Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-12-21
HOUSE PASSES BILL.
CURRENCY MEASURE GoESTHRoUGH
UNDER SPECIAL RULE.
Every Republican and Eleven Democrats
Vote for the Financial Measure-Speaker
Henderson Announces His List of House
Committees-senate Proceedings.

henderson Announces HIS List of House
Com,nittees-SenateP Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-The currency
bill, which was debated all last week,
was passed yesterday by the house by a
vote of 100 to $50. 1t had the united sup
port Of every Republican in the house,
of II Democrats, Messrs. Clayton,
briggs, Fitzgerald, Levy, Rupert,
Scudder, Underhill and Wilson On. ",
McAleer Pa.), Denny (Md.) and
Thayer (Mass.). All the other Demo-
Gratis voted against the measure or were
paired against it, except John Walter
Smith, governor elect of Maryland;
Stallings (Ala.) and General Joseph
Wheeler (Ala.). Stallings (Ala) has
not been present in the house this SEES
sion, owing to illness, and one of his
colleagues announced that if present he
would have voted in the negative. Gen
eral Wheeler is serving in the Philip
pines. When the speaker announced
the result the Republicans cheered
Justify. After the vote the speaker
rather unexpectedly announced the COM
mittee selections and the reading OF the
lists was followed with intense eager
ness by the members whose opportun
tiles for distinction depend largely upon
their committee assignments. The
only incident i'll connection with the
lists was Bailey's interrogatory of the
speaker as to whether General Wheel
er's name had been placed upon the
committee of ways and means Speaker
Henderson responded in the negative.
Announcement of the death of the late
Representative Bland (Mo.), which &C.
CURED last summer, caused an early adj
journment.
Heads of House Committees.
Speaker Hendersons announcement
of the committees proved to have very
few surprises, as the speaker preserved
the time honored custom of following
precedent as to old members, leaving
them i'll their old chairmanslips and
places, and gradually advancing them
as vacancies occur. The important
new chairmanships are those Of
Brosius (Pa.), chairman of banking and
currency; Grosvenor (O.), merchant
marine and fisheries; Southland (OD,
coinage, and Cooper (Wis.), the newly
formed committee on insular affairs
Mercer CNeb.), is again chairman Of
public buildings and grounds. The new
members of the ways and means COM
mittee are Mccall and Long, Repub-
licans; Newlands, Silver, and Cooper,
Democrat Appropriations and foreign
affairs also get considerable amount of
new blood Military affairs has the
largest new membership, six Republic
ans and three Democrats. The mem
bership Of the insular committee is no.
table in being ga committee of chair
men," the heads of ways and means,
appropriations, foreign affairs, COM
merce, postoffices, ETC., being represent
ed also on this committee.
The new members Of the house re-
ceive full consideration from the
speaker, although following custom
they necessarily take the lower places
on committees. The Democratic mem
bers receive fewer places than in the
last congress as the larger Democratic
representation in this house compelled
a reduction i'll the number of places
for each.