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Show ffllilElOOElO : OPENING SESSION OF CONGRESS ' OEVOTED TO SERVICES FOR DEPARTED MEMBERS. V Reunion of Lawmaker Tinged With Sadnet Because of Heavy Toll i Death Had Taken In the Past i Few Monthi. I Washington. The closing aeMfrtfi i of the sixty-first congress opened a - non Monday. No business wax transy -iK'fv', -iU.h branched. rilolgjncrelj to appoint a Joint committee lorufty . to apprise the president that the 1gis-i 1gis-i lative branch of the governmei) was . ready lo proceed to call the roils, and ! to adjourn after adopting resolutions to the memory of members -who had , ! died sinew congress last met. 1 The usual animation marked the , ! opening In both ihe senateand house, . i but the reunion of old friends was ; tinged ''h sadness because of the ; heavy toll death had taken In the last . ! few months. ! In consequence, th senate was In ; session only a quarter of an hour, while the hoitre vas In aesslon fifty j minutes. i More than usi nl Interest was nianl-' nianl-' Ifesled In the opening, because of the passage of the halance of political pow-! pow-! !er lth the session. As a reuslt the galleries were crowded. Speaker Can-1 Can-1 non'a entrance In the house was the signal for prolonged applause, while Champ Clark, hailed as the next apeak- - er, was given an equally enthusiastic reception. |