St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-02
BOND BILL ONLY SCHEME, tn EN.
HANCE THE CzAR's PREsIDEN- +
TIAL CHANCES.
IT HAS CREATED FACTIONS
STRENGTH OF ANTS AMOUNTS
PRACTICALLY TO DEFEAT OF
THE SPEAKER.
a,s COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
A Source of Much DissntisfnctfonA y
Looks Blue for the Man From
Maine.


Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The Repub-s
mean majority in the house has pIayeds
big game of politics the past tent
days. With Speaker Reed directing thet
game FOR his own advantage. as wsIIS
as that OF his party. Now that theS
iirst week of legislation is over. and,
the two bills prepared by the ways andi
means committee have gone to the SEN.
ate, 1t is possible to form some con-,
cluslon as to the advantages and dis-l
advantages accruing from the bold
game the speaker planned and carrtedi
through. Whatever the advantage +ot
the party at large may be-and II tsI
doubtful whether any advantage ar
all has really been gained-every care-i
tuI and impartial observer will admit
that the big speaker, who directs the
majority with so firm a rein. has notl
gained anything. Indeed. last weala
was very bad week for Mr.. Resdtz
presidential chances, and he doubtless
reels that he has lost his grin to q very,
large extent upon the house The facH
that AZ Republicans refused Saturda,,
TO vote for the speakers bond bilfj
after all manner of means were used
TO pull them into the traces. and tbara
was only a miserly majority of AZ for
the measure, with the party maiorttH
l4o' Is evidence of all this. 1t was great
run for the Democrats Friday. wberl
the cutting tongue of Grove JohnsonII
cr California, pitched into the bill and
ms party associates, and reused tbg
mouse to applause. The speaker was
on the floor while Johnson was hIttine9
MS policy. and declaring that last fall
the people not only voted for the Mo-
klnley bill but for Bill Mckinley. andj
as Reed moved about, 1t was cleaH
that he was disturbed In mind Mr.
Reed rarely shows when he Is worrie5l
but he did Friday. This was after tbI
caucus of Republican opponents of the
OIL had forced concession as 10 tb.3
time for debate, and after much baE
oeen done 10 bring recalcitrants 1nto1
lne All day Friday and all day Sat-
urday Mr.. Reed and his Ieutenenta
labored with the silver men and those
opposed to any bond measure. and VET
the vote was Practical defeat for,
MIN Seventeen Republican memba,-J
could have changed the result and
there Is no doubt that more than thai
number OF votes were changed bv narl
sonal and party appeals. An instance
or the way votes were changed wse
the case of Mines, of Michigan. the
successor of Burrows. He attended
the caucus Thursday night and nad~
most vehement speech against the
measure. AS late as Saturday morn
ing he was around laboring with men,
pers against 1t. Before the vote 1ynsu
taken Senator Burrows came into the,
mouse and called Mines into the cloak
room He came back and voted for.
the Dill. Doubtless there were manv
other changes just as marked. Fol-
lowing this vote and the showing as
10 the speakers control there is the
rumor that the recalcitrants will he
punished for not supporting the oartvi
programme, and all is not lovely
Ihere are many open criticisms of Mr.
Reed and other Of the party leaders
ana all this will certainly have it's efi
1ect Mr.. Reed is playing a bold game
Tor the presidency and the first move
is against him. He has lost ground
undoubtedly since Dec. 8, when he an
peared so much the party hero. and,
ioomed up above his leading rival.i
Mckinley.
The effect of all this is the more
marked, coming, as 1t does. so soon
aItef the appointment of committees
the distribution of which evidenced so
plai4iy that ne is keeping always in
sight his presidential chances, Tbera
was one committee appointment that
VIII undoubtedly hurt the speaker very
much in the West, which has not heaT1
SO much discussed as one would nat1Ir
ally suppose. That was the Selection of
hooker, OF New York, as chairman of
the river and harbor committee. Rim
ger hermann, OF Oregon, is now on his
sixth term, and his fourth term on the
committee, OF which he was the rankineJ
member. Hooker is beginning his third
term and his second on the committees
hermann is man OF ability and ia
personally very popular Hooker came
into prominence this year as the reprei
sentative Of Tom Plat in organizing.
the hog combine" Of which Reed was
claimed t1 be In sympathy by a few.
Platt askeG for his appointment as tha
head Of the river and harbor Committee
That was his influence. Hermann re-
lied upon his priority of service and did
not dream until after congress met that
he was to be turned down. He asked
for the place. Every Pacific coast re-
preventative asked 1t for him. So did
the members from the Rocky mountain
country and such members of congress
O-1A NAAN &'AiooOoAI DIS were NOT
In the hog combine The lake YES
sci interests took hand In the matter
and kilograms from Detroit, Cleveland
Buffalo and other places flowed In on
the speaker. On top of all this the
Republican senators from the West
from Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Cali
fornia, Wyoming, Washington and
Idaho united in requesting his selection.
But the request of Platt went. 1t is
that the Western members and
senators were dumpfounded when they
learned that Hermann had been delib-
erately turned down. and especially
when New York had been given nine
other chairmanships.T To crown 1t all Her.
mann was removed from war claims,i
of which he was ranking member and
entitled to the craftsmanship, and made
chairman Of the committee on irriga-i
ton Of arid lands, a less important COM
mittee. and another Western member
who was ranking member of that COM
mittee and expected to be chairman,
displaced and angered. Is 1t any won-
der that people are asking If Recd has
forgotten his cunning, and Is losing his
power? Is 1t any wonder that there (
are those who predict that he will have
very hard work in controlling his party
associates this session, and that from I
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