The 44th Congress opens its second session in Washington, DC

In Washington, DC, the Forty-fourth Congress of the United States opens its second "lame duck" session. The first order of business is to elect a new Speaker of the House to replace Speaker Michael Crawford Kerr of Indiana who had died of illness four days after the end of the first session in August. Congressman Samuel J. Crawford of Pennsylvania, like Kerr a Democrat, is elected to the post. (By John Osborne)