# 56th United States Congress

The 56th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1901, during the third and fourth years of William McKinley's presidency. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1890 United States census. Both chambers had a Republican majority. There was one African-American member, George Henry White of North Carolina, who served his second and final term as a representative in this Congress, and would be the last black member of Congress until 1928, and the last black member of Congress from the South until 1972.

## Major events

* June 2, 1899: The Filipino Rebellion began the Philippine–American War.
* November 21, 1899: Vice President Garret Hobart died.
* January 8, 1900: President McKinley placed Alaska under military rule.
* January 17, 1900: Brigham H. Roberts was refused a seat in the United States House of Representatives because of his polygamy.
* February 5, 1900: Britain and the United States signed a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through Nicaragua.
* February 16, 1900: The United States, Germany and Great Britain ratified the Tripartite Convention partitioning the Samoan Islands.
* November 6, 1900: U.S. presidential election, 1900: Republican incumbent William McKinley was reelected by defeating Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan.

## Major legislation

* March 14, 1900: Gold Standard Act, Sess. 1, ch. 41, 31 Stat. 45
* April 2, 1900: Foraker Act, Sess. 1, ch. 191, 31 Stat. 77 (Puerto Rico Civil Code)

## Territory organized

* April 30, 1900: Hawaii Territory was organized, Sess. 1, ch. 339, 31 Stat. 141

## Party summary

The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.

### Senate

| | Party (shading shows control) | Party (shading shows control) | Party (shading shows control) | Party (shading shows control) | Party (shading shows control) | Total | Vacant |
| | Democratic (D) | Populist (P) | Republican (R) | Silver Republican (SR) | Silver (S) | Total | Vacant |
| End of previous congress | 34 | 5 | 44 | 5 | 2 | 90 | 0 |
| Begin | 26 | 4 | 50 | 3 | 2 | 85 | 5 |
| End | 25 | 5 | 53 | 3 | 2 | 88 | 2 |
| Final voting share | 28.4% | 5.7% | 60.2% | 3.4% | 2.3% | | |
| Beginning of next congress | 28 | 3 | 53 | 2 | 0 | 86 | 4 |

### House of Representatives

| | Party (shading shows control) | Party (shading shows control) | Party (shading shows control) | Party (shading shows control) | Party (shading shows control) | Total | Vacant |
| | Democratic (D) | Populist (P) | Republican (R) | Silver Republican (SR) | Silver (S) | Total | Vacant |
| End of previous congress | 122 | 22 | 202 | 3 | 1 | 350 | 7 |
| Begin | 162 | 6 | 183 | 2 | 1 | 354 | 3 |
| End | 158 | 6 | 186 | 2 | 1 | 353 | 4 |
| Final voting share | 44.8% | 1.7% | 52.7% | 0.6% | 0.3% | | |
| Non-voting members | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Beginning of next congress | 152 | 5 | 196 | 1 | 1 | 355 | 2 |

## Leadership
### Senate

* President: Garret Hobart (R), until November 21, 1899; vacant thereafter.
* President pro tempore: William P. Frye (R)
* Democratic Caucus Chairman: James K. Jones
* Republican Conference Chairman: William B. Allison
* Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Stephen M. White

### House of Representatives

* Speaker: David B. Henderson (R)
* Democratic Caucus Chairman: James Hay
* Republican Conference Chairman: Joseph G. Cannon
* Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: Joseph W. Babcock

#### Majority (Republican) leadership

* Majority Leader: Sereno E. Payne
* Majority Whip: James A. Tawney

#### Minority (Democratic) leadership

* Minority Leader: James D. Richardson
* Minority Whip: Oscar Underwood

## Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district.
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### Senate

At this time, Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1904; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1900; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1902.

