Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-10
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Mondays Proceedings In
Congress.
HOUSE COMMITTEES APPOINTED.
Mckinley, Cannon and Kelley Get
the Principal Chairmanships.
General Topics.
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TAseociated Press Dispatches to the HERALD !
WASHINGTON, December 9.-In his
prayer this morning the Chaplain of the
House referred to the death of Jeffer-
son Davis, and quoted Lincoln's words !:
"With malice toward none; with charity
for ALL"
Cannon, of Illinois, from the Commit
tee on Rules, reported a resolution author
izing.the Speaker to appoint the standing
and select committees of the House.
Adopted.
Payne, Of New York, introduced bill
defining the duties of the Sergeant-at-
Arms. 1t adds to his present duties
those of disbursing officer, with bond
of 1000. Referred.
A number of resolutions were intro
duced and referred, after which the
Speaker surprised the majority Of the
members by the appointment of the fol-
lowing committees:
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE:
Mckinley, Burrows, Bayne, Dipgley,
LcKenna, Payne, La Toilette, Gear, C ar
Isle. Mills, McMillin, Breckinridge, Of
Arkansas, and Flower.
ON APPROPRIATIONS:
Cannon, Butterworth, McComas, Hem
derson, of Iowa, Peters, ,Cogswell, Belden,
Morrow, Brewer, of Michigan, Randall,
Forney, Ssyres, Breckinridge, of Ken
lucky, and Dockery.
ON ELECTIONS:
Rowell, Houk, Cooper, Haughen,
Lacey, Dalzell, Berger, Greenhalge,
Cemstock, Crisp, O'Ferrall, Cultivate,
Maish, Moore, of Texas, and Wike, of
Illinois.
ON MILEAGE:
Lind, Townsend, of Pennsylvania,
Wallace, of Massachusetts, Clunie,
Pennington.
WHY KELLEY WAS OMITTED.
The omission of Judge Kelley from the
membership of the new Ways and
Means Committee is explained by the
fact that he wrote to Speaker Reed re-
questing to be excused from further SER
vice on this laborious committee, on &C.
count of his age and present condition of
health. The Speaker thereupon pro.
vided an honorable place for him by
making him Chairman of the Committee
on Manufactures and naming prominent
merisas his associates.
RESOLUTIONS FOR SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
The following resolutions were intro
duced and referred: For tho appoint
ment of committee of nine members to
which shall be referred all propositions
relating to arid lands; for the creation of
a committee on immigration to consist of
eleven members; for the appointment of
a WOrldtn Eoir oouo m iftoo tn oovroiat nj
nine members.
A joint resolution was passed appro-
priating 100000 for printing 400, 1000
copies of the Agricultural Report for
1889.
Adjourned until Wednesday.
THOSE STOLEN SALARIES.
The House Investigating Committee
today examined a number of members
with regard to the notes Silcott is said to
have forged and taken up for fear of the
extradition laws.
Representative Mills argued before the
committee that the November salaries
should be regarded as lost by mem
bers, and that the amount remaining
in the possession of the Sergeant-at-
Arms should be distributed at rate
proportionate to the losses among the
members who are out their salaries for
the period between March 4th and No
vember 4th.
Catchings, of Mississippi, made a
strong argument in support of the posi-
ton that the Government should bear
the loss and reappropriate the salaries Of
the members.
The question as to the Sergeant-at-
Arms being a Government agent or the
individual agent of the members per-
plexes the committee greatly, on account
of the complications to which the adoption
of either view would lead.
Shortly after the House adjourned this
afternoon the Speaker discovered that
through clerical error the name of
Sherman, of New York, had been sub.
stituted for that of Lacey, of Iowa, as
member of the Committee on Elections.
The correction was Immediately made.