Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-13

Washington Correspondence ~ Y. Time.
or the three hundred and twenty-6ve man
who haYe been elected members OF tha
aouse OF Representatives in the Forty
| eighth Congress, one hundred and eevenfv
eight, or more than one-half, are not mem
oers OF the Forty-seventh Congress With
very IeW exceptions they are new men. Twc
| OF tnem have served in the United States
Senate, and half dozen or so have been
members OF the House in previous Con.
gresses. Ihis large proportion OF new men
| will give the House a peculiar character.
or the fifty-seven members of the Housa
in the Forty-seventh Congress whom Sneak.
/ er Keifer appointed to be Chairmen of com.
mittees only twenty-three have been rA-
elected. Some of the thirty-four NOT rs-
elected were not renominated By their con-
| stituents, and the remainder were beaten at
| the polls. Among the Chairmen who wifi
retire to private life are Mr.. Page, Of the
Commerce Committee. who had charge of
the river and hsrbor bill; Mr.. Crapo, Of the
Banking and Currency Committee, who did
good work In that position and bad charge
OF the national bank bill; Mr.. Williams, OF
the Foreign Affairs Com mittee; Mr. Pound,
OF the Public Lands Committee; Mr.. Bur-
rows, OF the Committee on Territories. who
nad charge OF the Dakota bill: Amos
Townsend. OF the Committee on RAILWAYS
ana Canals; Mr.. Van Voorhis of the
committee on Mines and Mining:
DIT; Shallenberger, OF the COMMITTEES
on fuonc Buildings; Mr.. Hszeltop, of the
committee on Pacific Railroads; Mr.. Young.
OF OF me tne committee on Patents; Mr.. Crowley,
OF the Claims Committee; Mr.. Pacheeo. Of
the Committee on Private Lsnd Claims:
Mr.. Neal, OF the District of Columhis Com
mittee; Mr.. Orth, Chairman of the Commit.
tee on Civil Service Reform, and Messrs.
Deering. Rooeson, Briggs, Hubbell, Willis,
Errett, Urner. McCook, Aldrich, Prescott,
UDdegraff, Camp and others who held
Chairmsnships which were more or less
ornamental. Messrs. Kelley, Calkins, HI
COCK, Reed, Bingham, Haskell and Browne.
Chalrmen OF the Committees on Ways and
Means, Elections, Appropriations, Judiciary.
rost Offices, Indian Affairs and Pensions, In
tne order named, were preserved, and with
'su .neu the Chairmen OF sixteen other COM
lnIetees' some OF them merely ornamental.
In nearly all of the committees about half
OF the members have been carried awav bv
the nood. VI the II members of the Conn
mlttee on CiVil Service Reform, there have
been reelected only Messrs. Kasson and
LOTT, hepuDncans, and Tucker and Curtin,
Democrats. Only 8 OF the 10 members az
the Indian Affairs Committee were saved.
only OF the IL members Of the Foreign
Affairs Committee, and only of the n
members OF the Committee on Banking and
Currency. The Commerce, Ways and Meape.
and Appropriations Committees were more
fortunate. Seven of the fifteen in the first
named will survive. Mr. Kelley win be
accompanied In the next Congress by eight
OF his twelve fellow members of the WaVs
and Means Committee, and only five of the
fifteen members of the Committee on An
propriations will retire from public life.
The losses in committees fall more heavily.
OF course, on the Republican side.
In the FortY-eighth Congress the Dsmo-
Gratis Will control the delegations from at
least twenty-five States, SO that the action
OF the House could easily be predicted II
the people should fail to elect President
and 1t should become the duty of the House
to choose one. One of the most prominent
OF the results OF the Congressional elections
was the discontinue of several persons who
were regarded as Mr.. Keifer's lieuteDauts.
Their defeat was not expected here, even
on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.
mere were many VINO believed that while
some OF them deserved to be the
first to 90 for the good OF the party, thew
would be saved as Mr.. Keifer had been
saved. The latest news shows, however.
that not only Mr.. Robson has been over
Wnelmed by the deluge, but he Will be ac-
eompanied into retirement by Messrs Page.
Hsz1I on, Williams, Burrows and others
Mr. Williams has been In Congress for ten
wears, and his majority in 1880 was about
l,OOO. Mr.. Hszelton, who has been mem
Der Tor six years, had more than 600. Mr..
rage, a member for ten years, was backed
by majority of 5000. Mr.. Robson had
nearly 5000, and Mr.. Burrows felt so secure
with 2 500 that he spent some of his time in
working for friend.