50th United States Congress

50th United States Congress
49th ← → 51st
United States Capitol (1906)
March 4, 1887 – March 4, 1889
Members	76 senators 325 representatives 8 non-voting delegates
Senate majority	Republican
Senate President	Vacant
House majority	Democratic
House Speaker	John G. Carlisle (D)
Sessions
1st: December 7, 1887 – October 20, 1888 2nd: December 3, 1888 – March 3, 1889

The Fiftieth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1887, to March 4, 1889, during the third and fourth years of Grover Cleveland's first presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Tenth Census of the United States in 1880. The Senate had a Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic majority.

Major events

Main articles: 1887 in the United States, 1888 in the United States, and 1889 in the United States

Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation

• October 8, 1888: Chinese Exclusion Act (Scott Act)
• January 14, 1889: Nelson Act of 1889
• February 22, 1889: Enabling Act of 1889, Sess. 2, ch. 180, 25 Stat. 676

Party summary

The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.

Senate

	Party (shading shows control)			Total	Vacant
	Democratic (D)	Readjuster (RA)	Republican (R)
End of previous congress	34	2	40	76	0
Begin	35	1	38	74	2
End	37			76	0
Final voting share	48.7%	1.3%	50.0%
Beginning of next congress	37	0	39	76	0

House of Representatives

• Democratic: 167 (majority)
• Republican: 152
• Independent Republican: 2
• Labor: 2
• National Greenback: 1
• Independent: 1

TOTAL members: 325

Leadership

Senate

• President: Vacant
• President pro tempore: John J. Ingalls (R)
• Republican Conference Chairman: George F. Edmunds
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: James B. Beck
• Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: John E. Kenna

House of Representatives

• Speaker: John G. Carlisle (D)
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Samuel S. Cox
• Republican Conference Chair: Joseph Gurney Cannon

Members

Skip to House of Representatives, below

Senate

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 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1892; Class 2 meant their term ended in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1888; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1890.

Alabama

• 2. John T. Morgan (D)
• 3. James L. Pugh (D)

Arkansas

• 2. James H. Berry (D)
• 3. James K. Jones (D)

California

• 1. George Hearst (D)
• 3. Leland Stanford (R)

Colorado

• 2. Thomas M. Bowen (R)
• 3. Henry M. Teller (R)

Connecticut

• 1. Joseph R. Hawley (R)
• 3. Orville H. Platt (R)

Delaware

• 1. George Gray (D)
• 2. Eli M. Saulsbury (D)

Florida

• 1. Samuel Pasco (D), from May 19, 1887
• 3. Wilkinson Call (D)

Georgia

• 2. Alfred H. Colquitt (D)
• 3. Joseph E. Brown (D)

Illinois

• 2. Shelby M. Cullom (R)
• 3. Charles B. Farwell (R)

Indiana

• 1. David Turpie (D)
• 3. Daniel W. Voorhees (D)

Iowa

• 2. James F. Wilson (R)
• 3. William B. Allison (R)

Kansas

• 2. Preston B. Plumb (R)
• 3. John J. Ingalls (R)

Kentucky

• 2. James B. Beck (D)
• 3. Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D)

Louisiana

• 2. Randall L. Gibson (D)
• 3. James B. Eustis (D)

Maine

• 1. Eugene Hale (R)
• 2. William P. Frye (R)

Maryland

• 1. Arthur Pue Gorman (D)
• 3. Ephraim K. Wilson (D)

Massachusetts

• 1. Henry L. Dawes (R)
• 2. George F. Hoar (R)

Michigan

• 1. Francis B. Stockbridge (R)
• 2. Thomas W. Palmer (R)

Minnesota

• 1. Cushman K. Davis (R)
• 2. Dwight M. Sabin (R)

Mississippi

• 1. James Z. George (D)
• 2. Edward C. Walthall (D)

Missouri

• 1. Francis M. Cockrell (D)
• 3. George G. Vest (D)

Nebraska

• 1. Algernon S. Paddock (R)
• 2. Charles F. Manderson (R)

Nevada

• 1. William M. Stewart (R)
• 3. John P. Jones (R)

New Hampshire

• 2. Person C. Cheney (R), until June 14, 1887
  • William E. Chandler (R), from June 14, 1887
• 3. Henry W. Blair (R)

New Jersey

• 1. Rufus Blodgett (D)
• 2. John R. McPherson (D)

