Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-05
HOUSE COMMITTEES
Selections Announced by
Speaker Cannon.
TO SHAPE LEGISLATION
HEMENWAY OF INDIANA AT THE
HEAD OF APPROPRIATIONS
Men Who Will Control the Work of
the Coming Session Of
Congress.
TO SHAPE LEGISLATION

Speaker Cannon today announced the
House committees for the Fifty-eighth Con-
gress.
There were number of changes in chair
manshipS in the list announced by the
speaker occasioned by retirement Of for
mer chairmen from Congress and shifting
of places by the speaker. The new chair
men were follows:
Mann of Illinois. elections No. /; Driscoll
of New York. elections No. 3; Hemenway
of Indiana, appropriations; Overstreet cf
Indiana, post offices; Hamilton of Michi-
gan, territories Sibley of Pennsylvania,
manufactures; Brown of Wisconsin, mines
and mining; Gillet of New York. public
buildings and grounds; Smithwick of New
York, education; Skiles of Ohio. pa,enIs;
Gaines of West Virginia. election of pres
ident and vice president; Mondell of Wyo-
ming. irrigation Howell Of New Jersey,
immigration; Warnock of Ohio. expendi-
lures in War Department; Greene of Mass
achusetts, expenditures in the Navy De-
partment Minor Of Wisconsin, expendi-
lures in the interior Department; Calder
head of Kansas, expenditures in the De-
partment of Justice; Wright of Pennsylva
MIA, expenditures in the Department of Ag-
riculture Hughes of West Virginia,
penditures on public buildings; Hildebrandt
of Ohio, accounts; Crumpacker, census;
Charles B. Lands of Indiana, printing.
The committees follow;
Elections Committees.
Elections No 1-James R. Mann, Illinois:
Lleweryn Powers, Maine; Charles L.
Knapp. New York; Joseph H. Gaines. West
Virginia; Arthur L. Bates. Pennsylvania:
Olin H. Young. Michigan; Ollie NJ. James.
Kentucky; E. J. Bowers, Mississippi Scott
Field, Texas.
Elections No. 2-Marlin E. Olmstead.
Pennsylvania; James M. Miller, Kansas:
Frank D. Currier, New Hampshire; John
w. Dwight. New York; Capeli L. Weems.
Ohio; Frederick Lands. Indiana; Joshua F.
c. Talbot Maryland A. NJ. Byrd, Missis-
sippi; John A. Sullivan. Massachusetts,.
York; Kittredge Haskins, Vermont; H.
Burd Cassel, Pennsylvania; James kenne-
dy, Ohio: John A. Sterling, Illinois; Benja-
min P. Birdsall. Iowa; Frank A. McLain.
Mississippi Choice B. Randell, Texas; Jo-
seph T. Johnson, South Carolina.
Appropriations.
James A. Hemenway, Indiana; Henry
H. Bingham, Pennsylvania: Henry c.
Van Voorhis Ohio; James T. Nc
Cleary, Minnesota: Lucius N. Littauer, New
York; Walter P. Brownlow. Tennessee:
Washington Gardner, Michigan; Elmer ].
Burkett, Nebraska; Frederick H. Gilett,
Massachusetts,; Walter l. Smith, Iowa; Ben
jamin F. Marsh Illinois: Leonidas F. Liv-
ingston, Tennessee; Rice A Pierce. Tennes-
see Maecenas z. Benton, Missouri; George
w. Taylor. Alabama; Oscar w. Underwood,
Alabama; Stephen Brundidge. jr., Arkansas.
Judiciary.
John j. Jenkins, Wisconsin,; Richard
Wayne Parker. New Jersey; De Alva
S. Alexander, New York: Vespasian
Warner, Illinois; Charles E. Little
field, Maine; Lot Thomas, Iowa; Samuel
Leland Powers, Massachusetts,; Robert M.
Nevin, Ohio; Henry w. Palmer. Pennsylva-
mia: George A. Pearre, Maryland; ]. N. Gill
lette, California; David A. De Almond.
Missouri; David H. Smith, Kentucky; Hen
ry D. Clayton, Alabama; Robert L. Henry,
Texas: John s. Little Arkansas: William
G. Brantley. Georgia.
Banking and Currency.
Charles N. Fowler. New Jersey: Geo.
W. Prince, Illinois: William A. Cal
derhead. Kansas: William c.. Lover
ing, Massachusetts,; William H. Doug
las, New York; Llewellyn Powers
Maine; B. F. SpaldinR. North Dakota:
Henry McMorran, Michigan: Capell L.
Weems, Ohio; George D. McCreary, Penn
sylvania; M. ]. Daniels. California: John
r. Thayer, Massachusetts; Elijah B. Lewis,
Georgia. Lemuel P. Padgett. Tennessee:
Charles L. Bartlett. Georgia; Charles w.
Thompson, Alabama; Arsene P. Pujo,
Louisiana. .,---7
Coinage, Weights and Measures.
James H. southard. Ohio: Justin D.
Bowersock. Kansas; Thomas Hedge,
Iowa: Arthur l.. Bates. Pennsylvania;
George w. Cromer, Indiana: John w.
Dwight, New York; William NJ. Lanning,
New Jersey; James w. Brown, Pennsyl-
vania; Solomon r. Dresser, PennsylvanIa:
George ]. Smith, New York; Charles F.
Cochran. Missouri: John F. Shafroth. Colo
rado: James M. Griggs, Georgia; John w.
Gaines, Tennessee; Ezekiel 8. Gambler,
Mississippi; John g. Rhea, Kentucky; Timo-
thy d. Sullivan, New York; ]. s. wilson
Arizona.
Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
w. P. Hepburn. Iowa: ]. s. Sherman.
vania:, James R. Mann. Illinois: William c.
Lowering. Massachusetts,; Fred c. Stevens,
Minnesota; Charles H. Burke South Dako-
ia; John ]. Esch. Wisconsin,; Francis w
Cushman. Washington Thomas b. Kyle
Ohio: Charles E. Townsend, Michigan; Rob
ert c. Davey, Louisiana; William C. Adam
son, Georgia; Dorsey w. Shackleford, Mis-
souri,: William H. Ryan. New York; WILL
lam Richardson. Alabama; William B. La
mar. Florida.
Rivers and Harbors.
T. E. Burton, Ohio; B. B. Dovener, West
Virginia; R. p. Bishop. Michigan; E. F.
Acheson. Pennsylvania: De Alva s. Alex
ander. New York; George P. Laurence, Mas
sachusetts; James H. Davidson Wisconsin:
James McLachlan. California; William Lori
mer Illinois: Wesley L. Jones' Washington;
]. Adam Bede Minnesota; Rufus E. Lester,
Georgia: John H. Bankhead, Alabama;
Stephen M. Sparkman. Florida; Joseph e.
Ransdell. Louisiana: George F. Burgess,
Texas B. G. Humphreys. Mississippi.
Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Charles H. Grosvenor, Ohio; Edward s.
Minor, Wisconsin: William 8. Greene, Mas
sachusetts; Fred. c. Stevens, Minnesota:
Joseph w. Fordney. Michigan: Frank c.
Wachter, Maryland: Charles e. Littlefeld,
Maine; William e. Humphrey. Washington:
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