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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
session
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a session of parliament (=when its members are working)
▪ The Queen opened a new session of Parliament last week.
a training session
▪ Make sure you attend the computer training sessions.
an emergency session (=a political meeting that is arranged quickly to discuss a very serious situation)
▪ an emergency session of the UN Security Council
brainstorming session
▪ a brainstorming session to come up with slogans for new products
bull session
▪ an all-night bull session
coaching session
▪ a coaching session with one of England’s leading boxers
jam session
quarter sessions
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
▪ In this final session Margaret was encouraged to explore possible ways of coping at times of further crises.
▪ The third and final session was blessed with warm and sunny weather so we all got tired because of the heat!
▪ Eight wickets were lost during the final session for just 60 runs.
▪ The final session on the afternoon of 28 November will be open to the public.
▪ At the final session the whole group met together to pray and reflect on the week.
▪ Tonight they have their final training session as usual, no doubt perfecting the set-pieces from which many of their goals stem.
▪ This was gathered together in the final session.
▪ The final sessions of the talks were attended by a United States delegation.
joint
▪ Accordingly, parliament at a joint session suspended King Baudouin on April 4, and itself signed the abortion bill into law.
▪ Bush singled out the issue Tuesday night in his address before a joint session of Congress.
▪ The normally routine joint session cere mony is scheduled for January 5.
legislative
▪ The sponsors of the bill made clear their intention to press for a vote on it within the current legislative session.
▪ That bill didn't become law, but Martin already has a new one prepared for the upcoming legislative session.
▪ After all, the candidate who wins the June 1 runoff may never serve during a legislative session.
▪ Wilson will try again this legislative session, Spidell said.
▪ The effort to regulate HMOs hit a snag in the recent legislative session, when Gov.
▪ In Britain, the opposition party is guaranteed control of a specified amount of time during legislative sessions.
▪ The Bisbee Democrat introduced a bill this legislative session that would have repealed that law, but it never got a hearing.
▪ One of the ongoing partisan battles over spending led to a typical case of gridlock as the legislative session ended last month.
long
▪ But after one particularly long session of playing on it he began to feel strange.
▪ Also, it allows you to shift your posture easily, which is important during long work sessions.
▪ A horse that is fit for hunting may be unable to cope with a long schooling session.
▪ Friesen said Wednesday after a long treatment session with trainers and before a 5-2 loss to the Penguins.
▪ People who aren't staying at the centre can book for half a day or day long activity sessions too.
▪ There were no long individual sessions.
▪ If Ron announced a long or tough session I simply would not do it.
▪ What followed were long brainstorming sessions that finally yielded the Foxfire magazine in its original form as a school literary magazine.
open
▪ This is always an enjoyable afternoon comprising open movement sessions, followed by regional displays.
▪ His pronouncements came during an open council session called to make the final vote for the new manager.
▪ Only its formal subdivisions are known, despite the fact that the press was admitted to its open sessions.
▪ The meetings ran for seventeen days, and thousands of enthusiastic guests lined up every evening to attend the open sessions.
▪ The theatre bar will be open throughout the sessions.
opening
▪ Give them that outline, the feeling of involvement and purpose, at the opening session.
▪ After the opening session we have a series of workshops.
▪ The opening session of seven frames came to an end with Hendry 4-3 ahead.
parliamentary
▪ It will bring forward legislation in the coming parliamentary session to introduce student loans, partially replacing grants, from autumn 1990.
▪ Barring unexpected defections from the coalition, Mr Hashimoto should be confirmed in a special parliamentary session on Thursday.
▪ My father has a flat, which he uses during the parliamentary session.
▪ He added that if swift action was taken, new legislation could be in place by the end of the parliamentary session.
▪ He was discovered and bitterly attacked by his former friends in the next parliamentary session.
▪ Mr Rais conceded that there was no constitutional basis on which to hasten the special parliamentary impeachment session.
▪ This dispute has been settled too late for the bill to be included in the parliamentary session that starts in November.
▪ The coming parliamentary session will provide a momentous opportunity for public debate on a matter of deep moral significance.
plenary
