The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-23
THE NEW HOUSE.
Chairmen of Committees

The AZ chairmanships, exclusive of the
committee on rules, of which the speaker
is ex-oflicio chairman, "a are given to wes-
tern members. ten to southern and thirteen
to the middle and eastern states. OF the
latter thirteen, six are of third-rate import
ance, being committees on expenditures in
various executive departments, ETC., and
of the chairmanships given to the western
members, -Four are of the same description.
Four or five of the southern chairmanships
are also unimportant. The west, therefore
holds the first place in the number of chair
mauships of the first and second class COM
mittees. Out of the total AZ Ohio and
Missouri have each five chairmanships,
Illinois four. Kentucky four, Indiana two
and Tennessee two. Virginia and Penn
sylvsuia have three each, North Carolina
has two, and no other state has more than
ono !rollowing hrief biographical
sLetcheh of the chairmen of the most iu,-
porfant committees.
John 7. Harris of Hsrrisonburg, Va,
chairman of the committee on elections,
was born in Albemarle county, Va, May
8, 1926; studied law was attorney for the
commonwealth from 1852 to 1850; was
presidential elector on the Buchanan ticket
in 1856; was member of the 26,h con-
gress of the United States, and of the con-
federate legislature from 1868 to 1865; was
Judge of the IL h judicial circuit of Vir-
ginia from 1866 to 1869; was elected to the
42d, 43d and 44th congresses. He served
on the committees on war claims and on the
centennial celebration.
William r. Morrison of Waterloo, H.,
appointed chairman of the committee of
ways and means, was born in Monroe
county, H., Sept. IA, 1925; received
common school education and was after
ward a student at McKendru college; be-
gan life on farm; was admitted TO the bar
in 1865 and has since practiced law; was a
private in the Mexican war and command
ed the 40th Illinois infantry in the civil
war was clerk of the Monroe county court
from 1852 to 1854, member of the legisla-
ture from 1854 to 1860, and speaker the last
two years; again IN the legislature in 1870
II was elected to the 3Sth, 43d and A b
congresses as a Democrat In the last con-
gress he served on the committee on war
claims and expenditures of the state de-
partment.
Samuel J. Randall OF Philadelphia, chair
man of the committee on appropriations,
was born in the Quaker City Oct. 10, 1928;
received an academic education and en-
gagged in mercantile pursuits; was men,
bSf VI tHc CiJ CouuCh iOut yGaie, anu VI
the state senate in 1858 and 1859; was
elected as Democrat to the 3Sth 39th, 40th
4lst, 42d and 44th congresses. In the last
congress he was member of the CON-
mittees on banking aud currency, on post
office and post roads, on rules and on Miss
issippi levees.
Samuel Sullivan Cox OF New York, chair
man of the committee on banking and cur
rency, was born in GAINESVILLE. o., Sept 80,
1924 graduated at Brown university prov
iderce, X. L. in 1886; studied and prac-
ticed law; owned and edited Columbus
Statesman in 1854; was appointed Sec
rotary of legation in Peru in 1856; was
elected from the Columbus, o., district to
the 35,h, Seth, 37th and 3Sth congresses
removed to New York city in 1865, and
was there elected to the 4lst and 42i con-
crosses was defeated by Lyman Tremane
in the election of representatives-at-lsrge
to the 43d congress, but was subsequently
elected to succeed James Brooks, deceased,
in that congress, and was reelected to the
44th congress. He is an author of distinc-
ton and large contributor to the press
and various periodicals, where his rare wit
and ability is recognized as well as in his
speeches. He served in the last congress
on the committees on foreign affairs and on
rules.
Lucius Q. G. Lamar of Oxford, Miss,
chairman of the committee on Pacific rail-
roads, was born in Putnam county, Ca,
Sept. IL, 1925; was educated and graduated
at Emory college in 1916, studied law at
Macon and was admitted to the bar in ls47;
moved to Oxford, Miss, in 1s49; was pro-
fessor Of mathematics in the state univer-
sity until 1850, when he returned to Cow
ington, Ga, and resumed the law, was in
the Georgia legislature in 1858; in 1854
moved to Lafayette county, Miss and
was selected to the 35th and 36th con-
crosses, resigning in 1860 to join the Sc
cession convention; was colonel of the 10th
Mississippi from 81 TO '63, when he was
sent on mission to Russia by the confed-
crate government; at the close of the war
was chosen professor of political economy
in the university of Mississippi, and in 1867
professor of law; was elected 10 tho 43d
and 44th congresses as Democrat. lie
was on the committees on elections and
Mississippi levees in the last congress,
j. Proctor Knott of Kentucky, chairman
of the committee on the judiciary, was
member of the 40t,, and 4lst congresses
and acquired his principal distinction by
speech in reference to a proposed subsidy
for railroad terminating at Duluth, upon
Lake Superior, which was so charged with
wit and satire as to have the effect intended