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Mileage-Mr. Coob, Indiana, chair

man.
Expenditures of State Department.
Messrs. Springer, Illinois, chairman
| Walker, Virginia; Mayham, New York
Dunnell, Minnesota.
Expenditures of Treasury Depart
ment-Messrs. Glover, Missouri. chair
mrn; Harris, Georgia; Forney, Alabama
Needer, New York, Dickey, Ohio; Bag
ley, New York; White, Indinana; Jor
genson, Virginia.
Expenditures of War Department.
Messrs. Blackburne, Kentucky, chair
man; Chandler, Georgia; Rice, Ohio
Darrell, Louisiana; Ames, Rhode Is
land
Expenditures of Navy Department.
Messrs. Willis, New York, chairman
Whitthorne, Tennessee; Page, Califor
MIA; Hubbeil, Michigan.
Ex-Post Office Departme -Messrs
! Williams, a1aDaua, CllalrIn.s n; VIII
liams, Michigan; Caldwell, Kentucky
Watson, Pennsylvania; Bragdon, New
York.
Ex-Interior Department Messrs
Sparks, Illinois, chairman; Robbins
North Carolina; Lockwood, New York:
Oliver, Iowa; WilIetts, Michigan.
Ex-Public Buildings-Mr Lynde, Wis
consin, chairman.
In Department of Justice-Messrs.
Bragg, Wisconsin, chairman; Dunham,
Kentucky; Eden, Illinois; Harden
bergh, New Jersey; Hartridge, Georgia
Evans, South Carolina Miller, New
York; Conger, Michigan; Waite, Con
necticut; Gardner, Ohio; Robinson
Massachusetts.
Reforms in Civil Service -Messrs.
Harrison, Illinois, chairman; Hewitt,
New York; Cook, Georgia; Garth, Ala
bama; Craven, Arkansas; Henry, Mary
land; Morgan, Missouri; Price, Iowa;
James, New York; Pugh, New Jersey;
Sexton, Indiana.
Mississippi Levees-Messrs Roberts,
Louisiana, chairman; Pound. Wiscon-
sin; Robinson, Mississippi; Errett, Penn
sylvania.
Rules-The Speaker; Messrs. Ste
phens, Georgia; Saylor, OHIO; Hanks,
Mississippi: Garfield, Ohio.
Revision Of Laws Relatiye to the
Counting of Electoral Votes, ETC.
Messrs. Southland, Ohio, chairman; Hun
ton, Virginia; Patten, New York
House, Tennessee; Bickwell, Indiana;
Herbert, Alabama; Carlisle, Kentucky;
Butler, Massachusetts; Brown, Indiana;
Brogden, North Carolina; Thompson,
Iowa.
Printing Singleton, Mississippi,
chairman.
Enrolled Bills-AIr. Hamilton, Indi-
ana, chairman.
Library-Mr. Cox, New York, chair
man.
Mr.. Mills, Of Texas, declined to serve
on the committee on naval affairs and
questions, and Mr. Bland, of Missouri,
moved to suspend the rules and pass
the bill authorizing the coinage Of silver
dollars of 423 grains, pending which,
Mr.. Atkins moved the house adjourn.
Agreed to-16I to 20
Adjourned till Wednesday.
APPOINTMENTS SENT TO THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-The president
to-day sent the following nominations
to the senate: VIM. Henry Smith, col
lector of customs, Chicago; TheO
Roosevelt, collector Of customs, Edwin
A. Merritt, surveyor, and L. Bradford
Prince, naval officer, for the port of
New York; Robt. I. Smith, collector of
customs, Mobile; JeWett Palmer, col
lector of internal revenue for the 18th
district of Ohio; E. Platt Stratton, New
York, supervising inspector of steam
vessels for the second district; Lewis
Heyl, of Pennsylvania, to be appraiser
of merchandise under the provisions of
section 2608 of the revised statutes; E.
W. StOughton, New York, envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary
OF the United States III Russia; g. G.
Wharton, Z. S. attorney general for
Kentucky; Lewis E. Pearson, northern
and middle districts of Alabama; John
Baxter, of Tennessee, Z. S. circuit
judge for the southern circuit; Roman
70 Bum, district judge for the western
district of Wisconsin; John Ogleby, of
Louisiana, appraiser Of merchandise,
and James Lewis, naval officer Of New
Orleans; Edgar NJ Marble, of Michigan,
assistant attorney; Wiley Wells, of
Mississippi, U. S. consul general at
Shanghai; Consuls, j. T. McLam. Jr.,
of Ohio, at Nassau; John A. Campbell,
of Wyoming, at Basle; U. S. Marshals,
Owen 2. Fitzsimmons, for Georgia; NJ.
j. Waldron, western district of Tennes-
see; Chas. Allen, western district Of
Missouri
SENATE COMBINATIONS.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-The senate, in
executive session, confirmed the follow
ing nominations VIM w. Upton, sec
ond comptroller of the treasury Jas.