▪ Parties' positions are usually determined beforehand within their working groups or in plenary sessions.
▪ Now, in an adjoining room, the staff members who would be present at the plenary session had assembled.
▪ In considering whether candidate items were essential, each subgroup used a modified Delphi technique25 that was replicated in the plenary sessions.
▪ The plenary sessions on Friday and Saturday were less well received.
▪ All are located in close proximity to one another, providing scope for multiple syndicate as well as plenary sessions.
▪ But it gave an added attraction to the plenary session anyway.
▪ What follows is a summary of the key themes which emerged from the plenary session.
▪ The Chair of the plenary session, Inez McCormack opened the afternoon session by relaying some messages to the conference.
previous
▪ Volume was 411. 6 million shares, compared with 418. 8 million shares in the previous session.
▪ Many of the initial questions were of exactly the type the previous week's session had been intended to prevent.
▪ Q6, the F tells the modem to restore its factory settings in case a previous session has modified them.
▪ The goals of the previous session had been achieved.
▪ Tokyo stocks fell Monday as investors caught their breath following a strong advance over the two previous sessions.
▪ Figure 1 shows the output of certificates between July and October in comparison to the previous session.
▪ Volume was 507. 8 million shares, compared with 637 million shares in the previous session.
regular
▪ Training regular training sessions and monitoring of all teaching and support staff.
▪ Lindell said that if he is elected in November, he would introduce the proposed amendment during the 1997 regular session.
▪ Students are encouraged to take an active part and regular sessions are held in which they can criticize their teachers.
▪ In regular session crude oil closed at $ 19. 95, a 31-cent decline from Friday.
▪ They are introduced to the day centre and attend regular training sessions organised by the project and other outside agencies.
▪ The special session will run concurrently with the regular legislative session beginning today.
▪ The tours are self-guided and regular training sessions are held at Bovingdon Hall to familiarise teachers with the trails and farming practices.
▪ She had regular treatment sessions for the next two years, and was still making progress.
special
▪ Some clinics have special youth advisory sessions.
▪ For more than a year, Chula Vista emergency officials had been planning special flood training sessions.
▪ A special environmental session of the Knesset and a meeting of local authority leaders are planned.
▪ Barring unexpected defections from the coalition, Mr Hashimoto should be confirmed in a special parliamentary session on Thursday.
▪ The government is said to have met in special session and put his eldest son, Major-General Joseph Kabila, in charge.
▪ In addition, there are 50 would-be members who come along on Thursday evenings for a special reduced-rate session.
▪ Our special offer session will cost £45.
▪ The boycott was sufficient to force both to testify before a special session of the lower house budget committee on Feb. 25.
weekly
▪ The issue was the subject of heated debate in a weekly morning caucus session.
▪ The main aim is touring with Sundar tours, adventure canoeing, hostelling and camping holidays plus weekly pool sessions for beginners.
▪ Each term students take two courses, each course being taught in a weekly two-and-a-half-hour session.
▪ Trialling has been done through weekly after-school sessions, through whole staff conferences in school and weekend courses.
▪ Each group met six times for five consecutive weekly sessions and then again two weeks later.
■ NOUN
afternoon
▪ Funded by the school, seven Friday afternoon sessions are held during the term preceding the child's start date.
▪ It would be an afternoon session, about two hours.
▪ The workers merely wish to clear a backlog of clients before the afternoon session begins.
▪ But she was feverish so Kathy and Jean-Luc returned to Baltimore, and Kathy missed the afternoon session.
▪ It was almost time for the afternoon session at the Riverside.
▪ The juror returned for the afternoon session.
▪ It was a pleasure to have Miss Kay Evans with us for part of the afternoon session.
▪ The two-hour afternoon session was the second of the day.
assembly
▪ The new constitution was approved at the close of a National Assembly session which had opened on March 23.
▪ The plenum preceded the opening of a 60-day National Assembly session on March 20.
▪ The Assembly session ended on May 29 without adopting the Presidency's plan.
emergency
▪ The Presidency reconvened in emergency session on May 8-9 at the request of the army.
▪ In this worsening climate of inter-republican invective, the collective State Presidency met in emergency session on Oct. 2.
▪ The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination.
▪ He was preparing a detailed set of reference papers for the emergency session of the Academy.
▪ Immediately afterwards the Moldavian Supreme Soviet went into emergency session.
