The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-01-12
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
LIEWXAM'S LETTER FROM THE
SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.
Capers, and General Gossip.--The
Committees and Our Congressman.
Special Correspondence to The Sentinel.

Capers, ana General GOSS1p.-.Ihe
Committees and Our Congressman.
Special Correspondence to TIE Sentinel.
WAsH1NGToN, Jan. 9.-Well, Con-
gress re-assembled on last Wednesday,
according to adjournment; the Speak
er announced the House committees
on the following day, an adjournment
was thereupon taken until to-day
(Mon 1ay,) when the actual work OF
the session will begin.
OUR CoNGREssMEN AND THE COM
MITTEEs.
North Carolina Jared badly in the
assignment of our members to COM
mittees. In the last Congress, Gen.
Cox, Judge Bennett, and Col. Green
were all given chairmanships. Gen.
Cox's committee. that of Reform in
the Civil Service, was among the
more important ones. This year we
get but one little chairmanship-and
a very little one at that: Col. Cowles
is made chairman of the committee on
expenditures in the department of
Justice The other assignments do
not burden our State or our States
men with a great deal of honor. Why
i. this +? Is Mr.. Carlisle to be blamed ?
Most assuredly not. North Cardinals
delegation are all raw hands. Maj.
Latham, has been here before, but
not for number of years Messrs.
Cowles, Henderson and Johnston have
served but one term, while all the
balance never answered to roll call
before. A State that is continually y
rotating its Congressman does not
come in for a very large share of hon
ors when the committees are appoint
ed. And new Congressman do not
make very effective representatives,
either.
On each standing committee there
are 13 members-S Democrats and 5
Republicans. Following is the as
signment of the North Carolina Con-
gressmen and the order in which they
stand in each committee:
Cowles, chairman committee on eX-
penditures in the Department of JUS
tice; Sd member of com. on patents !;
3rd member select com. (7 members)
ON expenditures in Postoffice depart
ment.
Henderson, 7th member judiciary
committee 4th member committee on
pensions.
Latham, Sth member private land
claims committee 9Th member on
committee on the District of Colum
bia.
McClammy, 7th member com. on
agriculture 9th member com. on al
coholic liquor traffic, composed of 10
members.
Rowland, Sth member of com. on
postofices and postroads Sth member
com. on election President and Vice
President
Simmons, 9th member com. on
claims; 3rd member select com. on
expenditures in Treasury department.,
composed of members.
Johnston, second member com. on
public buildings and grounds.
Nichols, 18th member com. on la
Dor; 18th member com. on mines and
mining.
Brewer, 18th com. on war claims !;
9th member of select com. on expen-
ditures in State department, composed
of 7 members.
WHAT OUR CoNGREssMEN DID LAST
WEEK.
Mr.. Henderson introduced q bill
for a total repeal of the tax on tabacco
and its products; one for repeal of
the tax on fruit brandy and one tor
the total repeal of all internal taxes !;
Mr.. Johnston one for the repeal of in
ternal revenue Mr.. Nichols one for
the repeal of thea tax on brandy, an
other for the repeal of that on tobac-
co and third for the repeal of the
whole internal duties. The latter al
30 introduced bill to aid common
schools; Mr.. Johnston, one to erect a
public building at Asheville, one to
pay mail carriers in North Carolina
and some other States prior to May,
1881, also one to pension soldiers of
the Indian wars Mr.. Henderson in
troduced bill which helps to punct-
ure the Infamous lie of the Ionia,
Michigan correspondent. 1t provides
for an appropriation of $4,000 for
the improvement of the National
Cemetery at Salisbury. He also in
troduced bill to erect monument
on the battle field Of Guilford Court
House. Maj. Latham has bill pro-
yiding for life-saving stations at Cape
Lookout and Ocracoke inlet.
SMALL JEALoUsIEs IN CONGRESS.
The legislative work of Congress
could not begin in the House until
the committees were appointed, and a
whole month had to be wasted, simply
because the speaker was so pestered
by certain members scrambling for
high and snowy places on the commit.
tees that he had no chance to finish
his list. 1t is a singular inconsistency
that members of both parties should
unite in praising the perfect fairness
and admirable judgment of Mr.. Car
Isle, and yet be unwilling to allow
him to make up his committees as be
thinks best for Congress and the coun-
try. 1t is evident that these gentle
men have an eye first to the satisfac
tion of their own personal ambitions
and only second to the advantage OF
the people who hire their services
Mr.. Carlisle would have conferred a
positive favor ON his ctsuntrymen if he
Lad ignored all this struggle Iar artl
fetal emine2ce, m ,de his appointments