The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-29


the modification Of sending to Germany
for soldiers to drill our soldiers in the
next war;" Great cheering.1
The Committees Discussed.
Washington Telegram, Dec. ~, to the Chicago
Tlmes.]
MIR. Kerr energies from the prolonged
work of the committees to-day better in
health than he has been since the LIST day
of last January, when he was in Aiken,
s. g., for the benefit Of his health. He
is feeling well and satisfied with the re.
suits of his labors, and takes the CON-
ments of the press Of the country as q
fair judgment Of his intentions and his
purposes. Since yesterday, considerable
change, as was anticipated, has been
| brought about. It is seen that men who
have been selected for the arduous and
responsible duties Of perfscting legisla.
ton ara in the main as completely ar.
ranged and as we'll selected as could have
been expected under the circumstances.
Mr.. Wood, who was supposed to be feel.
ing so far chagrined as to mediate a re.
fusal to serve, has, on the contrary, gone
to work with great alacrity on the Ways
and Means Committee, being the only one
thus far perfectly organized and ready for
work, and all through
MIR. WOOD INsTRUMENTAL1Ty.
as he has seen prolonged service on that
committee in the House. He met Mr..
Morrison III the committee room, in high
good humor, congratulated him on the
honor conferred upon him, ana rendered
hIc hQGrfJncf 4o'
MIR. Cox. too, in spite of his warlike
threatenings last night, has efferversed
into something like calmness, and was to-
day chirruping about his committeeman
as though the lines of bis life had never
fallen in pleasanter Places While Cox
was protesting against the indignity of his
selection as chairman Of the committee on
banking and currency, it is only the truth
to say that most members were com.
menting on the good fortune which be.
fell him in receiving the place for which
his past record does not indicate any ex.
traordinary fitness. It has been re-
marked, too, that in the campaign in
Ohio, MIR. Cox did the same straddling
which ruined the chances of so MANY
Democratic candidates for the Presidency.
While it is generally known that Cox ia.
vors sound money and early resumption,
it is also known to his diseredi: that
IN THE BILL ALLEN CAMPAIGN
ne refused to put himself on record to
that extent. The committee is otherwise
clearly and sharply resumption, and so
arranged that the Republicans will hardly
be able to spring all the ingenious cur
rency traps which they have been threat
ening. From the vantage ground of
days retrospective consideration, it is
now the common opinion among the re.
naming members that the Speaker has
so managed his material as to block all
Republican prospects for party capital,
though sacrificing to some extent the
chief priests Of the party on the altar Of
reform and propriety. The Republicans
are free to own that Mr.. Kerr has taught
his predecessors lesson in courtesy and
fair dealing; for whereas, heretofore, the
minority have been allowed but three
members on the committee, Mr.. Kerr has
increased the percentage, giving the Re-
publicans, who are in greater minority
than the Democrats were, four members |
on every committee, and putting their |
strongest men where they themselves
would have wished to be and where they
can do the most good for themselves and
their country.
So soon as the Speakers health has
sufficiently improved, he will begin work
upon an exposition of the resources of |
the country and discussion of the cur
rency and finances, which shall be the !
key note of his party during the coming
campaign. It will be remembered that
Mr.. Kerr studied the question of finance
and tariff previous to 1872, and that his
views were largely adopted by the Dem
ocrat;c party before
THE WILL o THE w1sp INITIATION
seized upon them during the last two or
three campaigns. So soon as prepared
Mr.. Kerr will take the floor and define
the situation from hard money, free
trade point of view, showing the necessi.
ties Of reform and the method by which
it may be brought about. It is probable
that MIR. Morrison may await the exposi.
ton Of Kerr's views before giving any
significant demonstrations OF his own
convictions on pending questions in the
committee of ways and means.
Mr.. Blaine, untrammeled by official
duties, has given his days and nights to
the consideration of speech which will
embrace all Republican declarations on
finance, and which shall sound the tocsin
for his Presidential outbreak. He had
hoped to present this during the past two
weeks, but circumstances did not per-
nit, so the House and the country will |
have the novelty Of two of the chief men
of party pitted on the lists, one as stu,
dent and statesman, and the other as a |
politician not without scholastic training.