Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-02-23
11o,. the House Committees are ConstItuted.

Of the siyty-eight Black Republican members of Con-
oos Who signed the recommendation of Helpers nsur
TactjOnary book Speaker Pennington has placed mtfy
tbrse-nearIy onehaIf-on important House committees
ten of them being charmen Of their respective commit
tees +bo Chou,oo+o,
Mercury says: 81
The construction of the House committee betray more
than one purpose While the large States at the n orh
have control of all the essential cOmmlttees-NeW Ork
having the craftsmanship of nine committees, Ohio five
rd PENNSYLVANIA four-yet you will see that the South
arn States have not been excluded from some honors-
There the Palmetto State which claims the chairman
chin of one committee, and Mr.. AshmOre is the highly
favored gentleman IL IS true that the committee on
MILEAGE is not very abOrous One yet it claims dig
~ and Mace in the list with others Of more note. The
mileage of members is question OF considerable person
al interest to the members generally.
Then Mr. Gimer, of North Carolina, is designated as
the Chairman of the Committee on Elections, and be-
inc great friend of Henry Winter Davis, whose seat
is already contested well many others, which are
70 be- it is very plain that personal and highly conserva
tive M grounds taken in the election of the Chair
man and in the majority of its members OF course q
democrat or two is sprnked in it. 1t will not be easily
FORGOTTEN that Mr. Winter Davis voted for Mr. Pen
nngton and it will also be recoected that although
blood and murder, Rip Raps and Plug Uges fraud aud
corruption elected him to Office yet his vote for Pen
DiDgton and his slidngscale department will save him
his seat in the present Congress not vastly mis-
taken. Stranger things occur. lie has been placed
second to Shermon on the Committee of Ways and
Means
10 proceed Mr.. Gimer is not the only man of the
highlycOnservativeU niOnOvng truly American Botts
Crittenden Bates and Fillmore party, who is observa-
BILE in the creation of the list. There is Emerson Ethe-
ridge, Of Tennessee made Chairman L" On Indian AT
fairs :" Robert Mallory, of Kentucky, who heads the
Committee On Roads and Canals :" and Robert Hut
ton of Tennessee who is the Chairman On Expendi-
lures of the Navy Department."
Louisiana holds the chairman of one unimportant
committee in the person of Mr. Davidson whose delicate
shades of opinion we are unable to discern except that
we understand him to be very Democratic man
70 which, when mention Mr.. John A. Logan of H.
nOis, a simOn-pure Douglass man, you have the full
list Of the Democratic Craftsmanship honors accorded by
Mr. Pennington, which are three in number-Ashmore
Logan and Davidson.
These things are done for appearance sake; but il
the working in Of the South American forces the whole
aim has been to prepare for the of this fall upor
basis to the cooperation Of the Southern Op
position party. 1t cannot be denied Seward is being
forced aside as we stated six weeks ago. although his
friends will prosecute his claims with as much vigor as
ever. By trimming little to explain the rrepressbIe
conflict and Helper he may still destroy the great eff
forts making to control the Chicago Convention in
favor of a acceptable to the Southern school o.
politics, led by BELL-weather & Co.