St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-02
h"No BILL ONLY A SCHEME TO EN-.
HANCE THE CARS PREsIDEN- +
TIAL CHANCES.
II HAS CREATED FACTIONS.
STRENGTH OF ANTS AwoTryTs
PRACTICALLY TO DEFEAT OF
THE SPEAKER.
ais COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
- source of Much DissatisfnctionA
Looks Blue for the Man From
Maine.

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Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The Renuh-1
hcan majority in the house has pIaveds
a big game of politics the past tent
days, with Speaker Reed dire citing tbei
game Tor his own advantage. as WeIlS
as that OF his party. Now that thei
hrst week Of legislation Is over. andI
the TWO bills prepared by the WAYS and;
means committee have gone to the SEN.
dle' II Is possible to form some con-:
ciuSlon as TO the advantages and dis
advantages accruing from the bold
same the speaker planned and carried
throuSh. Whatever the advantage tol
tue party at large may be-and II Isl
douptiul whether any advantage at
all has really been ga.ined-everv csre-'
lui ana impartial observer will admit
mat the big speaker who directs the
majority with so firm a rein, has not
gained anything. Indeed. last vaai3
was a very bad week for Mr.. Reeds
presidential chances and he doubtless
reels that he has lost his grip to a very,
large extent upon the house. The PacH
that AZ Republicans refused Satrrdo,s
10 vote for the speakers bond bilij
10 pun them into the traces. and there
was only miserly majority of "a fon
the measure. with the party maiorttX
lao, Is evidence of all this. 1t was qraat
fun for the Democrats FRIDAY o,hor9
the cutting tongue of Grove JohnsonIl
OF California, pitched into the bill and
ms party associates and reused the
mouse TO applause. The speaker was
on the floor while Johnson was bIf+ipc9
MS policy, and declaring that last fail
the people not only voted for the Mo-
Nlhley bill but for Bill Mckinley andj
as Eeed moved about, II was clea4
that he was disturbed In mind Mr.
f1eed rarely shows when he is worriedj
out ne dld Friday. This was after the
caucus OF Republican opponents Of the
piI had forced a concession as to the
lllle Tor debate, and after much had
oseh zone 70 bring recalcitrants into
lie' All DAY Friday and all day Sat-
urGay Mr.. Reed and his Heutenenty
IdpoTed with the silver men and thossI
opposed 10 any bond measure. and VET
tlle vote was Practical defeat for,
MIN. seventeen Republican members
could have changed the result andi
there is no doubt that more than that
NUMBER of votes were changed bv NOR
sonar and party appeals. An instance
Oh tue way votes were changed yas
the case Of Mines, Of Michigan tbo
successor of Burrows. He attended
inc caucus Thursday night and made
most vehement speech against the
measure. AS late as Saturday morn
ing he was around laboring with men,
bers against It, Before the vote vas
taken senator Burrows came into the
mouse and called Mines into the cIoalc
room. He came back and voted for.
the bill. Doubtless there were uanv
other changes just as marked. Fol-
lowing this vote and the showing ae
TO the speakers control :there Is the.
rufnor that the recalcitrants viii hn
punished for not supporting the oartv
programme, and all is not lovely
There are many open criticisms Of Mr.
Reed and other Of the party leaders
and all this will certainly have its Ell
Iect. Mr.. Reed is playing q bold game
FOR the presidency and the first move
Is against him. He has lost ground
undoubtedly since Dec. 3, when he an
peared 50 much the party hero and
loomed up above his leading riva1,t
Mckinley
The effect of all this is the more
marked, coming, as 1t does, so soon
aIlef the appointment Of committees.
tne distribution of which evidenced so
plalply that he is keeping ALWAYS in
sight his presidential chances. There
was one committee appointment that
VIII undoubtedly hurt the speaker very
much in the West, which has not bean
SO much discussed as one would natur-
ally suppose. That was the selection of.
hooker, or New York, as chairman Of
bn,.
ger Hermann, of Oregon is now on hfs
sixth term, and his fourth term on tbet
committee, of which he was the rankinei
MEMBER. Hooker is beginning his third
term and his second on the committees
Hermann is a man Of ability, and ia
personally very popular. Hooker came
INTO prominence this year as the repre-
sen seht .d OF rom Platt in organizing
the "hog combine" Of which Reed was
claimed te be in sympathy by a few
Platt askeC for his appointment as the
head of the river and harbor committee
That was his influence. Hermann re-
LED upon his priority of service and did
not dream until after congress met that
ne 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-
from the Missouri valley as were NOT
In the hog combine" The lake ves
sci interests took a 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
reported that the Western members and
senators were dumpfounded when they
learned that Hermann had been DELHI
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,
of which he was ranking member and
entitled to the craftsmanship, and made
chairman Of the committee on irriga-'
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 Reed has
forgotten his cunning, and is losing his
power? Is it 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