The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-08-22
Crisp Does Some Juggling with the
Chairmen Of Committees,
SPRINGER sORBLY PRRrURBED
His Name No Longer Figures Mt the Head
of the Ways and Means Committee
of the House.
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 21.-The speaker
announced the chairmen Of the house
committees this morning. They are;
Ways and means-Wilson of West Vir-
ginia; OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of Texas;
judiciary-Culbertson of Texas; coin
age, and weights and measures-B Bland
of Missouri; banking and currency
Springer of Illinois; invalid pensions
Martin of Indiana; pensions Moses of
Georgia; rivers and harbors-Blanch-
ard of Louisiana; agriculture-Hatch
OF Missouri; public lands-McRae of
Arkansas; Indian affairs-Holman of
Indiana.
The following is the membership of
the coinage committee: Bland of Mis-
souri,, Tracy of New York, Kilgore of
Texas, Epes of Virginia, Stons of Ken
lucky, Allen of Mississippi; Bankhead
of Alabama, Raynor of Maryland, Car
ter of Ohio, Coffin of Wyoming, Nc
Keighan of Nebraska, Stone of Penn
sylvania, Johnston Of North Dakota,
Dingley of Maine, Sweet of idaho,
Hager of iowa, Aldrich Of Illinois, and
Rawlins of Utah.
Ways and means committee: Wilson
Of West Virginia, Mcmillan of Tennes-
see, Kernel of Georgia, Montgomery Of
Michigan, Cochrane of New York,
Stevens of Massachusetts, Bryan of
Nebraska, Breckenridge of Arkansas,
Bynum of Indiana, Tarner Of Missouri,
Reed of Maine, Burrows of Michigan,
Payne of New York, Dalzell of Penn
sylvania, Hopkins of Illinois, and
Gear of Iowa.
In the senate this morning Senator
Morrill, spoke in favor of the repeal of
the purchase clause of the Sherman
act.
Washington, August 21.-All interest
in the financial discussion in the house
was dwarfed today in the greater in
terest every one felt in the announce
ment of the standing committees by
speaker Crisp. NO one was prepared
for the radical changes made in the
personnel of some important commit
tees. Springer of Illinois, gives way
to Wilson, of West Virginia, as chair
man of the ways and means commit
tee, and the Illinoisan is given the
Craftsmanship of the committee on
banking and currency. Holman, of In
diana, the venerable Watchdog" of
the treasury, is deposed from the COM
mittee on appropriations in favor Of
Sayers, of Texas, and given the head
of the committee on Indian affairs.
Bland, of Missouri,is retained as head
of the committee on coinage, but the
free coinage people are disappointed in
the committee being changed so as to
leave much doubt whether the free
coinage people are in tn eminority and
whether the financial policy of the ad-
ministration may not find majority
in the committee. Congressman Tracy
of New Yrk, who is an administration
ran and second on the committee
claims that the speaker has deferred
to the repeating element to such an ex-
tene as to make the coinage commit
tee mildly free coinage" instead of
radically free coining," and insists on
counting Kilgore of Texas as a free
coinage man. The committee will only
Gland O 70 Q fo, fraa ooi,,ooa r,ha ooro
mittee on banking and currency is
said to be opposed to free coinage by
IL to G. The removal Of Holman from
the head of the appropriations commit
tee is interpreted by some to mean
that the speaker favors more liberal
appropriations in the 53d congress. The
removal of Springer from the ways and
means committee gives this important
Craftsmanship in the house to the
South.
When asked for a statement as to
the reasons which impelIed the speaker
to depose him from the craftsmanship
of the ways and means committee,
Springer said:
ITO say I am surprised at my dep
osition from that craftsmanship and ap-
as chairman on banking and
is only a feeble expression
Of the truth. had no intimation from
the speaker whatever as TO his failure
to reappoint or as to his intention to
make me chairman of any other COM
mittee. l go from work to which l
have given the best study Of my life
to go to committee to the business
of which have given but little at
tention heretofore. / know nothing Of
the motives Of the speaker or Of the
object he had in view. He has assured
me that he desired to do that which he
thought was best for the country and
the democratic party. hope he is not
mistaken, but opinions may differ"