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Show iNew Board of Directors Representatives in- board of directors of the na-ueo na-ueo of representatives consists if lawyers. This mcuns ten at-a at-a all, or more legal talent than to fill tho bench of the federal court, rse, I am speaking of the now nniltteo on rules, whoso mem-as mem-as Juat been doubled, as a re-e re-e recent insurgent outbreak. It I any, exaggeration to call this men the house's board of di-1 di-1 ?for, except on tho Wednesdays l for the taking tip of bills In oral or-al the calendar. Its power will be i jn directing the course of lcgls-ind lcgls-ind no bill can be brought up for ! atlon without Its approval. The ' committee on rules consisted of iker, two other Republicans and . nocrats. but. as most, rcadcirs ic speaker has been made lnelli-r lnelli-r tho enlarged committee, All tehr members of the old commit-! commit-! e been re-elected and six new a have boon added to complete 1 membership the ton, Including jnbllcans and four Democrats. BholQ nation wants to know what Tof men are theso ten lawyers il determine the legislation of the lr direct representatives. All but ire college graduates before com-r com-r their law studies. One was a "president, one is a Yale B. A., 'is a Harvard A M., and a fourth liicatcd at the University of Hei- 1 Germany. All of the four Dcmo-aembers Dcmo-aembers are collcgo graduates, and 1 vBepubllcan members who did not I ollegc are both named Smith. II oungest member of tho committee r-elght and might easily be the S Lho oldest member, who Is slxty-i slxty-i etween these extremes, there are 3 tibers In their forties, five in tho r Sd on just turned sixty. Their - Jlago Is nearly forty-six years. i ras Tlioodore Roosevelt's age at T tining of his electlvo term. One 'J ' lils twelfth term in tho house, i lr eighth terms, two their scy- ko their sixth and .three their Phe 'average member has had cx- Tin more than six congresses. HedsraphSc distribution of the new IKhfp is as follows: North At-iMates, At-iMates, three Republicans and ono Wit; north central slates, two Ro-fclWnd Ro-fclWnd two Democrats; south cen-ifcV cen-ifcV one Democrat; western states, ifcubllcan. Tho south Atlantic dl-Iff dl-Iff the United States 13 the only jfc1 n0 representation on tlic cn-41ommlttce. cn-41ommlttce. spell House Parliamentarian. iifiV chairman, John Dnlzell of Is the committee's oldest mem- polnt of both years and con-nKl con-nKl Borvice. Ho was 60 years old 'Jfcday (April 10). and he has been ifcer of the house continuously Kerch i, 1S87. tho middle of Mr. TOd's llrst administration. Only resent members have sorved a pftmc "Uncle .Toe" Cannon, now iSfchtcenth; General Bingham (Pa.). ?fcjs sixteenth, and Mr. Payno (N. r In his thirteenth term. Dalzell, Hrfc''born In New York City, remom- bers no other homo than tho Smoky city, whither he was taken by his parents when 2 years old. Ho Is of Scotch-Irish Scotch-Irish ancestry his mother was a McDonnell. McDon-nell. After going through tho public schools of Pittsburg he entered the Western West-ern Unlvorslty of Pennsylvania, and topped off at Yale, where ho got his B. A. In tho last year of tho Civil war, 1865, wnlch was thirteen years beforo Mr. Taft pot his sheepskin at. tho samo university. During the next two years young Dalzell studlod law, and soon he becamo a Junior member of a firm which represented all of tho Important railroads centering In Pittsburg. After entering the house he soon worked his way to both the committee com-mittee on rules and tho committees on ways and moans, the' two most Important committees of the house. Ho has been best known as tho foremost standpatter tho chief advocate of tho protective tnriff In congress, lie has also made an Incessant study of parliamentary law, having collated a larger amount of Information In-formation on tho subject than probably any ono serving In congress. He Is easily the' best parliamentarian on tho floor, and for a number of years has been known as "ono of the three rulers of the house," or as, sometimes, "the brains of the houso triumvirate." Ho is retiring to tho point of shyness-like shyness-like Aldrlch Another point of similarity Is that his biographies arc few and far between. lie is a better orator, however, than Aldrlch, and a far wittier man in debate. Ho made the cleverest Republican Republi-can political speeh made in congress prior to tho last election ono that kept tho house In an uproar for more than an' hour. Yet with -all his skill in debate it Is a peculiarity of Dalzell's that ho Is generally discouraged over a prepared speech on the eve of Its delivery. Ho Is a small man with a long mustache, strong, well formed nose and chin and Intelligent eyes. Ho has considerable wealth and is a widower with a family of children. In a recent speech In tho hotiso Dalzell expressed the hope that God would not Inflict such a visitation on the country as to elect a Democratic house of representatives, repre-sentatives, but if Buch a thing happened, he said, he hoped Champ Clark would be speaker. Ohamp Clark, tho Classic. Champ Clurk, the minority lendor In tho house, Is the ranking Democrat on the new rules commltteo, as ho was on the old. In tho caucus which nomlnatod him for the rules committee ho rccolvcd twenty-three more votes than were cast for tho next most popular candidate. Clark Is by all odds the most striking looking man in either houso of congress. Ho has