Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-12-24
WAsHINOTON NEWS.
Speaker Crisp has Trouble in Meeting
the Demand Of his Constituents.

speaker Crisp has Trouble in Meeting
the Demand Of his Constituents.
Speaker Crisp may have made some
promises before his election ~ speaker,
ew men ever occupied the position
who had not done 90 In their canvass
'or votes, but he has made few, II any,
promises since his election. He lets
The other fellows do the talking, while
be does double duty ~ = thinker; he
knows that it will be impossible to 30
arrange the committee assignments |
that all the democratic members Of the j
House will be pleased, and, II those !
who enjoy his confidence may be relied |
upon, he will devote himself principally |
to the task Of making an equitable dis
tribution Of the chairmanships and
places, upon the important committees
between the various sections Of the
believing that no representa-
tive will allow his personal dissappoint-
ment to make him angry when he sees
that his section is fully represented.
It is now almost certain that the lists
of committees will not be announced
until after the Christmas recess, and 1t
Is expected that Speaker Crisp will, af-
ter all the members have been given q
chance to be heard, retire to his home
in Georgia, or to some other place,
where he can devote his time during
the recess to making up the committees.
All sorts Of gossip about the chair
manships and the makeup Of the i'm.
portant committees may be heard, but
about the only thing that everybody
seems to be agreed upon is that the
Ways and Means committee, which
deals with tariff matters, will be DOM
mated by Northern and Western menu
bers, whoever its chairman may be.
The general opinion is that.Mr. Mills
can have the craftsmanship Of this
committee If he wishes 1t, but some Of
his close friends say that he will not
take the place, several reasons being
given why he will not; one Of them
being that If there is an extra session
of the Texas legislature in the spring,
he will be . candidate for the unex-
pired term In the senate Of ex-senator
Reagan-now temporarily being filed
by Senator Chilton-and that II he is
elected, he will at once resign his seat
in the House. But there are those
who think that that is just the reason
why he should take the chalrmanship
They argue that for Mr.. Crisp to tender
this important place to Mr.. Mills and
for him to accept 1t would show that
no bad blood was left by the hot fight
for the nomination, and that the COM
mittee could be SO made up, that the
next democrat on the committee could
from the first take up the hard work Of
tile chairman and that in the event ol
the election of Mr.. Mills to the senate
this gentlemen might be made chair
man.
Resolutions providing for investiga
ton of the Pension office will shortly
be offered in the House by Representa-
tive Cooper, of Indiana, and Enloe, o
Tennessee. The latter gentleman say,
that his resolutions will be for an In
vestigation of the methods used ant
is intended to save some Of the ta,
payers money that now goes through
leaks which he thinks are In the ma
chine. Mr.. Cooper is particularly In
terested In going for General Raum, b
being OF the opinion that the investi
lgation by the last congress was not q
Impartial as 1t might have been. Boil
resolutions will not be adopted, bu
the probabilities favor the adoption Q
| . resolution that will be acceptable +
both gentlemen.
General Forney, Of Alabama, VIII
was the senior democratic member q
the House committee ON Appropris
tions in the last congress, has, on at
count of his age and somewhat failin
health declined the craftsmanship G
that committee, which was tendere
him by speaker Crisp. 1t is believe
here that Representative Holman, {
Indiana, will, in the interest Of ger
eral retrenchment in appropriation
be put at the head of that committe,
Speaker Crisp pleased those men
bers who wished to get the cash fd
their mileage before Christmas by ar
nouncing at the short session Of th
house held on Saturday, previous
the adjournment until Wednesda.
the membership Of committee on q
counts and that ON mileage, as follow
Accounts-Rusk (Md), Cooper Und)
Dickersan, (Ky.) Moses, Is. C.) Seerle'
iowa. Pearson, (Ohio), Quackenbusl
in. W, Griswold, (Pa.) and CuttinI
(Cal.), Mileage-Castle, (Minn.), Crav
ford, IN. C.), Kendall, (Ky.), Caldwell
(Ohio) and Flick, Iowa).
Representative Culbertson, Of Texa
one of the best fitted men in public Ii
co. <Lo v,~,.3kior hos 6octdo6 fN ocOo