The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-17
THE SENATE COMMITTEES !
The Assignments Agreed Upon by the
Republicans.
NAMES OF THE CHAIRMEN CHOSEN
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, Makes a Wig
orous Assault on the Gold Combine,
and Delegate Flynn, of Oklahoma,
Assails Secretary Smith.

caucus COlnlnlUtee OF the senate completed
its work OF assigning the majority mem
bership OF the senate committee yester-
day, and is prepared to report to the Re
publican caucus this afternoon The as
signment of chairfnanshps Is as follows:
Agriculture Proctor; appropriations,
Allison; audit contingent expenses, Jones
(Nev.); census, Chandler; civil service,
Pritchard; claims, Teller; coast defenses,
Squire; commerce, Frye; District of Co
lumbia, Mcmillan; education and labor,
Shoup; enrolled bills, Sewell; examination
of branches civil service, PETER; finance,
Morrill,; fisheries, Perkins; foreign rela-
tions sherman; immigration, Lodge; inn
provement Mississippi river, Nelson; In
dian affairs, Pettigrew; Indian depreda-
tlons, Wilson; Interstate commerce, Cul-
lom; irrigation, Warren; judiciary, Hoar;
library, HansbrOugh; manufactures, Wet
more; military affairs, Hawley mines and
mining, Stewart; naval affairs; Cameron;
organization executive departments, But
Ter; Pacific railroads, Gear; patents, Platt;
pensions, Gallinger; postoflices Wolcott;
printing, Hale; privileges and elections,
Mitchell (Ore.); public buildings, Quay;
public lands Dubois; railroads Clarke;
relations with Canada, Carter; revision of
the laws, Burrows rules, Aldrich; terri
tories, Davis; transportation routes to sea
board, Mcbride; University of the United
States, Kyle international expositions,
Thurstoni TO investigate geological sur
vey, Elkins; national banks, Mantle; for
est reservations, Allen; trespassers upon
Indian lands Baker; Ford theater disas-
ter, to be filed when the Utah senators
come in.
This disposes of the chairmanships of
all but eleven committees The commit
tees undisposad of are known as the minor
ity committees. The Republicans now
control them, and they will fall to the
Democrats under the new organization
The caucus committee has made provision
for the Populist senators, as the Democrats
did in the last congress, and have given
each of them craftsmanship, giving each
the same position held under the Demo-
Gratis, except Senator Kyle, who is pro-
NOTED from the craftsmanship of the com
mittee on education and labor to that of
the University of the United States.
The senate was in session for about two
hours yesterday, half of that time being
given to Mr. Stewart of Nevada, in
vigorous assault on the gold combine"
In one respect the senator presented a new
phase of the subject, with which his name
has been so much identified in senate
speeches. He urged that the great depre
citation of silver gave to the cheap labor of
Asia tremendous advantage in compet-
ing with the domestic products of the
American market, Japan in particular,
he said, was profiting by this difference of
30 per cent between our money and that
of Japan, and Japanese merchants were
today undcrsolling our home producers in
many lines of goods
An echo of comptroller Bowler's sus-
pension of the sugar bounty payments was
heard in the resolution of Mr.. Caffrey, of
Louisiana, calling on the treasury depart
ment for the reasons for the suspension.
Postmaster General Wilson's recent order
forbidding postal employees from urging
postal legislation also came in for atten-
tion, Mr.. PETER Offering a comprehensive
resolution of inquiry as to the order. An
other resolution by Mr.. Gallinger calls for
information as to the number of aliens in
the various governmental branches
The proceedings in the house were en-
livened yesterday by Mr.. Flynn, the dele
gate from Oklahoma, who offered resolu-
tions reciting that provision had been
made for the allotment of Oklahoma lands
to the Wichita Indians and providing for
the opening of the surplus lands after al
lotment to homestead settlement and di-
recting the secretary of the interior, "if
not incompatible with the public interest,
to report to the house the reasons and
causes operating to delay the allotment of
said lands, and whether any of his connec-
tions or relations by blood or marriage are
acting as attorneys for said Indians or any
party or parties interested in delaying the
opening of the reservation to settlement"
The Democrats were not disposed to
raise any objection to this resolution of in
quiry, but Mr.. Flynn, after consent for its
consideration had been secured began an
attack on Secretary Smith, which called
forth II vehement protest from Mr. Cooper,
of Florida, who maintained that Mr.
Flynn's language toward the secretary
was undignitled and disrespectful. This
inciJed Mr. Flynn to renewed attack. At
the conclusion of his speech, however, he
called for the previous question, thus shut
ting OFF the possibility Of further defense
OF the secretary.
The house agreed to take up today the
proposition to increase the membership of
the principal committees and to create an
additional committee on elections in order
to facilitate the disposal of the contested
election cases. This promises lively debate