, 1879-04-12
Exposure Of a Scheme to Steal
the Bed of Calumet
Lake,
n Big Enterprise which Is Doom
cd to Be Nipped In
tho Bud.
Both Houses Now Fairly at
Work on the Appro-
priation Bills.


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~ Epsctai Dtspatch 10 11s TrtaunA
WASHINGTON. D. c., April 11.-Spealser
Randall has finally announced bis Committees.
The Elections Committee IL ono OF thosc that
have been enlarged to fifteen. 1t ia a pondcrous
body. Springer, OF Illinois. is Chairman. This
Is q promotion of Springer iu tue regular order.
With tic exception Of Springer there Is not
s!ngfo man on this Committee that wa. u,atn-
bcr Of tile Elections Committee Of the last Con-
grcsa. Tile Democratic sllo Is intensely pasti-
Eau, but 1t eau scarcely be more 50 than tho
Committee Was under tho blgoted partl-
Ean administration Of Harris, Of Virginia, tiu
lust Chairman. With three exceptions, tha Dem.
ocrats on the Committee are new tucmbers. A
reputation for great lcgai ability has not pro-
ccded them. Of the fifteen members, nine arc
Democrats, I've Republicans, u1,l ouo Green
hacker. Certainly
not AN EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION,
Rccording to Republican views OF tho
Republican members, Walbridge Fsed Of
boston, Ke!er, Of Ohio, aml Cn1kins, Of
indiana, ara tho best known ns law
yers The Greenback member is Weaver, OF
1uwu, who il rapidly trying to forget hts Re-
publican antecedcnts in Ills sudservicncy to tho
Confederate cause. This Committee Is worry for
Grom'a fair tribunal, but Is d parttsnn court
whose DEGREES arc registered in ADVANCE It
will uudoubttl do tho bidding Of the purity
caucus. Htscock, Of Now York, the ablcst law
yer OF the last Elections Committee, is dropped
from this.
WAYS AND MEAEs.
Tlcre are two theories rs 10 the compost
ton Of t1e IVays md Mcans Committee. One
is that 1t has bcon framed by Speaker Kan.
aall In accordance with tho Pennsylvania tar
III visws so that no frce-trade legislation will
bo reported from 1t. Another opinion Is that
It Is emphatlcally revenue tariff commit
bee. So fur ns the yleWs Of tho different
members arc dcanitoty known, it is a co1nmlt-
lee the majority Of which would favor rev.
enue tartff, ret Randall Gibson, Of LouIsIann,
Is certainly not frcc.trader In apy caao where
the Interests Of tho Louisiana sugar.plauters
1re involved, and Randolph Tucker In the
Just Congress wanted protective tariff, almost
u prohib!tory tariff, on sutnach, ipas1nuch rs
Vtrgtnians lind that they cut 1nake their wild
native sumach
PROFITABLE ARTICLE OF coMMRncn
Garfield. Of Ohio, too, on tho other side, Is not
an extreme protcctiontst, but ia Eli honorary
,notnher Of thu Golden Club. There nre four
Republicans .of whose high tariff Tendencies
1lcrecan 10 nodouot, kelley, Coneer, FIRE., n1,.i
Dunncl!. Tic Democratic members who arc
new to- the Committee nro Morrison, Mills,
Cafl!sse, and FELTON,. 1n tl.u appoint
mcut Of Morrison, Mills, aul Carlisle,
bp6alcr Randall has arisen nboYe pcrsoEul
politics, and las recognized the candidacy
of Blackburn. Thcse gentlemen were Htacli-
huru's managing men, who really conducted the
campaign aia!nst Randall with great bitterness.
Fernando Wood will not hnd that tl1u Commit
ttee ts as much
! A he'd OF HOSES
;ns It WIS in tho last Congress. lIo wilt lind his
most pronounced political opponcnt In Morrl.
eon, who was degraded from the ChairmunshiE
OF this Committee, to which he lind been assign
cd 1y Kerr, to tnake place for Fernando Wood
under tho FIRST nandall administration. With
Morrison an4 Mills rs sharp, utlreleutlng au
'tagontsts III his own party, aud witt
such t!lorns IN his acsh as Gnrlold
Conger. ana Frye will make OH thy
Republican side, Wood, tho sacncu Of Tanma
ny lnli, will not find that llo is dictator OF TIL
Commtstee or that ito has only TO lnaXc linow1
h's wish to ~ oboyed. Morrison Is al carnes
taiater Of Tammany Hall and Of New York ia
Mueuce in nat!oual pulitlcs, ns also l,as
LAHaE aN1RvANoE.
,ana II uas maiuly lua to lila Efforts that Fer
nando Wood failed to accomplish anything witt
'hfs Committee In tue last Congress. II th,s an
-tagouism shalt ho continued, Wood viii l,ay,
good reason to wish uat tile Speaker, I,
,acconlanco with tho protcsts Of til
Now York World, had refused to au
polht ltm Chairman. This Commits
has decidedly gained In strength on tho Dctne
cratic aide oyer tho Committee Of thu Inst Co,
EFcss. Carlisic ranks asnunR the ablcst lawyers
anu a1!Is, ot Vuxas, Ia olu ot tile strongest .l,u
III fha Democratic party. lhn COMMITTEES la
bcctl enlarged two ulcnlbora, and Congur, Frye
and Duuucll tako the pines Of uurchant nll
Hanks. Tie Republican representation OF Il,
Northwest On this COMMITTEES Is transferred
FlsoM iLLlsoIs TO MINNESOTA,
fIhe Committee altogether is certainly stron
onr, md has upon Il men who rank highest |
both parties.
'r'1s eoapostioa OF ths Appropriation Con
rntttco does not promise my musa rest to |,
Chairman, Atkl,A, of Tenncsseu, t.mn does III
Ways alal Mrans 10 Fernando Wood. VI u
men in Congress, Atkins did not wish Blackburn
of Kentucky, appont.l OIL tint Committee, ut
le IL there, atul frvs lanes to mako htu,.e
felt. l1a IL a better lebater thar, thu lit
eotefte of ltat,tall laen on lLe CommIttec, wi
. htl'eFtu hayo controlled tho legislation OF IL
Democratic party tn tlae House.
ALL THE DEMOCRATS
of the old coMluttteo ate retaiued, and U,acl
burn. Welts, ot Missouri, CobG, at Inttlar
furiey, vi Alabama, uni Mcatahuu, OF Uuj
addod.
Sparks was transferred to the Clairtpaus!,
of Military AiaiEs, md Durham u,d ucwi
were not reelected. The tlrst four ulctnbers
tl'a Coa,mtttee-Atkina, Blouut, Singleton [
MasslssippI), aud CIyluer-asu we'll know
lhey have left their mark upon lhe country
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