The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-17

Member of That August Body Has Been Taken Care Of in the List of Chsirman- ships.
 Washington, Dec. 16.--The republican committee to fill the committees of the senate completed its labors tonight, and directed call for a caucus to issue for tomorrow, immediately upon the adjournment of the senate. When this caucus convenes MT. Mitchell, chairman of the committee, will submit and the caucus will approve the following list of chairmen which takes care of every republican and populist member of the senate.
 Agriculture, Proctor of Vermont; ap- prcpriations, Allison of Iowa; contingent expenses, Jones of Nevada, pop. census, Chandler of New Hampshire; civil ser vice and retrenchmen, Pritchard of North Carolina; claims Teller of Colo rado; coast defenses, Squire of Wash ington; commerce, Frye of Maine; Dis trict of Columbia, McMillan of Michi- gan; educational and labor, Shoup of Idaho;enrolled bills, Sewell of New Jer- sey; to examine branches of the civil service, Pfeffer of Kansas; finance, Merrill of Vermont; fisheries, Perkins of California; foreign relations, sherman of Ohio; immigration, Lodge of Massa- chusetts; improvement of the Missis- sippi river, Nelson of Minnesotta h. dian affairs, Pettigrew of South Dallo- Tp6 n Of Washington; interstate commerce, Gull lon of Illinois; irrigation, Warren of Kentucky; judiciary, Hoar of Massa- chusetts; library, Hansborough of North Dakota; manufacturers, Wetmore of Rhode Island; military affairs, Hawley of Connecticut; mines and mining, Stewart of Nevada, pop; naval affairs, Ccmeron of Pennsylvania; organization and expenditures in the executive de- partment, Butler of North Carolina pop. ; Pacific railroads, Gear of Iowa; patents, Platt of Connecticut; pensions, Calling CT of New Hampshire; postoffice and post roads, Wolcott of Colorado; print ing, Hale of Maine; privileges and cleo tions, Mitchell of Oregon; public build ings and grounds, Quay of Pennsylva-
  roads, Clark of Wyoming; relations with Canada, Carter of Montana: re- vision of the laws, Burrows of Michi- gan; rulas, Aldrich of Rhode Island; i; territories, Davis of Minnesota; trans portation and routes to the seaboard, Mcbride of Oregon; to establish the University of the United States, Kyle of South Dakota, pop; international expositions, Thurston of Nebraska; to investigate the geological survey, El- kins of West Virginia; national banks, Mantle of Montana; forest reservations, Allen of Nebraska, pop; to investigate trespassers on Indian lands, Baker of Kansas. The special committee to inves- tigate the Ford's theater disaster will be left open for one of the Utah sena- tors.
 Under the present democratic organi- zation of the senate each member of the populist party holds chairmanship and the republicans believing that they should be equally just to the third party have also given them chairman ships. Messrs. Jones of Nevada, Stew art Aleln and Pfeffer are left where they are now, and MT. Kyle, who is ranking member on the committee to establish the University of the United States was transferred from the com nittee on education and labor to the chairmanship of the first named com- mittee. MT. Butler of North Carolina, the new populist senator, is given a chairmanship equal to that of MT. Pfeffer.
 The republican personnel of the more important of the senate committees will be as follows, a number of those com 1nittees having been increased in size, owing to the enlarged republican rep resentation in the senate chamber:
 Committee on commerce-Frye of Maine, Cullom of Illinois, Quay of Penn sylvania Squire of Washington, Me Bride of Washington, Elkins of West Virginia, McMillan of Michigan and Jones of Nevada.
 District of Columbia-McMillan, Vol colt, Gallinger, Hansbrough of North Dakota, Proctor of Vermont, Wetmore of Rhode Island and Pritchard of North Carolina.
 Finance-MorrilI of Vermont, Sher- man of Ohio, Allison of Iowa, Aldrich of Rhode Island, Platt of Connecticut, Wolcott of Colorado and Jones of Nev- ada.
 Foreign relations-Sherman of Ohio, Frye of Maine,s Davis of Maine, Cam eron of Pennsylvania, Lodge of Massa- chusetts and Cullom of Illinois.
 Interstate commerce-Cullom of Illi- nois, Chandler of New Hampshire, Vol colt of Colorado, Gear of Iowa, Carter of Montana and Aldrich of Rhode Isl and
 Judiciary-Hoar of Massachusetts, Teller of Colorado, Platt of Connecti- cut, Mitchell of Oregon, Davis of Min nesota, ,Thurston of Nebraska and Clark of Wyoming.
 Military affairs-Hawley of Connecti- cut Cameron of Pennsylvania, Shoup of Idaho, Proctor of Vermont, Elkins of West Virginia and Sewel of New Jer- sey.
 Mir Dubois is added to the naval com mittee.
 Pacific railroads-Davis, Wolcott of Colorado, Frye of Maine and Stewart Of Nevada.
 Post offices and post roads-Wolcott of Colorado. Mitchell of Oregon Chand- Ter of New Hampshire, Wilson Of Wash ington and Burrows of Michigan.
 Mir. Burrows has also been added to