Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-07
SENATOR HENRY Z. AsHURsT, Arl

SENATOR HENRY Il. ASf1URS1, Arb
zorla-C Chairman Indian Affairs;
committees: Census; Corporations
Organized in the District of Column
I. bia; Cuban Relations; Education
and Labor; Expenditures in the In
terror Department; Judiciary Com
mittee; Mines and Mining; Public
Buildings and Grounds; from Pres
colt, Ayiz.; born at Winnemucca,
New, in 1874. Early occupations,
cowboy, lumberjack, clerk and cash
Ter in store, newspaper reporter, bod
carrier and lawyer. Member of Ari-
IONA legislature first in 1895, and
speaker of the House in 1900. On
March q, 1912, elected United
States senator, and reelected.
SENATOR WILLIAM KING, Utah
Democrat. Chairman Expenditures
in the Postoffice Department; COM
mittees: Census; Coast and Insular
Survey; Conservation of National
Resources; District Of Columbia;
Expenditures In the Treasury De.
partment; Investigation of Tres
passers Upon Indian Lands: Judi
ciary; Pensions; Privileges and
Elections. Elected in 1916 to- the
senate, and formerly a representa-
tive. A lawyer by profession and
interested in politics in Utah for the
past three decades. He succeed
ed Senator Sutherland in the senate.
SENATOR HENRY L. MYERS, Mon.
tana-Democrat. Chairman Public
Lands; committees: Canadian Rela-
tions; Forest Reservations and the
Protection of Game; Indian Depre-
dations; Industrial Expeditions; In.
terstate Commerce; Military AT.
fairs. Born, 1852, in Missouri. Is
a lawyer by profession, and has
served as prosecuting attorney,
member of the Montana legislature
and has been district Judge. Elected
to the senate March 2, 1911, and re-.
elected.
SENATOR MILES PoINDExTER,
WashingtonRepu Chairman
on Indian Depredations; committees:
Expenditures In the Interior Depart
ment; Interstate Commerce: Judi.
ciary; Mines and Mining; Naval Az.
fairs; Pacific Islands and Porto
Rico; Pensions. Born in Memphis,
Tenn, in 1858. Practised law in
Washington since 1891 and has
served as prosecuting attorney and
judge and was elected to the United
States senate in 1911 and reelected.
SENATOR WILLIAM n. THOMP.
SON, kansas-Democrat Chairman
Audit and Control of the Contingent
Expenses of the Senate; committees:
Agriculture and Forestry; Inter-
oceanic Canals; Interstate Com
merce; Irrigation and Reclamation
of Arid Lands; Pensions; Philip.
pines; Privileges and Elections.
Born in Charlottesville, Indiana,
1871; has been court reporter, law
yer, judge and elected on the Demo-
cratic ticket to the United States
senate in 1913, his term expiring in
1919.
REPRESENTATIVE GEORGE M.
BOWERS, of West Virginia, member
of the committee on Merchant Ma
rine and Fisheries, is Republican,
of Martins burg, born 1868, at Ger.
rardstown, West Virginia. Has been
anember of the West Virginia leg.
islature; was appointed by President
Mckinley commissioner of fisheries
in 1898 and reappointed by Roose.
velt and Taft. He was elected to
congress in 1916.
REPRESENTATIVE OSCAR E.
BLAND, Of Linton, Ind; Republbi-
can-Born near Bloomington, Ind. ];
is lawyer; state senator and author
of 2-cent railroad fare for Indiana I;
appointed to Gath congress and re-
elected to 65th; figure in Indiana's
political arena
REPRESENTATIVE JAMES p.
BUCHANAN, of Brennan, Texas;
Democrat Elected to congress in
1912. Member of appropriations
committee.
REPR ESENTATIVE WILLIAM III.
CARTER, Of Massachusetts, is Re.
publican, born at Needham Heights,
Massachusetts, 1864, and has been
the general manager of th1lWilliam
H Carter Co., manufacturers of un-
derWear; formerly member of the
Massachusetts legislature.
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN ARTHUR
ELSToN, California, was elected as
a Progressive, and was born in
Woodland. California, in 1864. Was
president in 1894 of the University
of California; is lawyer by pro.