Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — MR. HOLMAN'S SUCCESSOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MR. HOLMAN'S SUCCESSOR.

Personality of Chairman- Sayers of the House Appropriations Committee. Joseph D. Sayers, of Bastrop, Tex., who succeeds Mr. Holman as Chairman pf the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives, now serving his fifth consecutive term in the House, having been first elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

During hla first term he was on the Committee on Naval Affairs, and during his second term was appointed a member of the Committee on Appropriations, where he hafi served ever since. Consequently he is not without ex-

pelience in the affairs of the committee of which he is now the head, and his speeches have always been generously applauded by his Democratic associates. Mr. Sayers Is a man of commanding appearance. His height is about five feet nine inches, and he probably weighs 180 pounds. His hair is dark and his eyes are brown, and he is energetic and untiring. He is a native of Mississippi and was born at Grenada, Sept. 23, 1841. When but 10 years of age he accompanied his father on his removal to Texas, where they settled in Bastrop. Mr. Sayers was a State Senator during the session of 1873, and Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1879 and 1880. He was first elected to Congress in 1885.

J. D. SAYERS.