sets.
SPRINGER TOLElD
r,"
Made Chairman " of the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means.
PREGEDBNT THRUST ASIDE.
The Speaker Followed His Own him:-
in Making Up the Lists.
Mills Is Given Interstate and Foreign
Commerce, Holman Appropriations,
Bland Coinage, Blount Foreign Afi'nirs
and O’Ferrall Elections—The Principal
Committees in Full and the Chairmen
of All Commlttees—Harrington Nomi-
nated for the Head of the “'eather
Bureau.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—The near approach
of the holiday season was indicated by the
meager attendance upon the opening of
Wednesday’s session of the house. When
the speaker’s gavel fell only about 100
members were in their seats. Chap-
lain Milburn referred in his opening prayer
to the recent death of Senator Plumb.
After the‘ reading of the journal Mr.
O’Ferrall presented the credentials of Mr.
E. E. Meredith, of Virginia, elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of General
W. H. F. Lee. Mr. Meredith was escorted
to the bar of the house by Mr. O’Fer.-all
and the oath administered by the speaker.
. Speaker Crisp then announced the stand—
ing, joint and select committees of the
house for the Fifty—second congress, as an-
lhorized by the resolution of last Saturday.
The Important Committees.
The following IS the list of the principal
.zouse committees, as announced by Speaker
Crisp:
Ways and Means—\Villiam M. Springer, chair-
man; Benton McMillan. H. G. Turner, VV’. L.
Wilson, A. B. Montgomery, J. R. Whiting, B.
F. Shiveley, IV. Bourke Cochran, Mose: T.
Stevens, W. J. Bryan, T. B. Reed, J. C. Bur-
rows, Joseph McKenna, S. E. Payne, John Dal—
zell.
Appropriations—VV. S. Holman, chairman; W.
H. Forney, J. D. Sayrcs. W. C. Breckinridgc, A.
M. Dockcry, ‘Villiam Mutchler. C. R. Breckin
ridge, Barnes Compton, J. H. O’Neil, L. F.
Livingston, D. B. Henderson. William Cogs-
well, H. H. Bingham, Nelson Dinglcy. W. W.
Grout.
C‘oinage, Weights and Measures—R. P. Bland,
chairman; Charles Tracy, J. R. \Villiams, C. B.
Kilgoro, S. M. Robinson, Rice Pierce, J. F.
Epes, G. F. \Villiams, \V. A. McKeighan. H. H.
Bart-inc, Abner Taylor, T. “1'. Stone, M. N.
Johnson.
Interstate and Foreign Commerce—R. Q.
Mills, chairman; G. D. Wise, Andrew Price,
lsador Rayner, G. H. Brickner. T. J. Geary,
("1. W. Honk, S. R. Mallory, Josiah Patterson,
J. J. O‘Neill, Charles O‘Neill, John Lind, C. S.
Randall, Bellamy Storer, J. H. Ketcham.
Foreign Afl’airs—J. H. Blount. chairman; J.
B. McCreary, C. E. Hooker, L. E. Chipman, A.
P. Fitch, J. F. Andrews, B. T. Cable, Isador
Rayner, T. J. Geary, R. R. Hitt, A. C. Harmer,
James O‘Donnell, John Sanford.
Elections~Charles T. O‘Fcrrall, chairman; L.
‘W. Moore, J. E. Cobb, T. H. Paynter, Jason B.
Brown, D. N. Lockwood, T. G. Lawson. N. P.
Gillespie, George Johnstone, Nils Haugen. A.
A. Taylor, R. E. Doan, H. U. Johnson. John E.
Reyburn, _C. D. Clark.
Reform in the Civil Service—J. F. Andrew.
chairman; C. J. Boatner, Scott Wike, William
Brawley, J. M.- Patterson, Lewis Sperry, E. E.
Meredith, W. J. Coombs, W. H. Harries. A. J _
Hopkins, C. A. Russell, M. Brosius. John Raincs.
Postofilces and Post Roads—John S. Headers
son, chairman: J. H. Blonnt. B. A. Enloe, R. P.
C. Wilson, E. J. Dunphy, J. D. Alderson, E. V.
Brookshire, J. C. Kyle, J. M. Pattisou, J. C.
Crosby, A. J. Hopkins, J. A. Caldwell. J. L.
“Wilson, C. A. Bergen, E. F. Loud. John '1‘.
Cutting.
Railways and Canals—T. C. Catchings, chair-
man; P. G. Lester, W. H. Cate, H. W. Bentley,
F. E. Beltzhoover, J. \V. Causey, S. W. Cobb.
Kittel Halvorson, John Davis, C. S. Randall, C.
A. Bergen, J. A. T. Hull, E. F. Loud.
Columbian Exposition—A. C. Durburow.
chairman: J. D. McCrcary. J. B. Reilly, G. W'.
Honk, Joseph \Vheeler, M. D. Lagan. J. J.
