The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1891-12-10
A HARD TASK.
Speaker Crisp Has a Task Before Him
N Selecting the Committees.
BY United Pr IS.

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" AsHlNGTON, Dec. 9. Some of
the prominent Democratic mamb.rs
"l the house are urgi"g Speaker
Crasp to appoint tie committees he
iof the holiday recess, but there
appears 10 be considerable doubt as
to whether this work can be accom-
pllshed iii SO short a fine 7,
i true that Speaker Reed
IN the last Congress managed
to name his committees before the
holiday recess. The task for the
present Speaker is a harder one.
ho~ever, for the reason that the
democrats in the House alone nnm-
Der zo4 and majority of all the
members are new ones. 1t will be
very difficult for the Speaker to
pace the new members and #
VIII be necessary for Speaker Crisp
to do an unusual amount of CON
ferllng in order to ascertain the ft
ness for the work to be assigned to
each. Then again the placing Of
Republicans will be no easy task
either because there are SO in the
minority and in order to give the
opposite party proper representation
or The usual allowance of three, five
Or seven members on a committee
as The case may require, most of the
Republicans VINO served in previous
Congresses will be compelled to
serve on from two to five commit
tees IN the present House.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. There
has been considerable apprehension
OF The part OF some Democrats who
bitterly opposed the successful can,
diosae for Speaker that Mr.. Crisp
might purposely overlook them
when he distributes the good thinps
IN the way OF chairmanShips and
other chc:ce assignments, but sew
erai pi the members who are known
to be close 20 the Speaker declared to
a representative Of the United Press
to-day that be was not the man to
let such things influence him
In bis actions in this connection.
1t can be said hat only this morn
ing two leading members were con-
versing on the subject and one of
them said that he telt certain that
Mr.. Mills would be offered the
chalrman>hip OF ways and means
committee, and would also b-
named as one OF the members of the
committee Oh rules. Ii IS taken for
granted, of course that Mr.. Mills
desires to resume the positions held
by bin in the fiftielh Congress.
Continuing the conversation
one of these members in
answer TO direct qu, stion by
the Unired Press man said that he
believe q that had Mr. Mills BEEN
elected MIR. Crisp would have been
offered one of the leading commit
tees, though not that of ways and
means. The chairmanship of the
coinage committee still continues to
be one OF the most interesting
questions that is discussed among
the members. It. is though, that
Mr.. Bland is likely to again stand
ahead, and that his activity in be-
half of Mr.. Mills for Speaker will
not count against him when
the commuters are made up. It is
the prevailing opinion, however.
that the Other members Of the same
committee will be men rather more
favorable to the free. coinage qu-s-
flon than were the ma jority Of the
same committee In the last House.
the idea being that the silver issue
shall not be entirely y eliminated from
the next political campaign. but
stand ont prominently with the tariff
and other leading issues.