The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-06
HANDS OUT FRUIT
Speaker Cannon Distributes
PlumS and Lemons.
Rearranges Standing Com
mitteeS of the House.
KANSAS FARES WELL.
Campbell Gets Place on Bank
ing and Currency.
KANSAS FARES WELL
Murdoch Receives Evidence of
the Speakers Displeasure.

Washington. Aug. 6.-The new
organization of the house of repre-
sentatives provided in the standing
committees announced by Speaker
Cannon provides in an ample way for
the representation in the house from
Kansas. Representatives Campbell
and Miller of Kansas obtain the most
important new assignments in the
changes for the southwestern states
made by the speaker.
Representative Miller relinquishes
the craftsmanship of the committee
on claims and is given the chairman
ship of the committee on elections
No. 2. to which is assigned a part of
the contested election cases in the
house. In addition to this important
position, Mr.. Miller obtains place
on the interstate and foreign COM
merce committee. which IS regarded
as next in rank among the great COM
mittees of the house after ways ana
means and appropriations. All ques-
tions bearing upon interstate trade
and transportation are reported upon
by the committee.
Campbell to Currency.
The new assignment obtained by
Representative Campbell of Kansas Is
currency. which promises to be prac-
tically the committee of first I'M
portance in the remainder OF tne
present congress, in view OF the
expectation that the congresslonia IA
currency commission. headed by
Chairman Aldrich of the senate
finance committee. will present TO
congress at the December session the
report which is the result OF elaborate
Investigations by the commission in
this country and abroad. and which
will be the basis of legislation en-
tirely revising the banking and cur
rency laws of the country. MT.
Campbell also retains his place on the
committees on Indian affairs. District
of Columbia and levees and improve
ments of the Mississippi river.
Representative Calderhead is con-
tinued as a member of the ways ana
military affairs and Mr.. Scott remains
at the head of the great committee on
agriculture No changes are MADE IN
the assignments of the other members
of the Kansas delegation
Murdoch Not Displaced.
The expected did not happen in the
case of Representative Murdoch OF the
Eighth district. 1t was predicted thal
with the proposed ehange IN the
cha irmanship of the postofhce commit
revolutionize that committee, as he
did in the congress of four years ago,
| following the Investigations of the
postofice department.
manship of the postofice committee
Representative Weeks of Massachu-
sets. but he made few changes In the
personnel of the committee except to
| convey an impression of the speakers
| attitude toward Representative Muir
dock on account of Mr.. Murdoch S
| hostility to the Republican organiza-
| ton of the house by dropping the
name of Mr. Murdoch down to the
bottom of the Republican majority on
| the committee. This means that sew
eraI new members of the postoff1ce
committee are advanced in rank above
| the Kansas member
Insurrectos Shaken Up.
| Speaker Cannon fulfilled every pre-
diction that has been made regarding
the lively shaking up he would give to
| the Republican 'insurrectos," who
started in the present congress with a
revolt against the Republican organi-
| zation. He did not entirely overlook
Mr.. Murdoch, but he relegated abso-
lutely to the rear number of leaders
in the insurrection camp. Represent
alive Cooper of Wisconsin is removed
from the Craftsmanship of the insula1
| committee, which place is given tc
Representative Olmstead Of Pennsyl-
! vania.
| Representative Fowler of New Jer-
sey, long a member and the last chalr-
! man of the banking and currency com
mittee, is dropped from that place tC
make room for Representative Vree-
| land of New York, the foremost mem
Der of the house end of the congress
sional currency commission
Another important change made By
Il the speaker is the recognition of one
of his chief lieutenants on the floor o.
the house, Representative Mann O.
Chicago, who is jumped up from {
position we'll down in the membership
of the interstate and foreign commerct
Il committee to the Craftsmanship.