The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-30
Confederate Supremacy.

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party OF the country.
Confederate Supremacy.
We have referred in another article to
the close affinity that invariably manifesto
itself between Confederate leaders and
Democratic leaders in West Virginia-
80 close, in fact, that they are convertible
terms, or, in other words, counterieitpre
sentiments OF each other. This is prone
to be the case everywhere. Itarises from
the nature Of the relationship-the close
kinship, SO to speak. In the reign o.
the Democratic party before the war, the
Southern wing Of the party claimed and
held control OF all important committees
in Congress. 1t was a good deal in that
body as il was in tho West Vir
ginia Constitutional Convention oi
1872, lover which convention the
present Senator Price presidedl where
Sam Wood, Alpheus Raymond, c. j.
Faulkner, B. W. Byrne, W. H. Travers
James D. Armstrong, and men OF that Clas'
were chairmen OF the principle commit
ices. In the United States Senate the
Democratic fashion has been to put
Southern men, or else very decided
Southern sympathysors, ut the head OF all
important committees. We do not need
to remind the Douglas men Of West Vir'
ginia Of the fact that after their leader had
been twelve years at the head Of the i'm
portant committee on territories, and
simply because he refused to vote to ad
init Kansas under the Lecomp-
ton constitution, he was deposcd
and IL Southern man put il
in his place. In this way at last there
was but one Northern man left as Chair
man of Senate Committee, and that wa.
jesse D. Bright. The past session oI
Congress witnessed the return Of the De
mocracy to power in the House, and Mr.
Kerr was compelled to award to the
Southern and Confederate members the
ChairmanBhip Of the following Commit
tees:
Elections T. Harris, OF Virginia
Pacific RaiIroad--L. Q. G. Lamar, Of
Mississippi.
Claims--J ohm NJ. Bright, Of Tennessee
Commerce Hereford, West Nir'
ginia.
Postotcesand P1d. .Roads-Joln B. Clark
Missouri.
District Of Colambia-A. r. Buckner
Missouri.
,Tudiciary-proctor Knott, Kentucky
Public Erpenditwes-C. W. MiIliken
Pirate Land C'aims-T. NJ. Gunter
Arkansas.
lIdnutrciure-W. II. Stone, Missouri
AqricuLturc-J. II. Caldwell, Alabama
Indian A6airs-A. NJ. Scales, Nortl
Carolina.
Nama A6ams-- W. C. Whitthorne
Tennessee.
ForeignA9ain-Thomns Swami, Mary
land.
Revolutionary Ptnsions--Eppn IIuntOOn
Virginia.
Railuuys and Canals--T. L. Jones, Ken
lucky.
Mines and Mining--R. P. Bland, Mis-.
souri,.
Education and LabOr-G. G. Walker
Virginia.
Coinage, Weights, aud Afcasares-A. H.
Stephens, Georgia.
Faieats-R. B. Vance, North Carolina.
Mississippi Lerees-E. j. Ellis, LoulSi'
ana.
Ttras Froniiers-G. Schleicher, Texas.
Ffeednlqns Bank-Beyerly B. Douglas,
Virginia.
Enrolled BMs-H. K. Harris, Georgia.
Here arc no less than twenty.four oi
the Committees Of the House to which
the Confeaerates have been appointed af
Chairmen, to the exclusion, oil course, ol
so many Northern Democrats. Northern
Democrats were not appointed Chairmer
of more than five Committees having tht
least Importance or control Of public
affairs. This, considering that it was th'
first session for twenty years that TIT
Democrats had majority in the House
shows that the Coniederates are preparet
to claim tho same supremacy that they
always exercised when the Democratic
party was in a majority.