▪ Ivashko adjourned the meeting, and the politburo went into emergency session, emerging to announce its unanimous backing for Gorbachev.
jam
▪ Then on Sunday night all styles will merge in a monumental jam session.
▪ The action continues through Sunday with nightly jam sessions, raffles, and a Grande Finale Concert.
▪ Baker was first heard no record in a public jam session of 1941 and quickly established an unbeatable reputation in London clubs.
morning
▪ She could not face a repetition of the morning session.
▪ In Tokyo Wednesday, the Nikkei index fell 70. 86 points to close the morning session at 20581. 22.
▪ They all looked clean, so that meant they were coming in for a morning session before they went on two to ten.
▪ However, the court had finished its morning session.
▪ On Monday, the Nikkei index fell 60. 40 points to close the morning session at 20608. 63.
▪ The ball their bowlers used in the morning session was sensationally taken from them at lunch by match referee Deryck Murray.
photo
▪ The car was driven straight from a studio photo session to the world's fastest track.
▪ If you do a photo session and you look ridiculous, it's just one day, you move on.
▪ He had not enjoyed that photo session either, but he disliked this even more.
▪ Their main studio and office is located at and they will be offering on-the-spot make-overs and photo sessions.
practice
▪ The following day's practice session began no better.
▪ During practice sessions on relaxation techniques, Patricia recognized that when she had an anxious thought, her muscles tensed.
▪ I approached the set with Farhan as if it was nothing more than a practice session.
▪ Before each of the Tuesday and Friday night performances, there are two practice sessions.
▪ Two or three practice sessions will soon evolve your main theme.
▪ During a visit to Moscow, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet for a practice session.
▪ They began training for the finals in January involving twice-weekly practice sessions in the Barlaston canteen after work.
▪ His shots made the same pleasing sounds they did when we had our first practice session together.
strategy
▪ Hardly a week passes without his popping up in Washington for some top Republican strategy session on budget-balancing.
▪ Lamar Alexander, who spent Monday hunkered down in strategy sessions at his Nashville headquarters.
▪ It calls the new meeting an intense strategy session showcasing real-life business solutions achieved with client-server computing.
▪ Republican conference meetings, the closed-doors strategy sessions, have often resembled revival meetings, said Rep.
▪ The aim of the strategy session was to develop a nontraditional campaign without the use of expensive television ads.
▪ While most of our meetings were open to the public, some strategy sessions were invitation-only.
therapy
▪ Weeping in therapy sessions, say some, can be used as a defence against having to talk about the pain.
▪ He made up his mind to participate in the group therapy sessions he had been sitting through mutely.
▪ He and other psychoanalysts have relied on dreams recollected during therapy sessions, or those they could recall themselves.
▪ A mutual therapy session for emotionally dislocated correspondents.
▪ He may not have lost his ability to balance, or he may have relearned it through his therapy sessions.
▪ They meet in a daily group therapy session, and very quickly become lovers.
▪ In addition, she stopped acting out, both at home and at school, and the therapy sessions became more productive.
training
▪ Updated refresher training sessions were held for plant operators and new reporting procedures brought in to cover routine monitoring.
▪ Parked next to it at a recent training session was Doddie Weir's C reg Cavalier.
▪ They are trained on short training sessions run by the individual companies.
▪ After training sessions, keep any literature or handouts together with the forms so that you build up your own references to guide you.
▪ For example they may be asked to prepare a training session on how to deal with difficult clients or one on housing benefits.
▪ Campese lost his footing and fell heavily during yesterday's training session at Swansea University.
▪ Breathing exercises should be performed at the end of each training session.
▪ I think he goes training because he knows the police can never find an Athletico training session.
■ VERB
attend
▪ They are introduced to the day centre and attend regular training sessions organised by the project and other outside agencies.
▪ It was nevertheless suspended for three years, the brothers forced to attend sensitivity-training sessions.
▪ Who will provide the cover for house officers attending their education sessions?
▪ The meetings ran for seventeen days, and thousands of enthusiastic guests lined up every evening to attend the open sessions.
▪ Mobutu did not keep a promise to attend the session.
▪ Managers and supervisors applauded the new approach and eagerly attended the financial training sessions.
▪ The new student will be expected to train daily at his home and attend a club training session at least twice a week.
