Show THE WORK BEGINS Irottcdiiisrs at the Opening of the Hfljflrst Congress Too lerdar THE SWEARING IN i 6F MEN DERSELECT The House Organized and Quit Neatly to Proceed to Jlaslees VARIOUS OFFICIAL REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON Tremonl flood tppolnted As hlan Culled Slalci Attorney for Idaho District By Telerraph to the N EWS 1 FimFIRST CONGRESS JrC ITI WASHINGTON Dec 2At noon today VlcePrvMdint Morton en tryst the Senate chamber The chaplain opined the proccodiurs with prayer The oatli of oflicc was adminls tcnil bj the Vlcelrc idint to Senators Sen-ators Chandler of Xtw Hampshire i Nathan F Dixon r Rhode Ilaud The credentials of Moody and Pettigrew of South Dakota and 1 f J uj Aunt anal Squire of Washington Ilatt moved the oath of office be administered The motion was antd to and the four newSenatona etCh escorted by a Senator flroleetl to the clerks desk and nmH nl plausu from the galleries took the oath ofofllce Hoar of Massachusetts I o offered a resolution for the assignment of them the-m Senators to their respective classes of long and short terms Re erred to the committee on privileges and election Mr Hoar said it had been the cus tom of tho Senate to assign new Senators to their repetitive classes as soon as they had taken the oath hut now for the flat time Senators from three States entered vulttan tially at the same time His rose lution he said roceedul on the theory that tile Senator stood on an entire equality with reference to their opportunity to ben be-n lIned to long or short terms The fact Hint the proclamation evidencing evidenc-ing the admission TilE T0 JHKOTAS preceded that of Washington by two days was due to the matter of distance the return from the latter state hid to come and it gave the Dakotas no just title to priority Inquired to ether there WaS anything In the resolution In refer ence to Montana Sothln replied Hoar I do not understand tliat Senators from Montana are here or likely to be hero very soon The Henators from Montana will loe nothing lay l not lacing included In tlii resolution Klmunds and Harris were ap pointed a committee from the House to inform the Pretldi f nn gross was ready to receive any com uiuiilcatlon he flay choose to mike A resolution prmldln for Ute continuance of the elicl committee on transportation and sale of meat products was agreed to Aldrich offered a resolution laid over ort seleet committee of nine senators to lie 1 called the quadra con tennial committee to which shall be referred all matters connected with thcprojxxed celebration of the four hundredth anniversary Of the discover of America Adjourned 1101 SR WASniMTN Idea 2At noon Clerk Clark called the House to order The roll call showed the presence of 327 members the absentees ab-sentees OXeil oflndiani Ilaudall > l Pennsylvania and Whithomi of Tennessee Jteed was placed In nomination forSpeaker by Henderson of Illinois Illi-nois The mention of nets name was the signal for applaum on the IW republlnn side which was n > urned with Interest by the demo CUltS when MeCreery of Kentucky nominated Carlisle The vote resulted re-sulted Jleed 165 Carlisle 151 Cum minp of New York 1 Itcedhavingleen declared Speaker Speak-er was escorted to the chair bi Me vinleyanl Carlisle amid npplau and the oath of office admlnbtered by Kelly of Pennsylvania Randal of Pennsylvania was paired with Wilbur ofNew York Speaker Reed said SIr thnnfc nn for tile high office which jour voices have bestowed on me It would hive been impossible not to be moved by its dignity and honor irf W 1 yet you may well imagine that I am nt tillS moment more improved by its responsibilities and duUes under oun sYSTEM OK OOVEHMIEXT as it has been developed These responsibilities and duties are boUi polItical and parliamentary So far as the duties are political I sincerely sin-cerely hope they may be performed with a proper sense of what is due ill the people of the whole country sofaraslhei are parliamentary I UopuwiUi sincerity they may be xrformed with a proper sense of what is due both rides of this cham ter Apflause To tlie end that I lul tn may be successful in carrying out your wihef I Invoke the considerate consider-ate and cordial aid of all the members of the House Loud and long applause The next step in the organization was the swearing in of the mem 11 r tcct and as they wern ranged 1111 squads of twenty at a time in the pace in front of Uie clerks desk the oath was administered by the Speaker The house then proceeded to the election of other officer Edward McPherson was elected clerk A K Holmes sergeant at arms G Adams A-dams doorkeeper James Ii = treUlf Wheat postmaster When It cameo came-o the election of chaplain there vas a fight Rev Chas H Rams iall the nominee cf the republican caucus was defeated t and the cbap lain of the list House William II Milburn the blind preacher was elected These officers were THEN SWOIt IN McKluley Cannon and Carlisle were appointed a committee to In orm the President Uie House was organIzed and ready to proceed to business Perkins of Kansas offered a resolution which was adopted providing for tile drawing of scats by lot On motion of McCreary of Ken lucky a resolution was adopted the ffect of which will permit ei Sfieakers Banks Randall Carlisle and Kelly of Pennsylvania to select ect their seats In accordance with IcCrearys resolution Banks selected se-lected a seat to the left of the Speakers Speak-ers desk well In front Randalls old seat was secured for him and CellypelectedUiat which he occu IL 1111se hid In lnaly years Carlisle selected select-ed a feat across the aisle from that occupied last eeaiou by Mills Then the lottery began and P roed the lucky letter the first d1I G iree names called lJihj Perrj Painter and Peikins Orosveno Breckeurldge of Kentucky Masoi Illinois and Cannon were favor lies of fortune and retained theIr old desk McKinley obtained n desk well in the centre of the Hou e with Hill of Illinois as a neIghbor The first tORTCNVTE JEW YORKERS were Farquhar who seated hlmse in front of McKinley and Fowler who chose tho scat which he occu pled before Ixxlge of Massachusetts Massachus-etts preferred tile companionship of McKinley and Hill of Illinois aDd Joined the little group which hat surrounded these Donular members Mills of Texas secured a seat much less aJvantaeeously situated than last season The drawing was thei concluded The Scrgcanl atArmselccl appeared ap-peared at the bar of the House and qualified Bayno of Pennsylvania offered a resoluUon directing the Speaker to appoint committee on ruler account ac-count enrolled bill and mileage each to consist of the same number of members as Is pro ided I for by the I rules of the Fiftieth Congress and referring tile rules of the Fiftictl Congress to committee on rules Adopted Adjourned |