The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-20
ANNOUNCEMENT
Of COMMITTEES
MADE BY cANNON--uNuSUAL Nv.
TEREST IN THE HOUSE
YESTERDAY.
IS RECOGNIZED
With Chairrsanship cf Committee on
Improvement of Mississippi
Ways and Means Goes 10
New York.

Washington, Dec. 19. Speaker Can
mons announcement Of committees to
Iday attracted unusual interest in The
house. Almost every seat was occu
pied and members followed the read
ling and gave evidence OF satisfaction
with their assignments, but number
clearly manifested some disappoInt
|ment
In the following list the first named
ARE chairman The other names are
those oft he western representatives
whose places on committees OF the
last congress are changed or who
We're not members OF the Fifty-ninth
Congress The members who retain
their former places not named. ways
and means given In the above fol.
lowsD.
Chairman. Serene II. Payne. New
York; Daizcil. Pennsylvania; Mccall,
Massachusetts; Hill, Connecticut: Bon.
tell, Illinois: Watson. Indiana. Need
ham, California. Caiderhead, Kansas !;
Fordney. Michigan; r. III. Gaines. West
Virginia; Noynge, Colorado; Long
worth, Ohio.
Democrats Griggs. Georgia. Poil.
North Carolina, Randell, Texas !;
Clark, Missouri; Cochran New York;
Underwood. Alabama; Granger Rhode
Island.
Committee on Accounts Hughes,
West Virginia; Pollard, Nebraska.
Agriculture Scott. Kansas: Nc
Laughlin, Michigan.
Alcoholic Liquor Traffic Enerry,
cnnpacticiit; Kustermanu, Wisconsin,
4 oens'is aH - rslinpacker, indIan. !.
Snapp, illinois. 'u'An
Claims Miller. Kansas
Ioinase Weights and Mess,,r.. y
Mqnin'ey , li'h2is; Kennedy. Ibwa
lean, Smith. lllin;mmbia-Smith, MIN Mich.
IN. In Murphy. w,scS; Gavin WIsyo1.|
Educatlon--southwib
Graf. illinois,; kinkaia New York;
Loud. Michigan ~eoraska;
Election of President. Vice
dent and Representatives. TO Congresl
Gaines, West Virginia; Diekman.
Michigan.
Elections-~No. mann, Illinois,
No. 2--Olmstead. Pennsylvania:
Nelson, Wisconsin.
No. 3--Driscoll, New York; Boyd
Nebraska.
Enrolled Bills--Wilson, Illinois.
Foreign Affairs--Cousins, Iowa.
immigration and Naturalization
Howell, New Jersey; Kusterman. Wis.
consin; sabatha, Illinois; Connell,
Massachusetts.
Judiciary Jenkins, Wisconsin;
Michigan.
Labor-Gardner New Jersey.
Levees and improvements OF Mis-.
sissippi River-Prince. Illinois, Ken
nedy, Iowa; Murphy. Wisconsin.
Insular Affairs-Cooper, Wisconsin;
Davis, Minnesota.
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Hepburn, Iowa. n.
Invalid Pensions-Sulloway, New
Hampshire: Boyd. Nebraska
Irrigation og Arid Lands-Reeder.
Kansas: Kinbaid. Nebraska; Hitch
cock. Nebraska.
Military Affairs-Huli. Iowa; Ste
vens, Minnesota
Militia stevenson. Minnesota:
Fuller, Illinois: Lenby. Michigan;
Lowden. Illinois; Parker. South Da-
kota.
Mines aud Mining-Hull, Pennsyl-
vania; Fordney. Michigan; Hall.
South Dakota: Foster. Illinois; Ham
ilton. Iowa: Hammond. Minnesota.
Naval Afairs-Foss. Illinois.
Pensions--Loudensla New Jer'
scy: Kennedy. Iowa: Foster. Illinois.
Postonice and Post Foads.-Over-
street. Indiana.
Public Buildings and Grounds-Bar-
tholdt. Missouri: Nye. Minnesota, ,
Caldwell. Illinois. !
Public Lands-Mondell. wyoming
Hall. South Dakota: Hamilton. Iowa;
Hammond. Minnesota.
Railways and Csnais-Dayidson-
Wisconsin. Birdsall. Iowa; McDer
mott. Illinois.
Rivers and Harbors-BuFton Ohio;
Birdseli. Iowa; Young. Michigan