The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-17
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ON 6 SENATE
COMMITTEES
Republicans Hold Caucus
for Assignment of
Members.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE Re-
publican Senators held a caucus to
receive from the committee on commit
tees its report on the assignment Of
Senators to the various committees
The report vas presented by Senator
Hale, chairman of the committee, and
was accepted by the caucus. A large
number of changes were made in as
signments to chairmanships.
Several new committees have been
created for the purpose Of giving chair
manships to new Republican Senators.
These come in the list known as Sc
leot committees Senator Briggs. Of
New Jersey, is at the head of a new
committee called expenditures in the
Treasury Department.
In addition to the Craftsmanship men
toned. Senate Briggs has beer select
ed for the following committees: Cana
dian relations. fisheries, immigration,
library, transportation routes to the
seaboard.
The chairmanships of the Republican
committees of the Senate now stand
as follows:
Agriculture n forestry. Proctor; APP
preparations, Allison; contingent ex-
DtISES u tie oeDdlts hCdly VI NCW
Jersey; Canadian relations, Crane; CEN
sus, Long; civil service and retrench-
ment, Perkins; claims, Fulton; coast
and insular survey. Piles; coast de-
lenses, Nixon; commerce, Frye; Cuban
relations, Burnham; District of Column
bia. G%allinger; education n labor,
Dolliver; enrolled bills, Hopkinsi ex-
anime the several branches of the civil
service, Dixon; finance, Aldrich; fish
cries, Bourne; foreign relations, Gull
1om; forest reservations, Brandegee;
geological survey, Flint; immigration,
Dillingham;; Indian affairs, Clapp: In
dian depredations, Curtis; interoceanic
canals, Kittredge; interstate commerce,
Elkins; irrigations, Ankeny; judiciary,
Clark, of Wyoming; library, Wetmore;
manufactures. Hepburn; military af-
fairs, Warren; mines n mining, Dick;
Mississippi River and tributaries, Mel
son; naval affairs. Hale; executive de-
partments, Carter; Pacific Stands and
Porto Rico, Foraker; Pacific railroads,
Burkett: patents, Smoot; pensions, Nc
Cumber; Philippines, Lodge; postoffices
and post roads, Penrose; printing,
Plat; privileges and elections, Bur-
rows; public buildings and grounds,
Scott; public lands, Hansbrough; rail-
roads, Bulkeley; revision of the laws,
Depew; rules, Knox; territories. Bever-
idge; transportation routes, Gamble;
University of the United States, Hem
enway; expenditures In the Treasury
Department, Briggs; Industrial expo
sitions, Warner; Potomac River front,
La Toilette.
Trespassers upon Indian affairs,
Sutherland; national banks, Smith;
standards. weights and measures,
Borah; expenditures in the Wa De-
partment, Dupont; expenditures In the
Department of Justice, Brown; ex-
%penditures in the Navy Department,
Guggenheim; expenditures in the In
terror Department, Richardson; ex-
penditures in the Department of Agri-
culture, Stephenson.
Democratic Senators were awarded
chairmanships as follows: Corpora
tions in the District Of Columbia, Mall
lory; engrossed bills, Bacon; woman
suffrage, Clay: useless papers in the
executive departments. Money; private
land claims, Teller; revolutionary
claims, Taliaferro; public health and
national quarantine, Daniel; additional
accommodations for the library of Con-
gress, Martin; 1--WE civilized tribes, TIL
man: transportation and sale of meat
products. McEnery.