Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-12-29
CARLISLE CRITICISED.
An Extreme View - Good Bye 10
River Improvements.
The South Has the Important
Committees Packed against
Her.
Special 70 Inc New Orleans Picayune.

Special to the New Orleans Pieayune.
WASHINGTON, December 26.---The
composition Of Mr.. Carlisle's commit
tees is still the leading topic Of discus
sion. The New York Tribune OF to
day, governed as usual by sectional
malice, attempts to show that Mr.
Carlisle has constructed his commits
tees in the interest Of the South. To
show this, Missouri is set down as a
Southern State, and the three Chair.
mansEips OF Banking and Currency,
Coinage, and Agriculture, which Ger.
tainly involve no sectional issue, are
charged as a favor to the South, be.
cause the Ohairmon happen 10 be from
Missouri.
The truth lies the other way. The
three committees specially important
to the South are Ways and Means,
Appropriations, and Rivers and Har.
bors. On the first the sugar line 10.
serests have no representatives. 1t
was asked for and denied by Mr.. Car
Isle. Ga Appropriations the South
has four members only and the North
eleven members, and it would require
= good deal of hardihood to assert that
the South had her share Of the Fed,
eral appropriations.
In the army appropriation bill, the
navy appropriation bill, the grand
pension steal of fifty millions and the
diplomatic appropriation, the South
has no interest or advantage whatever.
From these appropriations she is ex-
cluded, and only gets small share in
the postofise appropriation bill.
The river and harbor bill Of 1882
did jsstice TO the South for the first
time since the war, aud for that reason
nobody who voted for it, except Blan-
chard, Of Louisiana, is put on this
Committee. The Chairman, Mr.
Willis, of Kentucky, voted against it;
the leading friends Of the bill, namely
Dunn, Horr, and Washburn, are
marked for prescription.
Mr.. Carlisle. when be is sworn 10,
calls God to witness that he never gave
aid or comfort to any soldier or friend
OF the South, and he has certainly
never given aid or comfort TO the river
aud harbor bill or the Mississippi
river appropriation, except perhaps 10
recent private interviews intended II
secure for his election votes.
He has not lived up to the promise
Of these interviews In any very flag
rant manner, but is willing to let the
Mississippi river appropriation scuffiG
for life as best it may with a green
committee to uphold it against a pow,
erful opposition and q mendaciouI
subsidized press.
The New York Sun, which is az
implaoable enemy Of the river and
harbor bill, treats the new committee
as a doubtful quantity, which may OIL
may not form river and hArbor bill
Neither Morrison nor Carlisle have
ever favored the river and harbor bill
and it may be q part Of their gamt
either to have no bill or one SO SINAI
as TO be of no real value to the c0uH
try. The last is probably what the
will play for, but such bill will prob
ably encounter so many amendment
in the Hosss % finally to break down
TIE prospect for the Mississippi
river has been thrown away, and Rep
resenta.ives from the Mississippi val
ley have done il by voting for Carlisle
Several did it for selfish purposes; ant
have b en- cruci6ed with many scorn
iul taurts from the ring that made tn
Speaker.
| The more the Ways and Mean
Committee is studied, the more evi
dent is it that the committee is organ
lied in the interest and for the pur
pose Of tariff agitation this winter, an,
is reckless Of Democratic defeat mex
year.
The best commentary on Carlisle
election is that a majority Of Demo
Gratis in private give up the next Presi
Dental election, while the Republi
can Senators and members regard tn
tight as already won.