The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-04-08
Interest accrued,
S2,636,2O2,45 90

Amount of debt, tt5
Hess cash in the
4treasury, $32.525, l96, ,461 o.
/ The total amount of bonds issuet
to the Pacific Railroad companies il
$56, 1861, ,320; the amount Of interes
which had accrued prior to Jan and
16, 1869, is $3,3Oo,OOO, and of thil
amount the government has received
from transportation, &C., Sl,3l7,352
leaving . balance due the United
States of$2.s2s, 100.
Special Correspondence to the
Courier.
@ tat WASHINGTON, d. G.,
March 29th, so.
J. M. HEDRIcK, ESQ.,, f
Editor, &C.,
Dear Sir: In your article in the
COURIER Of March 10th, touching the
committees of the House, you do
great injustice not only to Speaker
Blaine, but to the Representatives
from Iowa. You must have seen q
garbled and incomplete list of com.
mittces, or you would not have fallen
into the errors in which you have
been, obviously, and, no doubt inno-
GENTLY betrayed
Let inc state the facts just as they
are; for voucher Of which l send an
official list of the committees:
Mr.. Allison, the senior member of
the delegation, is third on Ways and
Means, next after Schenck and Hoop
er, and just where be was in the last
Congress. How could he have been
promoted over the heads OF these
gentlemen2 Mr.. Allison is, more
over, fourth on the select committee
on tho ninth census, and chairman Of
Committee on Expenditures in the
Treasury Department. He is the
only member of the Ways and Means
who is chairman of another commit
tee. s-.
Mr.. Loughridge is a member of the
Judiciary Committee, and second on
the Committee on Agriculture. 5o
Mr.. Palmer is a mber Of the Pa
cifie Railroad committee, and also OF
the committee on the Library.
Mr.. McCrary is member Of the
committee on Naval Affairs, and also
Of the committee on the Revision of
the Laws of the United States, both
very important positions.
Mr.. Pomroy is member Of the
committee on Territories, and also of
the committee on Mines and Mining
Mr.. Smyth is member of the COM
mittee on Public Lands, and also of
the committee on the Militia.
Any one familiar with the organi-
zation Of the House, knows that
these appointments are highly re-
spectacle and influential, and as to
the particular place which q member
holds on a comm.ttee, that is usually
determined by length and seniority
of service. You speak, for instance,
as though it were disparaging to Mr..
Palmer to be 9th On the Pacific RR.
committee, and yet the seven who
precede him have been in Congress
two, tour, six and eight years.
1t is true Iowa had two important
chairmanships in the last Congress,
but they came from long service
When the present new members have
been as long in congress as Messrs.
Wilson and Price, they will doubtless
have as prominent positions. They
have certainly started under as good
auspices as new members could hope
to, and we happen TO know that
Speaker Blaine gave them prominent
positions, not simply because they
were his friends, but because their
ability and character entitled them
to such recognition.
twill be simple act of justice to
tho Iowa delegation if you will in
sert this communication.
Very respectfully Yours,
AN Iowa CLERK.