Connecticut western news., 1891-12-31
THE NEWS OF CONGRESS.
Speaker Crisp Makes Springer Chairms
 of Ways and Means.

Speaker Crisp Makes Springer Chairman
 of Ways and Means.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S-Speaker Crisp is still confined to his bed, weak and exhaust ed from an attack of the grip He is some what better, and no serious apprehension is felt for his safety.
 While not seriously i'll, MT. Crisp is quite weak, the result of a bad cold and recent hard work. The speaker has appointed his son clerk to the speakers table, vice Edwin T. Goodwin and announced his long looked for committee appointments. As every one expected, William M. Springer was made chairman of the ways and means committee. Mills was given several important places, but none to compare in importance with the ways and means berth. The veteran Indi- ana congressman, William M Holman, was named as chairman of the important appro- priations committee.
 The Mills men are very bitter at the treat ment their leader has received, and are not placated by the small places given to the Mills supporters. The southern men severely criticise the fact that the north has three-fourths of the important committee places They say that the speaker, in his anxiety to be fair, went too far, and snubbed the south unnecessarily. The following IS the list of the principal house committees, as announced by Speaker Crisp:
 Ways and Means-william M. Springer Hi nois chairman; Benton McMillan, Tennessee H. G. Turner, Georgia; w. L. Wilson, West Virginia; A. B. Montgomery, Ken lucky; J. R. Whiting, Michigan; B. F. Shiveley, Indiana W. Bourke Cochran, ew~York; Moses T Stevens, Massachusetts; W. J. Bryan, Ne braska; T. B. Reed, Maine; J. c. Burrows Michigan; Joseph McKenna, California; s. K Payne New York; John Dalzen, Pennsylvania l Appropriations-W S. Holman, chairman; w H. Forney, J. D. Sayres, w. c. Breckinridge, A M. Dockery, William Mutchler1 c. R. Breckin. ridge, Barnes sCompton, J. Fl. O'Neil, l.. F. Livingston, D. B. Henderson, William Cogs we'll, H. H. Bingham, Nelson Dingley. W. W 0rout.
 Coinage, Weights and Measures-K. H. Bland | chairman; Charles Tracy, J. R. Williams, c. Kilgore, s. M. Robinson, Rice Pierce, J. F l Epes, G. F. Williams w. A. McKeighan, H. H Bartine, Abner Taylor, T. w. Stone, M N Johnson.
 Interstate and Foreign Commerce-R. Q Mills chairman; G. D. Wise, Andrew Price Isador Rayner, G. H. Brickner, T. J. Geary | G. W. Houk s. R. Mallory, Josiah Patterson J. J. O'Nein Charles O'Neill, John Lind, C. $ Randall Bellamy Storer, J. H. Ketcham. Foreign Afairs-J. H. Blount, chairman; J B. McCreary, O. E. Hooker L. E. Chipman, A P. Fitch, J. F.. Andrews B: T. Cable, 1sadol Rayner, T. J. Geary, R. R. Hit, A. c. farmer 1 James O'Donnell, John Sanford. Elections-Charles T. O'Ferrail chairman; L w. Moore, J. E. Cobb, T. H. Paynter, Jason Brown, D. N. Lockwood, T. G. Lawson, N. 1 Gillespie, George Johnstone, Nils Haugen, A l A. Taylor, R. E. Doan, H. M Johnson, John Reyburn, c. D. Clark.
 l Postoffices and Post Roads-JOhn s. HerHer l son, chairman; J. H. Blount, B. A. Enloe, 1\ P c. Wilson, E. J. Dunphy, J. D. Alderson, E. 1 Brookshire, J. c. Kyle, J. M Pattison, J. l Crosby A. J. Hopkins, J. A. Caldwell, J. L l A RAr0on Lon l Cutting
 1 Agriculture-W H. Hatch, chairman; Clark Lewis, s. B Alexander, H. M. Youmans G. W She'll, W. S. Forman, F. E. White, Anthon! l Camnetti Charles L. Moses, J. P. Long, E. H l Funston, E. H. Wilson, J. l.. Jolley, Danie l Waugh. H. P. Cheatham.
 Railways and Canals-T. c. Catchings, chair l man; P G. Lester, W. H. Cate, H. w. Bentley l F. E. Beltzhoover, J. w. Causey, S. w. Cobt
 Kittel Halvorson, John Davis, c. s. Randall, l A. Bergen, J. A. T. Hull, E. F. Loud.
 The chairmanships of the other com
 mittees are as follows:
 1 Judiciary, D. L. Culberson; banking an
 currency, Henry Bacon; rivers and harbora 1 N. c. Blanchard; merchant marine and fisher
 ies Samuel Fowler; military affairs, J.
 Outhwaite; naval affairs, H. A. Herbert l agriculture, w. H. Hatch public lands. T.
 McRae; Indian affairs, s. w. Peet; territories
 J. H. Washington; manufacturers, c. H. Page
 mines and mining, w. H. Cowles; public build
 ings and grounds, J. H. Bankhead; Pacif
 railroads, J. B. Reilly; levees and improve
 ments of Mississippi river, s. M. Robinson
 education, w. I. Hayes; labor, J. C | Tarsney; militia, Edward Lane; patents, G. l Tillman; invalid pensions, A. N. Martin
 pensions R. P. C. Wilson; claims, B. H. Bum
 war claims, F. R. Beltzhoover; private Ian
 claims, A. P. Fitch; District of Columbia, J. J
 Hemphill; revision of laws W. T. Ellis; ez
 penditures state department, R. E. Lester; e1
 penditures in treasury department, G. B
 Brickner expenditures war department, A.
 Montgomery; expenditures navy department ] c. A. O. Mcclellan; expenditures in postofdc | department, w. c. Oates; expenditures in ir l terior department, J. w. Owens; expenditure
 department of justice, J. M. Allen; expend
 lures in department of agriculture; F. O. Ed
 munds; expenditures on public buildings, B
 M. Youmans; library, Amos J. Cummings
 printing, J. D. Richardson; enrolled bills J.
 Warwick; election of president and vice pres
 dent, J. L. Chipman; eleventh census, w.
 Wilcox; ventilation and acoustics, w. c
 Stahlnecker; alcoholic liquor traffic. W. E
 Haynes; irrigation of arid lands, s. w. T. Lar
 ham; immigration and naturalization, H l Stump
 The prediction that Speaker Crisp in mak
 ing up his committees, would do violenc
 to the rule of precedence as established b.
 years of practice, was verified by the list a
 announced.