The morning call., 1893-08-22
Speaker Crisp Names His
Committees.
HEADED BY SOUTHERN MEN.
Springer Has Been Displaced and
Holman Gives Way to a Gentle
man From Texas.
Special to THE MoRNING CALL.

announcement by Speaker Crisp of the
committees of the House. These commit
tees are appointed not merely for the
present extra session. but will serve
throughout the entire life OF the fifty
third Congress. The important changes
are the retirement of Springer and the
substitution of Wilson of West Virginia
as chairman Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, and the retirement of Obiector
Holman from the chairmanship of the
Appropriations Committee and the substi-
tuition in his place Cf Sayers of Texas.
Mr.. Springer is relegated 10 the chairman
ship of the Committee on Banking and
Currency. one that sounds important bat
which will really have little or nothing to
do except to report the bill TO allow ma
tional banks to increase their circulation
to the par value OF their deposit bonds. 1t
is the history Of the Committee on Bank
Ing and Currency that nearly all of the
legislation 1t has reported in the past has
failed OF enactment. For example. the
same bank circulation bill now introduced
In the Senate by Senators and pending
there. has been for many years presented
to the House from this committee, and has
invariably failed Of passage. Mr.. Springer
feels his retirement from the chairman
ship of the Ways and Means Committee
very keenly. BE is no longer the leader of
the House and he is deprived of his full
active share in carrying out whatever the
Democratic plan may prove TO be of tariff
legislation.
Although well-inf0rmed papers long ago
predicted that Wilson of West Virginia
would supplant Springer as Chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee Mr..
Springer himself has obstinately refused
to believe these reports. He scarcely
attempts TO conceal his chagrin, and his
feelings are shared by Holman, for the In
diana 0bjeetor united with Springer two
years ago next December in making pos
sible the victory of Mr.. Crisp in the fight
for the speskership. Both Holman and
Springer were rewarded at that time by
important chairmanships from which they
are now removed, aud they feel that Mr..
Crisp's debt of gratitude to them is no less
now than it was then.
Ii is certain that the appoint tment of
Wilson of West Virginia TO the WAYS and
Means chairmanship, and OF Savers to the
Appropriations chairmanship, are entirely
in accord with the wishes Of President
Cleveland.
Mr.. Wilson is more OF scholar than an
active parliamentariaD, but he will lend a
kind Of intellectual favor TO the new
tariff bill, the active parliamentary man
agement of which on the floor Of the
House will probably be placed in charge
of McMiIin of Tennessee unless that
gentleman chooses to sulk because of his
retirement from the Committee on Rules.
The retirement of Holman was partly
the result OF a general feeling of disgust
which has extended through his own party
at bis narrow parsimony as TO necessary
national expenditures, while he at times
betrayed a selfish greed during the last
Congress In demanding appropriations for
his own district. There is an element
both of comedy and possibly OF tragedy in
the assignment of Holman to the Com
mittee IN Indian Affairs After the Indian
has been made to suffer at the hands of the
Government and In the advance of civiliZa-
tion during the last century. it seems al
most grotesquely cruel that his allowance
for blankets and jerked beef should now be
dOled out by the parsimonious member
from Indiana.
Colonel Ssyers, the new chairman of the
appropriations Committee. is a radically
IL,
be is both broad gauged aud judicious. as
we'll as full of energy and possessed of
valuable experience by previous service
upon The committee. 1t was Sayers who,
in the last Congress, despite the objection
OF the narrow economists Of his own
party, succeeded in having passed the ap-
preparation of $1,000. 600 for the quarantine
protection of the United States, an appro-
priation which now makes it possible for
the health officers of New York ana other
Atlantic ports to guard against the inva-
sion OF cholera.
Bland of Missouri. the leading advocate
of the free coinage of silver in the House.
is permitted to retain the chairmanship of
the Committee on Coinage, Weights and
Measures. Perhaps this would not have
been done had not the bill for the repeal
OF the Sherman act already been before
the House. This leaves little for the
coinage Committee to do. the passage of
TINS Dill in the House being manifestly
certain. Moreover, the retention of Bland
IN this Craftsmanship Is an act of policy, as
MS removal would have needlessly irri-
tated the friends of silver. Besides this.
there is majority of at least one in the
committee as constituted against free
coinage.
As expected Mr.. Cummings of New
York becomes chairman of the important
Committee on Naval Affairs. Cummings
previous service on this committee shows
that he is thoroughly in accord with the
policy of developing The new navy by
liberal appropriations. The appointment
OF Geissenhainer Of New jersey as chair
man oil the Committee on immigration
means liberal Interpretation of the i'm
migration laws. The new chairman is
known as friend of the Transatlantic
steamship companies, and the constitu-
tlon OF the rest of the committee gives
little nope OF new restrictive legislation or
Oh any more rigid enforcement of existing
immigration laws. Geissentainer made
himself especially prominent In the last
congress as an earnest opponent of the
rigid immigration laws which were en-
acted despite his efforts.
LIST OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Crisp Has Made Great Mauy
Important Changes.
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