Arizona republican., 1899-06-16
There Will Be no Important
 Changes in ChairmanshipS.
RUMORS REGARDING REED
COngreSSman-The Removal of President ProCfer of inc Civil Service Commission if Done Will Be by no Means an UnI ear6.of- ThinQ.

|
 Washington. June (SpeciaL)- i Now that the speakership is settled, I speculation among congressman has | turned to the composition of the com mittees. It is thought that General Henderson will allow most of the prominent republicans now holding | chairmanships to retain them, and ] that there will be no radical shaking
 up, except in the committee on bank
 ing and currency. and, perhaps, the
 committee on territories. The latter
 committeet has had very little work
 within the last few years, but next | winter it will be very important body. IL Will have charge of legisla-
 ton for Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines, and it is expected that
 there win be strong efforts made to
 secure the admission Of Arizona and the other territories The speaker
 will select the men most experienced in international and colonial questions
 for places on this committee
 The rumor that Mr Reed may re-
 main in congress. although not as
 speaker, is dismissed here as absurd, because when Mr. Reed first announced his decision to his friends in Washing ton, he gave them to understand that
 he would rstire not only from the
 speakership, but from congress. Again
 MT. Reed would hardly consent to be
 member of congress and spend the
 greater part of his time away from
 his duties, as would be necessary if
 he practiced law in New York While
 he was speaker, his most active efforts
 were directed to break up absenteeism
 among members of the house. He
 never lost an opportunity to make
 some sarcastic remark about members
 who could spare but little time for the performance of their congressional duties. It is not at all likely, there
 fore. that Mir Reed will adopt the practice which he So earnestly con demned. Nor is it at all consistent with the circumstances of hs em- ployment in New York that he would take time from it to devote to duties as a member of the house. He ex- poets to be in Washington a good deal during the next session, but as at torney, not as a member of the house.
 Secretary Hay has started Washing ton society talking by attending a swell wedding in this city dressed in white flannel suit. As the thermom- eter registered nearly 100 outdoors and several degrees above that figure in the church, the secretary of state ap- fp N1o hn Ivy the congregation. The president, who also attended the wedding, wore the regulation black frock coat, and so did Adjutant General Corbin, who ac- companied MT Mckinley. In fact. all the men at the wedding and the breakfast which followed it had on the regulation morning costume, and therefore, the secretary in fts white flannel suit was most conspicuous. As Col. Hay has spent several years abroad at the court of St. James, Washington society is wondering whether the wearing of white fan nel suit at weddings is an English custom, or whether the Amelican sec retary Of state was paying ISore at tention to his own comfort than to style when he broke all records by his appearance. Some are saying that, as women put on their coolest white dresses to attend a summer wedding. the men ought to be allowed to do the same, and that Col. Hays example will be followed hereafter.
 If President Proctor is removed from the civil service commission he will not be the first official of his grade to lose his place from taIkdfng too much. It will be remembered that after Pres- ident Cleveland discovered that he was not to have another term in the White House he issued his famous blanket order putting everything in sight uder the civil service law, withs out regard to fitness or exped.ency. The then president of the civil service commission, Judge Edgerton, of 1n- diana, made some very emphatic re- marks about President Cleveland's action and showed pretty plainly how uncalled for and unjust was the or der Judge Edgerton was one of the sarly civil service commissioners, and did much to make the law practicable. Illustrating the presidents vindictive desire to put everything under the law so as to prevent his republican successor from removing democrats, Judge Edgerton said: 'fWhy, CleYe- land was so anxious to get everything included in his order that if a rat ran across the commissioners office he would try to catch it and put it under the civil service law" This re- mark, when published, so angered MT. Cleveland that he at once decapitated Judge Edgerton, and a lively news paper war was started, in which the eX-civil service commissioner told some very plain things as to MT. Cleveland's true feelings toward the civil service law. In fact, Judge Ed gerton's statements were so clear and that MT. Cleveland's friends were finally obliged to give up