59th United States Congress

• March 4, 1905: President Theodore Roosevelt began his second (only full) term. ==Major legislation==

• May 28, 1906: Foreign Dredge Act of 1906 • June 8, 1906: Antiquities Act • June 29, 1906: Hepburn Act • June 30, 1906: Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (Wiley Act), ch. 3915, • June 30, 1906: Meat Inspection Act (Beveridge Act) • 1906: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching chartered. • March 2, 1907: Expatriation Act of 1907, ==Party summary==

Senate House of Representatives ==Leaders==

Senate leadership Presiding • President: Charles W. Fairbanks (R) • President pro tempore: William P. Frye (R) • Republican Conference Chairman: William B. Allison • Democratic Caucus Chair: Arthur Pue Gorman, until June 4, 1906 • Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, afterwards • Democratic Caucus Secretary: Edward W. Carmack House leadership Presiding • Speaker: Joseph G. Cannon (R) Majority (Republican) leadership • Majority Leader: Sereno E. Payne • Majority Whip: James E. Watson • Republican Conference Chair: William Peters Hepburn Minority (Democratic) leadership • Minority Leader: John Sharp Williams • Minority Whip: James T. Lloyd • Democratic Caucus Chairman: Robert Lee Henry • Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: James M. Griggs ==Members==

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district. :Skip to House of Representatives, below Senate At this time, senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election, In this Congress, Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1906; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1908; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1910. ==== Alabama ==== : 2. John T. Morgan (D) : 3. Edmund Pettus (D) ==== Arkansas ==== : 2. James H. Berry (D) : 3. James P. Clarke (D) ==== California ==== : 1. Frank P. Flint (R) : 3. George C. Perkins (R) ==== Colorado ==== : 2. Thomas M. Patterson (D) : 3. Henry M. Teller (D) ==== Connecticut ==== : 1. Morgan G. Bulkeley (R) : 3. Orville H. Platt (R), until April 21, 1905 :: Frank B. Brandegee (R), from May 10, 1905 ==== Delaware ==== : 1. Henry A. du Pont, (R), from June 13, 1906 : 2. J. Frank Allee (R) ==== Florida ==== : 2. James P. Taliaferro (D) : 3. Stephen Mallory (D) ==== Georgia ==== : 2. Augustus O. Bacon (D) : 3. Alexander S. Clay (D) ==== Idaho ==== : 2. Fred Dubois (D) : 3. Weldon B. Heyburn (R) ==== Illinois ==== : 2. Shelby M. Cullom (R) : 3. Albert J. Hopkins (R) ==== Indiana ==== : 1. Albert J. Beveridge (R) : 3. James A. Hemenway (R) ==== Iowa ==== : 2. Jonathan P. Dolliver (R) : 3. William B. Allison (R) ==== Kansas ==== : 2. Joseph R. Burton (R), until June 4, 1906 :: Alfred W. Benson (R), June 11, 1906 - January 23, 1907 :: Charles Curtis (R), from January 29, 1907 : 3. Chester I. Long (R) ==== Kentucky ==== : 2. Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D) : 3. James B. McCreary (D) ==== Louisiana ==== : 2. Murphy J. Foster (D) : 3. Samuel D. McEnery (D) ==== Maine ==== : 1. Eugene Hale (R) : 2. William P. Frye (R) ==== Maryland ==== : 1. Isidor Rayner (D) : 3. Arthur P. Gorman (D), until June 4, 1906 :: William Pinkney Whyte (D), from June 8, 1906 ==== Massachusetts ==== : 1. Henry Cabot Lodge (R) : 2. Winthrop M. Crane (R) ==== Michigan ==== : 1. Julius C. Burrows (R) : 2. Russell A. Alger (R), until January 24, 1907 :: William Alden Smith (R), from February 6, 1907 ==== Minnesota ==== : 1. Moses E. Clapp (R) : 2. Knute Nelson (R) ==== Mississippi ==== : 1. Hernando D. Money (D) : 2. Anselm J. McLaurin (D) ==== Missouri ==== : 1. William Warner (R), from March 18, 1905 : 3. William J. Stone (D) ==== Montana ==== : 1. Thomas H. Carter (R) : 2. William A. Clark (D) ==== Nebraska ==== : 1. Elmer