The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-03
How the New Congress will be Organ.
lied.
WASHINGTON. January 3

WASHINGTON, January 70.
The republicans have now abandoned
all hope of securing the organization of
the senate until 1883, unless death should
help them out. They look upon Ma
hone as democrat and have no antici-
patton that Tennessee will choose q re-
publican senator. IF Senator Davis, of
Illinois, could be assured of reelection,
it is believed lie would crawl clear over
the fence, aud act with the republicans.
This assurance, however, cannot be had,
because there is no probability that Hi.
nois will have further use for him.
The correspondent Of the Philadelphia
Press writes:
81 sometimes think that while the east
are dining and toasting each other, the
keen, hard listed men of the west with.
out any irills to their shirts, or balf of
them any gloves to their hands, run
away with the legislation. See how they
carry off the high prizes Even now
they are wooing and bcckoning to the
speakcrship to come their way, and if
Congressman Frank Hiscocs, of New
York, dozen'l capture and hold it for the
east l suppose it will cross tho line of
the Alleghanies, never more TO return.
Pennsylvania, for her own honor's sake,
must stand in solid with New York and
New England in holding it back. Mr..
Hiscock vii make an eminently fit
speaker. He has presence, voice, mag
netism. lie is q champion among pro.
tectionists. He has direction and fair
ness to adjust and balance the various
interests upon the great and powerful
committee of the house. He has the
respec! and good will even of his oppo.
nents and a phenomenally successful
record during his two terms service.
He will have at least 10 of the 81 repub-
lican votes from his own delegation in
the next congress, and I think the entire
81. New England is crystalizing around
him in preference to Mr.. Reed, Of Maine,
who aspires to the mantle of the success
sion since Mr.. Frye announced his retire.
ment. Another significant fact is that
the most intimate friends of General
Garfield in the Ohio delegation are for
Hiscock to man, which indicates the
drift of the Garfield mind. Garfield is
personally fond of Hiscock, but whether
he would wish openly to take sides as be-
tween him and his old comrade, Kasson,
is problematical to me. To the best Of
my belief the men longest in the house
lean little toward Kasson for the old
time sake, while the young blood, the
men who came in with Hiscock two
terms ago, or one term behind him-and
they constitute three fourths of the brain
power of the house-are largely for the
latter, partly from personal liking,
partly from the fear that Kasson, who
has been four years away from the house,
will not discriminate intelligently as to
the young men who have come into posi-
tion and power in his absence. But
there are 101 new men to take their seats
at the opening of the next session
large share of them republicans-and
they are X, the unknown quantity in
this problem. They can be written to
indefatigably by the friends of candi-
dates, but the bulk of them do not care
to commit themselves for or against a
man till they have seen him. This is what
makes the speakcrship question so per-
plexingly vague and uncertain. Who
ever gets it will not be carried to the
skies on howery beds of case There
will be fierce fight for the prize"