Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-22
THE NEXT HOUSE.
The Speakerhsip COntest-WhO the Can
didates Area Quadruple Fight.
Order Applying Civil Service to the
Railway Mail Service.
Special to the Gazette.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2l.--As it is now
conceded the next house will be Repub-
lcan gossip is thus early INDUCED in as
to the speakership and the important
committee chairmanships. The contest
for speaker is a quadruple one, with
Reed, Mckinley, Cannon and Burrows in
the field, and they are all more or less
active, the silent WORKER however, is
Mckinley. He is not a man of buster,
but for good, honest. plain work he is far
ahead of his competitors. Then too he
has the advantage Of prestige earned at
Chicago, where he remained steadfast to
Sherman, and refused to allow his own
name TO be used for the presidency when
he had a good winning chance. Joe
Cannon is aggressive and has
the name of being the Re
publican watchdog of the treasury.
He has had many years experience on the
appropriations committee, and is an able
and ready debater, knows the rules of
the house thoroughly, but is not so mag
netic as Mckinley. Burrows is some
what of an orator and little inclined to
be autocratic like his namesake, Julius
voice like steam calliope, whose lower
tones seem to come from the sOles of his
feet. His candidacy is, if anything, less
formidable than any of the other COM
petitOrs. Reed is the widest known can
didate and has been i'll the chair fire.
quently. He is a big boy, and reminds
one of Billy Bacllus, character in one
of Lotta's plays, with pedagogical
tendencies. Reed is the most sar-
castle man in either house and
filings his rhetoric with scintil-
lations of wit and whitening irony
as best suits the occasion. No one ever
thinks of calling him Mr.. Reed. He is
simply Tom Reed, and will be
always called so. He has
always received the complimentary
vote for the speakeTship from
the Republicans since the Democrats
captured the house, and it will be very
hard on him if he does not receive the
vote next session when it means some
thing. Sill yOn can get odds that he
will not, il you choose TO bet on him.
Next after the speakership comes the
of the ways and means
committee, and gossips are already busy
about that. viii Judge Kelly get it!
The present indications are against him.
He is grand Old man, has been in the
house thirty consecutive years, and, ut
seventy-fve years of age, is still able to
make good speech and be heard all over
the house. But he is still too
old for leader of the house
and it is safe to say that the Republican
speaker will appoint some bright, active,
Republican who is III accord
with the present position of the party in
the matter of tariff revision. AprOpOs of
the ways and means committee, il is in
teTesting to know what will be done with
Mr.. Carlisle. He will have to be provi-
ded for on the committee, and there viii
be some embarrassment in placing him.
E4eSfBIld prefer to set al the head of the
minority of the ways and
means committee, but Mr.. Mills viii
probably not be willing to addicate the
place which properly belongs to him. If
they cannot get the position they desire
on the committee which will frame the
next tariff bill, they would prefer TO 90
on some minor committees.
The order made by the president apply
ING the civil service rules to the mail
service brings between five and six
employees of the government
under the protection of the civil service
laws. Inefe mas Deen some comment
upon its being made at this time, politi-
cal opponents of the administration al
leging that the president has done it to
prevent the new administration from
making a "clean sweep As a matter
Of fact, this action has been in contem-
plation by the president for several
The yearners for the flesh-pots
lenOuuce the extension of the civil service
system to the railway postal service as Il
sham reform. This is bosh. The preSi-
dent was only restrained from issuing the
order i'll order to ascertain its probable
ELECT Upon that service. Whatever else
siaE BE said against Cleveland, he cannot
De truly charged with established rules
FOR the tenure of Office i'll Il partisan
,pirit. Mr. Harrison will find the civil.
service on very different footing from
hat upon which it stooG under Grant and
Arthur, and it is believed GS those who
know hiIa best that he viii not be driyen-t
rom his pledges TO still furthers desei4s I
he spirit and letter of 'tifss atw ;;;;%tf 49,
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