Excerpt from Edwin A. Merritt, Jr. (Late a Representative From New York): Memorial Addresses Delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States, Sixty-Third Congress; Proceedings in the House, February 7, 1915; Proceedings in the Senate, December 7, 1914 This being the day fixed by the Constitution for the annual meeting of the Congress Of the United States, the House of Representatives Of the Sixty-third Congress met in its Hall at 12 O'clock noon for its third session, and was called to Order by the Speaker, Hon. Champ clark, a Representative from the State Of Missouri. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.