Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-01-07
WASHINGTON LITTER.


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has been, the appointment of tn
House Committees. The Speaker
room is literallys thronged from
morning till night by members wht
are urging their own interest or tina
OF a friend. To complicate affairs
it is said that the President is as
Stunning to dictate to the Speaker
certain appointments that the
Speaker don't want. and that sew.
eral members are quite wroth be-
cause their merits are not more
readily recognized. All these
things are sad comment on Amer
lean politics, and ought to disgust
the people to that extent that they
| will see to it that the next House
is Republican. There is no ques-
ton that the important committees
are being most shamefully packed in
certain interests, and it is through
these committees that legislation
must come, if we have any regard
ing the great issues. As an Illus
tration, the control of the Ways and
Means Committee, tie most imror-
tant at this time, is given to the
Communicating South, while the
bee hive OF all New England is only
| given one member, and the great
manufacturing State of New Jersey,
with its millions invested, IS left
without a representative on the
Committee. This is only one of
many instances showing how des-
perate the democracy are in play
ing their lost game.
Ex-Speaker Randall, of Pennsyl-
vania, will be appointed chairman
of the Appropriation Committee,
though neither the President or
Speaker want him in that position,
but he carries too many guns to be
ignored, and is bent upon having
it, and will get it. Judge Holman,
OF Indiana, who was served many
years on that Committee, is to be
dropped, and will be made chair
man of Public Lands, which change
does not suit him. General Wheel
er, OF Alabama who was the chief
Confederate Cavalry leader, wants
to be chairman OF Military Affairs,
but Dick Townsend, of Illinois, is
booked for the place, and Wheeler
is mad.
General Herbert, of Alabama,
who was another Confederate lead
err, is to be chairman of Naval
affairs. Culbertson, OF Texas,
prominent in the ConfeGeracy, is to
be chairman of the Judiciary, and
Dibble of South Carolina, another
prominent Confederate has the
Committee on Public buildings and
Grounds.
The Invalid Pensions Committee
was made unusually prominent in
the last Congress, by the Presi-
dent vetoing $50 bills that the Com
mittee reported and passed. Col.
Matson. OF Indiana, was chairman,
and successful in passing a few bills |
over the veto. For that the Presi- |
dent demands new chairman, but
whether such petty vengeance will |
succeed or not, is matter of doubt |
up to this writing.
The President sent to the Pope
as Christmas present, a beautiful
copy of the United States
Constitution, richly bound in book
form. There are fifteen pages in
the book, and each page eighteen
inches square. The book rests in
a gorgeo us case of Tyrian purple,
and doubtless will be highly priced
by the Pope.
The report of the Geological Sur
vey just published, shows that the
production of minerals in the United
States, reached last year the enor-
nous value of $465 900, 900, the
largest yet recorded in every coun-
try, and about $40 200, 900 greater
than the year previous.
1t is asserted this morning on
good authority that on the le-as-
of Congress the President
mill copd in a Spociai YnpSGapa |