Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-24
SATISFACTORY.
None But a Handful Of Mr.. Mills
Most Intimate Friends
FIND FAULT WITH THE SPEAKER,
l,5 he Committees Es has AnlOgaeed-No Step
Backward VIII Be TAKEN IN the Matter Of
Tariff Reform Mr. Springer is S,rcng
MAJ, Well Ysrs5l in the Tar.E.


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WASHINGTON. December e3-There
,s-. mo- Dig surprises iu the committees
g..Buouucei 10 the House to-day. 10
a. generally understood who would
have the important cha.rmanships De-
fre the official anuouucement Was
made. There was feeling la some
quarters last night than Speaker Crisp
r.rat WELD Co che pressure brought %
t.4ror him at the .ast moment in re-
y.-f 10 the Wav, and Means chairman
AID and give 90 to Mills iu-
....F % 90 Springer, b1t
t.. Sreaher's friends stout.y held
sIa.g that Crisp would not Yield,
..t tHat Springer would get che place.
r.I.Is the way it has turned out, and
V.fl the exception 0f the handful oi
close personal friends of Mr.. Mills the
Democrats Of the House are disposed %
r.ard the make up Of the committees
a, good.
The prevailing sentiment Is that the
policy OF the party will be carried out
lust as faithfully aud energeticaiiy oy
ft. committees as made up 0Y Mr.
lrfso a. they would have been had Mr.
Mills been speaker and arranged them.
No one doubts for an instant that with
Mr. Wilson. of West Virginia, and Mr.
Mcmillan, of Tennessee, on Ways and
Means. the cause OF tariff reform Will
ts nushed theoretically and fearlesSly.
While It is true that Mr.. Springer is
NOT regarded as a notably able and fore
ib-e man, still he is undeniably
man of experience in Congress,
good Democrat and a sincere tariff re-
former. Ii was generally agreed that it
was the best policy TO put northern
man az the head Of Ways and Means,
and Mr.. Springer is certainly the
best known and most able northern
Democrat in the present House.
II Mr.. Mills had become Speaker, he
would have selected a Northern man
for this place; that man would have
5aen Bynum, of Indiana, who is not by
great deal the equal Of Springer in
Congressional experience, in national
sme. nor in knowledge OF the tariff.
In tbis view Of the case, there does not
gUDear TO be good grounds for the op-
r6sf,ion to Mr.. Springer on the plea Of
guiairnesS.
Mr.. PendletOn, who is a pretty good
tariff refOrmer himself, said TO the REG-
r,rFR CORES spOndent after the commit
Tea were announced: "NO one need have
qry fear that the cause Of tariff reform
win suffer in the present House. Mr.
Crisp is a good tariff reformer himself,
and no one familiar with the records OF
rHa men he has placed on the Ways and
Means Committee can doubt that they
will carry out the Democratic policy.
80 step backward will be taken and the
talk about a split in the party IS all
nonsense: an invention OF the enc
uF."
While the committee assignment
given Mr.. PendletOn are not just what
le himself preferred, they are good
ones. The two committees he Is on,
Public Land and Mines and Mining, are
both important committees with plenty
of work 20 do. Mr.. Anderson is also
placed on two important committees
pJstofice and Post roads and Private
Land Claims. The POstottice com
rittee will this session have
some OF the most important
legislation coming before 1t OF
any Committee OF the House, as the
Postmaster General means 10 push his
scheme for a postal telegraph system
and penny postage as we'll as other
schemes for the Improvement OF the
postal service.
Mr.. Capehart gets place on the Com
mittee on Expenditures in the Depart
ment OF Agriculture. After the Ways
and Means Committee the makeup or
none Of the Committees announced to-
day attracted more attention than the
Committee on Coinage. This commit
tee can fairly be said 70 be a representa-
tive committee with a majority disposed
towards free coinage. IL can hardly be
complained, whatever the committee or
the House may do in the matter, that
this committee has been packed against
free coinage. Yet this fact does not
insure the adoption Of free coinage
b.l or the agitation i'm the House or
even the reporting OF such a measure.
I'm fact il would not be surprising II
there were no attempt made to enact
coinage legislation during this session
Of Congress.
A majority OF the members undou0t-
ci.y favor free coinage, but a very
large number OF those on that side OF
the question believe that TO agitate the
question at this time would distract at
taDtiou from the tariff question upon
which they think the presidential con-
Test must be fought. They want TO
Keep the tariff 70 the froat as the great
question at issue between the
'wo parties until something Is
accomplished and not have the result
Influenced materially by the consider
alton of the silver question or anything
else. The policy of the party as to this
viii be determined outside OF the Com
nIt,ee ia he Democratic caucus. The
decision is almost certain TO be 20 let
silver be q while unless some middle
course can be agreed upon.
NORA full list Of the Committees
o' Tue House, announced by Speaker