Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-13
THE HOTEL DEWEY
NOW CALLED THE SECOND HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Around the north wing of the Capitol
building members Of the House are begin
ming to call the Hotel Dewey 1.-The second
House of Representatives" Twenty-eight
members OF the lower branch of the ma
tional legislature live there, twenty of
whom have their families with them.
Among the twenty-eight are representatives
of seventeen states. Forty committees of
the House are represented, and nine mem
bers of the second house" are committee
chairmen.
The twenty-eight have become SO well
acquainted by reason of their continued
residence under one roof. besides business
or political association at the Capitol, that
they practically constitute. as they have
become fond of saying, zone big and happy
family. In the evening, after they have
worked all day under the dome. the menu
Eers have formed the habit of gathering
in the hotel corridors and chatting on mat
ters Of legislative interest. They have
found that In this way they can become
conversant with one anothers views pub
lie questions far better than through their
association at the Capitol, and they derive
not only pleasure but profit from the asso-
citation.
Recently a Sunday evening service,
unique in hotel life, was inaugurated, con-
sisting OF sacred vocal and instrumental
music, and these services have proven so
Last Sunday evening the Speaker was pres
ent and his attendance made the occasion
one long to be remembered He expressed
himself as much plased with his visit and
said that outside OF the pleasure of the
entertainment of listening to the music he
had had the privilege of meeting large
number of the present members Of the
House who closely identified with the
committee work and legislative proceedings
of the House.
Among the members at the hotel are the
old war horse and political calculator, Gen
Grosvenor of Ohio, chairman of the COM
mtttee on merchant marine and fisheries
and a member OF the ways and means and
rules committees; John J. Gardner, chair
man of the committee on labor and men,
Der Of the post office committee; Henry &.
Loudenslager of New Jersey. chairman of
the committee on pensions ard a member
of the committee on naval affairs; Edgar
D. Crumpac ker of Indiana, chairman of
the census committee and a member of
the committee on insular affairs; Frank D.
Curr.er of New Hampshire, chairman OF
the committee on patents and member of
the committee on accounts Edward l..
Hamilton of Michigan, chairman of the
committee on territories and a membe- of
the committee on insuiar affairs; James
H. Davidson of Wisconsin. chairman of
the committee on railways and canals and
member of the committee on rivers and
harbors; Joseph w. Fordney of Michigan,
chairman of the committee on expenditures
in the Navy Department and a member of
the committee on merchant marine and
fisheries and public lands; Edward b.
Vreeland of New York. Of the committees
on labor and naval affairs; Charles Fl.
Burke of South Dakota, of the committees
on interstate and foreign commerce and
Indian affairs Eben w. Martin of South
Dakota. of the committees on public lands.
public buildings and grounds and eXpend
lures In the Department of Justice; Joseph
V. Graf of Illinois, of the committee on
appropriations: Sydney E. Mudd of Mary
land, of the committee on naval affairs and
Pacific railroads; Charles E. Townsend of
Michigan, of the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce; George w. Cromer
of Indiana, of the committee on coinage
weights and measures. agriculture and ex
penditureS In the Post Office Department;
William H. Graham of Pennsylvania of the
committees on insuar affairs and claims
George A. Loud OF Michigan, of the COM
mittee on naval affairs; Philip Knopf of IL
linois, of the committees on publ c lands
and expenditures in the Treasury Depart
ment; William A. Calderhead of Kansas.
chairman of the committee on expenditures
in the Department of Justice and a mem
Der of the committees on banking ard cur
rency and invalid pensions; William w.
Wilson Of illinois, of the committees on
rolled bills and merchant marine and fish
cries: Thomas H. Dale of Pennsylvania, of
the committee on mines and mining; Edgar
c. Ellis of Missouri. of the committee on
rivers and harbors: Ernest M Pollard of
Nebraska, Of the committees on industrial
ditS ana expos lions ana accounts: CharleS
McGavin of Illinois, of the committees on
claims and patents; Ralph D. Cole of Ohio
of the committees on irrigation of arid
lands and territories; George s. Legare of
South Carolina, of the committees on In
dustrial arts and expositions. banking and
currency and patents; Lemuel p Padgett
of Tennessee. of the committees on naval
affairs and expenditures IN the Navy De-
partment. and Jonah X. kaIanlanaole OF
Hawaii, of the committees coinage,
weights and measures, territories and prf-
vate land claims