Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1903 — Landis Has Important Place. [ARTICLE]

Landis Has Important Place.

The Indianapolis Star’s Washington correspondent says; It was a large estate whioh C m-gressman-Charhs B. Landis fell deir to when Speaker Cannon appointed him chairman of the printing oommittee. Mr. Landis’s original ambition was to be a member of the ways and means oommittee, but he is eminently satisfied with the chairmanship which he has obtained His predecessor as chairman of this committee was Joel K. Heatwole, of Minnesota, who was a product of Elkhart county, Indiana. Heatwole secured immense personal benefits in a political way from the position. It is an interesting fact that this is the oommittee whioh suppressed the resolutions in tbe last Congress calling for an investigation of the methods of James S Barons of Indiana in distributing tbe “Messages aud Papers of the Presidents.” The printiag committee passes upon ell resolutions for tbe printing of publio documents and all oontraots for the government printing offices. His new chairmanship gives Mr. Landis a suite of committee rooms on the ground floor of the oapitol.