New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-30
THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.

All Tue uleuIDtTS VI tiliS cOIuullltee vert
present at the organization, and the bust.
ness of taking testimony was begun al
once. We have heard some comment
upon the fact that the committee holds its
sessions in the United States Courtroom,
as that is within and a part of the Custom
house building We remember that when
a similar committee went to New York
city to investigate customhouse frauds and
abuses, the proposition to hold the sessions
in the customhouse met with such violent
opposition from the people that the COM
mittee decided to meet in another place.
In our Judgment, however, the Custom
house is the proper place The committee
is here upon government business; to in
quire into the official conduct of the gov
eminent employees; and government
building is the most appropriate place for
the transaction of the business. And be-
sides, the courtroom is officially ASSOCIATED
from the revenue department, however close
may be the alliance between the respect
i've custOdians of the two departments. At
all events, We can safely contide in the dis
erection of the committee, well assured
that they will not yield to the allurements
of the seductive wines of France, or the
fragrant weed of Havana, with which the
granite building is so well supplied.
The following is brief personnel Of the
members of the committee:
Hon. Glenni W. Scoield, the chairman,
represents the nineteenth congressional
district of Pennsylvania, composed of the
counties of Cameron, Clearteld, Elk,
Erie, Forest, Jefferson, Mexican and War
rem. He is Il native of Chatauqua county,
New York, graduated az Hamilton College,
New York City, in 1870, and has since
studied and practiced law, except when IN
terrupted by official duties. He was a
member of the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives in 1850 and 1851, and q
member of the Senate in 1857, 1858 and
1859; was Judge Of the eighteenth Judicial
district of his State in 1861, and was
elected to the Thirty eighth, Thirty NINTH
Fortieth, Forty-flst and Forty-second Con-
crosses. At the last election he beat
his opponent by only a few hundred votes
Hon. George W. McCrary represents
the first district Of Iowa in Congress- COM
prising the counties of Davis, Des Moines,
II Lee. I 7
and Washington. lie is a native of In
diana, but removed with his parents in
1886 to the then Territory Of Iowa, now
one of the greatest and most prosperous
OF the Western States; was educated i'll the
public school and academy, studied law,
and was admitted to the bar in Keokuk in
1856; was elected to the Legislature in
1857; in 1861 WIS elected to the Senate
for four years. He then practiced his
profession until he was elected to the
Forty first Congress, III 1868, and WAS re-
elected to the Forty second in 1870.
Hon H. Boardman Smith represents
the twenty seventh congressional district
OF New York, composed Of Allegheny,
Chemung and S.eube11 counties He re-
sides IN the city Of Elnira, but is native
OF Vermont; is lawyer by profession,
and was appointed by the Governor judge
of the Chemung county courts in Septem-
Der, 1859, and in the following year was
elected by the people to the same Office.
Ia 1870 he was elected to the Forty second
Congress.
Hon. Stevenson Archer represents the