The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-11-16
TIE NEXT HOUSE.


TheWashington correspondent OF the
Globe Democrat furnishes some inter
esting gossip in relation 10 who is
elected to the next house and also tells
who the stsy-athomes are:
The election returns, so far as pub
lished, are sufficiently complete and ac-
curate to indicate the makeup of the
next house of representatives,. 1t is in
teresting TO observe the thorough shak-
ing up that body has undergone The
members of the next congress Will con-
sist largely of new men, of the 325
there being 17s, or more than one-half,
who are not members of the present
house Two of these have served in the
United States senate, and half dozen
or so have been members in previous
congresses. From the present returns
il appears that of the members Of the
present house sixty seven Republicans
are elected and seyenty-three Demo-
Gratis. The Republicans will miss the
presence of Page, Aldrich, Orth,
McCord, White, of Kentucky, Grape,
Jay Hubbell, Dunnell, Robson, Nc
Cook, Crowley, Young, Butterworth,
Amos Townsend, Ward, Moore of Ten
side of the house will scarcely be recog-
nizable. Among the familiar faces
missing will be those of Phelps, Alex
ander II. Stephens, Speer, the Single
tons. Sparks, Proctor Knott, Gibson,
| Ladd, Murch, McLane, Manning, Hook
er, Bland, Miles, Ross, Hardenbergh,
Bliss, Ben Wood, Flower, Klotz, Whit
thornc, Atkins, Jones of Texas, Ben
Wilson and Gen. Bragg. In nearly all
the committees about half the
members have been carried away
by the food. OF the flfty-seven
chairmen twenty. three have been re-
elected. Some of the thirtyfour not re-
4 elected were not renOminated, and the
remainder were beaten at the polls,
Among the chairmen who Will retire to
private life are the following: Page, of
the commerce committee; Grape, bank
ing and currency; Williams, of the
foreign affairs; Pond, public lands
Burrows, territories; Townsend, oil
Ohio, railways and canals; Van Voor-
hees, mines and mining; Shellenberger,
public buildings; Hazelton, Pacific rail-
roads; Young, patents; Crowley, claims
Pacheo, private land claims; Neal, Dis
trict of Columbia; 0rth, civil service re.
form. Messrs. Kelley, Calkins, Hiscock
Reed, Bingham, Haskell and Brown
chairmen Of the committee on ways and
means, elections, appropriations, judic.
, larry, postofflces, Indian affairs and pen
sions, in the order named, were pre-.
served, and with them the ohairmen Of
sixteen other committees, some of them
merely ornamental Ofthe eleven mem
bers OF the committee on civil service
reform, there have been reelected only
Messrs. Kasson and Horr, Republicans
! and Tucker and Curtin, Democrats; on
| ly five of the twelve members of the In
dian affairs committee, and
ONLY FOUR
: of the members of the committee On
: banking and currency. The commerce
ways and means and appropriations com
mittees were more fortunate. Seven o
the fifteen in the first named will sur
vive. Mr.. Kelley will be accom- panied
in the next congress by eight of hi
{ twelve fellow members ct the ways an(
means committee, and only five of the
fifteen members of the committee OF
appropriations will retire from public
life. Among the prominent Republican
members of the present house who viii
be in the next are Speaker Keller, Calk
ms and Browne, Of Indiana; White, o
: Connecticut; Henderson and Cannon, o
! Illinois; Kasson, of Iowa; Anderson
3 Haskell and Ryan, of Kansas; Reed anC
! Dingley, Of Maine; Rice and Robinson
i of Massachusetts; Horr, of Michigan
8 Washburn and Strait, of Minnesota
3 Mckinley and Taylor, of Ohio; Bing
3 ham, O'Nell, Miller, Kelley and Bayne
Q of Pennsylvania; Hiscock and Ketcham
I of New York, and Lynch, of Mississippi
3 OF the Democrats will be Randall, o
I Pennsylvania; Rosecrans, of California
I Hammond and Blount, of Georgia
i, Springer, Morrison and Townshend, o
Illinois; Holman and Cobb, of Indiana
: Carlisle. Blackburn and Thompson, O
Kentucky; Morse, of Massachusetts
: Tucker, of Virginia; Mills and Reagan
of Texas; Kenna, of West Virginia
Deuster, of Wisconsin; Robinson, Co,
: and Hewitt, of New York; Ben LIE
J. FeYre, of Ohio, and Governor Curtin, G
:. Pennsylvania, The Democrats in III
!. next house will control tweEty-tw
states, SO that the action of the hous
l. could easily be predicted if the peopl
G should fail to elect president and
G should become the duty of the house I
choose one.