Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-01-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.



There has seldom been fewer Congress
men left in Washington during tn
holidays than are here now. From
some cause or other they seem to hav'
been unusually unanimous for striking
out for home this year. Among those
who have remained, the House Com
mittees have been a leading and fruit
full topic of discussion, and do not re-
member Congress when the grumb
ling was quite so loud or the dissatis'
faction so long Lived than it is and
promises to be on this occasion. AS a
matter Of course the makeup Of the
committee never do give universal sat
sfaction. There are always ambitious
statesmen who do not get positions
commensurate with their great abilities.
| 1t will be remembered that Speaker
keifer, who welded the gavel over the
first Democratic House since the war
the Forty fourth Congress-raised a
three weeks Of hard work, he announced
the committee list But there were
difficulties then in dealing with new
material and new situation that do
not exist now, and criticism soon died
out At that time the f,ult-inding was
confined chiefly to the Speakers own
PARTY, and that is the case generally,
but Mr.. Keifer has made the Demo-
Gratis fighting mad as we'll as some of
the Republicans.
One noticeable feature Of the COM
plant is that they credit Pennsylvania
with having obtained the lions share,
or as one disappointed Congressman put
it, "grabbed for everything in sight"
1t is true that the keystone State has
been pretty we'll "recognized," having
been given seven chairmanships, be-
sides representation on nearly every
important committee; but this was to
be expected after the delegation from
that State, under the leadership of Sem
ator Cameron, contributed so much to
the success of Mr.. kiefer. Pennsylvania
occupies Il commanding
position in this Congress, and if she
does not stamp her policy upon its leg
islation the fault will rest with her
Representatives. There is consider
able talk about the Speakers apparent
neglect to give Mr.. Kasson proper re
he having been given no
chairmaEship but assigned to second
place in two important committees.
Those who assume to know, however,
say that Mr.. Kasson was not overlooked,
and that this fact will be clearly mani
fest soon after the recess, when two i'm
mportant-special COM
mittees are to be created and that Mr.
Kasson placed at the head of the most
important of the two. These proposed |
mmittees, it is said, will attract IA
greater degree of public attention than
any of the regular committees and will /
be charged with matters of the highest |
Just what it is all about !
we are not, "for prudential reasons" !
permitted to know at present; but
everybody is expected to recognize the
great consequence Of the matter when
the resolution creating the committe is
offered. If the whole plan and purpose
does not come out before that time, it
will be an exceedingly cold day.
An unusual number of changes in !
the representatives here of foreign /
countries, have occurred. In two of
them, at least, Washington society un-
doubtly suffer loss. TheAe are the recall !
Of Mr.. Kurd Won Scholzer, the German !
Minister, and Mr.. Yoshida, for eight |
years the representative Of Japan. Ex
cept Sir Edward Thornton, who left us
some time ago, no foreign minister has
made himself SO popular with the peo
pie of the Capital as Mr.. Yoshida. As
, diligent and discriminating student
If American political economy he has
never had an equal in the di-
oomatic service. Madam Yoshida