New York

• 1. Frank Hiscock (R)
• 3. William M. Evarts (R)

North Carolina

• 2. Matt W. Ransom (D)
• 3. Zebulon B. Vance (D)

Ohio

• 1. John Sherman (R)
• 3. Henry B. Payne (D)

Oregon

• 2. Joseph N. Dolph (R)
• 3. John H. Mitchell (R)

Pennsylvania

• 1. Matthew S. Quay (R)
• 3. J. Donald Cameron (R)

Rhode Island

• 1. Nelson W. Aldrich (R)
• 2. Jonathan Chace (R)

South Carolina

• 2. Matthew C. Butler (D)
• 3. Wade Hampton, III (D)

Tennessee

• 1. William B. Bate (D)
• 2. Isham G. Harris (D)

Texas

• 1. John H. Reagan (D)
• 2. Richard Coke (D)

Vermont

• 1. George F. Edmunds (R)
• 3. Justin S. Morrill (R)

Virginia

• 1. John W. Daniel (D)
• 2. Harrison H. Riddleberger (RA)

West Virginia

• 1. Charles J. Faulkner (D), from May 5, 1887
• 2. John E. Kenna (D)

Wisconsin

• 1. Philetus Sawyer (R)
• 3. John C. Spooner (R)

Senate President pro tempore
John J. Ingalls

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

Alabama

• 1. James T. Jones (D)
• 2. Hilary A. Herbert (D)
• 3. William C. Oates (D)
• 4. Alexander C. Davidson (D)
• 5. James E. Cobb (D)
• 6. John H. Bankhead (D)
• 7. William H. Forney (D)
• 8. Joseph Wheeler (D)

Arkansas

• 1. Poindexter Dunn (D)
• 2. Clifton R. Breckinridge (D)
• 3. Thomas C. McRae (D)
• 4. John H. Rogers (D)
• 5. Samuel W. Peel (D)

California

• 1. Thomas L. Thompson (D)
• 2. Marion Biggs (D)
• 3. Joseph McKenna (R)
• 4. William W. Morrow (R)
• 5. Charles N. Felton (R)
• 6. William Vandever (R)

Colorado

• At-large. George G. Symes (R)

Connecticut

• 1. Robert J. Vance (D)
• 2. Carlos French (D)
• 3. Charles A. Russell (R)
• 4. Miles T. Granger (D)

Delaware

• At-large. John B. Penington (D)

Florida

• 1. Robert H. M. Davidson (D)
• 2. Charles Dougherty (D)

Georgia

• 1. Thomas M. Norwood (D)
• 2. Henry G. Turner (D)
• 3. Charles F. Crisp (D)
• 4. Thomas W. Grimes (D)
• 5. John D. Stewart (D)
• 6. James H. Blount (D)
• 7. Judson C. Clements (D)
• 8. Henry H. Carlton (D)
• 9. Allen D. Candler (D)
• 10. George T. Barnes (D)

Illinois

• 1. Ransom W. Dunham (R)
• 2. Frank Lawler (D)
• 3. William E. Mason (R)
• 4. George E. Adams (R)
• 5. Albert J. Hopkins (R)
• 6. Robert R. Hitt (R)
• 7. Thomas J. Henderson (R)
• 8. Ralph Plumb (R)
• 9. Lewis E. Payson (R)
• 10. Philip S. Post (R)
• 11. William H. Gest (R)
• 12. George A. Anderson (D)
• 13. William M. Springer (D)
• 14. Jonathan H. Rowell (R)
• 15. Joseph G. Cannon (R)
• 16. Silas Z. Landes (D)
• 17. Edward Lane (D)
• 18. Jehu Baker (R)
• 19. Richard W. Townshend (D)
• 20. John R. Thomas (R)

Indiana

• 1. Alvin P. Hovey (R), until January 17, 1889
  • Francis B. Posey (R), from January 29, 1889
• 2. John H. O'Neall (D)
• 3. Jonas G. Howard (D)
• 4. William S. Holman (D)
• 5. Courtland C. Matson (D)
• 6. Thomas M. Browne (R)
• 7. William D. Bynum (D)
• 8. James T. Johnston (R)
• 9. Joseph B. Cheadle (R)
• 10. William D. Owen (R)
• 11. George W. Steele (R)
• 12. James B. White (R)
• 13. Benjamin F. Shively (D)

