Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1890-01-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. DEC. 23. 1889.

The announcement of the house COM
mittee chairmanships was made on
Saturday and the comments of his
friends on the individual assignments
are highly complimentary to Speaker
Reeds good sense. Twenty.nine out of
the tifty-six places go to the western
states; the mindle states receive six
teen, New England seven and the Pa
cilic slope three, While the south only
gets one. The promptness of the
selection Of the committee is surpris-
ing.
The first howls of disappointment
come from the west, where the suppor-
porters Of Mr.. Reed in the speakership
contest haye been carefully rewarded,
and where many of the leaders have
been unceremoniously turned down in
the selection of committees. Mr.. Reed
seems to have felt an obligation to his
party to take good care OF his opponents
iu the race, but there his self imposed
obligation ended. He could not be ex-
pectcd to take care of all the men who
had carefully searched his re lascord
summer and fall. to defeat the pet am
bition of his life. "Farmcr Wade, of
Missouri, secures the labor committee.
MIR. Reeds three Kansas supporters
have received substantial evidence of
his regard. Funston heads the agri-
cultural committee; Perkins gets that
of Indian affairs. and Morrill, receives
the inyalid pensions craftsmanship.
Carter, of Montana, who cndeavored to
swing the new states into line for Mr..
Reed gets the appropriate committee
on mines and mining.
On the other hand Representative
Thompson, who is believed by the
speakers friends to have pushed Nc
kinley's candidacy by unfair means as
against Reed, is badly left. He is an
Old and able member and ambitious
for leadership. To be practically
ignoredis hardly pleasant, and although
Mr.. Thompson said nothing very pub
licly, he cornered the speaker in the
members lobby and told him Il few
things that fired the blood in the
speakers face. AS he walked indig-
nantly away Speaker Reed looked like
a mammoth school boy who wonld like
to lick the boy he has just quarrelled
with were that boy not too small to
strike.
But this was not the only disagree
able episode of the day. After the
committees had been fully announced,
Mr.. Cheadle, of Indiana, in Il few digni-
fed words, resigned his position as Il
member of the committee on claims.
a place on this committee was offered
Mr.. Cheadle in the Gftieth congress
and fatty refused, and a repetition of the
appointment was regarded as down
right insult. The recognition of
solitary appointment OF such qn lmpor-
tant committee could not but be regards
ed by Cheadle as arebuke for having led
the republican bolt that reelected DR..
Milburn, the blind democratic chaplain
OF the last congress, as chaplain. MIR.
Cheadle naturally resents any attempt
to discipline him, and by this recon-
mendation has the unique distinction
of fbeing the only member of the house
who has no place on any committee.
Speaker Reed has therefore, one bitter
enemy in his own party.
Congressman Harmer looks further
than Speaker Reed for the author of
his sorrow. lie believes that Senator
Quay is his enemy who has done this
thing. With a long and honorable
congressional experience and success
tul service as a committee chairman
during the last congress that the repub-
lican party controlled, he naturally
expected, despite his friendship for
Mckinley, that he would receive some
thing more than assignments to fourth
or fifth position on few important
committees. He was the leading re-
publican member of the committee on
nayal affairs during the last congress,
and naturally his friends thought that
the craftsmanship of that committee
would come to him.
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