Show CONGRESS IN I SESSION AT WASHINGTON House Organized by Selection of Joseph G C CLannon Lannon as Speaker Big Fight Over Rules Senate Soon Adjourned PUt Out O t of Respect to the Memory of the Late Senators Morgan and Pettus Washington Doc Dec 2 A brilliant scene characterized the meeting of the Six Sixtieth Sixtieth I congress today In the senate and house of representatives there were wore no notable not notable table t bl gatherings In the galleries of rep representatives of the official society of the capital The coining co Ing together for forthe forthe forthe the first time of the men who have been elected to the senate and the house bouse about of whom have not be before before before fore served in congress made the occa occasion occasion sion slon one of particular Interest The striking scenes cene of the day were in tn tho the house of representatives where C the formal selection of Joseph G Can Cannon Cannon Cannon non again to be speaker of that body bod and the designation by the Democrats of John Sharp Williams as their leader ere occasions for ovations for those gentlemen The vast hall of the house f representatives rang with the cheers of Republicans and Democrats for their leaders and the speaker re received e as warm a reception from the minority as he did from his own party Cheers for Bryan The appearance of William J Bryan ca ell U the tho floor of the tho house also was the for enthusiastic cheering by bythe bytho the tho Democrats When the adoption of oC the rules for forthe forthe the government of the house during the Sixtieth congress came up the rules of the last congress were opposed by John Sharp Williams and he was Joined in inthe inthe the opposition by Democrats and by a single cingle Republican Mr Cooper of Wis The old rules WEre declared d to tobe tobe tobe be too autocratic placing too much rower in the hands of th speaker but after a somewhat acrimonious discus discussion discussion discussion sion they were adopted by a party ote Committees were ware appointed by both houses to inform the president that congress had met mot and was ready to I receive any an message ho he might wish to toi toC I i C New ew senators and representatives were sworn in and both houses ad adjourned adjourned adjourned out of respect to the memory of members who have died during the then n ess of ot congress House Called to Order Promptly at 12 2 clock Clerk Mc McDowell McDowell McDowell Dowell entered the chamber accompanied accompanied nied by b the veteran Colonel E S Pierce bearing the mace the thc of order in executive bodies The hum of conversation suddenly ceased eased and Clerk declares declare the body duly In session Chaplain ud n Immediately offered off rfd prayer after which tha thit roll wa was called An interesting spectator who was given the privileges of the floor was Sir fir Courtenay Ilbert libert clerk cleric to the speaker of parliament He was pres present present present ent as the guest of Speaker Cannon The occupied twenty minutes minutest t zit nd d showed members present Cannon Elected Speaker Amid great applause on the th Republican Republican lican side Representative Hepburn of Iowa nominated Joseph G 0 Cannon of Illinois for speaker Equally demon demonstrative demonstrative were the Democrats when Representative Clayton put In nomina nominate te i Representative John Sharp Wil WI Williams 11 barns liams of oC Mississippi The vote on the resulted Joseph G Cannon 27 7 John Sharp Williams Amid thunderous rous applause from the Republicans and Democrats alike Speaker Cannon was escorted down the center enter aisle to his chair by a com corn committee committee of which Wil WI Williams Williams liams Barns was chairman In a brief speech Mr Williams said the was the second highest office in the United States He had the honor he said for forthe forthe forthe the third time of not rot introducing but presenting to the congress the Honor Honorable Honorable Honorable able Joseph G Cannon of Illinois as its jt speaker feaker Speech of Mr Cannon When Then the applause had subsided Speaker Cannon said We Vo are today organizing the Six Sixtieth Sixtieth congress ss marking the one hun hundred hundred hundred dred and eighteenth milestone In the history of ot government by the people t the constitution Our predecessors sors in the years rears that have passed have left TO o us an example of wisdom moderation and courage that has hns never c failed tailed to preserve the ideals and the Interests of ot Republican government in jn inmany Inmany many crises whether of peace or war adversity or prosperity Each generation of statesmen has had its own peculiar problems and its C wn particular par embarrassment No problems of government ever recur in inexactly Inexactly