Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-12-03
TAFT WILL TRY 10
 FILL VACANCIES Democrats in Congress Will Block the Presidents
 Plan However.
CONGRESS CONFINES
Joy in the House and Sorrow in the Senate-Clark and SulZer
 Cheered.

WdSuulS lOH, DcC. -.-- w llA CHCClo D for Champ Clark, William Sulzer and Joe Cannon in the House and With expressions of regret for the death Ot Vice President Sherman. Senator Ray ner and Senator Hayburn in the Sen ate, the concluding session of the Six ty second Congress began today.
 The Senate, after session of twenty-seven minutes, adjourned out of respect to the memory of the vice president and the two senators. The House sat for an hour and fifteen minutes and then adjourned also as mark of respect to the dead. This will be short session, but not an unimportant one.
 i Immediately after adjournment there were informal meetings of the members of 10th houses and plans were made for the swift dispatch of a big grist, including the Postoffice appropriation bill, bills ordering in- vestigations into the transportation monopoly of New England, the Money Trust prove and political racket which will be engaged in by MT. Taft on the one side and the Democratic senators on the other.
 
 intentions to make new appointments i to the number of one thousand or more and the Senators determination not to confirm any of them.
 The Senate will spend most of it's time between now and the Christmas holidays trying the impeachment against Judge Archbold, of the Com merce court After that it will take up the appropriation bills sent over l from the House. .Itsis~a very -lpourn- 1 ful Senate just now for this Is the final strut it will have upon the poli- tical stage as a Republican body. i All the galleries in both houses were crowded for the opening. Sixty six senators were in their seats and 275 answered roll call in the House.
 Champ Clark got a big hurrah when he came into the House few minutes before noon to declare Con- gross officially in business at the old stand. The enthusiasm was so great that he broke two, ,gavels trying to restore order. As result he did not have a whole gavel left when William Sulzer, governor-elect of New York, | l other yell went around the chamber. The speaker, smiling good naturedly, let the cheers for Sulzer run their course.
 Then Jim Mann, minority leader, happened in and the Republicans started a cheer for him in which the Democrats joined. About tha. time "Uncle Joe" Cannon, who will not come back next year, and perhaps never in this life as representative, came strolling in from the cloak room.
 There's Uncle Joe, shouted man near the door and shout for the ex- Speaker went to the roof and echoed back again.
 The first bill dropped into the House hopper was one proposing a general reform of the currency sys- tenn, drawn by former Reresentative Fowler, of New Jersey.
 It was followed by fourteen other general bills and sixty-two private measures.
 Proceedings in the Senate today were unusually brief owing to the deaths during the recess of Vice President Sherman and Senators Ray ner, of Maryland. and Hepburn, o1 Idaho.
 Tomorrow morning, in order to ac- commodate itself to the previous or. der, requiring it to sit as an improve: ment court at 12:30, the Senate will meet at II o'clock. This will give time to receive the presidents mes- sage and transact such routine busl- ness as may come up before proceed ing with the trial Of Judge Robert w ArchbOld.