Little, William Cogswell, Nelson Dingley, J.
McKenna. J. -P. Dollivcr.
Chairmanships.
The chairmanships of the other com~
mittees are as follows:
Judiciary, D. L. Culbcrson; banking and
currency, Henry Bacon: rivers and harbors,
N. C. Blanchard; merchant marine and fisher-
ies. Samuel Fowler; military affairs, J. H.
I‘lnthwaite; naval affairs, H. A. Herbert;
agriculture. \V. H. Hatch; public lands. T. C.
McRae; Indian aflairs, S. W. Poet; territories,
J. 31. Washington; manufacturers, C. H. Page;
mines and mining, \V. H. Cowles: public build-
ings and grounds, J. H. Bankhead; Pacific
railroads, J. B. Reilly; levees and improve-
ments of Mississippi river, S. M. Robinson;
education, W. I. Hayes; labor, J. C.
Iarsney; militia, Edward Lane; patents, G. D.
Tillman; invalid pensions, A. N. Martin;
pensions, R. P. C. Wilson; claims, B. H. Buun:
war claims, F. E. Beltzhoover; private land
claims, A. P. Fitch; District of Columbia. J. J.
Hemphill,‘ revision of laws. W. '1‘. Ellis: cx‘
penditures state department, R. E. Lcstcr: ex
penditures in treasury department, G. H.
Brickner; expenditures war department, A. 8,
Montgomery; expenditures navy department,
1. A. O. McClellan; expenditures in posteifice
department, IV. C. Oates; expenditures. in in-
terior department, J. W. Owens: expenditures
department of justice, .1. M. Allen;'expendi-
tures in department of agriculture; P. C. Ed-
munds; expenditures on public buildings, H.
M. Youmans; library, Amos J. Cummings;
printing, J. D. Richardson; enrolled bills, J. G.
Warwick; election of president and vice presi-
dent, J. L. Chipman; eleventh census, W. F.
Willcox; ventilation and acoustics, W. G.
Stahlnecker; alcoholic liquor traffic, W. E.
Haynes; irrigation of arid lands, S. W. T. Lan-
haxn; immigration and naturalization, H.
Stump.
Precedent Thrust Aside.
The prediction that Speaker Crisp, in mak-
ing up his committees, would do violence
to the rule of precedence as established by
years of practice, was verified by the list as
announced. In the committee on elections
the rule is observed. 1 Representative O’Fer—
rail, of Virginia, who was second on the
minority to Mr. Crisp himself last congress,
goes to the head. Nils Haugen, of Wiscon~
sin, is the first minority member, being the
first among survivors on that side.
The committee on ways and means is
badly shaken up, as was expected. Mr.
Springer, who has not heretofore been con-
nected with the committee at all, is chair-
man, and Mr. McMillin holds second place,
his relative position on the minority last
congress. Mr. Turner is retained, but the
other members of the majority—Wilson,
Montgomery, Whiting, Shiveley, Stevens,
Cockran and Bryan—are all new men.
Messrs. Reed, Burrows, McKenna and
Payne have served before, and Dalzell takes
Baynes’ place. Mr. Dingley is transferred
to the committee on appropriations.
Instead of promoting Mr. Forney, who
headed the minority in the last congress,
Speaker Crisp has made Mr. Holman chair-
man of the committee on appropriations,
with Mr. Forncy second. All other Demo-
cratic members are retained and C. R.
Job Printing neatly done at tllis'ofiice
Breckinridge. Compton and O’Neill, of Mas-
sachusetts, added. Livingston represents
the Alliance membership. The new Repub-
lican members, are Bingham, Dingley and
Grout. Belden has been dropped.
Outhwaite. of Ohio is a notable example
of the appointment 0 a chairman from out-
side the old membership of the committee.
He is placed at the head of military afiairs
and loses his place on the election commit-
tee. General Wheeler, of Alabama, the
ranking member of the old committee, is
second on the list.
Mills Supplants Baker.
David B. Cnlberson, of Texas, goes to the
head of the judiciary, being the ranking
member of the old minority, while ex-Chair-
man E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, heads the minor-
Ity this year. Mr. Oates, of Alabama, is
second, and Bynum, of Indiana, third. This
is the best place Bynum gets. Had Mills
been elected speaker he would probably
have been chairman of ways and means.
Henry Bacon, of N ew York, a new man,
gets the chairmanship of the important
commit toe on banking and currency instead
of Covert, of New York, who didn’t vote
for Crisp.
Coinagc, weights and measures, as was
expected, will be presided over by Richard
P. Bland, and the membership Of ‘the com~
mittee indicates a tender treatment of free
coinage Of silver that the committee of last
congress did. not show.
Mr. Mills is at. the head of the new com-
mittee on interstate and foreign commerce.
Charles S. Baker, of New York, was chair-
man of the committee on commerce, its pre-
decessor, in the last congress. The an-
nouncement of the committees was receive
without comment. .
