Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-24
! NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. THE HOUSE COMMITTEES MT. Henry Watterson on the Speakers Selections. THE OHIO SENATORIAL CONTEST. An Interesting Budget of
 Foreign News. FATAL EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE. The Steamer Island Ashore
 at Nidigen.
FATAL EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.
CRISP AND HIS COMMITTEES.

CRISP AND HIS COMMITTEES. Henry watter.on,s Criticism-Inex-
 perienced Friends Rewarded-The
 Selection of Springer as the Head
 of the Ways and Means Committee
 Unfortunate for the Democratic
 Party. ''9
 LOUISVILLE, Ky, Deg. 23.-The Courier Journal tomorrow will contain an elaborate article on Speaker Crisp and his commit tees. Among other things, MT. Watterson will say:
 For the first time in the history of the democratic party in congress is the princi- pie laid down that the organization of the house is matter not of friendly rivalry among friends, but of personal aggran- dizement and factional power. Astronger man than MT. Crisp might have paused before giving himself and his party over to the assertion of this. No one will deny the right of MT. Crisp to make his own committees. But when he fixes it as the rule of his arrangement to reward those who support ed him, and to punish his opponents, and in doing this sends the tried men of the house to the rear and brings the untried men to the front, the country and the party have the right to hold him to very rigid accountability for the consequences. If the results vindicate his forecast we'll and good. If they fail to do so, which seems only too likely, he will live to regret his own election
 Mir. Watterson will further say: The selection of MT. Springer as chairman of the ways and means committee is positive ly unfortunate, exposing both the speaker and the chairman to whatever the ill-dis- posed see fit to say about them, and thus giving the cause of tariff reform a black eye on the threshold of presidential cam paign.
 MT. Springer has been energetic, coura- geous and honest, but he has lacked, or has seemed to lack the weight which com mands following. It is not suspected that he has any large and luminous view of the issue which has become the absorbing aim of his party. His selection smacks too much of the discharge of an obligation and pretext to turn down and degrade man who had done eminent and efficient work in great movement, and who has engaged the confidence of democrats everywhere.
 MT. Watterson, however, will not proph- esy evil against MT. Springer and will ren- der him all the aid he can. Of the possi- ble bearing on national affairs outside of congress, MT. Watterson will say:
 We shall not believe uutil we know more than we know now that this construction of the ways and means committee has been made with the purpose to belittle and sub ordinate the cause of tariff reform by in, structing it to inexperienced and inferior hands. We have thus far relied upon the | assurance of MT. Crisp on that point. But if it should turn out that these have beer carefully framed to mislead and that tht extraordinary disclosures of the current | week point, as has been so often intimated | to deal of the regulation New York pat tern, between the new speaker and his i'm mediate packers, and Governor Hill ant his immediate packers, in which democrati, principles are to be sacrificed to congres sional and presidential bargain, then, in deed, will the hosts of democracy rise il their might and in their wrath, scatter ing these impious despoilers of truth ant
 faith, like herd of cattle. The futur,
 pend OH the course of the new ways ant
 means committee. The new speakers or ganization of the house is @ revolution.
 is an experiment which starts out with tn
 clear and almost universal distrust of dem
 ocrats in every part of the union. Tn
 establishment of it's claim to public conf
 dence can only be achieved by the displa
 of great earnestness, perfect fidelity an
 undeniable competency. The brain ant
 heart of the democratic party cannot b
 made to surrender their convictions
 temporizing politics. MT. Crisp, if he ha
 any hope of 8 prosperous or an honorabl
 future, should steer clear of New Tor
 breakers. The article expresses the hoI
 that Speaker Crisp ''has builded wise
 than we know"