The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-04-20
The House ConmI,,ee.


Washington dispatches of the 18th
say comment upon Speaker Randall's
composition of the House Committees
continues to be very generally INDUCED
in to day. ana upon moro deliberate
analysis, it is found that last night 8
estimate of the character of several Of
the most important committees noed
some modification. The Ways and
Means Committee which then was char
acterized as a high tariff body, appears
to lean rather the other way, or ut least
to have been constructed on a soft OF
middle ground between free trade and
protectionist theories. Messrs. Gar.
field, Kelly, Conger, Frye and Dunnell
are outspoken protectionists, and Mr..
Phelps, OF Connecticut, is also classed
as protectionist, but is not q very pos
tive man, and is likely to follow the
majority Of the Democratic party il
they agree upon tariff reductions.
Messrs. Wood, Tucker, Morrison, Mills,
Carlisle and FELTON, are all free trnde
men more or less pronounced. Mr..
Gibson, the thirteenth member, there
fore may be said to hold the balance of
power III the committee. He is an
ardent protectionist SO far as Louisiana
interests are concerned in maintenance
of general protective tariff system.
but otherwise Is inclined to free trade.
On the whole il appears the tendency Of
the committee ~ toward reduction Of
the existing tariff in the interests Of
lower rates. 1t is the general belief,
however, that the present House is not
likely TO do much. il anything in the
line OF opposition to the protective
policy.
The Banking and Currency Commit
Tee announced yesterday cannot he
cGlIed a radical soft money committee.
Undoubtedly majority favor II bill tax.
ing all restriction of the coinage of sill.
yer. but it cannot be called u committee
radically opposed 10 the national bank
ing system.
The Pncific Railroad Committee is
probably iIiuic.l to subsidies, end will
hardly prove popular with Texas Pacific
Interests, and much less so with the
Northern Pacific, because there are
enough Southern men on it TO defeat
the o4tcnsion of the charter of the
Northern Pacific Company il the claims
OF the Texas Pacific are ignored.
Tho Coinage Committee, like that OF
Banking Currency.is IL silver committee
aud will. no doubt, work to get free
silver bill through.
The Committee on Appropriations is
considerably strengthened by placing
on 1t Blackburn and Mcmahon.
On the Commerce Committee the
Speaker has placed only two members
who represent the interests OF the great
lakes.
Randall seems to have divided the
committees between the seclious with
exceeding cNnctncss in n numerical point
OF view. There are fifty one commit
tees, and twenty 1--WE chairmanships have
been assigned to the North and twenty.
five to tho South. The best Commit.
tees, h"wover, are assigned to the
Southern Chuirmen.
The Judiciary Committee is an able
one. but there is good deal Of com
ment over the removal OF McSInhou, Of
Ohio, to make room for Frank Hurd, OF
the same State.
The Greenbackers have been we'll
placed and are well pleased. Repre-.
srntatives Warner and Atherton, OF
Ohio, exchanged places on the commit
tees to day. General Warner tax ss
Atherton's place on the Mines and Min.
ing Committee and Athorton replaces
Warner on War Claims.
Following is q list Of the names OF
the Chaiimon OF the various commit.
| tees:
Elections, Springer; Ways and Means,
Fernando neutrality-suspicious.. Atkins;
Bnnking and Currency. Bucknrr; Pacific
Railrond ,McLain; Claims. Bright Com.
mercc, Reagan; Public lands. Converse;
PostOffico, Money; District Of Colum.
bia, Hunton; Judiciary, Knott; war
Claims, Bragg; Public Expenditures.
Finlny; Private Laud Claims. Gunthcr;
Manufactures, Wise; Agriculture, Covert;
Indian Affairs, Scales; Military Affairs,
Sparks; Militia. Ross; Naval affairs,
WhitthOrn; Foreign AiTnirs, Cox; Terri.
tories, Mulirow; Revolutionary Pen.
sion, Whitaker; Invalid Pensions, Cot.
troth; Railways and Canals, Stevenson
Education and Labor, Goodc; Revision
| of Laws, Harris; Coinage, Stephens;
Patents. Vance Public buildings. Burke
Accounts, Henry; Mileage, Cobb; Tx.
penditures in the Treasury Department.
Morrison; Expenditures in tho State
Department. Clymcr; Expenditures in
the War Department, Blackburn; Ex.
penditures IN the Navy Department,
Townsend Of Illinois, Expenditures in
the Postui'ioe Department, Ludd; Ex.
penditures in the Interior Department.
Muller; Expenditures on Public Build.
ings, Einster; Expenditures in tho De.
partmsnt OF Justice. Blouut; Mississippi
Loyees. Robertson: Rules, the Speaker;
Reform in tho Civil Service, Hostot,ori
Law as to Presidential Elections, Bick.
nell; Ventilation Of Halls, Kimmol; De.
preston Of Labor, Wright; Epidemic
Diseases, Young: Printing, Singleton
Enrolled Bills, KoIDa.
The official Interpretation given 70
tho Congressional Mining Law is as fol.