Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-12-25
The Senate Committees-Section-
alism Unadulterated.
[Froln the Ohio State Journal,

The Senate Committees-Section-
alism Unadulterated.
From the Ohio State Journalj
The Republican party is under obligation
to the able Senator from ilinois Mr.. Trum-
bull for bringing to the notice OF the peo-
pie the extreme ectonaliSm of the domi-
nant party IN TIE Senate Of the United
States, which they have exhibited in the
formation of the Standing Committees Of
thai body. We have sectional!sm there if
we have it nowhere else, and we hope the
Rppub Leans whenever they hear the Buch,
anerS declaring upon the stump or else
where, about the Republican party being
sectional party, will hold up to their gaze
the formation of the Committees Of the
Senate, which were reported by member
OF the party, Southern man, Mr. Pearce,
Of Maryland, and voted for by every member
OF the Buchanan party in the Senate, nclu-
ding, of course, Mr.. Pugh of Ohio. Tne
F, Committees OF the Senate which were cho-
sen on Monday last, ere as follows:
On FOREIGN ReLations-Messrs. Mason,
! (chairman,) Douglas Slidell, Weller, Fish,
and Pratt.
! On Finance-Messrs. Hunter ,(chairman.)
TOucey, Pearce. Stuart, Brodhead, anu
! CRIT-ENDEN.
On Commerc cr--Nessrs D ,dge, (chair-
man. Stuart, !Se,sard, Clay, BeDjaH. in, and
! Bigler.
! On Manufactures - Messrs. Wright,
! (cbaI-man.) Allen, Harlan, Wilson; ana
( TrumbuH
IN Agriculture-Messrs. Allen, (chair-
man) Hunter, Vale, Thompson of New
Jersey, and Harlan.
| On Military Afairs-Messrs. Weller,
/ (charman,l Fitzpatrick, Johnson, Jones Of |
Tennessee, Iverson. and Pratt.
On the Miitia-Messrs. HoUsToN, (chair-
man, Dodge, Biggs, Thompson Of Kentucky,
and Bell Of New Hampshire.
Or NaraL Afars--Messrs. Mallory,
(chairman,) Thompson OF New Jersey. Fish,
SldelI, James, and BELL of Tennessee.
On Public Lands -Messrs Stuart, (chair-
man.) Johnson, Foot, Pugh, Mallory, and
Foster.
On Private Lan4 Claims-Messrs. Ben
jamn. (chairman,) Biggs, Thompson of
Kentucky, Foster, and Wilson.
On Indian AfaIs-Messrs. sebasrian,
(chairman.) Rusk, Toombs, Brown, Red,
and BELL of Tennessee.
o. Claims--Alessrs Brodhead, (cIair-
man, Geyer, Ivers1n, Yulee, Wade and
FeSS2nden.
On Revolutionary Claims-Nessrs. Evans
(cnairman,) Reid, Hale, Foster, and Durkes.
On the Judjciary-MesSrs. Batter, CHAIR
nan, Toucey, 8ayard, Geyer, Toombs, and
Pugh.
On the PostoGice and Post Roads-Messrs.
Rnsk, (chairman1 Yulee, Bigier, Adams,
CoILamer. and Durhes.
On Roads and CanaEs-Messrs. Slidell,
(chairnan,) Wright, Jones Of Tennessee,
Biggs, Bel of New Hampshire, and Durhee,
On PenSions--Messrs. Jones of low a,
(chairman) Clay, Sumner, CoMEGYs, and
Thompson OF New Jersey.
On The District of CoIamJia-Messrs.
Brown. (chairman,) Evans, Stuart, Brown,
Thompson OF Kentucky, and FesSenden.
On Retrenchment--Msssr Adams, (chair-
man, Fitzpatrick, Fish, Biggs, and CRIT
TENDEy.
On Tsrritorles--Messrs. Douglas, CHAIR
man, jones of Iowa, COl!aAer, BELL Of Ten
nessee, Sebastian, and Biggs.
To Audit and Control the Contingent En-
pensee of the Ssnate--Messrs. Evans, (chalr
man. Wright, and Foot
On Public BuilGingS-Messrs. Bayard,
(chairman.) James, Hunter, Thompson Of
New Jersey, Pratt, and Hale.
On EngroSSed BuS-Messrs. CollGmcr,
(chairman,) Sumner, and Durhee.
On the Library-Messrs. Pearce, (chair-
man, Cass and Bayard. ;
Republicans in Italics, Fillmore men in
small caps, and Buchanan men in Roman.
The committee on Foreign Relations has
three shareholders, with Douglas and Wei
Ter doughfaces, and Hamilton Fish, who
came out for Fremont few days before the
election. Tie committee on Finarce has
three Shareholders and three doughfaces,
and not one Republican upon 1t. This is 4,
one of the most important committees N
the Senate, and yet the party that carried
twelve of the fifteen States by unprecedent- /!
ed majorites--a party that can cast one
hundred anu HIleeu eIeCtOrai Fotcs, HdS HO
representative upon this committee.
The committee on Manufactures, being ;
of no acc punt, there are three Republicans
upon it. The committee on Agriculture is
also honored with two Republicans. This
is a committee that never makes a report,
and has no business referred to it. The
next is the committee on Military Affairs, ;
another of the first class committees, that
has in its charge the whole military orce
of the nation, and for the support OF which |
some fifteen or twenty millions of dollars
are annually appropriated. On this COM =;
mittee every man is Buchanier, and of the .
six members fUe of them are from the South;
the sixth is Weller of California, SD that
the fifteen free States, which in tact supply
the army with men, and which pays three
lourths Of the expenses, has no member
upon the committee. Even the Fillmore
wing of the North, or of the South, has not
member; it is all South, all Buchanan, al
sectional. What yell would have gone
up from the entire Buchanan press, had Mr..
Speaker Banks made the committee on Mil
tarv Affairs of the House all of one party,
and Il from the North, save one, and that
one from California.
The committee on the Militia is another
Of the mere ornamentals, yet even that there
are three Southern men, and only one Re-