Show ASSEMBLE FOR SHORT SESSION I Both Houses of Congress Called to Order Or-der at Noon December 3 Washington The Fiftyninth congress con-gress began Its last session at noon on Monday December 3 It took tho senate fifteen minutes to arrange Its preliminaries and the houso an hour Tho senate received from President Roosevelt a long list of appointments for Its confirmation and in executive session of nineteen mniitcs decided as tho nominations had been received before the body had been organized formally to make no confirmation until un-til tho presidents annual messag1 had been received and the session fairly fair-ly started Senators Penroso of Pennsylvania I Penn-sylvania and Foraker of Ohio came forward with resolutions of Inquiry regarding the discharge of tho negro troops of the Twentyfifth Infantry Ono was addressed to the president and the other to the secretary of war After the ripple of surprise had passed and Vice President Fairbanks had suggested that it was unusual to transact any business until the presidents presi-dents message had been received the resolutions went over by unanimous unani-mous consent Senator Dupont of Delaware took the oath of olllcc Tho routine of work of tho house incident in-cident to tho opening day was quickly dispatched tho roll call showing nearly near-ly 300 members present After tho appointment of the usual committee to wait upon the president and inform him that tho house was organized and ready to receive any communication he might desire to make of interest to the public service tho house adjourned out of respect to tho memory of tho deceased members |