Evening star., 1901-12-07

spective jurisdictions. The committee on
appropriations still retains control over ap-
propriations for coast defenses and fortifi-
cations, for pensions (now footing up to
S14o,oOO,OOo annually, for the vast civil and
salary lists of the government, for the
District of Columbas municipal govern
ment, for all odds and ends known as sun
dry civil expenses and for all deficiencies
III appropriations of every kind. The juris-
dictfon over this last, deficiencies neces-
sarily brings the committee on appropria-
tons into intimate relations with all the
lesser appropriating committees and makes
1t needful for the committee, and especially
its chairman, to keep it closely in touch
with the work of all the others, thereby
giving him a position of exceptional and
dominating Importance.
Foreign Relations.
Mr. Hit is the recognized authority in
the House on all questions affecting our in
ternational diplomacy and foreign relations.
and in that respect his knowledge and ex-
perience are literally Indispensable He has
served with brilliant distinction in the
Fifty-first and in the last three Congresses
at the head of foreign affairs, and has ac-
qulreda vast range of special and invaluable
information. His career in the House be-
gan with the Forty-seventh Congress. Pre-
Viously he served as secretary of legation
ard charge d affaireS at Paris from 1874
to 1881, and as assistant secretary of state
in 1881 His committee prepares the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation bills, and
also has jurisdiction over general legisla-
ton affecting our foreign relations
Mr.. Hull has presided creditably over the
committee on military affairs since the
Fifty-fourth Congress. He is sixty years
OF age and veteran of the civil war
though nobody would suspect it from his
youthful appearance. From his committee
emanate the appropriation bills for the SUM-
port of the army and the Military Academy
at west Point, and also all special legisla-
non respecting the army, and all bills for
the removal of the charge of desertion
Mr.. Foss has had an unusually distin-
gulShed career for one so young in wears
He is now only thirty nine, but has gone
to the front with rapid strides. His legis-
lative service began with the Fifty-fourth
Congress, and in the last Congress he sue
ceeded the late Charles A. Boutelle of
Maine as chairman of naval affairs-a post
wherein he achieved merited distinction for
his success in plotting the naval bill through
many difficult legislative phases Though
mailing from Chicago, he is Vermonter
by birth, college graduate and a lawyer.
Trained Leaders.
Mr.. Loud has presided over post offices
and post roads since the Fifty-fourtb Com
gress, and is an acknowledged encvcIo-
paedia of information on all postal matters
He is fifty-four years old, short, stoutlv
built, and indefatigable in labor, and in an
pearance strikingly resembles General
he is a native of Massachusetts He ia q
civil war veteran, is a lawyer has been a
merchant, and understands business HIS
commlttee formulates the annual appropria-
ton bills for the support of the postal SER
vice, and has jurisdiction over all lepisIa
ton respecting the mails, which enter more
intimately into the daily life and habits of
the people than perhaps any other branch
of the government service.
Mr.. Burton, expert on river and harbors
rs exceptionally we'll qualified for his spe-
ciai line of work, and brings to bear upon
it his legal and scolarly ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and his familiarity with transportation
methods. especially water transportation
gained by an exhaustive study and from
personal observation. He has served in the
House four terms, and was chairman of
the committee in the last Congress.
Mr.. Wadsworth, called by his intimate
friends Gentleman Farmer Wadsworth
in allusion to the fact that he owns and en-
Enthusiastically supervises model farm near
his home. Geneseo, N. Y, has been chair
man of agriculture since the Fifty-fourth
Congress, and has devoted himself zealously
to the promotion Of the country's agricui-
tural interests by the introduction and an
piication of advanced methods From his
committee emanate all appropriations for
the maintenance of the Department of Ag-
riculture, for it's experiment stations and
for the Improvement and conduct Of the
weather bureau
Mr.. Sherman has presided efficiently over
the committee on Indian affairs for three
congresses past, ana though only forty
six years old has served in the House six
terms. He Is energetic, affable and univer-
sally popular The work of his committee
is of limited interest to the people of the
east and south, but in states like Minnesota.
Michigan. Wisconsin and the Dakotas as
well as the younger states of the far west,
where the Indian population is considera-
Bile factor, 1t is deemed highly important
Indeed the one burning question with the
thousands of reservation Indians scattered
through the far west at the organization of
each new Congress Is. Who is to be chair
man OF Indian affairs? The committee, be-
sides preparing the annual supply bill for
the Indian service generally. passes upon