### House of Representatives
## Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

### Senate

* Replacements: 7
** Democratic: no net change
** Republican: 1 seat loss
** Populist: 1 seat gain
* Deaths: 3
* Resignations: 1
* Vacancies: 5
* Interim appointments: 2
* Total seats with changes: 9
| State (class) | Vacated by | Reason for vacancy | Subsequent | Date of successor's installation |
| Delaware (1) | Vacant | Senator George Gray's (D) term had expired at the end of previous Congress having failed to get re-elected. Legislature failed to elect Senator for this Congress, seat remained vacant for the entire Congress. | Seat remained vacant until next Congress. | Seat remained vacant until next Congress. |
| Nebraska (1) | Vacant | Legislature failed to elect to fill vacancy in term. | Monroe Hayward (R) | March 8, 1899 |
| California (1) | Vacant | Legislature failed to elect to fill vacancy in term. | Thomas R. Bard (R) | February 7, 1900 |
| Florida (1) | Samuel Pasco (D) | Successor was elected April 18, 1899. | James Taliaferro (D) | April 20, 1899 |
| Nebraska (1) | Monroe Hayward (R) | Died December 5, 1899. Successor was appointed. | William V. Allen (Pop.) | December 13, 1899 |
| Montana (1) | William A. Clark (D) | Resigned May 15, 1900, over claim of election fraud. Seat remained vacant until the next Congress. | Vacant | Vacant |
| Iowa (2) | John H. Gear (R) | Died July 14, 1900. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected. | Jonathan P. Dolliver (R) | August 22, 1900 |
| Vermont (3) | Jonathan Ross (R) | Successor was elected October 18, 1900. | William P. Dillingham (R) | October 18, 1900 |
| Minnesota (1) | Cushman K. Davis (R) | Died November 27, 1900. Successor was appointed. | Charles A. Towne (D) | December 5, 1900 |
| Pennsylvania (1) | Vacant | Due to a failure to elect, Governor appointed Quay at beginning of term, but Senate refused to seat him. He then won a special election. | Matthew Quay (R) | January 16, 1901 |
| Minnesota (1) | Charles A. Towne (D) | Successor was elected January 23, 1901. | Moses E. Clapp (R) | January 28, 1901 |
| Utah (1) | Vacant | failure to elect | Thomas Kearns (R) | January 23, 1901 |

### House of Representatives

* Replacements: 21
** Democratic: 5 seat loss
** Republican: 5 seat gain
** Populist: no net change
* Deaths: 12
* Resignations: 7
* Contested election: 3
* New seats: 1
* Total seats with changes: 26
| District | Previous | Reason for change | Subsequent | Date of successor's installation |
| Maine 2nd | Vacant | Rep. Nelson Dingley Jr. died during previous congress | Charles E. Littlefield (R) | June 19, 1899 |
| Utah At-large | Vacant | B. H. Roberts was denied seat. King was elected to finish term. | William H. King (D) | June 19, 1899 |
| New York 34th | Vacant | Rep. Warren B. Hooker resigned during previous congress | Edward B. Vreeland (R) | November 7, 1899 |
| Nebraska 6th | William L. Greene (Pop.) | Died March 11, 1899. | William Neville (Pop.) | December 4, 1899 |
