The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-05-19
JERSEY CHAIRMEN
States Representatives Who
Are Head Of Congress
sional Committees
HOUSE CLERK FROM CAMDEN
WILLIAM j. BROWNING HAS ONE
OF THE BEST EQUIPPED OF
FICEs IN THE CAPITOL

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banking and currency. labor and immi-
/ grafton and naturalization. The chair
men of these committees are Henry O..
/ Loudenslager, Charles n. Fowler, John
]. Gardner and Benjamin F. Howell
respectively. All are veterans in SER
| vice. Mr. Gardner and Mr.. Louden-
slayer are serving their seventh terms,
while Mr.. Howell and Mr.. Fowler are
serving their sixth terms.
| The committee on pensions has vast
amount of work in a session of congress.
To it are referred all of the pension
cases that are not Civil war cases. 1t
therefore takes in the war of 1912,
| Mexican war and some of the Spanish
American war claims. The committee
holds a meeting on every Wednesday,
and usually several thousand cases are
considered in one congress.
Mr.. Loudenslager has thirteen Con-
gressmen associated with him on the COM
mittee. The ranking member is William
| H. Draper, of New York, with Philip III.
Campbell, of Kansas, next in order and
Butler Ames, of Massachusetts, the
fourth man. Herschel NJ. Hogg, of Colo
RADIO, is fifth; Nicholas Longworth, the
son-in-law of the President. is the sixth;
Joseph B. Bennett, of Kentucky, sew
enth; Frank S. Dixon, of Illinois, the
eighth, and Edward w. Samuel, of Penn
sylyania, the ninth. William Richard
son, of Alabama; Frank A. McLain, of
Mississippi; Wyatt Aiken, Of South Caro-
lima; Robert B. Macon, of Arkansas, and
James NJ. Richardson, of Kentucky, are
the five Democrats 1t will be seen that
there are two Richardson's and two MEM
bers from Kentucky.
Representative Fowler has an import
ant committee, that of banking and cur
rency, and many important measures are
considered by it at times. OF late, how
ever, there has been practically no legis-
lation of financial nature, and he has
there fore had little to do. This prob
ably accounts for his occasional absence
from congress. Thus far the commit
/ tee has reported some bills of minor i'm
portance, and the house has passed the
| bill to permit national banks to loan on
their surplus as well as capital stock.
Mr.. Fowler's committee is composed of
all parts of the country.
The ranking member is George w.
Prince, of Illinois; William A. Calder
| head, of Kansas, is third; Llewellyn
Powerg Of Maine, fourth; Henry Nc
| Creary, of Pennsylvania, seventh, and
Joseph r. Knowland, of California
eighth George E. Waldo, of New
York is ninth man; Cassius NJ. Shartel,
| of Missouri, tenth; Everis A. Hayes, of
California, and John w. Weeks, of Mas
sachusetts, eleventh and twelfth, respec-
/ lively The six Democrats on the com
mittee are e. B. Lewis, of Georgia; A.
P. Pujo, of Louisiana; Garter Glass, of
Virginia: O. w. Gillespie, of Texas
Ollie NJ. James, of Kentucky and
George S. Legare, of South Carolina.
The meetings are held on Wednesday,.
Representative Gardner is not afraid
of the Thirteenth hoodoo." He has that
number on his committee, and the regu.
lar meeting day is Thursday. The rank
souri,, and the third man is Samuel w
Mccall. Of Massachusetts. E. B. Vree
4 land, Of New York, IS fourth; James P.
Connor. of Iowa, fifth; Herman P. Goe.
bel, of Ohio, sixth; Kittredge Haskins,
of Vermont, seventh and George w.
Norris, of Nebraska, eighth. The first
Democrat on the list is William r,
Hearst. the New York publisher. His
colleagues are John I. Hunt, of Mis-
souri,; Henry T. Rainey, of Illinois; A
O. Stanley, of Kentucky, and Thomas
4 B. Davis, of West Virginia.
| All bills relating to labor matters GO
to the committee on labor. In his ad-
dress before the president, the yice-pres
ident and the speaker of the house some
weeks ago, Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor
spoke Of UT. Gardner as being warm
and consistent friend Of labor. He said,
however, that the committee majority
was not in sympathy with the plans to
legislate fer the laboring man. Mr.. Gar
dner was member of the industrial
eonlmiss on.whieh some years ago made
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