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CONGRESS. (ORGANIZATION.) 



Oregon. 

 1. Thomas H. Tongue, R. 2. Malcolm A. Moody, R. 



Pennsylvania. 



G. A. Grow, At large, R. 14. 



R. H. Foerderer, " R. 15. 



1. H. H. Bingham, R. 16. 



2. Robert Adams, Jr., R. 17. 



3. Henry Burk, R. 18. 



4. James R. Young, R. 19. 



5. Edward Morrell, R. 20. 

 . Thomas S. Butler, R. 21. 

 7. Irving P. Wanger, R. 22. 

 S. Howard Mutchler, D. 23. 

 9. Henry D. Green, D. 24. 



10. H. Burd Cassel, R. 25. 



11. \Villiam Counell, R. 26. 



12. Henry W. Palmer, R. 27. 



13. George R. Patterson, R. 28. 



M. E. Olmsted, R. 

 Charles F. Wright, R. 

 Elias Deemer, R. 

 Rufus K. Polk, D. 

 Thaddeus M. Mahon, R. 

 Robert J. Lewis, R. 

 Alviu Evans, R. 

 Summers M. Jack, R. 

 John Dalzell, R. 

 William H. Graham, R. 

 Ernest F. Acheson, R. 

 Joseph B. Showalter, R. 

 Arthur L. Bates, R. 

 Joseph C. Sibley, R. 

 James K. P. Hall, D. 



1. Melville Bull, K. 



Rhode Island. 



2. Adin B. Capron, R. 



South Carolina. 



1. William Elliott. D. 5. D. E. Finley, D. 



2 W. J. Talbert, D. 6. Robert B. Scarborough, D. 



3. A. C. Latimer, D. 7. A. F. Lever, D. 



4. J. T. Johnson, D. 



South Dakota. 



Charles H. Burke, At large, R. Eben W. Martin, At large, R. 

 Tennessee. 



1. W. P. Brownlow, R. 6. John W. Gaines, D. 



2. Henry R. Gibson, R 7. L. P. Padgett, D. 



3. John A. Moon, D. 8. Thetus W. Sims, D. 



4. Charles E. Suodgrass, D. 9. Rice A. Pierce, D. 



5. J. D. Richardson, D. 10. M. R. Patterson, D. 



1. Thomas H. Ball, D. 

 2. Samuel B. Cooper, D. 



3. R. C. De Graffenreid, D. 



4. John L. Sheppard, D. 



5. Choice B. Randell, D. 



6. Dudley G. Wooten, D. 



7. Robert L. Henry, D. 



Texas. 



8. S. W. T. Lanham, D. 



9. Albert S. Burleson, D. 



10. George F. Burgess, D. 



11. Rudolph Kleberg, D. 



12. James L. Slayden, D. 



13. John H. Stephens, D. 



Utah. 

 George Sutherland, At large, R. 



Vermont. 

 1. D. J. Foster, R. 2. Kittredge Haskins, R. 



Virginia. 



1. William A. Jones, D. 6. Peter J. Otey^ D. 



2. Harry L. Maynard, D. 



3. John Lamb, D. 



4. Francis R. Lassiter, D. 



5. Claude A. Swanson, D. 



. James Hay, D. 



8. John F. Rixey, D. 



9. William F. Rhea, D. 

 10. Henry D. Flood, D. 



Washington. 



F. W. Cushman, At large, R. W. L. Jones, At large, R. 

 West Virginia. 



1. B. B. Dovener, R. 3. Joseph H. Gaines, R. 



2. Alston G. Dayton, R. 4. James A. Hughes, R. 



Wisconsin. 



6. J. H. Davidson, R. 



7. John J. Esch, R. 



8. Edward S. Minor, R. 



9. Webster E. Brown, R. 



1. Henry A. Cooper, R. 



2. Herman B. Dahle, R. 



3. Joseph W. Babcock, R. 



4. Theobold Otjen, R. 



5. Samuel S. Barney, R. 



10. John J. Jenkins, R. 



Wyoming. 

 Frank W. Mondell, R. 



Delegates. 



ona Marcus A. Smith, D. 

 Hawaii Robert W. Wilcox, R. 

 New Mexico Bernard S. Rodey, R. 

 Oklahoma Dennis T. Flynn, R. 



Republicans, 198; Democrats. 153; Popu- 

 lists, 4. 



