People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1893 — U. S. SENATE COMMITTEES. [ARTICLE]

U. S. SENATE COMMITTEES.

List as Finally Agreed upon and Announced. Washington, March 17.—The following is the composition of some of the more important senate committees as agreed upon by the democratic and republican caucauses: Democratic. Agriculture and Forestry—George, chairman; Jones (Ark.), Bate and Peffer. Appropriations—Cockrell, chairman; Call, Gorman, Blackburn and Brice. Claims—Pasco, chairman; Vilas, White, Daniel and Peffer. Commerce—Ransom, chairman; Coke, Vest, Gorman, While (La), White (Cal), and Murphy. District of Columbia—Harris, chairman; Faulkner, Gibson and Hunton. Education and Labor—Kyle, chairman; George Hunton, Lindsay and Murphy. Enrolled Bills—Caffrey, chairman; Colquitt. To Examine the Several Branches of the Civil Service—Peffer, chairman; Gray and Vilas. Finance—Voorhees, chairman; McPherson, Harris,Vance, Vest and Jones (Ark.). Fisheries—Conte, chairman; Call, Ransom, Gibson and Hill. Foreign Relations—Morgan, chairman; Butler, Gray, Turpie and Daniel. Immigration—Hill, chairman; Voorhees, McPherson, Faulkner and Peffer. Improvement of the Mississippi and Its Tributaries—Bate, chairman; Walthall, Palmer and Peffer. Indian Affairs—Jones (Ark.), chairman; Morgan, Vilas, Allen and Roach. Interstate Commerce—Butler, chairman; Gorman, Brice, White (La.), Camden and Lindsay. Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands — White (Cal.), chairman; Kyle, Gibson, Roach and Beckwith. Judiciary—Pugh, chairman; George, Coke, Vilas, Hill and Lindsay. Library—Mills, chairman; Voorhees. Manufactures—Gibson, chairman; Smith and Caffrey. Military Affairs—Walthall, chairman; Cockrell, Bate, Palmer and Mitchell. Naval Affairs—McPherson,chairman; Butler, Blackburn and Camden. Organization, Conduct and Expenditures of the Executive Departments—Smith, chairman: Cockrell, Hill, Walthall and Caffrey. Pensions-Palmer, chairman; Brice, Vilas. Camden and Caffrey. Post Offices and Post Roads—Colquitt, chair man; Vilas, Irby, Mills, Hunton and HilL Privileges and Elections—Vance, chairman, Pugh, Gray, Turpie and Palmer. Public Buildings and Grounds—Vest, chair man: Daniel, Pasco, Brice and Gordon. Public Lands —Berry, chairman; Walthall, Pasco, Vilas, Allen and Martin. Railroads—Camden, chairman; Berry, Gordon, Palmer, Martin and Beckwith. Relations with Canada—Murphy, chairman; Pugh, Colquitt, Hunton and Mitchell. Revision of the Laws of the United States— Daniel, chairman; Call and Lindsay. Rules—Blackburn, chairman; Harris and Gorman. Territories—Faulkner, chairman: Hill, Bate, Gordon, Blackburn and White (Cal.). Transportation Routes to the Seaboard— Irby, chairman; George, Turpie, Gordon and Hunton. Pacific Railways—Brice, chairman: Morgan, Faulkner. White (La.), and Murphy. Indian Depredations - Lindsay, chairman; Faulkner, Kyle, White (La.), and Cockrell. Quadro-Centennial—Vilas, chairman; Colquitt, Vest, Daniel, Gibson and Lindsay. To Investigate the Geological Survey—Martin, chairman: Jones (Ark.) and Beckwith. To Investigate Trespasses upon Cherokee Lands—Roach, chairman, and Butler. The committee on the employment of armed bodies of men for private purposes has been dropped from the list. The committee of forest reservations will be increased to five.