Iowa

• 1. John H. Gear (R)
• 2. Walter I. Hayes (D)
• 3. David B. Henderson (R)
• 4. William E. Fuller (R)
• 5. Daniel Kerr (R)
• 6. James B. Weaver (NG)
• 7. Edwin H. Conger (R)
• 8. Albert R. Anderson (IR)
• 9. Joseph Lyman (R)
• 10. Adoniram J. Holmes (R)
• 11. Isaac S. Struble (R)

Kansas

• 1. Edmund N. Morrill (R)
• 2. Edward H. Funston (R)
• 3. Bishop W. Perkins (R)
• 4. Thomas Ryan (R)
• 5. John A. Anderson (IR)
• 6. Erastus J. Turner (R)
• 7. Samuel R. Peters (R)

Kentucky

• 1. William J. Stone (D)
• 2. Polk Laffoon (D)
• 3. W. Godfrey Hunter (R)
• 4. Alexander B. Montgomery (D)
• 5. Asher G. Caruth (D)
• 6. John G. Carlisle (D)
• 7. William C. P. Breckinridge (D)
• 8. James B. McCreary (D)
• 9. George M. Thomas (R)
• 10. William P. Taulbee (D)
• 11. Hugh F. Finley (R)

Louisiana

• 1. Theodore S. Wilkinson (D)
• 2. Matthew D. Lagan (D)
• 3. Edward J. Gay (D)
• 4. Newton C. Blanchard (D)
• 5. Cherubusco Newton (D)
• 6. Edward W. Robertson (D), until August 2, 1887
  • Samuel M. Robertson (D), from December 5, 1887

Maine

• 1. Thomas B. Reed (R)
• 2. Nelson Dingley, Jr. (R)
• 3. Seth L. Milliken (R)
• 4. Charles A. Boutelle (R)

Maryland

• 1. Charles H. Gibson (D)
• 2. Frank T. Shaw (D)
• 3. Henry W. Rusk (D)
• 4. Isidor Rayner (D)
• 5. Barnes Compton (D)
• 6. Louis E. McComas (R)

Massachusetts

• 1. Robert T. Davis (R)
• 2. John D. Long (R)
• 3. Leopold Morse (D)
• 4. Patrick A. Collins (D)
• 5. Edward D. Hayden (R)
• 6. Henry Cabot Lodge (R)
• 7. William Cogswell (R)
• 8. Charles H. Allen (R)
• 9. Edward Burnett (D)
• 10. John E. Russell (D)
• 11. William Whiting (R)
• 12. Francis W. Rockwell (R)

Michigan

• 1. J. Logan Chipman (D)
• 2. Edward P. Allen (R)
• 3. James O'Donnell (R)
• 4. Julius C. Burrows (R)
• 5. Melbourne H. Ford (D)
• 6. Mark S. Brewer (R)
• 7. Justin R. Whiting (D)
• 8. Timothy E. Tarsney (D)
• 9. Byron M. Cutcheon (R)
• 10. Spencer O. Fisher (D)
• 11. Seth C. Moffatt (R), until December 22, 1887
  • Henry W. Seymour (R), from February 14, 1888

Minnesota

• 1. Thomas Wilson (D)
• 2. John Lind (R)
• 3. John L. MacDonald (D)
• 4. Edmund Rice (D)
• 5. Knute Nelson (R)

Mississippi

• 1. John M. Allen (D)
• 2. James B. Morgan (D)
• 3. Thomas C. Catchings (D)
• 4. Frederick G. Barry (D)
• 5. Chapman L. Anderson (D)
• 6. Thomas R. Stockdale (D)
• 7. Charles E. Hooker (D)

Missouri

• 1. William H. Hatch (D)
• 2. Charles H. Mansur (D)
• 3. Alexander M. Dockery (D)
• 4. James N. Burnes (D), until January 23, 1889
  • Charles F. Booher (D), from February 19, 1889
• 5. William Warner (R)
• 6. John T. Heard (D)
• 7. John E. Hutton (D)
• 8. John J. O'Neill (D)
• 9. John M. Glover (D)
• 10. Martin L. Clardy (D)
• 11. Richard P. Bland (D)
• 12. William J. Stone (D)
• 13. William H. Wade (R)
• 14. James P. Walker (D)

Nebraska

• 1. John A. McShane (D)
• 2. James Laird (R)
• 3. George W. E. Dorsey (R)

Nevada

• At-large. William Woodburn (R)

