The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-23
CRISP'S LONG LIST READY
THE TASK FINISHED BY WORKING
TILL MIDNIGHT.

a Few Changes LIKELY to Be Made
This Morning - Mills Would Un-
doubtedly Have Been offered t,s
Coveted Craftsmanship But For the
Advice of the Speakers Friends.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-By working
until midnight again Speaker Crisp practi-
cally finished his committee list Tonight.
He will make some changes tomorrow
morning. Eleventh hour changes always
have been made 10 the House committees
lists, but In the present instance they are not
likely to be important changes The speaker
has worked hard to accomplish the task he
set himself by the day Of adjournment and
is thoroughly weary. The incipient grip,
the loss of sleep, the loss of meals and all the
usual trials incideptal to the making of
committee lists have been supplemented in
Speaker Crisp's case by the annoyance due
TO the peculiarlties Of the situation.
A HARD TASK.
The effort 10 place the great democratic
majority with due regard for the wishes of
his friends, the deserts of his opponents and
his own ideas of the policies TO be followed
by the HOUSE was compromised by the Bit
terness over Mr.. Mills and the other old
leaders of the House. The new leaders,
who helped TO elect Mr.. Crisp and were
helped 30 prominence thereby, did not aid
ter. If they had let the speaker alone he
would probably have offered Mr..
Mills the Craftsmanship of the
ways and means, which would
have averted all the trouble, but they
poisoned the speaker's:mind, SO that at last
even all the advice of the three senators
who had done SO much to elect Mr.. Crisp
could not persuade him to give Mr. Mills
the place.
WHY SPRINGER WAS CHOSEN.
Mr.. Crisp made Mr.. Springer chairman
of the ways and means committee because
he wanted a northern man II be did not ap-
point Mr.. Mills and MIR. Springer was the
most available northern man. He did not
propose to make Mr.. Springer the leader of
the House. He put Mr.. McMiliin second
on the committee on rules for the express
purpose of making him the leader of the
House. He appreciates the fact that Mr..
Springer cannot lead, and does not propose
that he shall attempt it except when the
tariff question Is up. He realizes that this
Is an important exception, but hopes that
with Mr.. McMillins help and with his own
Mr. Springer will pull through.
FREE RAW MAIHhIALs
The speakers purpose is to pass few
raw material bills under suspension Of the
rules without opportunity for amendment
and so he thinks that this can be carried
out even with Mr.. Springer at the head of
the ways and means committee. At the
same time he would rather have had another
chairman IL he could have found him, but
he could not, SO Mr.. Springer, who has
been anxious even tonight, will be relieved
TO find tomorrow afternoon that his name
heads the ways and means committee.
NO SURPRISES.
There will be, after all, few important
surprises, so thoroughly have the newspa-
pers exploited the speakers intentions. Mr.
Springer will lead the ways and means, Mr..
Holman the appropriations. Mr.. Bland,
coinage; Mr.. Mills, commerce, and Mr..
Hatch, agriculture.
Messrs. McMillin, Wilson OF West Vir-
ginia and Turner of Georgia will be the sole
survivors of the old democrats on the ways
and means committee.
The two Breckinridges will be found on
the committee on appropriations
Up to a late hour tonight Mr.. Bynum
had not been placed on any of the first class
committees.
Some of the other chairmen will probably
be: Mr.. Culberson, judiciary; Mr.. Blount,
foreign effairs; Mr.. Reilly, Pacific railroads :
Mr.. Page Of Rhode Island, manufactures;
Mr.. Fowler of New Jersey, merchant ma
rine; Mr.. Cummings. library; Mr.. Bank
head, public buildings; Mr.. Blanchard,
rivers aud harbors; Mr.. O'Ferrall, elections
Mr.. Herbert. naval affairs; Mr.. Outhwaite,
military affairs.
GEORGIA ON THE COMMITTEES.
Georgia will have a number of good places
on the committees. Representatives Blount
and Lester get chairmanships, the former of
foreign affairs and the latter of expendi.
lures in the state department. Representa-
tive Lester gets also his old place on the
committee on rivers and harbors, where he
preferred to stay In order to ad Vance the deep
water project rather than take a place
which he could have had on q more promi-
nent committee. Representative Turner
gets his old place on the committee
on ways and means. Repre-
sentative Livingston, with his usual
good luck. gets place on the committee on
appropriations Representative Watson goes
on the committees on the militia and the
eleventh census; Representative Moses on
agriculture. pensions and accounts; Repre-
sentative Wynn on private land claims and
war claims Representative Everett on
education and levees and improvements Of
the Mississippi. Representative Lawson
gets speaker Crisp's old place on elections
and place on expenditures in the departs