The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-02

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the Imposition Of customs or revenue
taxes or both. Tho political dincr.
ences between tho two great parties
In our country are fought ont In that
committee room and then upon the Aoor
Of the house. One great party believes
in protection for projections sake; the
other party believes in q tariff for rev.
emo only. Although the Congresston-
nj Record contains many interesting
passages Of debate between the leaders
Of both parties, the most highly interest
ing and intense discussions of these Inn
portant matters occur behind the closed
doors Of the committee room.
While the committee on ways and
means is providing ways and means
for the support of the government.
at the other end of the house
wing Of the capitol the committee
on appropriations is learning to say
/ mo- to hundreds of hungry and
thirsty individuals who want appropri-
atoms for their personal welfare or ag-
grandizement. The principal work OF
| the committee is to provide adequate
| but economical appropriations for ex-
penditure annually by the executive
| departments of the government. 1t n
generally conceded that the best chair
man of that committee during the
present generation was Mr.. Randall, of
Pennsylvania.
| There are two other committees who
are regarded as of almost equal i'm
| portance with those mentioned; name
| ", the committee on coinage, weights
| and measures, of which Mr.. Bland, OF
Missouri, is chairman; and the commit
| tee on banking and currency, of which
| Mr.. Springer, of Illinois, is chairman.
To those two committees the house OF
| representatives looks for the prepare
ton of bills which will prove beneh-
cial to our financial institutions. The
chairman of the committee on coinage,
| weights and measures believes in the
free coinage of silver, and he will un-
doubtedly report from that committee
to the house, and ask action upon it, q
bill providing for the free and unlim-
tied coinage of the white metal. This
will undoubtedly precipitate a great
forensic contest in the house of repre-
sentatives greater and more exciting
than the one caused by the passage OF
the Wilson bill. It is expected that
Mr.. Springer from the committee on
banking and currency will report to
the house, at an early date, a bill tc
abolish the ten per cent. tax on state
| banks, authorizing the national banks
to increase their issue of currency t.
the full amount of the bonds which
they have deposited with the secretary
of the treasury and for other purposes
of similar nature.
| There are a number of other commit
tees of greater or less Importance
among them the committee on cleo
tions, to which committee is referred
every contested election case; the com
nittee on the judiciary, to which is re
ferred all questions of law; the com
mittee on rivers and harbors, which
prepares and reports to the hous>
bill appropriating eighteen o.
twenty millions of dollars for the i'm
provement of our waterways, INLAND
and coastwise. There are other com
mittees whose names indicate the oh
ject of their formation and continu
ance. They are the committees OF
merchant marine and fisheries, on agri
culture, on foreign affairs, on militar,
affairs, on naval affairs, on post Office:
and post roads, on public lands. 1ndia1
affairs, on territories, on railways ant
) canals, on manufactures, on mines ant
) mining, on public buildings ant
grounds, on Pacific railroads, on i'm