The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-22
CRISP NAMES HIS COMMITTEES.
Several Changes Have Been Made in the
Assignments This Session

Assignments This Session.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2l.-Speaker
Crisp made his announcements OF com.
mittees this afternoon, the chairmen of
which are appended. Colonel OFFER
rail- was the first one named as the
chairman on the committee on elections
The other mem bers of the Virginia
delegation were assigned: Epes TO the
coinage, weights and measures com
mittee, Jones on rivers and harbors, Mar
shall on agriculture, Tucker on foreign
affairs, swanson on postofiices and post
roads, and Edmunds on private land
claims. Several changes have been
made in the makeup of the committees
this session from that of last. Springer
has been transferred from the chair
manship OF the ways and means COM
mittee TO that on banking and currency,
and Holman from the chairmanship of
the committee on appropriations to that
on Indian affairs.
The chairmen: Elections, O'Ferrall,
Va; ways and means, Wilson, w. Va;
appropriations, Sayers, Tex; judiciary,
Culberson, Tex; coinage, weights and
measures, Bland, Mo. banking and cur
rency, Springer, Ill; foreign affairs
McCreary, Ky; interstate and foreign
commerce, Wise, Va. rivers and har-
bors, Blanchard, La; merchant marine
and fisheries, Fithian, Ill agriculture,
Hatch, Mo-; foreign affairs, McCreary,
Ky; military affairs, Cultivate, Ohio;
naval affairs, Cummings, N Y; post
offices and post roads, Henderson, N. C :;
public lands, McRae, Ark; Indian Of
fairs, Holman, Ind. Territories,
Wheeler, Ala; railways and canals.
Gatherings, Miss; private land claims,
Pendleton, w. Va manufactures
Page, K. /; mines and mining,
Weadock, Mich ; public buildings and
grounds, Bankhead, Ala; Pacific
railroads, Reilly. Penn; levees and
improvements of the Mississippi
river. Allen, Miss education,
Enloe. Tenn. labor, McGann. III
militia, Forman, H.; patents, Covert,
N. Y; invalid pensions, Martin,
Md; pension, Moses. Ga. claims, Bum,
N. C.; war claims, Beltzhoover, Penn :;
District OF Columbia, Heard, of Mo-.
revision Of laws, Ellis, Ky; expendi-
lures in State Department., Lester, Va. :;
expenditures in Treasury Department,
Barwig, Wis; expenditures in War De.
partment, Montgomery, Ky; expendi-
lures in Navy Department., Mcmillan,
Tenn; expenditures in Postofflce De-
partment, Oates, Ala. expenditures
in Interior Department.. Turner, Ga ::
expenditures in Department OF Justice,
Dunphy, N. Y: expenditures in Depart
ment Of Agriculture. Edmunds, Va. pub
lie buildings, Grain, Tex. library, Eel
lows, N. Y; printing, Richardson.
Tenn; civil service, Deforest, Conn :;
election OF President and Vice. Presi
dent, Fitch, N. Y; ventilation and
acoustics, Shell, S. G.; alcoholic liquor
traffic, English. N Y; irrigation of arid
land, Cooper, Ind immigration and
naturalization, Giessenhainer, N. j.:
public buildings and grounds, Bank
head, Ala.
A South Carolina Dispensary Act Unoon-
Btitutional.
GREENvILLE, S. c., Aug. 21.-The
decision OF Judge Simonton in the
United States circuit court in the Lang
ford habeas corpus case was filed to day
The judge decides that the clause of
25th section OF the dispensary act, under
which the petitioner WAS charged and
arrested. is void under the interstat e
commerce law and the fourteenth
amendment and that he must be dis
charged from custody. Langford was
agent OF the Richmond and Danvilie
railroad and delivered key of whiskey
from outside the State to q consignee.
Third Congressman Injured by Cable Cars.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 2l.-George
w. Shell, OF South Carolina, was
knocked down and badly cut and bruised
by cable car to day. lie is the third
Congressman to be injured by them in
tho mast few months.