New Hampshire

• 1. Luther F. McKinney (D)
• 2. Jacob H. Gallinger (R)

New Jersey

• 1. George Hires (R)
• 2. James Buchanan (R)
• 3. John Kean, Jr. (R)
• 4. James N. Pidcock (D)
• 5. William W. Phelps (R)
• 6. Herman Lehlbach (R)
• 7. William McAdoo (D)

New York

• 1. Perry Belmont (D), until December 1, 1888
• 2. Felix Campbell (D)
• 3. Stephen V. White (R)
• 4. Peter P. Mahoney (D)
• 5. Archibald M. Bliss (D)
• 6. Amos J. Cummings (D)
• 7. Lloyd S. Bryce (D)
• 8. Timothy J. Campbell (D)
• 9. Samuel S. Cox (D)
• 10. Francis B. Spinola (D)
• 11. Truman A. Merriman (D)
• 12. W. Bourke Cockran (D)
• 13. Ashbel P. Fitch (D)
• 14. William G. Stahlnecker (D)
• 15. Henry Bacon (D)
• 16. John H. Ketcham (R)
• 17. Stephen T. Hopkins (R)
• 18. Edward W. Greenman (D)
• 19. Nicholas T. Kane (D), until September 14, 1887
  • Charles Tracey (D), from November 8, 1887
• 20. George West (R)
• 21. John H. Moffitt (R)
• 22. Abraham X. Parker (R)
• 23. James S. Sherman (R)
• 24. David Wilber (R)
• 25. James J. Belden (R), from November 8, 1887
• 26. Milton De Lano (R)
• 27. Newton W. Nutting (R)
• 28. Thomas S. Flood (R)
• 29. Ira Davenport (R)
• 30. Charles S. Baker (R)
• 31. John G. Sawyer (R)
• 32. John M. Farquhar (R)
• 33. John B. Weber (R)
• 34. William G. Laidlaw (R)

North Carolina

• 1. Louis C. Latham (D)
• 2. Furnifold McLendel Simmons (D)
• 3. Charles W. McClammy (D)
• 4. John Nichols (I)
• 5. John M. Brower (R)
• 6. Alfred Rowland (D)
• 7. John S. Henderson (D)
• 8. William H. H. Cowles (D)
• 9. Thomas D. Johnston (D)

Ohio

• 1. Benjamin Butterworth (R)
• 2. Charles E. Brown (R)
• 3. Elihu S. Williams (R)
• 4. Samuel S. Yoder (D)
• 5. George E. Seney (D)
• 6. Melvin M. Boothman (R)
• 7. James E. Campbell (D)
• 8. Robert P. Kennedy (R)
• 9. William C. Cooper (R)
• 10. Jacob Romeis (R)
• 11. Albert C. Thompson (R)
• 12. Jacob J. Pugsley (R)
• 13. Joseph H. Outhwaite (D)
• 14. Charles P. Wickham (R)
• 15. Charles H. Grosvenor (R)
• 16. Beriah Wilkins (D)
• 17. Joseph D. Taylor (R)
• 18. William McKinley, Jr. (R)
• 19. Ezra B. Taylor (R)
• 20. George W. Crouse (R)
• 21. Martin A. Foran (D)

Oregon

• At-large. Binger Hermann (R)

Pennsylvania

• 1. Henry H. Bingham (R)
• 2. Charles O'Neill (R)
• 3. Samuel J. Randall (D)
• 4. William D. Kelley (R)
• 5. Alfred C. Harmer (R)
• 6. Smedley Darlington (R)
• 7. Robert M. Yardley (R)
• 8. Daniel Ermentrout (D)
• 9. John A. Hiestand (R)
• 10. William H. Sowden (D)
• 11. Charles R. Buckalew (D)
• 12. John Lynch (D)
• 13. Charles N. Brumm (R)
• 14. Franklin Bound (R)
• 15. Frank C. Bunnell (R)
• 16. Henry C. McCormick (R)
• 17. Edward Scull (R)
• 18. Louis E. Atkinson (R)
• 19. Levi Maish (D)
• 20. John Patton (R)
• 21. Welty McCullogh (R)
• 22. John Dalzell (R)
• 23. Thomas M. Bayne (R)
• 24. Oscar L. Jackson (R)
• 25. James T. Maffett (R)
• 26. Norman Hall (D)
• 27. William L. Scott (D)
• At-large. Edwin S. Osborne (R)

