59th United States Congress
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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox United States Congress The 59th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1905, to March 4, 1907, during the fifth and sixth years of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1900 United States census. Both chambers had a Republican majority.
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Major events
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- March 4, 1905: President Theodore Roosevelt began his second (only full) term.
Major legislation
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- 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, 34 Stat. 768
- June 30, 1906: Meat Inspection Act (Beveridge Act)
- 1906: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching chartered.[1]
- March 2, 1907: Expatriation Act of 1907, 34 Stat. 1228
Party summary
Senate
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House of Representatives
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Leaders
Senate leadership
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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
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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.
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.
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House of Representatives
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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
| State (class) |
Vacated by | Reason for vacancy | Subsequent | Date of successor's installation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri (1) |
Vacant | Legislature had elected late. | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | William Warner (R) | March 18, 1905 |
| Delaware (1) |
Vacant | Legislature had elected late. | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | Henry A. du Pont (R) | June 13, 1906 |
| Tennessee (1) |
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | William B. Bate (D) | Died March 9, 1905. Successor was elected. | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | James B. Frazier (D) | March 21, 1905 |
| Connecticut (3) |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | Orville H. Platt (R) | Died April 21, 1905. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected. | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | Frank B. Brandegee (R) | May 10, 1905 |
| Oregon (2) |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | John H. Mitchell (R) | Died December 8, 1905. Successor was appointed. | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | John M. Gearin (D) | December 13, 1905 |
| Kansas (2) |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | Joseph R. Burton (R) | Resigned June 4, 1906, due to a conviction of corruption charges. Successor was appointed. | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | Alfred W. Benson (R) | June 11, 1906 |
| Maryland (2) |
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | Arthur P. Gorman (D) | Died June 4, 1906. Successor was appointed. | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | William P. Whyte (D) | June 8, 1906 |
| Oregon (2) |
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | John M. Gearin (D) | Successor was elected. | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | Frederick W. Mulkey (R) | January 23, 1907 |
| Michigan (2) |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | Russell A. Alger (R) | Died January 24, 1907. Successor was elected. | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | William A. Smith (R) | February 6, 1907 |
| Kansas (2) |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | Alfred W. Benson (R) | Successor was elected. | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | Charles Curtis (R) | January 29, 1907 |
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
| District | Previous | Reason for change | Subsequent | Date of successor's installation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Ushr | Vacant | Rep. James A. Hemenway resigned during previous congress | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | John H. Foster (R) | May 16, 1905 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Elmer Burkett (R) | Resigned March 4, 1905, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Ernest M. Pollard (R) | July 18, 1905 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Alston G. Dayton (R) | Resigned March 16, 1905, after being appointed judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Thomas B. Davis (D) | June 6, 1905 |
| Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | John M. Pinckney (D) | Died April 24, 1905 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | John M. Moore (D) | June 6, 1905 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Frank B. Brandegee (R) | Resigned May 10, 1905, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Edwin W. Higgins (R) | October 2, 1905 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Benjamin F. Marsh (R) | Died June 2, 1905 | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | James McKinney (R) | November 7, 1905 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | James Gillett (R) | Resigned January 4, 1906, after being elected Governor of California | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | William F. Englebright (R) | November 6, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Claude A. Swanson (D) | Resigned January 30, 1906, after being elected Governor of Virginia | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Edward W. Saunders (D) | November 6, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | George A. Castor (R) | Died February 19, 1906 | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | J. Hampton Moore (R) | November 6, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | George R. Patterson (R) | Died March 21, 1906 | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Charles N. Brumm (R) | November 6, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Robert Adams Jr. (R) | Died June 1, 1906 | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | John E. Reyburn (R) | November 6, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Rufus E. Lester (D) | Died June 16, 1906 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | James W. Overstreet (D) | October 3, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Ernest E. Wood (D) | Lost contested election June 23, 1906 | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Harry M. Coudrey (R) | June 23, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | New seat | New delegate seat August 14, 1906 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" nowrap | Frank H. Waskey (D) | August 14, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Henry C. Adams (R) | Died July 9, 1906 | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | John M. Nelson (R) | September 4, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Timothy Sullivan (D) | Resigned July 27, 1906 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Daniel J. Riordan (D) | November 6, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Robert R. Hitt (R) | Died September 20, 1906 | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Frank O. Lowden (R) | November 6, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Rockwood Hoar (R) | Died November 1, 1906 | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Charles G. Washburn (R) | December 18, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | John H. Ketcham (R) | Died November 4, 1906 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | |
| Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Malcolm R. Patterson (D) | Resigned November 5, 1906, after being elected Governor of Tennessee | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Newton W. Gilbert (R) | Resigned November 6, 1906, after being appointed judge of the court of first instance at Manila, Philippines | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Clarence C. Gilhams (R) | November 6, 1906 |
| Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | John S. Little (D) | Resigned January 14, 1907, after being elected Governor of Arkansas | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Charles Curtis (R) | Resigned January 28, 1907, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | William H. Flack (R) | Died February 2, 1907 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | |
| Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | John F. Rixey (D) | Died February 8, 1907 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | |
| Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | William Alden Smith (R) | Resigned February 9, 1907, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | |
Committees
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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. Pettus)
- Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select) (Chairman: George Sutherland)
- Ventilation and Acoustics (Select) (Chairman: Roswell P. Bishop; Ranking Member: David H. Smith)
- Whole
- Woman Suffrage (Select) (Chairman: Augustus O. Bacon; Ranking Member: George P. Wetmore)
House of Representatives
- Accounts (Chairman: H. Burd Cassel; Ranking Member: Charles Lafayette Bartlett)
- Agriculture (Chairman: James W. Wadsworth; Ranking Member: John Lamb)
- Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Chairman: Nehemiah D. Sperry; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett)
- Appropriations (Chairman: James A. Tawney; Ranking Member: Leonidas F. Livingston)
- Banking and Currency (Chairman: Charles N. Fowler; Ranking Member: Elijah B. Lewis)
- Census (Chairman: Edgar D. Crumpacker; Ranking Member: James Hay)
- Claims (Chairman: James M. Miller; Ranking Member: Henry M. Goldfogle)
- Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: James H. Southard; Ranking Member: John W. Gaines)
- Disposition of Executive Papers
- District of Columbia (Chairman: Joseph W. Babcock; Ranking Member: Thetus W. Sims)
- Education (Chairman: George N. Southwick; Ranking Member: Edwin Y. Webb)
- Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: Joseph H. Gaines; Ranking Member: William W. Rucker)
- Elections No.#1 (Chairman: James Robert Mann; Ranking Member: Ollie M. James)
- Elections No.#2 (Chairman: Marlin E. Olmsted; Ranking Member: Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott)
- Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Michael E. Driscoll; Ranking Member: Choice B. Randell)
- Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Frank C. Wachter; Ranking Member: James T. Lloyd)
- Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (Chairman: Charles E. Littlefield; Ranking Member: Henry D. Flood)
- Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments (Chairman: David J. Foster; Ranking Member: Arsene P. Pujo)
- Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Edward S. 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
- 1904 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
- 1906 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
References
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