Show SEVENTH CONGRESS CONVENES flood of bills swamp first session of the house bill for binding of storage in arid states cable repeal ot bankruptcy Creat lne a department ot commerce and labor removing duty on hides among other measure of in terest in the W eat the fifty seventh congress convened at wash agton monday speaker hen derson was re elected over Pe presenta tive richardson of tennessee ia vote of to the rules of the last congress were adopted with slight modifications it was estimated by officials of the house that over 3 bills had been introduced before 1 clock there was much rivalry for the honor of in 1 no less than fifteen members having asked for this prece dence the ind are that the bill of mr mcleary restricting the sale of will be so des g bated when the records are made up the b Us took a w de range three pacific cable Us by depre senta tives sherman of new york cor liss of mid igan and jones of washing ton gave varying phases of this project mr jones proposing the north ern route via puget sound with an on of 88 and mr corl ss proposing a government bill and the mexican route while mr bherman offered the plan of allo ving private participation in the enterprise among other measures introduced were the following by sulzer of new ori protesting Pio testing aga ast tl e conduct of the war in south aar ea by chayer of massachusetts and bromwell of oh removing the duty on hides by virginiaa Virgini aG ving a ration to sold ers by Cousin iowa to repeal tl e bankruptcy by davidson of wisconsin to make subject to state 1 v s by plynn of oklahoma giantini Gi statehood to by of fennessee lenn essee great ing a department of commerce 1 ibor and manufacturers also amending tl e const tut on so as to define assaults on the pies dent vice pies dent men bers of the cab net and justices of tl e supreme court and giving congress po ver to fix penalties by jones of a corn mission to investigate trade with china and japan ly of colorado constina Cons tita dional amendment for woman s suf biage by cushman of wash agton for election of un ted states senators sena tois by popular vote by rodney of new mexico adm t ting new to statehood by cush nan of washington pro hi biting the location of ning claims in alaska by power of attorney by kahn of 1 form i the designation of certa n points on tl e boundary boun daly for the addiss on of aliens by curtis of kansas for the pun ashment of pel sons assaulting 01 killing the pres dent of fie united stated by newlands of nevada for the re cla mation of ar d lands by the i se of all moneys rece ved from the sale of lands in the and and semi ai d states the senate convened and swore in the new members and adjourned as a mark of respect to the late senator kyle |