The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-12-21
HONOR FOR COOPER,
Our Representative in Congress is As
signed to one OF the Great
Committees.
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MI. Cooper Is Assigned TO the Head of the
New Committee Which is Considered tn
Highest honor in the Gift of the Speak
er of the Householder Wisconsin Men
Well Cared for.-Barney will Take
Cooper's Place on Rivers Committee.
Speaker Henderson had a surprise
for the members of the Wisconsin
delegation when the house commi tees
were announced today. He did better
| by all the members from the state than
was expected, and while some things
did not come out in the assignments
precisely as was expected, there are
only few points of which any mem
Der finds reason to complain and on
the whole the state takes a better
place in the house organization than
it has held for many years.
The fact that Wisconsin members
will serve on such leading committee
as Insu1ar Affairs, having to do with
the interesting and complex questions
relating to the new islands; also upon
Appropriations, Judiciary, Rivers and
Harbors, Military Affairs, Public
Buildings and Grounds, upon Coinage
and the great committe that will have
to do with the shipping question, in
sures that the influence of Wisconsin
will be felt in the places where the
Legislation of Congress is framed.
The two older members of the dele
cation, Cooper and Babcock, are we'll
provided for ard the recognition of
Representative Cooper with the ap-
pointment of chairman of the great
Insu1ar committee is the best thing
that the state has obtained in many
years. 1t was not thought this result
could be achieved, and the impression
was at one time given out that if Mr.
Cooper was taken from the River and
Harbor committee Wisconsin could not
retain the place. The point was waiv-
ed, however, and through the waiver,
Wisconsin gets an important chair
manship and holds all the members
had. Mr.. BabcoCk should have obtain
ed place on the Ways and Means
committee by right, and it was thought
he would obtain it, but he is given a
place on the Insu1ar affairs, an impor-
tant assignment, and the place on the
Ways and Means committee, which
Wisconsin should have had by right of
capitalization, went away off to
Kansas.
Mr.. Cooper was cordially congratu-
lated by members on both sides of the
house on the substantial recognition
he obtained in going to the head of the
Insu1ar committee. Mr.. Babcock re-
tains his Craftsmanship of the District
committee and his place on the census.
The assignment of Mr.. Cooper to the
Insu1ar committee is naturally re-
ceived by the Racine representative
and members of the delegation as
most handsome recognition. It gives
Mr.. Cooper one of the foremost chair
manships in the house to preside over;
a committee that will deal with many
new and interesting questions touch
ing the relations of the United States
to the new islands. Mr.. Cooper is ex-
ceeding1y gratifed. It may be stated
as expressing the sentiments of Speak
er Henderson, that he selected Mr..
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known abilities, thus placing him at
the head of a committee made up of
leaders in the house, but also he shared
the feeling that Mr.. Cooper had been
unfairly treated in the last congress.
Attention is called to the refusal in
the last congress to give him the chair
manship of Rivers and Harbors, to
which be was entitled, but he was also
kept off the Conference committee and
in other ways i'll treated.
Senator Henderson has changed the
entire situation in this respect, and not
only Mr.. Cooper, but the entire Wis
consin delegation sharesrin the good
results.
Mr.. Cooper is going home for the
holidays and when he returns he will
enter vigorously upon a study of the
questions involved in the matters
which will come before the committee.