Office of Congressional Directory, Room 29, Basement of the Capitol. II Phone, Capitol Branch 238. YSARELİ UBOTMATO NOTES. A vacancy exists in the fifth congressional district of Mississippi, caused by the death of Hon. Samuel A. Witherspoon November 24, 1915. ERRATA. The name of Hon. Frederick C. Hicks was included in this edition of the Directory as a Representative from the first district of New York upon information that a certificate of election had been issued to him by order of court. Since the Directory was sent to press it has developed that no certificate has been filed with the Clerk of the House, and Hon. Lathrop Brown contends that he has been reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress to succeed himself. NOTES. A vacancy exists in the fifth congressional district of Mississippi, caused by the death of Hon. Samuel A. Witherspoon November 24, 1915. Since the last issue of the Congressional Directory (Jan. 11, 1915) the following changes in congressional joint committees and commissions and various bureaus under the executive departments have taken place: Joint Committee on SecondClass Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mails and the Joint Committee to Investigate General Parcel Post are no longer in existence, their terms of service having expired by limitation of law; the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs expired with close of Sixty-third Congress; the International Waterways Commission was disbanded in May, 1915, and the Commission on Industrial Relations expired on August 23, 1915, on which date it was by law to have submitted its final report to Congress; the Office of Experiment Stations of the Department of Agriculture is no longer in being, having been superseded by the States Relations Service under the same department; the Revenue-Cutter Service and the LifeSaving Service (both formerly under the Treasury Department) have been amalgamated into the Coast Guard; and the Bureau of Corporations of the Department of Commerce is no longer in existence, its powers and duties being taken over by the Federal Trade Commission. All Washington addresses in the Directory are northwest unless otherwise indicated. |