New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-09
COMING WEEK IN CONGRESS.
MANY INTERESTING INCIDENTS Looi\HD
FOR. BY THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
SPEAKER REED WILL NAME HIS COMMIT ihh''
SECRETARY CARLISLE WILL SEND IN HIS
REPORT. AND LORD sALIsBuRY's AN
sWER TO THE PRESIDENTS DIS
PATCH MAY BE MADE


swER TO THE PRESIDENTS DIS
PATCH MAY BE MADE
PUBLIC
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
Washington. Dec. SIN political sense the
present week promises to be an exceedingly
lively and eventful one in Washington Inc
Republican National Committee will hold its reg
mar ouadrennial meeting to fix the time and
Mace for holding the National Convention which
will nominate the candidate who will be elected
President of the United States next year. Seven
or eight cities are contendng for the honor OF
entertaining that convention. and representa-
t,ves from most Of them already on the
ground working with all the zeal and energy that
hope can inspire in behalf Of their respective
cities Another matter which the National COM
mittee Will be asked to consider. and perhaps ACT
upon. is the proposition to change the OASIS oil
representation in the National Convention, 50
that the number of delegates from each State or
Territory shall be fixed by the number OF votes
cast therein for the Republican ticket at the last
Presidential election. instead of by the NUMBER
of Senators and Congress districts
lis expected that Speaker Reed will announce
his committee appointments this week. Ihis Is d
matter in which $50 Representatives and dele
ga
and anxiety. and 1t is also upon which the
wise and efficient conduct OF legislative alars
in the House of Representatives so largely de-
nends that the fruits of Speaker Reeds toll VIII
no examined and weighed with interest by MILL
tvs % mon throughout the country. The task
hos heen and still is IN unusually difficult ana
rornlexinp one this time for so considerate ana
natrio,ic man as Mr. Reed to perform. even
u,,,b all his ability and the unequalled oppor-
,unitv that he has mad to discover the reiatlNe
Qualifications of men without experience III Con
gross One-half of the members were not MEM
hers of the Lid Congress, and nearly the same
nroportion of them were never members OF any
Congress. A..
Moreover. since hir arrival in Washington MI
Reed has discovered that he must race announcer
embarrassment one which none OF MS preueces
sors in the Speakers chair was ever iel"i'u
srort What was indicated in these dis
matches several weeks ago as likely 10 occur i"'
already begun TO happen-the Deillocia'i0 10"
tions have begun to fight each other more lieice'
and with greater bitterness than the! ulu VIZ.
they together formed the majority Ill oo'" Wv
Senate and House Of Representativesi; ~ narn-
latter hody the Cuckoos, or Adminlstration LIN
ocrats as they prefer to style the!iiseINe', -
outnumbered about two TO one D! the iiee '''N
or anti-Administratio ton 1actoh arties the
I, ,,,,hlican Democratic and PopullSt partea
are represented in the House. but actuiii3 Nv, =
ere two Democratic parties vi l'O'' ci,non
which asserts that II is the oilS % - tho
nure Democratic party. Members ~
stronoer faction are clamoring against INC a.
signment of Mr.. Catchings OF Msslssi nl CO.
beautiful and profound Catchihss- w in
mittee on Rules, Of which ne was nv - ~
Tho lid and LID Congresses, ana d ioi li.a'
nrotest in their behalf against the appo.nt''' -,
has been made to the Speaker vi couISc ne
%
~, ~ = ,ranosed or now int nCS. to give CdlCli-
;rrs that particular assignment. Now II i'o
makes the appointment the anti-Aoiiilii'''la
Democrats will declare that II WIS uoii &c he docs
tbeir protest and, on the other hand, II ne ouss
NOT make f. the Cuckoos will cry out INA. .',e
Sneaker is under The influence Of the anll-A .C
ministration free-silver faction OF the 'iio'i'
This complication is surely unique ill
third interesting event or the week wiz
| be the publication of the annual report OF the
Secretary Of the Treasury, when, a1ter WiiaO
President Cleveland had to say about the Ma
tional finances in his annual message Is await
ed with unusual interest and eager CURIOSITY.
Tho situation must be a somewhat embarrassing
one to Secretary Carlisle, in view or MS pre-
Vious renorts to Congress and his response to a
Senate resolution a few days before the eXplra-
| ton Of the Lid Congress. Probably, however
| it would be unreasonable not 10 say apsuiu' ~
| expect Mr. Carlisle to take other or at least
contrary ground from that taken by President
! Cleveland.
| Whether the week will be also marked by any
| revelations from the fTeslueht Ut HIS 'cSio'oi
| of State in regard to the Venezuelan contro-
versy does not appear to be by any means Ger
| tain The AdminiStration-meanin President
| Cleveland. of course-is absent on a cunning
| expedition which has taken him into the Wilds
/ Of North Carolina, and he may or may not re-
| turn in season to make any communication TO
| Congress on the Venezuelan question before
| next week. Neither is it known whether. If he
| should return, he would hasten to take Congress
| and the country into his confidence. Moreover,
| it is by means certain that, If the House of
| Representatives should tomorrow adopt the
| resolution which Mr. Livingston, of Georgia
| proposes to. Offer calling for the Venezuelan
{ correspondence, the Secretary Of State would be
willing or able to respond to II until after the
| return OF the Admins tration to Washington
| unless, indeed, he should receive authority by
| telegraph to dc
| In any event. however. the week will be an
| unusually lively and interesting one.