The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-30

great anthracite strike OF a decade ago
he was the secretary treasurer of the
National Union OF Miners He has eel
ebrated his forty ninth birthday ami
versary this month III.
In Charge of Railway Legislation.
The man who will marshal the Dem
ocratic forces of the House in lcgisla-
ton affecting the big railways is VII.
liam c. Adamson. of CarrolIron, Ga,
the new chairman of Interstate and
Foreign Commerce. He is a lawyer.
hfty-siN years old, and was city judge
and city attorney of Carrollton bcfors
coming to Congress, thirteen years
ago. He Is an influential leader in tho
Methodist Protestant Church, having
been a member of three of their gen
eral conferences as Well as delegate
to the great Ecumenical Council OF
Methodism held in London ten years
ago.
The man who will handle the big
rivers and harbors bills of this Con
gress is stephen NJ. Snarkman. OF
Tampa. Fla. new chairman of the Com
mittec on Rivers and Harhors He he
came a schoolmastcr at eighteen a
lawyer at twcnty-t three. States attor-
ney at twenty-nine and Representative
at forty-six
IL you are TO have a new Federal
building in your community during
me appropriation through the House is
Morris Sheppard. of TeXnrkana. Tex.
new chairman of the Committee on
Public Buildings-a bachelor of thirty
SIN, who practiced law until twenty
seven, when elected to Congress TO MI
out the uneXpired term of his father,
who died in Office
VIII Pilot Postal Laws.
our new post-office problems. which
strlke home TO every citiZen-ques-
tons affecting the rural free delivery,
me placing OF the post-oMces on a
paying basis and SO on will be thrashcd
over In the Democratic House under
the marshalship OF John a. Moon. OF
Chattanooga, Tenn This new chair
man OF the Committee on Post Offices
and Post Roads is a native of Virginia.
who went to Tennessee in youth en-
tered the law, became City Attorney of
Chattanooga when twenty six. Circuit
Court Judge when thirty four and
Representative when forty-two. IIe is
now ifty-sX
The big bill carrying annuallyithe mil
lions needed for our army and navy
WIZ he guided through the democratic
House by James Hay OF Virginia and
Lemuel y. Padgett OF Tennessee, who
now become chairman of the committees
on military and naval affairs. Each or
these new leaders is ffty-fve years old,
y coiiese graduate. n lawyer and a
former state Legislator. Hay entered
Congress in S97 and Padgctt four years
later.
Inc chief guardian of the red men in
inc new House. John r. Stephens OF
TEXAS, chairman of Indian affairs is
another lawyer who served his ap-
premiership Tor Congress in his state
legislature: and John l.. Burnett of
Aiabamn. who. al chairman of imml-
grafton, will have charge of House
legislation controlling the alien mood
nov washing in upon our shores is
s ST. anoiher lawyer who arrived in
Washington by the statehouse route
A Seff-afuhc Man.
burnett. however, had a very hard
row to hoe when getting his start His
iatncr having died when he was four.
ms mother had to teach school in order
20 support him until he was able to
work. lie became farm laborer and
went to school between crops. Like
chairman Wilson, he also tOiled for n
time In the mines. But finally he work.
cd his way into Vanderbilt University,
winch turned him out full nedged
lawyer lie has r..-.al ideas concern
ing the restriction OF Immigration, and
tciis me hat he favors an educational
rest ior our immigrants, as we'll MS re-
Guircmcnts that all males above eigh-
teen ond fcmains who come alone;
should be required 10 have moro money
IN thcir possession, upon arrival here,
than Is now demanded
u the democratic leader decide TO
Observation-Disclosures Slitb lsesisp ,.