The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-08-22
THE NEW COMMITTEES.
The South Leeds in the Number
of Ohairmanships,
CHAIRMAN SPRINGER DISPLACED.

He Is Succeeded by william l.. wilson,
of West Virginia, in the Chairmanship
/ Of the Ways and Means Committee-The
Coinage Committee Eavors Free silver.
WAsHINGToN, Aug. 22-The principal
changes by Speaker Crisp in the chair
manships of the committees announced by
him yesterday had been discounted in the
public mind by the publications previ-
ously made concerning their composition.
The chief surprise was therefore, oc-
casioned by the assignment given Mr.
Springer. He had generally been accorded
place at the head of the committee on
foreign affairs in case of a transfer from
the committee on ways and means. No
one had suggested him for membership on
banking and currency.
The announcement of the list as read
from the clerks desk was the first intima-
tion that members had of the speakers d.
termination in the matter An intimate
friend of Mr. Crisp said that he had con-
suited no one in arranging the list The
explanation of this act was, the gentle
man said, that there had been so much
friction oCcasiOned two years ago that he
(the speaker) preferred to make the selec-
tion without advice or assistance and as
sumo the entire responsibility for the
work
In addition to the changes of the chair
men the rank and file of the committees
have undergone an unusually radical
change, former membership being in
many cases no indication of continuance
in service on that particular committee.
For instance, Messrs, Cobb (Ala) and
Paynter (Ny) are not on the committee
of elections; and G. h. Breckenridge (Ark.)
is not on the committee on appropriations.
Mr. Cannon goes TO the foot of the COM
mittee of which he was chairman in the
Fitty-frst congress, and Nr. Gear Ca)
again finds himself on the committee on
ways and means. After November when
Mr. O'Ferrall will resign to enter upon the
duties of governor of Virginia Jacob B.
Brown, of Indiana, will 20 to the head of
the committee on elections.
Upon sectional lines chairmanships of
the following committees go to the south:
! Elections, ways and means, appropria.
tions, judiciary, coinage, weights and
measures, interstate and foreign COM
merce, rivers and harbors, agriculture
foreign affairs, postofIices and post roads,
public lands, railways and canals. terri
tories, private land claims, public build
ings and grounds, levees and improve
ments of the Mississippi river, education,
pensions, claims, District of Columbia, re-
vision of laws, expenditures in the state
department., expenditures in the war de-
partment, expenditures in the navy de-
partment, expenditures in the postofiice
| department, expenditures in the interior
department., expenditures in the agricul-
tural department, expenditures on public
! buildings, printing, ventilation and acous-
tics, accounts and rules-thirty-two in all.
To the north go the following: Banking
and currency merchant, marine and fish
cries, military affairs, naval affairs, Indian
affairs, manufacturers, mines and mining,
Pacific railroads. labor, militia, patents,
invalid pensions, war claims, expenditures
in the treasury department, expenditures
in the department of Justice library, re-
form in the civil service, election of presi-
dent and vice president and representatives
in congress, alcoholic liquor traffic irrga-
tion of arid lands, immigration and en-
rolled bills-23.
When Mr. Brown succeeds Mr.. OFFER
rail- the totals will be 81 and "a.
BY states the chairmanships are divided
as follows: Alabama, 3; Arkansas, ]; Con-
necticut, l. Georgia, 4; illinois, 4; Indiana,
3; Kentucky, 3; Louisiana, 1; Maryland, l;
Mississippi, 2; Missouri, 8; Michigan, l;
New Jersey, 2; New York, 5; North Caro-
Ina, 2; Ohio, 2; Pennsylvania, 2; Rhode
Island. 1; South Carolina, 1; Tennessee, 8;
Texas, 3; Virginia, 3; West Virginia, 2;
| Wisconsin, 2.
The following are new chairmen in this
congress; Wilson, ways and means, sue
ceeding Springeri 6ayers, appropriations,
succeeding HolmanI Springer, banking
and currency, succeeding Bacon; Fithian,
Eal
Fowler; McCreary, foreign affairs, sue
ceeding Blount; Cummings, naval affairs,
succeeding Herbert; Holman, Indian af-
fairs, succeeding Peel; Wheeler, terrific
ries, succeeding Washington; Weadock,
mines and mining, succeeding Cowles;
Allen, levees and improvements of the
Mississippi river, succeeding Robertson;
McCann, labor, succeeding Tarsney; For
man, militia, succeeding Lane; Covert,
patents, succeeding Tillman; Moses, pen
sions, succeeding Wilson; Pendleton (W.
Va private land claims, succeeding Fitch;
Heard, District of Columbia, succeeding
Hemphill; Barwig, expenditures of the
treasury department, succeeding Brick
ner; Mcmillan, expenditures in the navy
department, succeeding Mcclellan; Tur-
ner, expenditures in the interior depart
ment, succeeding Owens; Dunphy, eXpen-
ulluItS III lut htDtIblLtuu VI Ju5Lltts sue
ceeding Allen; Grain, expenditures on pub
lie buildings, succeeding Noumans Eel
lows, library, succeeding Cummings; De
Forrest, reform in the civil service, sue
ceeding Andrew; Fitch, election Of presi-
dent and vice president and representa-
tiyes in congress, vice Chipman; Shell,
ventilation and acoustics, succeeding
Stahlnecker; English, alcoholic liquor
traffic, succeeding Haynes; Cooper, irriga-
tion of arid lands succeeding Lanham;
Geissenhainer, immigration and natural.
ization, succeeding Stump; Pearson, en-
rolled bills, succeeding Scott; Lynch
milage succeeding Castle.
The committee on coinage weights and
measures is said to be in favor of free coin
age 8 to S the Utah delegates not having
a yote) while the committee on banking
and currency is said to be opposed to free
coinage, IL 20 q.
An Iufant Victim of Carslessnsss.
ALTOONA, Pa, Aug. ga very sad &C