Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-13
TO NAME COMMITTEES
PLACES TO BE FILLED BY
SPEAKER CANNON.
Members of Ways and Means, Rules
and Mileage Will Be Appointed
in Special Session

At least three committees of the House OF
Representatives will be appointed by Speak
er Cannon when he takes control of that
body November 8. These will be the
committees on rules, on ways and means
and on mileage. If the prevailing senti-
ment in relation to the work that will be
done in this Congress should favor con-
filming legislation to providing means for
carrying out the provisions of the Cuban
reciprocity treaty no other committees will
probably be named until December.
AS there were three committees on con-
tested election cases in the last Congress.
and as there will be ten contests to be con-
sidered in the next session it will be neces-
sary to have these committees reappointed.
1t may not be considered essential that
they be named until December. 1t Is I'M
derstood that Chairman Cannon will wish
to name as few committees as possible until
the entire list is announced. In the adj
justment of the various claims and ex-
pectations of the members of the House
it is regarded as a much easier task to ar
range the entire list Of committees at one
time than to divide the work. For that
reason absolutely no committee Will be ap-
pointed that is not essential to the con-
duct of the business to come before the
House.
Committee on Rules.
The committee on rules consists of i've
members. The Speaker is chairman or
that committee, and the two republican
members that will go on it are usually re-
garded in the light of members of the
Speakers cabinet. They are generally per-
sonal appointments, consisting Of the
friends of the Speaker. The republican
members of that committee in the last
Congress were Representatives Dalzell OF
Pennsylvania and Grosvenor of Ohio. 1t
would be unusual If there are no changes
IN Ia ranuhican members of the COM
mittee.
The democratic members Of the commit
tee consist of the member who receives the
vote Of the minority for. the speakershlp
and another democrat satisfactory to the
minority. Mr.. Richardson Of Tennessee &C.
cupied the first place in the last Congress
and Mr.. Underwood had the second
If Representative Williams of Mississippi
should receive the complimentary 1ndorse-
ment of the minority after the house meets
he will doubtless be given the place for
merly occupied by Mr.. Richardson Mr.
Underwood will probably be retained as
the other minority member.
Vacancies to Fill.
The committee on ways and means will
have four vacancies. Three Of its MEM
bers have been elected to seats in the Sem
ate end Of the Capitol, and are Messrs. Hop
Those who were will move over to the Sen
ate end of the Capitol are Messrs. Hop
klnS Oh ILLINOIS,, Long oI hdnsdS dho vow"
lands of Nevada. Representative Steele of
Indiana was not reelected. Three of these
retiring members are republicans and one
Mr. Newlands-is a democrat. The ways
and means committee Is carefully watched
by members from the several sections OF
the country in order that its membership
may be kept politically and geographically
as nearly the same from session to session
as possible
1t is quite likely that the geographical re-
ourementS in this case will prevail in the
filling of vacancies.
The committee on mileage will have two
vacancies, Stewart Of New York and Blake
ney of Maryland. Representative Reeder
tee in the last Congress, the two democrats
being Messrs. Lewis Of Georgia and Butler
of Missouri, both Of whom remain in the
House.