# 58th United States Congress

The 58th 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, DC, from March 4, 1903, to March 4, 1905, during the third and fourth years of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1900 United States census. Both chambers had a Republican majority.

## Major legislation

* April 28, 1904: Kinkaid Act
* February 1, 1905: Transfer Act of 1905

## Party summary
### Senate

| | 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) | Total | Vacant |
| End of previous congress | 29 | 2 | 56 | 2 | 89 | 1 |
| Begin | 33 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 90 | 0 |
| End | 33 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 89 | 1 |
| Final voting share | 37.1% | 0.0% | 62.9% | 0.0% | | |
| Beginning of next congress | 31 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 88 | 2 |

### House of Representatives

| | 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) | Total | Vacant |
| End of previous congress | 148 | 5 | 197 | 1 | 351 | 6 |
| Begin | 178 | 0 | 206 | 0 | 384 | 2 |
| End | 175 | 0 | 209 | 0 | 384 | 2 |
| Final voting share | 45.6% | 0.0% | 54.4% | 0.0% | | |
| Beginning of next congress | 178 | 0 | 206 | 0 | 384 | 2 |

## Leadership
### Senate

* President: Vacant
* President pro tempore: William P. Frye (R)
* Republican Conference Chairman: William B. Allison
* Democratic Caucus Chairman: Arthur P. Gorman
* Democratic Caucus Secretary: Edward W. Carmack

### House of Representatives

* Speaker: Joseph G. Cannon (R)

#### Majority (Republican) leadership

* Majority Leader: Sereno E. Payne
* Majority Whip: James A. Tawney
* Republican Conference Chair: William Peters Hepburn

#### Minority (Democratic) leadership

* Minority Leader: John Sharp Williams
* Minority Whip: James T. Lloyd
* Democratic Caucus Chairman: James Hay
* Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: James M. Griggs

## Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, 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 ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1904; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1906; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 1908.

### House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "At-large," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.
Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.

## Changes in membership

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

### Senate

* Replacements: 3
** Democratic: no net change
** Republican: no net change
* Deaths: 3
* Resignations: 1
* Vacancy: 0
* Total seats with changes: 4
| State (class) | Vacated by | Reason for vacancy | Subsequent | Date of successor's installation |
| Ohio (1) | Mark Hanna (R) | Died February 15, 1904. Successor was elected. | Charles W. F. Dick (R) | March 2, 1904 |
| Pennsylvania (1) | Matthew Quay (R) | Died May 28, 1904. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected. | Philander C. Knox (R) | June 10, 1904 |
| Massachusetts (2) | George Frisbie Hoar (R) | Died September 30, 1904. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected. | Winthrop M. Crane (R) | October 12, 1904 |
| Indiana (3) | Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | Resigned March 3, 1905, after being elected Vice-president of the United States | Vacant until next Congress | Vacant until next Congress |

