New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-06
PARTIES FACE EACH
OTHER IN congress
Battle Lines Drawn When House
and Senate Meet for Short
Session.
CANNON CENTRAL FIGURE
Enthusiastic Applause for the
Speaker and Champ Clark
Many Deaths of Mem
hers Announced.
Eron The Trbuns Eursarl

| From The Tribuns Bureau.
washington. Dec. 5-The legislative
| struggle between the two great political
| parties is on again. The conabatants took
| their positions to-day when the House con-
| vened for the final session OF the 6lst Con
gress- For the last time until the ballots
are counted in 1872 the Republicans bear
| the responsibility Of administering the gov
eminent, and the Democrats for the last
| time play the negative part Almost a
hundred of the men defeated in the recent
battle for mastery of the lower house
stand On the lines of attack and defence.
/ including a large number of grim. stern
| visaged Republicans who will not serve in
q minority and e. few sad-eyed, detected
Democrats who will not share in the as
| cendancy of their party. With the con-
| tinual prayers, hopes and prophecies of the
| last sixteen years realized, the present mi
/ nority was in joyous mood and gave loud
| expression to its accumulated enthusiasm.
| The majority. satisfied that il has two
years CT prayer and hoping. was d good
| loser, and cheered its battered leaders and
| its fallen because they had fought good
| fight and have many more good fights left
| in them
In the centre Of the battlefield one figure
| stood prominent to-day. Il vas the same
| personality around which the contest has
| waged hottest for many years. and the
same fighter who has asked no quarter and
| given little in q hundred parliamentary
| struggles. Speaker Cannon gave the signal
| for the resumption of hostilities with as
| hearty whack of his desk as ever sup
| pressed an insistent insurgent His en-
| trance into the hall Of the House was at
| tended by applause in which Republicans
and Tenoncr2rc cd with
heartiness. The man who was abused
from every Democratic stump. who was de-
picted as one of the wicked by every Demo
| cratic pen in the campaign, received ap-
plause from every Democratic hand to-day
Cannon Most Unruffled Man.
The victors were generous. but not toward
q vanquished foe for of all the Republi-
cans who heard the tumult none could face
It with more tranquil smile than Uncle
joe Reelected by an Increased majority
by his own people. continuing his power
as Speaker as long as his party continues
| in power. removed from the possibility OF
being shorn Of that power by his own party
and able to 1ningle again with his col
leagues on an equal footing. Mr.. Cannon
was the most benignart parsonage on a
floor which bore other burdens OF great dis
!
end, of Michigan: Senator elect Gronna Of
North Dakota; Senator-elect Foindexter, Of
Washington; Senator -be-elected Hitch
cock, Of Nebraska; Governor-elect Tener Of
| Pennsylvania, Governor-elect Foss of Mas
! sachusetts. Lieutenant Governor elect
Reynolds Of Pennsylvania and the next
| Speak TO- be-elected. Champ Clark
Mr. Clark made q, dramatic entrance after
the House had convened and the benedic-
ton had been pronounced. His entrance
was timed SO that there should be no
rningling Of Cannon and Clark applause.
Southern yells, desk pounding, Chautauqua
salutes and all other known methods Of
expressing acclaim were called into use and
f the Speskership election had been held
to-day there IS little doubt that the Demo
cratic side of the House would have been
stanpeded-
/ The cant come back club was there
I N large numbers. Representative Tawney
offered his resolution for a committee to
inform the President that Congress had
convened in as commanding q voice as ever
ragged for economy in the old days Repre-
sentstives Parsons, Bennett, Cocks and Fish
smiled neaningly and refiectively into the
future J. Van Vechten Olcott led the Can
non applause. General Keifer, OF Ohio,
! $3.50"
( lameness neither to govt nor TO his seventy
two years. but TO the campaign. But he
declared he would come back again-sorne
cay. Many others swelled the club as pri-
Yates
Then there we're the victorious Eepubti
cans. and they were unusually thankful
Especially so was Representative John J.
Gardner who was long given up as de-
feated, and almost admitted il himself, al
though he now reioices that he had two
sensations for the price Of one.
The House heard the chaplain's prayer.
received the credentials of R. NJ Lively, OF
Texas; J J. Mitchell OF Massachusetts,. and
G T Massey, of Tennessee, rs new mem
be-s; appointed a committee to wait on the
President, and adjourned out Of respect 10
the memory Of Senators Clay, Dolliver. Nc
Emery and Daniel and Representatives
Foulkrod, Brownlou-, Ttrren and Gilmore
Deaths Of Four Senators Announced.
The opening session of the Senate was
short and impressive. Four Senator'S have
died since the adjournment last June and
official announcements Of their deaths gave
the dignihed proceedings today touch OF
sadness Nineteen minutes after Vice
President Sherman raped for order ad-
iorrnraent was taken until Tomorrow as a
tribute TO the memory OF Senators Daniel
Deliver, McEnery and Clay. 10 business
was transacted aside from the adoption OF
The customary resolutions One directed
that the President and the House be in
formed that the Senate was in session and
ready for the transaction Of business The
Senate also agreed to a resolution by Sen
ator Lodge providing that the hour OF
meeting shall be Y o'clock
The galleries were crowded long before
-he Senate met. Mrs. Sherman and
nsr+v Of friends occupied the seats in the
vice-Pres!dent's row. The floor was
crowded with clerks Of Senator's and other
ernploves Preceding the entrance CT the
! President the floor presented an AMI
mated scene The greetings were cordial
M discriminat ton being made on account
IF uolitics, factional differences or de-
tests or successes at the recent election.
senator Tillrnan, who was unable to attend
any sessions last year on account OF H.