Rhode Island

• 1. Henry J. Spooner (R)
• 2. Warren O. Arnold (R)

South Carolina

• 1. Samuel Dibble (D)
• 2. George D. Tillman (D)
• 3. James S. Cothran (D)
• 4. William H. Perry (D)
• 5. John J. Hemphill (D)
• 6. George W. Dargan (D)
• 7. William Elliott (D)

Tennessee

• 1. Roderick R. Butler (R)
• 2. Leonidas C. Houk (R)
• 3. John R. Neal (D)
• 4. Benton McMillin (D)
• 5. James D. Richardson (D)
• 6. Joseph E. Washington (D)
• 7. Washington C. Whitthorne (D)
• 8. Benjamin A. Enloe (D)
• 9. Presley T. Glass (D)
• 10. James Phelan, Jr. (D)

Texas

• 1. Charles Stewart (D)
• 2. John H. Reagan (D), until March 4, 1887
  • William H. Martin (D), from November 4, 1887
• 3. Constantine B. Kilgore (D)
• 4. David B. Culberson (D)
• 5. Silas Hare (D)
• 6. Joseph Abbott (D)
• 7. William H. Crain (D)
• 8. Littleton W. Moore (D)
• 9. Roger Q. Mills (D)
• 10. Joseph D. Sayers (D)
• 11. Samuel W. T. Lanham (D)

Vermont

• 1. John W. Stewart (R)
• 2. William W. Grout (R)

Virginia

• 1. Thomas H. B. Browne (R)
• 2. George E. Bowden (R)
• 3. George D. Wise (D)
• 4. William E. Gaines (R)
• 5. John R. Brown (R)
• 6. Samuel I. Hopkins (L)
• 7. Charles T. O'Ferrall (D)
• 8. William H. F. Lee (D)
• 9. Henry Bowen (R)
• 10. Jacob Yost (R)

West Virginia

• 1. Nathan Goff (R)
• 2. William L. Wilson (D)
• 3. Charles P. Snyder (D)
• 4. Charles E. Hogg (D)

Wisconsin

• 1. Lucien B. Caswell (R)
• 2. Richard W. Guenther (R)
• 3. Robert M. La Follette (R)
• 4. Henry Smith (L)
• 5. Thomas R. Hudd (D)
• 6. Charles B. Clark (R)
• 7. Ormsby B. Thomas (R)
• 8. Nils P. Haugen (R)
• 9. Isaac Stephenson (R)

Non-voting members

• Arizona Territory. Marcus A. Smith (D)
• Dakota Territory. Oscar S. Gifford (R)
• Idaho Territory. Fred T. Dubois (R)
• Montana Territory. Joseph K. Toole (D)
• New Mexico Territory. Antonio Joseph (D)
• Utah Territory. John T. Caine (D)
• Washington Territory. Charles S. Voorhees (D)
• Wyoming Territory. Joseph M. Carey (R)

House seats by party holding plurality in state
80%+ to 100% Democratic	80%+ to 100% Republican
60%+ to 80% Democratic	60%+ to 80% Republican
Up to 60% Democratic	Up to 60% Republican

House Speaker
John G. Carlisle

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of this Congress.

Senate

• replacements: 1
  • Democratic: no net change
  • Republican: no net change
  • Liberal Republican: 1 seat net loss
• deaths: 0
• resignations: 1
• interim appointments: 1
• Total seats with changes: 2

State (class)	Vacator	Reason for Vacancy	Subsequent	Date of successor's installation
West Virginia (1)	Vacant	Filled vacancy in term.	Charles J. Faulkner (D)	May 5, 1887
Florida (1)	Vacant	Filled vacancy in term.	Samuel Pasco (D)	May 19, 1887
New Hampshire (2)	Person C. Cheney (R)	Successor was elected June 14, 1887	William E. Chandler (R)	June 14, 1887

House of Representatives

• replacements: 8
  • Democratic: no net change
  • Republican: no net change
• deaths: 4
• resignations: 5
• contested election: 0
• Total seats with changes: 8

