The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-19

Washington, Nov. 1S.-The House
committees which are expected Of the
greatest Importance in the next Con-
gress are the ways and means, appro-
pfations, rules, banking and currency,
coinage, weights and measures, rivers
and harbors, and public buildings and
grounds. The first three named al
ways head the list in order of import
lance. The others are expected to as
sumo Importance in the next Congress
because of the special conditions 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 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 proba-
bility that the Republican party, When
it comes into power in the House, VIII
want to formulate a policy on TINS
question, will have the effect, also, OF
advancing the coinage committee to a
position of first rank.
The rivers and harbors and pubEc
buildings committee will have the deli
cate task of providing for pubic I'M
proyements, so far as committee OF
the House can accomplish this work.
With so many new men, most an Oh
whom will be on the Republican side
of the chamber and all of the feeling
it would be necessary to make SHOW
ing to their constituents, there VIII
naturally be a pretty general clamor OF
applications for postofflce buildings,
custom houses and river and harbor
improvements.
e4WhiIe the Republican party has al
WAYS shown a. disposition towards lid
erality in pubic Improvements, there Is
a probability Of an effort to hold their
miscellaneous appropriations as low as
possible"
The low condition of the treasury and
the fact a, presidential election will be
SO near at hand will prove strong argu-
ments in this direction as Will the pos
sibikty of presidential veto.
The Republicans at present have SIX
of the seventeen members of the river
and harbors committee, and al their
members have been reelected except
Mr. Henderson. of Illinois. With Hen
d erson out Of the way. HERMAN, OF
Oregon. takes first place in the Repuo-
Iican membership of the commlttee
with Stephens, of Michigan, HOOKER,
of New York, Grosven0r, OF ONO, ana
Revburn. of Pennsylvania, FOLLOWING III
tbe order named. 1t cannot, of course,
ha known whether the next speaker
will follow the seniority rue IL ne
should. Mr.. Herman would become
chairman.
Mr., Nillilken. of Maine, leads the Re
nuhlican membership of the committee
on public buildings, and the chances
are if Mr.. Reed becomes speaker, MT.
NiIliken will become chairman OF TINS
committee. :. 49,
Mr.. Morse. Of Massachusetts,, is the
only Republican member OF the COM
mittee returned. Only three OF the orc
Republican committee on banking anu
currency are reelected They are
Messrs. Walker, of MASSACHUSETTS, rus
sell of Connecticut, and Johnson, OF
indiana Mr.. Walker is the senior mem
Der, and his chances for the chalflfiah-
shin are the best.
OF the six present Republican mem
bers of the committee on coinage,
weights and measures, five have been
reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
They are in the order named, Stone,
of PENNSYLVANIA; Johnson, of North Da-
kota; Dingley, of Maine; Hager, of
Iowa. and Aldrich of Illinois. Mr..
Stone would naturally become chairman
of the committee if he desired the place.
In the natural order Of events, Hon.
J. c. Burrows, of Michigan, will be-
come chairman OF the ways and means
committee with Mr. Reed in the speak
er's chair. but 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 to succeed SEN
ator Patton in the Senate. With MI.
Reed in the speakers chair and Mr..
Burrows in the Senate, there would be
only three Republican members of the
present committee left to choose from,
these being Messrs. Payne, of New
York, Dalzell. of Pennsylvania, and
Hopkins, of Illinois.
D. R. Henderson, of Iowa, is the
ranking Republican member of the ap-
preparation committee, with Messrs.
Cogswell, of Massachusetts, Bingham
of Pennsylvania, Dingley, of Maine,
Grout, of Vermont, and Cannon, of Hi
nois, coming in the order named.
1t is possible neither Cannon nor
Henderson will get the place, for in the
event of Burrows becoming chairman
of the ways and means committee, the
proba abilities are strong that the east
would demand the craftsmanship of the
next most important, which would be
the appropriations. In that conting-
ency, General Cogswell's chances for
being promoted to the head of the COM
mittee would be excellent. If Mr.. Reed
becomes speaker of the House, the Re
publicanship Of the committee on rules
will probably be composed of himself
and the chairman of the appropriations
and ways and means committee. He
favored this plan in the Fifty-first Con-
gress, and there is reason to believe
that he would revive it rather than inli-
tate Mr.. Crisp in his policy of distrib-
uting the honors.