Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-07
18TH CONGRESS.
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Washington Dispatch to New York sun.
Great pressure Is brought to bear on the
speaker by members who desire special
committees, but aside from his purpose to
appoint Mr.. Morrison chairman of tho ways
aud means committee nothing definite is
known of his PLANS. II has been said that
he Ia somewhat embarrassed by the fact
that MIR. BlaCkburu's friends are urging
him for the craftsmanship Of tho appropri-
atious committee Mr.. Carlisle, 10 IL bo.
lieved, iayOts the appointment Of Mr..
Randall, aud aside from NJ Blackburn's
friends, every member VI tho House be-
lieves MIR. Carlisle would mako a very
serious mistaKo II he should put anybody
else than MIR Randall vt tho head Of that
committee. The OK speaker, of course,
has not mentioned the subject of commit
tees either to Mr.. Carlisle or to anybody
else.
The leadership of tho House on the
Democratic side is matter of some dis
cussion. There are several men ambitious
To assume that task. Mr.. Hatch, of Mis-
souri,, has mado some movement in that
direction. lie is regarded as an able and
honest man, but IL is believed he has not
sufficiently won the confidence of his party
as to his special fitness for the task. Mr..
Morrison as chairman of ways aud means
and the next friend of Mr.. Carlisle's on
the floor, 1t Is thought, does not aspire to
the place nj loader. None know better
than Mr.. Morr son that his abilities do not
! lie IN that direction. He once said My
greatest obstacle In public life, on the
| floor Of the House, have found to be the
fact that | do not think quickly ou my
feet Mr.. Randolph fuckers abilities
and his ncarness to Mr.. Carlisle make
him prominent, but Mr., Tucker Is not,
and does not pretend to ba u parliamenta.
rian. The iutrcacries and mysteries Of
the science OF parliamentary law are
mastered by minds differently cousti tuted
from his. Mr. Springer IL always at the
front, and II the Springer on the floor was
the same Springer one meets in the study
or committee room he would easily com.
mand the house. But Mr.. Springer seems
| not always % be master OF himself on the
| door, and the man who hesitates or mis-.
| takes can never be accepted as leader.
| Some members turn their eyes to Mr..
| Hewitt, but Mr.. Hewitt has no desire and
will make no effort to obtain the leader.
| ship. All of these men, and all others
who aspire 10 lead tho majority will sooner
| or later make way for the great and
natural leader OF that side of tho House,
Mr. Randall.
Governor elect Robinson said 1.-THE
perfect organization of the House for tho
| Democrats would have been Randall in the
| chair aud Carlisle on tho floor. There
would have been no snags, no false moves
no blunders then. Carlisle as a parlia-
mentarian is without q peer on that 81 de,
excepting Randall. | should have regarded
such an organization rs dangerous enough
| ,n tho m Randall gnuht
to be accepted by his party as its leader.
He is man of prudence, wisdom, caution
and courage. lie is far seeing, aud has
been tested as few men are tested. | never
| knew him u tail at . critical moment. The
time will certainly come, in my opinion,
| when his party will turn to him for guild
ance and for counsel, and he will be made
the leader because he is the leader"
Mr.. Randalrs course is the subject OF
much comment, though why there should
be any discussion about IL Is strange,
Said he IL shall exert all the power |
have, with all the zsal poss 5ss, to make
tho record ot the first session Of this
Congress one that tho Democratic party
can 60 To the country 90, with confidence
that II will be accepted as satisfactory.
have no personal ends 70 serve aud nc
recollections to hamper me, aud am con
scIous OF no motive but zeal for the cOun.
try, whose best interests feel sure are Il
be subserved by the party now in the
majority"
There is no doubt among Nr. Randall,
friends, who were so greatly disappointed
by his defeat by Mr. Carlisle that If the
issue which they made prominent through
his canvass is made the policy Of this
Congress tho Democratic party will win a
the next election. There is a growing
feeling, too, not twithstanding assertions tC
the contrary, it will be found before the
session ends that Mr.. Randall 10 his can
. vass had mapped out the policy. Thil
: conviction is very rapidly healing the sore
( that disappointment in the late canvass
made, aud if tho committees that Mr.. Car
; Isle announces fulfil the tenor Of hi
5 speech on taking the chair there IS firm
belief that the country will see harmo'
NOUS and earnest body of Democrats il
, the lower House.