The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-05-07
MAKE UP THE HEADS
SPEAKER JOE HAS PUZZLE IN THE
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN.
Mr.. Cannon Is at Work on the List
and He Will Announce Appoint
ments Day or Two Before the
Adjournment of the Extraordinary
Session; the KnOtty Problem That
Now COnfrOnts Him.

Washington, May Speaker Can
non is at work on the committees of
the house which it is his intention to
appoint day or two before the ad-
| jouInment of the extraordinary SEES
sion. During the time the senate is
engaged with the tariff bill representa-
tives are called together only twice
/ a week, and the speaker has time on
| his hands to consider the knotty prob
lem which confronts him.
| More than half of the members of
the house are absent from the capital,
and presumably Mr.. Cannon is not
sorry for it relieves him from the
necessity of listening to opportunities
for committee places Republican in
surgents who are in Washington re-
fran from attendance at the speakers
room. The insurgents believe that if
they should intimate a desire for GER
tain assignments it would be taken as
evidence that they am weakening in
their opposition to the rules of the
house. Hr. Cannon may show con-
, ciliatory spirit in regard to the rebel
not.
Fowler May Be Displaced.
In the last congress Representative
Charles Y. Fowler of New Jersey was
chairman of the committee on banking
and currency. 1t is the conviction of
&c
cial topics that Mr.. Fowler should
be named to succeed himself, but the
fear is strong that ne is to be dis
placed by Edward B. Vreeland of New
York.
1t is the intention of the national
monetary commission to submit to
congress at the next session a plan
for the general revision of the laws
concerning banking and currency. The
findings of the commission will go
to the finance committee of the senate
and to the banking and currency COM
mittee of the house. Representative
Vreeland is member of the monetary
commission, and if ne is made chair
man of the committee to succeed Mr..
Fowler he will have more than a word
to say concerning the work in which
he and his colleagues have been en-
gagged.
Men on the Commission.
The national monetary commission
has as members Senators Aldrich, Bur
rows, Hale Daniel, Teller, Money and
Bailey of Texas and former Senators
Knox, Hopkins and Teller, the last
three still holding their membership in
the commission. The representatives
appointed to the commission were Vree-
land, Overstreet, Burton, Weeks. Bony
nge. Smith of California, Padgett, Bur
CESS and Puio. Overstreet, Bonynge
and Burton are no longer members of
the house, but, like the senate mem
bers who have retired from legislative
services, they are still on the commits
sion.
1t will be seen at a glance that the
majority of the senators on the com
mission are doing service or have done
service in the finance committee. Sew
eral representatives have served on
the committee on banking and cur
rency 1t is natural to suppose, there
fore, that sympathetic consideration
will be given the commissions reports
by the bodies to which it will be
referred. Mr. Aldrich is chairman of
the commission, and Mr.. Vreeland, who
may be made chairman of the COM
mittee on banking and currency, is the
vice chairman.
Mr.. Fowler mquestionably wishes to
retain his Craftsmanship, but he has
been more or less of an insurgent
and a currency bill he introduced two
years ago was in opposition in many
Vreeland -Adrich bill. 1t is compare
lively easy to guage Mr. Fowler's
chances of remaining in the place he
held in the SiXtieth congress.
Water Way Project Involved.
Theodore f.. Burton of Ohio, who
until March >was chairman of the
house committee on rivers and harbors,
is now in the senate. When the con-
gressional committee appointed to con-
slider water way improvements makes
its report the river and harbor body,
always important, will take on new
Importance and new responsibilities.
The middle western interests are hop
ing that a man favorable to the plan
for deep, water way from the lakes
to the gulf will be named to succeed
Mr.. Burton.
Representative d. S. Alexander of
New York may be given the chairman
ship because of his former ranking
position in the rivers and harbors
committee, but he will not get it if
the influence of some of the Illinois
and Missouri representatives has suf-
ficient weight against him. 1t is under
stood that Representative Davidson of
Wisconsin, who held membership in
the committee and who is inclined fav
orably to the water way project from
Chicago to the mouth of the Missis-
sppi, may obtain the Craftsmanship.
Speaker Cannon, however, passed over
Mr.. Davidson in making appointments
to the water way commission and this
may be indicative of determination
ito pass over him again.
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