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Show SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS NOW ON SIXTY-ONE SENATORS RESPOND TO ROLL CALL. ACTION IS DEFERRED I Program of Both Senate and Houm Wa3 so Arranged as to Permit Adjournment as Mark of Respect for Sen. Watson i Was'liinfcton. Congress convened at tioim Monday for tlie special session of two weeks called by President Harding for consideration of tha administration ad-ministration ship subsidy till. In lxth senate and house, the gave! beginning the new session dropped a few minutes after twelve o'clock and llK-n In both chambers there followed tiio usual formalities which attended the tnrnlnpr over of a new page in con-Kresslonal con-Kresslonal history. The program on Iioth sides was so arranged as to permit per-mit adjournment after these ceremonies ceremon-ies until Tuesday ob a mark of re-e-t for the late Senator Watson of Ceorgiu and the late Representative Nolan of California. The senate was in session only thir- toon minntes, adjourning wihtotit giv- Ing an opportunity to Mrs. W. H. Fel-ton Fel-ton of Georgia or any ne-w senators to take the oafh of office. Jn the house the business of getting get-ting under way after the recess took onsklorally more time, but the lenders lend-ers deferred any actual consideration of legislation until after the president's address Tuesday. There was th-e usual first day harvest of new bills and resolutions, res-olutions, all of which promptly went to the committee, and the opening ses-nion ses-nion was attended also by the usual noisy outburst of welcome by the galleries gal-leries to new and returning members. Sixty-one senators responded to tha senate roll call. Besides Mrs. Felton, .several other new senators were presented, pre-sented, ready to he sworn in. They included Senator-elect Bayard, Democrat, Demo-crat, Delaware; George. Democrat, Georgia, and Brookhsrt, Republican, Iowa. Mrs. "Winnifred Mascm Huck, present to he sworn in as representative-at-large from Illinois, was the center of an ever-moving group, eager to meet her. Representative Alice Robertson, defeated for re-election, who will go out with Mrs. Huck next March, was In her accustomed sev.t, dressed simply sim-ply in black. The house roll call showed 201 member's present. Six new representatives represen-tatives elected to fill vacancies, were sworn in and the house adjourned at 12:49 o'clock. In conferences between senate and house leaders nnd white house officials offi-cials It was arranged definitely for President Harding to take Ms message mes-sage to the capitol Tuesday in persoh, appearing before a Joint session In the hall of the House at 12:30 p. m. |