n; Dovener, West Virginia; Babcock,
Wisconsin; Mondell, Wyoming; Richardson, Tennessee; Bankhead, Alabama;
McRae, Arkansas; Bell, Colorado; Sparkman, Florida; Lester, Georgia;
Glenn, Idaho; Smith, Kentucky; Robertson, Louisiana; Williams,
Mississippi; De Armond, Missouri; Edwards, Montana; Newlands, Nevada;
Cummings, New York; W.W. Kitchin, North Carolina; Norton, Ohio; Elliott,
South Carolina; Lanham, Texas; Swanson, Virginia; Bodie, New Mexico;
Flynn, Oklahoma; Smith, Arizona.

Acknowledge receipt of this telegram. I will be at funeral.

D.B. HENDERSON.

ACTION OF CONGRESS.

Upon the assembly of the Fifty-seventh Congress in its first session
convened, President Roosevelt referred in touching terms to the
assassination of the late President McKinley. (Page 417.)

The Senate on December 3, 1901, adopted the following resolution:

_Resolved_, That a committee of eleven Senators be appointed on the
part of the Senate, to join such committee as may be appointed on the
part of the House, to consider and report on what token of respect and
affection it may be proper for the Congress of the United States to
express the deep sensibility of the nation to the tragic death of the
late President, William McKinley, and that so much of the message of
the President as relates to that deplorable event be referred to such
committee.

The committee on the part of the Senate comprised the following named
gentlemen: Mr. Foraker, Mr. Allison, Mr. Fairbanks, Mr. Kean, Mr. Aldrich,
Mr. Nelson, Mr. Perkins, Mr. Jones of Arkansas, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Cockrell
and Mr. McEnery.

The House of Representatives on December 3, passed the following
resolution:

_Resolved_, That a committee of one member from each State
represented in this House be appointed on the part of the House to
join such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to
consider and report by what token of respect and affection it may be
proper for the Congress of the United States to express the deep
sensibility of the nation to the tragic death of the late President,
William McKinley, and that so much of the message of the President as
relates to that deplorable event be referred to that committee.

The committee on the part of the House of Representatives comprised the
following named gentlemen:

Ohio, Charles H. Grosvenor; California, Julius Kahn; Connecticut,
E. Stevens Henry; Delaware, L. H