| Show 1 i i I Ii OPt SI Sutherland of Utah First F st Senator t tTo To Appear on Floor of House 1 i I GALLERY ADMISSION BY CARD tf t J f i I i 4 I Members Have Begun to Fil Fil Clerks Dest With Bills Bis AN Af General 1 1 f I I Tho Session Promises to tn by b an al Un u ull BIO One Much Leg I l lI I I Deo 4 For an houi hou preceding the opening of 01 the Fifty ninth Congress there thero were of at in increasing creasing animation on 01 tho Moor and ani In Inthe th the galleries of ot the house haute ot tv Legislative veterans exchanged I cordial greetings und and newly k members member acquaintances Aj A early ealy as al 10 the ben began to fill 11 lon was wal by II card cae only und f many who 10 came cle to the Capitol un pro t vided hied thronged the corridor In vain efforts ort to tl gain admission Both the tle und and Democratic cloakrooms were places of o animated discussion lol ot or the recess weri and prospective legislation An n Index to thu tho of at tho seit e slon Ilon wu was tho Industry of or the Ile members mem r rIn In bills bis As many as us 10 10 public hud had been heen placed In the tha basket on 01 tho clerks desk before 11 Il measures of or legislation affecting afe Speaker Cannon arrived in his office Ni and for an n n hour und and a n hal be before rare fore the session lon began he held an en enthusiastic reception In his hl adjoin adjoining ing the hall hal of or the house ember of both parties went to n Fee eo him t and extended congratulations Half an 11 conI hour before betoT noon there was wal not an empty neat In the gallery galey long had tonne formed In tn the Ule corridors 1 I THE rIm SENATE HEN E Washington Dec t It was a I fa ra familiar scene at 12 1 today tody when Vice Viet President Fairbanks called the te senate to order with two strokes of ot th gavel There were few rew change ehan e In the membership Death hall had taken away II Senators Date late of oC Tennessee and ald Platt ot o Connecticut There Ther were no changes change among among th senate Tho first trl arrival on the tha floor was Sutherland of or Utah He Ho canin camA r rIn In about abul 11 1 and a 11 few to minutes later Senator Heyburn appeared From that time on there were er receptions In II 1 ever pa t of ot the chamber tho marble j room rom and the cloak rooms In the meantime the galleries had tle The galleries were well wel I occupied IB early el 11 n 10 Th reserved galleries s were opened lit lt 1130 1 30 but the crowd had harl taken near nearly l ly h ever Vel sent wat within live Ive minutes In Inthe II f J the th a o there were the families 1 of or many senators and men mIn in public life Mrs 11 and her daughter Mrs 11 Timmons were early arrivals They The occupied o the vice vie presidents sec section I Iton tion ton of o the gallery al e I In com company company pany with wih om ole friends Several members member of or the diplomatic corps were we present nt the first arrival be being beIng ing Minister of ot Panama The hc hum of or voices olee censed ceased when the vice Ie presidents lr gavel and Chaplain Everett Hale Ilde the opening prayer He le referred brief briefly ly Iy to the months since the senate had I Ih h n In session se Alon and to the tha work before the members He le concluded by b asking the senate enate to Join with wih him in the tle lairds senators responded to the j roll 11 call cal and the s president an nn announced that the th senate senat was leady to transact At 1220 tho senate nate adjourned ns B O I murk mark of or d t to the lata Senator I of 01 Connecticut j Tim THE HOUSE Washington Df 1 l f Exactly nt It noon no I MaJ Alexander McDowell clerk of ot tho A house culled that body bI to order stand lug ing on life hl place tn front of or ortho thu tho l chair which was vacant The full of at the gaval SR vel marked the bo b of or the I Congress Declaring the hou r In 11 order ho announced prayer by b Chaplain onel He Dr Henry M 11 Couden Tim Tho Invocation n review or tho peaceful I prosperous condition of or the nation I In ft n plea Jen for wise legisla legislation leI naton la tion and nl concluded 1 with wih n 1 repetition ro of ot Lords prayer A toll call cal by states to show tho pres presence Iru ence elce of o a quorum WIS at once begun I I IA A large umber number of ot members member worn wore pres present i ent every seat on the Republican pu side aide of or the hll being occupied with wih but few rol 1 vacant seat peat on tho Id dl I J J HI at 1 thu tho newly elected members member I tl I Iho who ho could coul not rind a seat Mat on tha Republican r lican side contented themselves with withstanding r h standing In the rear hall on that side I while a 1 number of or f members crowd the nit w with their Democratic colleagues tho lira win ic for tor permanent places At Atthe Atthe the conclusion of or the roll pall call Clerk Mc McDowell 1 Dowell announced member present n 11 quorum of at the tho congress con ress consent was objected ted to tont at nt tn In the proceedings to place mime of at n Marshall lar hall N DI Dl on till roll Cannoo was 1 In III nomination for speaker by b Mr Ir Hepburn Iowa towa the first of the session followed Mr Ir Williams Mis was wall nominated nn behalf of ot the lilt minority by II Mr Ir Henry Texas provoking Democratic Neither nominating and the roll call for election elA of or nt lit onca onlo proceeded led the fol following lowing telle supervising tho th tally lall r sheets I Michigan on non Don I Texas T and Well V X C j t |
