The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-07
PLUMS FOR
 DEMOCRATS
LINEUP OF HOUSE COMMITTEE CHAiEMANsHIPs BY RULES
 COMMITTEE.
Robinson and Floyd, of Arkansas, to Get Public Lands and Military Henry, of Texas, Heads Rules
 Committee.

Washington, March 6.--The rules committee, one of the most powerful of the house committees of the Sixty sedond congress. with Representative Robert l.. Henry, of Waco, Texas, at it's head was formally created by the new house ways and means commit tee at its first meeting today. The following were announced as the seven democratic members of the committee:
 Robert Lee Henry, Texas Edward w. Pou. Smithfield, North Carolina Thomas W. Hardwick, Sandersville, Georgia; Augustus O. Stanley, Hen derson, Kentucky; Finis J. Garrett, Dresden, Tennessee; Martin D. Eos ter, Olney, Illinois. and Matthew R Denver, Wilmington, Ohio.
 The committee w" consist of elev. en members The four republican members will be chosen by the re- pubicans later along with the other. of the new house. The ways and means committee which is charged under caucus dictum with the func ton of selecting the committees, is not empowered to name the chair man. but it is recommended to the new rules committee that it elect MT. Henry as chairman. which is tanta- mount to designation at this time.
 There was some discussion by the committee of the program of tariff re vision, but the committee is deliber- ating carefully over that, which is the greatest task before it and which 1t expects to complete in time to re- port to congress soon after it con venes April f. The democratic mem bers of the committee realize there is considerable difference of opinion among the house membership in their party as to the methods of revising the tariff There is no conclusion yet as to whether the schedules are 70 be tackled cnto the Canadian reciproc- ity bill so that a vote in the senate against tn, schedule revision would be striking a blow at the reciprocity agreement. though the bill will carry out the terms of the agreement in good faith.
 One of the things the committee has considered is the elimination of use less offices at the capitol, mostly in the humble capacities. There are up- wards of 500 places which have sal aries attached to them at the capitol and some of the democrats believe that a weeding out of the useless ones might save $i00.000 a year to the government.
 upon the committee chairmanships be- yond those of the ways and means and rules. but in many instances more or less complete assurances of indi- vidual movements of the ways and means committee have made the chairmansips largely matter of rati- fication oy the formal action of the committee. One of those most conjec- tural Is the committee assignment of MT. Lloyd, of Missouri, who Is chair man of the democratic congressional committee Mir. Lloyd Is leading member of both the postoffice com mittee and the territories committee. He would prefer the pcstoffice chair manship but both Moon, of Tennes- see, and Finley. of South Carolina, who< issvice chairman of the demo- cratic congressional committee, out rank him. It is possible Moon may be again transferred to the rivers and harbors. where Parkman of florida Is the ranking democrat. These consti- ute a tentative lis of chairmanships, some them being fully assured:
 Appropriations Fitzgerald, New fork; ways and means, Underwood. Alabama: rules. Henry. Texas; judi ciary, Clayton. Alabama; interstate commerce. Adamson, Georgia: foreign affairs, Flood, Virginia, military af- fairs. Hay. Virginia; public lands, Robinson. Arkansas: naval affairs. Padgett, Tennessee; insular affairs. Jones' Virginia. Indian affairs, Stephens, Tey S; postoffice or terri tories, Lloyd. Missouri; banking ana currency. Prjo Louisiana; pensions, Richardson. Alabama printing. Fin Icy. FJush Carolina agriculture.