The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-05-26

oughly equipped as an expert TO give
| the best possible service. Mr.. Wilson
however. believed that an office OF thl.
character. which takes the census OF
American industries. should be In
charge Of a man who IL thoroughly In
sympathy with the Administration 4
tariff and other policies.
Diplomatic Plum Also.
! Mr.. Wilson's most important diplo-
| matte appointment also has gone to n
! Southerner by birth. Walter II. Page
the newly appointed Ambassador 10 the
Court OF st. .James's. Is credited 20 New
York. but was born in North Carolina.
Among tho other important appoint
| ments that have gone to the South are
Robert w Wooley Of Virginia. to he
auditor OF the Interior Department !.
| James l.. betty OF Missouri. to be aud
tor OF the War Department; Ernest les
ter Jones OF Virginia. to be- deputy com
missioner OF the Bureau OF Fisheries
Alexander II. Msgruder OF Maryland. TO
be secretary OF the legation at Copen-
hagen: Charles A. Wood OF South Caro-
Ina. to be United States Circuit Judge
OF the Fourth Circuit. Edward X.
Campbell OF Alabama, to be Chief jus
tice OF the Cuort OF Claims: Luclus q. &.
Lamar OF Mississippi. 10 he recorder
Of the General Land Office. and Henry
s breckenridge OF Kentucky. to be
Assistant Secretary OF War.
In addition 10 this Cato Sells. the
Democratic National Committeeman n
from Texas. Is about TO be named In
dian Commissioner
In the United States Senate the chair
manships OF all the important commit
toes except three are in the hands OF
Southern Senators. The three excep-
tions are the Committee on Inter-
oceanic Canals. Senator O'Gorman OF
New York. chairman: the Committee on
Interstate Commerce. Senator Newla nds
OF Nevada. chairman. and the Commit
tee on Rules. Senator Kern OF Indiana.
chairman.
Head Biz Committee.
Tho chairmanships Of the three big
committees in the Senate (Flna nee,
Appropriations and Foreign Relations
are In the hands respectively OF Sena-
tors Simmons Of North Carolina. Mar
tin OF Virginia and Bacon OF Georgia.
The House committees have not been
completely organized. but Southern
Democrats held all the important chair
ma nss,ips in the last Congress with the
exception OF the Appropriations and
Foreign Affairs committees. Fitzgerald
Of New York being chairman OF the
former and Sulzer OF the same State
heading the latter
Tho big Ways and Means Commit
tee. which already has been chosen for
the present Congress ana which not only
handles the tariff bill. but all other
committee assignments. ts shout evenly
divided in membership OF the ma jority
party between Northern and Southern
States. The Committee on Rules has
Ave Democrats from Southern States
to two from the North. Not only will
the tariff be revised under the leader
snip OF Southern Democrats. but the
same forces Will handle the revision OF
the currency laws
II should be said. however, that there
II not a semblance OF sectional feeling
among the Democrats over the makeup
Of the committees. The facts instanced
hero are merely intended to show how
generally and with what strength the
South is asserting herself IN the con-
duct OF affairs in Washington under
the new Administration.