### House of Representatives

* Replacements: 14
** Democratic: 2 seat loss
** Republican: 2 seat gain
* Deaths: 8
* Resignations: 7
* Contested elections: 1
* Total seats with changes: 18
| District | Previous | Reason for change | Subsequent | Date of successor's installation |
| Kansas 7th | Vacant | Rep. Chester I. Long resigned during previous congress | Victor Murdock (R) | May 26, 1903 |
| Oregon 1st | Vacant | Rep. Thomas H. Tongue died during previous congress | Binger Hermann (R) | June 1, 1903 |
| Pennsylvania 4th | Robert H. Foerderer (R) | Died July 26, 1903 | Reuben Moon (R) | November 3, 1903 |
| Kentucky 11th | Vincent Boreing (R) | Died September 16, 1903 | W. Godfrey Hunter (R) | November 10, 1903 |
| Ohio 16th | Joseph J. Gill (R) | Resigned October 31, 1903 | Capell L. Weems (R) | November 3, 1903 |
| Texas 8th | Thomas Henry Ball (D) | Resigned November 16, 1903 | John M. Pinckney (D) | November 17, 1903 |
| Pennsylvania 3rd | Henry Burk (R) | Died December 5, 1903 | George A. Castor (R) | February 16, 1904 |
| New York 12th | George B. McClellan Jr. (D) | Resigned December 21, 1903, after being elected Mayor of New York | William B. Cockran (D) | February 23, 1904 |
| Ohio 14th | William W. Skiles (R) | Died January 9, 1904 | Amos R. Webber (R) | November 8, 1904 |
| Pennsylvania 10th | George Howell (D) | Lost contested election February 10, 1904 | William Connell (R) | February 10, 1904 |
| Colorado 1st | John F. Shafroth (D) | Resigned February 15, 1904, after believing he was elected due to election irregularities | Robert W. Bonynge (R) | February 16, 1904 |
| South Carolina 2nd | George W. Croft (D) | Died March 10, 1904 | Theodore G. Croft (D) | May 17, 1904 |
| Ohio 19th | Charles W. F. Dick (R) | Resigned March 23, 1904, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | W. Aubrey Thomas (R) | November 8, 1904 |
| Alabama 5th | Charles W. Thompson (D) | Died March 20, 1904 | J. Thomas Heflin (D) | May 19, 1904 |
| New Jersey 4th | William M. Lanning (R) | Resigned June 6, 1904, after being appointed judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey | Ira W. Wood (R) | November 8, 1904 |
| California 3rd | Victor H. Metcalf (R) | Resigned July 1, 1904, after being appointed United States Department of Commerce and Labor | Joseph R. Knowland (R) | November 8, 1904 |
| Illinois 8th | William F. Mahoney (D) | Died December 27, 1904 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |
| New York 19th | Norton P. Otis (R) | Died February 20, 1905 | 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

* 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 Kean; Ranking Member: Hernando D. Money)
* Canadian Relations (Chairman: Charles W. Fulton; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
* Census (Chairman: Joseph V. Quarles; Ranking Member: Samuel D. McEnery)
* Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: George C. Perkins; Ranking Member: William B. Bate)
* Claims (Chairman: Francis E. Warren; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin)
* Coast and Insular Survey (Chairman: Levi Ankeny; Ranking Member: John Tyler Morgan)
* Coast Defenses (Chairman: John H. Mitchell; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
* Commerce (Chairman: William P. Frye; Ranking Member: James H. Berry)
* Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Chairman: Thomas S. Martin; 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: Jacob H. Gallinger; Ranking Member: Nelson W. Aldrich)
* Education and Labor (Chairman: Louis E. McComas; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
* Engrossed Bills (Chairman: Francis M. Cockrell; Ranking Member: George F. Hoar)
* Enrolled Bills (Chairman: John F. Dryden; Ranking Member: Murphy J. Foster)
* Establish a University in the United States (Select) (Chairman: Chester I. Long; Ranking Member: Alexander S. Clay)
* Examination and Disposition of Documents (Select) (Chairman: Russell A. Alger; Ranking Member: N/A)
* Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Chairman: Moses E. Clapp; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
* Expenditures in Executive Departments
* Finance (Chairman: Nelson W. Aldrich; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
* Fisheries (Chairman: Albert J. Hopkins; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory)
* Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Select) (Chairman: William B. Bate; Ranking Member: Charles H. Dietrich)
* Foreign Relations (Chairman: Shelby M. Cullom; Ranking Member: John Tyler Morgan)
* Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game (Chairman: Joseph R. Burton; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
* Geological Survey (Chairman: Addison G. Foster; Ranking Member: Hernando D. Money)
* Immigration (Chairman: William P. Dillingham; Ranking Member: Anselm J. McLaurin)
* Indian Affairs (Chairman: William M. Stewart; Ranking Member: John Tyler Morgan)
* Indian Depredations (Chairman: J. Frank Allee; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Bacon)
* Industrial Expositions (Chairman: Henry E. Burnham; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
* Investigate the Condition of the Potomac River Front at Washington (Select) (Chairman: Joseph H. Millard; Ranking Member: William B. Bate)
* Indian Territory (Select)
* Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: Mark Hanna; Ranking Member: Edward W. Carmack)
* Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Stephen B. Elkins; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
* Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Thomas R. Bard; Ranking Member: Josiah W. Bailey)
* Judiciary (Chairman: George F. Hoar; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Bacon)
* Library (Chairman: George P. Wetmore; Ranking Member: William A. Clark)
* Manufactures (Chairman: Weldon B. Heyburn; Ranking Member: Alexander S. Clay)
* Military Affairs (Chairman: Joseph R. Hawley; Ranking Member: William B. Bate)
* Mines and Mining (Chairman: Nathan B. Scott; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
* Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman: Knute Nelson; Ranking Member: William B. Bate)
* National Banks (Select) (Chairman: Thomas Kearns; Ranking Member: Samuel D. McEnery)
* Naval Affairs (Chairman: Eugene Hale; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
* Organization, Conduct and Expenditures of the Executive Departments (Chairman: Matthew S. Quay; Ranking Member: Anselm J. McLaurin)
* Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Chairman: Joseph B. Foraker; Ranking Member: Francis M. Cockrell)
* Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Jonathan P. Dolliver; Ranking Member: John Tyler Morgan)
* Patents (Chairman: Alfred B. Kittredge; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory)
* Pensions (Chairman: Porter J. McCumber; Ranking Member: James P. Taliaferro)
* Philippines (Chairman: Henry Cabot Lodge; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
* Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Boies Penrose; Ranking Member: Alexander S. Clay)
* Potomac River Front (Select)
* Printing (Chairman: Thomas C. Platt; Ranking Member: Arthur P. Gorman)
* Private Land Claims (Chairman: Henry M. Teller; Ranking Member: Eugene Hale)
* Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Julius C. Burrows; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus)
* Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Charles W. Fairbanks; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
* Public Health and National Quarantine (Chairman: John Tyler Morgan; Ranking Member: John Coit Spooner)
* 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: Chauncey M. Depew; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
* Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Benjamin R. Tillman; Ranking Member: Orville H. Platt)
* Rules (Chairman: John C. Spooner; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller)
* Standards, Weights and Measures (Select) (Chairman: Reed Smoot)
* Tariff Regulation (Select)
* Territories (Chairman: Albert J. Beveridge; Ranking Member: William B. Bate)
* Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman: John W. Daniel; Ranking Member: Porter J. McCumber)
* Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman: Robert J. Gamble; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus)
* Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select) (Chairman: Charles H. Dietrich; Ranking Member: John Tyler Morgan)
* Ventilation and Acoustics (Select) (Chairman: L. Heisler Ball; Ranking Member: N/A)
* Whole
* Woman Suffrage (Select) (Chairman: Augustus O. Bacon; Ranking Member: Thomas R. Bard)

