Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1903 — ADIEU OF HENDERSON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ADIEU OF HENDERSON.

Tribute to the Retiring Speaker Closes the House Session. A touching tribute to the retiring Speaker and a valedictory address by Mr. Henderson, who was greeted with an enthusiastic demonstration, closed the session of the House of the Fifty-seventh Congress. As usual, the scenes iu connection with the closing attracted vast crowds. They besieged the portals of the House even before the doors were open and when the seats in the galleries were filled they stood in long lines outside waiting patiently for admittance. The veteran chairman of the appropriations committee, Mr. Cannon, with a red carnation in

his buttonhole, came into the hall with his arm around Mr. Dalzell just as Speaker Henderson, whose long career in Congress was soon to end, ascended the rostrum. The Speaker was smiling ami serene as he faced the House, gavel in hand. As the roll call was concluded a remarkable scene occurred. Speaker Henderson yielded the gavel to Mr. Cannon, the incoming Speaker. As the latter took the chair the members broke luto a burst of applause in which the galleries joined. It was quite as much a compliment to the retiring Speaker as to Mr. Cannon. The Speaker retired to his room in the rear of the hall. Amid intense silence Mr., Payne, the majority leader, then arose and off“red the following resolution of thanks to the retiring Speaker: -‘‘Resolved, That the thanks of this House are presented to Honorable David B. Henderson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the able, impartial and dignified manner in which he has presided over its deliberations nnd performed the arduous and important duties of the chair during the present term of Congress.”

DAVID E. HENDERSON.