The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

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! the records of the members of the house
committee on coinage, weights and meas
ures shows that, by past utterances or
votes, in or out of congress, nine out ofthe
thirteen members of the committee have
declared in favor of free coinage while
three of the other members have been out
spoken against free coinage. The fourth
is said by his friends to be unquestionably
against free coinage, though his record is
! unknown, he not having been in congress
before.
The silver men are well pleased with
the construction of the coinage commit
tee, and regard it as significant of the
speakers purpose to afford an opportun-
ity for the passage of free coinage
measure. Chairman Bland of Missouri
is the most pronounced democratic adYo-
cate of silver in the house. The silver
men especially urged upon the speaker
the selection of Mr.. Bartine of Nevada
as the leader of the Republican minority
on the committee because of his efforts
in the last congress in favor OF free coin
age, and regard the fact that Mr. Bartine
heads the list of the Republican members
as another indication of the speakers
friendliness toward liberal silver policy.
OF the ten Democratic mem Ders OF the
ways and means committee-Mr. Springer
of Illinois (chairman) and MeSsrs. Nc
Millin of Tennessee, Turner of Georgia,
Wilson of West Virginia, Montgomery OF
Kentucky, Whiting of Michigan, Shlvely
of Indiana, Cochran of New YORK, Stevens
of Massachusetts, and Bryan Of Nebraska
all, except Stevens and Bryan, who are
serving their first term in congress, were
members of the Fiftieth congress, and OF
these eight members all except Mf. " MT
ing, made several speeches faVorlng the
clauses of the bill relating 10 wool and
salt and upholdnga the tariff message or
President Cleveland. He Is one or the
fourteen members recorded as mot Vot-
ing" on the final passage OF the Dill ana
was probably paired in favor of the Dill
The five Republican members OF the
committee, of course, all voted against the
Mills bill and in favor of the Mckinley
bill in the last congress. Mr.. Dalzeu Is
new member of the committee from the
Republican side of the house, and Messrs.
McMillin, Turner and Wilson of West
Virginia are the Democratic members
who, in recent years, have been identified
with tariff reform as members of the COM
mittee. The three Democratic members
last named aided in framing the Mills
bill. Mr.. Springer. the chairman, has
always voted for tariff reform measures,
but has, by published interviews, recorded
himself as in favor of passing a specific bill
TO put few articles on the free list and
against genera reduction Of the tariff
by the house at this session. \ majority
of his Democratic colleagues have stated
in public that they were in favor of this |
line of policy at the present time.
In his formation of the committees the |
speaker, apparently, has been careful to
the chairmanships as nearly !
equally as may be among the various sec |
tions Of the country, having regard, how !
ever, to the legislative experience and |
ability of the members whom he has |
chosen to superintend and, to a great ex- |
tent, determine the business which will /
come before the house. While the south !
secures a majority of the chairmanships, |
the majority Is so small that il can easily /
be attributed to the longer service rendered |
by the southern members, the great body !
of the northerA Democratic representa- /
tives being new tillerS of the soil of legis- |
lation.
According to the states, the chairman |
ships are distributed AS follows: Virginia !
2 Illinois 3, Indiana 3, Missouri 4, Georgia !
s. Alabama 3, North Carolina 3, Arkansas /
B Texas 8, New York 4, Louisiana 2. New |
Jersey l, Pennsylvania 2, Iowa l, South |
Carolina 2, Kentucky ,. Tennessee 2. Mis-
sissippI2, Rhode Island l, Wisconsin l.
Ohio 3 Massachusetts l, Michigan =, Con-
necticut l, Maryland 8 and Minnesota L
a half dozen or more of the house COM
principally those having consider
alton of matters of special interest to the
NOSbs arc dppdlChOAg idA SCT III number OF
than the rules provide, this being
due to the fact that the delegates from the
who have no vote either in
committee or in the house, have been |
placed on committees as extra memb bers. |
heir names not being counted in figuring
Jhe quota of members to which each COM
mittee is entitled.
The committee on war claims is one
short in membership, owing TO the fact
hat the name of Mr.. Hallowell of Penn
,ylvania was eliminated after the commit
ee was made up, for the reason that Penn
'ylvania already had one member on the
committee in the person OF Mr.. Beethoven.
he chairman. No other name was substi-
uted
Mr.. Hallowell enjoys the distinction of
being without committee honors. The
Elimination of his name from the war
;lalms committee left him unprovided for.
md the speaker uninteutiouallv failed to
ylve him another committee assignment.
The mistake WAS not discovered until this
.fternoon, when too late TO correct it to-
lay. The speaker, however, will rectifv
he error as soon as possible, and will see
hat Mr.. Hallowell is properly looked
.fter.
THE CHILEAN QUARREL