The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-17

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ASHINGT0&. Dec. l. 81
Speaker Crisp may have made
some promises before his election
as Speaker-fe@ men ever occupied
the position who had not done 50 III
their canvass for votes, but he has
made few. If ANY. promises since Ills
election. He lets the other fellows
do the talking while he does dontle
duty as a thiL- II: he knows that If
Will be impossible TO so arrange the
committee ass, gnmeDts that i'll tue
democratic members OF the House
Will be pleased If those who ENJOY
his confidence may be relied upon,
he will devote himself principally to
the task of making an eQulfabte
distribution of the chalrmanships
and places upon the import ant com
mittees between the various sections
of the country, believing that no
Representative will allow his per
sonal disappointment to make him
angry when he sees that his section
is fully represented. 1t is now
almost certain that the lists of com
mittees will not be announced until
after Christmas recess. and it is eX
pected that Speaker Crisp will, af
ter all the members have been
given a chance to be heard, retire
TO bis his home in Georgia, or 20
some other place, where be eau
devote his time during the recess to
making up TIE committees.
All sorts of gossip about the
chairman ships and the makeup Of
the important committees may be
heard, but about the only thing
that everybody seems to be agreed
upon is that the Ways and Means
committee, which deals with tariff
matters, will be dominated by
| Nor theTn aud " cStern members,
whoever It's chairman may be. The
general opinion is that Mr.. Nil s
can have the Craftsmanship of this
committee if he wishes it, but some
Of his close friends say that he viii
not take the place, several reasons
being given why he will not; one OF
them being that if there is an extra
session of the Texas Legislature il
the Spring he will be a candidate
for the uneXpHcd tenn in tie
Senate of ex.> enatOr Reagan-n0v
temporarily being filled be Senator
Californian that if be Is eiec;t(
he will at once resign his seat il
the House. But there are those
who think that that is Just tbG
reason why he should take tn
chalrmanship. They argue tina
for Mr.. Crisp to tender this lmpor
tant place to Mr. Mills and for hin
to accept it would show that no hat
blood was left 10y the hot fight TO
the nomination, and that the com
mittee could be SO made up tina
the next democrat on the commits,
could from the first take III
the hard work of the chairman ant
that in the event OF the election o
Nlr. NJ Ills to the Senate this gtnte
man might be made chairman.
Resolutions providing tor an in
vestlgat:0n OF the Pension Oftic,
will shortly be offered IN the Hous,
by Representatives Cooper, 0
indiana, and EnlOp, Of Tennessee
The latter gentleman says that IL!
resolution will be tor an inytustlca
ton of the metho Is used AMI is n
tended TO SAVE some Ct the tax
payers money that now goes
through leaks which he THINKS alt
in the machine. Mr.. Cooper is par
tIcalarly interested 10 going for Ger
Raum, he beng of the opinion tina,
the investigation ty the last Con
/ gress was not impartial as ii N CHI
have been. Both resolutions vii
not be adopted, bat tie probab}!i
ties favor the adoption OF resoln
ton that Will be acceptable to both
| gentlemen.
Gen. FOrney, OF Alabama, who
was the senior democratic member
of the House Committee on apDro>
prIationS 10 the last Congress, has.
on account of bis age and sompw hat
/ failing health declined the chair
manshlp of that CON ittee, which
was rendered HIM by Speaker
Crisp. 1t is believed here taat
representative Holman, Of Indiana.
VIII, in the interest of general re
trenchment IN appropriations, be
put at the head of that committee.
1t was lumOIe q that some of the
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