▪ In two years, 35 students have attended at least one session.
close
▪ In Tokyo Wednesday, the Nikkei index fell 70. 86 points to close the morning session at 20581. 22.
▪ President Herrera spoke to Congress on December 31, 1849, at its closing session.
▪ Then they are supposed to return to closed session to deliberate over punishment.
▪ On Monday, the Nikkei index fell 60. 40 points to close the morning session at 20608. 63.
▪ The mayor has called a special closed City Council session for tomorrow to discuss his replacement.
▪ The benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closed the session 201.88 points down, or 1.51 percent, at 12,681.66.
▪ After the hearings, the full committee is supposed to deliberate in closed session on what punishment to recommend to the House.
follow
▪ This was invariably followed by a session of late-night jazz at Ali's Alley downtown in Greenwich Village.
▪ Penelope had refused to follow her to the sessions that to her were nothing but women trying to act as lay psychologists.
▪ This was followed by a poster session.
▪ What followed were long brainstorming sessions that finally yielded the Foxfire magazine in its original form as a school literary magazine.
▪ In the week following this session Rosemary Frost successfully used the same in Class, amidst many giggles from her students.
▪ We all had to stand up in turn in front of the class and give a short talk, followed by a question-and-answer session.
hold
▪ As the working party suggested, a section of the Council meeting dealing with private Institute business was held in closed session.
▪ We held one more such session with the president in California.
▪ Read in studio Britain's best weightlifters have held a unique training session ... behind bars.
▪ On Monday, the governors were to hold a working session with Bush.
▪ Next year's conference will be in Birmingham, with plans under way to hold the 1995 sessions in the V&A;
▪ The committee held a 14-hour session Wednesday to discuss a timetable of the case.
▪ Nevertheless, the two sides agreed to hold a further session of talks in Seoul on Dec. 11-14.
▪ The governors were holding a working session with Bush on Monday.
meet
▪ The government is said to have met in special session and put his eldest son, Major-General Joseph Kabila, in charge.
▪ The School Board next week is expected to meet in executive session and determine how much it can afford to offer.
▪ Current plans are to meet in closed session Monday and Tuesday.
record
▪ It covers legal and taxation notes for musicians, as well as advice on recording contracts and other session engagements.
▪ The recording sessions fell into two parts.
▪ Wouldn't it be easier to record these sessions?
train
▪ They are trained on short training sessions run by the individual companies.
▪ One solution is for Dorman Oil to summarize key points in employee training sessions that incorporate multimedia and other technologies.
▪ We gathered 20 such women for the first training session.
▪ Working together, the union, consultant, and management representatives proposed a series of Saturday training sessions on problem solving.
▪ Well, for most of the first half, they were as lacklustre as if this was a Thursday morning training session.
▪ Charles Ruff, a Ciba-Geigy salesman based in Charlotte, regularly runs lunch-hour training sessions for veterinarians.
▪ The following morning was to be my last training session with the biggest football club in the world.
▪ It was just the kind of situation Turner hoped to encounter during the training session.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extraordinary meeting/session etc
▪ Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals.
▪ And the Press Council called senior editors to the first extraordinary meeting convened in its twenty-seven-year history to discuss the matter.
▪ The announcement came two hours before an extraordinary meeting of Bryant shareholders that had been expected to approve the merger with Beazer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a practice session
▪ He wrote the new song during a recording session.
▪ This course will only be offered during the fall session.
▪ We have 5 hours of English a week, including one session in the language laboratory.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Appendix 2 contains a full list of care centres for each petty sessions area.
▪ Do you ever cover more than one previous life in a single session?
▪ It was nevertheless suspended for three years, the brothers forced to attend sensitivity-training sessions.
▪ Johns decided to record Satriani live in the studio over the course of 12 days with a handpicked crew of session players.
▪ On Monday, the governors were to hold a working session with Bush.
▪ Penelope had refused to follow her to the sessions that to her were nothing but women trying to act as lay psychologists.
▪ She had regular treatment sessions for the next two years, and was still making progress.
▪ Weeping in therapy sessions, say some, can be used as a defence against having to talk about the pain.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Session

