Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-12-03
THE COMING CONGRESS.
A Look Oyer the New B ,dy-Ehe
Probable Leaders In the EkOuee.
Washington Correspondence of the Ch:cas

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Probable Leaders In the House,
etc.
! Washington Correspondence of the Ch:caa
/ Times.J
All Of the interest in the comm
CaDgress concentrates, as a matter c
course, i'll the makeup OF the Deuc
cratic House IF Representatives TIL
new members of the Senate were Gale
| here last spring, when they were mel
tally weighed and photographed unit
the reading public knew ali there wa
desirable to know about them. o
the new House there are doubles
many bright and ohiniug stars, bu
their light has hitherto been shed il
obscurity. Of the two hundred aut
niuety-two members of the next Hous.
one hundred and eightv-four are new
members. The great ~ sjori OF thes
| have never served in any national leg
| is!ature, and are. therefore, easy VIC
tins to the rule Of the more experienced
paciiamentariaps WHO control the
House. OF the reelected memberl
from tho Forty-third Congress the Re
publicans have a maj ority, the number
standing sixty-eighs Republicans anc
forty Democrats. This will be an ad
Vantage to the Repub lean side OF the
HOune that should not be under.esti
mated as experienc, in the devious
WAYS OF tie House is so necessary to
the accomplishment Of anything by al
individual member. ifanevly- elected
member could only struggle with Liln
self, keep his mouth slut ana his eyes
and ears open during one entire SEES.
sion. he would be Of some value t.
his dist, let However, it is moro than
probable such course npon the part
of a member would make his coustitu-
erts think that he was not @ statesman.
The rural idea Of a statesman is q
creature who Is always Upon the bull
warks of his. country supporting tae
Constitution, while he bowls for the
eqGs-li5v Of man.
The ii 81 Of Representative is a very
large room, whose acoustic properties
are simply horrible, Members WHO
live upon the GU skirts of the hail are
~ remote from the proper understands
ing OF what is going on lower in fron,
of the Speakers desk as if hey were
il Baltimore. The uproar ard con-
fusion, the running to and fro, tue phi
va'e conf.bs aud ceaseiess racket that
Tails only for the most noted aud sen
So 'iOnal speaker, combined with tie
most complicated set of rules ever
devised for thu ruling af partisan Mt
ary body, are enough to drive the brain
of the average member distracted in
his vain endeavor to comprehend what
is going on.
THE REPUBLICAN LEADER.
PROFESSIONALLY James @. Blaine
Will be the leader of the Republican
Ill the House, aud 81 right
lively leader he will make. He Is a.
quick as chain-Eghtning, as witty aud
puugent as Voltalre, aud az uuscrupu-
lou5 as the devil. He possesses an
almost supernatural knowledge of the
u!es through his long experience as
ruler Of tie House. He is very brainy,
this man Blaine, aud when he has his
legs and is after a man, he can can ggi{Y re
With his left hand IN vIlifying and oon-
signing an opponent 20 eternal infsmy.
He was the one man in the House who
could pierce Ben Buffers brass and
prov the marrow of the Essex states
mans bones until he was ready to roar
for mercy. BIN Butler viii not be III
the next House, so Blaine will really
have no man to contest the leadership
with him upon his side of the house.
The Republican minority will be
more compact than was even the M
jority in the last Congress. There
were then too many leaders. There
was no one man strong enough among
them all to wrest the leadership from
the hands of the children Of medioc-
rity, rap them upon the heads of their
i'm pudence, and then assume the daunt-
less, irresistible sway of them that the
despotism of brains and magnetic pow
g never fail TO give.
Although Blaine is as thoroughly
hated as all men Of superior natural
abilities are hated by the groundiinga,
yet his readiness, intense vitality,
strong magnetic power, make him
great as leader in att9cklng some
pa, ticular measure. Where MIR.
Blaine is weak, fata ~ weak, is in his
excessive policy. He lacks that bold,
j ASKING sptris, that can AXE a''header"
in the dark Of uncart .inty. trusting tt
his good angels to take him straight
through to success. On, no, he is not
that SORT # II mar. He wants to see
his way Gear first. and N laspl:e he
g the moat subtje sCtaner IN TIC Uni
ted States. This peing quite general
~ known, he Is rct trusted like more
blunt and ontspOken men.
PROMINENT REPUBLICANS RETURNED.
Among the prom. hent E"publicans
returned is old Ju ige Kelly, OF P9un-
syIvania. Surely Congress would not
% Congress without a. Occasional
gis-irul4 roar from the protective chest
o, Judge Kelly, lie guardian au3ol OF
tn poor WORKING man, end "the ma
tteve en1u5trees % our conntree.
Then there IL Baby GARFIELD, VIII"
sohhed a d b!ubhertd his W y through
his s. q Credit Mobilicr days. He
W II have 10 more chaloes for d vldas
as CLait man OF the Committee of APP
propriatioBs. Nm. =. Wheeler, Of
New York, who vas Chairman of the
Com mittee on Commerce, was one Of
the best Of the Republicans. Halle,
Of Maine, IS sort # hammer-and-
tongs biatherskite. It is pleasant TO
know George T. H@ar, with Packer
spelled with a capital 2. VII be II
the next House. He represents P'u-
dence, Propriety AID Princess. He
is the man who is always rising, pune
turing ppace with bopy tipger-- Is
mouth works like cold dough while he
wants to know of the Speaker what
would be the effect, you know, If the
motion preceding the question to rise
antece6ent to motion for the previous
question, subject to a motion to ed
iuurn, were to be raised, and it bling
discovered that 10 quorom being pre-
sent, that suudry motions of order
should be put, and cries of question
beirg raised, what effsct would all
this have npon autecedent questions
already rails d, and hence upon conse-
qn"nt propositions
nav. Sen Jim Blais rs eyes roll IN
agony az he has tOiIo~>u this man
iiDar through l,is siuuous twisting.
Int he never failed to nn:wist th-
cold, pudding-mouthed Iolr to his
every proposition, and il th't DID not
snif him, why. pound him on the head
with the gravel
Among other Republicans in the
next House tolerabiy known. are Has
son and McCrary, of Iowa; Munrot
| and Foster, Of Ohio.
THE DEM CRATIC LEADER.
This will depend largely upon thu
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