The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-23
ALL DOUBT REMOVED.
Everybody Knows Now What Speaker
Crisp Has Done.
THE COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED.
Springer at the Head Of Ways and Means
and Free silver Blount at the Head of
Coinage-How the Rhode Island Mem
bers Fared.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-The committees
of the House of Representatives were an
nounced this morning Some Of the more
important are as follows:
Ways and Means-Springer Of Illinois,
chairman; McMillin, of Tennessee; Wilson,
Of West Virginia; Turner of Georgia;
Montgomery, Of Kentucky; Whit
ing, Of Michigan; Shivley, of
Indiana; Bryan, of Nebraska;
Cochran of New York; Stevens, of Massa-
chusetts; Read, of Maine Burrows. of
Michigan Payne, of New York Dalzell,
of Pennsy lvania, and Mckenna, of Cali
fornia.
Appropriations Holman, Of In
diana, chairman; Forney, of Alabama I;
Sayres, of Texas; Breckenridge, Of
Kentucky; Compton, of Maryland !;
Mutchler, of Pennsylvania; Dockery,
of Missouri; BreckinIidge, of Arkansas (;
Henderson, of Iowa; Coggeswell, of Mas
sschusetts; Dingley, of Maine; Bingham,
Elections-O' Ferrall, Virginia. chair
man; Moore, Texas; Cobb, Alabama;
Painter, Kentucky; Brown, Iowa: Lock
wood, New York; Lawson, Georgia;
Gillespie, Pennsylvania; Johnson, South
Carolina; Haugen, Wisconsin; Taylor,
ana; Rayburn, Pennsylvania Clark,
Wyoming.
Judiciary-Culberson Texas. chairman
Oates, Alabama; Bynum, Indiana: Stock
ton, Mississippi; Goodnight, Kentucky;
Boatner, Louisiana; Buchanan, Virginia;
Chaplin, New York; Layton, Ohio; VOL
yerton, Pennsylvania; T.. b. Taylor, Ohio;
buchanan, New Jersey; Ray, New York;
Powers Vermont; Broderick, Arkansas.
Foreign affairs-Blount, of Georgia,
chairman; Fitch, New York; Hooker,
Mississippi; McCreary, Kentucky; Chip
man, Michigan; Raynor, Maryland; Geary,
California; Gable, Illinois; Williams,
Massachusetts,; Hit, Illinois; Sandford,
New York, and O'Donnell, Michigan.
Rivers and Harbors-Mr. Blanchard, of
Louisiana, chairman Catchings, of Miss
issippi Stewart, Texas Lester, Georgia !;
Clark, Aalbama; Page, Rhode Island {;
Jones, Virginia; Weadock, Michigan /;
Hnynes, Ohio Byrnes, Missouri Hender-
son, Illinois; Stevenson, Michigan Stone,
Pennsylvania; Hermann. Oregon Quack-
enbush, New York.
The chairmanships Of the other commit
tees are as follows: Banking and cur
rency, Bacon of New York; coinage,
Bland Of & Missouri int, interstate and for for.
Rivers and harbors, Blanchard OF
Louisiana; merchant marine, Fowler,
of New Jersey; agriculture, Hatch of
Missouri; foreign affairs, Blount of
Georgia: military affairs, Cultivate, of
Ohio naval affairs, Herbert, of Alabama
post Office, Henderson, of North Carolina
affairs, Peel, of Arkansas; territories,
Washington, of Tennessee: railways
and canals, Catchings, of Mississippi
manufactures, Page, of Rhode Island;
mines and mining, Cowles, of North Car
olina; public buildings and grounds,
Bankhead, of Alabama; Pacific railways,
Rely, of Pennsylvania; improvement of
Mississippi river, Robertson, of Louis
lana; education, Hayes, of Iowa; labor,
Tarsney of Missouri; military, Lane, of Hi
nois; patents, Tillman of South Carolina;
invalid pensions, Martin, of Indiana; pen
sions, Wilson, of Missouri; claims, Bum,
of North Carolina; war claims, Belts-
hoover, of Pennsylvania; District of
Columbia, Hemphill, of North Caro-
lima: printing, Richardson, of Ten
nessee; civil service, Andrews, Of
Massachusetts, accounts, Rusk, of
Maryland; library, Cummings of New
York; alcoholic liquor traffic, Haynes of
Ohio; emigration, Stump of Maryland;
expenditures in navy department., McClel-
Ian of Indiana; expenditures in the de
partment of Justice, Allen of Mississippi
revision of the laws, Ellis of Kentucky;
election of President and Vice President,
Chapman of Michigan; worlds fair, Dur
borrow of Illinois.
Coinage, Bland of Missouri: Tracy of
New York; Williams, Kilgore of Texas;
Robinson. Pierce. Effs, Williams, of
Mass; McKeighan, Bartine, of Colorado;
Taylor of Illinois; Stoneof Pennsylvania
Johnson of North Dakota
WASHINGTON, Dec 23-In the commit
tee assignments Paige gets the chairman
ship of Manufacturers and a place on
Claims. Lapham gets aplace on Military
Affairs and on Patents.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 23.-After the an
nouncement of the committees Mr. Mere
dith announced the death of w. H. +. Lee
whom he succeeded, and delivered
remarks Mr.. Meredith moved that the
House adjourn in memory of the deceased.
The motion was adopted, and the House
adjourned till Jan. ).