J. Burkett (R) : 2. Joseph H. Millard (R) ==== Nevada ==== : 1. George S. Nixon (R) : 3. Francis G. Newlands (D) ==== New Hampshire ==== : 2. Henry E. Burnham (R) : 3. Jacob H. Gallinger (R) ==== New Jersey ==== : 1. John Kean Jr. (R) : 2. John F. Dryden (R) ==== New York ==== : 1. Chauncey M. Depew (R) : 3. Thomas C. Platt (R) ==== North Carolina ==== : 2. Furnifold M. Simmons (D) : 3. Lee S. Overman (D) ==== North Dakota ==== : 1. Porter J. McCumber (R) : 3. Henry C. Hansbrough (R) ==== Ohio ==== : 1. Charles W. F. Dick (R) : 3. Joseph B. Foraker (R) ==== Oregon ==== : 2. John H. Mitchell (R), until December 8, 1905 :: John M. Gearin (D), December 13, 1905 - January 23, 1907 :: Frederick W. Mulkey (R), from January 23, 1907 : 3. Charles W. Fulton (R) ==== Pennsylvania ==== : 1. Philander C. Knox (R) : 3. Boies Penrose (R) ==== Rhode Island ==== : 1. Nelson W. Aldrich (R) : 2. George P. Wetmore (R) ==== South Carolina ==== : 2. Benjamin R. Tillman (D) : 3. Asbury C. Latimer (D) ==== South Dakota ==== : 2. Robert J. Gamble (R) : 3. Alfred B. Kittredge (R) ==== Tennessee ==== : 1. William B. Bate (D), until March 9, 1905 ::James B. Frazier (D), from March 21, 1905 : 2. Edward W. Carmack (D) ==== Texas ==== : 1. Charles A. Culberson (D) : 2. Joseph W. Bailey (D) ==== Utah ==== : 1. George Sutherland (R) : 3. Reed Smoot (R) ==== Vermont ==== : 1. Redfield Proctor (R) : 3. William P. Dillingham (R) ==== Virginia ==== : 1. John W. Daniel (D) : 2. Thomas S. Martin (D) ==== Washington ==== : 1. Samuel H. Piles (R) : 3. Levi Ankeny (R) ==== West Virginia ==== : 1. Nathan B. Scott (R) : 2. Stephen B. Elkins (R) ==== Wisconsin ==== : 1. Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R) : 3. John C. Spooner (R) ==== Wyoming ==== : 1. Clarence D. Clark (R) : 2. Francis E. Warren (R) House of Representatives ==== Alabama ==== : . George W. Taylor (D) : . Ariosto A. Wiley (D) : . Henry D. Clayton (D) : . Sydney J. Bowie (D) : . J. Thomas Heflin (D) : . John H. Bankhead (D) : . John L. Burnett (D) : . William N. Richardson (D) : . Oscar Underwood (D) ==== Arkansas ==== : . Robert B. Macon (D) : . Stephen Brundidge Jr. (D) : . John C. Floyd (D) : . John S. Little (D), until January 14, 1907 : . Charles C. Reid (D) : . Joseph Taylor Robinson (D) : . Robert M. Wallace (D) ==== California ==== : . James N. Gillett (R), until November 4, 1906 :: William F. Englebright (R), from November 6, 1906 : . Duncan E. McKinlay (R) : . Joseph R. Knowland (R) : . Julius Kahn (R) : . Everis A. Hayes (R) : . James C. Needham (R) : . James McLachlan (R) : . Sylvester C. Smith (R) ==== Colorado ==== : . Robert W. Bonynge (R) : . Herschel M. Hogg (R) : . Franklin E. Brooks (R) ==== Connecticut ==== : . E. Stevens Henry (R) : . Nehemiah D. Sperry (R) : . Frank B. Brandegee (R), until May 10, 1905 :: Edwin W. Higgins (R), from October 2, 1905 : . Ebenezer J. Hill (R) : . George L. Lilley (R) ==== Delaware ==== : . Hiram R. Burton (R) ==== Florida ==== : . Stephen M. Sparkman (D) : . Frank Clark (D) : . William B. Lamar (D) ==== Georgia ==== : . Rufus E. Lester (D), until June 16, 1906 :: James W. Overstreet (D), from October 3, 1906 : . James M. Griggs (D) : . Elijah B. Lewis (D) : . William C. Adamson (D) : . Leonidas F. Livingston (D) : . Charles L. Bartlett (D) : . Gordon Lee (D) : . William M. Howard (D) : . Thomas Montgomery Bell (D) : . Thomas W. Hardwick (D) : . William G. Brantley (D) ==== Idaho ==== : . Burton L. French (R) ==== Illinois ==== : . Martin B. Madden (R) : . James R. Mann (R) : . William W. Wilson (R) : . Charles S. Wharton (R) : . Anthony Michalek (R) : . William Lorimer (R) : . Philip Knopf (R) : . Charles McGavin (R) : . Henry S. Boutell (R) : . George E. Foss (R) : . Howard M. Snapp (R) : . Charles Eugene Fuller (R) : . Robert R. Hitt (R), until