St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-09-08
Especial Washington Letter.l

Especial Washington Letter.l
A new edition Of the Congressional
Directory has recently been issued un-
der the direction of the joint committee
on printing of the house of representa-
tives Of the United States senate. This
is the third edition for the Fifty-third
congress and contains a great deal Of
valuable as well as interesting infor-
nation.
Upon the fly leaf of the. book. adj
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
days At eleven O'Clock.
Monday will be reserved by the president
for the transaction OF public business reQuir-
ing his uninterrupted atten;ion.
The president will receive senators and rep
resentatives 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 n
N. on Mondays Wednesdays and Saturdays"
The first page contains an autobiog-
raphy of Vice President and President
of the Senate Adlai f. Stevenson. Ac-
cording to this brief condensation of
the history of a 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. ILL.,. in 1852: was edu-
Gated at the Illinois Wesleyan univer-
sity, and commenced the practice Of
law in December, 1858. He was a mem
ber 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 1. 1898.
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 oex-spealserso of the
house Of representatives now in con-
gress. namely Galusha A. Grow. Of
Pennsylvania, and Thomas b. Reed, Of
Maine.
According to this photographed
publication, Mr.. Grow was born Au-
gust 81. 1929. and is therefore in the
seventy-first 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 q
member of the newborn republican
party. and served for three terms as =
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 photographed sketch of
Thomas B. Reed, Of Maine. shows that
he was born at Portland. October 1s.
1889, and is. therefore, in the fifty-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
the Congressional Directory.
Following the autobiographies of the
members Of the senate and house, COM
on page l25, the standing COM
mittees Of the senate are given in al
phabetical order. Following this list
OF committee assignments is an alpha
hetical list of members of the senate
with Senator Aldrich, Of
Rhode Island, and ending with Senator
Wolcott, Of Colorado. After the name
Of each senator is given list of the
to which he is assigned.
Following these lists Of senate COM
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-
Thus, without difficult
ty. any citizen who is interested may
turn TO this book and ASCERTAIN the ex-
oct membership Of any particular COM
nittee Of the senate or of the house; or
can turn to the name Of any individual
senator or representative and find to
what committee he II assigned for duty. !
This bit Of information is exceedingly
important to gentlemen having busi- |
ness before either house or both houses
Of congress 4 ~ o
An Official list Of the employees of the |
secretary and sergeant-at-armso Of the |
senate, as well rs Of the clerk and
Of the house, follows |
the lists 0f senators and committees |
ADORE. Ten pages are de-
sotsa n : dssslptlea q The sspitsi !