Session \Ses"sion\, n. [L. sessio, fr. sedere, sessum, to sit: cf. F. session. See Sit.]

  1. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

    So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.
    --Hooker.

    But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.
    --Tennyson.

  2. The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.

    It's fit this royal session do proceed.
    --Shak.

  3. Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.

    It was resolved that the convocation should meet at the beginning of the next session of Parliament.
    --Macaulay.

    Note: Sessions, in some of the States, is particularly used as a title for a court of justices, held for granting licenses to innkeepers, etc., and for laying out highways, and the like; it is also the title of several courts of criminal jurisdiction in England and the United States.

    Church session, the lowest court in the Presbyterian Church, composed of the pastor and a body of elders elected by the members of a particular church, and having the care of matters pertaining to the religious interests of that church, as the admission and dismission of members, discipline, etc.

    Court of Session, the supreme civil court of Scotland.

    Quarter sessions. (Eng.Law) See under Quarter.

    Sessions of the peace, sittings held by justices of the peace. [Eng.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
session

late 14c., "periodical sitting of a court," from Old French session "act or state of sitting; assembly," from Latin sessionem (nominative sessio) "act of sitting; a seat; loitering; a session," noun of action from past participle stem of sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). Sense of "period set aside for some activity" is first recorded 1920, in bull session, probably from quarter sessions courts (see quarter (n.)). Musical sense of "recording occasion in a studio" is from 1927.

Wiktionary
session

n. 1 A period devoted to a particular activity. 2 A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business. 3 (context computing English) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is log in or connected. 4 (context cricket English) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play. 5 (context obsolete English) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. 6 (context music English) jam session

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WordNet
session

  1. n. a meeting for execution of a group's functions; "it was the opening session of the legislature"

  2. the time during which a school holds classes; "they had to shorten the school term" [syn: school term, academic term, academic session]

  3. a meeting devoted to a particular activity; "a filming session"; "a gossip session"

  4. a meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor" [syn: seance, sitting]

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Wikipedia
Session

Session may refer to:

Session (Presbyterianism)

A session (sometimes called consistory or church board) is a body of elected elders governing each local church within presbyterian polity.

Session (web analytics)

Sessions, or visits, is a unit of measurement in web analytics, capturing either a user's actions within a particular time period, or a user's actions in completing a particular task. As well as being directly useful as a metric within web analytics, sessions are also used in operational analytics and to provide personalised features, such as user-specific recommendations for other pages or items to view. These uses are dependent on session reconstruction - taking a series of user events and splitting the series into a set of sessions - which tends to use one of two classes of methodologies: time-oriented approaches, which use user inactivity as a signal to end a session and begin a new one, and navigation-based approaches, which divide requests into sessions based on an unbroken chain of hyperlinks between the requested pages.

Session (computer science)

In computer science, in particular networking, a session is a semi-permanent interactive information interchange, also known as a dialogue, a conversation or a meeting, between two or more communicating devices, or between a computer and user (see Login session). A session is set up or established at a certain point in time, and then torn down at some later point. An established communication session may involve more than one message in each direction. A session is typically, but not always, stateful, meaning that at least one of the communicating parts needs to save information about the session history in order to be able to communicate, as opposed to stateless communication, where the communication consists of independent requests with responses.

