The San Francisco call., 1904-03-01
LABORS OF A NATIONS LAWMAKERS
SERIOUS AND STRENUOUS BUSINESS
Senators and Representatives Congress Are Compelled
Themselves to Tremendous Volume of Work in
Committees Besides the Activity Demanded the Floor


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Likens messenger in Senator Bard's Of
fetal family. The Senator resides with
his family at La Normandie apartment
house, on Fifteenth street His son
Tom is attending the Washington
School for Boys, on Fanleytown. road.
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE.
OF the delegation in the House, the
Hon. Victor H. Metcalf and the Hon.
James c. Needham have. served three
consecutive terms, and the Hon. James
McLachlan three with an interval after
the first. The others are all first term
ers. The Hon. V. H. Metcalf of Oak
land as a member of the Ways and
Means Committee, has a position of
great influence on the floor of the
House. He has been very active with
regard to Californian interests and is
the author of the bill providing for an
additional Federal. Judge for the North
ern District. Mr.. Metcalf is in the con-
fidence of the. leaders of national poll
tics in washington. With his wife and
son, Howard, he resides at the Airing.
ton Hotel. Howard attends the WASH
ington School, on Wisconsin avenue.
The Hon. James c. Needham of Mo-
desto is a member of the Public
Lands and Insular Affairs committees.
He is taking advantage of that fact to
secure free roads in Yosemite National
Park. He is working to secure the
passage of the per cent bill, and is in
teresting himself in forestry and frriga-
tion matters He will oppose in the
| II Ian 1Arr ono tnT
Perkins providing for the building of
reservoirs in the Hetchy-Hetchy to
carry water for San Francisco, on the
ground that the San Joaquin Valley
needs. the water for irrigation. With
+ his wife and little girl Mildred, s. years
OF age. and Chauncey, years, Mr..
Needham resides at the Cecil, new
apartment house. The children go to
the Force School, on Massachusetts
avenue.
RIVER AND HARBOR WORK.
Mr.. McLachlan of Pasadena is on the
Rivers and Harbors Committee and is
devoting himself to work in that con-
nection. He has been also making
strong effort in behalf of the Los An
geles postoffice site, over which there
has been so much trouble. and tsthe
author of the new bill in the House TO
/ secure the site without increasing the
/ general appropriation. relying upon
/ next year to get the additional amount
necessary to carry out the plans al:
| ready designed. With his family, con
sisting of wife and four, children, Mr..
| McI.achlan lives at 142S Q street.
The Hon. James n. Gillette of Eureka
! Is a member of the Judiciary Commit
tee and the Committee on Expenditures
| on Public Buildings. AS a member of
| the Judiciary Committee he has had to
do with the creation of new judicial
| district in the State of Washington and
the bill providing for an additional
Judge in California. He has for two
/ weeks past been down in Florida with
| a subcommittee consisting of two
Others with himself, taking testimony
! in the impeachment proceedings
against Judge Swayne. Mr.. Gillette
| lives with his wife and little three
year-old son at the Portland on Yer
mont avenue. The little boy has been
|. under the doctors care almost all the
time since they have been here.
! The Hon. Milton ]. Daniels of River
| side is a member of the Banking and
| Currency and Pacific Railroads com
! mittees Besides working with these
committees, Captaip Daniels is inter
1 ested in irrigation work in Southern
! California and has a bill granting: the
| California Development Company the
right to divert water from the Colorado
J River for that purpose. He has been
! also active in behalf of the California
| camp site project With his wife and
| daughter and son-in-law he resides in
| the former home of Senator Vest, in
Iowa Circle, at 1204 p street. His SON.
in-law, Pembers S. Castleman, is act
ing as his private secretary.
| This completes the list of the Repub-
lican delegation. OF the three others,
the Hon. Theodore A. Bell of Napa
was alone elected as a Democrat and
nothing more. He is on the Committee
on Irrigation and Arid Lands. He is
devoting his energies almost exclusive
! ly to agricultural matters and is work
/ ing with that department. He has a
bill for the promotion of the grape and
wine industry in California and expects
| TO secure it's passage. j. d. Cornell of
| Sacramento is his private secretary.
With his wife and little girl he lives at
the Driscoll apartment-house, on b
street, near the Capitol.
! The Hon. E. j. Livernash of San
Francisco is on the committees on En-
rolled Bills and immigration and Nat
| uralization.
| The Hon. William ]. Wynn of. San
| Francisco is member of the commit
! tees on Pacific Railroads and Indus
| trial arts and is bending his endeavors
to secure for the Lewis and Clarke Ex-
position at Portland an appropriation
such as he thinks Is due it as a West
| ern enterprise and in view of the large
sums granted by the Government to
! Chicago and ST. Louis.