The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-23
THE NEW COMMITTEES.
The South Leeds in the Number
Of Chairmanships.
CHAIRMAN SPRINGER DISPLACED.


OF West virginia, I'm the Chairmanship
OF the ways ana nIeans Committee-The
Coinnge Committee Favors Free Silver
WASHINGT on, Aug 22.-The PRINCIPAL
changes by Speaker Crisp in the chair
menships OF the committees announced by
MIN yesterday had been discounted in the
puDiic mind by the publications previ-
ously made concerning their composition
The chief surprise was. therefore, &C.
casioned by the assignment given Mr..
Springer He had generally been accorded
place Mt the head of the committee on
foreign affairs in case of transfer from
the committee on ways and means No
one had suggested him for mem Der ship on
banking and currency.
The announcement of the list as read
from the clerks desk was the irst intima-
ton that members had of the speakers de-
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 accustomed two years ago that he
(the speaker) preferred to make the selec-
ton 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
nave undergone an unusually radical
change, former membership being in
many cases no indication of continuance
In service OH that particular committee.
For instance, Messrs. Cobb (Ala.) and
Paynter (ky.) are not OH the committee
Oh elections; and c. II. Breckenridge (Ark)
Is not on the committee on appropriations
Mr. Cannon goes to the foot of the COM
mlttpp of which ha hal -, -,
Fifty-first congress. and Mr.. Gear Qa)
again finds himself on the committee on
ways and means. After November. when
hr OFerrall will resign to enter upon the
duties of governor of Virginia, Jacob b.
Brown, Of Indiana. will 20 to the head of
the committee OH elections
Upon sectional lines chairmanships of
the following committees go 10 the south:
Elections, ways and means. appropriate
tons. Judiciary, coinage, weights and
measures, interstate and foreign COM
mcrce, rivers and harbors, agriculture,
foreign affairs, postoilices and post roads.
public lands, railways and canals, terri
tories, private land claims, public build
lnSs ana grounds. lcvccS 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-
phrtncnt, expenditures in the postoffice
department, expenditures in the interior
department., expenditures in the agrcul-
tural department, expenditures on public
buildings. printing, ventilation and ncous-
tics, accounts and rulcs-thirty-two mall.
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
III the treasury department, expenditures
III 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, irriga-
ton of arid lands, immigration and EN-
rolled bills-23.
When Mr.. Brown succeeds Mr. O'Fer-
rail- the totals will be 81 and "a
by states the chairmanships are divided
as follows: Alabama, 3; Arkansas |; Con-
necticui, ]; Georgia, i; Illinois, e. Indiana
3; Kentucky, 3; Louisiana, /; Maryland, l;
Mississippi, p Missouri, 3; Michigan, |;
New Jersey, =; New York, >; North Caro-.
lima, .; Ohio, ,; Pennsylvania, =; Rhode
Island. /; South Carolina. i; Tennessee, 8;
Texas. 8; Virginia, 3; West Virginia, =;
Wisconsin, 2
Hc iplIoNli!S are llcW cnHlrmetl III this
congress: Wilson, ways and means. sue
ceeding Springer; Sayers, appropriations,
succeeding Holman; Springer, banking
and currency. succeeding Bacon; Fithian,
merchant marine and fisheries, succeeding
Fowler; McCreary, foreign affairs sue
ceedinG BlOunt; Cummings. naval affairs.
succeeding Herbert; Holman, Indian at
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 Tarsncy; For
man, militia, succeeding Lane; Covert,
patents, succeeding Tillman; Moses, pen
sions, succeeding Wilson; Pendleton wv.
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 depnrt-
ment, succeeding Owens; Dunphy, eXpen-
ditures in the department of justice, sue
ceeding Allen; Grain, expenditures on pub
lie buildings, succeeding HoumanS; Eel
lows, library, succeeding Cummings; De
Forrest, reform i'll the civil service, sue
ceeding Andrew; Fitch, election of presi-
ei' anu VICE presluent anu representa-
tives i'll congress, vice Chapman; Shell,
ventilation and acoustics, succeeding
Stahlnecker; English, alcoholic liquor
traffic, succeeding Haynes; Cooper irriga-
tlon OF ard lands, succeeding Lanham;
Geissenhainer, immigration and natural
lzatlon, 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 to (the Utah delepates nor box;nt,