Henry H. Aplin, Michigan, was elected in place 

 of Rousseau O. Crump, deceased. The seat of J. 

 J. Butler, Missouri, was declared vacant, June 28, 

 1902; H. Burd Cassel, Pennsylvania, was elected 

 in place of Marriott Brosius, deceased; Amos J. 

 Cumminga died May 2, 1902; Charles L. Knapp, 

 New York, was elected in place of Albert D. 

 Shaw, deceased; Montague Lessler. New York, 

 was elected in place of Nicholas Muller, resigned; 

 Asbury F. Lever, South Carolina, was elected in 

 place of J. M. Stokes, deceased; William H. 



Moody, Massachusetts, resigned to become Secre- 

 tary of the Navy, May 1, 1902; T.McKenzie M>--, 

 Kentucky, took the place of John S. Rhea, unseat- 

 ed March 25, 1902; Peter J. Otey, Virginia, died 

 May 4, 1902; Rufus K. Polk, Pennsylvania, died 

 March 5, 1902; Llewellyn Powers, Maine, was 

 elected in place of Charles A. Boutelle, resigned; 

 Joshua S. Salmon, New Jersey, died May 6, 1902; 

 Dudley G. Wooten, Texas, was elected in place of 

 Robert E. Burke, deceased. 



The Congress met for its first session, Monday 

 Dec. 2, 1902. The House of Representatives or- 

 ganized by electing David B. Henderson, of Iowa, 

 speaker by a vote of 192 out of 355; there were 

 152 votes cast for John D. Richardson, of Ten- 

 nessee. Alexander McDowell, of Pennsylvania, 

 was chosen clerk; Henry Casson, of Wisconsin, 

 sergeant-at-arms; William J. Glenn, of New 

 York, doorkeeper; Joseph C. McElroy, of Ohio, 

 postmaster; and Henry N. Conden, of Michigan, 

 chaplain. 



On assuming the chair Mr. Henderson said: 



" Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, 

 this high honor which you have conferred upon me 

 I profoundly appreciate. All the more do I ap- 

 preciate it coming, as it does, with this generous 

 expression from both sides of the Chamber. There 

 is yet left another method for a presiding officer 

 to express his appreciation of such an honor; 

 that is, by a kindly, firm, and faithful adminis- 

 tration of the law and the rules that govern this 

 body. It will be my aim to discharge impar- 

 tially the duties of this office. 



"As 1 said at the opening of the last Congress, 

 no presiding officer can successfully administer 

 the duties of his office unless he has the support 

 of the body over which he presides. I asked for it 

 then; you gave it to me throughout the entire 

 Congress. Permit me once more to invoke that 

 patience, kind consideration, and splendid sup- 

 port which was accorded to me in the last Con- 

 gress. 



"The maker of laws should not be a breaker 

 of laws. We proceed under law and rules: and 

 the duties devolving upon each and all of the 

 membership of this House will be far better con- 

 served if this principle is kept in mind and acted 

 upon." 



The rules of the Fifty-sixth Congress were then 

 adopted for the conduct of business in the Hou-e. 

 with the following modifications: 



1. That the special orders adopted March 8 and 

 March 14, 1900, providing a method for the con- 

 sideration of pension bills, claim bills, and other 

 private bills, shall be continued during the 

 Fifty-seventh Congress. 



2. That the place of the Select Committee on 

 the Twelfth Census in the rules of the Fifty- 

 sixth Congress shall be filled in the rules of I lie 

 Fifty-seventh Congress by a standing Commit tee- 

 on the Census, to consist of 13 members, ami 

 have jurisdiction of all proposed legislation >n- 

 ceming the census and the apportionment of Rep- 

 resentatives. 



Rewired further. That there shall be appointed 

 to serve during the Fifty-seventh Congress a Se- 

 lect Committee on Industrial Arts and Kxposi- 

 tions, to consist of 9 members, which shall nave 

 jurisdiction of all matters (excepting those re- 

 lating to the revenue ajid appropriations) refer 

 ring to the Centennial of the Louisiana Purchase 

 and to proposed expositions. 



Ifexolretl further. That the Select Committee 

 on the Examination and Disposition of Docu- 

 ments of the Fifty-sixth Congress shall be con- 

 tinued during the Fifty-seventh Congress as a 

 select committee. 



