Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
PIE ,1AL ooRaEspoSDENcn OF THE MONITOR !
Washinqton. Nor. 25, 1926.

WASHINGTON, NoU. 25, 1895.
Hon. Thomas B. Reed knows from
experience that it is best to make nc
premature announcement concerning
the committees. Mr.. Reed has assigned
already all of the old members of the
House to Committees, it is not pro-
bable that more than a dozen mem
bers of the House will know to a GER
tainty their own places on the com
mittees, and less than that number
the places of other members, before
the official announcement is made af-
ter Mr.. Reed has been formally elect
ed Speaker. Mr.. Reed will have more
trouble in properly placing the new
members, and will have to rely large
ly upon the advice of others, as many
of them are entirely unknown to him.
However, he is a rare hand at correct
ly sizing man up after talking with
him, and he will meet all of the re-
publican members before he takes his
seat as Speaker.
1t is not necessary to do more than
mention the fact that less than fifty
senators and representatives have yet
arrived in Washington to make it
plain that the numerous stories sent
out purporting to tell what the repub-
icans are going to do are merely
guesses founded upon the opinions of
individuals. Whether the republicans
will attempt to reorganize the Senate
is an open question and will remain
such until a caucus considers the mat
ter and decides what shall be done. 1t
may not be necessary for the republi-
cans of the House to hold a caucus to
map out policy, but it would not be
surprising if they did, as the leaders
of the party are DESTROYS that what
ever is done shall be in the line of
party policy and that there shall be
no bushwhacking on the part of those
who are more intent upon achieving
personal notoriety by making sensa-
tional speeches than of advancing the
welfare of the party as whole.
There are several reasons-all good
why the talk, which has been in
dulged in by cuckoos, about Mr..
Cleveland Furnishing ex- Speaker Crisp
for his silver view by having the dem
ocratic nomination for Speaker of the
House and the leadership Of the dem
ocrats in that body given to some
cuckoo instead of to Mr.. Crisp, has
been amusing to those who know the
financial status of a majority of the
democratic members of the House. 1t
is only necessary to mention one of
these reasons. A majority of the dem
ocratic members hold the same views
that Mr.. Crisp does, or at least they
did when last heard from their con-
stituents. OF course it is possible that
the administration can control some
of these votes by a judicious use of
patronage, but it is not at all probable
that it will care to go into contest of
that sort. 1t might end not only with
the nomination of Crisp by the dem
ocratic caucus but gall might be add
ed to the bitterness by the adoption Of
a silver resolution.
1t is seldom that such absolute in
difference is shown by senators and
representatives a week before the
meeting of Congress as to what re-
commentators the Presidents Mes
sage may contain as exists among
those now in Washington. This indif-
ference is not confined to either par
ty. Everybody seems to have arriv-
ed at the conclusion that it makes no
difference what Mr.. Cleveland may
say or leave unsaid; that it is the wis
dom of the republicans in Congress
that must be depended upon and not
Mr.. Cleveland's Message.
Some of the candidates for the mi
nor House offices are trying to turn it
into a sectional contest office
for the South, that for the West, the
other for the East, ETC., but it is not
probable that the caucus will make
it's selections upon that basis. There
has been too much sectional politics in
this country. The republican party
has always proclaimed itself nation
al party, even when one section was
solidly arrayed against it, and it is not
likely to endorse sectionalism in any
form now.
NOT TOO EASY.