New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-06
COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED.
THE RESULT OF MIR. cARLIsLEs LABoRs.

THE RESULT OF MIR. CARIISLES LABORS.
CONFEDERATE BRrGiDIsRs ::GxT THE LIONS SHARE
or OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES STATE FARES
PooRLY-LUCKY Observation-Disclosures
0MRN SHUT OUr-sOME HUMOROUS FEATURES
rnY TELsGRAPu TO THE TRlRUSGI
WASHINGTON, Jan. Sat last, the agony Is over.
Mr. Carlisle has taken the plunge and his COM
mittees are announced. Why that should not
have been done yesterday is one Of those things
that might puzzle Lord Dundrcary. 10 place
William l.. Scott on the Ways and Means CON-
mittee instead of Samuel S. Cox is worse than an
anachronsm Mr.. Scott has served two years III
the House, and has been q member oil comhittee,
three meetings of which be is understood TO nave
attended during that period 10 make ways
and Means Committee embrace thirteen members
four of whom were Kentucky born and educated
in the modern Kentucky ideas IS Simply onens ~.
Il is an offence not only TO the minority OF inc
House. but to the majority Also ms Is not say
ing ANYTHING against the men personally, Dut VINO
ever would have thought OF the TWO COUSINS msnns
breckenridge as members Of the Ways ana Means
Committee, except q Kentucky SpenKer, i'll ~,
course the States which are the bone and sinew
of the Nation take secondary place IN this co'h-
position of committees.
THE SOUTH TAXES THE LIONS SHARE.
Taking the first ten committees and IN the
order Of their Importance what do we ma as I'd
chairmanshipsP Randall goes to the head OF APP
propriations Wilkins, Of Ohio, to the hcau oi
Banking and Currency; Belmont OF Ncw-iorR' 10
the head of Foreign Affairs and Holman TO the the
everything is said The South takes the rest ex-
cert that Military Affairs is placed under tne
Craftsmanship of Richard w. Townshend, OF III,
nois who will be obliged to borrow SPARKS ; or; oa
hat or buy a new one in order to gain the title
of General Now as to the membership OF com
mittees outside of embarrassing: Oh course the
Speaker was Obliged to take such materai as TIC
had ut hand. With the exception OF perhaps TWO
of the important committees the tail will wag the
dog Some Of the NeWl9rR hcSc ais $
Timothy ]. Campbell, who IS still WondeIng WHY
he was so done for. Then Amos Cummings !yi who
thought he ought to be Chairman OF ,t :, haue
bccn. was disappointed. The committee as made
np is composed Of amiable gent cmcn, but it Is not
weak. 1t should be understood that this com
mittec has become one Of the most important III
Missouri gets five chairmanships Ncw-YorlS gets
three New-Yorl has fifteen Democratic Repre-
spntaiivcs and Missouri has twelve. Perhaps no
further illustration will be needed: Here is the
way Ncw-YorlS men arc placed. and it goes without
saying that very few Of them are satisfied p.r
Wossg sn IT
and Beldcn Bankiic and cmrrencyml'ac1n and WI.
s ,sr,Ssmon and sa& p'Tf~sSI
Nntng Naval AalTs-
T a%n rSie"i Bakcr war CaImsss indian
o' Pos. o% ass" and 0
man and White Pacific IailroadsTracey and
Y j. campbcll and LaidIaw. Expenditures in In
terror observation-disclosures and West ExpcndIiurcsin
ncndun,s in Toston;ce Depart mrnt-Merriman and
Moflit. Expenditures on Public Bu,ldlng[E >.
U Gam nd VAN aways "pl and
WIiber. Tcrrltories-Cox and Baker District OF col
umbla- Mahoncy
SHOWING CONTEMPT FOR CIVIL SERVICE RrFORM
Sneaker Carlisle has shown his contempt for
Civil Service reform by appointing as the chair
man of the Committee on Reform in the Civil Ser
vice Mr. Clement. of Georgia, who in the last Con-
gress sat up nights to write out his views IN oppo-
stion o Civil Service reform. He is the chairman
of The new committee. and has with him such
coadjutors as Dargan. of South Caroline. Rusk, one
Of Mr. Germans lleutenants. OF Baltimore. ana Mr.