### House of Representatives

* Accounts (Chairman: Charles Q. Hildebrant; Ranking Member: Charles Lafayette Bartlett)
* Agriculture (Chairman: James W. Wadsworth; Ranking Member: John Lamb)
* Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Chairman: Nehemiah D. Sperry; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett)
* Appropriations (Chairman: James A. Hemenway; Ranking Member: Leonidas F. Livingston)
* Banking and Currency (Chairman: Charles N. Fowler; Ranking Member: John R. Thayer)
* Census (Chairman: Edgar D. Crumpacker; Ranking Member: Francis M. Griffith)
* Claims (Chairman: Joseph V. Graff; Ranking Member: Henry M. Goldfogle)
* Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: James H. Southard; Ranking Member: Charles F. Cochran)
* Disposition of Executive Papers
* District of Columbia (Chairman: Joseph W. Babcock; Ranking Member: Adolph Meyer)
* Education (Chairman: George N. Southwick; Ranking Member: Willard Vandiver)
* Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: Joseph H. Gaines; Ranking Member: William W. Rucker)
* Elections No.#1 (Chairman: James Robert Mann; Ranking Member: Ollie M. James)
* Elections No.#2 (Chairman: Marlin E. Olmsted; Ranking Member: Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott)
* Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Michael E. Driscoll; Ranking Member: Frank A. McLain)
* Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Frank C. Wachter; Ranking Member: James T. Lloyd)
* Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (Chairman: Charles F. Wright; Ranking Member: Henry D. Flood)
* Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments (Chairman: David J. Foster; Ranking Member: N/A)
* Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Edward S. Minor; Ranking Member: Ezekiel S. Candler Jr.)
* Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: William A. Calderhead; Ranking Member: Henry M. Goldfogle)
* Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Joseph W. Fordney; Ranking Member: Charles W. Thompson)
* Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Irving P. Wanger; Ranking Member: Edward Robb)
* Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: John H. Ketcham; Ranking Member: Rufus E. Lester)
* Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Robert G. Cousins; Ranking Member: John Lamb)
* Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: William R. Warnock; Ranking Member: George F. Burgess)
* Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: James A. Hughes; Ranking Member: John H. Small)
* Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Robert R. Hitt; Ranking Member: Hugh A. Dinsmore)
* Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Benjamin F. Howell; Ranking Member: Jacob Ruppert Jr.)
* Indian Affairs (Chairman: James S. Sherman; Ranking Member: John H. Stephens)
* Industrial Arts and Expositions (Chairman: James A. Tawney; Ranking Member: Charles Lafayette Bartlett)
* Insular Affairs (Chairman: Henry Allen Cooper; Ranking Member: William A. Jones)
* Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: William P. Hepburn; Ranking Member: Robert C. Davey)
* Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Cyrus A. Sulloway; Ranking Member: Robert W. Miers)
* Irrigation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Frank W. Mondell; Ranking Member: Oscar W. Underwood)
* Judiciary (Chairman: John J. Jenkins; Ranking Member: David A. De Armond)
* Labor (Chairman: John J. Gardner; Ranking Member: Ben F. Caldwell)
* Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Chairman: Richard Bartholdt; Ranking Member: Robert F. Broussard)
* Library (Chairman: James T. McCleary; Ranking Member: James D. Richardson)
* Manufactures (Chairman: Joseph C. Sibley; Ranking Member: Willard D. Vandiver)
* Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Charles H. Grosvenor; Ranking Member: Thomas Spight)
* Mileage (Chairman: William A. Reeder; Ranking Member: Elijah B. Lewis)
* Military Affairs (Chairman: John A.T. Hull; Ranking Member: William Sulzer)
* Militia (Chairman: Charles Dick; Ranking Member: Joseph B. Crowley)
* Mines and Mining (Chairman: Webster E. Brown; Ranking Member: Farish Carter Tate)
* Naval Affairs (Chairman: George E. Foss; Ranking Member: Adolph Meyer)
* Pacific Railroads (Chairman: William A. Smith; Ranking Member: William J. Wynn)
* Patents (Chairman: Frank D. Currier; Ranking Member: William Sulzer)
* Pensions (Chairman: Henry C. Loudenslager; Ranking Member: William Richardson)
* Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Jesse Overstreet; Ranking Member: John A. Moon)
* Printing (Chairman: Charles B. Landis; Ranking Member: Farish Carter Tate)
* Private Land Claims (Chairman: George W. Smith; Ranking Member: William A. Jones)
* Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Charles W. Gillet; Ranking Member: John H. Bankhead)
* Public Lands (Chairman: John F. Lacey; Ranking Member: John F. Shafroth)
* Railways and Canals (Chairman: James H. Davidson; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett)
* Reform in the Civil Service (Chairman: Frederick H. Gillett; Ranking Member: Edward W. Pou)
* Revision of Laws (Chairman: Vespasian Warner; Ranking Member: Daniel L.D. Granger)
* Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Theodore E. Burton; Ranking Member: Rufus E. Lester)
* Rules (Chairman: John Dalzell; Ranking Member: John S. Williams)
* Standards of Official Conduct
* Territories (Chairman: Edward L. Hamilton; Ranking Member: John A. Moon)
* Ventilation and Acoustics (Chairman: Roswell P. Bishop; Ranking Member: David H. Smith)
* War Claims (Chairman: Thaddeus M. Mahon; Ranking Member: Thetus W. Sims)
* Ways and Means (Chairman: Sereno E. Payne; Ranking Member: John S. Williams)
* 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: Elliott Woods
* Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
* Public Printer of the United States: Francis W. Palmer

### Senate

* Secretary: Charles G. Bennett
* Sergeant at Arms: Daniel M. Ransdell
* Librarian: Cliff Warden
* Chaplain: William Henry Milburn, Universalist, until November 23, 1903
** F.J. Prettyman, Methodist, elected November 23, 1903
** Edward E. Hale, Unitarian, elected December 14, 1903

### House of Representatives

* Clerk: Alexander McDowell
* Sergeant at Arms: Henry Casson
* Doorkeeper: Frank B. Lyon
* Postmaster: Joseph C. McElroy
* Reading Clerks: E.L. Sampson (D) and Dennis E. Alward (R)
* Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Asher C. Hinds
* Chaplain: Henry N. Couden, Universalist