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Show FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS CONVENES Flood of Bills Swamp First Session of the House. Newlands' Bill for Building of Storage Reservoirs in Arid States Reintroduced Pacific Cable, Oleomargerine, Repeal of Bankruptcy, Creating; a Department of Commerce and Labor, Removing; Doty on Hides Among; Other Measures of Interest In-terest In the West. The fifty-seventh congress convened at Washington Monday. Speaker Henderson Hen-derson was re-elected over Representative Representa-tive Kichardson of Tennessee by a vote of 190 to 149. The rules of the last congress were adopted with slight modifications. It wa estimated by officials of the house that over 3,000 bills had been introduced before 12 o'clock. There was much rivalry for the honor of introducing in-troducing bill No. 1, no less than fifteen members having asked for this precedence. prece-dence. The indications are that the bill of Mr. McLeary, restricting the sale of oleomargarine, will be so designated desig-nated when the records are made up. The bills took a wide range. Three Pacific cable bills, by Representatives Repre-sentatives Sherman of New York, Car- liss of Michigan and Jones of Washington, Washing-ton, gave varying, phases of this project, Mr. Jones proposing the northern north-ern route via Puget Sound, with an appropriation of 88.000,000, and Mr. Corliss proposing a government bill and the Mexican route, while Mr. Sherman offered the plan of allowing private participation in the enterprise. Among other measures introduced were the following: By Sulzer of New York Protesting against the conduct of the war in South Africa. By Thayer of Massachusetts and Bromwell of Ohio Removing the duty on hides- By Otey of Virginia G:ing a tobacco tobac-co ration to soldiers. By Cousins of Iowa To repeal the bankruptcy laws. By Davidson of Wisconsin To make oleomargarine subject to state laws. By Flynn of Oklahoma Granting statehood to Oklahoma. By Brownlow of Tennessee Creat- I ing a department of commerce, labor j aud manufacturers; also, amending the -Constitution so as to'deffm. assaults oi the president, vice president, members mem-bers of the cabinet and justices of the supreme court, and giving congress power to fix penalties. By Jones of Washington For a commission com-mission to investigate trade with China and Japan. By Shafroth of Colorado Constitutional Constitu-tional amendment for woman's suffrage. suf-frage. By Cushman of Washington For: election of United States senators by popular vote. By Rodney of New Mexico Admitting Admit-ting New Mexico to Statehood. By Cushman of Washington Prohibiting Pro-hibiting the location of mining claims in Alaska by power of attorney. By Kahn of California For the designation of certain points on the boundary for the admission of aliens. By Curtis of Kansas For the punishment pun-ishment of persons assaulting or killing the president of tbe United Statef. By Newlands of Nevada For the reclamation re-clamation of arid lands by the use of . all moneys received from the sale of ' public lands in the arid and semi-arid states. ! The senate convened and swore in the new members, and adjourned as a mark of respect to the late Senator Kyle. ' ' |