The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06
KLUTz AND POU
IN H|GEER PLACE
Advanced to More Desi-
rabIe Committees.
OTHERS LESS LUCKY.
The Committee Assignments in the
House for the North CaroIinians
are Exactly as Was Pre-
dicted in this Cor
resp0ndence.
Especial to News and Observer.)

iSSPOuuVuVV'
Especial to News and Observer)
Washington, D. c., Dec. 5.-The COM
mittee assignments given the North Caro-
lima delegation in the House today were
exactly as predicted in this correspond
ence two weeks ago. Kluttz and Pou
were the only old members who were ad-
vanced to new and more desirable com.
mittees and none of the new members got
the committees they preferred. The as
signmnts are as follows:
Gudger-Alcoholic Liquor Traffic and
Expenditures in the Treasury Department
Claude Kitchin-Claims and Expendi.
lures in the State Department.
Will Kitchen-Naval Affairs
kluttz-Postoffice and Postroads.
Page-Reform in the Civil Service and
Expenditure in the Interior Department
Patterson-Census.
Pou-District of Columbia and Reform
in the Civil Service.
Small-Merchant Marine and Fisheries
and Expenditures on Public Buildings.
Thomas-Public Buildings and Grounds
Webb-Education and Patents
1t will be noted that the Tar Heel rep
resentatives, especially the new ones, are
drafted heavily for the committees on ex-
penditures, four of the ten representa-
tives being so appointed. These are small
committees of seven members each, four
Republicans and three Democrats, and
have little business before them. But all
the old members are on committees of i'm
portance.
The Naval Affairs Committee, on which
Congressman Will Kitchin remains, is one
of the big committees of the House. espe-
cially at this time, when so much atten-
tion is being given to army and naval af-
fairs.
On the Postoffice Committee, Congress-
man Kluttz can be of very great use to the
people of his State, as can also Congress
man Thomas on the Public Buildings Com
mittee.
Congressman Claude Kitchin is the rank
ing minority members of the Claims Com
mittee and Congressman Pou, of the Com
mittee on Civil Service Reforms, and in
case the House should become Democratic
they would be chairman of these commit.
tees. Congressman Small being from a sec.
tion having large shipping and fishing in.
terests, is retained on the Committee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries, though the
preferred the Committee on Rivers and
Harbors and strong but vain effort was
made to secure his appointment on it.
The minority leader, Williams, stated
today that he recommended Representa-
tive j. H. Small for appointment on the
River and Harbor Committee. but that
Speaker Cannon declined to place another
member on the committee from the At
lantlc States. There is general regret
among members from the South Atlantic
seaboard, because of Mr.. Smalls elimina-
tlon by the Speaker. In speaking of the
subject today Mr.. Small said:
1T is well known to my colleagues and
the people of North Carolina and else
where that / much desired to be assigned
to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors.
Personally the position would have been
gratifying, but my main desire was to be
enabled the more effectually to serve the
State and the South. l have some ac-
quaintance with past legislative appro-
priations for river and harbor improve
ments and I know that the benefits have
been sectional rather than general. This
is my third effort to secure appointment
on this committee. This time my own
delegation and those from South Caro-
lima and Virginia unanimously endorsed
me, and also the bulk of Maryland. I
had influential support from other sources
and sections.
81 ought to have been appointed and no
one knows this fact better than Mr.. Will
liams, our minority leader and Speaker
Cannon I am grateful to all friends and
organizations for their expressions of con-
fdence. The object of the Speaker has
been to pad the committee in favor of
the scheme for a canal connecting Chica-
go with the Mississippi River and the
Gulf. but the inland water way from
Norfolk to Beaufort inlet shall not be for
gotten. 1t will yet receive the recogni-
ton It deserves
Superintendent of Construction Dodson,
of the Southern, reported today that
five miles more of the double tracking
south OF Manassas had been completed,
and tomorrow it is to be turned over to
the traffic managers including this sec
tion. The Southern has completed sixty
miles OF its new double track, and it Is
now certain that the double tracking IS
goirS to reach Charlottesville by the
first of next month
Discussing editorially the action of the
North Carolina Press ssociation condemn
ing the students of Trinity College for
their recent outbreak of lawlessness, the
Washington Star of this evening. says
'sClearly the students should apologize
to the editor whom they have hanged