Show CONGRESS OPENS i FOR BUSY SESSION t VICE PRESIDENT DA WE 8 CALLS SIXTY NINTH CONGRESS TO ORDER t I Many Distinguished Persons Peron are Present Pres Pru I t ent and Fill Galleries to Look LookDown LookDown Down on First Act of Law Body Dody j I II I Marked 1 by Insurgent strife even oven before It started the Six ninth ty-ninth con congress ress fleeted elected with Preal t dent Coolidge in 1924 went through i t tho the brilliant ritual of Its opening December seventh Doth noth house and senate convened t promptly at noon noon t A distinguished audience looked i down upon tho thu pits of the senate and the tho house of If if representatives as Vice President Charles G G. G Dawes and William Wit Wil f liam Tyler Page clerk of the house ascend ascended oil ell tho the presiding rostrums at atI I noon and tapped their gavels summoning sum sumS moning the new congress to the nations nation's nations nation's na na- na tion's business The scene more resembled a social function than a convention of the country's delegates met to legislate for national ills l Fashionable women and foreign ambassadors crowded the galleries and senators nd congressmen were garbed in their official morning coats The crack of the tho gavels hushed a abuzz abuzz buzz of conversation and a general round of handshaking among the assembling assembling as as- as i members and the big show i was auspiciously opened In the house Dr Shera Montgomery h Intoned a prayer aLd ad In the senate I Hov Itcy J J. J J. J Muir asked divine guidance Then the tho formal business was set Under under un Un- Un der way The Tho Democrats went the tho I I routine of organizing in a brief conference con con- ference before the opening They selected se so- so C. C E. E A. A Halsey Lynchburg Va as no confidential secretary to succeed sue suc coed the lato late Thomas W. W Keller Ketler L. L I L. L fl Diffie n. n lf f l Ar Arkansas k named 1 d to I L. L fl Diffie n. n lf f l Ar Arkansas k named 1 d to J i. i e ansas was name succeed Halsey as ns chief of pages The body authorized Senator Hod lied Robinson Arkansas leader lead I. I er lr yr to name the tho Democrats' Democrats nominee for secretary of the tho senate Robin Robin- son lion on chose choso J. J J. J Byrnes Dyrnes Monticello N. N NY y I F Prospects of ot a n bitter fight over the theL L L plans of Republican leaders to r repeal it tim the committee discharge provision of i house rules appeared shortly before tho lie lower body convened Representative Finis Fiats Garrett Tennessee Ten len i Democratic leader announced in a speech ho lie was in favor of retention retention reten reten- f rJ tion of the rule which permits a motion motion mo wo j tion to discharge a committee from if consideration of a bill upon petition t of ICO members and indicated that i- i the minority would present a II united front against the propos proposed cd changes fj The discharge provision was Incorporated Incorporated r d In the rules of the last congress con cou congress con con- gress at the of the gents Seventy-one Seventy Republicans joined joined join join- ed cd with the Democrats in effecting the tho change Should this number of majority members vote with the Democrats Democrats Dem Dem- It is likely that the proposal of Republican leaders will wilt be turned down w I |