Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-11-02
THE BRIGADTERS,
HOW they have Come to the Front O
Congressional Committees

THE BRIGADIERS.
How they have Come to the Front on
Congressional Committees.
Troy Times: Something more con-
corning Congressional committees under
Democratic rule may be in order as
supplement to what we said yesterday
on the subject of Confederate Rule"
In the Senate:
The rebel Gen. Maxey is chairman of the
committee on post-offices and post-roads.
The rebel Capt. Coke is char man of the
committee on Indian affairs
The rebel Col. Withers is chairman of the
committee on pensions.
The rebel Gen. Cockren is chairman of the
committee on claims
The rebel Col. Harris is Chairman of the
committee on the District of Columbia
Senator Garland, who was in JEFF Davis Con-
gress, is chairman of the committee on Terri
tories.
The rebel Gen. Ransom is chairman Of the
committee on railroads.
The rebel soldier James E. Bailey is chairman
of the committee on education and Ia Dor.
| The rebel Gen. III. @. Butler is chairman of
the committee on civil service and retrench-
ment.
The rebel Col. Lamar is chairman of the
Mississippi river committee.
! The rebel Gen. Morgan is chairman Of the
electoral count committee and also Of the COM
mittee on rules.
The rebel Gen. Gordon is chairman of the
senate committee on commerce.
The rebel Senator Hill, of the confederate
congress, is chairman of the senate committee
on contingent expenses.
| The rebel Senator Vest of Missouri, is
chairman of the select senate committee to
examine the several branches of civil service.
In the House of Representatives
Ex-rebel Postmaster-General Reagan is
is chairman of the important committee on
commerce.
Col. Atkins, of the rebel army. is chairman
of the committee on appropriations
| Gen. Hunton, of the rebel army, is chair
man of the District of Columbia committee
Gen. Scales, of the rebel army, is the chair
man of the Indian affairs committee.
| Col. Muldow, of the rebel army, is chairman
of the committee on Territories.
! Col. OMbel, Of the rebel army, is chairman
| of committee on railways.
! MIR. Stephens vice PRECEDENT OF the confed-
racy, is chairman of the committee on coinage.
Gen. Vance, of the rebel army, is chairman
of the committee patents.
Gen. Cook, of the rebel army, is chairman
of the committee on public buildings.
Gen. King, of the rebel army, is chairman
of the committee on interocearic canal.
Gen. Gunter, of the rebel army, is chair
man Of the committee on private land claims.
| Adjt.-Gen. Whitthorne, of Tennessee, under
the rebel government in that State, is chair
man of the committee On naval affairs.
Representative Goode. of the confederate
congress, is chairman of the committee on
education and labor.
| MIR. Blackburn, who served in the rebel army
! throughout the civi, war, is chairman of the
committee on expenditures in the war
| department.
Then we have in the Senate, who
were not strictly in the confederate
service
Eli Salisbury, Of Delaware, who does not
even pretend to have been favorable to the
Union cause during the civil war, and is now
one of the closest allies of the confederates,
is chairman of the Senate committee on privi-
! leges and elections.
William W. Eaton, of Connecticut pro-
nounced copperhead, who openly and courage
! ously stands by his record as such, is chairman
of the Senate committee on foreign relations.
| Thomas j. Bayard, of Delaware, who made
famous speech at Dover, in his own State,
! early in the war, defending Southern treason.
is chairman Of the Senate committee on
! finance.
| l.. +. Grover, of Oregon, whose connection
with the attempt to steal the electoral vote Of
that state for Tilden is his chief title to fame,
is chairman of the Senate committee on man
ufactures.
won distinction as a coffee-pot stainer of
fraudulent naturalization papers, is chairman
OF the Senate committee on revision of laws.
George 81. Pendleton, of Ohio, originator of
the greenback heresy, and bitter copperhead,
is chairman Of the state census committee.
In the House of Representatives
again we see the following
Fernando Wood. who, as mayor OF the CITY
of New York, in 1861, proposed to secede with
that municipality, and tried to send arms to
the Southern rebels, is chairman of the COM
mittee on ways and means. And he is almost
the only prominent Northern man. except
8. s. Cox, who is honored with position as
chairman of an important committee in the
House of Representatives. Mr.. Cox is chair
man of the committee on foreign affairs.
Is it possible that anybody with an
ounce of brains in his head can fail to
see that the Southern confederates are
bent upon concentrating in their own
hands all the effective powers of the
government ?