The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-03
FOUR VIRGINIA CONGRESSMAN
HEAD IMPORTANT COMMITTEES
Glass, Hay, Flood and Jones
Named as Chairmen by Demo
cratic Caucus.
STATE IN STRONG POSITION
Andrew J. Montague Gets Berth
on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce.

Washington. June THE Democra-
TIC caucus announced the assirpmont
OF House Democrats to committees this
afternoon. rev changes are found In
the chairmanships. The important
committees show little change also
Dut many Democrat Of but one or two
terms OF service has been elevated to
the workmanship of minor commit
zee. NO surprises arc to be found in
inc long list which was presented to
the caucus
Garter Glass, OF Virginia. heads the
Lansing ana Currency Committee. which
VIII be In the limelight when the ad-
mlnistrattons bill for a change I'm the
currency is presented
other Nirginians who get chairman
SHIPS are: w. n. Jones. Insular Affairs;
James Hay. Military Affairs: n ID
FLOOD. Foreign Affairs.
Harrison Ranking Member.
Francis Burton Harrison, of New
York. of free trade tendencies becomes
the ranking member of the Ways and
Means Committee.
Representative Lever, OF Georgia. be-
comes chairman of the Committee on
Agriculture. following Representative
Lamb, OF Virginia, who is not in Con
grcss this session. AS was published
several days ago, there Is no commit
tee on health, despite the efforts Of
many physicians and others interested
In such committee. Representative
Foster. OF Illinois, who would have
headed that committee, II is presumed
has been made chairman OF the Com
mittee on Mines and Mining. Repre-
sentative Burnett. of Alabama re-
mains at the head of the Committee on
Immigration. The ranking member OF
the committee is Representative Sa-
bath, OF Illinois. whose views on the
immigration situation are we'll known
as being almost diametrically opposite
TO those held by the chairman
Committee Assignment List.
The committee assignments. as pub
lished by the caucus are as follows:
Elections No. II ID. Post chair
man. ohio Hubert p. Stephens. Mis-
sissippi; Charles r.. Crisp. Georgia:
~. Borchers. Illinois Walter Elder.
Louisiana
Elections No. flames 4. Hamin.
chairman. New Jersey; Robert T.
Broussard. Louisiana: Joseph j. Rus
SELL Missouri. Samuel NJ TAYLOR
Arkansas; Stanley Il Bowdle Ohio;
Woodson r.. Oglcsby. New York
Elections No 3-Henry vi. G0ldfogle
chairman New York John Whitacre
Ohio. Lewis l.. Morgan, Louisiana: VIII
liam r. Smith, Texas; William Ken
nedy. Connecticut. Waiter a. watson
Virginia
WAYS and Means.
Ways and Means-Oscar. w. Under
wood chairman. Alabama: Francis
Burton Harrison. New York; Claude
kitchin, North Carolina; Henry T
Rainey, Illinois; Lincoln Dixon. In
diana. Cordeli HUI Tennessee: Win
held 5. Hammond, Minnesota; Andrew
J. Peters. Massachusetts; 4. Mitchell
Palmer, PennsyiVania Timothy T. ANS
berry, Ohio; John y Garner. Texas;
James W. Collier Mississippi; Angus
tus O. Stanley. Kentucky.
IpnS-JObp 4
chairman. New York; Swagar Sherley.
Kentucky: Charles l.. Bartlett Geor-
pia. Joseph 7 Johnson. South Caro-
lima Robert y Page North Caro-
lima; George w. Rauch, Indiana;
Joseph W Byrns Tennessee: Thomas
Upton Sisson, Mississippi; Eugene F..
Kinkead. New Jersey; william p. Bor-
land. Missouri: George White. Ohio;
James McAndrews, Illinois; Bryan f..
Mahan. Connecticut; Wooda y. Carr.
Pennsylvania
Judiciary-Henry n. Clayton. chair
man, Alabama; Edwin y Webb. North
Carolina, Charles G. Carlin. Virginia;
John c. FLOYD Arkansas; Robert Y.
Thomas. Jr, kentucky: II. Garland
Duprc. Louisiana; Walter ]. Mccoy.
New Jersey: John W. Davis, West yir-
ginla; Daniel ]. McGillicuddy Maine;
Jack Beall, Texas; Joseph Taggart,
Kansas: Louis FitzHenry. Illinois:
John f. Carew, New York: John B.
Petersen. Indiana.
Banking and Currcncy-Carter Glass.
chairman. Virginia: Charles a. korbly.
Indiana: William G.. Brown, West Vir-
ginia; Robert ]. Bulkley. Ohio; George
y. Neeley. Kansas; Thomas G. Patten,
New York; Claude U. stone. Illinois;
Michael F. Phelan, Massachusetts: Joe
n. Eagle. Texas; OTIS IT. Wingo, Ar
kansas: Harry II. Seldombridge, Colo
RADIO Emmett Wilson. Florida; Claude
Weaver. Oklahoma; j, Willard Rags
dale, South Carolina.
Coinage. Weights and Measures
Thomas w. Hardwick, chairman, Geor-
gia; William y. Ashbrook, Ohio; James
J.. Slayden, Texas; Timothy D. Sulli-
van, New York; Jeremiah Donovan.
Connecticut; Ladislas Lazaro Louisi-
ana; Franklin Brockson. Delaware;
John w. Abcrcrombie, Alabama; San
ford Kirkpatrick, Iowa; William H.
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
William G. Adams6n, chairman. Geor-
gia; Thetus w. Sims, Tennessee: j.
Harry Covngton, Maryland William
y. Cullon Indiana; Frank IL Doremus,
Michigan; j. Henry Cooke Ohio;
Clement G. Dickinson Missouri; George
+. O'Shauncssy. Rhode Island; Charles
y, Talcott New York; Dan V. Stephens.