New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-09
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THE HOUSE ORGANIZED.
SPEAKER CRISP TAKES THE CHAIR.
THE ALLOTMENT OF SEATS BY CIIANCp-sCEyEe
ON THE FLOOR AND IN THE GALLERY.
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Washington, Dec Sat last the House Of
Representatives of the Lid Congress is fully or
ganized with its Democratic majority of 1877 and
plurality of 146 both of which will be increased
by one vote when the vacancy in the With
Virginia District shall have been filled As
usual. great many people came to see and hear
the opening proceedings; most of them were
strangers; but there was large sprinkling of
Washingtonans. TO whom the first day OF .
Congress is of perennial interest Inc
galleries were as crowded as usual. and the adj
jacent corridors were packed with disappointed
men and women who failed to gain admission. and
who got even" by making themselves and every
body around them feel uncomfortable. The lucky
crowds inside looked down upon an unusual col
lection of legislators, 32s in number-two seats
being vacant account of illness and on account
of death. II was a notable assembage II for
no other reason than that nearly one-half Of it
was composed OF raw material-some of it eX-
tremely raw.
NEW AND OLD FACES ON THE FLOOR.
There were nearly so men who had never be.
fore occupied seats in Congress, many of whom
have had no experience in any legislative body
whatever. But there were many well-known
faces Reed occupied the seat which was his in
the XLIXth and Lth Congresses, and around him
were grouped McKenna, Hit. the Hendersons,
Boutelle and Dingley, of Maine Long and Cogs-
we'll, of Massachusetts,, Burrows and ODonnell, or
Michigan, Buchanan, Of New-Jersey, Russell, OK
Connecticut. Payne. Beden, Sanford, Wadsworth
and Kctcham, of New-York, Cheatham, of North
Carolina-the only colored man in this Congress-
Caldwell and the three Taylors, of Ohio, ONeill,
the father of the House and Bingham, Harmef
and Dazel of Pennsylvania, Grout, Of Vermont.
and Others who won their spurs in previous Con-
gresses.
On the Democratic side the seat OF Crisp, OF
Georgia, was occupied by a stranger, and Crisp
was seated in the Speakers room, waiting for the
House to ratify the action Of the Democratic
caucus All the men who had worked so hard 10
help him win victory were on hand with joyous
faces Thefe was the cool keen, shrewd Mont
gomery, of Kentucky, who went into the fight
without the fear Of Carlisle before his eyes, and
won reputation as the abest Of campaign man.
ayers; there was the confident and sagacious
O'Ferrall of Virginia: the handsome and sunny
Catchings of Mississippi; the alert Hemphill. OF
South Carolina and the tried, true veterans Bount.
Of Georgia. Herbert, Otis and Forney, of Alabama;
Blanchard, of Louisiana; Compton, Of Maryland:
Cochran, Cummings, and Fitch, OF New-fork'
Cultivate, oil Ohio, and many more. There were
the CHEEKY Hatch Of Missouri; McNillin, Of Ten
nessee and the ever cheerful and radiant Springer.
four of whose faithful followers went down last
night with his co,ors flying at the masthead. And
there was Bynum, too who resigned IN favor OK
the Sage of Corslcana very early III the tussle
over the Speakership. There too was the veteran
Holman whose political sagacity is as unerrng as his
devotion TO economy is unfagging, not to say OBJ
stnate.
I1.I,, +1,o tvhiala he nj
seats sat Mills on sofa, surrounded by group
of sympathetic but detected, followers. There
stood or sat the Breckinrdges, Wilson, of West
Virginia: Tracey and Chaplin and Warner, Of
New-Tork Mutchler, of Pennsylvania; Tom"
Johnson Of Ohio George Wise, whose heart was
said TO have been fixed the charmanshp Of
Naval Ahaiis; the brainy Culberson. and the
astute Savers, of Texas: O'Neill, of Missouri; and
Bland his freeconage colleague. who had SUR
prsed his friends by desertng Hatch and espous-
ing the cause Of Mills, the favoritc candidate OF
the Cleveland, anti-free-cOinage Democrats. Alone
in his glory as O'Ncill, Of Massachusetts,, whose
firm conscientious convictions on the subject of
free coinage bound him true to Stevens through
the fatigue and excitement of thirty caucus bal
lots. but relaxed to-day to allow him TO vote
for a frcc-coinage caucus candidate for Speaker.
A BRACE OF FRESH MASSACHUSETTS STATESMEN.
Near by sat the distinguished brace of fresh.
Youthful Democratic statesmen who to-day, for
the first time, began to he lawnakers-Nlessrs.
Sherman lIoar and George Frederick Williams of
Massachusetts, ~whose countenances already bear
traces of the solemn and weighty responsibilities
which POW devove upon them. There is no doubt
that both of these men will be heard from often in
this Congress whenever and wherever the combat
is deepest and the onset iierccst their waving
plumes will he and their clarion voices heard.
THEY did not east their votes for Speaker Crisp
to-day When the roll began they vanished, per-
haps to search for the missing logic of the situa
ton" which required the election Of Mills and
they did not reappear until the Speaker had been
installed II is currently believed that the public
business could not proceed in the absence of
both these statesmen, and it is a fact that their
disappearance today, temporary though it was.
excited more comment than would have been
caused by a like disappearance Of almost any half
dozen of the other members of the House. Many
inquiries were made for Watson, of Georgia. who
is regarded as 4 sort of Democrat contingent re-
mainder and for whom the eight Farmers Al
lance representatives from Kansas, Nebraska aud
voted to-day their choice for Speaker
Georgia furnishing two of the caucus candidates
for that office. Mr.. Watson was discovered by
only few of the inquirers. Jerry Simpson was
less modest and elusive.
Flowers were less plentiful on the desks OF
favored and favorite Representatives to-day than
and the hall presented more business
ike appearance After the Speaker and other
,ficers had been installed and the Representatives
had taken the oath of office certain necessary
Iormalitics were observed, such as the adoption
Df resolutions TO inform the Senate and the Presi-
lent that the House was organized with quorum
10 transact business.
SPEAKER CRISP GOT THROUGH WITHOUT
BLUNDEk.
Judge Crisp. who is the first eX-confederatc to