Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-11-29
THE NEXT HOUSE
How the Members Stand in Re-
Iation to ChairmanShipS.
IF REED is ELECTED SPEAKER

the Rivers and Harbors, and Burrows
the Ways and Means Chairmanship-I
The Appropriations in Doubt.
WASHINGTON, November 20. - The
House Committees which are expected
to be of the greatest Importance in the
next Congress are those on Ways and
Means, Appropriations, Rules, Banking
and Currency, Coinage, Weights and
Measures, Rivers and Harbors, and Pub
lie Buildings and Grounds. The first
three named always head the list in or
der of importance. The others are ex-
pected to assume Importance in the next
Congress because of the special condi-
tions which will prevail during that
Congress. The Banking Committee Will
certainly be one OF the most important
committees on the list, if there should
be an effort, as it is limited there may be,
to revise the currency laws and change
the present system. The probability OF
an effort to secure silver legislation and
the further probability that the Repub-
lcan party when it comes into power in
| House may want to formulate policy
on this question, will have the effect also
OF advancing the Coinage Committee to
a position of the first rank. The Rivers
and Harbors and Public Buildings Com.
mittees will have the delicate task OF
providing for public improvements, SO
far as the committees OF the House can
accomplish this work.
With so many new men as there will
be on the Republican side OF Congress,
and all OF them feeling that it will be
necessary for them to make a showing
to their constituents, there will natural
ly be a pretty general clamor for ap-
propriations for postoffice buildings, cns-
toni houses and river and harbor i'm
provements. While the Republican
party has always shown disposition to-
ward liberality in public improvements,
there is probability OF an effort to hold
their miscellaneous appropriations as
low as possible. The low condition of
the treasury and the fact that a Presi-
dental election will be SO near at hand
will prove strong arguments in this di
rection, as will the possibility OF Presi-
dental veto. The Republicans at pres
ent have six Of the seventeen members
OF the Rivers and Harbors Committee,
and all their members have been re-
elected except Henderson OF Illinois
mann OF Oregon takes first place in the
Republican membership OF the Com
mittee, with Stephens of Michigan,
Hooker OF New York, Grosvenor OF Ohio,
and Reyburn OF Pennsylvania following
in the order named. Itcannot, of course,
be known whether the next Speaker will
follow the seniority rule. If he should,
Hermann would become Chairman.
Milliken OF Maine leads the Repub-
lcan membership of the Committee on
Public Buildings, and the chances are, if
Reed becomes Speaker, Milliken will be
made Chairman OF this committee.
Morse OF Massachusetts is the only Re-
publican member OF the committee re-
turned. Only three of the old Repub-
lican members OF the Committee on
Banking and Currency are reelected.
They are Walker OF Massachusetts, Rus
sell OF Connecticut and johnson of In
diana. Walker is the senior member,
and his chances for the Chairmanship
are the best. OF the six present Repub-
lican members of the Committee on
Coinage, Weights and Measures five have
been reelected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress. They are in the order named:
Stone of Pennsylvania, johnson of North
Dakota, Dingley OF Maine, Hager OF
Iowa and Aldrich of Illinois. Stone
would naturally become Chairman of
the committee ii he desired the place.
In the natural order of events Bur-
rows of Michigan will become Chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee.
With Reed in the Speakers chair there
is little doubt that he will be given this
important post, which carries with it
the Republican leadership on the floor
OF the House, if he fails in his ambition
With Reed in the Speakers chair and
Burrows in the Senate there would be
only three Republican members of the