Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-27
NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS
A Slate for Chairmanships OF House
Committees

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-[Special TO THR BEE
There is a good deal of speculation around
the house as 20 whom will get tho chairman
ships of the prominent committees in the
Fifty-irst congress. 1t is the almost unani-
nous belief here that President Harrison
will call an extra session Of congress to.
meet either in April or October, ana specula-
ton as to the chairmen of the committees is
as legitimate this time as speculation on the
cabinet. In the opinion of the best informed
republican members-elect, the most promi-
neut chairmanships of the Fifty-first con-
gress will stand in about the following order:
Appropriations, Cannon, of Illinois; ways
and means, Mckinley, of Ohio, If he is not
speaker, but since he will probably be
speaker, II will be Reed, of Maine; elections,
Houk, of Tennessee; judiciary, Ezra b.
Taylor, of Ohio; banking and currency,
Dingley, of Maine; Coinage, weights and
merce, o'Neil, Of Pennsylvania rivers
and harbors, Henderson, of Illinois;
agricu lture, Funston, of Kansas; for
S San. na %iI" affairs. GB% oS,eIIs' of S Of M pSsi.
offices and post roads, Bingham, of Pennsyl-
vania; public lands, Payson, of Illinois;
Indian affairs, Lat'ollette, of Wisconsin;
territories, Baker, of New York; public
Jersey; Pacific railroads. Holmes, of Iowa;
education, O'Donnell, OF Michigan; labor,
Buchanan, of New Jersey; invalid pensions,
Morrill,, of Kansas; private land claims,
Dorsey, of Nebraska; military affairs,
Rhode Island; claims, Bowden, of Virginia,
and District of Columbia, Grout, of Yer
mont.
1t is expected that the republican men,
bers of the committee on ways and means
and of appropriations who will not be given
chairmanships will be retained in their pres
ent positions. There is a general impression
among republicans that Holman, of Indiana,
who is now chairman of public lands, will
be placed upon a committee where he will
have no influence in the executive depart
ment, as he has used his position
for political influence to great advantage,
and has succeeded in keeping in the depart
ment as many friends during republican add
ministration as most of the republican menu
bers.
THE sPEAKERsnIp CANVASS.
1t is improbable that canvasses for the
Speakcrship were ever conducted with SO
much good nature as those now progressing
in the houseof representatives. Each Of the
five or six candidates for the speakership of
the Fffty-tirst congress is a good friend to
the others. Frequently four or five of them
are huddled together on the floor of the
house, telling stories or giving funny
incidents of their present canvass. Every
one of them wants an extra session of con-
gress. They would, of course, like to have
their campaign shortened, but their out
spoken desire for an extra session cannot be
LAID altogether to seltishness. Each Of the
candidates is a well equipped statesman, and
each gives the strongest reasons possible to
show why an extra session should be called.
The custom has prevailed for many years
of opening Headquarters at the popular
hotels where the candidates for speaker have
received and entertained their friends. They
have run sideboards, and in some instances
have Jared their friends sumptuously. 1t is
not probable that any of the present aspir-
ants for the speakership will open up regular
headquarters. There IS a kind of rambling,
indefinite or general understanding among
them that since they are all we'll known and
are running on the same platform %eXtraor-
binary effort and expense is unnecessary. 1T
is probable, however, that as the time APP
proaches for the converting of congress the
interest in the speakership will very mater
tally increase on the part OF the candidates..
THE UEATHEN CHINESE
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, does not be-
lieve in the theory that u Chinaman can pro-
gress, although he may be Americanized in
most particulars. The other day he was
telling some of his strange experiences with
the sons of the Celestial empire, when he |
said:
he didn't know a blessed thing about the
kitchen, and it became necessary for Mrs.
Stewart to go down and show him how to do
everything. When you demonstrate in au
ocular way how a thing should be done John J
never forgets. He is very impressionable. I
Mrs. Stewart showed HIM how to make bis
cults. When she rolled the dough she took
a cutter and began to cut out the biscuits.
When the whole roll was done there was a
little triangular piece left, and of this
she made a half moon, which is Gus
tomary. didn't know anything about it at
the time, but at the end of three or four
months | discovered that every day when
our biscuits were served there was a half
moon among the lot. AT the end of a year 1
made inquiry about the matter of Mrs. Stew
art, and she went into the kitchen and !