Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1909 — CANNON REBUKES BALKY MEMBERS [ARTICLE]

CANNON REBUKES BALKY MEMBERS

Rules Insurgents Deprived of Their Committees. APPOINTMENTS PUBLISHED Vreeland Succeeds Fowler on Banking and Currency, Rodenberg Gets Gardner's Place on Industrial Arts and Expositions and Olmstead Replaces Cooper on Railways and Canals. Mann of Illinois Made Chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Washington. Aug. 6.—Represents tives Fowler. New Jersey; Gardner, Massachusetts, and Cooper. Wisconsin, three of the "rules insurgents" ■who held chairmanships in the last session of congress, have lost their committees Representative Vreeland. New York, 1 succeeds Fowler as head of the com- 1 mittee on banking and currency, and Representative Rodtnberg, Illinois, sue- I ceeds Gardner as chairman of the com- I mittee on industrial arts and expos!- ' tfons. Cooper was replaced by Repre-1 sentative Olmstead. Pennsylvania. 1 Representative Davidson, Wisconsin. 1 |s retained as head of the committee on railways and canals Although Representative Wanger. Pennsylvania, was the ranking member ! of the last committee on interstate i and foreign commerce. Representative Mann. Illinois, who has been most active on that committee, succeeds to th 1 chairmanship. Representative Gardner. New Jersey, also was ranking member of his committee tpostoffices and postroads) b"' Representatives Weeks. Massac 1 ■ setts, has received 'he chairmanship o' that important committee. Representative Alexander NevYork succeeds *o present Senator Bur ton’s position as lv>ad of the committee on rivers and harbors and Rev.iw sentative Parker. New ’ersey. is made chairman c f the judiciary committee s o fill the vacancy caused by the re’irmen* from congress of Represen'ativ Jenkins. Wisconsin. Representative Dwight. Now York. ♦h“ Republican whip, gets Representative Crumpacker's place on the ways and means committee Crunipscker resigned his position. Representative Ellis Oregon, was appointed to fill the vacancy on th® same committee- caused by the death of Representative Cushman Washington.