| Show BOTH HOUSES OF j CONGRESS CON cm VENE In House and Senate There Was WasA A Full Attendance of Representatives Representatives RepresentatiVes and Senators ADJOURNMENT SOON TAKEN owing to Recent Deaths of ot Mem Jem Members bers bels x tr tf f Either Chamber Some Preliminary Conferences Washington Dec 6 Both houses of Congress convened promptly at noon with full fun attendance Crowded galleries representing off official official cial and social life lICo in Washington wi tho the commencement conlin on cement of ot the reu regu regular lar lr session of oC the Conr u today toda On tho the floor of or both houses a renewal of or friendships among amon senators find end representatives took the place ot of r Interchange on partisan or political matters Won When Vice President Sherman In tho and Speaker Cannon in th tho house brought down their avail promptly at tho the noon hour thero were few empty seats scats in the two The announcement of or the recent recant deaths of or Senator Johnson of or North Dakota and of ot Representatives LassI LassIter Ina l ter tel of ot Virginia and De Armond of or Mis Missouri Missouri caused cau ll adjournments today on both sides Bides of ot the Capitol In respect to their memories The rhe swearing In of oC Senator Fountain TJ T 1 Thompson and of oC Representatives W v W Y of or Washington and W J Moxley ot of Illinois will m not taka tak place Jace until tomorrow just before beCore the presidents message Is received and read Before the day Is over there will be preliminary conferences on both sides of ot the Capitol for tOI the tho purpose ot of laying out plans for Cor tho the sessions work Both houses of ot Congress at noon to today today day took up the work of ot the long session which may not adjourn until well Into the summer Although h since the memorable In Inauguration aUl day last st March these same sam senators and representatives have ha al aI already a aready ready done five months work In the tha extra session from March to August which brought forth the new ne tariff act net the session begun today Is ts tech technically the that first of ot tho the Con mess Gross mc s The Thet enate was In n session but 13 min mn minute ute the house session cession too was brief biet and the work In tn both was a n purely routine character The net result was waa that the president t was wa Informed that both s were V i ready reldy for tor business I any an message i he hI might see lit fit to send His response ronse r ll onse will wilt take tale talethe the form torm of ot his first annual tUurI the reading will constitute the th thI feature c of J tomorrows business SENATORS CAUCUS A caucus C of or the Democratic senators lias 11 been called to Wet meet at 2 oc ock to I ilsy to elect a minority leader to suc Buc ci Cl it tt Senator fena tor Culberson CUIl who retires on account of o III health The Tho Impi prevails that Senator Money will bo be unanimously but that th t he will wl decline to serve sene and that Senator Ba Bacon Bacon f con will be tho the choice |
