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Show A A JL. A - m - - - - m 8l LAWMAKERS IN I BOTH BRANCHES I i BACK AT WORK I Session on Opening Day Brief; Dead Members Are Honored RECORD IS BROKEN I I This Will Be First Congress to Have Four Sessions WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. Conzresl convened at noon today for the spec- H lal session of two weeks called bv . i President Harding for considera' io-i of the administration ship subsidy hiM upon which he Is expected to address? a Joint session tomorrow. M ssluN SHOE I In both senate and Jiouse. the day beginning the new session dropped si , f w minutes after 12 o'clock and then j 'in both chambers there followed tho j usual formalities which attended tho turning over of a new page In concessional con-cessional history. Tho program on 1 "-V.WI diuim as 30 arraneo a 10 permit per-mit adjournment after these ceremonies ceremon-ies until tomorrow as n mark of re- spect for the lato Senator Watson of Georgia and the late Representative Nolan of California. Tho senate was In session only 13 ll minutes .adjourning without giving an j opportunity to Mr? W H. Kolton. f Georgia or any new senators, to take the oath of office. i:i i OIU MAUI With the convening of the sixty- : seventh congress In special' session at noon today, one precedent in Amerl- I can history is broken. The extra sea j slon. railed by President Harding pri-manlj pri-manlj to consider the administration ! ship subsldj bill, with the regular sen-slon sen-slon to follow immediately after, in- j euros a record total of four sessions for thJs congress, including the sj.ee- j lal session called in April. 1931, m congress before ever having had more than three, and it may have tho further fur-ther distinction of including the first woman member to be seated in tho senate. I1 'J &ER ioi;s UpPI n 1 1 i Just before tho senate convened in the hubbub of congratulations and handshaking, there was applause when Senator-Elect Bayard. Democrat Demo-crat of Delaware, entered the chain- I bers. There was another salvo for Senator Dodge of Massachusetts, v. t- I eran Republican leader, who was re- 1 elected and anotber for Si nator Ii-PolletvSi Ii-PolletvSi Republican, Wisconsin. Vie President Coolldge was compelled to order the applause stopped. Sixty-one senators responded to tho senate roll call ! In the house a new amplifying machine, ma-chine, usel for the first time, sounded like a ship's -ir.-n ns it thundered oti the voice of the speaker and reading C lerk. PHI S1DEXT TO SP1 b Mrs. Wlnnlfred Mason Huck, present pres-ent to be sworn In as representative at large from Illinois, was the center of an ever moving group, eager to meet her. Representative Alice Robertson, Rob-ertson, defeated for rc-electlon. who will go out with Mrs. Huck next March, was in her accustomed seat, dressed simply in black. In conference between senate and house leaders and White House of- " ficials It was arranged definitely for I Presldt nt Harding to take his message J to the capitol tomorrow In person, ap- pearing before a joint session In tho I hall of the house at 12:30 p. m. J |