September 20, 1906 :: Frank O. Lowden (R), from November 6, 1906 : . Benjamin F. Marsh (R), until June 2, 1905 :: James McKinney (R), from November 7, 1905 : . George W. Prince (R) : . Joseph V. Graff (R) : . John A. Sterling (R) : . Joseph G. Cannon (R) : . William B. McKinley (R) : . Henry T. Rainey (D) : . Zeno J. Rives (R) : . William A. Rodenberg (R) : . Frank S. Dickson (R) : . Pleasant T. Chapman (R) : . George Washington Smith (R) ==== Indiana ==== : . John H. Foster (R), from May 16, 1905 : . John C. Chaney (R) : . William T. Zenor (D) : . Lincoln Dixon (D) : . Elias S. Holliday (R) : . James E. Watson (R) : . Jesse Overstreet (R) : . George W. Cromer (R) : . Charles B. Landis (R) : . Edgar D. Crumpacker (R) : . Frederick Landis (R) : . Newton W. Gilbert (R), until November 6, 1906 :: Clarence C. Gilhams (R), from November 6, 1906 : . Abraham L. Brick (R) ==== Iowa ==== : . Thomas Hedge (R) : . Albert F. Dawson (R) : . Benjamin P. Birdsall (R) : . Gilbert N. Haugen (R) : . Robert G. Cousins (R) : . John F. Lacey (R) : . John A. T. Hull (R) : . William P. Hepburn (R) : . Walter I. Smith (R) : . James P. Conner (R) : . Elbert H. Hubbard (R) ==== Kansas ==== : . Charles Curtis (R), until January 28, 1907 : . Justin De Witt Bowersock (R) : . Philip P. Campbell (R) : . James Monroe Miller (R) : . William A. Calderhead (R) : . William A. Reeder (R) : . Victor Murdock (R) : . Charles Frederick Scott (R) ==== Kentucky ==== : . Ollie M. James (D) : . Augustus Stanley (D) : . James M. Richardson (D) : . David Highbaugh Smith (D) : . J. Swagar Sherley (D) : . Joseph L. Rhinock (D) : . South Trimble (D) : . George G. Gilbert (D) : . Joseph B. Bennett (R) : . Francis A. Hopkins (D) : . Don C. Edwards (R) ==== Louisiana ==== : . Adolph Meyer (D) : . Robert C. Davey (D) : . Robert F. Broussard (D) : . John Thomas Watkins (D) : . Joseph E. Ransdell (D) : . Samuel M. Robertson (D) : . Arsène Paulin Pujó (D) ==== Maine ==== : . Amos L. Allen (R) : . Charles E. Littlefield (R) : . Edwin C. Burleigh (R) : . Llewellyn Powers (R) ==== Maryland ==== : . Thomas A. Smith (D) : . J. Frederick C. Talbott (D) : . Frank C. Wachter (R) : . John Gill Jr. (D) : . Sydney E. Mudd (R) : . George A. Pearre (R) ==== Massachusetts ==== : . George P. Lawrence (R) : . Frederick H. Gillett (R) : . Rockwood Hoar (R), until November 1, 1906 :: Charles G. Washburn (R), from December 18, 1906 : . Charles Q. Tirrell (R) : . Butler Ames (R) : . Augustus P. Gardner (R) : . Ernest W. Roberts (R) : . Samuel W. McCall (R) : . John A. Keliher (D) : . William S. McNary (D) : . John Andrew Sullivan (D) : . John W. Weeks (R) : . William S. Greene (R) : . William C. Lovering (R) ==== Michigan ==== : . Edwin C. Denby (R) : . Charles E. Townsend (R) : . Washington Gardner (R) : . Edward L. Hamilton (R) : . William Alden Smith (R), until February 9, 1907 : . Samuel W. Smith (R) : . Henry McMorran (R) : . Joseph W. Fordney (R) : . Roswell P. Bishop (R) : . George A. Loud (R) : . Archibald B. Darragh (R) : . H. Olin Young (R) ==== Minnesota ==== : . James Albertus Tawney (R) : . James T. McCleary (R) : . Charles Russell Davis (R) : . Frederick C. Stevens (R) : . Loren Fletcher (R) : . Clarence Buckman (R) : . Andrew Volstead (R) : . James Bede (R) : . Halvor Steenerson (R) ==== Mississippi ==== : . Ezekiel S. Candler Jr. (D) : . Thomas Spight (D) : . Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D) : . Wilson S. Hill (D) : . Adam M. Byrd (D) : . Eaton J. Bowers (D) : . Frank A. McLain (D) : . John Sharp Williams (D) ==== Missouri ==== : . James T. Lloyd (D) : . William W. Rucker (D) : . Frank B. Klepper (R) : . Frank B. Fulkerson (R) : . Edgar C. Ellis (R) : . David A. De Armond (D) : . John Welborn (R) : . Dorsey W. Shackleford (D) : . James Beauchamp Clark (D) : . Richard Bartholdt (R) : . John T. Hunt (D) : . Ernest E. Wood (D), until June 23, 1906 :: Harry M. Coudrey (R), from June 23, 1906 : . Marion E. Rhodes (R) : . William T. Tyndall (R) : . Cassius M. Shartel (R) : . Arthur P. Murphy (R) ==== Montana ==== : . Joseph M. Dixon (R) ==== Nebraska ==== : . Elmer J. Burkett (R), until March 4, 1905 :: Ernest M. Pollard (R), from July 18, 1905 : . John L. Kennedy (R) : . John J. McCarthy (R) : . Edmund H. Hinshaw (R) : . George W. Norris (R) : . Moses P. Kinkaid (R) ==== Nevada ==== : . Clarence D. Van Duzer (D) ==== New Hampshire ==== : . Cyrus A. Sulloway (R) : . Frank Dunklee Currier (R) ==== New Jersey ==== : . Henry C. Loudenslager (R) : . John J. Gardner (R) : . Benjamin F. Howell (R) : . Ira W. Wood (R) : . Charles N. Fowler (R) : . Henry C. Allen (R) : . Richard Wayne Parker (R) : . William H. Wiley (R) : . Marshall Van Winkle (R) : . Allan L. McDermott (D) ==== New York ==== : . William W. Cocks (R) : . George H. Lindsay (D) : . Charles T. Dunwell (R) : . Charles B. Law (R) : . George E. Waldo (R) : . William M. Calder (R) : . John J. Fitzgerald (D) : . Timothy D. Sullivan (D), until July 27, 1906 :: Daniel J. Riordan (D), from November 6, 1906 : . Henry M. Goldfogle (D) : . William Sulzer (D) : . William Randolph Hearst (D) : . W. Bourke Cockran (D) : . Herbert Parsons (R) : . Charles A. Towne (D) : . J. Van Vechten Olcott (R) : . Jacob Ruppert (D) : . William S. Bennet (R) : . Joseph A. Goulden (D) : . John E. Andrus (R) : . Thomas W. Bradley (R) : . John H. Ketcham (R), until November 4, 1906 : . William H. Draper (R) : . George N. Southwick (R) : . Frank J. LeFevre (R) : . Lucius N. Littauer (R) : . William H. Flack (R), until February 2, 1907 : . James S. Sherman (R) : . Charles L. Knapp (R) : . Michael E. Driscoll (R) : . John W. Dwight (R) : . Sereno E. Payne (R) : . James B. Perkins (R) : . J. Sloat Fassett (R) : . James W. Wadsworth (R) : . William H. Ryan (D) : . De Alva S. Alexander (R) : . Edward B. Vreeland (R) ==== North Carolina ==== : . John Humphrey Small (D) : . Claude Kitchin (D) : . Charles R. Thomas (D) : . Edward W. Pou (D) : . William W. Kitchin (D) : . Gilbert B. Patterson (D) : . Robert N. Page (D) : . E. Spencer Blackburn (R) : . Edwin Y. Webb (D) : . James M. Gudger Jr. (D) ==== North Dakota ==== : . Thomas Frank Marshall (R) : . Asle Gronna (R) ==== Ohio ==== : . Nicholas Longworth (R) : . Herman P. Goebel (R) : . Robert M. Nevin (R) : . Harvey C. Garber (D) : . William Wildman Campbell (R) : . Thomas E. Scroggy (R) : . J. Warren Keifer (R) : . Ralph D. Cole (R) : . James H. Southard (R) : . Henry T. Bannon (R) : . Charles H. Grosvenor (R) : . Edward L. Taylor Jr. (R) : . Grant E. Mouser (R) : . Amos R. Webber (R) : . Beman G. Dawes (R) : . Capell L. Weems (R) : . Martin L. Smyser (R) : . James Kennedy (R) : . W. Aubrey Thomas (R) : . Jacob A. Beidler (R) : . Theodore E. Burton (R) ==== Oregon ==== : . Binger Hermann (R) : . John N. Williamson (R) ==== Pennsylvania ==== : . Henry H. Bingham (R) : . Robert Adams Jr. (R), until June 1, 1906 :: John E. Reyburn (R), from November 6, 1906 : . George A. Castor (R), until February 19, 1906 :: J. Hampton Moore (R), from November 6, 1906 : . Reuben O. Moon (R) : . Edward D. Morrell (R) : . George D. McCreary (R) : . Thomas S. Butler (R) : . Irving P. Wanger (R) : . Henry B. Cassel (R) : . Thomas H. Dale (R) : . Henry W. Palmer (R) : . George R. Patterson (R), until March 21, 1906 :: Charles N. Brumm (R), from November 6, 1906 : . Marcus C. L. Kline (D) : . Mial E. Lilley (R) : . Elias Deemer (R) : . Edmund W. Samuel (R) : . Thaddeus M. Mahon (R) : . Marlin E. Olmsted (R) : . John M. Reynolds (R) : . Daniel F. Lafean (R) : . Solomon R. Dresser (R) : . George F. Huff (R) : . Allen F. Cooper (R) : . Ernest F. Acheson (R) : . Arthur L. Bates (R) : . Gustav A. Schneebeli (R) : . William O. Smith (R) : . Joseph C. Sibley (R) : . William H. Graham (R) : . John Dalzell (R) : . James F. Burke (R) : . Andrew J. Barchfeld (R) ==== Rhode Island ==== : . Daniel L. D. Granger (D) : . Adin B. Capron (R) ==== South Carolina ==== : . George S. Legare (D) : . James O. Patterson (D) : . Wyatt Aiken (D) : . Joseph T. Johnson (D) : . David E. Finley (D) : . J. Edwin Ellerbe (D) : . Asbury F. Lever (D) ==== South Dakota ==== : . Charles H. Burke (R) : . Eben W. Martin (R) ==== Tennessee ==== : . Walter P. Brownlow (R) : . Nathan W. Hale (R) : . John A. Moon (D) : . Mounce G. Butler (D) : . William C. Houston (D) : . John W. Gaines (D) : . Lemuel P. Padgett (D) : . Thetus W. Sims (D) : . Finis J. Garrett (D) : . Malcolm R. Patterson (D), until November 5, 1906 ==== Texas ==== : . Morris Sheppard (D) : . Moses L. Broocks (D) : . Gordon J. Russell (D) : . Choice B. Randell (D) : . James Andrew Beall (D) : . Scott Field (D) : . Alexander W. Gregg (D) : . John M. Pinckney (D), until April 24, 1905 :: John M. Moore (D), from June 6, 1905 : . George Farmer Burgess (D) : . Albert S. Burleson (D) : . Robert L. Henry (D) : . Oscar W. Gillespie (D) : . John H. Stephens (D) : . James L. Slayden (D) : . John Nance Garner (D) : . William R. Smith (D) ==== Utah ==== : . Joseph Howell (R) ==== Vermont ==== : . David J. Foster (R) : . Kittredge Haskins (R) ==== Virginia ==== : . William A. Jones (D) : . Harry L. Maynard (D) : . John Lamb (D) : . Robert G. Southall (D) : . Claude A. Swanson (D), until January 30, 1906 :: Edward W. Saunders (D), from November 6, 1906 : . Carter Glass (D) : . James Hay (D) : . John F. Rixey (D), until February 8, 1907 : . Campbell Slemp (R) : . Henry D. Flood (D) ==== Washington ==== : . Wesley L. Jones (R) : . Francis W. Cushman (R) : . William E. Humphrey (R) ==== West Virginia ==== : . Blackburn B. Dovener (R) : . Alston G. Dayton (R), until March 16, 1905 :: Thomas B. Davis (D), from June 6, 1905 : . Joseph Holt Gaines (R) : . Harry C. Woodyard (R) : . James Anthony Hughes (R) ==== Wisconsin ==== : . Henry Allen Cooper (R) : . Henry C. Adams (R), until July 9, 1906 :: John M. Nelson (R), from September 4, 1906 : . Joseph W. Babcock (R) : . Theobald Otjen (R) : . William H. Stafford (R) : . Charles H. Weisse (D) : . John J. Esch (R) : . James H. Davidson (R) : . Edward S. Minor (R) : . Webster E. Brown (R) : . John J. Jenkins (R) ==== Wyoming ==== : . Franklin W. Mondell (R) Non-voting members : . Frank Hinman Waskey (D), from August 14, 1906 : . Marcus Aurelius Smith (D) : . Jonah Kunio Kalanianaole (R) : . William Henry Andrews (R) : . Bird Segle McGuire (R) : . Tulio Larrínaga (Resident Commissioner), (Unionist) ==Changes in membership==

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress. Senate • Replacements: 8 • Democratic: no net change • Republican: no net change • Deaths: 5 • Resignations: 1 • Vacancies: 2 • Total seats with changes: 9 House of Representatives • Replacements: 17 • Democratic: no net change • Republican: no net change • Deaths: 12 • Resignations: 11 • Contested elections: 1 • New seats: 1 • Total seats with changes: 26 ==Committees==

Senate • Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select) (Chairman: Thomas S. Martin) • Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Redfield Proctor; Ranking Member: Chester I. Long) • Appropriations (Chairman: William B. Allison; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller) • Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John Kean; Ranking Member: Hernando D. Money) • Canadian Relations (Chairman: Winthrop Murray Crane; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman) • Census (Chairman: Chester I. Long; Ranking Member: Samuel D. McEnery) • Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: George C. Perkins; Ranking Member: Fred T. Dubois) • Claims (Chairman: Charles W. Fulton; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin) • Coast and Insular Survey (Chairman: Samuel H. Piles; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) • Coast Defenses (Chairman: Philander C. Knox; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson) • Commerce (Chairman: William P. Frye; Ranking Member: James H. Berry) • Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Chairman: Samuel D. McEnery; Ranking Member: Nelson W. Aldrich) • Cuban Relations (Chairman: Henry E. Burnham; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller) • Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select) • District of Columbia (Chairman: Jacob H. Gallinger; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin) • Education and Labor (Chairman: Jonathan P. Dolliver; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel) • Engrossed Bills (Chairman: James H. Berry; Ranking Member: Alfred B. Kittredge) • Enrolled Bills (Chairman: John F. Dryden; Ranking Member: Murphy J. Foster Jr.) • Establish a University in the United States (Select) (Chairman: James A. Hemenway; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson) • Examination of Disposition of Documents (Select) (Chairman: Edmund W. Pettus) • Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Chairman: Morgan G. Bulkeley; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson) • Expenditures in Executive Departments • Finance (Chairman: Nelson W. Aldrich; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel) • Fisheries (Chairman: Albert J. Hopkins; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory) • Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Select) (Chairman: Benjamin R. Tillman; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) • Foreign Relations (Chairman: Shelby M. Cullom; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) • Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game (Chairman: Frank B. Brandegee; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) • Geological Survey (Chairman: Frank P. Flint; Ranking Member: Hernando D. Money) • Immigration (Chairman: William P. Dillingham; Ranking Member: Anselm J. McLaurin) • Indian Affairs (Chairman: Moses E. Clapp; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) • Indian Depredations (Chairman: Elmer J. Burkett; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Bacon) • Industrial Expositions (Chairman: William Warner; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel) • Investigate the Condition of the Potomac River Front at Washington (Select) (Chairman: Joseph H. Millard; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin) • Indian Territory (Select) • Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: Joseph H. Millard; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) • Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Stephen B. Elkins; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman) • Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Levi Ankeny; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Van Duzer) • Judiciary (Chairman: Clarence D. Clark; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Bailey) • Library (Chairman: George P. Wetmore; Ranking Member: William A. Clark) • Manufactures (Chairman: Weldon B. Heyburn; Ranking Member: Alexander S. Clay) • Military Affairs (Chairman: Francis E. Warren; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus) • Mines and Mining (Chairman: Charles Dick; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman) • Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman: Knute Nelson) • National Banks (Select) (Chairman: George S. Nixon; Ranking Member: Samuel