The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-24
CHAIRS FOR STATESMEN.
REFERRING TO THOSE CARLISLE HAS
TO GIVE OUT.
Predicting Who viii Preside Overth Inn
portant Committees Contest Over
the Coinage and Currency Chairs
Warner and Bland Wiliin'.

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec 2l,--Speaker
| Carlisle will spend the greater part of the
| holidays in arranging the committees, He
| is now hard at work on tho new list, and
| intends, if possible to complete and make it
public prior to the reassembling of congress
| on January ). When the work is completed
| the speaker will furnish the respective press
associations with copies for transmission by
| telegraph.
or course nothing definite respecting
the assignment of individual members
can be stated at this time, nor in fact can
this be done until the official list is made
public, as changes are inval iably made up
to the last moment. There are surface in
dications pointing to certain selections, how
ever, which after IA careful and unpreju
diced review of the situation, it is believed
will stand, Among this class may be men
toned the following:
Appropriations--Rand of Penusvlns
mia.
Foreign atfairs-Bemont of New York
Possibilities and post-roads -Townshend or
Springer of Illinois
Military aiiair,--Curtin of Pennsylvania
or Niele of New York
Indian affairs Wellborn of Texas
fatents-Mit,holl of Connecticut
The latter committee will doubtless de-
vclop into an unusually important one dur
ing the present congress owing to the CON
templated reconstruction of the copyright
laws. Hewitt of New York has been
very prominently mentioned in con
nection with the chairmanshp Of
the naval committee, and at
this time the chances appear to indicate
that he will be finally selected, but there 5
an undoubtedly strong element of opposition
TO linn in the New York delegation.
tE hat th,a l,llE Of III
will have any effect remains to be seen
Gen. Niele, who represents the Tammany
wing at New York politics, and is a very
strong candidate for honors on the military
committee, carries with him an un
exceptional record, and is well sup
ported by his delegation, and being a
West Point graduate the speaker may recog-
nize his claims.
Many Of the committees have been out
lined for some time past, but of course there
are some which can not be decided upon
until very thorough survey of the field
has been made and the peculiar fitness of
each man carefully measured. The
revised rules too will involve nany
changes. Representative Dockery OF
Missouri is booked for the charinanship
of the committee on accounts which would
have gone to Mr.. Muller, of New York. but
for his recent illness The latter will be prop
erly cared for, however, and has notified the
speaker that he will be in his seat when
congress; reassembles.
determined contest is in progress in re
gard to the house committees on banking
and currency andecoinagc, the parties to the
contest being the leading members on the
Democratic side, who entertain opposite
views on the question of finance
and currency. Warner of Ohio is
anxious to have the chairmanship of
banking and currency, and Bland wants to
be continued at the head of the coinage
committee. Ermeqtrout of Pennsyl lvania
does not entertain the same views on
fiscal matters as Warner, and there
fore the men of Warmers way of
thinking are opposing his advance
ment to the craftsmanship of the banking
and currency committee, to which he i,
titled under the practice which has usually
obtained heretofore. The opposition To
Bland on the coinage committee is very de
cided. 1t is urged by the Democrats who
advocate the suspension of further silver
coinage that to give Bland the direction
of the committee, in view of the
utterances OF the presidents message, and
the recommendations of the report of the
secretary of the treasury on silver would be
for the Democratic party in the house
the fiscal policy of the administra-
ton. Those who are closely observ-
ing the contest express the belief that should
Bland be reappointed chairman It's commit
tee will contain a ma ority OF members who
will favor some change i'll the existing coin
age laws that will curtail the present COM
pulsory issue of 81 O0J,0O0 silver month, and
thus negative the power and influence Of the
chairman Of the committee.