Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-01-07

The ReassemblisE Of ConEress-
Mr.. Orin protests-MP springer
Indig sfs Ahead.

The Reassemb1ing Of Congress-
Mr.. Orin protesds-Mr. Springer
Indig nant-Bres era Ahead.
From Our X gular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 18th, 49,.
The holidays are now over. The
national bunting. has again been run up
at both ends of the Capitol, announcing
the presence of the House and Senate,
in Congress assembled. Postmaster
General james has formally resigned,
aud the new Postmaster Genl. Howe,
has been duly installed at the head Of
the largest postal department on the
planet. The most noted. and, owing
to it's cause aud its episodes, the most
repulsivs trial in modern judicial his.
tory, Is rapidly nearing Its close. The
social world at the Capital Is abroad on
the boulevard, or at homo in the draw.
ing room, alert, irrepressible, diaboli-
caIly gay, and assthstically wicket.
Until within the last five days we have
had the bslmy winter climate Of South
Carolina; but tho new year brings q
temperature and snowfall that has set
the oldest inhabitant talking.
The House met on Thursday, and II.
ter brief session, adjourned until
Monday, but the session, brief as IL
WAS, was sufficiently long for Mr.. Orth,
Ct Indiana, TO express his protest aud
indignation at being ignored in the for
nation Of important committees. This
Is the beginning, the forty-ssventh Con-
gress will not hear the sud Of the very
general dissatisfaction with Speaker
Refers committee mechanism. For the
last ten or fifteen years there has been
q feeling among Legislators that the
system Of naming the panel Of commit
tees by the Speaker concentrated too
much power in the hands of one man.
So long, however, ~ the speaker fol.
lowed the rule Of organizing as tar as
possible, the leaders of the House, and
placing them on important committees
there had been no emphatic protest;
but now comes Speaker Keifer, ignor-
ing all precedents aud nearly all the
recognized leaders, causing great dis
satisfaction in both rank and file and
in both parties. Mr.. Springer, Of ILL
nois, will in few days offer resolu-
ton setting forth that unknown and
men have been assigned
to important committees, while older
mem bers and those familiar with legis-
lation and the rules of the House have
not only been gagged by being placed
On un,mportant committees, but that
they have been removed frem impor-
tant committees where they have long
served and that their efficiency as leg
slators has been conspicuously and
impaired; that the action of
The Speaker is not as much personal
stfr0nt as it is wrong to their constit- |
lents and to the country whose inter
ssts demand the best abb ity and most
nature experience, or in other words,
hat tools shall not be given to burglars
)ut to those who can use them. The
ceiling Of dissatisfaction among mem |
,ers is by no means, confined to Mr.. |
)rth, or to Democrats. 1t Is shared by
he friends OF Mr.. Orth and Of Mr.. |
kasson, and it Is prevalent among the
W estern, the Eastern, the Southern, the |
New England and the New York dele
cations. 1t needs no prophet to predict
hat, with this intense feeling existing,
he Iorty seventh Congress will not be |
! dove cote, or the speakers chair
,ed of roses.