HON. THOMAS R. BARD, 



CHAIRMAN OF THE IRRIGATION COMMITTEE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. 



THE friends of national irrigation are rightly pleased at the appointment of Senator 

 Thomas R. Bard, of California, as chairman of the Irrigation Committee of the United 

 States Senate. He has labored long and diligently for the upbuilding of the West, and 

 has always stood for the rights of bona fide settlers. Senator Bard has long been identified with 

 the great business interests of the West, in which he has won marked success, and his service 

 in the Senate, though short in point of time, has been stamped by the same sound judgment and 

 adherence to right principles that has made him such a power in his own State of California. 

 Senator Bard was born at Chambersburg, Pa., Decembers, 1841. After graduating from Cham- 

 bersburg Academy at the head of his class he studied law. He then engaged in the transporta- 

 tion business, and later, in 1865, went to southern California, where he has resided ever 

 since. He was elected to the United States Senate in February, 1900, by the unanimous vote of 

 the Republican members of the legislature. In addition to being chairman of the Irrigation 

 Committee of the Senate, Senator Bard is also a member of the Committees on Indian Affairs, 

 Public Lands, Railroads, and Territories. 