D. McEnery) • Naval Affairs (Chairman: Eugene Hale; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman) • Organization, Conduct and Expenditures of the Executive Departments (Chairman: Thomas H. Carter; Ranking Member: Anselm J. McLaurin) • Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Chairman: Joseph B. Foraker; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory) • Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Russell A. Alger; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) • Patents (Chairman: Alfred B. Kittredge; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory) • Pensions (Chairman: Porter J. McCumber; Ranking Member: James P. Taliaferro) • Philippines (Chairman: Henry Cabot Lodge; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson) • Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Boies Penrose; Ranking Member: Arthur P. Gorman) • Potomac River Front (Select) • Printing (Chairman: Thomas C. Platt; Ranking Member: Arthur P. Gorman) • Private Land Claims (Chairman: Henry M. Teller; Ranking Member: Eugene Hale) • Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Julius C. Burrows; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus) • Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Nathan B. Scott; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson) • Public Health and National Quarantine (Chairman: John Tyler Morgan; Ranking Member: John Coit Spooner) • Public Lands (Chairman: Henry C. Hansbrough; Ranking Member: James H. Berry) • Railroads (Chairman: J. Frank Allee; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Bacon) • Revision of the Laws (Chairman: Chauncey M. Depew; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel) • Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Alexander S. Clay; Ranking Member: Russell A. Alger) • Rules (Chairman: John C. Spooner; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller) • Standards, Weights and Measures (Select) (Chairman: Reed Smoot; Ranking Member: William A. Clark) • Tariff Regulation (Select) • Territories (Chairman: Albert J. Beveridge; Ranking Member: Thomas M. Patterson) • Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman: John W. Daniel; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Clark) • Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman: Robert J. Gamble; Ranking Member: Edmund W. 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Minor; Ranking Member: Robert N. Page) • Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: William A. Calderhead; Ranking Member: Robert N. Page) • Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Joseph W. Fordney; Ranking Member: Choice B. Randell) • Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Irving P. Wanger; Ranking Member: Carter Glass) • Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: John H. Ketcham; Ranking Member: Rufus E. Lester) • Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Robert G. Cousins; Ranking Member: John Lamb) • Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: George P. Lawrence; Ranking Member: George F. Burgess) • Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: James A. Hughes; Ranking Member: John H. Small) • Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Robert R. Hitt; Ranking Member: William M. Howard) • Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Benjamin F. Howell; Ranking Member: Jacob Ruppert Jr.) • Indian Affairs (Chairman: James S. Sherman; Ranking Member: John H. Stephens) • Industrial Arts and Expositions (Chairman: Augustus P. Gardner; Ranking Member: Charles L. Bartlett) • Insular Affairs (Chairman: Henry Allen Cooper; Ranking Member: William A. Jones) • Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: William P. Hepburn; Ranking Member: Robert