The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-06
SPEAKER CANNON'S
new COMMITTEES
Insurgent Republicans Are Left
Out In the Geld
FOWLER is DISCIPLINED
NreaIanI af NeNn NarL cn1eaade EOuf.
Vreeland of New York Succeeds Fow-
Ter on Banking and Currency.
Democratic Appointments
Practically Unchanged.

Washington, August 5.-Speaker Cannon
| announced the appointment of commit
tees for the Sixty-first Congress late to-
day. "The insurgents against the House
rules are disciplined, and in number of
: instances ranking members have not been
| given the chairmanships of their commit
tees.
The following are the new appointments
for House committee chairmanships;
vreeland of New York. banking and
currency
Rodenberg of Illinois, industrial arts
and expostions.
commerce
Weeks of Massachusetts, postoffices and
| postroads.
Alexander of New York. rivers and har-
! bors.
Parker of New York, judiciary.
Representatives Fowler of New Jersey,
Gardner of Massachusetts, and Cooper
of Wisconsin, three of the rules insur-
gents" who held chairmanships In the
| last session Of Congress, have lost their
committees. Representative Vreeland Of
: New York succeeds Mr.. Fowler as head
of the committee on banking and cur
rency and Representative Rodenburg of
Illinois succeeds Mr.. Gardner as chair
! man of the committee on industrial
articles and expositions.
Mr. Cooper was replaced by Represen-
tative Olmstead of Pennsylvania.
Representative Davidson of Wisconsin
is retained as head of the committee on
railways and canals. These members par
ticipated in the fight on the rules at the
beginning of the present session and thus
incurred the speakers displeasure.
| Although Representative Wanger of
Pennsylvania was the ranking member of
! the last committee on interstate and for
! egn commerce, Representative Mann of
| Illinois. who has been most active on
! that committee, succeeds to the chair
manship Representative Gardner of New
! Jersey also was the ranking member of
his committee (postoffices and postroads),
but Representative Weeks of Massachu-
| sets has received the craftsmanship OF
| that important committee.
/, The ways and means committee and the
committees on accounts, mileage ana
| rules were organized earlier in the ses-
| sion. Representative Alexander of New
York succeeds to present Senator Theo-
dore Burton's place as head of the COM
mittee on rivers and harbors, and Rep
resentative Parker Of New York is made
chairman of the judiciary committee to
fill the vacancy caused by the retire
ment from Congress Of Representative
| Jenkins of Wisconsin.
| Representative Dwight of New York,
| the republican whip, gets Mr.. Crum-
| packers place on the ways and means
| committee.
Mr.. Crumpacker resigned his position
| on that committee today.
| Important chairmanships retained by
members are as follows:
Appropriations: Tawney of Minnesota.
Agriculture: Scott of Kansas.
| Census: Crumpacker Of Indiana
Military Affairs: Hull of Iowa.
+. Naval Affairs: Foss of Illinois.
| Pensions: Loudenslager Of New Jer-
, sey
District of Columbia Smith of Michigan.
! immigration and Naturalization: Howell
| of New Jersey.
| Irrigation of Arid Lands: Reeder OF
Kansas. y
| Labor: Gardner of New Jersey.
! Library: Mccall of Massachusetts.
/ Manufacturers: McMoran of Michigan.
| Merchant marine and fisheries: Green
/ of Massachusetts.
| Patents: Currier of New Jersey.
Public buildings and grounds; Barthoidr
! of Missouri.
Public lands: Mondell of wyoming.
! Revision of the laws: Moon of Penn
sylvania.
Territories: Hamilton of Michigan.
! The democratic appointments remained
practically unchanged where the mem
bers of last years committee are mem
bers of the sixty-frst Congress.
/ Among the new chairnanships an
nounced is that of levees and improve
ments of the Mississippi river: Repre-
sentative Campbell of Kansas; expendi-
lures in the interior department, MCGUIRE
{, of Oklahoma, and expenditures in the
| department Of agriculture, Graham OF
/ Pennsylvania.
Among the new appointments to the
/ membership of the important commit
! tees is that of Representative Sims of
/ Tennessee to interstate and foreign
| commerce.; rivers and harbors, Edwards of
| Georgia, democrat; agriculture, Lee of
| Georgia. democrat; military affairs. Cra-
(, vents of Arkansas, and Dent Of Ala
/ bama, democrats; naval affairs, Macon of
| Arkansas. and Estopinal of Louisiana,
democrats; territories, Humphrey of Mis-
sssippi, democrat.
! Representative Bowers OF mississippi is
j to be a member of the joint committee
on the part of the House to investigate
| the matter of surety bonds to indemnify
| the government against loss.
Postmaster General Surrenders.
! Havana, August 5-Postmaster General
Nodarz, who on July 81 shot and wound
| ed Senior Torriente. the cartoonist of the
| Politica Comica and who since has been
+, a fugitive, returned to Havana today
! and surrendered to the authorities A
| criminal judge released him on bail.
senor Nodarz says he considers the
shooting justihable,y because of the sour
rllous character of a cartoon. He says
| also that since the shooting he has been
| staying with President Gomez at Cayo
| Cristo.
TurpentIne Is High.
Savannah, Ga, August 5.--Spirits Of tur-
| pentine was quoted here today at 30 cents
and broke high-price records for the prod
: uct since April, 1908, when the same fig-
ure was reached