The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-22
HOUSE Committees
SPEAKER REED AT LAST ENDS
THE USPENSE OF THE
REPRESENTATIyE
BY ASSIGNING THEM THEIR WORK

Three Election Committees Instead OF
One as HeretofOre--The Message
Read and Referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means..Ali Hope of
the Holiday Recess Has Disap-
peared and Members are Getting
Down to Work in Earnest.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-There was
feverishly excited feeling in the
House when the members assembled
TO-DAY. Hope of the holiday recess
had disappeared and the members we're
preparing to address themselves earn
estly 10 the serious task before them.
The chaplain in his invocation said:
"We find ourselves as a nation con
fronted with a grave and momentous
problem. We seek Thy counsel, OH
Lord, in this uplift of the moment that
each heart and mind may be prepared
couragOusly to meet these problems
and so adjust them that peace and
tranquility will smile upon the land." "
AS soon as the journal had been APP
proved Speaker Reed laid before the
House the Presidents special message.
Notwithstanding the fact that all the
members had read the document in
the newspapers this morning all lis
tened with attention. There was no
demonstration of any kind, however,
when the reading was concluded.
Speaker Reed Immediately referred the
message TO the Committee on WAYS
and Means. and then announced the
membership of the committees Of the
House. Much more interest was mani
Tested on the floor in the composition
of the committees than in the me-
sage as every member was vitallv in
teTested in his assignment.
Speaker Reed this afternoon an
nounced the House committee assign
ments as follows:
Foreign Affairs: Republicans Hit,
Illinois. chairman; Draper, Massachu-
sets: Adams. Jr., Pennsylvania:
Quiog, New York Cousins, Iowa; Taft
Ohio: Smith, Michigan; Heatoole, Min
nesota: Pearson, North Carolina. Dem
ocrats AfcCrary, Kentucky; Price,
louisiana: Luckner. Virginia: Dins-
more. Arkansas: Money, Mississippi;
Newlands. Nevada.
Ways and Means: Republicans
Dingley, Maine, chairman; Payne, New
York; DallzeIl. Pennsylvania: Hop
kins. Illinois; Grosyenor, Ohio; Rus
sell, Connecticut; Deliver, Iowa;
Steele. Indiana: johnson, North Da-
kota; Evans, Kentucky; Tawney, Min
nesota. Crisp, Georgia:
Mcmillan, Tennessee; Turner, Geor-
gia Tarsney, Missouri Wheeler, Ala
bama; McLaurin, South Carolina
Appropriations: Democrats-Can-
non, Illinois, chairman; Bingham,
Pennsylvania; Groutt. Vermont;
Northwav, Ohio: Stone, Pennsylvania;
Arnold. Rhode Island: Hayner, Ne
braska: Blue, Kansas; Pitney, New
Jersey; Hemonway, Indiana; Mccall,
Tennessee. Democrats -Sayers, Texas;
Dockerv, Missouri; Livingston, Geor-
gia: Robertson, Louisiana; Layton,
Ohio:l Bartlett, New York.
Coinage, Weights and Measures ite-
publicansC. ". Stone, Pennsylvania,
chairman; Hartman, Montana: Lou
denslauger. New Jersey; Hunter, Ken
tucky; Brewster. New York; Hadley.
Illinois: Mcclure. Ohio; Southard.
Ohio; Fairchild, New York: Cannon.
Utah. Democrats Allen, Mississippi;
Bankhead, Alabama: McRae. lArl<an-
sas; Sparkman, Florida; Spencer, Mis-
sissipp; Clark, Alabama.
Military Affairs Hull, Iowa, chair
man; Lockhart, North Carolina.
Pacific Railroads: Powers, YER
mont chairman.
Interstate and Foreign Commerce:
Hepburn Iowa. chairman.
Judiciary: Henderson, Iowa, chair
man.
Rules Republicans Speaker Reed,
chairman; Henderson, Iowa: Dallzell.
Democrats Crisp, Georgia; Mcmillan,
Tennessee.
Rivers and Ifarbors; Hooker, New
York, chairman,
Railways and Canals -Chickering,
New York, chairman; Locl<hart, North
Carolina
Immigration and Naturalization
BathoIdt, Missouri. chairman.
Indian Affairs Sherman, New York,
chairman.
Public buildings and Grounds
Miliken Maine, chairman: Skinner,
North Carolina.
Merchant. Marine and Fisheries
Payne New York, chairman.
Banking and Currency Walker,
Massachusetts. chairman.
Naval Affairs Boutele. Maine.
chairman.
Committee ON Elections Daniel,
New York, chairman; Linney, North
Carolina.
Committee No. 2-Johnson, Indiana,
chairman.
Committee No. 3 Mccall, Massachu-
setts. chairman.
War Claims Mahon, Pennsylvania,
chairman.
Election OF President and Nice-Pres-
ident: Curtis, New York chairman.
Private Land Claims: Smith, Illinois,
chairman.
Expenditures in the Agricultural De
partment: Giliett, New York, chair
man.
Expenditures Department Of JUS
tice: Ellis. Oregon. chairman
Expenditures Public Buildings: Set
tie North Carolina, chairman.
Territories: Scranton, Pennsylvania,
chairman.