Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-21
EASTERN NEWS.
House Onnlttees.


NEW YORK. Dec. o0.-A Washing
| ton special says that Speaker Kerr an
nounces his committees and that the
| following gentlemen are to be the
chairmen: OF Ways and Means Com
mittee, Mr.. Morrison; Appropriations
Randall; Bankingand Currency, Cox;
Foreign Affairs, Swan; Commerce,
Hereford; Judiciary, Knott; Elections,
Ranney; Committee on Pacific Rail-
roads, Lamar; War Claims. j. r..
Eden; Public Lands, NJ. Taylor, of
Ohio; Post Offices and Post Roads, J..
B. Clark, Of Missouri; Revision of
Laws, M. j. Bushon, of Ky; Agricul-
ture, j. H. Caldwell; Indian Affairs,
M. Scales; Military Affairs, H. P.
Benning, of Ohio; Judiciary, J. P.
Knott, of Kentucky; Naval Affairs,
w. c. Whithorne, OF Tennessee; Ter
rtories, w. j. Southers, Of Ohio; Rev
olutionary Pensions, f. Hunton, of
Virginia.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20.-A Denver spe-
cial says Stewards Reduction Works
at Georgetown, burned yesterday,
The loss is $4,000.
The Empire Flour Mills burned on
Saturday evening at Des Moines, Iowa.
Criminal.
NEW YORK, December 20th.-The
Coroner's inquest in the case of the
murdered Jewess, Sara Alexander, was
not concluded to-day, as expected.
Several witnesses were examined, but
o1s OF
then adjourned till Wednesday,
A full jury was obtained this after
noon in the Bowen libel suit against
the Brooklyn Eagle, and the exami-
nation of witnesses will begin to-mor.
row.
Pacific Steamer.
PHILADELPHIA, December 20th.--
The trial trip of the steamship st.
Paul, constructed here for the Alaska
Commercial Company, for Pacific
trade, was made here yesterday. The
result was ali that could be desired
for vessel of the kind. #
College Of Musi:.
NEW YORK, December 2Oth.-Sam-
uel Ward, a retired merchant, who
proposed to endow a College of Music
in this city, is sick at his residence.
His friends are not alarmed athis con-
ditiOn. He is now eighty years of age.
1t is said that 4. l.. Hopkins, of BOs-
ton, will contribute $5O0,0OO towards
the fund for establishing the College
of Music.
Death on the Rail.
IIyERMoRE, December 10th. - A
man about fifty years old, supposed to
be an Italian or Mexican, was struck
on the head by the overland train on
San Joaquin trestle yesterday and
knocked from the track. He was
placed on the train and died between
Midway and Altamont, about half an
hour after the accident. At the in
quest to-day no verdict was agreed
upon. The case was referred to the
District Attorney of San Joaquin
county, as the accident occurred in
that county.
House Committees.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2Oth.-Speaker
Kerr to-day announced the Standing
Committees of the House for the 44th
Congress, and the members all appear
to be we'll satisfied with the manner i'm
which the work was done and selec-
tions made. Some little surprise was
expressed that Mr.. Wood did not get
a Chairmanship, but the second place
on the Committee on Ways and Means,
which is always regarded as an equiv
alent to the Craftsmanship of one of
the ordinary committees. To those
who have watched the legislation OF
Congress for the past fifteen years, and
who cannot have failed to notice the
prominence given to Representatives
from New England, it seems rather
odd to look over the roll of States and
not find craftsmanship credited to
New England. New York gets five
chairmanships,viZ: Banking and Cur
rency, Expenditures on Public Build.
ings, Reform in Civil Service, and
Expenditures Of Navy Department;
Pennsylvania gets seven, viz: Appr0-
priations, Expenditures of War De-
Interior Department, Centennial
Celebration, Pensions and Mile
age; Maryland gets one, viz:
Foreign Affairs; Virginia three, Edu-
cation and Harbor, Elections and
Revolutionary Pensions; North Caro-
lima two, Indian Affairs and Patents;
Georgia two, Enrolled Bills and Coin
age; Alabama one, Agriculture, Mis-
sissippi one, Pacific Railroads; Louis
lana one, Mississippi Levees; Ohio
five, Public Lands, Military Affairs,
Printing, Territories and Military;
Kentucky four, Public Expenditures,
Judiciary, Railways and Canals and
Revision of Laws; Tennessee two,
Claims and Naval Affairs; Indiana
two, Accounts and Public Buildings
and Grounds; Illinois four, Expenses
of Department of Justice, Expenses of
State Department, War Claims and
Ways and Means; Missouri five, Man
features, Expenses of Post Office De-
partment, Post Offices and Post Roads,
District of Columbia and Mines, Min
ing; Arkansas one, Private Land
Claims, and West Virginia one, Com
merce. A comparison with the Chair
manship of last Congress shows that