Show In the House WASHINGTON Dec 1With the exception excep-tion of a few seats reserved for the Presf dents family and the diplomatic corps every available seat in the vast galleries which surround the chamber of the House was occupied early in forenoon by spectators spec-tators eager to witness the proceedings attending at-tending the opening of the second session of the Fiftyfirst Congress The steps leading lead-ing to the wide portal were utilized as resting rest-ing places and the opening of the doors furnished standing room only to belated arrivals The dull leaden sky which overspread the city served to make the hall rather Kloomybut the gloom was almost dissipated by the roars of laughter which came from the cloak rooms and by the animated conversation con-versation which took place upon the floor The Democrats especially woro joyous and the Republicans were obliged to put up with a great deal of goodnatured badgering with smiling countenances A tasteful pyramid of flowers adorned the speakers desk At noon Speaker Reed entered the hall and thn ran nf his cmrnl instantly restored order After prayer b > the chaplain the clerk proceeded to call the roll by states The call disclosed the presence pres-ence of 22T members and the clerk was directed di-rected to inform the Sonata that a quorum of the House appeared and that body was ready to proceed to business On motion of Cannon of Illinois a reso lution was adopted for the appointment of a committee to join a similar committee on the part of tho Senate to wait on the Pres ident and notify him that Congress was ready to receive any communication he may see fit to transmit The speaker stated that there were various va-rious credentials upon his table which he would present to the House The credentials creden-tials were then read as follows C R Breckonridge Second district Arkansas Willis Sweet Idaho I W Stone Twenty seventh district Penna and Clarence D Clark Wyoming These gentlemen then appeared at the bar of the House and were qualified Breck nridge receiving a round of applause from Democratic friends JohnS John-S Pindar Twentyfourth New York dist E R Harris from the Seventh Iowa district dis-trict and Robert Whitelaw from the Fourteenth district Missouri qualified as representatives notwithstanding the non arrival of the credentials The speaker laid before the House the credentials of David A Harvey as del egata from the territory of Oklahoma and upon motion of Perkins of Kansas the oath of office was administered to him The House then took a recess till 1 M to allow the committee to notify the President On reassembling the Presidents message was read The reading of the document conj con-j I uwUu WI U0U1 UCU U JLUU 2IJ LOU conciu sion of the reading Republicans warmly applauded On motion of McKinIeyof Ohiothe message mes-sage was referred to the committee of the whole Morrow of California from the committee commit-tee on appropriations reported the pension appropriations bill Referred to the committee com-mittee of the whole Adjourn Pension Appropriation Bill WASHINGTON Dec 1The House committee com-mittee on appropriations has completed the pension appropriation bill The amount is 135009978 |