The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-24
utah is HONORED.
Delegate Caine Assigned to Three
Committees.
THE CHANCES FOR FREE COINAGE.
Crisp Appoints a Majority of the Coinage
Committee Free Silver Men-Watterson
Scores the Speaker.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-TSpecial telegram
to The HERALD. = Speaker Crisp has
treated Mr.. Game very handsomely in
the way of his assignments. Mr.. Game
retains his former place on the postoffice
committee, which is one of the most i'm
portant in the House, while his assignment
to the irrigation committee is regarded by
Mr.. Game as a decided compliment to Utah,
which was the pioneer in irrigation work.
Mr.. Game has also a third assignment
which places him on the Pacific railway
committee. He is the only delegate the
speaker
HAS HoNoRED WITH THREE ASSIGNMENTS.
Mr.. Harvey, of Oklahoma, has one assign
ment, that to the committee On Indian
affairs; Mr.. Joseph, of New Mexico, has
but one, territories; while Mr.. Smith, of
Arizona, has only two mines and mining
and private land claims
Some days ago Mr.. Game, in company
with Delegate Smith, of Arizona, had a
conference with Speaker Crisp regarding
! the irrigation committee. They explained
to him the Importance with which this
committee was regarded in the western
country, and urged that some of the far
western men should be placed upon it, and
suggested either Dickson, of Montana, or
Sweet, of Idaho. Mr.. Crisp adopted their
suggestion and placed both the foregoing
gentlemen on the committee, and added
! Mr.. Game as well, Notwithstanding the
latter maze no application for himself, and
had no expectation of being appointed
MIR. Sweet was also given a place on the
public lands committee, to which Mr..
| Clark, of Wyoming, was assigned.
| Tur co,NtrrTrr ON CoTNAcE
has decided majority in favor of the free
coinage of silver. 1t consists of eight
| Dem cratic members, four Republicans
and one Farmers Alliance member. Six
of the eight Democrats, the Farmers ALI
ance member and at least one of the Repub-
licans are for free coinage. The decided
| opponents of free coinage are two eastern
Democrats, General Tracey of New York
and MIR. Williams of Massachusetts, and
two of the Republicans, Mr.. Stone of
Pennsylvania and Mr.. johnson of North
Dakota. There is some dispute as to the
position of Colonel Taylor, the Republican
mem Der from Chicago. He voted steadily
against free coinage as a member of the
coinage committee of the last Congress
but showed some leaning in private dis
cussion of the subject at the short session
last winter in favor of proposition to coin
THE PRODUCT OF AMERICAN MINES.
If he votes against free coinage the com
mittee will stand eight to five in favor Of
the proposition. Those who favor it, how
ever, are among the most radical and
earnest of Tree coinage men Id Congress
The six Democrats are Bland. of Missouri
chairman Williams, of illinois, who was a
member of the coinage committee in the
last Congress; Kilgore, of Texas; Robert
son, of Louisiana: Pierce, of Tennessee
and Eppes, of Virginia. Mr.. McKeighan,
Of Nebraska, is the Alliance mem,
Der, and free coinage is one
of the essential articles of his
political creed. The only Republicans
on the committee who is an aggressive
champion of free coinage is Mr.. Bartine. OF
Nevada. He is one of the most intelligent
free coinage men in the House and all the
more effective in accomplishing results be-
cause he is not of the stamp of noisy dem,
agogues. He said this afternoon in dis
cussing the make up of the committee thai
he thought Speaker Crisp had acted il
conformity with what he regarded as
THE SENTIMENT OF THE HOUSE.
s'There is no question: said he, ''but wha
it will tend to promote silver legislation
1t may not be out and out free coinage
bill, it may be guarded in some way tt
meet the fears of eastern men, but the &C
ton of the speaker means substantial leg
islation. The time for smoothing tht
question has passed"