The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-01-16

pleted the organization OF that BODY oy LOT.
mally announcing where he has hau
assigned his 325 men on his forty'eigh'
committees.
There Is no more than the usual amount oi
dissatisfaction among members on account
of their positions on the committees III
deed | think there was less complaint than
WAS expected, and the general ver' let OF
those who have no personal Interests In the
great questions with which these commit
tees are 20 deal, is that Speaker Carlisle
has arranged them with wisdom and fair
ness.
There are 30 many new members In the
present house, that their assignments had
10 be made somewhat blindly, as their
special abilities had not been tested But
the Speaker profited by his experience In
the forty eighth congress In placing the
old members with view to their qualitica-
lions. The more prominent committees
which have the most important work to DO
are strong.
With each congress the task OF organiA-
ing the house is becoming more delicate
and burdensome one. The question has
been raised whether the labor should any
longer thrown upon one man.
Both branches Of congress are now ready
for real work, any amount of which Is
waiting tor them. IL is thought the session
will continue until August. About three
thousand bills have been presented IN the
house alone. Among those that have been
introduced in the senate is one demanding
longer sessions of congress, 50 that the
country can have more work for the same
money. The sessions ought to be cOntinu.
Gus, with only such short recesses as other
business men take from their labors. The
pay of congressman goes on whether they
are in session or not. While 1t Is very
agreeable arrangement to them for con
gress to sit only zen or eleven months out
of the twenty four, public business suffers
neglect.
The list of bills with which congress is
flooded furnishes undeniable proof of
American inventive genius No possible
subject of Legislation has been sighted.
Among them are many old-timers that
come up and die out with every new con
gress One bill asks that for the remain
der of her life the widow Of Gen. Grant
may correspond with her friends and that
her friends may correspond with her with
out paying postage. The most popular
measure is one tor the establishment of
Agricultural Experiment Stations. Nearly
all the mem ers from rural districts have
introduced II In one form or another.
About a dozen Civil Service bills have
been presented and new bill asks for the
of National University
here. 1t provides Instruction In the high
er branches of all departments Of knowl-
edge, with facilities for research and
Space forbids me to give
the full terms Of the bill, but | will state
that the government of the institution is to
he vested In Board of Regents, consisting
NJ one member from each state Of the Tn
ion, TO be appointed by the Governor
Each state and territory shall be entitled
to scholarships In the ratio of one for each
Representative or Delegate and two for
each Senator. These scholarships shall
secure free instruction for five years.
The Republicans in both branches of
congress are after the Pension Office and
the senate has passed resolution for an
of Its management, past and
present. They complain that Commits
sloner Black does not treat them with sufii.
cient Difference when they call on business
and they have to do something In retalia-
lion against the recent charges, In Gen
Blacks annual repor, about the pension
bureau having been political machine,
run by Republican partisans.
J. l.. Pringle, of Streater, has been
awarded patent on thill coupling; II. X.
Adams, Marseilles, one on pump and j.
Clark, Somanauk, one on windmill.