The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-22
THE new COMMITTEES.
The South Leeds in the Number
of Chairmanships.
CHAIRMAN SPRINGER DISPLACED.

He Is Succeeded by william L. Wilson,
OF West Virginia, In the Chairmanship
of the Ways and Means Committeo-The
Coinage Committee Favors Free Silver.
WAsHINaT ON, 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-
onsly 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 tho 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 (ky) are not on the committee
OF elections; and G, r. Breckenridge (Ark.)
is not on the committee OIL appropriations
INN
mittee of which he was chairman in the
Flfty-flrst congress, and Mr.. Gear Qa)
again finds himself on the committee on
ways and means. After November, when
MIR. O'Ferrall will resign TO enter upon the
duties OF governor of Virginia, Jacob b.
brown, OF Indiana, will go 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, postoflices 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 postotiice
department, expenditures in the interior
department. expenditures in the agrcul-
tural department, expenditures on public
buildings, printing, ventilation and acous-
tics, accounts and rules-thirty-two in all.
10 the north go the following: Banking
and currency, merchant, marine and fish
cries, military affairs, naval affairs, Indian
hnalrs, 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, 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, !; Com
necticut, /; Georgia, 4; Illinois, A. Indiana.
.; kentucky,3; Louisiana, l; Maryland, /;
Mississippi, 2; Missouri, 3; Michigan, /;
New Jersey, 2; New York, 5; North Caro-
Lima, g; Ohio, :; Pennsylvania, 2; Rhode
Island. /; South Carolina. |; Tennessee, 8;
Texas, 8; Virginia, 8; West Virginia, ,;
Wisconsin, 2.
The following are new chairmen in this
Wilson, ways and means, sue
ceeulng Springer; Sayers, appropriations, |
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 af-
fairs, succeeding Peel; Wheeler, terrific
rteS allrppaHinu Wnglinpt,n.
mines and mining, succeeding Cowles;
Allen, levees and improvements of the
Mississippi river, succeeding Robertson;
hcCann, labor, succeeding Tarsney; For
nan, militia, succeeding Lane; Covert.
patents, succeeding Tillman; Moses, pen.
lions, succeeding Wilson; Pendleton wv.
Va .)private land claims, succeeding Fitch;
Heard, District of Columbia, succeeding
demphill; Barwig. expenditures of the
reasury department, succeeding Brick
ner; Mcmillan, expenditures in the navy
department., succeeding Mcclellan; Tur-
Ter, expenditures in the interior depart
ncnt, succeeding Owens; Dunphy, expen-
lltures in the department of justice, sue
eeding Allen; Grain, expenditures on pub
ic buildings, succeeding Youmans; Eel
ows, library, succeeding Cummings; De
Forrest, reform in the civil service, sue
eedin2 Andrew; Fitch, election of presi-
lent and vice president and representa-
ives In congress, vice Chapman; Shell,
entilation and acoustics, succeeding
English, alcoholic liquor
ratiic, succeeding Haynes; Cooper irriga-
ion of arid lands, succeeding Lanham;
immigration and natural
zation, succeeding Stump Pearson, en-
oiled bills, succeeding Scott; Lynch,
niluge, succeeding Castle.
The committee on coinage, weights aud
measures is said to be in favor of free coin
ge . to (the Utah delegates not having
vote, while the committee on banking
nd currency is said to be opposed to free
oinage, IL to q.
An Infant Victim of Careleasn.,..