The Cairo bulletin., 1907-12-19
EKLARCEMENTS
Or COMMITTEES
TAKES UP MUCH TIME IN CON-
GREsS-ToTAL ASSIGN
MENTS $50.
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
or Democratic Party Namcd--c cannon
Wt!l Aannounce all Committees
p.Today ~ Senate Adjourns
Until Saturday

I
today resolutions wese introduced BE-
Tillman asking the interstate com.
merce commission to report whether
any corporation engaged In Interstate
commerce is the owner of stock OF any
| l1ther corporation transporting pas
sengers and freight and calling upon
4 the interstate commerce commission
ito define the authority of the federal
government and of the state in respec.
co the control of liquor traffic through
the operation of the Interstate com
lmerce law. The resolutions provoked
considerable debate and were finally
Preferred to the senate COMMITTEES
though one Of them was transferred
into bill.
| Culberson spoke on his resolution
calling on the committee on finance to
investigate and report upon the cause
of the present financial stringency,
and to recommend measures for the
preventing of its recurrence. The res
olutions Were referred to the commit
tee of finance.
The senate adjourned until Satur-
day
Senator's who will serve on the.
Democratic congressional campaign
committee for 1908 are named as fol-
lows: 8H i
Clay, Taliaferro. Martin, Stone,
Newlands, Latimer, Owen, CuIberson
and Taylor.
When the house reconyenes tomor-
row Speaker Cannon will announce
committees, with the exception of ap-
preparations, banking and currency,
mileage and rules, which already have
been named the house will then be or
ganized and in position to get down
to business Immediately after the hoii-
day recess, which will last from Sat
urday, 21st, until January G The as.
signment task was heavier this year
than ever before, for two reasons: !
The creating of about fifty additional
committeeships by enlargement of the
more important committees by one
Republican and one Democrat on ac. |
count of the increased membership Of
the house: and the fact that many |
members foresee in the speakers Sc
lections an effect-real or fancied-I
on the presidential situation.
Non-retuTn of members of the fifty |
ninth congress to the sixtieth con.
gress created 1873 vacancies in com
mittees OF vacancies thus created
twelve are chairmanships. Addition
al committeeships provided for by
of committee member
ship brings up to total of nearly $50
assignments to be announced by the
speaker tomorrow.
Following the precedent, no chair
man in the ffty-ninth congress who
is a member of the sixtieth will be
unless through the occur
renee of a vacancy elsewhere he has
become a ranking member of another
and more important committee. in
which case he is expected to step up.
Among the more important com
mittees i'm which no Craftsmanship va.
cancies have been created and whose
old chairmen are expected to resume
reins. are:
Ways and means, Payne, New York;
Tawney, Minnesota;
banking and currency, Fowler, New
Jersey; rules, Speaker: foreign af-
fairs, Cousins, Iowa: insular affairs.
Cooper. Wisconsin,: interstate and for.
eign commerce, Hepburn, Iowa; mil
Itary affairs. Hull, Iowa; naval affairs
Foss. Illinois: Pensions, Loudepslarg
er, New Jersey; invalid pensions. Sui
loway, New Hampshire; public build
ings and grounds. Bartholdt. Missouri:
rivers and harbors. Burton. Ohio; ter.
ritories. Hamilton. Michigan: railways
and canals, Davidson. Wisconsin: cleo
lions three ccmmittees). Mann. iii.
nois; Olmsted, Pennsylvania: Driscoll
New York: census. Crumpacker, In
diana: immigration and naturalization.
Howell. New Jersey; Indian affairs.
Sherman. New York: judiciary. Jen-
kins. Wisconsin: labor. Gardner. New
Jerysey: pOstoffice and post roads.
Overstreet. Indiana.
Il is understood that Scott. Kansas.
win become chairman OF the commit
tee on agriculture, jumping over
Of Iowa. who becomes chair
nan Of the committee on war claims
Secretary Of Interior today sent q
to the senate recon
a provision in the urgent de-
1ciency appropriation bin for support
5f the Ute Indians who are nov OF
their reservation and in the vicin
10 Of the Cheyenne River agency in
south Dakota Authority to expend a
portion Of their tribal funds. to pre-
vent want and suffering among them
Is requested Il