The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-11-10
Our Washington Letter.
Congressional Matters-HOuse
COmmittees-IntrOductfon of
Bills-The Senatorial Corr
tests. Etc.

| NAAHS-A ne senatorial Con.
tests, Etc.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Nov. /, 1877. 4,
EDITOR CHIEF:
The committees, with two or three
exceptions, and theirrespective chair
men as announced by Speaker Ran.
dial on Monday are as follows:
| Elections, Harris, Va; Ways and
Means, Wood, N. Y; Appropriations,
Atkins, Tenn. Pacific Railroad, Pot
ter, N. Y; Claims, Bright, Tenn.
Commerce, Reagan, Texas; Public
Lands, Morrison, Ills.; Post Offices
and Roads, Waddell, N. c.; District
Of Columbia, Williams, Mich; Judi
ciary, Knott, KY; War Claims, Eden,
Ills. /; Private Land Claims, Gunter,
Ark; Manufactures, Wright, Pa. !;
Agriculture, Cutter, N. j.; Indian
Affairs, Scales, N. c.; Military AT
fairs, Banning, Ohio; Militia, Ross,
N. j.; Naval Affairs, Whitthorne,
Tenn; Foreign Affairs, Swami, Md. +;
Territories, Franklin, Mo-; Revolu-
tiohary Pensions, Mackey, Pa; In
valid Pensions, Rice, Ohio; Railways
aud Canals, Schleicher, Texas; Mines
and Mining, Beebe, N. W Educa-
ton and Labor, Goode, Va; Revi-
sion of Laws, Walsh, Md; Coinage,
| Weights and Measures, Stephens,
Gal; Patents, Vance, N. j.; Public
Buildings and Grounds, Cook, Ga. !;
Expenditures of War, State, Treas
ury, Navy, Post Office and Interior
Departments, Blackburn, KY, Sprin-
ger, Ills, Glover, Mo-, Willis, N. Y,
Williams, Ala, Sparks, Ills, Iespec-
lively; Accounts, Roberts, Md. !;
Mileage, Cobb, Ind. Expenditures
on Public Buildings anu of Depart
ment of Justice, Lynde, Wis, and
Bragg, Wis, respectively; Civil Ser
vice Reform, Harrison, Ills.; Missis-
sippi Levees, Robertson, La. Print
ing, Singleton, Miss; Enrolled Bills,
Hamilton, Ind. Library, Cox, N. Y.
Il will be noticed that the daring
of his rivals for the Speakership has
been punished by banishment, SO to
speak, imposed by Mr.. Randall. L
believe magnanimity has never been
enumerated as among the noble quail
ties which are supposed to form the
basis for such distinction as he has
achieved certainly, the designation
of a comparatively unknown, man,
with scattered country constitu-
ency, for the peace held last session
by the remarkably endowed Cox, who
helps represent the wealth of intellect
inhering in the masses of New York
city, and his assignment as Chair
man of the insignificant Library Com
nfittee seems to indicate that no in
justice has been done the great Penn
sylvanian by the omission. But if he
seems to have ignored the brains of
the party in.ithis case, he, has more
than made amends by placing Fer
m onHn "nn6 Of hn ha,l IS
important committee. Seriously, how |
ever, Randall has given great offense |
to many of the party represen tatives
by his singular-some of the disap-
poiuted ones here say asinine-dis-
tributien of sChairmailships and the
next best places. New England with
her five Democratic Representatives,
gets no Committee the Middle States
walk off with nine the West has to
content herself with twelve, while
fall to the " Solid South9'
1t is limited that it was a |" put up
job" for Mr.. Clarkson Potter to de-
cline the Chairmanship of the Pacific
Railroad Committee to which he was
appointed, the theory being that
while Mr.. Randall wished to, avoid
the responsibility of putting at its
head an outspoken subsidizer, he was
still anxious to conciliate the friends
Of the Southern Pacific, aud with the
of Potter's declination pre-ar
ranged he placed Throckmorton, an
advocate of the scheme,
second on the Committee.
The Monday call of the States-the
irst this session-began little past
noon and closed at 5 P. NJ. In this
time almost nine hundred bills were
introduced and referred, aud mem-
hers amhitinus IN o,,,,a,r &, tl.<, |