Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-11

some days later Mr.. Robson named the
following committee, to-wit: Robson, of
New Jersey; Butterworsh, CT Ohio; Kas-
son, of Iowa; Hubbeli, Of Michigan; Can
non, of Illinois; Anderson,o of Kansas; Reed,
OF Maine; Shallenbarger. of Pennsylvania,
and Page, of California. Little was heard
Of this committee, and things ran along
smoothly until the committee had loaded
the calendar with various bills. quite q
number Of which had stanch advocates iii
the house VINO urged their consideration
in season aud out Of season. Various eau
cuses followed. The little revenue bill was
decided upon, and Keiley's opposition was
repuGiated il the memorable caucus at
which The stormy discussion arose, and q
conclusion was reached which the chair /,
man of tho ways and means refused to BE-
boQnd BY: either there Or On the floor OF tbs
hSC.e.
Thc revenue policy having been decided
. upon. another caucus vas called Mite
later 10 consider lie eorrso OF BUSINESS: !
which YVES brought about for strife fox
Drecidoroo among o number OF members
who lad Two measures they wished to
push. CHIEF Of these troublesome MEM
Ders who rersistently refused TO be sal
down upon by this caucns was Anderson,
Of Kansas, Wit.A.. tie agricultural ana pleuro
pneumonia bill. There were. besides.
Bowman, with his court OF claims bill:
Reed, with his Geneva award bill; and
| Calkns, with the election cases. To at
tempt "a settlement between the rival eIe-
ments the caucus was called, when 1t was
found that the same clash OF interests
which occurred in this house
| was fully IS troublesome IL the
4 T.
easued. Robinson. OF Massa chusetts, su,
ges.ei lis !! way out of the difficulty thai !:
conference % these gentlemen who had
measures which were DESIRED to be given
preference. should BE called, and that Jhey
make ii pre-. ;raln:1e to submit - tins eau
Gus V;tii ooI.!is, O. New YorlE. cc:n-
plained that, 10 matter what should be
tho existing committee rs it then stood
had practical control OF everything. and
that the committee Oh appro oriations con-
trolied il. SO many men from the appro-
priations committee were members CT the
existing committee that the reference CT 4
matter to the latter amounted TO about the
same thing as referring il 70 ,he commit
tee On appro 2iiaiiuns, which. oy this means
had practical direction OF Inc affairs OF ;he
house. Thee we're Rob scr, Cannon
and Blttsrwo:tn from the appropia-
tions committee, who were supported. b.
Cannq.l AID !Iebhe!t from TIE c2a2m;..:.ss
On gays &ild 1laans, IL result .ailg Ii 1t
the other Interests OF the house had moth
ing to say about The management of his
business. Re thought tillt Inc committee
should DO recast with view to distribute
the power, not only more equally between
the committees, bat among the geograpii
nf "a EDt,,n
Of Massachusetts, then moved, il view OF
the frmuess Of the criticism, that the
chairman appoint new committee,
which shoa!d have direction and should be
known as the committee on order of
business. This gave rise to what was
known as the steering committee" and
with what result, as far as the desired
object was concerned, may be seen from
an inspection of its composition.
In the course of day or two, pursuant
to this motion, Mr.. Robinson announced
the second committee as follows: Messrs.
Hiscock, Robinson, Of Massachusetts.
Mckinley, Pound and Robson, and to ali
lntents and purposes that committee Was
exactly Ike the other. except that it inten
sifed the objectionable features of the
first 1t was III one sense g represen tative
committee OF the house, but Of Mr.. Robe
son, who by this means was given the prac
teal direction OF business. I. contained
two members OF the appropriation com
mltteo Cd. of seven, instead Cf three out
o. nine, as il the first case. Bingham, of
Pennsylvania, took the place CT Shalen-
| berger, Burrows toak the place of Hue
bell, and Mckinley. Of Ohio TOOK
the place os Butterwortii As far as the
geog ra piiicAl interests of the nation were
concerned, The West ana South had nothing
to say. New York, Massachusetts, New
Jersey ana Pennsy lvanis, the four eastern
states with a line contiguous, and with sim
liar Interests, controlled the COMMITTEES,
, while Mckinley, of Ohio, WIS practically
| ii the Same list. Oaly Wisconsin and
Michigan of the western states hal any
; voice, Eadia:ia, Illinois, aad ali states ,th
and west % them having no voice.
| Upon the question OF tariff there were
! Mckinley, Bingham, Hiscoci1 and Rnbr-so,i
with interests which denandc:! probiblrnry
protection. and made Il recommendation
| FROM that committee for taIiS revision
impossible. Cannon, Reed, Anderson,
But:erworth and Page, WHO were fu-
vorabie for revision ali the Old committee,
were superseded. The majority of the
new COM mittee were formed with the view
of letting the tariff strictly alone. In this
way the house at the last session was
placed under such direction tha1 tariff leg
islasion was impossible, and it was further
more next to impossible to give anything
consideration except such as appeared de-
sirabls to Mr.. Robson.
It is probable that soon a caucus will
be held at which the propriety OF recast-
| ing the committee for the better distribu-
ton OF the directing power among the
different geographical divisions O; the
| Union will be considered.
THE TARIFF EEPORr.