Inexactly exactly the same way wa The formulas of action in one exigency may ma never be applied safely in another Govern Government Government Government ment so far as It relates to courses of action has no fixed precedents and no veneration for those who have gone be before before before fore Justifies living men In approach approaching ing lug live problems with purpose or with vision circumscribed by the limita limitations limitations of the past But the fundamental principles of ot free government are eter ral and unchanging resting on the will wilt willand willand and responsibility of the people and put in action through the deliberation and conscientious n representatives of that will House the Bulwark This house is the only institution under our constitution where that will of the people may be expressed with a fairness approximating to scientific s ac accuracy accuracy curacy curac Other departments of the gov government government government have lofty lotty and important functions but to this house alone lone be longs the peculiar the delicate and the function of interpreting and putting in definite form the will vIll of 01 the people This duty we must per perform perform form fonn ourselves The principles of the past may help us to the extent of oC showing us the points of the compass but beyond that we must depend on our own wisdom our own constancy our own Industry and our own On fidelity to duty du H H So for as the duty of organizing this house hOUM shall devolve upon me I Ishall Ishall I Ishall shall endeavor to perform the duty dut in is ina J 4 a way to Justify the confidence which your our selection implies and to promote the great purposes for which we are arc assembled But the duties of the hour rest not alone on myself They rest reston reston reston on each one of you individually Jally and on your integrity wisdom and conserva the people eople are relying as well as ason ason ason on mine I have a right to expect your cooperation because such tion Lion will ill be your duty I hope also that as we wo go on I may have It be because because because cause of ot my efforts to merit your con and good wilL I am now ready for the oath i Oath Administered The oath was then administered by Representative Bingham of Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania the father of the house and In turn the Ule speaker administered the thc oath to the members who lined up in lii L front of his desk in groups of twenty five When Oklahoma was called the Dem Dern Democrats loudly applauded the from the new state who bowed their acknowledgments The Th Republican and Democratic cau caucus caucus cus cue appointments of house officials then were presented resented I and the lican nominees elected The usual resolutions appointing committees to notify the senate and president that the house was in ses session session session sion was passed and the speaker named nam d Payne N Y Taw Tawney Tawney ney nay Mina Minn and Williams Miss as the committee to advise the I resi dent Fight Over the Rules The fight tight of or the session was in inaugurated Inaugurated inaugurated by Representative Williams VIII lams who protested against the adoption of ofa ofa ofa a resolution making the rules of the last house the governing laws of the present house Mr r Williams VII IIams asserted that too much power was concentrated in he the hands bands of the speaker To the delight of the Democrats Representative Cooper Rep Vis WIs expressed approval of what Mr r Wil ViI hams liams had said and added that the power pow r given the speaker was both un Republican and unDemocratic Mr Ir DeArmond Mo rose How much time does the gentleman want Inquired Mr Dalzell I want recognition In my own right as a member of this house houses said Mr DeArmond Attacked by De Dc Armond Speaker Sp alcer Cannon declared that Mr i 1 had the he floor and Mr DeAr DeArmond DeArmond mond mood reluctantly received at Mr r Dal Dalzells Dalzells Dalzells zells hands twenty minutes to attack the rules Mr Ir Er DeArmond asked the members why they desired to enslave themselves under such rules rul s It Is proposed to shackle the house by rules about which a good gool many know nothing and a good goo 1 many others know a great deal he l c said Now Is the time to change the rules he continued so that mem mern hers bers as cowards and cravens need not go back to their homes and defend Continued on Page 2 SIXTIETH CONGRESS IN SESSION AT WASHINGTON Continued from Page 1 themselves upon the mere miserable mi pretext that these rules had controlled them and they could do nothing else lse Ise Mr lr Dalzell could not conceive of anything more unnecessary than a li of the rules Iules They been the rules rutes of the last l st Congress and of the