Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-30
Personnel of Those who Are Likely to
FIJI Important Chairmanships-
How Iowa Will Fare In
the Selection.

greSSmen and listens to their SuggeS-
tions as to committee places and other
matters of official business, as well as
to considerations of party policy and
public affairs. He will go into office
untrammeled by pledges or promises.
So far as the leading committees are
concerned, probably there will be few
changes in their make-up, either as to
chairmen or membership where these
have been reelected. Serene Z. Payne
OF New York, will remain at the head
of ways and means, to which he sue
ceeded upon the death of Nelson Ding
ley, of Maine, and Joseph G. Cannon,
of Illinois, will continue chairman of
appropriations, of which he has been
the head during the last congresses in
which the republicans controlled the
house, the fifty-frst, the tifty-fourth
and the fifty-ffth. y
The judiciary is one of the most inn
portant committees. And in recent re-
publican houses it seems to be some
thing like a stepping stone to the
speakership. At least Thomas Brack-
EFT Reed, of Maine, was chairman of
the judiciary committee in the house
of the forty-seventh congress, of which
General Kiefer, of Ohio, was speaker.
The next congress in which the house
had republican majority was the
fifty-frst, of which Reed was speaker,
and the next the fifty-fourth, of which
Reed was again speaker, and I'M which
! David B. Henderson, Of Iowa, was
chairman of judiciary, position he
also held in the fifty-fifth congress.
Now he is to be speaker. In the re-
publican majority was the ffty-frst,
f;of which Reed was speaker, and the
next the fifty-fourth, of which Reed
was again speaker, and in which David
B. Henderson, of Iowa, was chairman
of Judiciary, a position he also held in
the fifty-fifth congress. Now he is to
..be speaker. In the republican end of
efHes co1nffittees AZ the last congress
Geo. w. Ray stood next to Henderson.
Ordinarily he would succeed to the
Craftsmanship, but he is also chairman
OF the committee on invalid pensions,
which handles all the bills relating to
private pensions and to pension laws
generally growing out of the civil war.
While it is not a committee that APP
peals to the public like ways and
means, it is committee of great i'm
portance to a politician with large
Grand Army constituency. The chair
man can do vast deal to further his
political ambition from the coisn of
vantage it affords. Therefore Mr.. Raw
may prefer to remain where he is, in
which case the. Craftsmanship of Judi
ciary will naturally fall to Samuel w.
Mccall, OF Massachusetts,. He is now
Serving his fourth term in the house.
He is man of ability and is regarded
as an able lawyer.
1t has been suggested by an Ohio
man that the chairman of merchant
marine and fisheries will be Charles r.
Grosyenor, of Ohio. He is the particu-
lar representative and spokesman of
the administration on the floor of the
house, except as to civil service reform.
I As the subsidy bill is an administers
tive measure it is quite natural that
Grosvenor should be put forward as its
champion. He has been member Of
ways and means for the last two con-
gresses and chairman OF mines and
mining, q committee that has little to
90. II made chairman of merchant ma
f1no and fisheries he will leave mines
md mining, but will probably retain
hts place on ways and means, thus oc-
setp5ang the committee positions of
Payne In the last two congresses.
Banking and currency is another i'm
portRnt committee Of which there will
DO new chairman, our interesting
old friend, Joseph Henry Walker, of
Massachusetts, having been retired by
an unappreciative constituency. Mar
riotn Brosius, OF Pennsylvania, stood
next to Mr.. Walker on banking and
currency during the last congresses.
He is man of ability and voice. 1t is
understood he wants the place. but 10
seph w. Babcock, of Wisconsin. who
has been chairman of the committee
on the District of Columbia, in the last
Two congresses, is fairly certain of se-
lection. He is gold standard man, and
though never member of that COM
mittee was one of the house member.
ship of the joint caucus committee on
currency reform appointed by the re-
publican caucuses of the senate and
house last winter. Mr.. Babcock has
been chairman of the republican con-
gressional committee for several cam
Paigns, and very good chairman, too.
he is lumber manufacturer by yoca-
ton and is a. man of means.
OF other important committees
James ". Wadsworth. of New York,
will remain chairman of agriculture;
Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania,
formerly speaker), of education; Rob
ert x. Hitt, OF Illinois, of foreign af-
fairs; Lorenzo DanfoTd, of Ohio, of i'm
, migration and naturalization; James
@. Sherman, of New York, who might
have been speaker II Henderson hadn't