The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
1t Was Opened Today to Re-
wise Tariff.
First Democratic Control for
Eighteen Years.
CLARK is ELECTED SPEAKER
Mann Was Given Ill Votes and
MurdOck Only Is.
Underwood Drops Tariff Revi-
sion in the Hopper.
MATTERS BESIDE THE TARIFF
Currency, Philippines, Canal,
Government Ownership.
But New Revision Will Be Real
Dragon to Destroy.
Mann Was Given Ill Votes and
MurdOck Only Is.
Underwood Drops Tariff Revi-
sion in the Hopper.
MATTERS BESIDE THE TARIFF
Currency, Philippines, Canal,
Government Ownership.
But New Revision Will Be Real
Dragon to Destroy.

The day i'm congress. Senate: Met
at noon and organization perfected.
L. Y. Sherman of Illinois and Nathan
Cor of West Virginia sworn i'm. Sem
ator Hitchcock introduced a currency
bill.
House: Met at noon. New menu
bers were sworn in and organization
was perfected. Representative Henry
introduced a bill to have homes for
American diplomats in foreign capi-
tails.
Resolution to change Inauguration
day to April by constitutional amend
ment introduced by Representative
Henry.
Progressives recognized by assign
ment of Representative Murdock to
ways and means committee and Rep
resentative Chandler to rules Commit
tee.
Representative Underwood intro
duced new tariff bill which includes
an income tax provision and provides
for a reduction of duty on many ar
ticles besides placing others on the
free list.
Washington. April THE Sixty
third congress, the first in many years
with the followers of Thomas Jefferson
in a majority, began business at noon.
Just as Speaker Clark was dropping
his gavel in the house, Majority Lead
er Underwood dropped the tariff re-
vision bill into the hopper and there
by officially started business that
promises to keep congress at work
through the Washington dog days''
and well into August
The house this afternoon re-eIected
Speaker Clark. He received 271 votes:
James r. Mann, of Illinois, Republi-
can, received Ill votes, and Victor
Murdoch of Kansas, Progressive, re-
ceived Is votes. Four Progressive Re
publicans voted for Cooper of Wiscon-
sin. Cooper voted for Nelson of Min
nesota.
While the legislators were finding
their new seats, a procession of wo-
men suffragists, representing every
congressional district in the United
States, invaded the capitol, and pre-
sented petitions demanding a constitu-
tional amendment for equal suffrage.
In the house the days proceedings
were principally of organization. The
reelection of Speaker Clark, was the
first business after about a hundred
the new senators, however, had been
sworn in on inauguration day.
The strict formality that has char
acterized the opening of congress for
years, was shattered when a young
man in the gallery of the senate tried
to halt a recess of that body by cries
of "Mr. Chairman" Galleries were
filled with women suffragists and for
time it was thought the demonstra-
ton was part of the suffrage advance
upon the congress. The man who gave
his name as George B. Clemmer of
Monroe, n. c., said he was a herald
ne fIA rlr-fr1 NF 49,
Vice President Marshall called the
senate to order and administered the
oath to Senators-elect Sherman of n
linois and Goff of West Virginia.
Washington, April IA complete
revision of the tariff law; modification
of the nations currency system;
proposals for Philippine independence.
for repeal of the Panama canal free
toll provision, and for the immediate
construction of government owned
railways in Alaska, are the chief prob
lens confronting the first session of
the Sixty-third congress- beginning at
noon today
Summoned by President Wilson for
the express purpose of revising the
tariff, the new congress faces extreme
pressure from many quarters for early
action on the other subjects named.
Whether any of these other than the
tariff will be taken up during the
special session depends upon the pro-
gress made with the tariff revision,
and the success that may attend pre-
liminary work upon a general cur
rency reform bill.
For the first time in eighteen years,
congress assemblies with both branches
under control of the Democrats, and
with a Democratic president to CO.
operate in shaping its policies, and to
approve it's acts. The tariff law to be
passed by the special session that
opens today will be the first general
Democratic revision of the revenue
laws since the act of August 27, 1894
known to history as the Wilson
German law" and which President
Cleveland allowed to become a Law
without his signature.
New Faces in Both Houses.
Scores of familiar faces were abb
sent IN both houses. In the house,
the complete change in the seating
arrangements had made even old
members strangers to the scene. In
place of the mahogany desks and
swivel chairs tc which members had
clung for many years, stiff rows OF
leather upholstered benches. arranged