Mr. Rusk offered the usual resolution pro-
viding for the assignment of clerks to the
committees for this congress by the com-
mittee on accounts. Under the arrange~
ment made last Saturday Mr. Stone, of
Kentucky, objected to its consideration at
the present time.
Mr. Meredith announced the death of his
predecessor, General W. H. F. Lee. and
upon the adoption of the customary resolu-
tion the house adjourned until Jan. 5.
IN THE SENATE.
Marl: 3V. Harrington Nonlinated as Chief
of the “’enthcr Bureau.
WASHINI'H'ON. Dec. fit—Senator Mandar-
son, president pro tem., presided in the ab-
sence of the vice president.
The president sent to the senate the nomi-
nation of Mark IN. Harrington, of Michigan,
to be chief of the weather bureau Of the
department of agriculture. Professor Hui
rington was appointed to the position dur-
ing the congressional recess.
The president pro tem. laid before the
senate two communications from the presi—
dent. One transmitted the 1'eport of the
board appointed to consider the location,
arrangement and operation of electric wires
in the District of Columbia, to which he in-
vited the attention of congress.
The other conveyed information as to the
organization of the board to regulate geo-
graphic names and transmitted a copy of
their findings as to the proper spelling of
“Bering sea,” instead of “Behrings sea,”
“Chile,” instead of “Chili,” and other spell-
ing reforms, accompanied by an executive
order requiring the different departments
of the government to adopt this orthogra-
phy. The president suggested that this re-
port be printed in some convenient form
from general information. Referred to the
committee on printing.
The senate at 153 :30 went into executive ses-
sion on the motion of Senator Sherman, and
at 12:40 adjourned until W’ednesday, Jan. 5.
The vacancy on the senate committee on
appropriations, caused by the death of Sen-
ator Plumb, will not be filled. It will be
remembered that the Republican senatorial
caucus committee recently added Senator
tewart's name to the appropriations com-
mittee in order that certain transfers might
be accomplished. The committee having
returned by Senator Plumb’s death to the
original number will be so allowed to re-
main.
A “club in the DIachincry.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala; Dec. fit—Some ,un-~
known person entered the People’s Ice Fac—
tory company at Powderly and placed a
dynamite cartridge in the machinery.
\Vhen it was started an explosion occurred
which tore oil“ the rool.’ of the building. N 0
one was hurt. There is no clew to the
perpetrator.
“’elcli I’m-domed by Governor Hill.
SYRACUSE, N. Y.. Dec. 24,—Democratic
Supervisor Thomas J. Welch, who was fined
$250 and sentenced to the penitentiary for
thirty days for contempt of court by Judge
Kennedy, has been pardoned by Governor
Hill. VVelch had been in jail less than six
hours when the pardon arrived and he was
released.
Revolt Against French Rule.
PARIS, Dec. f24.——A dispatch from Algiers
says that the Ameuzs tribe has rebelled
against the authority of the French, and
that there has been fighting at Ain-Sefra,
a village 15‘.) miles south-southwest of Oran,
the capital of the province of that name.
Cole Able to Sit Up.
NYACK, N. ‘12, Dec. 24.—-Cashier Edward
H. Cole, who returned home from his wan-
derings a week ago, is able to sit up a short
time and is slowly regaining his voice. He
cannot as yet give any acc’Ount of his do-
ings while missing from home.
Killed by Escaping Gas.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24.—W'illiam S. Par.
sons, an Old and well known market man,
and August Boning were both found dead
at their respective residences in this city,
their death being caused by escaping
illuminating gas.
\Vami-maker Goes Home.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 24.—Postmaster Gen-
eral W'anamuker has gone to Philadelphia
for the Christmas holidays. He will return
Monday.
THE DEATH RECORD.
Rev. Dr. E. EDWARDS BEARDSLEY, recto:
of St. Thomas’ church, at New Haven.
Colonel R. S. STRADER, a noted trotting
horse breeder, at Lexington, Ky.
CHARLES F. COFFIN, prison Commissioner
of Massachusetts, at Lynn.
Color Sergeant JOHN INGALLS HANDLEY,
the tallest soldier in Maine, at East Wilton.
Rev. REUBEN RILEY, an Episcopal minis-
ter, at Jersey City.
ALBERT WOLFF, the noted dramatic critic
of the Paris Figaro.
J rLIAN ABBOT, the oldest lawyer in Low-
ell, Mass,
Rev. W. B. KINNEY, a .Methodist minis-
ter, a veteran and G. A. R. man, at Bing-
hamton, N. Y.
FnANK G. PARKE, postmaster of Coates-
ville, Pa. _
WILLIAM H. KING. 8. United States com-
missioner, at New York.
JOHN B. RICHARDSON, one of the greatest
cotton planters in the south, at Chatta-
nooga. ,
Ex—Postmaster General J. A. J. Onass-
WnLL, at Elkton, Md.
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