Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-19
COMMITTEE FORECAST.
Some Effects of the Republican Influx Into the New House.
SHOULD REED BECOME SPEAKER
Possibilities and Probabilities as to the New Chairnen to Be Selected For the Most Important Committees-That on Banking wm Cut Quite n Figure.


 VIII Cut Quite Figure.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. I9.-The house com. mittees which are expected to be of the greatest importance in the next congress are those on the ways and means. appro- priations, rules, banking and currency, coinage weights and measures, rivers and harbors and public buildings and grounds The first three named always head the list In order of importance. The others are | expected to assume importan in the | next congress because of the especial con ditions which will prevail during that congress
 The banking committee will certainly | be one of tho most important committees | In the entire list if there should bo an of | fort, as is hinted there may be, to revise the currency laws and change tho present system
 Such legislation as this would lift the | committee dealing with 1t from its pres ent place of insignificance and place 1t l for the time alongside of the ways and means committee. The probability of an effort to secure silver legislation. and the I probability that the Republican party when 1t comes into power in the house | will want to formulate a policy on this | question, will have the effect also of ad- vancing the coinage committee to posi- | ton of first rank.
 Many New Men.
 The river and harbor and public build 1 ings comnStteeS will have the delicate task of p 70 'lding for public Improvements so far aE committee of the house can ac | complish this work. With so many new men as there will be on the Republican sido in the next congress. and all of them feeling that 1t will be necessary for them to make a showing to their constituents | there will naturally be pretty general clamor for appropriations for postoiiico buildings customs houses and river and ha-rhor Improvements. While the Repub- lican party has always shown disposi- ton toward liberality in public improve ments. there is probability of an effort to hold their miscellaneous appropriations ns low as possible.
 The low condition of the treasury and the fact that n presidential election will be so near at hand will prove strong ar guments in this direction, as will the pos sibility of presidential veto.
 The Republicans at present have six of the seventeen members of the committee on rivers and harbors, and all their mem bcrs have been re elected except Mir Hen dcrson of Illinois. With Henderson out of the way, Hermann of Oregon takes first place in the Republican membership of the committee. with Stephenson of Mich igan, Hooker of New York. Grosvcnor of Ohio and Ringburn of Pennsylvania fol- lowing in the order named. It cannot. of course. bo known whether the next speaker will follow the seniority rule If he should, Mir. Hermann would become chairman.
 Mir Milliken of Maine heads the Re publican membership of the committee on public buildings. and the chances arc that If Mir. Reed becomes speaker Mir Milliken will be chairman of his commit l ,..FN anl,a, f.-t tH, ,t,- other Republican member of the com mittee returned
 Only three of the old Republican mem bers of the committee on banking and currency are re elected. They are Mcssrs. Walker of Massachusetts. Russell of Con necticut and Johnson of Indiana. MT. Walker Is the senior Republican mem Der
 He has from the beginning of his con. gressional career taken an active interest in financial questions. and his chances oi securing the craftsmanship would Do the best
 Of the six present Republican members of the committee on coinage. weights and measures, fivc have been re- elected to the fifty fourth congress They are in the or der named: Stone of Pennsylvania, John son of North Dakota. Dingley of Maine Hager of Iowa and Aldrich of Illinois Mir. stone would naturally become chair ] man of the committee. but 1t Is suggested ] that in case of Mir. Reed becoming speak CT he might havo n personal policy with reference to silver which he would wan to pursue, and in that event might want Mir. Dingley of his own state as the leade, of this committee
 If Reed >Il"uId Hr speaker. In the natural of events Hon. ] C. Burrows of IiGan will becom, chairman of the ways and means com mittee, with Mir. Resd in the speaker chair, but there is little doubt that hC will be given this important post, whicl carries with it the Republican leadership on the floor ol the house if ho fails in hi: t ambition to succeed senator Patton to hii t seat in tho senate With Mir Reod in tn, t speakers chair and Mir. Burrows in tn, 7 senate, there would be only three Repub ' lican members of the present committe, left to choose from, these being Mossrs 3 Payne of New York. Dalzell of Pennsyl l vania and Hopkins of Illinois. S D. B. Henderson of Iowa is the ranking e | Republican member of the appropria Q | tions committee. with Messrs. Cosswell O s Massachusetts, Bingham of Pennsylva mia. Dingley of Maine Grout of Vermont and Cannon of Illinois coming in tho or der named. These Is likely to be a con @ flict between the first and last named o e this list. While Henderson is now tn, ranking Republican member of the com
 
 t first congress and will probably ask tt |. have his old place bssk. It Is possible n that neither Cannon nor Henderson will r get the place, for in the event of Burrow n | becoming chairman of the ways anC means committee the probabilities ar - strong that tho east would demand tn chairmanship of the next most important which would be that of. appropriations In that contingency General Cogswell' finances for being promoted to tho head O the committee would bo excellent.
 If Mir. Reed becomes speaker of tn house, the Republican membership of tn committee on rules will probably bo com posed of himself and tho chairmen of tn appropriations and ways and means com mittees. He pursued this plan in tn L. fifty first congress. and thero is reason | believe that he would revive it rather tha Initiate MT. Crisp by more generally dis tributing the honors.
 r. Confidence In President Moraes-
 RIO JANEIEO. Nov. 19-Demonstrs tions of confidence in President Morae continue throughout Brazil. Tho chief of all the military and civil administrt tions have assured him of their nssistanc In his endeavors to maintain peace an
 consolidate the republic
 Prominent Railroad Man Dead.
 BALTIMORE, Nov. I9-william T. Tn
 lin, general auditor of tho Baltimore an
 Ohio railroad, died at his residence ,
 Mount Washington. lew miles from Ba
 timore.
 Fell 300 Feet and Lives. . DICKSON CITY. Pa, Nov. la.-Pet, N Munley. head man at the RIohmon
 shaft, fell 800 feet down tho shaft Il