Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-25

1 Appointments.
 HEAVY FLOODS IN THE WEST.
 A Vast Amount of Property Destroyed.
 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
 The Cha1rmen of the House Committees.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-Ths following are
 the chairmen of the committees as announced
 in the House this morning by Speaker Car. Iisle:
 Elections-Ch Chairman, Turner. Ways and Means-Morrison, chairman. Appropriations-Randa chairman.
 Judiciary-Tucker, chairman. 1 Foreign Afairs-Curtin, chairman. Rivers and Harbors-Willis. 1 Banking and Currency-Buckner. Coinage-Bland. Commerce-Reagan 1 Agriculture-Hatch.
 1 Military-Rosecrans. Naval Afairs-Cox. Postof6ces-Money. l Public Lands-Cobb. l Indian Affairs-W ellborn. TerritoriesEEVsns. 1 Railways and Canals-Davidson. 1 Manufactures-Bagley l Mines and Mining-Warner. 1 Public Buildings- -Stockslager. 1 Pacific Railroads-Cassiday. 1 Levees and Improvements of the Missis- sippi-King. Education-Aiken. Labor-Hopkins. Militia-Mullen. l Patents-Vancs. Invalid Pensions-Matson. Pensions-Hewitt, of New York. 1 Alabama Claims-McMillin. War Claims-Geddes. Private Land Claims-Muldrow. 1 District of Administrations. l Revision of Lsws-Oates. Expenditures of the State Department 1 Hardemann. Expenditures of the War Departnaent- l Thompson, of Kentucky. Expenditures of the Navy Department | Morse. Expenditures Of the Department of Jus l tice-Springer. Expenditures of the Interior Department Casey Young. Expenditures of Public Buildings-Bel- mont. Committee on Accounts-Covington. American Shipping-General Sloeum. Civil Servics-Mutchler. Election of Prssident-FStsn.
 Bounty and Back Psy-W. CT. Public Health-Bsech. Ventilation-Hsrdee. LiGuor Traffic-Hill.
 Comment on the Cor *.tees--FatrIy Good sat1sfact1On Ox1s.he AppOinL- memts. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-GeneralIy speak 1 ing, the comment tonight among members of ! the House upon the composition of the con-
 mittees is favorable. Judge Murphy, Of Iowa, | believes that S5 per cent. of the members are satisfied. General Dunn, of Arkansas, says
  generally is good" Of course, there are a number of disappointments. Among these is l Representative Springer, of Illinois. He classes 1 his chairmanship as next to nothing" The Ways and Means committee i5 regarded as decidedly in favor of tariff reform. Mir. HoFr, of Michigan, expresses the opinion that the make up of tho committees Is horrible. With three Democratic members, Ohio gets fewer chairmanships than several other States with smaller delegations. The appointment of General Floyd King, of Louisiana, as chair man of Mississippi levees is regarded as evil dence of Speaker CarIisle's sympathy with the work of developing the Improvements of that river. General King has been actively identified with the work evez since he has been in Congress. The Star, referring editorially to the com
 mittees, says: Speaker Oarlisle's committee
 list cannot please everybody, but it probably affords about the best solution of knotty problem possible under the circumstances The Speaker set out to make up the commit tees to reflect the sentiment of the majority which controls the House, and enable this ma ] iority to despatch it's business to the best ad-
  1 are dangerously large, but if always used
 with the caution Mir. Carlisle has displayed, | they may safely be continued without the re- strictions some have proposed.' The composition of the Ways and Means
 committee makes one fact very clear, that is. 1 that if Speaker Carlisle in his inaugural l speech adopted the platform of MT. Randall, l he has framed his committees in accordance with his own tariff views. The Democratic I side of the committees is aggrsssively free ! trade. Mir. Morrison is said, in fact, to
 have bill already partly prepared and ready | to be submitted to ths committee at an early l day. There can be no doubt that bill will l be reported to the House, and that the tariff 1 discussion which it was the special purpose ] of MT. RandalPs policy to avoid will begin, l possibly by February. The composition ot this committee unquestionably will~make ! the tariff one of the prominent issues in the next Presidential campaign. The Appropriation committee is so con-
 etituted that it is very evident that there will be another attempt to carry out the Randall policy of so-called retrenchmens. Mir. Ran
 dalI will be assisted by that eminent cheese 1 parer, Holman, Indiana, who stands second ! on the committee. There will doubtless be
 another outcry as to extrayagant expenditure,
 and at the beginning of the next session there will be, as there was at the second session of the last Democratic Congress, very large de ! fciency bills.
 The O'Donnen Correspondence. WAS RNGToN, Dec. 24.-The President to day sent to the House in answer to 8 resoIu 1 tion of that body the correspondence witt the British government relating to the triaI, conviction and execution Of O'Donneu Most of the preliminary correspondence re