a faco which would have made him a fortune on the stage a faco which would go perfectly with the whlto wig of the eighteenth century courtior. the inky cloak of Hamlet or the toga of a noble Roman. He Is smooth shaven and has almost whlto hair, dark eyebrows, eye-brows, a deep head, high forehead, largo, deep-set gray eyes, a long, well modeled nose, an elequont mouth and chin. He Is six feet one Inch In stature, broad-shouldered broad-shouldered and Just round enough to look well-nourished and even-tempered. Ho t dally appoars in tho house wearing a flaming red necktie. Although a southerner by hlrth, by spocch and by sympathy, Mr. Clark comes from Yankee stock on his "paternal side. His grandfather, Adrian Clark, a onetime one-time rich glas3 manufacturer and shipbuilder ship-builder of New Jersey, lost Ills money and apprenticed IiIh son to u. carriage Xext ho went to Cincinnati and was graduated from tho law school which Mr. Taft was to enter two years later. Thon ho went to Wichita, Kan., to start a law practice and got stranded, but made enough to get out of town by writing writ-ing an essay for a student. Ho wont Next to St. Louis, whore ho borrowed 310. and put out for Louisiana, Mo., Some of New Directors of House J. J. Fitzgerald of N. T. W !S, ' w- T- Smith of Iowa. J. Sloat Passett of N. T. fV John Dalzell of Ponn. 1 1 maker. This son worked In Now Jersey, Pennsylvania and finally in Kentucky, where he became a dentist and also tho father of the present Democratic loader. The family was poor and tho mother died young, so that Champ Clark and his little sister had to bo left with a farmer. The boy was thon 10 and ho pnld tholr board by doing farm work, but ho went to school botween chores. At fourteen ho got work In a country store at $S a month, and soon aftorward ho organized a country school of his own and did farm labor while teaching. Thus ho worked his way Into tho University of Kentucky, from which he was expelled In his senior yoar for getting into a shooting shoot-ing scrape, which, however, had no more serious senucl. Then he llnlshcd at Bethany Beth-any college, being graduated at the head of his class. On reaching homo ho found the offer of the presidency of Marshall collcgo, West Virginia, at a salary of $1400 a year. Clark, although only twen-ty-threo years old, took the position for a year, and for twenty-two years held the record for having been the youngest college president In the United States. Champ Olafk. whoro he taught school, practiced law and ran a weekly paper. Another move brought him to his present homo. Bowling Bowl-ing Green, where ho entered politics, bolng first elected to congress nl 1S93. At tho end of that term he and his col-leaguo, col-leaguo, "Silver Dick" Bland, wcro both defeated for re-election, Clark by a music teacher and Bland by a horse doctor. But Mr. Clark was never defeated again. Ho is now in his eighth congress. Ho Glimpse at the Ten Lawyers Constituting the Enlarged Com- mittee on Rules Created by the Recent Insurgent Uprising. By JOHN ELFE.ETH WATKINS. (Copyright, 1010, by John Elfrcth Watkinsi Is 60 years old and a Campbollllo by religion. re-ligion. Among the now Republican xnombcrs of tho enlarged commltteo Is Jacob Sloat Fassctt of .Blmlra N. Y.. tho man who ran for governor of the Emplro stato In 1891. but who was defeated by Roswoll P. Flower. He Is German on his moth-cr'B moth-cr'B sldo, his grandfathor, Jacob Sloat. for whom ho wns named, having come from tho fatherland to Xowberg, N. Y., whoro ho made some money. Fassett and David B. Hill wore neighbors and friends although tho latter was the older by ten years. Aflor Fassett had gone through tho University of Rochester and had studlod law it was Hill who made tho motion admitting him to tho bar. Tho next year tho young man was appointed ap-pointed district attorney, and a year later no wont ovor to Germany and took a course In tho great University -of Heidelberg. Heidel-berg. After returning homo ho was elected to tho state senate, whero Hill wolconicd him from the exalted seat of tho lieutenant governor, tho presiding officer of-ficer of tho chamber. 11111 soon found his younger neighbor a dangerous political politi-cal foe whom ho had to campaign against, vigorously, on the homo ground, but Fas-sett Fas-sett had won his seat In the stato senate sen-ate for tho fourth time and had becomo president pro tern, of that body when his party nominated him for governor. In the victorious Harrison campaign he held the secretaryship of tho Republican na-tlonal na-tlonal committee, tho office which Frank Hitchcock held in the Rooscvelt-Parkor compalgn. and which started him upon his meteoric political career. Harrison Harri-son appointed Fassett collector of the port of New York, tho offlco which Mr. Taft has given to President Roosevelt's faithful secretary, Mr. Loeb. And at the national convention which renominated Harrison In 1892 Mr- Fassett was temporary tem-porary chairman. Ho Is vice-president of a bank In his home city and has large mining and cattle Interests In tho west. Ills wife Is very rich. Sho was Miss Jennie Crocker, daughter of the late K. R. Crocker of Sacramento, Cal., who was the brother of Charles Crocker, the multimillionaire. multi-millionaire. The youngest of their five children shares not only the full name but tho birthday of the father. Mr. Fassett Is 5G years old and now In his third congressional term. Both ho and his wife are