An argument for the separate committees was that commerce and manufactures often had conflicting interests.
The Committee on Manufactures became inactive during the later years of its existence and was eliminated in 1911, at the beginning of the 62nd Congress.
[1] First father-son pair to chair the same House Committee: Former President and Massachusetts Representative John Quincy Adams chaired the Committee on Manufactures from 1831 to 1841 and again from 1843 to 1847.
His son, Charles Francis Adams of Massachusetts, chaired the same committee during the 36th Congress (1859–1861).
[3] Records of the Committee on Manufactures, 16th-61st Congresses (1819-1911), are held at the National Archives.