The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-19
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
THE ORGANIZATION OF TIE FIFTY
 FOURTH CONGRESS.

 The Republicans Likely to Ignore the
 fopuiists Who Want Their Say in tho
 Organixatio ation-speaker Reed and tho
 lommittsss-wha tho Next Session of
 the Present Congress Min Consider.
 Washington, D. C.. Nov. i6.-The re- publican landslide of the week ago with It's causes has ceased to be the talk at the capital and the thoughts Of the interested ones are now upon the organization of the next congress. While the populists are confident that they will take an active part in the organization of the next senate, and thus get fair share of the offices and committee chairmanships. many of the leaders are not at all anxious to have the populists cut any ice, so to speak, in the next senate, and 1t is not im- probable that the republicans will call upon the democrats to assist them In the organization if they are unable to do so by their own vote. The leaders recognize the fact that the populist party Is but the outgrowth of the dis gruntled ones of the other two parties, and that If they are not fed with fat offices and snug berths either in state a natural death, leaving the two great parties to fight out the contest for con- trol of the senate on straight party lines, in which case certain conces- sions would be made to the democrats.
 The situation in the house will be somewhat different, as the republicans control that body absolutely, and Tom Reed, who without doubt will be the next speaker of that body, will have things comparatively easy, although something like fifty-six chairmanships will have to be filled by him. The next congress will seat ninety-eight repub- licans in the present congress who have been reelected, of which fifty two are practically new men and serv- ing their first term. They are men with but little experience and will not have to be considered in connection with any of the important chairman ships. Twelve members are serving their second term, and thirty-four who will have served three terms or more on the fourth of next March, and among these members the important chairmanships will be divided.
 Of all the committees the ways and means Is the most important, and would naturally be headed by Repre- D,,r of joop ic a republican member of the committee at present. It is not, however, impos- sible that MT. Burrows may succeed MT. Patton as senator, in which case the place now occupied by MT. Wilson will doubtless either go to MT. Dingley of Maine or MT. Dalzell of Pennsyl- vania. Both of these men are at pres ent on the committee, and stand well up among the leaders of the house. and in the estimation of MT. Reed. It is thought that though MT. Dingley comes from the same state as MT. Reed, and is on very friendly terms with him, that the chairmanship will go: to MT. Dalzell. The appointment of MT. Dal- zell would be an excellent one and would greatly please the many friends he has made in the house. MT. Ding ley will have served six terms, while MT. DaIzell will have served but four.
 The next committee of importance is the appropriations committee, of which MT. Dockery, who has made himself famous by his retrenchment in the de- partmental expenditures, is at present chairman. The chairmanship of this committee will go without doubt either to MT. Cannon of Illinois, ex-chair- man of this committee, or to MT. Hen erdson of Iowa, who for more than six years has been an active member of this committees Even should MT. Hem derson fail tosget the chairmanship of the committee, he will act in that ca pacity on the ub-committee having in hand the District appropriations, and in his hands District improvements will beSwell looked out for. All the re- publican members of this committee have been returned, so the committee will be equipped for good work during the next congress. It is probable that MT. Hill of Illinois will be chairman of the committee on foreign affairs; MT. Boutelle of Maine will get the navy; MT. Bingham of Pennsylvania will take charge of the post-off1ce commit tee; military affairs will have at its head either MT. Grosvenor of Ohio or Curtis of New York, while MT. Walker of Massachusetts will no doubt capture the chairmanship Of the banking and currency committee, one of the most important in the house. The other committees are of lesser importance and will not be much looked after.
 The recent bond issue has started some talk here to the effect that, special session of the Fifty-fourth congress might be called sometime in the early spring or a month after the adjournment of the Fifty-third con- gress. It is said by some that if such a session was called the organization of congress could be effected by June and an adjournment then taken un- til December, when congress would be all ready to take up the important financial questions which are liable to come before 1t, and some six or eight weeks of delay will be avoided.
 The next session of the present con- gress, which convenes in December and ends March 4, is not liable to be very interesting .one, although matters of some importance are down for consid- eration. The pop gun bills for free su- gar, free coal, free iron ore and free fencing are still on the calendar of the