804 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



Mr. Clymer. 1 move that the House now take a recess. 



The Diotion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 5 o'clock p. ni.) the 

 House took a recess until 7 o'clock and 45 minutes p. m. 

 January 16, 1879 — Evening Session. 



At five minutes before 8 o'clock the Senate of the United States, 

 preceded by the Sergeant-at-Arms and the Chaplain, and headed by 

 the Vice-President of the United States, with the Secretary of the 

 Senate, entered the Hall -and were properly announced, and the Vice- 

 President took his seat on the right of the Speaker, and the Senators 

 took the seats assigned them. 



At 8 o'clock the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the 

 Supreme Court and the President of the United States and the mem- 

 bers of the Cabinet entered the Hall, were properly announced, and 

 were conducted to the seats assigned them. 



The Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr. S. J. Randall) 

 then called the assembly to order, and, after announcing the occasion 

 of the meeting, presented his official gavel to the Vice-President, who 

 thereupon presided, supported by the Speaker. 



The Vice-President (Mr. W. A. AVheeler). The Senators and 

 Members of the Congress of the United States, in pursuance of the 

 resolutions of their respective bodies, have assembled for the purpose 

 of taking part in the services to be observed in memory of Joseph 

 Henry, late secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, under the auspices 

 of the Regents of that Institution. 



The Vice-President then announced that the exercises would be com- 

 menced by prayer from Rev. Dr. McCosh, the president of the Col- 

 lege of New Jersey, at Princeton. 



The memorial services were then proceeded with, the Vice-President 

 announcing each of the speakers by name, in accordance with the order 

 of exercises arranged and adopted by the executive committee of the 

 Board of Regents. 



The Vice-President, after the concluding prayer by the Chaplain of 

 the Senate (at 11 o'clock p. m.), announced that the exercises of the 

 evening were closed; whereupon the President of the United States with 

 his Cabinet, the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme 

 Court, and the Senate of the United States with the Vice-President, 

 retired from the Hall. 



The Speaker. The object of this evening's session, as provided for 

 by the order of both Houses of Congress, having been fittingly realized, 

 the duty remains to me to declare this House adjourned until to-morrow 

 at 12 o'clock. 



Note. — Memorial exercises at the Capitol. 



Announcement by executive committee of the Regents. 



Introductory prayer l)y Rev. Dr. James McCosh. 



Hon. Hannibal Hamlin's address (read by Vice-President Wheeler). 



