Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
PLACING HIS MEN.
appointment of the Representatives
on Committees.
La Toilette Chairman of the Commit
tee on Agriculture.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2l.-Speaker Reed
this morning announced the remainder of
the house committees. Wisconsin fares
well. Caswell Is ON the Judiciary COM
mittee and gets the Craftsmanship of
the private claims. Thomas secures the
war claims Craftsmanship, La Toilette the
agricultural craftsmanship, where he WILDE
near to Secretary Rusk; and Clark is given
a place on the rivers and harbors. The
principal committees are as follows:
Judiciary--Ezra B. Taylor, Ohio; Stew
art, Vt; Caswell, Wis; Adams, H.;
Buchanan, NJ; Thompson, Ohio; McCor-
mick, Pa; Sherman, n. j.; Reed, Iowa:
Culberson, Texas; Oates, Ala; Rogers,
Ark; Wilson, W. Va; Henderson, n. c.;
Stewart, Ga.
Banking and Currency-Dorsey, Neb.;
Conger, Iowa; Morrill,, Kas.; Wilbur. n.
T.; Arnold, R. l.; Walker, Mass; Wright,
Pa; Evans, Tenn; Dargan. N. c.; Covert,
n. Y; Shively, Ind; Wike, ILL.,; Haynes,
Ohio.
Commentaries, N. Y; Mason. H.:
O'Nei1, Pa; Wickham, Ohio; Brown, Va;
Lind, Mimi; Randall, Mass; S~tockbridge.
yr., Md. Sweeney, Iowa; Campbell. Ny;
Turner. Ga; Phelan, Tenn; OFNeall. Ind:
Wilkinson, La; Walker, Mo.
Coinage, Weights and Measures-Con-
ger, Iowa; Wickham, Ohio; Walker, Mass;
Carter, Mont; Comstock, Mimi; Bartine,
New; Knapp, n. Y; Taylor, H.; Bland,
Mo-; Tracy, N. Y; Mutcheler, Pa; Will
cox, Conn.,; Williams, ILL.,: A. Joseph, NH.
DRivers and Observation-Disclosures. H.;
Grosvenor, Ohio; Hermann, Oregon; Bow
den, Va; Clark, Wis; Stephenson, Mich;
Motif, n. Y; Townsend, Pa; Niedrin-
haus, Mo-; Blanchard, La; C~atchings,
Miss. Gibson, Md; Stewart, Tex; Lester,
Ca; Clarke, Ala.
Merchant Marine and Fisheries-J. M.
Farquhar, n. Y; Hogkins, H.; Dingley,
Me-; Bingham, Pa; Banks, Mass; Clark,
Wis; Wheeler, Mich; Ewart, N. c.;
Cummings, n. Y; Wheeler, Ala; Wise,
Va; Dlbble, s. c.; Price. La.
The chairmen of the rest of the commit
tees are as follows: Agriculture, Funston,
of Kansas; foreign affairs. Hit, of Illinois;
military affairs, Cutcheon, of Michigan;
naval affairs, Boutelle, of Maine; post
office, Bingham, of Pennsylvania; public
lands, Payson, Of Illinois; Indian affairs:
Perkins, of Kansas; territories, Struble, of
Iowa; railways and canals, Mccormick, of
Pennsylvania; mines and mining, Carter,
of Montana; public buildings and
grounds, Milliken of Maine; Pacific rail
roads, Dalzell, of Pennsylvania; i'm
provement of Mississippi river, Burrows,
of Mich; education, O'Donnell, of Mich;
labor, Wade, of Missouri; militia, Hend-
erson, of Iowa; patents, B~utterworth, of
Ohio; invalid pensions, Morrill,, of Kas.;
pensions, Delano, of N. Y; claims, Laid
law, of N. Y; war claims, Thomas, of
Wisconsin; private land claims, Caswell,
of Wisconsin; District of Columbia, Grout,
of Vermont; revision of laws, Browne, of
Indiana; expenditures state department,
Scranton, of Pennsylvania; treasury de-
partment, Atkinson, of Pennsylvania;
war department, Yardley, of Pennsylvania;
navy department, Sawyer, of New York;
postoffce department, Brewer, of North
Carolina; interior department, Banks, of
Massachusetts; department of justice,
Sherman, of New York; department of
agriculture, La Toilette, of Wisconsin;
public buildings, Flood, of New York;
library O'Neill, of Pennsyl-
vania; printing, Russell, of Connec-
ticut; election of president and vice-pres-
ident, Lodge, of Massachusetts,; Eleventh
census, Dunnell, of Minnesota; Indian
depreciation claims, Hermann, of Oregon;
Reform in the civil service, Lehback, of
New Jersey; Ventilation and acoustics,
Haugen. of Wisconsin; Alcoholic traffic,
J. D. Taylor, of Ohio; Irrigation and arid
lands, Vandever, of California; Immigra-
ton and navigation, Owen. of Indiana.