The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-15
WAYS And MEANS
Mills Will Not be Appointed
Chairman of the Committee.
1T WILL PROBABLY BE SPRINGER
The Texan is Said to Feel Sore Over His
Defeat-The Man from Illinois Defines
His Position on the Tariff.

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.
New YORK, Dec. IA World special
from Washington says: Roger Q. Mills
will not be appointed chairman of the COM
mittee on ways and means. BY his own
act he has made his appointmen practi-
cally impossible from the standpoint of
Speaker Crisp. William M. Springer will
be named for the position by virtue of
which he will become leader of the House.
Mr.. Mills does not know this yet, neither
does Mr.. Springer, but it is a fact. MIR.
Mills has played the part of child without
success.
HIS UNFORTUNATE TEMPERAMENT
made it impossible for him to control his
anger over his defeat and he has taken no
pains to conceal his discontinue. On the
contrary he has improved every Oppor-
tunity to make manifest sullen uncom-
promising attitude towards the administra-
ton of his successful competitor. He began
in the caucus by permptorily refusing to
offer a motion making Crisp's nomination
unanimous. He continued IN the Hous g
by declining to serve on the committee ap-
pointed to wait upon the President. He
was requested by MIR. McMillin to offer
the resolutions usually presented by the
most conspicuous member of the majority
but he refused to do So Then he
EMPHASIZED his POSITION BY SELECTING A
BACK SEAT.
| His friends, if not himself, have taken
| it for granted that Speaker Crisp would be
obliged to offer him his old position as chair
man of the ways and means committee.
| Acting upon this assumption they have
even gone SO far as to insist that he and
not the speaker should name his colleagues.
This would not only give Mr.. Mills abso-
lutte control Of action on the tariff but
would place in his hands the power to d.
rect the business of the House, irrespective
of the speakers Judgment. Recent prece-
dent has made the chairman of the ways
and means committee member of the COM
mittee of rules. This committee comprises
| the speaker, two Democrats and two Re
pnblicans. Without the unqualified sup
port of both Democrats the speaker is help
less. Mr.. Mills, therefore,
WOULD BE MASTER OF THE SITUATION.
Mr.. Crisp would be mere figurehead.
Right there is the rock upon which MIR.
Mills craft has broken. 1t Is not a ques-
! tion of personality, but of party policy.
| MIR. Mills believes one course to be right;
| Mr.. Crisp favors, and was elected, he be-
| lieves, to enforce another quito different.
To give to Mr.. Mills the power which ne
would have as chairman of the ways and
! means committee would mean a disregard
of the Judgment of the majority which elect
ed Mr. Crisp. Mr.. Mills ris candidate fol
Mr.. Chilton's place in the Senate. Should
his ambition be gratified, be would take
his place in the upper body at a critica
time in the House. The leader certainly
aud the policy perhaps, would be changed
in mid stream on the very eve of q nationa
convention and national election. The eff
feet would be
COMPLICATION AND POSSIBLE DEMoRALIZA-
TON.
Again 1t is deemed especially desirable
that northern Democrat hold this i'm
portant position on the floor at time wher
a southern man is in the chair. Mr.. Mill:
recognized this fact very clearly and made
no secret Of his intention, if elected
speaker, of making Mr.. Bynum chairman
of the ways and means committee. Tht
argument on which he based his intention
applies with equal force in the case of Mr.
Crisp. who Is also a southern man and wa!
confederate soldier. Springer is tn
most conspicuous northern Democrat il
the House. He ia the only one who wa
supported for speakership.
MR. MILLS COURSE CANNOT BE FoREToLD
1t is not probable that he will accept sub
ordinate position on the committee o
which he was once chairman. He ma,
even resign his membership Of the Hous
and stake all upon his canvass for tn
Sanatnrship