Show CONGRESS CONVENES TES I SENATE GALLERIES CROWDED I WITH NOTABLE PEOPLE f n of 01 the Which h Occupied Two flours Hoars and Eighteen Minutes Minute Was a Received With Careful Care Care- Sal ful Attention Washington Dec Dee 6 When When the senate sen sen- senate ate convened for the closing session of the fifty fUh congress the chamber presented a a notable and beautiful ap- ap By Ily 11 o'clock the public land and private galleries were filled almost to their capacity with a distinguished assemblage including many ladies in brilliant attire On On the floor of tho the senate the display of flowers was unusually unusually unusually un un- un- un usually beautiful for the opening day of a session of congress The odor of flowers filled the chambers Just before the senate was called to order several well-known well members of the diplomatic corps appeared in the diplomatic gallery Among them were Sir Julian of Gr Great nat at Britain to the United States and dean of the corps with a party from the British embassy Mr Wu Vu Ting TingFang TingFang TingFang Fang the Chinese minister and party and Mr Ye Pum Puns Chin the Korean minister All were interested spectators spectators spectators tors of the opening scenes of the se ses session session ses- ses sion and attentive listeners to the reading of the presidents president's message The reading of the presidents president's message message message mes mes- sage which occupied two hours and eighteen minutes was received with very Tery careful attention for an hour but after that the senators drifted to the cloak rooms or to the committee rooms where they could peruse the message at their leisure in the printed copies with which they had been furnished Promptly at the stroke of 01 12 o'clock Vice President Hobart entered and ascending to his desk rapped for I order orderA A call of the senate developed the presence of sixty-seven sixty members member The usual resolutions were offered and adopted Mr Mr Cullom of Illinois offered one to appoint I committee a to inform the house that the senate was ready to transact business Mr lisle Hale of Maine another that fixing the tho hour of daily dally meetings at 12 o'clock noon and Mr Morrill of Vermont that to appoint a committee to notify the pr president that the senate was awaiting any communication communication communication cation he be might desire to make At on on motion of Mr Piatt Platt of Connecticut the senate senat adjourned |