Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-23
The Principal Ones are Filled
by Speaker.
RECEIVED BY Ills STATE,
West Coast Wrecked, Under a
Log, Highway Robbery, Caused
by a Land Slide, Eugede'ss I'm
pure Water, Handy with a Gun,
Suicide at Spokane, Munitions
Of War, Disastrous Fire, Four
Men Killed, State and Foreign
News. etc. ~ ei II
rnn HOUSE coMMIrrErs.


THE HOUSE ooMMITTEEs. 31ta
WASHING ron, Dec. % Speaker
Crisp will announce the committees
of the house today. Ths PERSON
uel of the committee on invalid
pensions has not yet been deter
mined upon, the difficulty being to
3 ,lelect a member for the ehtirman
snip in whom the soldiers will have
implicit conf lence, and who will
at the same time have sufficient
moral courage to withstand dl the
general bills that will delugs c,n-
gress during the session.
Cnairmen of the house commit.
tees are announced as follows: Riv-
ers and harbors-Newton @. Bhn-
char,l of Louisiana; merchant niI-
rine and fisheries-AInos j. Cum
mlngs of New York; agriculture
William Hatch of Missouri; foreiga
i.ffairs--James H Bloupt Of Geor-
gla; military affairsAJosepd II
Oul hwaite of Ohioi naval affairsr =
Hilary A. III .rbert of Alablm /;
public lands Thomas 9. McRie Of
Arkansas; war claimss-F. E. Beltz
hoohver, of Pennsylvania; dist rict
Of Columbia John J. Hemphill of
South Carolina; postoffice and post
roais John s. Henderson of North
Carolina.
HOUSE COMMITTEES.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-The fol-
lowing is the composition Of the
principal house committees as
announced by Speaker Crisp today
Ways and means-Wm. Springer
Illinois; Wilson, Va; Montgomery
KY; Whiting, Mich. Shiveley, Ind.
Cochran, N. Y; Stevens, Mass.
Bryan, Neb.; Reed, Me-; Burrows
Mich; McKenna, Cal; Payne, N,
Y, and Dalzell, Pa.
EIections-O'Farrell, Va; Moore,
rexas; Cobb, Ala; Paynter, KY;
Brown, Ind; Lockwood, N. Y;
Lawson, Ga; Gillispie, Penn
johnson, s. c.; Haugen, Wis. ;
Taylor, Tenn Doan, Ohio; Johnson,
Iud.; Reyburn, Penn, and Clark
wy.
Appropriations Holman, Forney,
Sayre, Bre ckenridge, KY; Dockery
Mutchler, Breckenridge, Ark.
Barnes, Compton, O'Neill, Mass.
F)reign affairs -Blount, McCreary,
Hooker, Chapman, Fitch, Andrews
Gable, Isadore, RAynor, Geary, Hit,
Harmer, O'D1nnell, Sanford.
Agriculture-Hatch, Lewis, Alex
ander, Youmans, Shell, Forman,
White, Camanetti, Moses, Long,
Funston, Wilson of Kentucky
Joley, Waugh, Cheatham.
Pacific rallroads--Riley, Lanham
Lane, Brown, Kelly, Covert, Castle
Holedgo, Snodgrase, Raines, Elcott
Lind, Taylor of Ohio, Carne.
Banking and currency-Bacon
Wike, Grams, Gate, Dlckerson
Sperry, Gantz, Cox of Tennessee
Cobb Of Missouri, Walker Of Mass.
Broslns, Townsend, Henderson o
Illinois,
Public lands-McRae, Pendleton
Tucker, Norman, Bailey, Dear
mand, Zerley, Ahre, Stout, Pickler
Townsend, Sweet aud Clarke o
Wyoming,
Indian affalrs-S. w. Peet, Allen
Turpen, Rockwell, Bradley, Lynch
English, Glover of Ken, Wilson o
Washington, Joseph McKenna
Hooker of N. Y, Hopkins of Penn.
Harvey of Oklohoma.
Judiclary-D. b. Culberson, Gates
Bynum, Stockdale, Goodnight
Boatner, Buchanan of Virginia
Chaplin. Layton, Wolverton, Taylor
OF Ohio; Buchanan of N. j.; Ray
Powers and Berdelck.
Interstate aud foreign commerce
Mills, Wise, Price, Raynor, Brick
ner, Geary, Houk. Of Ohio Mallory
Patterson, O'Neill, of Missouri
O'Neill Of Penn; Lind, Randall
Storer and Ketchum.
Rivers and haroor-Blanchard
Cathings, Stewart, Lester of Ga.
Clark of Alabama; Haynes, War
dock, Jones, Paige, Byrnes, Hender
son of H.; Herman, stephen, Ston'
Of Penn. Quackenbush.
Coinage weights and measures
Bland, Charles, Tracy, Williams
Kilgore, Robinson, Pierce, Epps
Williams OF Mass; McKelghan
Bartln, Taylor OF ILL.,; Stone o
Penn; Johnson of N. ID.
Pensions;-W Wilson, of Mo-; Hen
derson, BAnkhead, Morton, Parrett
Barwlg, Jones, Moses, Stewart
Soull, Waugh, Houk, Of Tenn, ant
Bowers.
Postofilce and Post Roads:--Hen
derson, Blount, Kyle, Pastlson, o
Ohio, Croaby, Hopkins, Caldwell
Wilson, Washington. Bergen, Lou'
and Callne.
Merchant Marine and tisheries;-
Fowler, Fthlan, Moore, Caruth
Buchanan, OF Va; Forest, Magner
Stump, Wheeler OF Mich, Hop
klns. of Ills, Atkinson, Wilson. Of
KY. and Perkin Of Iowa.