The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-03
SIXTIETH CON-
 GRESS OPENS
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OA\xAO1 S& A& M
 (Continued from Page One.) tative Smith of Illinois, the latter hav- ..xs 4.ed only Saturday.
 With the completion of theforganiza-
 tion of the House, the swedring in of members, the drawing ot seats and the appointment of committee to notify the President that the House was in session and ready to receive any com munication that he may see fit to send. an adjournment was taken until to- morrow.
 Senate Conyenes.
 The Senate convened promptly at 12 uoon After Vice President Fairbanks
 sounded the gavel the proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of the Senate. Senator LaFollette was the first Senator to be recognized and pre- ssnted the credentials of Senator Isaac
 Stephenson of Wisconsin The presl- dent ordered that the roll of Sona- tors elect be called alphabetically and they were sworn in by fours, being escorted to the desk by their col leagues.
 All of the Senators-elect were pres ent in the chambyr except Senator Bankhead of Aiabama, who Is delay ed at his home by illness. Under the form observed by the Senate neither
 Senator Bankhead nor Senator John- ston can be sworn in until the deaths of Senator Morgan and Senator Pettus l have been announced. and as the Sen l ate will adjourn in Lheir honor, nei- | ther of their successors will be ad mitted until tomorrow.
 Messrs. Robert l.. Oken and T. F. Gore of Oklahoma, not having been l elected to the Senate by their Leg | A.r- mi rnraiVad inc 1 Senate, and their credentials will not
 be accepted until after the formal eiec-
 ton on the 10th inst. E The Vice President ordered the call | os the roll, and Senator Lodge ques- | toned the method ot procedure, saying
 his idea was that the roll should have been called before the swearing in Of the new Senators, but the Vice Pres ident maintained that for fourteen years at the beginning of Con gress the proceeding had been in ac- | cordance with this ruling. The roll kcall showed s5 Senators present Res- IsoIutions providing for committee to inform the President that Congress had | assembled and was ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make, were adopted. Senators All son and Teller were designated to wait upon the President. Senator Teller offered resolutions Of | respect to the memory of the late Sem | ators Morgan and Pettus of Alaba- Senate adjourned at A2:37 p. III. uii- | tp 12 o'clock tomorrow.
 Notables in Gallery. The reserved galleries of the Sen | ate were occupied by members of the | families, and friends of Senator's the official and social circles of the city being fully represented The diplo- 1nd | prominent members of the diplomatic corps. Shortly before noon Senators began arriving in the chamber and | moved about among their colleagues re- | newing acquaintances with those they
 have not seen since the adjournment | .ast spring. Senators who were to be
 sworn in were objscts of interest. not
 only to the members of the Senate.
 out tc the people in the galleries as
 well. They were introduced to the
 men with whom they would be asso-
 cfated during the next six years, and | briefly talked of the great work that
 ls before the present Congress.
 The absence of the flowers from
 the fiooi of the Senate was the result
 of the action taken by the comlnlt
 tee on rules. In the past 1t has been the practice of frends ot Senators to | send elGuorate floral pieces upon thu opening of Congress and they have made a most con sptcuous floral display The sending of large quantities of flow.
 CTS to Senators has grown so great ly in recent ySars that 1t was decid- ed to call hat % tho entire prac-
 tice.
 The House eOnvenes.
 Promptly at 12 o'clock Clerk McDow- ell entered the chamber accompanied
 by the veteran Assistant Sergeant at
 Arms Colonel E. s. Pierce, bearing the | t.r AVIA tw IAar NaHn tive bodies. The hum of conversation
 on the floor and in the galleries which
 had been incessant suddenly ceased and Clerk Mcdowell declared the body duly in session. Chaplain Couden immedi- stely offered prayer, after which the
 roll was called.
 given the privileges of the floor, was | Sir Courtenay Ebert, Speakers Court | Palace of Westminster, who is the | clerk to the Speaker of Parliament H. | was present as the guest of Speaker | Cannon, and occupied seat at the riglll | of the Speakers chair. The roll call occupied twenty minutes and showed | 365 members present,
 | Amid great applause on the Republ.- | can side, Representative Hepburn of l Iowa. nominated Joseph c. Cannon. of l ITinois. for Speaker. Equally demon | stratiye wefe the Democrats when Rep l resentative Clayton put Tn nomination.
 Representative John Sharp Williams of
 Mississippi.
 sion that Speaker Cannon would get a
 maiority vote. there was intense inter
 est taken in the announcements by the
 ,,sn,hers of their choice of candidates
 for nresiding office of the House. While the voting was going on neither Speak . | er Cannon nor Representative Williams
 was nresent, but their political follow l ars and the occupants of the galleries
 impatiently waited for them to be
 hrought into the chamber.
 The roll call showed the folio win g
 result for Speaker; Joseph G. Cannon, 1 2O7; John sharp Williams, l54. A com
 mittee consisting of Representative ] Williams, James of Kentucky and Sul-