Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-06
MANY CHANGES MADE
Effect Of Election on House
Committees.
CHAIRMEN DEFEATED
PROMOTION OF RANKING MEM
BERs IN CONSEQUENCE.
Loss Sustained by the District in the
Retirement Of Representative Mer-
Ger The Speakership.
CHAIRMEN DEFEATED

The effect of Tuesdays election on the
committees of the House is most interest
| ing question.
Perhaps the greatest loss the District of
| Columbia has sustained Is in the defeat of
| Representative David H. Mercer of Nebras-
ka. Mr.. Mercer was fourth on the District
| committee of the House, and was chairman
| OF the committee public buildings and
| grounds. He was friend of the Distric,
and in position to make this fact manifest,
| as he had done many times. A notable it
stance of this friendship was In the appro-
priation made at the recent session for
municipal building
| Besides Mr. Mercer the District committee
| loses Representatives Blackburn of North
| Carolina and Stewart of New York, republi-
cans. and DR.. Norton of Ohio, democrat.
Chairmen of other committees who will
| not be members of the Fifty-eghth Con-
gress include Representative Tayler of
| ONO chairman of elections committee No.
| l. The ranking member of this committee
| Is Representative Mann of Illinois Rep
| resentative DriscoN of New York Is next
| In line for the Craftsmanship of elections
committee No. 3. which will be relinquish-
| ed by Representative Weeks of Michigan.
The transfer of Judge Ray of New York to
| the federal bench in that state will ele-
| vate Representative Jenkins of Wisconsin
| to the chairmanship of the judiciary COM
| mittee. Mr.. Jenkins Is a prominent men,
! Der of the District committee.
To Succeed Chairman Loud.
| The committee on post offices and post
| roads which has been presided over so
| long by Representative Loud of California,
| will likely be rendered to Mr.. Ketcham of
| New York. the ranking member. The re-
| tirement Of Mr.. Knox Of Massachusetts,
| f-~,~
| head of the committee territories for
which Mr.. Hamilton of Michigan will be in
| line.
The committee manufactures will lose
| Its chairman, Mr.. Steele of Indiana, and
| Mr.. Emerson Of New York the ranking
member, leaving Mr.. Gill of Illinois as next
In line for the craftsmanship. The first
| three members of the committee on mines
| and mining have all failed of election, Mr..
Eddy of Minnesota chairman; Mr.. Connell
| of Pennsylvania and Mr. Sheldon of Michi-
| gan. This leaves Mr. Moody of Oregon as
the ranking member and available for the
| Craftsmanship.
Mr.. Charles w. Gillett of New York will
| in all probability succeed Mr.. Mercer as
| chairman of the committee on public build
| ingS and ground. The retirement of Rep
| resentative Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylva-
| MIA and Mr.. Knox of MasSa chusetts, the
chairman and ranking member, respec-
| lively, of the committee on education, viii
no doubt result in the promotion of Repre-
sentative Jack of Pennsylvania to this
| Craftsmanship. Both Mr.. Reaves Of Hi
nois and Mr. Corliss of Michigan, the chair
man and ranking member of the commit
| tee on patents, are retired. leaving Rep
| resentative Tompkins of New York as next
| in line of promotion to head that commit
| tee. Mr. Smith of Illinois having been de-
feated, Mr. Watson of Indiana win I'M
| doubtedly succeed him chairman Of the
| private land claims committee.
| Successor to Corliss.
|
| leave a vacancy at the head of the COM
| mittee on the election of President and Vice
| President and representatives in Congress,
| to which Representative Sulloway of New
Hampshire may succeed. Mr.. Sulloway,
| however, has the craftsmanship of the in
! valid pensions committee and may not de-
| sire to change. Representative Curtis of
| Kansas is next in line.
| Representative Robert Adams, jr., of Phil
| adelphia will probably be rendered the
| Craftsmanship of the immigration commit
tee, which will be made vacant by the re-
| tirement of Gen. Shattuck Of Ohio
| The death of Representative Russell OF
| Connecticut and the retirement of Repre-
sentative Young of Pennsylvania will place
| Representative Warnock of Ohio in line
! for the Craftsmanship of the committee OF.
! expenditures in the War Department, while
| Representative Greene of Massa chusetts Is
| In line to head the committee on expendi-
| lures in the Navy Department. made va
| cant by the retirement Of Representative
! Stewart of New Jersey.
Representative Fletcher of Minnesota,
chairman of the committee on expenditures
| on public buildings, has been defeated Mr..
| Hughes of West Virginia will undoubtedly
| succeed to this Craftsmanship.
The first four republican members of the
! committee on accountS-Chairman Bull Of
| Rhode Island and Representatives Joy Of
Missouri, Loud of California and Henry c.
| Smith of Michigan-having all been defeat
! ed, the craftsmanship of this committee will
undoubtedly go to Representative Hide
| brandt of Ohio.
The Craftsmanship of the committee on the
| census will doubtless be rendered to Repre-
| sentative Acheson Of Pennsylvania by rea-
| son of the retirement of Representative
Hopkins of Illinois, who is a candidate for
| the Senate.
| Mr.. Heatwole's retirement as the head Of
| the committee on printing will make Repre-
| sentative Boreing Of Kentucky eligible for
| this place.
In Case Cannon Becomes Speaker.
Should the probabilities in the speaker
ship line be fulfilled by the choice of Rep
| resentative Cannon of Illinois to the chair
the committee on appropriations would I'M
doubtedly be rendered to Representative
Bingham of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Bingham
however has unusually poor health, and as
the duties of chairman Of the appropria-
| tions committee are perhaps the most ardu-
Gus of any Craftsmanship in the House IL Is
not unlikely that Mr.. Bingham would de-
cline. This would leave Representative
Hemenway of Indiana the next in line.
Mr.. Hemenway Is comparatively a young
man. He is experienced member of the
appropriations committee, a particularly
close friend Of Chairman Cannon, and it Is
not at all unlikely that he will be the Sc
lection of the Speaker. should that officer
be Mr.. Cannon, as the head of this COM
mittee.
The chairmanships of the committees of
the House not named above are not affect
ed by the election, and will undoubtedly re-
main the same. The personnel of all the
committees however, will undoubtedly be
changed to some extent when the work of
apportioning the larger number of members
of the House to committee assignments is
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