments, but Waits for Message Be-
fore Confirming Them.

Washington, Dec. 4.-The fifty
ninth congress began its last session
at noon Monday. 1t took the senate
Is minutes to arrange it's preliminar-
les and the house an hour, The SEN
ate received from President Roose-
welt long list of appointments for
its confirmation, and in an executive
session of 10 minutes decided, as the
nominations had been received before
the body had been organized formally,
to make no combinations until the
presidents annual message had been
received and the session fairly start
ed.
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 of surprise had passed and
Vice President Fairbanks had sug.
gested that it was unusual to trans
act any business until the presidents
message had been received, the reso-
lutions went over" by unanimous
consent. Senator Dupont of Delaware
took the oath of Office.
Galleries Are Crowded.
The opening of the two houses was
witnessed by an animated throng
which filled the. galleries to their
capacity. Hundreds went away dis
appointed in not gaining admission
to witness the session of either senate
or house.
Not in years has a larger number
of members-elect of the lower house
of congress presented themselves at
the speakers dsek to take the oath of
Office. Death has been unusually &C
tive among the membership during
the closing days of the last session
and the beginning 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 Repre-
sentative James r. Mann, of Illinois,
as member of the board of regents
of the Smithsonian Institute, vice
Robert R. Hit, of Illinois, deceased.
Seven Cabinet Changes.
Seven cabinet changes and one ap-
pointment to the supreme court bench
were sent to the senate by President
Roosevelt, but they were not con-
firmed Immediately in accordance
with general customs concerning such
important nominations. Heretofore,
the committees have been polled on
the floor of the senate in executive
session on cabinet appointments and,
out of courtesy to the president, i'm
mediately confirmed The reason adj
vanced for the change in the program
is that no message of any character
had been received from the president,
and therefore it would not be proper
to transact business.
List of Nominees.
The important nominations follow:
Secretary of the Treasury-George
B. Cortelyou.
Attorney General-Charles ]. Bona
parte.
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. Strauss.
Associate Justice of Supreme Court
William HI. Moody.
Civil Service Commissioner-John
Avery McIlhenny, Louisiana.
Interstate Commerce Commission
ers-Edgar E. Clark, Iowa; James S.
Harlan, Illinois; Judson c. Clements,
Georgia.
Officials of the United States Court
for China-Judge, Lebleus r. Whitley,
Missouri district attorney, Arthur
Bassett, Missouri; marshal, Orvice R.
Leonard, Michigan; clerk, Frank E.
Hinckley, California.
Minister to Panama Herbert G.
Squiers, New York.
Secretaries of Embassies-Spencer
F. Eddy, Illinois, at Berlin; H. P.
Dodge, Massachusetts,, at Toxic.
Second Secretaries of Embassies
George Post Wheelock, Washington,
at Toxic; Paxton Hibben, Indiana, at
Mexico.
Third Secretary of Embassy-Basil
Miles, Pennsylvania, at st. Peters
burg.
Secretaries of Legations-Charles
s. Wilson, Maine, at Havana; w. M.
Langhorne, Virginia, at Christiania,
Norway; William Heimke, New York,
at Havana
Consul General-William p. Kent,
Virginia, at Guatemala, Guatemala.
Consuls-George A. Bucklin, Jr.,
Oklahoma, at Glauchan, Saxony; H.
s. Brunot, Pennsylvania, at Jeres de
la Frontera, Spain; A. w. Brickwood,
Jr., Arizona, at Peurto Cortes, Hon
duras; ]. G. Carter, Georgia, at Tama-
tave, Madagascar; E. L. Harris, ILL
nois, at Smyrna, Turkey; w. L. Low
rie, Illinois, at Weimar, Germany;
Thomas P. Norton, Ohio, at Chem
nitz, Saxony; A. G. Seyfert, Pennsyl-
vania, at Collingwood, Ont; J. H.
Shirley IlIinois 'at Char1offetoun p