, 1881-12-11

committee will be conspicuous memues W LUG
floor for ut least the first session OF the COL
gress. There are
SOME TWENTY CONTESTED CASES,
including the Mormon case, that OF LEuch
ncuinst Chalmers and Of Mackcy against y Con
nor, all Of which furnish hruad tte1d Tor man
ambitious for diEp;.ay on the floor. Mr. douck.
Of Tennessee, is :;.s::ous OF being appointed to
this place. H. :s'u good lawyer and tine
speaker, but it Stems probable that the position
will be given to CuIkins, OF Indiana, an acti'e
member Of tho committee in the faSl aouse, Ut
TO Williams, Of Wisconsin, Mcssrs. HoucK' ea1-
kins, and Williams were all strong advocates OF
kcifeE, and If any one Is
:: THE INVENTOR OF KEFER
as candidate for Speaker, Mr. Williams, OIL
Wisconsin. ts probably more entitled 10 tnnt
patent than any one. Indiana is ambitious 1or
ut least three Chuirmanshtps- Major Steele,
one Of the members who Is spoken OF for tho
Military Affairs Committee, said he thought Mr.
browne would ret the Committee on Invalid
Pensions, or some other important place, ID ne
Is Nh old aud influential nle1nberi tbnt Mr. Urtn
was proinincut Candidate for Foreign Rela-
uons und would no doubt get that or somethlrR
else. None uf the Indiana members. however,
are urging their Claims. The StalwarG IN the.
New York delegation also look 1of important
Comutteo POSITIONS. Crowley, it, is learned,
OF Appropriations .,lcCook, who is not
. s,alwart, uspires TO the Craftsmanship Of the
Military Committee. New York desires repre-
eentution on the Commerce Committee. Mean-
while, Congressman know nothing about Speak
er Refers choice. One OF them. who is very
likely TO be disappointed, said today" Il don't
want my name used, bur say that there Is
Liable TO BE TROUBLE COME
to Speaker Ke,fer If he serves Pennsylvania and
Ohio to iii overdose OF committees l have been
told. upon what 1 consider good authority. that
Ohio will get IT least four and Penusy1Vanin hse
Of tie committees, and that Iowa and fnduna
will get one each. Now, cannot speak so posi-
lively of Iowa, but 1 can say for Indiana, nnd
Illinois, TOO, that If they to be treated shah
bily in this matter there will be some trouble
heard an Iudiauian say that II they only got one
committee there would be dag Of political
reckoning for Mr.. Keifer, and that he would be
paid in coin Of his own min tuge.'
TIE ILLINOIS DELEGATION
met 1T the rooms OF Representative Davis, this
evening, most Of tho members. including Sena-
tor Logan, beng present. The principal object
of the meeting WIS to effect reorganization Of
the club which was done by the election of
Representative Cannon as Chairman to succeed
Col, Fort, and Representative Davis Secretary.
It was agreed to continue tbs meetinvs during
the session. The patronage Of the House OF
received share Of attention,
but there was no action taken toward milking Il
selection of names for committees and laying
them before. Speaker KefeE. as some of tho.
other States huve done. Representative Far
well could nnye been present but short time, II
at ul, us he attended Il complimentary banquet
given Gov. Pratt, of Colorado by Judge Belford,
at which about thirty prominent public men
were pr rescnt.
DELAY.
The Sunday Herald will say tomorrow that
Speaker Keifer Informed Senator he should
not announce the committees Of the House
until after the holiday recess.