Show ALDER TAKES THE OATH Sworn in as Senator From Michigan A PRESIDENTS MESSAGE READ Close Attention Paid to the Document in Both HousesIn tho Senate a Number of Bills Arc Introduced Following Brief Executivo Session Resignation of Blind Chaplain Not Acted UponHouse Holds Session Ses-sion of an Hour ancj Forty Minutes Deaths of Two Announced I Washington Dec Inlorcst In the cession of the Senaic today was heightened height-ened by the fact that the Presidents mAui suge to ConsrcMJ would bo read and also that Ocn Rnwll A Alger of Michigan former Secretary of War under Prenlilont McKlnley would be sworn In to llll tho vncnnry caused by the death I of Senator I lcl III1III lllo desk and chair were hld ilen beneath u moss of flowers nil 1 as he look his scat In was surrounded by a number of lute colleagues who extended hearty coiiKraliilatlonn In the gallery were a number of Gen Algerii personal frlenda ant mombvrp of his family MT5SSAOI3 IS READ One hour Mid tifieon minutes wan con niirnfd In rending the Prealdenl s message mes-sage Almost the entire Republican repre penliillnn were In theIrs real I but not InHll hlbgc 71 nw lJr more than halt the Beats on the Democratic Demo-cratic wide were occupied The closest attention at-tention WIII paid tn th mejHage aH It was bPlng read aunt frequently Sinn tom would confer regarding Home apcclul Hurt of It which hnd attracted their particular particu-lar notice f MANY BILLS INTRODUCBD A number of the h1ll8 and resolutions were Introduced following a brief executive ex-ecutive I nesslon The resignation of Rev TV H Mllburn the blind chaplain of the Senate was re cclvd with gcnulnftregret He had become be-come n familiar figure In the body nnd ria per onally acquainted with overy Senator No action tvnu taken on the resignation At lro 1 p in the Senate adjourned until tomorrow out of respect to the memory of lie I Iftle Charles U Russell Rcpreacnla tlve from Connecticut WORK IN THE hOUSE The House wasln session an hour nail forly minutes today One hour of that time wan cunauniPd In rending the President Presi-dent nTSHfiRe The reading wan 1 Intoned to with attention bj mmb rs without regard re-gard to party hut without demonstration except iit the 1 conclusion of line reading when the Republicans applriudcd gen orouslv Mr Cannon chairman of the Committee on Appropilalloiib gave notice that thin bill lo defray the oxponfen of th eoal I strike commlRsloh would be callod uy tomorrow to-morrow D1CATIIS ANNOUNCHD Tin death of the I lalo Represenlallvea Di Grnffrnreld and Sheppard of Texas which occurred during tine icccsa Were announced nail otter adopting lh > ciif tomiiry rcpolulloiiH of regret thin IIoiiHe adjourned nt a further mark of respect to tljjtlr memortea o |