The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-12-19
Islaine's Committees.
lFrom tbe CINCINNATI Times, Radical |

| tFf"m the aihcinnan Times, RADICAL
Speaker Blaine is not Republican
reformed. He has 30 shaped his com
mittees as to make the present IIous,
"a much like the last one as possible. II
lhm the late elections have not born'
lany voice OF admonition, or If they have
} he has set the warning at defiance. /
} he has not heard the loud notes of pop
ular disapprobation over the deeds an6
disclosures of the last Congress, he is
more stolid and insenate individual than
I'VE have ever taken him to be. If h,
has heard the stern condemnation of tn,
Credit Mobiler and salary-grab iniqui
|. ties emphatically uttered by the masses
Dot the people from one side OF the con
ltinent TO other, then in appointing hi
committees he has practically said. viii
the plainest utterance possible, Nv ha
arc YOU going 10 do about it!' And
that we take TO be really the spirit and
temper of Speaker Blaine at the present
moment.
We abandon all hope of Mr.. Blaine
We anticipate serious disaster To the Re-
publican party, whose confidence he has
ABUSED. We expect this Congress TO run
in the same old corrupt rut as the last.
The only hope of the party is in an en-
phatic Reputation of such leaders by
the great mass of lis voters. For our
own part, we wash our hands Of Mr..
Blaine and the Credit Mobilier and sala-
lry-grab chairmen of the leading COM
mitiees.
Let us see more particularly what the
defiant Speaker has done. Nearly every
~
since the final adjournment of the last
Congress has emphatically denounced
congressional dabblers in Credit Mobi-
iier stock. and Indignantly rebuked the
salary steal. Similar action was taken
hy DruOcrstic conventions throughout
The land.
Both these iniquitics were emphaticai-
" condemned. with great unaniinity,
by the rank and file Of both parties. OF
Ills there could Toe 10 doubt in any in
iciligent mind. II was the misfortune
% tie Republican party which suffer
rd. Tor that reason. serious losses every
where in the last elections that among
the members thus condemned were sew
eral Of the most prominent Republican
leaders in Congress. some Of whom were
al the head of The most important COM
iaiiicc-. Prompt and pointed rebukcs
81 the crring tongrcSsmen, and the
honest pledge. of reform made in the
name of The Republican party, so far,
gaincd pWJiic con n,idencc n To save that
organization from utter and Overwhelm-
ing defeat a fate which it would cer-
iainls experience to-day in any State in
~ election coming right after AIR
Elaine : appointment of committees. In
spiie of these earnest hopes and just,
expectations of Radical reform. the
.'p~aker has bestowed the chairmanships
OF the chief committees as follows:
l. Ways and Means Dawes, Credit
MobiIier. rcappointed.
,. Appropriation - Garfield. Credit
Mobilier, who voted for The salary-grabI
AT the last moment, aud cast the weight
OF his influence aud position on that
side. rcappointed.
3. Banking and Currency Maynard,
OF Tennessee, who voted for the salary
grab. aud took the back pay without
vInking-a new appointment.
4. Judiciary = Ben Butler, father and !
chief manager of the salary grab. and
the defender of Credit Mobilicr Ames
on the floor of the House promoted
from a subordinate place on the commit I
tee to the chairmanship.
.. Naval A fairs -Scofield, Credit Mo-
bilier. reappointed.
s. Territories-Mc &C, Of Mississippi,
salary grabber, new appointment.
Ii is needless to say that the six com
mittees allowed named comprise those of
chief consequence in the House, and
those to which are entrustf the shaping
of nearly all its important legislation
for the next two years.
Having thus placed on record an en-
phatic protest against the acceptance of,
this work and these leaders by the Re
publican party as its own, and rcpudiat-
ing in its behalf, on the strength of its
sentiments through its
conventions and its press, all response
billy for the perpctuation of the dis
grace of the last Congress, we 'remand
the question 10 the people Of the several
Congressional districts"
The present Congress was nearly all
elected before the Credit Mobiier scan
dal was disclosed, and before the salary
grab was even conceived Of as q posi-
bility by the people. Another election
of Congressman will occur next year,
aud then the constituencies may posi-
bly, give verdict that will be under
stood and appreciated, even by Speaker
Blaine.