The San Francisco call., 1909-03-23
SENATE CREATES
TWO COMMITTEES
Public Expenditures and Con-
servation Bodies Will Have
Great Power
In Rearrangement Flint Is to
Guide Interoceanic Canal
Affairs


WASHINGTON March 22-The SEN
ate today filled several vacancies on
its standing committees and created
two powerful committees, confirming Q
the action taken by the republican and
democratic caucus held earlier in the
day. One of the new committees is
entitled on public expenditures. and
is composed of the following: Hale.
Aldrich, Warren. Perkins, Penrose
Dolliver and Clapp. who are ex-officio
members, as chairmen, OF the commit
tees on appropriations, finance, mill
tary affairs, naval affairs, postofices
and post roads, agriculture and fores-
try and Indian affairs, the chairman of
the appropriation committee, Hale, be-
ing the acting chairman of the new
committee. In addition the following
are members of the new committee:
Nelson, Gamble, Crane, Carter, Bourne.
Cummins, Burton, Root, McLaurin
Newlands Owen, Fletcher and Hughes.
The other new committee is entitled
ION conservation of natural resources
and is composed of the following:
Dixon. chairman; Clark of Wyoming.
Beveridge, Dolliver, Dillingham;, Hey
burn. Dick, Briggs, Guggenheim, Jones,
Newlands, Overman, Davis, Bankhead
and Smith of South Carolina.
COMMITTEE CHANGES
The new members OF the committee
on finance are Cullom. Lodge, Nc
Cumber Smoot and Flint, the repub-
lican representation having been in
creased by' one. Simmons. a democrat,
was also put on the committee
From the committee on appropria-
tions McCullen retired. and Keen,
Burkett and Curtis We're appointed a 5
new members. While Culberson took
the democratic vacancy.
On commerce the new members are
Bourne and Burton, republicans, Crane
retiring. No changes were made in the
democratic list.
On foreign relations the republican
representation was increased by one.
and Smith Of Michigan and Root were
named as new republican members.
while Shively became the new demo-
cratic member.
RETIRES
From the interstate committee DOL
liver retired in favor of his colleague.
Cummins, and Nixon was also ap-
pointed, no change being made in the
democratic list.
ON judiciary the new republicans are
Sutherland, Piles. Wagner. Brandegee
and Borah. and Paynter was named as
an additional democratic member.
There We're a number of changes In
chairSanships of committees as fol-
lows:
Doliiver, agriculture and forestry:
Hale, appropriations: Smith of Michi-
gan, Canadian relations; La Toilette.
census; Cummins, civil service and re-
trenchment; Burnllam. claims: Talia-
ferro. corporations organized in the
district of Columbia; Suthern. Cuban
relations; Borah. education and labor
Gamble, enrolled bills; Richardson, TO
examine the several branches OF the
civil service; stephenson, expenditures
III the department of agriculture:
Crawford, expenditures in the interior
department; Bradley, expenditures in
the department of justice: Bristow, ex-
penditures in the postoffice depart
ment: Root, expenditures in the de-
partment OF state; Burton. expendi-
lures in the treasury department:
Briggs, geological surveys; Jones, in
dustrial expositions.
FLINT CHAIRMAN
Flint of California becomes chairman
Of the interoceanie canals committee,
the membership of which has been al
most entirely changed and is made up |
Of the following: McCumber. Brande- |
gee. Dolliver. Dick Borah. Richardson. |
Crawford and Bristow. republicans, |
and Taliaferro. Simmons, Johnston |
bama), Smith (Maryland) and |
Hughes. democrats.
Carter becomes chairman of irriga-
ton and reclamation of arid lands:
Perkins, naval affairs; Depew. Pacific |
Stands and Porto Rico; Brown, pat
snts; Smoot. printing; Crane, rules; |
Page, standards, weights and meas
lres: Oliver transportation routes to
he seaboard and Guggenheim, Univer-
;ity of the United States.
Several changes were made in the
OF sma{f select COM
nittees. which are headed by demo-
ratio senators.
The only change made in the terri
ories committee is the substitution of
1ughes. democrat. for Newlands
The changes were agreed to by the
enate without debate. Aldrich said