| Louisiana 5th | Samuel T. Baird (D) | Died April 22, 1899. | Joseph E. Ransdell (D) | August 29, 1899 |
| Missouri 8th | Richard P. Bland (D) | Died June 15, 1899. | Dorsey W. Shackleford (D) | August 29, 1899 |
| Ohio 16th | Lorenzo Danford (R) | Died June 19, 1899 | Joseph J. Gill (R) | December 4, 1899 |
| Maine 1st | Thomas B. Reed (R) | Resigned September 4, 1899. | Amos L. Allen (R) | November 6, 1899 |
| Pennsylvania 9th | Daniel Ermentrout (D) | Died September 17, 1899. | Henry D. Green (D) | November 7, 1899 |
| Kentucky 7th | Evan E. Settle (D) | Died November 16, 1899. | June Ward Gayle (D) | January 15, 1900 |
| Maryland 1st | John W. Smith (D) | Resigned January 12, 1900, after being elected Governor of Maryland | Josiah Kerr (R) | November 6, 1900 |
| New York 24th | Charles A. Chickering (R) | Died February 13, 1900 | Albert D. Shaw (R) | November 6, 1900 |
| Virginia 4th | Sidney P. Epes (D) | Died March 3, 1900. | Francis R. Lassiter (D) | April 9, 1900 |
| Pennsylvania 5th | Alfred C. Harmer (R) | Died March 6, 1900 | Edward Morrell (R) | November 6, 1900 |
| Alabama 4th | Gaston A. Robbins (D) | Lost contested election March 8, 1900 | William F. Aldrich (R) | March 8, 1900 |
| Virginia 2nd | William A. Young (D) | Lost contested election March 12, 1900 | Richard A. Wise (R) | March 12, 1900 |
| Alabama 8th | Joseph Wheeler (D) | Resigned April 20, 1900. | William N. Richardson (D) | December 3, 1900 |
| North Carolina 9th | William T. Crawford (D) | Lost contested election May 10, 1900 | Richmond Pearson (R) | May 10, 1900 |
| Iowa 9th | Smith McPherson (R) | Resigned June 6, 1900, after being appointed judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa | Walter I. Smith (R) | December 3, 1900 |
| Delaware At-large | John H. Hoffecker (R) | Died June 16, 1900 | Walter O. Hoffecker (R) | November 6, 1900 |
| New Jersey 7th | William D. Daly (D) | Died July 31, 1900. | Allan L. McDermott (D) | December 3, 1900 |
| California 2nd | Marion De Vries (D) | Resigned August 20, 1900, after being appointed to the Board of General Appraisers | Samuel D. Woods (R) | December 3, 1900 |
| Iowa 10th | Jonathan P. Dolliver (R) | Resigned August 22, 1900, after being appointed to the U.S. Senate | James P. Conner (R) | December 4, 1900 |
| Hawaii Territory | New seat | Seat established by the Hawaiian Organic Act April 30, 1900 | Robert W. Wilcox (Home Rule) | November 6, 1900 |
| Virginia 2nd | Richard A. Wise (R) | Died December 21, 1900 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |
| New Hampshire 2nd | Frank G. Clarke (R) | Died January 9, 1901 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |
| New York 24th | Albert D. Shaw (R) | Died February 10, 1901 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |
| Maine 4th | Charles A. Boutelle (R) | Resigned March 3, 1901 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |

## Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders for members of the House and Senate committees can be found through the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of this article. The directory after the pages of terms of service lists committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and, after that, House/Senate committee assignments. On the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.

### Senate

* United States Senate Select Committee on the Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select) (Chairman: James H. Berry; Ranking Member: Shelby M. Cullom)
* Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Redfield Proctor; Ranking Member: William B. Bate)
* Appropriations (Chairman: William B. Allison; Ranking Member: Francis M. Cockrell)
* Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John P. Jones; Ranking Member: Jacob H. Gallinger)
* Canadian Relations (Chairman: Mark Hanna; Ranking Member: Richard F. Pettigrew)
* Census (Chairman: Thomas H. Carter; Ranking Member: Samuel D. McEnery)
* Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: Lucien Baker; Ranking Member: Horace Chilton)
* Claims (Chairman: Francis E. Warren; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller)
* Coast and Insular Survey (Chairman: Addison G. Foster; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
* Coast Defenses (Chairman: George W. McBride; Ranking Member: Marion Butler)
* Commerce (Chairman: William P. Frye; Ranking Member: George G. Vest)
* Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Chairman: Donelson Caffery; Ranking Member: Nelson W. Aldrich)
* Cuban Relations (Chairman: Orville H. Platt; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller)
* Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
* District of Columbia (Chairman: James McMillan; Ranking Member: Nelson W. Aldrich)
* Education and Labor (Chairman: James H. Kyle; Ranking Member: Donelson Caffery)
* Engrossed Bills (Chairman: Francis M. Cockrell; Ranking Member: George F. Hoar)
* Enrolled Bills (Chairman: William J. Sewell; Ranking Member: Donelson Caffery)
* Establish a University in the United States (Select) (Chairman: George L. Wellington; Ranking Member: James K. Jones)
* Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Chairman: Jonathan Rose; Ranking Member: Thomas B. Turley)
* Expenditures in Executive Departments
* Finance (Chairman: Nelson W. Aldrich; Ranking Member: John P. Jones)
* Fisheries (Chairman: George C. Perkins; Ranking Member: Marion Butler)
* Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Select) (Chairman: William B. Bate; Ranking Member: Orville H. Platt)
* Foreign Relations (Chairman: Cushman K. Davis; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
* Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game (Chairman: Albert J. Beveridge; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
* Geological Survey (Select) (Chairman: Stephen B. Elkins; Ranking Member: Hernando D. Money)
* Immigration (Chairman: Boies Penrose; Ranking Member: Joseph L. Rawlins)
* Indian Affairs (Chairman: John M. Thurston; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
* Indian Depredations (Chairman: William J. Deboe; Ranking Member: William Lindsay)
* Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman: Joseph Simon; Ranking Member: William A. Harris)
* Industrial Expositions (Select) (Chairman: Chauncey M. Depew; Ranking Member: George G. Vest)
* Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: John Tyler Morgan; Ranking Member: Joseph R. Hawley)
* Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Shelby M. Cullom; Ranking Member: William Lindsay)
* Judiciary (Chairman: George F. Hoar; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller)
* Library (Chairman: George P. Wetmore; Ranking Member: Francis M. Cockrell)
* Manufactures (Chairman: William E. Mason; Ranking Member: William A. Harris)
* Military Affairs (Chairman: Joseph Hawley; Ranking Member: William B. Bate)
* Mines and Mining (Chairman: William M. Stewart; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
* Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman: Knute Nelson; Ranking Member: William B. Bate)
* National Banks (Select) (Chairman: John Kean; Ranking Member: Horace Chilton)
* Naval Affairs (Chairman: Eugene Hale; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
* Nicaragua Canal (Select)
* Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Chairman: Joseph B. Foraker; Ranking Member: Francis M. Cockrell)
* Pacific Railroads (Chairman: John H. Gear; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
* Patents (Chairman: Jeter C. Pritchard; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory)
* Pensions (Chairman: Jacob H. Gallinger; Ranking Member: William Lindsay)
* Philippines (Chairman: Henry Cabot Lodge; Ranking Member: Joseph L. Rawlins)
* Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Edward O. Wolcott; Ranking Member: Marion Butler)
* Potomac River Front (Select) (Chairman: Nathan B. Scott; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin)
* Printing (Chairman: Thomas C. Platt; Ranking Member: James K. Jones)
* Private Land Claims (Chairman: Henry M. Teller; Ranking Member: Eugene Hale)
* Privileges and Elections (Chairman: William E. Chandler; Ranking Member: Donelson Caffery)
* Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Charles W. Fairbanks; Ranking Member: George G. Vest)
* Public Health and National Quarantine (Chairman: George G. Vest; Ranking Member: Jacob H. Gallinger)
* Public Lands (Chairman: Henry C. Hansbrough; Ranking Member: James H. Berry)
* Railroads (Chairman: Clarence D. Clark; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Bacon)
* Revision of the Laws (Chairman: Julius C. Burrows; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
* Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: William Lindsay; Ranking Member: William J. Deboe)
* Rules (Chairman: John C. Spooner; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller)
* Tariff Regulation (Select)
* Territories (Chairman: George L. Shoup; Ranking Member: William B. Bate)
* Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman: Richard F. Pettigrew; Ranking Member: Edward O. Wolcott)
* Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman: Joseph V. Quarles; Ranking Member: George Turner)
* Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Chairman: Porter J. McCumber; Ranking Member: N/A)
* Washington City Centennial (Select)
* Whole
* Woman Suffrage (Select) (Chairman: John W. Daniel; Ranking Member: George Frisbie Hoar)

