The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-12
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The Latest Revised Edition of the
 Congre sslonal Directory.
TaIuablc Information Contained in One of the Books Issued by the Govern ment-Indispcnsablc to Edit
 ors and Librarians.
Lsreclal Washlngton Letter.l


 A new edition of the Congressional Directory has recently been issued un- lel. the direction of the joint committee on printing of the house of representa- lives of the United States senate. This ts 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- ecutive mansion rules, signed by Henry L. Thurber, private secretary to the president. These rules are as follows:
 The cabinet will meet Tuesdays and Fri Jays at eleven o'clock.
 Monday will be reserved by the president for the transaction of public business requir- Ing his uninterrupted attention
 The president will receive senators and rep rcsentatives 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- ceived from twelve to one o'clock every day, except Mondays and cabinet days
 Those who have no business, but who desire Co pay their respects, will be received by the president in the East room at one o'clock p. u. 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 a lifetime, Vice Prcsi- 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, 1892; 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. He served for three terms as free soil 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 he was born at Portland, October IS, 1889, and is, therefore, in the flfty-ffth year of his age. He was first elected to the Forty-ffth congress and has been reelected every two years since that time. He was elected speaker of the DOubC LII lOA bAlS 1T ilbJ first congress. The autobiography of MT Reed is contained in ten lines of the Congressional Directory.
 Following the autobiographies of the members of the senate and house, com mencing 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 Eimilar lists of the committees and of the membership of the house of repre- .sentatives Thus, without difficult ty, any citizen who is interested may turn to this book and ascertain the ex-