Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-02-06
Our Sacramento Letter.

SACRAMENTO, Jan. &c, 1864.
One of the JOURNALS letters from the Capital
limited at the fact that the makeup Of the As
Sembly committees was influenced by personal
motives on the part of the Speaker, and some of
that the Speaker would be guilty of such act,
doubted the truth Of the statement. So perhaps
you will allow me space fr~ few
FACTS AND FIGURES.
On the 2lst of December, not long after the
committee appoint d, Mr.. Wiley, friend
Of Mr. Sears, introduced a bill to divide the
State into Congressional Districts. do not say
that Mr. Sears is the author of the bill nor even
that he assisted in its preparation, but it is a
curious fact that while this bill places Nevada
county (where Mr.. Sears resides) in the I'd Con-
gressonal District, majority of the chairmen
of the most important committees of the House
also reside in the same District. The District is
composed of the counties of Contra Costa, Ala
media, San joaquin, Tuolumne, Mono, Calaveras,
Amador, FL Dorado, Sacramento, Placer and
Nevada. Every county in this District, except
Sears own county, which he expects to carry
b,
md Sacramento and Tuolumne have two each
From Contra Costa, Wright is chairman of the
committee Elections from Alameda, Walker
has charge of Public Morals from San Joaquin,
Allen is at the head of Ways and Means from
Tuolumne, Lux is chairman of the committee on
Public Buildings, and Perrin of Internal I'M
provements from Mono, Mitchell is chairman of
Counties and County Boundaries from Calave-
ras Dyer is at the head of Engrossment from
Amador Ludlow is chairman of Roads and
Highways; from Ell Dorado, Campbell is chair
man of the Committee on Claims from Sacra-
mento, Turkey is chairman of the State Prison
Commi' 'ee, and Hunt of Commerce and Naviga-
ton, while from Placer, Snyder is chairman of
the committee on Mines and Mining interests.
This list embraces epery county in the District
except Nevada. But look a little further. All
the important committees are mainly composed of
members from Mr. Sears Congressional District
The counties composing that District furnish to
the committee on Ways and Means six members
to the Judiciary FIVE to Counties and County
Boundaries, State Prison and Claims three each
to Commerce and Navigation, Education, En-
grossment Internal Improvements and Roads
and Highways three each. The whole number
composing these committees is sixty-four, Of
which Sears Congressional District furnishes
thirty and the balance of the State twenty
seven. Omitting the Judiciary from the list, the
number is ifty-three, of.whch Mr.. Sears Dis
trict has thirty-two and the rest of the State
4 twanty-Onp Hero fhrao- Gfthc IF the
members of the most important committees taken
from District comprising less than .wo-thirds OF
the State. ! am happy to be able to add that
this carefully-laid plan to increase the personal
influence of would-be candidate for congress
is @ knocked into a cooked hat " by an amend
ment to the bill proposed by the committee on
Elections, which places Nevada county in the
Sd District There is no certainty that this
amendment will be adopted Somebody is work
inp very hard to defeat it. The whole House is
stirred up on the questionable mining members
asserting that by taking Nevada and Placer out
of the I'd District and replacing them with
Marin Sonoma, Napa and Solano, the agricul-
turaI counties in the District will have MAORI.
| ty of delegates in the Congressional convention
and some man may be nominated who is in favor
of taxing the mines. Close figuring is going or
as | write, and there is no telling what will BIZ
| the result. FAUST
Has" Your printer makes me refer to the Unio,
as hypocritical instead of hypercritical. Per
haps the Union is sometimes both, but in tina
connection intended merely to intimate that it
editor was over nice in his criticism on Camp
bells resolutions. ,.