congress both Republican Republican Republican lican and substantially of the Fifty second Se ond and congresses both bl h Democratic Directing his remarks to Cooper and DeArmond Mr Dalzell DalzeIl said it was not for Cor a mn with a grievance to denounce the power of tt f tho the speaker which power had existed as it did today toda for one hundred years Explanation by Cannon Speaker Cannon at some length ox x to the house the preliminary situation at the time of ot the request of Mr lr DeArmond for recognition in his own right and also In reply to Mr lr Cooper who thought the speaker r should occupy a seat sent oil oti the floor The practice had grown up he said that gentlemen seek the tho th chair and the th the chair exercised Iris his ri ht an a J a member to say that It ft would woud be ba use useless useless useless less to grant recognition because If It no noone noone noone one else objected the chair ob oh object In his hla capacity as a member of the house He Ho said that the right of ofa ofa ofa a member to be recognized can an in most instances not be denied by the chair The speaker of the house he said is the theo servant of the house If a majority of the house acted under the constitution and tho the laws no speaker would dare to rail fail to obey the will of the people pe plc Mr DeArmond insinuated that the speaker had not answered him If the thc gentleman has not been an answered answered swe d said the tho speaker speak or suavely itis it itIs ItIs Is the misfortune of the chair or the misfortune of the peculiar state of or mind of the gentleman By a vote of ot to the resolution was adopted and the rules In the last congress con ress were adopted as rules for the th present congress Drawing for Seats The drawing of o seats then began the house by unanimous consent al at allowing lowing Bingham Pa Payne N Y T Keifer Kelter 0 O Williams Miss and Sherwood 0 O to select their own seats sea ts The ballot banot box containing numbers of ot all members was then placed in pos possession possession possession session of a blindfolded page who proceeded to make mako the drawings after those who had been allowed to choose their seats had made their selections The clerk clrk called the name on the tho list of members the tho num number number number ber that was called and tho the members took their choice of seats Republicans cans going to the left of the speaker and Democrats to the section on his right The Tue body of the house was the fa favorite favorite favorite location of members the first row of seats not being In favor Mr Longworth when his name was called caned selected a n seat beside Mr Huff the millionaire coal operator of ot Pennsylva Pennsylvania nia ula De Dc Armond Out of Luck Mr DeArmond did not have the good fortune to have his name reached un until until until til desirable seats had become scarce and he was obliged to accept a loca location location location tion near the Cherokee Strip on the extreme right of the speaker Bourke Cockran proved an exception exception exception tion to the tho rule in the selection of a seat When hen his name was called most of the desirable places on the Dem Democratic Democratic side had been taken and he sat down on the front row where he will be only twenty feet from the speaker and will have no difficulty In catching his eye Mr Hepburn la Ta had his name drawn the Republican side was well filled up and his old scat had been taken by Mr Lafean Pa Mr caught the eye of the lowan and reckoning him to his side shIes pre presented pr sent him with his old seat for Champ Clark The name of Champ Clark Mo was applauded He sat down In the last lastrow lastrow lastrow row near the middle of the Democratic side that being the best b st place in sight As the house filled up and the Re Republican Republican publican side offered oft red no more places members of the majority were obliged to go over on the Cherokee Strip as the row of seats under the gallery on n the extreme right of ot the speaker Is called There the Republicans are hedged in between the Democrats and the gal gallery gallery lery tery The selection of seats being corn com completed Mr Underwood announced the deaths of Senators Morgan and P Pet Pettus t and resolutions of respect to their memory were vare adopted Mr Jones Va Vu announced the death of Representative Slemp and Mr Ro Ho Rodenburg Rodenburg denburg Ill III that of George W Smith Ill IllA A committee to attend the funeral of the th late Mr Ir Smith was appointed by the chair Then the house out of ot respect of ot the memory of senators and representatives representative tives tive who had died during the recess of or congress adjourned adjourn d until noon to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow j |