Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-01-02
MISSOURI coaoREssMEn.

t9vsxy Member Of tho DeIeKation Cod
What He Asked For on the House Com
mtttees.
| The Missourians were highly pleased
with thei- assignments ON Speakez
Reeds committees They get every.
thing they wanted. By an uninten-
tional omission Congressman John p.
Tracy's name was left off the commit
tee on military affairs when the com
mittees were read In the house, but
later this was rectifed. The assign
ments of the Missouriars were as fol-
lows:
Charles G. Clark First District-Riyers and
harbors, leFees and Improvement Of Mississippi
river.
| Q. s. Hall, Second Distr:et-Naval affairs,
| post offices and post roads, expenditures in
| agricultural department..
A NJ Dockery, Third District-App-opria-
| lions. reform in the civil service.
George G. Crowther, Fourth District-En-
| rolled bills invalid pensions.
B John C. Tarsney. Fifth District-Ways and
| means, military affairs.
| David A. De Almond, Sixth DIstrict--Judi-
/ cfary, elections, education.
| John 2. Tracy, Seventh District--Military
| affairs.
| Joel D. Hubba d. Eighth District--Pacifio
| railroads.
| William NJ Treloar. Ninth District-Patents.
Richard Bartholdt, Tenth District-Chair-
man immigration and naturalization, private
| land claims.
| Charles F. Joy. Eleventh District-Interstate
commerce, expenditures in department. OF JUS
| tice
Seth W. Cobb, Twelfth District-Bankfng
and currency.
John a. Raney, Thirteenth Decentralization
OF president. expenditures in war department.
Norman A. Motley. Fourteenth District
Pensions, expenditures in interior department.
Charles German Burton, Fifteenth District
Judiciary, militia.
The biggest pl UNI was the chairman
ship of the committee on immigration,
drawn by Mr.. Bartholdt.
81 was handicapped said Mr.. Bar
tholdt, "by the fact that I was foreign
born, and Mr.. Reeds selection of me is
most pleasing: because it shows his
confidence in me of may Americanism
The German citizens of this country
will be pleased with my appointment,
not because it was an honor to me, but
because they will feel it compliment to
themselves.
Maj. Burton, of Nevada, Mo-. was
most anxious to get on the judiciary,
because service on that committee of
congress adds much force to a lawyers
standing, and he was naturally much
gratified when his name was read out
for the place he coveted.
Missouri, he said, got practically
everything she wanted, because there
was no dissension in our ranks When
our delegation met we came to har-
monious understanding of where we
ought to go, and our preferences were
not expressed to the speaker as an in
dividual, but as the wish of the entire
delegation. Another thing, we did not
give Mr.. Reed the bother and annoy
ance that some of the other congress
men did. That, think, pleased him"
Congressman Joy had told Speaker
Reed he would be satisfied with place
on either the committee on foreign af-
fairs or interstate commerce. He got
the latter and was happy.
Another good plum drawn by the
Missourians was a place on the COM
mittee on rivers and harbors, which
fell to Mr.. Clark. There is good story
IN connection with this. Mr.. Clark
wanted the place, and his fitness was
unquestioned. In 1870 he became in
terested in Mississippi river bottom
lands in Illinois, opposite Hannibal,
and began the work of reclamation.
He built the Sny island levee and re-
claimed over 100, 900 acres of land. He
has also served as a member of the
executive committee for Improvement
of western waterways, and was chair
man of the Missouri delegation to the
national convention for this purpose,
held in Washington in 1883. His
qualifications, when put before Speak
er Reed by the Missourians, impressed
him, but the speaker expressed some
doubt about his being able to make
place for him. Mr. Clark went to see
Mr.. Reed later alone to urge his own
case.
''Why, Mr.. Clark" said the speaker,
"do you know have 70 applications
for places on that committee?"
''Well, then, Mr.. Speaker" said Mr..
Clark, ''strike out my name and you
will have only 50; but do not forget |
Missouri. Remember that Missouri has |
1,5oO more miles of navigable river
front than any state in the Union
''Well, them" said abe speaker, 'sif I |
am not to ignore Missouri that means |
you," and so it did.
When he heard his name read out on |
the committee on levees and MISSISSIPPI |
pi river, which is comparatively unim-
portant, Mr.. Clark thought he was to |
be shelved and looked much disap-
pointed, but when his name was called |
for what he wished he fairly beamed,
and he and Congressman Treloar, who
sits beside him, shook hands warmly.
Congressman Crowther goes on inva-
lid pensions, which was what he asked.
Missouri is the fourth state in the
Union in the number of soldiers fur
nished," said Mr.. Crowther, land ought
to have been recognized on the commit
tee"
The appointment of Congressman
Joel ID. Hubbard on the committee on
Pacific railroads shows how anxious
Mr.. Reed was to please the Missourians.
When Mr.. Hubbard's name was first
to him for the place he asked
+ Mr.. Hubbard was lawyer, and
when informed that he was not said
he appointment was out of the ques-
ion. Later, however, on learning that
Mr.. Hubbard had studied law and was
Jerk of court for six years, he
stretched a point for him.
After the reading of the committees
Ill the Missourians were beaming with
except Col. Tracy, aud he