The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-01
THE HOUSE COMMITTEES

THE HOUSE COMMITTEES
SPRINGER GETS THE WAYS AND
s=sz.sli@ MEANS GUARDIANSHIP Ss
And watterson Says The Selection Il IN
Observation-Disclosures Crawford ia.
vored 81. Plnmb's successor1The Ohio
Senatorial Fight Growing Warm.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 24.-Mr. Watterson
says editorially in The Courier Journal
in regard to Speaker Crispss selection Of
the committees:
Naturally the reconstruction of the ways
and means committee monopolizes public
attention and interest. The selection Of
Mr.. Springer for chairman would not be q
happy one II there wa nothing back of it.
But with the incidents Of the caucus fresh
in the minds Of the people it is positively
unfortunate. exposing both the speaker
and the chairman. to whatever the ill-dis.
posed see fit to say about them, and thus
giving b cause of tariff reform a black
eye on the threshold of a presidential cam
paign.
Of the possible bearing of the national
affairs outside Of congress Mr.. Waiter
SOL says:
We shall not believe until we know
more than We now know that this recon
struction of the ways and means commit
tee has been made with the purpose to be-
little and subordinate the great cause of
tariff reform by intrusting it to inexper-
fenced or inferor hands. We have thus far
relied upon the assurances of Mr.. Crisp
on that point. But if it should turn out
that these have been carefully framed to
mlslead, and that the extraordinary dis
closures of b current week point, as
has been so often intimated, to q deal Of
the regulation New York pattern, be-
tween the new speaker and his immediate
hackers, and Mr.. Hill and his immediate
hackers, by which Democratic principles
are to be sacrificed to a congressional and
presidential bargain, then indeed will the
hosts of Democracy rise in their might.
MI. Crisp should from this time forward
keep before his eyes the awful spectre of
Keifer, and if he has any hope of a pros
porous and honorable future should steer
clear of New York breakers.
Crawford Might Consent.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-As the days
go by the loss which Kansas has just
sustained grows more apparent. MI.
Justice Brewer says it is objectionable"
Other senators do not hesitate to say
that no man in the body was SO contin-
2usly doing for the people of his state.
There is no ordinary interest felt 4.ere in
the question Of succession. The govern
ment departments are full of Kansans
whose Influence" was Senator Plumb's.
The departments are full of Kansas
business which Senator Plumb was push
ing. Before the congress are manifold
Kansas interests which Senator Plumb
would have cared for. The man ap-
pointed to the vacancy will have to have
capacity and willingness. Among the
kansans n Washington there is a good
deal of talk about Ex-Governor Samuel
J. Crawford. Governor Crawford came
to Washington. and spent some years
here pushing the military and
other claims of Kansas. He was very
successful, and recovered for the state
Upwards of 50, DOC, 900. Governor Craw-
ford has been appealed to by friend to
w 0iiOW ol1Ou1 W urge Ills ud1uo upon
Governor Humphrey, but he declined to
considered as a candidate. His plans
are laid for travel and rest, The Kan
san here belieye that if asked in the in
terest of the state to take this a
until the legislature meets a year hence
Governor Crawford would lay aside his
own plans and devote himself to carry
ing out Senator Plumb's work. But
they say he would not undertake more
than this. He would not re-enter poll
tics and be a candidate for election by
the legislature. If he did accept the ap-
pointment, it would be only with the
understanding that he would give the
next twelve months to the protection of
the fTer state and tthe pe6ff@sfneerest,7 and
at the end of that time some one else
should be chosen to fill the rest
Of Senator Plumb's term.
Speaker Crisp's Selection of Chairmen
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24-Following are
the c~hairmanships of the most important
committees as arranged by Speaker
Crisp:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
R.. Q. Mills.
Banking and Currency-Bacon.
Coinage, Weights and Measures
Bland.
Rivers and Harbors-Blanchard.
Merchant Marine and Fisheries-Fow-
Ter.
Elections-O'Farrell.
Ways and Means-Springer.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Agriculture-Hatch.
Military Affairs-Outhwaite.
Naval Acknowledgment.
Postofices and slender.
son, On. CO..
Public Lands-McRae.
Indian Afairs-Peet.
Railways and Canals-Catchings.
The republican senator's were not able
to "rope in" senator Kyle by committee
bribery, SO they resort to their old tricks
OF misrepresentation. While SO much
time is being DEVOTED to the position OF
Senator Kyle with reference t. the two
old parties. we might call attention to
the fact that while the nations eye is on
congress and it's doings, congressman
Jolley is at home attending to private
business. If Mr.. Jolly's business Is so
important that it mustreceive attention
ahead OF the nations interests, it was a
mistake to elect him. Had Henry w.
Smith been elected he would have gone
to Washington and remained athis post
OF duty, feeling that he was a public SER
want and bound to discharge his duties
in congress eve at the expense OF private
business.-Union Labor Gazette.