The herald., 1893-08-22
Speaker Crisp Announces the
Committees.
Radical Changes in the Heads
Of Some Of Them.
The Majority Of the Chairmanships
Given to Southerners.
Springer Removed from tho Ways and
Means Committee, and Wilson
Placed in His Stead-watch-
dog Holman Deposed.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Interest in tho
financial discussion in the house dwar.
ed today in the greater interest every.
one felt in the announcement of the
standing committees by Speaker Crisp.
No one was prepared for the radical
changes made in the personnel of some
of the important committees.
Springer, of Illinois. gives way to Will
son, OF West Virginia, as chairman Of
the ways and means committee. and the
Illinoisan gets the chairmanship of tie
committee on banking and currency.
Holman, of Indiana, the venerable
watch dog of the treasury" is deposed
from the committee on appropriations
in favor of Sayers, of Texas, and given
the head OF the committee on Indian
affairs.
Bland of Missouri is retained at the
head OF the committee on coinage, but
the free coinage people are disappointed
in the committee being changed 40 "a to
leave much doubt whether she free
coinage people are not in the minority.
and whether the financial policy OF the
administration may not find majority
in the committee. Congressman Tracey
of New York, who is en- administration
man and second on the committee,
claims the speaker deferred to the re-
pealing element to such an extent as to
make the committee mildly free coin
age," and insists that, counting Kilgore
of Texas with the free coinage men, the
committee will only stand to for free
coinage.
The committee on banking and cur
rency is said to be opposed to free COIN
age, IL to 6.
The removal Of Holman from the head
of the appropriations committee Is inter-
preted by some to mean that the speak
er favors more liberal appropriations in
the Fifty-third congress.
The removal OF Springer from the ways
and means committee gives this imp0rts
ant chairmanship of the house to the
south, but it is said from this the make
up of the committee on ways and means
does not indicate any essential change
from the policy of the last congress.
After the house me6 this morning
Powers of Vermont took the floor in sup
port OF the repeal of the purchasing
clause OF the Sherman act.
Hoover of Mississippi opposed uncon-
ditional repeal of the silver purchasing
clause.
The debate was then suspended to
allow the speaker to announce the stand
ing and select committees for the pres
ent congress.
Then, on motion of Bland, Saturday
next was set apart for the general debate
on the Wilson bill, instead of debate
under the fiye-minuto rule.
Cooper of Indiana spoke in opposition
to free coinage of silver, while Alexan-
der of North Carolina advocated free sill
YER coinage and spoke for larger cur
rency.
Sperry of Connecticut opposed free
coinage and advocated the Wilson bill,
and Cox OF Tennessee argued against
the pending bill.
Settle of North Carolina opposed free
coinage of silver and favored the Wilson
bill.
A recess was then,taken till O'Clock.
At the evening session Mcdonald
.Dem., OF Illinois said he was in favor
If free coinage of gold and silver at any
.atio that might be acceptable.
Bartlett (Dem.,) of New York said,
With the message of the president he ia
n thorough accord.
Stockdale (Dsm.,) OF Mississippi ar
tued that the Sherman bill had little to
10 with the stagnation of business, but
hat it was attributable primarily to the
:ariff.
The houae then at IL 10 adjourned.