The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-11-28
The Personnel Of the New House Of Representa-.
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ceding Congresses, thus leaving lS4 who
have never served in the National Legisla-
ture. OF the 10S who have been re elected
the Republicans have Go and the Demo-
Gratis 40, but among the later are several
whose term of service exceeds that of any
member on the Republican side. There
are forty three standing committees of the
House, and TIRES joint committees of the
two Houses. 80 that in the control of the
House the Democrats may have an exper
fenced member on every important COM
mittee, for there are but thirty of the com
mittees that are really connected with the
general business of Congress. OF thu De-
mocrats who are re elected Meesrs. Kerr
Illinois Randall and Clymer, of Pennsyl
vania Wood and Cox, of New York Alex.
II. Stephins, of Georgia; Handbook, of
Texas; Swami, of Maryland; Wells and
Stone, of Missouri Durham, Of Kentucky;
ard and Payne 3D." of Ohio; B Ss astins
and Whitthorne, of Tennessee /; Faulkner,
Harris and Hutton, of Virginia; Hereford,
of West Virginia, and others have all been
members of the leading committees in the
Forty third Congress. % the Republican
side, there are only General Garfield, late
tons; WilliamIA. Wheeler, of New York
Eugene Hale and ex Speaker Blaine, of
Maine; General Hurlburt, of Illinois Nc
Crary and Karson, of Iowa G. Hoar, of
Massachusetts,, and Munroe and Foster, of
Ohio, who were at all prominent ia the
go tho bottom of the leading committees
under the new regime. Mr.. Kelley, of
Pennsylvania, who is now " a party unto
himself" is the oldest consecutive member
of the House, and will be assigned the
honor of swearing in the new speaker.
Fernando Wood is the oldest member of
the House in time of service, having served
in the TweBty seventh Congress QS4l J,
one of the most notable for men and meas
ures in the history of the Government
Holman, of Indiana, who has served
fourteen years, is confessedIy one of the
ablest of the new Congress. 1t ia doubtful
if there is any man in the next House who
has an experience equal to his in the details
of legislation. He has served with great
credit on several of the leading committees
and has led many aspirited contest against
jobbery under the head of special legiela-
ton. To the Republican side he has ever
been known as /" the obstructionist of the
House, which ia a compliment to his par
liamentary skill in defeating obnoxious
legislation.
The Forty fourth House will after al be
quite as remarkable for the absence of lead
ing men in both parties, who either de-
clined or failed of re- election. On the De-
mocratic side it will be hard to fill the
place occupied for ten years by Mr.. James
B. Beck, of Kentucky, or that of Mr.. Clark
son N. Potter, cf New York-one of the
ablest members who ever served on the
Judiciary Committee-or Mr.. S. S. Mar
shall, of Illinois, whoee Congressional ser
vice dates way back to the Thirty fourth
Congress-, and whose record on the Ways
and Means, Judiciary and Appropriations
committees is without a blemish; or Judge
Niblack, of Indiana, who came in with
the Thirty. fifth Congress and went out
with the Forty third, regretted by the
prominent members of both parties. OF
the Republicans, the irrepressible General
Butler only is conspicuous by his absence,
which is lamented by no one but there are
Judge Hoar, Robert S. Hale, General Haw-
ley, Kellogg, of Connecticut, Wilson, of In
diana, Willard of VermS6t, May nard, of
Tennessee, and others who will be missed
along the party line. Elk Speaker Blaine,
it has been heralded for long time, is to
be the leader of the minority, and, with
General Butler out of the Hause, will maj =
age to have pretty much his own way.
His Presidential aspirationa only will have
the tendency to dimi nish his immediate iu-
fuence among members of his own party
on the floor of the House, who will watch
him with no little jealousy.