The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-30
Elfreth Watkins

a taxpayer Will be interested
earn the caliber of the new
'1ocrajic leaders, who, on the
80 side of congress. will now
Engineer the expenditure of
moneys and the making of
nj laws. The new chairmen
1mittees on ways and means,
md on appropriations have
Ior0ughly written up-as well
nd crosswise-since their ap-
were anticipated, that by
1paper readers know their
etty nearly by heart. but the
|;utees, under the new regime.
many of them will be closer
be In their various influences,
receivcd but meager atten-
journalists who have biog.
|16 latest arrivals within the
"a of fame.
n Of Farmers.
1ors want to know what man.
d Is the new chairman Of tho
nmittee on agriculture, the
will have charge upon tho
|6 debates on the bills appTo.
|cncy for their benefit. John
'ifginia, who has succeeded to
liability. will be sevonty-one
and is Confederate veteran
|thezn gentleman Of the old
Ithough born on n farm III
nnty, DOM near tho South
Inc, he was reared farther
CharleB City county, on the
er, whore his fathor kept
|boo!. Hero John Lamb 70.
education, directly under the
BE, and soon after Sumter
upon, fifty years ago, he
b his spurs, took his good nng
able md rode of to Join tho
|o cavalry, fighting first as q
1t during the last thrco years
lr es a captain. Although
on several battlofclds. he
rouRh the struggle between
until its end. Then he re-
Charles CITY county, settled
farmer and country gentle
shortly afterward took unto
vife.
vas one of the most popular
region is proved by the fact
b the next twenty years he
|y nearly the pick Of the
|ces, serving successively ds
asurer and surveyor. Thirty
B ago be moved still farther
into Henrico county, which
he city Of Richmond. He Is
|E his sixteenth year in the
representatives, wherein he
|g Democratic member of the
on agriculture before ascend
chhirmanship,
8 for Pensioners.
6ands OF Civil wa- pensioners
10 learn something about the
Hho will steer through the
channels of the Democratic
bills affecting their stipends
le Sam. The Democrat Sc
<hls responsibility is Isaac 4.
of Toledo, O.. who succeeds
|oEzv, the Republican giant
hampshire. as chairman of
committee on invalid pen
chairman was a Republican
Bntennial year 1876, when he
Il faith. and now he labels
freform Democrat" He is
lder man than Lamb, being
is seventv-sixth year. Al
vas born in New York state,
took him when a child to
e he went through Antioch
d later through the Ohio
at Cleveland, where he took
two years before the opening
y war. In April. '6l, when
He'd for volunteers. be at
ed as q private OF infantry
commissioned adiutart in
h In '63, and lieutenant
''6f, while be was breveted
|aneral in '65 'for gallant
|rious services at the bat
Franklin and Nash
same year that he laid
sword nc took up that
'eapon. the pen. and became
the Toledo Commercial as
the Cleveland Leader. and
later he served as Republican
4 state Of Ohio. After serv-
'ars in this Office he came to |
s a Republican in '73. to |
|erm, at the end of which he
TO edit for the next nine
Toledo Journal, and il was
pyIng the sanctum Of that |
ne left the Republican party. !
1emocrahc probate Judge Of |
Office which he held for six