The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-06

the land, and its provisions affect the
pockets, for better or for worse, of every
individual in the country. The reconciling
of the diverse interests which must be
done in such measure requires an enor-
nous amount of work and worry, and the
best men in the House are put on the ways
and means committee. Its chairman is the
leader of the majority, and Mckinley has
taken the place of Mills. Mckinley over
worked himself and got sick through it's
business some weeks ago, and Roger O..
Mills tells me that the position of chair
man of the ways and means is cancer
which gnaws at the vitals of the man who
holds it. He says that he has not recovered
from the work that he did upon it, and Nc
kinley, with the presidential bee buzzing
in his bonnet, is probably more annoyed at
the fear of mistake than Mills was John
G. Carlisle spends a great deal of time in
this committee room, and Roswell p.
Flower does considerable work within it.
The chairman of the ways and means has
for years been q
AMAN OF GREAT REPUTATION
on one side or the other of the tariff cues
ton, and the chairman of the various com
mittees Of both the House and the Senate
are especially fitted for their respective
positions. The committees are by no means
made up by chance, and the greatest eau
ton Is used to get the proper men for the
proper places. Speaker Carlisle nearly
broke his health in laying out the work for
the various members of the House, and big
Tom Reed lost many sleepless nights in the
same way last December. The head of the
committee on appropriations is Joseph G..
Cannon, of Illinois. He has been in the
House for nearly score of years, and he
is supposed to know where every dollar of
the S350,000,000 goes. General Garfield
said he would rather be on the committee
on appropriations than any other. because
it made him thoroughly acquainted with
the government. 1t is a very important
committee, and only old Congressman are
given places upon It, The committee on
Judiciary has fifteen members All of
them are lawyers, and most of them are
Judges. All sorts of legal questions come
before them, and they swallow up every
thing relating to the law. Judge E. B..
Taylor, the successor of Garfield, is it's
chairman, and he has been in the House for
years. The head of the committee on
patents is Benjamin Butterworth, who
was once commissioner of patents, and the
chairman on the committee on postoffices is
an eX-postmaster, Harry Bingham, of
Philadelphia. 1t is the same with the
other committees, and the leading figures
and best workers are put in the most i'm
portant places.
THE SENATE ELECTS ITS COMMITTEES
by the yea and nay vote, the majority de-
Gliding upon their constitution in caucus.
The same wisdom is exercised in the com
position of the committees, and the chair
men have their specialties. Senator
Dawes, the head of the Indian affairs, has
made hobby of Indian matters for thirty
years and he knows more about them than
any other man in the country. There is no
better posted lawyer in the country than
Edmunds, and as head of judiciary he
knows more by intuition than any other
Senator can learn by reason. Allison is
peculiarly fitted to be chairman of the com
mittee on appropriations, and his diplomatic
talents enable him to reconcile the diverse
interests which come before him. 1t was
in reference to his actions upon this com
mittee that ingalls, made that famous re-
mark about him. He was disposing of
some obiector in his oleaginous manner
when one of the western Senators admir-
ingly said to Ingalls,:
"Ain't he slicks'
Eyes," said Ingalls,, she's the slicbest
man in the Senate. You could put his 200
pounds into hob-nailed wooden clogs and
drive him at a ten-mile pace over a cor
duroy road and he would not make as much
noise as a tom cat slipping across Turk
ish carpet after canary bird.''