Baptists, and ho both reads and speaks German, the langunge of his maternal forebears. Two Iowa Smiths. Tho two Republican Smiths on the rules commltteo arc both natives of Iowa. Walter I . who received more caucus votes than any other representative for membership mem-bership on the house's board of directors, was born and bred right In Council Bluffs, where he now lives. Hc got his education In the common schools there, then studied In a law office and after bolng admitted to tho bar practiced for eight ycai-s. Then, when only 2S, hc was elected district Judge, holding the office until elected to congress ten years ago. He Is now 47 and serving his sixth term. Ho. was one of the "triumvirate" on the rules committee Just before It was nnlarged. He nnd Dalzell are the two Republican hold-overs. The other Smith Sylvester C. was one of the many farm boys who went to the district school between chores and then became famous. He took a finishing finish-ing courso at an academy In tho nearest town and when 21 and "free." put out for California. This was In 70. Hc took up a piece of land, laid out a farm and got a country schoolmastershlp, which helped keop the wolf from the door while ho studied law. It. was hard work, but he got admitted when 27 It was then that he located In tho California district which ho now represents A question of water right was then engrossing en-grossing the attention of the farmers In his locality. They were hustlers and-knowlng and-knowlng the value of publicity bought a plant with which to establish a paper which would ropresent their views on the matter in dispute. They selected Smith to edit this journal. TI1I3 was twenty-four years ago. After three years hc had bought the paper himself, and later made It a morning dally. He Is still its principal prin-cipal owner. He came to congress by way of his slate senate and Is now serving serv-ing hi sthlrd term In tho national house. He Is CI years old. The Yankee momber of tho new house directorate Is George P. Lawronce, who Is now serving his seventh term. Ho Is tho son of a doctor of Adams. Mass.. and waH educated both at Amherst college and Columbia law school. He was a Judge for nlno years, then entored the state senate, of which he was olectod president by unanimous vote. Then he IH came to congress In 1S!)7. He Is GO years H old and lives In North Adams, a section H of his birthplace. H Descendant of Roger Sherman. The good patriot father, Roger Slier- H mun, one of the commltteo of live who H drafted the Declaration of Independence H and one of its signers, lias a great-great-. H grandson on tho committee. This la H Henry Sherman Boutell of Chicago. Hc H was born In Boston fifty-four years ago, H but was taken by his parents to Chicago IH when seven years old. He is an A. B. H and A. M. of Northwestern university, after leaving which hc went up to liar- H vard, Joining tho class of '70, to which H Justice Moody. Walker Blaine and rPcr- H clval Lowell also belonged. H Hc was bent upon the higher education, H for after getting another A. B. hc rc-malned rc-malned in Cambridge a year studying for H an A. M. In constitutional history and H International law. which- he got in 1877. H Ho came to congress In '07 by way of the H Illinois legislature, where he was one of H the "103" who elected John A. Togau to IB the United States senate, In 1SS5. Ho IH nominated Speaker Cannon for president at tho convention which named Taft. Among Champ Clark's throo colleagues on the committee he finds a fellow Ken-tucklan, Ken-tucklan, Oscar W. Underwood, who was bbrn In Louisville forty-seven years ago. But, like his Democratic leader, Mr. Tudcrwood left his native state. After going through the University of Virginia he went to Birmingham, Ala. his pres- 1 ent home to practlco law and enter poll- 1 tics. He was first elected to the house H when only thirty-two. and Is now serving in his eighth consecutive congress. 1 There is a Hoosler Democrat, too, on Dalzell's hoard Lincoln Dixon, who was born the year of Abraham Lincoln's first nomination, and wlfo. although named after the first Republican prcsl-dent, prcsl-dent, grew up to bo a Democrat Ho was born in his present home town of IH North Vernon. Jnd., and after taking his A. B. at his stato university became prosecuting attorney when 21, and held the office continuously until elected to congress In 1004. Tho youngest man on the committee, and Its only Roman Catholic member, Is John J. Fitzgerald of Brooklyn, who Is only .IS. lie was born in Brooklyn, took a B. A, and M. A. at Manhattan col-lege, col-lege, went through the New York law school, received the degreo of "Bachelor IH of laws, cum laude" from the stat re- IH gents when 21. got right Into New York politics and was elected to congress when IH only 26. or one year over tho ago limit. IH In the house he soon earned the repuLa- IH tlon of a skilled parliamentarian and - IH also tne sobriquet "Fighting Fitzgerald." At the beginning of the special tariff ses- IH slon last year, when the combination of IH Democrats and Republican insurgents had defeated the adoption of the rules of the Sixtieth congress, and were hi readiness to reduce the speaker's power. It wan Fitzgerald who, followed by twonty-two high protection Democrats of Nov,' York and the south, made the sortie which saved the day for "Uncle Joe." FItzger-aid FItzger-aid was Champ Clark's sole Democratic colleague upon- the former rules commit-tec. |