The daily gazette., 1879-03-15
SECOND EDITION
The Next House.

The Spedkership COntest-TdLk of Re-
jecting the Io,oa Delegation.
The Washington correspondent Of the
New York World says:-
Only few of the new members of the
House have arrived in the city to-day.
Yesterday the House Postmaster deliv-
cred mail to ninety three Represen' atives.
A large majority of this number were
| old members who have remained in
W ashinglon since the adjournment of the
Forty fifth Congress. There are nearly
200 Congressman due here before next
Tuesday noon. AS yet there is little
excitement attending the contest between
Mr.. Blackburn and Mr.. Randall for the
Speakership. The minor office-seekers
make by far the greatest noise and bus
tie about the hotel corridors. Mr.. Black
burn believes that he will secure the
caucus nomination, and Mr.. Randall is
undoubtedly growing alarmed and un-
! easy. All estimates of caucus strength
are Enthusiastically, because there are at
least fifty Democratic members whose
choice for the Speakership is not def
initely known. All of the Democrats
who General Garfield calculated would
be on sick-list when the time came to
organize the House will be in Washing
ton tomorrow or next day. Singleton
is already here, and Lay and Bland are
on the way. Acklen will also be on his
feet next Tuesday.
The most ridiculous feature of the con-
test over the Speakership so far is story
put about Yesterday that Mr.. Randall
has 100 copies of the first volume OF a
History Of France, by Mr.. Parke Good
win, of New York, with Mr.. Tilden's
autograph written in a blank leaf of each
for presentation TO members. A dis
graceful Tammany representative goes
about declaring that Mr.. Tilden has had
the books on his hands, as he paid for
publishing them, more than twenty years.
The second volume has never been pub
lished.
Mr.. Morrison, now in st. Louis, will
be here next Tuesday, and the real con-
test over the Speakership will hardly be-
gin before.
Clerk Adams has received the certifi-
| Gates of election of all but twenty-five
| members OF the House. A rumor was
started tonight thai Mr.. Adams had de-
cided to throw out the entire Iowa dele
CATION, which is composed of seven Re-
publicans and two Nationals, on the
ground that the Congressional election
held in that State last October was invalid.
The law provides that elections for men,
bers of Congress shall be held ON the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in
November. In Iowa at the October
election, as before stated, seven Repub-
| licans ard two Nationals were elected.
In November another election was held
in six of the nine districts in the State.
At the second election two Republicans,
two Democrats, and two Democratic Ma
tionals were elected. Mr.. Adams has
been notified by j. Z. Holmes, of the
Eighth district, and John Wilson, of
the Ninth district, Democrats, that they
will file papers claiming, by virtue Of
their election in November, to be en-
titled to the seats to which w. F. Sapp
aud Cyrus q. Carpenter, Republicans,
| were elected in October.
Mr.. Adams said tonight that he should
give the Iowa case careful consideration
| in making up the list of mem bers of the
next House. He did not care to express
| an opinion the merits of the controversy
before he had thoroughly Investigated it.
Another of the stories waited on the
evening breeze is that six Democratic
Representatives will refuse to participate
in the Democratic caucus If Mr.. Randall
is seen to possess amajority for his nomi-
| nation as Speaker. There is probably as
much truth In this report as il the state
| menJ that some of Mr.. Randalls enemies
will vote for Republican candidate In
preference to voting Tor him. These
yarns simply indicate the bitterness with
which Randall is regarded by many
| members of the last House. The re-elec-
ton of John Thompson as Sergeant-at-
Arms is considered certain. Mr.. Adams
is also confident of being reelected
Clerk, although ex-Congressman Cald-
well, of Alabama, means to secure the
Clerkship ii possible. The candidates for
the subordinate offices in the House are
particularly anxious to keep aloof from
the fight for the Speakership. Mr.. Adams
says he has business to transact with RAN
dali, but scarcely dares to visit him for
fear it shall be said that he Is working
for RandalPs reelection. In the Senate
the prospects of Mr.. John O. Burch, of
Tennessee, for the Secretaryship, are ap-
parently Frightening.
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