C. Davey) • Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Cyrus A. Sulloway; Ranking Member: George H. Lindsay) • Irrigation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Frank W. Mondell; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Van Duzer) • Judiciary (Chairman: John J. Jenkins; Ranking Member: David A. De Armond) • Labor (Chairman: John J. Gardner; Ranking Member: William Randolph Hearst) • Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Chairman: George W. Prince; Ranking Member: Robert F. Broussard) • Library (Chairman: James T. McCleary; Ranking Member: William M. Howard) • Manufactures (Chairman: Joseph C. Sibley; Ranking Member: Charles H. Weisse) • Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Charles H. Grosvenor; Ranking Member: Thomas Spight) • Mileage (Chairman: William A. Reeder; Ranking Member: Elijah B. Lewis) • Military Affairs (Chairman: John A.T. Hull; Ranking Member: William Sulzer) • Militia (Chairman: Edward De V. Morrell; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Stanley) • Mines and Mining (Chairman: Webster E. Brown; Ranking Member: Adolph Meyer) • Naval Affairs (Chairman: George E. Foss; Ranking Member: Adolph Meyer) • Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Thomas S. Butler; Ranking Member: James L. Slayden) • Patents (Chairman: Frank D. Currier; Ranking Member: William Sulzer) • Pensions (Chairman: Henry C. Loudenslager; Ranking Member: William Richardson) • Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Jesse Overstreet; Ranking Member: John A. Moon) • Printing (Chairman: Charles B. Landis; Ranking Member: James M. Griggs) • Private Land Claims (Chairman: George W. Smith; Ranking Member: William A. Jones) • Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Richard Bartholdt; Ranking Member: John H. Bankhead) • Public Lands (Chairman: John F. Lacey; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett) • Railways and Canals (Chairman: James H. Davidson; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett) • Reform in the Civil Service (Chairman: Frederick H. Gillett; Ranking Member: Edward W. Pou) • Revision of Laws (Chairman: Reuben O. Moon; Ranking Member: Robert B. Macon) • Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Theodore E. Burton; Ranking Member: Rufus E. Lester) • Rules (Chairman: John Dalzell; Ranking Member: John S. Williams) • Standards of Official Conduct • Territories (Chairman: Edward L. Hamilton; Ranking Member: John A. Moon) • Ventilation and Acoustics (Chairman: Roswell P. Bishop; Ranking Member: David H. Smith) • War Claims (Chairman: Thaddeus M. Mahon; Ranking Member: Thetus W. Sims) • Ways and Means (Chairman: Sereno E. Payne; Ranking Member: John S. Williams) • Whole Joint committees • Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special) • Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers (Chairman: Rep. Arthur L. Bates; Vice Chairman: Sen. ) • Revision of the Laws • The Library • Printing • Second Class Mail Matter ==Caucuses==

• Democratic (House) • Democratic (Senate) == Employees ==

===Legislative branch agency directors=== • Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods • Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam • Public Printer of the United States: Francis W. Palmer, until 1905 • Charles A. Stillings, from 1905 Senate • Secretary: Charles G. Bennett • Librarian: Edward C. Goodwin • Sergeant at Arms: Daniel M. Ransdell • Chaplain: The Rev. Edward E. Hale, Unitarian House of Representatives • Clerk: Alexander McDowell • Sergeant at Arms: Henry Casson • Doorkeeper: Frank B. Lyon • Postmaster: Joseph C. McElroy • Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Asher C. Hinds • Reading Clerks: E.L. Sampson (D) and Dennis E. Alward (R) • Chaplain: The Rev. Henry N. Couden, Universalist == See also ==