District	Vacator	Reason for change	Successor	Date successor seated
New York 25th	Vacant	Rep. Frank Hiscock resigned during previous congress	James J. Belden (R)	November 8, 1887
Texas 2nd	John H. Reagan (D)	Resigned March 4, 1887, after being elected to the U.S. Senate	William H. Martin (D)	November 4, 1887
Louisiana 6th	Edward W. Robertson (D)	Died August 2, 1887	Samuel M. Robertson (D)	December 5, 1891
New York 19th	Nicholas T. Kane (D)	Died September 14, 1887	Charles Tracey (D)	November 8, 1887
Michigan 11th	Seth C. Moffatt (R)	Died December 22, 1887	Henry W. Seymour (R)	February 14, 1888
New York 1st	Perry Belmont (D)	Resigned December 1, 1888, after being appointed Minister to Spain	Vacant until next Congress
Indiana 1st	Alvin P. Hovey (R)	Resigned January 17, 1889, after being elected Governor of Indiana	Francis B. Posey (R)	January 29, 1889
Missouri 4th	James N. Burnes (D)	Died January 23, 1889	Charles F. Booher (D)	February 19, 1889

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members (House and Senate) of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link (3 links), in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, on the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.

Senate

• Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select)
• Agriculture and Forestry
• Appropriations
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
• Canadian Relations (Select)
• Census
• Centennial of the Constitution and the Discovery of America (Select)
• Civil Service and Retrenchment
• Civil Service Operations (Special)
• Claims
• Coast Defenses
• Commerce
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
• District of Columbia
• Education and Labor
• Engrossed Bills
• Enrolled Bills
• Epidemic Diseases (Select)
• Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service

• Executive Departments Methods (Select)
• Expenditures of Public Money
• Finance
• Fisheries
• Foreign Relations
• Fishing Bounties and Allowances (Select)
• Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Select)
• Government Printing Office (Select)
• Indian Affairs
• Indian Traders (Select)
• Interstate Commerce
• Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Select)
• Judiciary
• Library
• Manufactures
• Military Affairs
• Mines and Mining
• Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select)
• Naval Affairs
• Nicaraguan Claims (Select)
• Pacific Railway Commission (Special)

• Patents
• Pensions
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Potomac River Front (Select)
• Printing
• Private Land Claims
• Privileges and Elections
• Public Buildings and Grounds
• Public Lands
• Railroads
• Revision of the Laws
• Revolutionary Claims
• Rules
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Territories
• Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select)
• Transportation Routes to the Seaboard
• Whole
• Woman Suffrage (Select)

House of Representatives

• Accounts
• Agriculture
• Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Select)
• American Ship building (Select)
• Appropriations
• Banking and Currency
• Claims
• Coinage, Weights and Measures
• Commerce
• District of Columbia
• Education
• Elections
• Enrolled Bills
• Expenditures in the Interior Department
• Expenditures in the Justice Department
• Expenditures in the Navy Department
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department
• Expenditures in the State Department
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department
• Expenditures in the War Department
• Expenditures on Public Buildings
• Foreign Affairs
• Indian Affairs
• Invalid Pensions
• Labor
• Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River
• Manufactures
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries
• Mileage
• Military Affairs
• Militia
• Mines and Mining
• Naval Affairs
• Pacific Railroads
• Patents
• Pensions
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Public Buildings and Grounds
• Public Lands
• Railways and Canals
• Revision of Laws
• Rivers and Harbors
• Rules
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories
• War Claims
• Ways and Means
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
• To Investigate Work on the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel

Caucuses

• Democratic (House)
• Democratic (Senate)

Administrative officers

• Architect of the Capitol: Edward Clark
• Librarian of Congress: Ainsworth Rand Spofford
• Public Printer of the United States: Thomas E. Benedict

Senate

• Chaplain: John G. Butler (Lutheran)
• Secretary: Anson G. McCook
• Sergeant at Arms: William P. Canady

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: William H. Milburn (Methodist)
• Clerk: John B. Clark, Jr.
• Doorkeeper: Alvin B. Hurt
• Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: Nathaniel T. Crutchfield
• Postmaster: Lycurgus Dalton
• Reading Clerks: [data missing]
• Sergeant at Arms: John P. Leedom

See also

• United States elections, 1886 (elections leading to this Congress)
  • United States Senate elections, 1886
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1886
• United States elections, 1888 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • United States presidential election, 1888
  • United States Senate elections, 1888 and 1889
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1888

References

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

External links

• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
• U.S. House of Representatives: House History
• U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists
• Official Congressional Directory for the 50th Congress, 1st Session.
• Official Congressional Directory for the 50th Congress, 1st Session (Revised).
• Official Congressional Directory for the 50th Congress, 2nd Session.
• Official Congressional Directory for the 50th Congress, 2nd Session (Revised).