New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-21
WASHINGTON.
No Southern Combinations.

WASHINGTON. December 2O.-No South.
ern contirmations to-day.
Speaker Kerr's Appointments Severely
Criticised-Discontent of the Wise Men
of the East.
After the House of Representatives ad.
journed, Immediately upon the announce
ment of the committees to-day, there was
quite general interchange of opinion
among the members in regard to the selec
tions. Those who had been well provided
for commended the Speakers judgment or
said nothing, but the prevalent expression
was one of dissatisfaction. The Speakers
friends account for this by the small num-
Der of prizes and the preponderating
number of the competitors for them.
On the o.her hand there are meny
among the Democratic members who sc.
verely eriticise his selections for consider
able number OF the prominent positions as
unsuitable or as unfair to Con gressmen of
extended service, who have been pass l
over in the distribution of chairmanships
and important commit places, to make
room for new men without legislative ex-
perience. The forty-seven chairmanships,
exclusive of the Committee on the Rules
of which the Speaker is ex officio chairmsn,
twenty-four are given to Western members,
ten to Southern, and thirteen to the Middle
and Eastern States. OF the latter thirteen,
six are of the third RAJ Importance, being
committees on expenditures in various
executive departments, etc; and of
the chairmanships gwen to the Western
members four are CT the same d. script;on.
Four or five of the Southern chairmanships
are also unimportant. The West therefore
holds the first place in the number OF chair
manships of the first and second class COM
mittees out of the total for1y seven. Ohio
end Missouri have each five cbairmanships,
Illinois four, Kentucky four, Indiana two,
and Tennessee Two. Virginia and Pennsyl.
vania have three each, North Carolina has
two, and no other Sta'o has mere than one.
The composition of the Pacific railroad
committee, t3s-9 I'd by the recent vote on
Mr.. Holman's auti-subsidy resolution, is as
follows: ChaiI man Lamar and Messrs
Trockmorton and O'Neill voted against it:
Messrs Luttrell, of California; Lvnde, of
of Missouri Garfield, of Ohio; Kssson, of
Iowa, and Blair, of New York, vote 4 for it,
and Messrs. Atkins, of Tennessee; Walker,
of Virginia, and Platte, of New York, were
recorded as not voting.
The friends of the Texas Pacific bill
claim that a majority of the committee will
be found in favor of their proposition.
The Levee Committee.
The full committee on Mississippi levees
man; Hatcher, of Missouri; H. D. Money. of
Mississippi; Roberts. of Maryland; Young,
of Tepnessee; Sheakley, of Pennsylvania.
Dunnell, of Minnesota; Whiting, of Illinois;
Morey, of Louisiana, and Wall ace, of Penn.
sylvania.
Mr.. Harris, of Georgia, is chairman of the
committee on enrolled bills.
Mr.. Wood, of New York, is second on the
Committee of Ways and Means. He de-
clined the craftsmanship of any other com.
mittee.
1t is understood that General Gibson, of
Louisiana, who as the mover of the resolu-
ton creating the Mississippi levee commit
tee was entitled to the ehairmanship, de.
eli Ied in favor of his colleagues.
The President.
The President has returned. Il
Gone Home.
Nearly all the Congressman have gone
home for the holidays.
Tho Attorney General.
The Attorney General is expected to re-
turn to-moY w.
Report Of se Southern Claims Commits
sion.
The reports of the Southern Claims Com
mission reached the House few minutes