It was authorized early in the 48th Congress in December 1883, when the committee was given jurisdiction over subjects relating to the improvements of rivers and harbors; it also had the responsibility of reporting the river and harbor bills to the floor.
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The House Committee on Rivers and Harbors was a U.S. House committee from 1883 until 1946.
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He served as chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors during the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Mileage (in the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses), and the Committee on Rivers and Harbors (in the Sixty-sixth Congress).