Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-29
The SOUTHS BIG SHARE.
Tw' nty tw0 House Chairmanship
Give" 20 that Section.
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By t4lesia h to NcwYork Tribun'

AsHINGloN, Dec. 2l.-The excite
menr uvrt the appointment of the
Committees aud disappointments of
the JuemOerS continue quite unabated
aInoHg tupss who remain in the city.
An analysis OF the list tends rather to
increa-r than abate discomfort.
1t is found thai ont of 93 working COM
mittrc~ of tle House, which, in their
full cl clr,' uibrace the entire business of
the cuuu ~, the Southern or late Slave
States have - of their rchairmauships.
EN- brucing such important committees
as those on Elections, judiciary, Com.
merce, Pacific Railroad, Post-Oflice,
Naval Affairs, Railways aud Canals,
Foreign Affairs, Claims, Revision of
the Laws, Education and Labor, Dis
trict of Columbia, Patents, and many
others. New w-England, with ten Dem
ocratic members, does not receive a
chairmanship of any kind whatever,
big or little. New York receives two,
those of the Banking and Cur
rency and Civil Service Commit
| tees. New Jersey receives nothing.
Pennsylvania receives those of Appro-
priations and Invalid Pensions, and
yet New-England and the three States
just named have well nigh as large q
population as the Is late Slave States
with far larger proportion Of old and
experienced Democratic members.
The fact that about the same popula-
ton that gets four chairmanships in
the North and East get % in the South
puts great many teeth on edge among
the Northern Democracy and X is
about as bad for the West and North.
West, where only seven chairmanships
in all are given to Ohio, Indiana, Hi.
nois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Min.
nesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Nevada
California and Oregon. Indeed, the
last named eight States do not have 9
single chairmanship, over 100000 oi
people not being represented at the
head of any committee. The South
ern States have about one-third of the
population of the whole country to.
day. aud they get two-thirds of the
chairmanships, and it is very hard tC
make Northern and Western Demo
Gratis contented with such a dis
pensation. General Banks, elected
by the Democratic party as al
independent, is grossly slighted
He was for several years Chairman o
Foreign Affairs, and in the second ses'
sion of the Forty-second Congress, af
ter he had vigorously supported Mr.
Greeley, Republican House, by vote
continued him in his Chairmanship
Now he is not only deposed from hi,
Chairmanship, but is subordinated OF
the Committee to Charles James Faulk
ner, of West Virginia, of whom moth
ing more need be said in this connec
tiOn. Mr.. ChIttenden, of New York
is another Independent who is mos
conspicuously snubbed. Indeed, th,
Independent members, whose cours
aided the Democracy, are less kindl,
treated by that party than they hav,
been by the Republicans whom the,
hurt. 1t is no exaggeration to say tina
the discomfort with the Committee as
signments is widespread, general anC
bitter among a large class of Northern
Democrats. Among Republicans ther
is very little feeling, as they conside
themselves outsiders, with no right
which Democrats are disposed to re
spect. In general, however, leadinl
Republicans have been fairly treated
though it is thought that Mr.. Kassor
has ground for complaint in not beinl
retained on the Ways and Means o
the Appropriations Committee, OF
both of which he has had many years
experience.