### House of Representatives

* Accounts (Chairman: Melville Bull; Ranking Member: Charles L. Bartlett)
* Agriculture (Chairman: James W. Wadsworth; Ranking Member: John S. Williams)
* Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Chairman: Nehemiah D. Sperry; Ranking Member: Oscar Turner)
* Appropriations (Chairman: Joseph G. Cannon; Ranking Member: Leonidas F. Livingston)
* Banking and Currency (Chairman: Marriott Brosius; Ranking Member: Nicholas N. Cox)
* Claims (Chairman: Joseph V. Graff; Ranking Member: Edward Robb)
* Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: James H. Southard; Ranking Member: Edwin R. Ridgely)
* Disposition of Executive Papers
* District of Columbia (Chairman: Joseph W. Babcock; Ranking Member: Adolph Meyer)
* Education (Chairman: Galusha A. Grow; Ranking Member: David A. De Armond)
* Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: John B. Corliss; Ranking Member: William W. Rucker)
* Elections No.#1 (Chairman: Robert W. Tayler; Ranking Member: Charles L. Bartlett)
* Elections No.#2 (Chairman: Walter L. Weaver; Ranking Member: James M. Robinson)
* Elections No.#3 (Chairman: William S. Mesick; Ranking Member: Robert W. Miers)
* Enrolled Bills (Chairman: William B. Baker; Ranking Member: James T. Lloyd)
* Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (Chairman: Charles W. Gillet; Ranking Member: James W. Ryan)
* Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Charles Curtis; Ranking Member: Thomas C. Catchings)
* Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: Jonathan P. Dolliver; Ranking Member: Daniel J. Riordan)
* Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: James F. Stewart; Ranking Member: Stanyarne Wilson)
* Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Irving P. Wanger; Ranking Member: Edward Robb)
* Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: William A. Smith; Ranking Member: Rufus E. Lester)
* Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Robert G. Cousins; Ranking Member: William L. Terry)
* Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: William W. Grout; Ranking Member: William L. Stark)
* Expenditures on Public Buildings
* Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Robert R. Hitt; Ranking Member: Hugh A. Dinsmore)
* Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: William B. Shattuc; Ranking Member: Peter J. Otey)
* Indian Affairs (Chairman: James S. Sherman; Ranking Member: John S. Little)
* Insular Affairs (Chairman: Henry A. Cooper; Ranking Member: William A. Jones)
* Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: William P. Hepburn; Ranking Member: William McAleer)
* Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Cyrus A. Sulloway; Ranking Member: Robert W. Miers)
* Irrigation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Thomas H. Tongue; Ranking Member: John F. Shafroth)
* Judiciary (Chairman: George W. Ray; Ranking Member: William L. Terry)
* Labor (Chairman: John J. Gardner; Ranking Member: W. Jasper Talbert)
* Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Chairman: Richard Bartholdt; Ranking Member: John M. Allen)
* Library (Chairman: Alfred C. Harmer; Ranking Member: Amos J. Cummings)
* Manufactures (Chairman: George W. Faris; Ranking Member: Willard D. Vandiver)
* Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Charles H. Grosvenor; Ranking Member: John F. Fitzgerald)
* Mileage (Chairman: John A. Barham; Ranking Member: Samuel B. Cooper)
* Military Affairs (Chairman: John A.T. Hull; Ranking Member: William Sulzer)
* Militia (Chairman: Charles Dick; Ranking Member: William L. Stark)
* Mines and Mining (Chairman: Rousseau O. Crump; Ranking Member: Farish C. Tate)
* Naval Affairs (Chairman: Charles A. Boutelle; Ranking Member: Amos J. Cummings)
* Pacific Railroads (Chairman: H. Henry Powers; Ranking Member: James L. Slayden)
* Patents (Chairman: Winfield S. Kerr; Ranking Member: William Sulzer)
* Pensions (Chairman: Henry C. Loudenslager; Ranking Member: Jesse F. Stallings)
* Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Eugene F. Loud; Ranking Member: Claude A. Swanson)
* Printing (Chairman: Joel P. Heatwole; Ranking Member: Farish C. Tate)
* Private Land Claims (Chairman: George W. Smith; Ranking Member: William A. Jones)
* Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: David H. Mercer; Ranking Member: John H. Bankhead)
* Public Lands (Chairman: John F. Lacey; Ranking Member: John F. Shafroth)
* Railways and Canals (Chairman: Charles A. Chickering; Ranking Member: Reese C. De Graffenreid)
* Reform in the Civil Service (Chairman: Frederick H. Gillett; Ranking Member: Samuel M. Robertson)
* Revision of Laws (Chairman: Vespasian Warner; Ranking Member: James T. Lloyd)
* Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Theodore E. Burton; Ranking Member: Thomas C. Catchings)
* Rules (Chairman: John Dalzell; Ranking Member: James D. Richardson)
* Standards of Official Conduct
* Territories (Chairman: William S. Knox; Ranking Member: William McAleer)
* Ventilation and Acoustics (Chairman: George W. Prince; Ranking Member: David H. Smith)
* War Claims (Chairman: Thaddeus M. Mahon; Ranking Member: Patrick Henry)
* Ways and Means (Chairman: Sereno E. Payne; Ranking Member: James D. Richardson)
* Whole

### Joint committees

* Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
* Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
* The Library
* Printing

## Caucuses

* Democratic (House)
* Democratic (Senate)

## Employees
### Legislative branch agency directors

* Architect of the Capitol: Edward Clark
* Librarian of Congress: John Russell Young, until 1899
** Herbert Putnam, from 1899
* Public Printer of the United States: Francis W. Palmer

### Senate

* Chaplain: William H. Millburn (Methodist)
* Secretary: William Ruffin Cox, until February 1, 1900
** Charles G. Bennett, elected February 1, 1900
* Librarian: Alonzo M. Church
* Sergeant at Arms: Richard J. Bright, until February 1, 1900
** Daniel M. Ransdell, elected February 1, 1900

### House of Representatives

* Chaplain: Henry N. Couden (Universalist)
* Clerk: Alexander McDowell
* Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Asher C. Hinds
* Doorkeeper: William J. Glenn
* Postmaster: Joseph C. McElroy
* Reading Clerks: E. L. Sampson (D) and Dennis E. Alward (R)
* Sergeant at Arms: Benjamin F. Russell, until December 4, 1899
** Henry Casson, from December 4, 1899