The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-03-07
Henry Of Texas to be Chair
man of Rules Committee
in THE NEXT HOUSE
Ways and Means Committee Considers
Plans for Tariff Revision at Special
Session--Conferenc Held Last
Night.

Washington March THE rules com
mittee, one of the most powerful of the
House committees OF the gid Congress,
with Representative Robert i, Henry OF
Waco, Texas, at its head, was formally
created by the new House ways and
means committee at its first meeting
yesterday. The following were an
nounced as the seven Democrats of the
committee:
Robert Lee Henry, Texas; Edward W.
Pou North Carolina Thomas w. Hard
wick, Georgia; Augustus O. Stanley,
Kentucky; Finis j. Garrett, Tennessee;
Martin d. Foster, Illinois, and Matthew
r Denver, Ohio.
The committee will consist of eleven
members The four Republican mem
bers will be chosen by the Republicans
later on, along with the other Repub-
lican personnel of committees of the
new House The ways and means COM
mittee. which is charged with the func-
ton of selecting the committee, is not
empowered to name the chairman, but
it recommends to the new rules com
mittee that it elect Mr.. Henry, which
amounts to designation at this time
There was some discussion yesterday
by the ways and means committee OF
the program of tariff revision, which is
the greatest task before it and which
it expects to complete in time to report
to Congress soon after it convenes April
4. The Democratic members OF the com.
-
ference 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 to be tackled on to the
Canadian reciprocity bill, so that a vote
in the Senate against the schedule revi-
sion win be striking blow at the reel
procity agreement
One of the things the committee has
considered is the elimination of useless
offices at the capitol mostly in the hum
BILE capacities There are upwards of
six hundred places which have salaries
attached to them at the capitol, and
some of the Democrats believe that
wedding out of the useless ones might
save 100000 a year TO the government
The committee has not yet passed
upon the committee chairmanships, be-
yond those of ways and means and
rules, However, tentative list has been
made out. II follows-
Appropriations, Fitzgerald New York
ways and means, Underwood, Alabama
rules, Henry, Texas; judiciary, Clayton,
Alabama; interstate commerce, Adam
son, Georgia foreign affairs, Flood, Vir-
ginia military affairs, Hay, Virginia
public lands, Robinson, Arkansas; naval
affairs, Padgett, Tennessee insular af-
fairs Jones, Virginia. Indian affairs,
Stephens, Texas post office or territories,
Lloyd, Missouri; banking and currency,
Pujo, Louisiana; pensions, Richardson, /
Alabama; printing, Finley, South Caro-
lima; agriculture, Lever, South Carolina, |
or Beall, Texas; census, Wilson, Penn /
sylvania immigration, Burnett, Alaba /
ma; industrial arts and expostions, /
Heain Alabama; invalid pensions, Ans /
berry, Ohio, or Lindsay, New York;
irrigation, Smith, Teas; rivers and ca
nails, korlby, Indiana; private land |
claims. Carter. Oklahoma; mileage, Dem
yer, Ohio, or Collier, Mississipp; Pacific /
railroads. Sayden, Texas; patents, Sui /
yer, New York; manufactures, johnson, I
Kentucky; claims Goldfogle. New York |
election of president vice president, etc, /
Rucker. Missouri; merchant marine. +
Clark, Florida; militia, Floyd, Arkansas,
or Ashbrook, Ohio; mines and mining, F
Foster. Illinois; public buildings, Shep- I
pard Texas; civil service reform, God /
win, North Carolina; revision of laws,
Watkins, Louisiana; rivers and harbors,
Moon, Tennessee, Ransdell, Louisiana,
or Sparkman Florida; territories, Lloyd, +
Missouri, if not given the post office
war claims, Sims, Tennessee.