Perhaps il Is hardly worth while again TO call
attention to the fact that the Confederacy is IN the
SADDLE far as the chairmanshIns and inflortles
of tie C. mniitte are concerned. 1Icie are some
misguided districts in Newfoundland that sent
Democrats to the House. but IL would take a
microscope 10 find where these Representatives are
placed. ,., 1890
humorous Giro, instances. For example, the state
of ew-Jersey has a an IN he Home who is rot
wholly unknown, hut he is placed on fhe commit
tee of Foreign hfaIrs after Perry belmont. Mt
NcCreaIy, Nr Norwood, NJ Fooker. OF MISSISSIPPI,
Mr. Russell of Worcester. Nass. Mr.. faynor, OF
Mary land, Mr.. Chapman. of Detroit. and CERTAIN
other people. This REPRESENTATIVES, name Is WIZ
lam Walter Phelps. Bnt ne is rckIer than NIT OF
Illinois. And then there is Mir. Cannon OF ILLINOIS,
who has been in Congress some ten wears. The
Speaker kindly retained Linn on ne Appropriation,
COMMITTEES: and so. too. Ex-Governor Long. OF
n assa chuSeets is not deprived of his place on ne
Appropriations, but received no promotion else
If looks very much rs though the COMMITTEE on
Invalid Pensions has been packed against Chair
m1n Matson. OF tic majority OF the committee
SIX are new memhcrs aud at least three o. thcIn
h"ve the rnnutaiOD of being CopDerhead Demo
crals In the compos ion of the Committee on ia,
cic railroad, the Speaker probably was influenced
hat lac. l. nff hn m
Pacific Railroad Commission. Mr. Outhwalir. the
new chairman. WAS the author OF the b'li Tor Inc
refundlng Of the Pacific railroads. Indebtedness,
which received the approval of some of the best
lawyers in the last Congress Among his collea@ncs
will he Mr. Richardson. If Tennessee, who was
member of tine commit tee IN the last ongress: Mr
Collins. of Massachusetts,. who Is member o. tho
Judiciary Committee and Mr.. Carufh, OF Ken
lucky all OF whom are good lawyers.
An Fx-REBrL THE CHAIRMAN OF WAR CLAIMS.
OF courso this Is an era of good feeling and no
body must think of shaking the bloody shirt
otherwise II might seem strange to announce IN
Tue TRIBUNE that one-lePged ex-Confroerate
soldier named Stone il the new chairman OF the
Committee War Claims MT. stone Is good
man. :.
Perhaps one OF the most humorous incidents I'D
the making up of the committees WIS the snags
thrt VIZ. Carlisle struck when ne mrs. designa'e d
the Chairman of the Committee on Naval AhalIs
and Military Affairs respectively II was all right
for hun To assign dry-!and sailor Colonel Herbert,
to the Chairmanship of Naval Affairs, but II was all
Wheeler a graduate Of West Point and one of the
MOST d in guished officers Il Confederate side
during the war, to the craftsmanship Of Military
Affairs II the naval affairs of the country are
safe in Herberls hands, cer,ainly the army Is san
in Wheeler's hands The ridiculous aspect Of the
case ap pears when looks at the chairmansllp
OF Military Affairs and finds il held by Richard W.
Towasiend of Illinois, man who never fought
wi h thing except b's mouth.
THE COMMITTEE s IN FILL.
The committees in full are given below:
Ways and Means-Ai.s Cd. OF Texas chsrmsn McML
LEI (Dl Brecksnrd Ca ArxAnSls: Brecx-
enrige ID Kentucky TUr ier Cd. Georgia Wilson tDL
West Virginia; Scott tDh Pcnnsytvana Byaum OBJ n
d,suat Kelley ri Psnnsvlva browne fR)
Indiana Reed RI Maine: Mckinley (R Ohio; Burrows
(-). Michigan
Appr"pr atons-Rsndal oh Psansvlvania chairman
Torpe. (E J. Alabama BLraes Cd, Missouri F"ran ID,
ONO: savers (D) Texas Gle ID 4, G-orsn Folk
CamppeI {l N-w.York Cav (Dl Louisiana: Rice o..
Miune-oia (IlD inois I (R). kan-as But