An established session is the basic requirement to perform a connection-oriented communication. A session also is the basic step to transmit in connectionless communication modes. However any unidirectional transmission does not define a session.

Communication Transport may be implemented as part of protocols and services at the application layer, at the session layer or at the transport layer in the OSI model.

  • Application layer examples:
    • HTTP sessions, which allow associating information with individual visitors
    • A telnet remote login session
  • Session layer example:
    • A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based Internet phone call
  • Transport layer example:
    • A TCP session, which is synonymous to a TCP virtual circuit, a TCP connection, or an established TCP socket.

In the case of transport protocols that do not implement a formal session layer (e.g., UDP) or where sessions at the application layer are generally very short-lived (e.g., HTTP), sessions are maintained by a higher level program using a method defined in the data being exchanged. For example, an HTTP exchange between a browser and a remote host may include an HTTP cookie which identifies state, such as a unique session ID, information about the user's preferences or authorization level.

HTTP/1.0 was thought to only allow a single request and response during one Web/HTTP Session. Protocol version HTTP/1.1 improved this by completing the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), making it easier to maintain the Web Session and supporting HTTP cookies and file uploads.

Most client-server sessions are maintained by the transport layer - a single connection for a single session. However each transaction phase of a Web/HTTP session creates a separate connection. Maintaining session continuity between phases required a session ID. The session ID is embedded within the or

links of dynamic web pages so that it is passed back to the CGI. CGI then uses the session ID to ensure session continuity between transaction phases. One advantage of one connection-per-phase is that it works well over low bandwidth (modem) connections.

  1. Sessionless-oriented protocol and session-oriented protocol↩
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Usage examples of "session".

She thought too of the acupressure session last nightcoming to him with her secret, with her desperate hope of being cured.

In the course of their deliberations they addressed his majesty for more information, till at length the truth seemed to be smothered under such an enormous burden of papers, as the efforts of a whole session could not have properly removed.

The reply of those who opposed the adjournment was that the condition of public affairs did actually tend to revolution, and that instead of fanning the popular excitement by remaining in session, Congress would be thus most wisely allaying the fears which had entered the minds of so large a number of the people.

A very inconvenient compromise was made by an adjournment to the 21st of November--only a fortnight before Congress would convene in regular annual session on the first Monday of December.

But if the shortness of time should prevent you from complying with this, my earnest desire, and the trial must, of necessity, and to my unspeakable sorrow, be prolonged to another session, then, my lords, I trust you will not consider me, by anything I have said, as precluded from adopting such means of defence as my counsel may judge most advisable for my interest.

The first session for the Revolver album was held at Abbey Road on 6 April 1966.

In their quest to provide the best-value album ever, the Beatles even addressed themselves to this and on 21 April they went to Abbey Road for the final recording session of the album.

The Beatles plan to tape several discussion sessions amongst themselves as an album release probably for the fall.

After a marathon twenty-four hour session, utilising studios One, Two and Three as well as listening rooms 41 and 42, the huge double album was finally mixed and sequenced at 5 p.

Despite the acrimonious disputes between them, the Let It Be sessions merged with very little gap into sessions for what was to become their next released album, Abbey Road.

Beatles during the White Album sessions and took his family to Sardinia.

Cassidy was reminded of all the backstage fights he had been part of, back in the days when he still had a band: then the times when he was too fucked up on drugs to go out and play, when Jaime and Amad and the session men would haul him away from the mike and into the wings, demanding to know whether he had broken his vow to stay straight for this one gig.

She would be needing good players, if she managed to persuade a club to let her lead sessions, and anyone who could play for Ambidexter was good enough for her.

In the early part of this session of congress, the president announced that he was about to negotiate with the British government for finally settling the claims of the two countries to this territory.

It had been announced in the speech from the throne that government would, in the present session, take up the question of the registration of voters in Ireland.