The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-12-29
DEMOCRATS HAPPY.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE LISTS
GENERALLY ENDORSED.
MISSOURI TREATED VERY WELL.
-Four Chair mansh:ps and O:her Coed
= Positions Given to the staiwart
Democratic Statc-The PIums
Divided Very Fairly by the
spcakcr-Free Coinage
AMI Tariff Reform.
MISSOURI TREATED VERY WELL.

WASHINGTON, Dee. 2i-The house COM
mittee appoin tments were announced yes
tcrday.
Talks with former Mills men do not find
them betrayiug any rIncOr heat. Taey
have not changed their opinion as 10 the
prophet and political iust.c of their claim
tat Mr.. Mills should De- AZ the head Of the
ways aud means committee. but now that
Mr.. Mills has not received il and Mr..
Springer has. the general feeling IS to
touch ones hat politely To the inevitable
and so on tremendously with congression-
al work
Changes occurred in Speaker Crisp's
drafts up 10 the very call of the house, but
the final outcome is received as a cOnserv-
alive disposition of men. There are
fifty-seven chairmanships in all The
speaker holds one himself-the head of the
committee on rules. o. the ffty-six left
speaking of the way men voted When
the show down came on the last Demo-
cratic caucus ballOt-the Springer men ga
one, the Mas men ten and the Crisp ms9
fOrty-fve
Missouri was well treated. Her f0uSs
.cen Democrats, with their four chalrma1s
ships-!iatch on agriculture, Bland oS
coinage, Tdrsuey on labor and Wilson "a
pcnsiOns-gets as many as New York vita
twenty-three Democrats and the Mis-
souri, committees outweigh the Empire
states in Importance. Hatch, Tars-
ney, 'Byrnes, Mansur, Dockery, Heard
and Bland got exactly what they
sired, while Wilson received better than
he asked aud Cobb better than he looked
for. ONeil on the commerce committee,
OF which Mills is the head, can hardly find
fault with his luck Fyda is on the com.
mittec on immigration AID NATURAL zaticn,
one of the most important II thc louise and
one from which important legislation Is
bound 10 come.
The ways and means com -littee IS mads
up of ten Democrats aud fiy- Republicans,
an unusual majority for the dominant
party. Some Of the other committees are
on the same plan. This is said To be due
TO the Overplus Of Democratic strength in
the house rather than any attempt to ride
down the Republicans
According TO states, lie chairmanships
are distributed rs follows; Virginia 2,
Illinois 3, Indiana 8 Missouri 4. Georgia
8, including the committee on rules, Of
which the speaker is ex-officio chairman,
Alabama 3, North Carolina 8, Arkansas q
Texas 3 New York 4, Louisiana .. New
Jersey |. Pennsylvania !, Iowa l, South
Carolina 2, Kentucky :, Tennessee 9, nif,
sissippi . Rhode Island ], Wisconsin I,
Ohio 3. Massachusetts /, Michigan 2, Con-
necticut 1, Maryland 3. Minnesota l.
OF the ten Democratic members of the
new ways and means committee Of the
house, all except NJ. stevens of Masss-
chusetts and Mr. Bryan of Nebraska, who
are in their first term in congress-
were members of the Fiftiethicongress.
A half dozen or more OF the committees,
principally those having consideration Of
matters OF Especial interest 10 the West, are
apparently larger in number of members
than the rules provide. This is due to the
fact that the delegates from the terri
tories, who have no vote in either commit
tee or in the houa f, have been placed q
the committees as extra members and
their names are no counted in figuring t1S
quota Ct members to which each commits
tee is entitled.
The silver men are very well pleasGs
with the construction of the coinage coCl-
mittee and regard it as significant of the
speakers purpose to afford an opportunity
for the passage of free coinage measure.
The chairman, Mr.. Bland. is the most
prominent Democratic advocate of silver
In the house. Silver men strongly urged
upon the speaker th9 selection of Mr..
Bartine. of Nevada. as the leader Of
the Republican minority on the commit
tee, because OF his efforts during the past
congress in rehaif of free coinage, and re-
gard the fact tina, Mr.. Bartine heads the
list Of Republican members is another IL
iication Of the speakers friendIiness to-
ward liberal silver policy. One of the
silver men on the committee said that
he had heard some intimations thai
Mr.. johnson of North Dakota was not to
be claSsei as a free coinage men, but
though without positive information Cd
The subject, he expressed the beIiof that
Mr.. johnson was favorable to free silver.