The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-15
SPRINGER AND HOLMAN.

One To BE Sacrificed to Cieveiand's Hate
and the Other to Crisp's Dislike.
Special to the Indianapolis Journsl
WASHINGTON. Nov. 14.-It is believed
that Willam NJ. Springer, of Illinois. Will
be displaced as chairman of the committee
on ways and means when the Fifty.third
Congress is organized. Mr. Springer. In
the first place, virtually opposed the noini-
nation of Mr.. Cleveland for the presidency.
and those who know the President elect
know that he Is not man to stand idly by
and see personal enemy placed in posi-
tion which will bring himself in contact
with that person frequently and intimate-
ly. In the second place. Mr.. Springer be-
lieves in revising the tariff by specific bills,
while the President-elect and Speaker
Crisp favor q general measure. 1t is not
unlikely that Mr.. MoMillin, of Tennessee,
who has been o prominent factor on ways
and means committees fog many years, and
who is In direct line with Mr. Cleveland on
the subject of tariff revision, will be chair
man if Mr.. Springer is displaced.
During the last session of Congress Rep
resentatives Heard of Missouri, Bynum of
Indiana and other prominent Democrats
stated to your correspondent that Mr.
Crisp had assured them that in the event
OF his reelection as Speaker he would not
under any condition of circumstances
place Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, at the head
of the committee on appropriations, as he
had disgusted Democrats as well as Re-
publicans 10y his unbusinesslike manage
.ment of appropriations, and had become so
unpopular that he could not carry his parti-
san points on the floor. MIR. Springer was
for manv years an influential member of
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to his party, and il Is believed that
he will be transferred from the head OF the
committee on ways and means to that OF
appropriations. In the meantime Mr. Hol-
man has problem TO wrestle with that
will probably worry Sir Stinginess' as
well as other Democratic exponents of re-
form and retrenchment. A call will be is-
sued very soon for meeting of the House
committee on appropriations at noon Mon
day, Nov. % This Will give the committee
about q weeks time in which to prepare
some of the regular annual approximation
bills for the action of Congress when IL
meets for the second session. 1t is the pur-
pose to push rapidly all of these measures
tor the maintenance of the government
next year. and as the Treasury Department
has promised fo submit the estlmates. for
the District of Columbia the pension and the
ortincatioDs appropriation bills Dy Nov.
tho House should not have one ct least of
these appropriation bills ready for its action
as soon as 1t meets.
The exceedingly heavy payments made
by the treasury III the first quarter of the
present fiscal year have caused dismay
among the members of the appropriations
committee. For the first four months of
the year these payments have exceeded by
$l6,000.0C0 the expenditures for the CORE.
spending period in the preceding fiscal y ear.
which means total increase for the present
year S4S,0O0,000. while the sppropria-
tons for the year are only So. oO0. 600 greater
than the appropriations for the last year.
In plain English, that means If the esti-
mates of the committee hold good. q def
cheney on account of pensions of S36. .000. .O00
which will have TO be met By Congress az
the next session, IN addition TO an appro-
priation for pensions for the next fiscal
year of certainly not less than $3.50, 900, 600.
So the total appropriation that Congress
must make for pensions next session will
aggregate not less than Sls6 100000 With
this enormous sum added to the other
appropriations necessary to carry on the
government and decreased importatione
land consequently receiptsl expected to
result from rhe agitation of the tariff ques-
tion. it will be seen that the appropriations
committee has good reason to feel dismayed
at the outlook and to doubt their bility to
prevent o deficiency in the national &C.
counts. -.