The morning call., 1893-08-22

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No one was prepared for the radical
changes made in the personnel of some of
the Important committees. Springer of
Illinois gives way 10 Wilson of Virginia
as chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mittee and the 1llnoisan gets the chair
manship of the Committee on Banking
and Currency. Holman of Indiana, the
venerable watch dog of the treasury" is
deposed from the Committee of Appro-
priatons in favor of Sayers of Texas and
is 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 so as to leave a
dorbt whether they are not in minority
and whether the financial policy OF the
administration may not find a majority
in the committee. Congressman Tracey
OF New I York, who is an administration
man and is second on the committee,
claims that the Speaker deferred TO the re-
pealing element to such an extent as TO
make the committee mildly free coin
age" instead of radically free coinage"
and insists that counting Kilgore OF Texas
with the free coinage men, the committee
will only stand to s for free coinage.
The Committee on Banking and Currency
is said to be opposed to free coinage IL to
6. The removal of Holman from the head
of the Appropriations Committee is in
terpreted by some to mean that the
Speaker favors more liberal appropria-
tiOns in the fifty-third Congress- The
removal of Springer from the Ways and
Means Committee gives this important
chairmanshD 10 the South, but il is said
that the makeup of the Committee on
Ways and Means does not indicate any
essential change from the policy of the
last Congress.
California goes unrepresented on the i'm
portant committees-Ways and Means.
Appropriations, Judiciary, Banking and
Currency, Naval Affairs, Coinage, Weights
and Measures S. and Public Buildings and
Grounds. The State has seldom been so
badly treated. In the fifty-frst Con-
gress she had representatives on both the
Ways and Means ana Appropriations.
Nevertheless her representatives seem
fairly we'll pleased with their lot. Geary
remains on the Foreign Affairs, in which
COMMITTEES lie will likely originate the
measure to repeal his Chinese act. He
Commerce. Caminetti got what he has
been working hard for. Rivers and Har-
bnrs. Mcguire goes on Immigration and
Naturalization. on Irrigation of Arid
Lands and Revision of Laws, two OF
which are good committees for Calfor-
MAS Interests If a bill to repeal the
Geary act should come I'D in the Immgra-
tion Committee Mcguire will be able to
make his presence felt. OF the Republi.
cans, Mr.. Hilborn gets an important posi-
ton on the District of Columbia Com
mittee, although IF course in this place he
will not be able to accomplish so much for
California as If he had gone on Naval
Affairs. Loud keeps his old positions, one
OF which IS a good one, Postoffiees and
Postroads; the OTHER is Claims. Bowers
goes on Military Affairs. Patents and Ex-
pepSes IN the 1ntsrior Department and
Cannon is on Militia. Newlands OF Ne
vada gets Mines and Mining and Immi-
grafton and Naturalization.
The principal committees. with the
chairmen of the others, as announced by
the Speaker, are as follows:
Ways and Means-Wtlson OF West Virginia
(chairman). McMnlin of Tennessee Kernel of
Georgia. Montgomery of Kentucky, Whiting
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Massachusetts, Bryan of Nebraska, Breckin-
ridge OF Arkansas. Bynum of Indiana Tarsney
OF Missouri Reed of Maine, Burrows OF Michi-
gan, Payne OF New YORK, DalZell of Pennsyl-
vana. Hopkins OF Illinois. Geary OF Iowa.
Coinage. Weights and Measures-Bland OF
Missouri chairman, Tracey OF New York Kill
gore OF Texas, Epes of Virginia. Stone OF Ken
lucky Allen OF Mississippi, Bankhead of Ala
bama, Rayner OF Maryland. Carter of Ohio. COT
faan - ANtrnr nft,r a IoIza
Stone Of Pennsylvania II. johnson OF North
Dakota, Dingley of Maine. Sweet of Idaho.
Hager of Iowa, Aldrich of Illinois, Rawlius OF
Utah.
Banking and Currency-Springer of Illinois
(chairman), Sperry OF Connecticut, Cox OF Ten
nessee, COBB of Missouri. Culberson OF Texas
Ellis of Kentucky. Cobb of Alabama Warner
OF New York, Johnson of Ohio. Black OF Geor-
eia, Hall of Missouri, Walker of Massachusetts,
BrOsius OF Pennsylvania, Henderson of Illinois,
Russell of Connecticut Haugen of Wisconsin
and johnson of Indiana.
Appropriations-Saye yers of Texas (ehairmap)
Breckinridge of Kentucky. Dockery of Mis-
souri,, Compton OF Maryland. ONeil OF Massa-
chusets. Livingston OF Georgia. Washington
of Tennessee. Roberts son OF Louisiana, Brook
shire of Indiana, Williams or Illinois, COombs
OF New York, Henderson OF Iowa. Cogswell
OF Massachusetts, Bingham OF Pennsylvania,
non of Illinois.
Rivers and Harbors-Bianchard OF Louisiana
(chairman) CatchIngs OF Mississippi Lester of
Georgia, Clarke of Alabama jones OF Virginia
Page of Rhode Island. Alderson of West Vir-
ginia, Causey of Delaware, Camiuetti of Cali
fornia, McCulock of Arkansas, Barnes of Wis
cousin, Henderson OF Illinois, Herman of Ore
gOn, Stephenson OF Michigan. Hooker of New
York, GrosvenOr of o bio, Hepburn of Pennsyl-
vania.
Committee on Pensions-Noses OF Georgia
(chairmaDl Henderson OF North Carolina,
Jones of Virginia, HOuk OF Ohio Snodgrass OF
Tennessee, Taylor of Indiana, Lisle OF Ken
lucky, Clark OF Missouri, Baker OF Kansas
Loudenslager of New Jersey, Lucas of South
Dakora, White OF Ohio. Tawney OF Minnesota
Committee on Invalid PensioBs-Martin of
Indiana (charmaD), Fyan Of Missouri, Hare OF
Ohio McEttrick OF Massachusetts, Baldwin of
Minnesota. Graham of New York, Mcdonald OF
Illinois, Erdman OF Pennsylvania, Fielder OF
New Jersey, TAYLOR of Tennessee, Pickler OF
South Dakota, Lacey OF Iowa, ADsley OF Massa-
chuseIts. Meiklejohn OF Nebraska. Strong of
Ohio
JudicIarv-Culberson of Texas tchairman).