Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
TOM REED, OF COURSE.

Congressman Halzell Tells Who Will Be
Leader of the Republican Minority in
the Next House-Legislation That Will
Be Brought Up. ..
Congressman j ohm Dalzel will go toWash-
ington Immediately after Thanksgiving to
watch the skirm1sh among the Democrats
who are candidates for the Speakership of
the next House. He was not willing to
make prophecy as to who would be sue
cessful. MIR. Mills, he thought, was the
most natural candidate, on account of hav-
ing been Chairman of the Committee on
Ways and Means in the last Democratic
Congress, but that, he said, would not in
sure success.
1.-THE man who is second in the race" he
continued, "will get nearly as much honor
as the Speaker from the fact that he will be
appointed Chairman of the Committee on
Ways and Means, and will therefore have
his name attached to tariff bill that will
doubtless be used extensively as campaign
literature in the coming Presidential fight.
If that man should be Crisp, of Georgia,
the tariff bill will probably be even farther
reaching than the Mills bill The Demo-
Gratis realize that it will be killed in the
Senate, and will therefore draft it with a
view only to political effect.
"The only other important legislation
that I think will be brought up by the
Democrats will be on the silver question. [
look for radical free silver bill, which I
have no doubt will also be defeated in the
Senate The Democrats claim they can
get it through both bodies, but it is hardly
possible that they can. The Senate is 12
Republican, counting the Farmers Alli-
ance men as Democrats, and it is not likely
that enough free silver Republicans will
vote with the Democrats to get such a bill
through. Even if they should, it would be
vetoed by the President"
''Who will be leader of the Republican
side in the House?"
"Why, Tom Reed, of course. Everyone
comedies the place to him, and you can de-
pend on it that the Republicans will let their
policy be known. That will be about all
that will be done by either side. The Re
publican Senate and Democratic House will
hardly agree on anything but routine bills,
and the result of the session will be nothing
but the defining of party policy"
DO you look for any new pension legis-
lation?'
..No. The soldiers need not apply to the
Democrats in the House, for they will get
no favors. Still, I do not believe that any
repeating legislation will be attempted.
That is too dangerous for even Southern
Democrats to attempt The hardest battle
will be on the appropriations. The House
and Senate will have to agree on some bill,
and they will probably have long fight. !"
s:Will the Republicans in the House let
bills introduced by the Democrats go by
default, or will they contest?'
''I told you ex-Speaker Reed would be
the Republican leader" answered Mr.. Dal-
zell with a significant smile. she hasn't
made practice hitherto of letting things
go by default, and he isn't likely to COM
mence just because the Republicans are in
minority. You can depend on it that
there will be some vigorous protests from
our side of the House, and that when the
Democrats bring up their free trade bill the
Republicans will let the people of the
country know tine fallacy of the Democratic
argument.