San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondents

WASHINGTON, Nov. %, '95.
Hon. Thomas B. Reed knows
from experience that it is best to
make no premature announce
ment concerning the committee
assignment of members of the
house. While it is certain that
Mr.. Reed has already assigned all
of the old members OF the house
to committees, it is not probable
that more than dozen members
of the house will know to a cer-
tainty their own places on the
committees, and less than that
number the places OF other mem
bers, before the official announce
ment is made after Mr.. Reed has
been formally e'lltod speaker.
Mr.. Reed will have more trouble
in properly placing the new MEM
bers, and will have to rely large
ly upon the advice of others, as
many of them are entirly un-
known to him. However, he is a
rare hand at correctly sizing
man up after talking with him,
and he will meet all of the republi-
can 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 numer-
Gus stories sent out purporting to
tell what the republicans are going
to do are merely guesses founded
upon the opinions Of Individuals.
Whether the republicans will at
tempt to reorganize the senate is
an open question and will remain
such until caucus considers the
matter and decides what shall be
done. 1t may not be necessary for
the republicans OF the hous y to hold
a caucus to map out policy, but
it would not be surprising if they
did, as the leaders Of the party are
especially DESTROYS that whatever
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 sensational speeches than
of advancing the welfare of the
party as whole.
There are several reasons-all
good-why the talk, which has
been INDUCED in by cuckoos,
about Mr.. Cleveland furnishing
ex.Speaker Crisp for his silver
views by having the democratic
nomination for speaker of the
house and the consequent leader
ship Of the democrats 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 demo-
cratic members of the house. Ii
is only necessary to mention one
of these reasons: majority of the
democratic mbers hold precisely
the same views that Mr.. Crisp
does, or at least they did when
last heard from by their constit-
uents. OF course it is possible
that the administration can con.
troll some of these votes by ju.
dicious 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 demo.
cratic caucus but gall might be
added to the bitterness by the
adoption OF a silver resolution.
That Mr.. Cleveland would like, if
he had the power, to go into the
wholesale punishment of those
democrats who do not agree with
him is doubtless true, but his time
will be so fully taken up withIdodg-
ing the missiles SHE'D at his head
from both senate and house that
he will have no time to devote to
Furnishing others.
1t is seldom that such absolute
Indifference is shown by senators
and representatives a week before
the meeting of congress as to what
recommendations the presidents
message may contain as exists
among those now in Washington
This indifference is not confined to
either party. Everybody seems to
have arrived at the conclusion that
it makes no difference what Mr..
Cleveland may say or leave I'M
said; that it is the wisdom of the
republicans in congress that must
be depended upon and not Mr..
Cleveland's message.
Some of the candidates for the
minor house offices are trying to
turn it into sectional contest
this office for the south, that for