New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-28
REED AND HIS COMMITTEES.
TUE APPOINTMENTS SURE TO COMMAND
RESPECT AND CONFIDENCE
HIS PECULIAR POSITION LEAVES HIM FREE FROM
EMBARRASSMENT IN MAKING Up THE
1lsr-THE CONTEST FOR MINOR
HOUSE OFFICE


1lsr-THE CONTEST FOR MINOR
HOUSE OFFICES.
10y TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE.l
r-s,ngton Nov. 27-The fact that the cleo
A., ~ Thomas b. Reed as Speaker Of the House
=, representatives of the LIVth Congress
,oreordained is not to be regretted under the cir
.ums,ances although it deprives the contest over
IN. organization OF that body Of what would
o,herwse be one Of It's most important and in
teresting features. AS the matter stands.
Mr. Reed occupies position which is almost. If
not quite unique In at least two respects. one of
which is exceedingly important. That Is 10 say,
he can arrange the committees according to the
dictates OF his own knowledge and judgment and
with due regard to ihe qualifications htness.
ability and adaptability OF the members, and
without regard 10 any other consideration what-
soever That he will do this no man doubts VINO
knows Mr. Reed. He insists that the House OF
Representatives ought to be a working body he
Is an implacable enemy of jobs and joooery OF
every description. ard his long experience in the
body OF which he will again be elected Speaker on
Monday. as well as his personal acquaintance
with all the older members and majority OF the
new ones. will enable him to make list Of COM
mittee Appointments which will command re-
spect and confidence and insure the honest, busi-
ness-lke and successful conduct Of legislative
affairs
THE STRUGGLE FOR MINOR OFFICES.
In the second place Mr. Reed is not subject to
any embarrassment on account of the contest
over the minor offices Of the House. which has
now assumed a phase that is exciting to the can
didates and their leading supporters as well as
interesting 70 political observers who are on the
ground but which must fail TO excite to fever
heat the interest or curiosity of the people at
large good many Republican Representatives
have arrived in the last fortyeight hours and the
scenes in the hotels where the candidates for
clerk sergeant-at-arms doorkeeper and postmas-
Ter have fixed their headquarters were lively this
evening The more prominent candidates are as
confident Of success ever. but the struggle has
not reached such a stage that they are willing
publicly TO proclaim even privately to disclose
the grounds OF their apparent confidence
representative Aldrich. Of Illinois, who is
tne chief manager of General Henderson's can
vass for the clerkship said to-day that the
election Of his candidate was as certain as any
Thing In the future could be. and that he had
made material gains since Monday without any
perceptible loss in any quarter The managers
~ Major McDOwelrs canvass for the same oIhce
appeared 10 be equally confident, and in fact
bore themselves ike men who wouid reluse 10
pay a premium 10 insure his election. some
Of the quidnuncs however were Hey VIII Ppsi S.o
tive assertions that the unsuccessful candidate
;or clerk would be chosen Serseant-at-Arms anu
mat Major Mcdowell would obtain the latter
flee Such assertions were denied ana derlueo
bv both the Henderson and the Mcdowell men,
but the reports appeared 10 cause sou,e tl.
easiness among the friends or the canhldates
for Sergeant at Arms-Niessrs. Russel. or MIS-
Gourt-a and Mckee lndiapa--a!t n'ueh taeS
themselves professed 70 be as hopetGl as ever.
REINFORCEMENTs FOR MR.. GLENN
The tussle over the doorkeepershp is as lively
as that over either Of the other offices The
,ival Of REPRESENTATIVES Sherman and Odell and
.everal other New-York men, including e. W.
IIackett Of the Republican State Committee,
VINO is taking active interest In Mr. 1iehn
candidacy Representative Hooker was aS S.
,ene and confident ever. and reiterated ms
statement made to a Tribune correspondent sew
cral days ago that !. would be lmposslohs 10
defeat ihe New-York candidate on the other
nand the friends OF Colonel Upton of Tennessee
we're exceedingly hopeful, not to say confident.
Among them is Henry Clay Evans VINO was was
elected Governor If Tennessee by the people
last fall and robbed Of the office by Demo
cratic legislature He and other frlehus OF
Colonel Upton working for caucus oi me .iIe
Representa- tives- elect from Delaware Wes' II
GINA, MaTviand Virginia. North Carolina. Ten
nessee and Kentucky, by means OF Wh,ch VIM ~ II 10
hoped TO effect an agreement that VIII result
in SUBSTANTIAL recognition of Southern Repubh-
cans by the Republican caucus. Ihere are 80. sen,
eral other candidates aside from Colohs' a.p,o,,
rvho hail from States south Of Mason ana DIXON
line - ,. oo,asts
over the organization or tne f>1uSc VI iNOPiN,
sentatives geOgra phiCal considerations are uieV"
with great earnestness, not 70 say Nehe'henCr,
b1. the friends OF several Of the candidates, ana
elaborate and interesting tables nave Hei P,V
pared and are being used to show that IN the
distrihution Of tho elective offices sucn cohslo-
erations have been uniformly recognized Ac,
cording TO one Of the tables. which was pfepaIso
by II r. smith. formerly journal ceIh, 'he
f0ur princiy al elective offices or lne f1ouse VI
Renresentatives since the foundation or the ro'-
arnrnent have been distributed as follows
Eastern and Middle States-Speaker ~ years
.lerk II wears; sergeart-at-arns. - years uooI-
keener 81 years. Total. 1sS years
Western States-Sseaker years; cIeih'
vaars: sereeaht-at arms IA years doorKeeper' no
years Total. y years 80 . ,,x IN
Southern StatcS-Speaker. % years clerk. ~
ays. .ereeant-at-arrns. AZ years; doorkeeper,
43 years. Total ls9 wears ~. VII, has
According to the same table New YORK mas
hoan renresented in he Speakers chair Tor
rerod of less than two ana ohe-thIu Nedis.
~ the offices Of clerk and sergeant nm noe
a, ali and in the office of doorkeepel siAtecn
vears-the last being in the hLIIlo C1hsless
which assembled on the firsf Mohuay ~ ~,
her 1879 The second and last speaker VINO iiaie a
fron, New-York presided over the house VI NJ
,asartstives in the XIXth Congress "hlch as-
.or,hiad on december 1925. seventy years aso'
,rbsca facts Dc not appea. to Indicate .hal W
Fn,n,re state has been unduly favored III .he
de,rihution Of the elecUve of;ces u 'ia' 'o"''
SIZING, UP COMMITTEE MATERIAL
TIFF COMING SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE fOi' IN
ANOTHER BUSY DAY
o7-When Congressman lhoihds