Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-12-30
The Committees Organized.

Boards of Education in the State.
The Committees Organized.
When an excited editor tele-
graphed, "The Southern Confeder-
acv is in the saddle again." upon the
election of Speaker Carlisle, he
helped to prepare the way for the
reaction which Speaker Reeds COM
mittees illustrate. Democracy placed
the South in charge of nearly all i'm
portant business. 1t was an absurd
ity that the Ways and Means Com
mittee should be composed of Mr..
Mills of Texas, chairman, and five
other Southern men, whose districts
were almost entirely destitute of
manufactures, with only seven North
ern members; that the Committee on
Elections should consist of Mr.. Crisp
of Georgia, chairman, and six other
Southern men, representing constitu-
encies which had been largely de-
frauded of the right of suffrage, with
only eight Northern members that
the Committee on Judiciary should
consist of Mr.. Culberson, of Texas,
fifteen; that a member from Mis-
souri, should be chairman of the Com
mittee on Banking, and another of
the Committee on Coinage, and
another of the Committee on Agri-
culture, land a member from Kentucky
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
and one from Alabama of the Com
mittee of Naval Affairs, and one
from Georgia of the Committee on
Postoffices, and one from Arkansas
on the Committee ON Merchant Ma
rine and Fisheries. If a change of
parties was desirable for nothing
else, it was at least desirable in order
to get the important business of the
Government into the charge of men
who knew something about it, and
whose constituents had fair share
of practical interest in that business.
Mr.. Carlisle gave the craftsmanship
of thirty-one committees to Southern
men, and only twenty-five chairman
ships to Northern men. Yet the
south embraces only third of the
population and less than third of
the business Of the country.
Speaker Reed has given eight
chairmanships to Pennsylvania, sew
en- to New York, five to Ohio, five to
Illinois, four to Wisconsin and three
each to Kansas and Michigan. The
East had ten chairmanships under
Mr.. Carlisle, and now it has twenty
three. The West had twelve under
Mr.. Carlisle, and now it has thirty.
This comparison strikingly illustrates
the change in control and manage
ment of National affairs which the
people accomplished by their votes
last fall. The business, the wealth,
the population and enterprise of the
Northern States again have some
voice in the conduct of public affairs,
and it will be strange indeed if gov
ernment more in harmony with the
needs of the people does not result.
This at least is certain, that the
Ways and Means Committee will not
be used to make war on Northern
manufactures and on Southern manu-
factures as we'll.
In making his selections promptly,
Speaker Reed has enabled the men,
bers to consult their constituents
during the holiday recess, if they
return home in regard to the particu-
lar business entrusted to them.
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What a great and far-reaching in
fuence is exercised by the weather,
especially if it departs from its usual
course for protracted period. Who,
for instance, has for a moment real
lied that the mild, warm air of the
past few weeks, the calm, almost
summer days that have so charming
ly wooed smile from the frowning