Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. CONGRESS NOW IN SESSION. Both Houses Organize In What Is Seen as Greatest Meeting In Generation. Washington, Dec. 6. —Congress assembled and organized today for the session which is expected to be the greatest within the memory of the present generation. Four hours’ work in the House saw Speaker Clark returned to the chair; Representative Mann returned to the leadership of the Republican minority; the introduction of 2,000 bills and resolutions, many of them proposing measures of national defense and many more in opposition; the reappearance of constitutional amendments to enfranchise women, and a miniature rules light that flickered out with the adoption of last year’s rules with a few changes. In the Senate practically nothing was done except the election of Senator Clarke of Arkansas as President pro-tempore. Vice-President Marshall was absent because of the illness of his wife in Indianapolis.