Show flOWERS IN PROfUSION I Masses of Bloom Load Down Desks in the House I I RESEMBLED FLOWER GARDEN I I Opening Session of the House Brilliant Bril-liant but Not Exciting Like tho Senate Business Was Proceeded With at Once New Members Are Sworn InProtest Against Dolli yens Successor Taking the Oath as tho Form of Mr Dollivers Resignation Resig-nation Was Questioned Washington Dec 3rhe opening session in the House was brilliant but not exciting There were tho usual throngs In the galleries and the usual display of floral pieces on the floor but the proceedings were purely formal consisting of the rapping to order by tho Speaker prayer by the chaplain the rollcall of members the appointment appoint-ment of the formal committees to wait on the President and the reception and the reading of tho Presidents message Despite the fact that 0 great Presidential i I Presi-dential campaign had concluded within a month the best of feeling seemed to prevail between victors and vanquished van-quished The reading of the message which naturally was the feature of the day occupied over two hours I was listened lis-tened to with respectful Interest by both sides The deaths of tho late Representative Daly of New Jersey and Holfecker of Delaware and Senators Davis of Minnesota and Gear of Iowa were announced and as a further mark of respect to their memories the House adjourned until tomorrow COVERED WITH FLOWERS When Speaker Henderson called the House to order at noon the desks of half the members were freighted with flowers from admiring friends 01 constituents con-stituents and the profusion of the floral pieces gave the hall moro the appearance of a garden than a legislative legisla-tive assembly The floral pieces were tve Infinite variety Roses carnations and chrysanthemums of every hue were made Into every conceivable design de-sign The great proportion of the lowers low-ers were on the Republican side and one could mark the geographical limits of the victorious party in the present campaign by the floral area Here and there however an admiring constituent constitu-ent had deposited n bunch of flowers on a desk on the Democratic side They usually marked the seat of one who usual won a personal triumph I In the gallery the wealth and beauty of the capital was present gowned In smart winter frocks I HOUSE IS IN ORDER A rap with the gavel and a remark The Ilouse will be In order from Speaker Henderson commanded the assemblage as-semblage on the floor and In the gallery gal-lery to remain quiet and then the blind chaplain delivered a prayer In his Invocation the chaplain referred feelingly feel-ingly to the deaths of the late Representatives Repre-sentatives Daly of New Jersey and Iloffecker of Delaware which occurred oc-curred during the recess The Speaker then directed the clerk to call the roll When he concluded the Speaker announced that 275 members mem-bers had responded to their names n quorum and the House was ready for business The following memberselect then appeared at the bar of thc House and took the oath Albert D Shaw who succeeds the late Representative Chick erlng of New York Allen F McDermott McDer-mott who succeeds the late Representative Represen-tative Daly of New Jersey Walter C Hoffecker who succeeds the late Representative Rep-resentative J H Hoffecker of Delaware Dela-ware Edward D Morrill who succeeds the late Representative Harmer of Pennsylvania William Richardson who succeeds Gen Wheeler of Alabama Ala-bama W S Jackson who succeeds Gov Smith of Maryland Samuel D Woods who succeeds Representative Devrles of California DOLLIVEIVS RESIGNATION I Mr Bailey of Texas questioned the form of the resignation of Representative Represen-tative Dolllveiv He said he doubted the right of a member to resign at n future fixed date He said he would not raise the point formally but merely called attention to It so that In future It could not be used as a precedent Mr DollIverH resignation he said had been tendered to take effect December el 1st so that Mr Connor had been elected to fill the vacancy which did not exist at the time of the election He cited 0 court decision to show that l resignation to take effect at a future date was not 0 resignation In fact but simply a modification of a resignation to be made In the future Mr Bailey al he did not desire to press the matter mat-ter but desired the protest to be filed The Speaker stated that Inasmuch us objection has been made Mr Connor would step aside until the protest had been disposed or The Speaker announced the appointment appoint-ment of Mr Babcock of Wisconsin on the Committee of Ways and Means to succeed Mr Dolllver COMMITTEE ANNOUNCED Messrs Payne Grosvcnor and Richardson Rich-ardson were appointed to Join the committee com-mittee of the Senate to notify the President that Congress was In session and ready to receive any communication communica-tion from him The clerk was also directed di-rected by resolution to notify the Senate Sen-ate that tho House was ready to do business After the adoption of these formal resolutions the House at 1 oclock took a1 recess until 2 oclock when the Presidents Presi-dents message was laid before the House Its reading was listened to attentively at-tentively The reading occupied two hours and ten minutes There were no demonstrations during the reading but aa the clerk finished there was a scattering round of applause on the Republican side The deaths of the late Representative Hoffecker of Delaware the late Representative Repre-sentative Daly of New Jersey the late Senator Gear of Iowa and the late Senator Sen-ator Davis of Minnesota were then announced an-nounced and after the adoption of resolutions reso-lutions of rcgrot the House as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased members at 120 p m ad iou ined |