The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-19
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The Latest Revised Edition of the
 Congre ssional Directory.
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 ors and Librarians.
Special Washington Lctter.l

A new edition of the Congressional Directory has recently been issued un- lel tho direction of the joint committee on printing of the house of representa- lives of the United States senate. This Is the third edition for the Fifty-third congress and contains great deal of valuable as well as interesting infor- nation.
 Upon the fly leaf of the book, ad- Joining the frontispiece, is list of ex- acutivc mansion rules, signed by Henry L. Thurber, private secretary to the president. These rules are as follows:
 The cabinet will meet Tuesdays and Fri days at eleven o'clock
 Monday will be reserved by the president Tor the transaction of public business requir- Ing his uninterrupted attention
 The president will receive senators and rep resentatiyes in congress from ten to twelve on other days, except cabinet days.
 "Persons not senators and representatives, having business with the president, will be re- ccived from twelve to one o'clock every day, except Mondays and cabinet days.
 Those who have no business, but who desire to pay their respects will be received by the president in the East room at one o'clock p. La. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays"
 The first page contains an autobiog- raphy of Vice President and President of the Senate Adlai E. Stevenson. Ac- ,cording to this brief condensation of the history of lifetime, Vice Presi- dent Stevenson was born in Christian county, Ky, October 23, 1885, and is in the fifty-ninth year of his age. He re- moved with his fathers family to Bloomington, H., in 1852; was edu- .cated at the Illinois Wesleyan univer- sity, and commenced the practice of law in December, 1858. He was mem Der of the Forty-fourth and Forty-sixth congresses; was first assistant post master general during the first Cleve- land administration; was elected vice president of the United States Novem- Der 8, 1872; and was inducted into office March 4, 1893.
 Commencing with the state of Ala bama, and ending with the state of Wyoming, and the territory of Utah, in alphabetical order of the states, the Congressional Directory gives autobi- ographical sketches of all of the sena- tors and representatives in congress.
 There are only two ex-speakers of the house of representatives now in con gress, namely Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, and Thomas B. Reed, of Maine.
 According to this autobiographical publication, Mir. Grow was born Au- gust 31, 1923, and is therefore in the seventy-frst year of his age. He was first elected to congress in 1850. C.. f,.an coil democrat, and then was elected as a member of the newborn republican party, and served for three terms as a republican. When he first entered congress in 1851 he was the youngest member of that congress. Ten years later he was elected speaker of the house as a republican, on July 4, 1861.
 The autobiographical sketch of Thomas B, Reed, of Maine, shows that be was born at Portland, October IS, 1889, and is, therefore, in the tifty-fifth year of his age. He was first elected to the Forty-fifth congress and has been reelected every two years since that time. He was elected speaker of the house of representatives for the Fifty first congress. The autobiography of Mir. Reed is contained in ten lines of the Congressional Directory.
 Following the autobiographies of the members of the senate and house, com mcncing on page 125, the standing com mittees of the senate are given in al- phabetical order Following this list of committee assignments is an alpha betical list of members of the senate commencing with Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, and ending with Senator Wolcott, of Colorado. After the name of each senator is given list of the committees to which he is assigned.
 Following these lists of senate com mittees, and senators with the names of their committees, there are published similar lists of the committees and of the membership of the house of repre- sentatives. Thus, without difficult ty, auy citizen who is interested may turn to this book and ascertain the ex-