The age-herald., 1899-06-10
NO DISCORD
Hopkins, as Leading Candidate Against Henderson, Will Be Made Mem s.s.iber of Committee on Rules,
 in Speakers Cabinet

split up into factions by the time the house of the FYfty-sixth congress would have been organized.
 Even the republicans themselves are as- tonished at the result With four popular candidates in the field, each having strength such as would seem to encourage him to the end, it did not seem possible that their claims could have been settled without discord to the party and certainly not without friction of a bitter character among themselves.
 Politicians are some what at loss to ex- plain it. The real explanation lies in the inherent selfshness of the republican par ty, the members of which always sacrifice themselves for their organization-or such is usually the case Even when a split comes such as that brought about by Conk- ling and Platt, the individual ceases to be an important factor and the idol is smash ed for the organization.
 There are to be some bitter pills to sWal- low when the time comes for the formation of the committees. But then as now the individual will put aside his claims and accept his medicine with as good grace
 as puts the honest democrat to shame. It
 seems to be In the cards that Representa- tive Payne is to be dumped by everybody. He is now the chairman of the ways and means committee, having arrived at that important post by long service in the house. It was with some reluctance that Mr Reed appointed him, being as he is well equipped to make a mess of the job. MT. Payne is what would be called fat-headed His in- tentions are admirable, but his vanity over- hi i,, .1o I,,- and never attaining any special degree of
 speed.
 It is said that he is to be replaced on the ways and means committee by General Grosvenor, and that the latter will be made chairman. It is also well un- derstood that Representative Hopkins, whose timely withdrawal from the race made Hendersons election certain without the aid of any eastern votes, will also be made a member of this important commit tee.
 Hopkins, as the leading candidate against Speaker Henderson, will be made a mem- Der of the committee on rules or will be called into the speakers cabinet, as being rendered an appointment to this committee is more oftentimes called. Payne will be kept at the head of the merchant marine and fisheries, and may possibly be made chairman of the committee on banking and currency which post was made vacant by the defeat of Representative Walker of Massachusetts.
 The committee on banking and currency will be an important one in the next-con- gress, as it Is reasonably certain that the republicans intend to reorganize the finan- cial system of the country and make per manent by law the gold standard.
 For this reason 1t is thought that MT. Dalzell or some man not now connected with the committee may be made its chair an. This is mere supposition, however, as 1t hardly seems likely that Speaker Hen derson will go beyond the present member ship for a chairman.
 It would seem now that New York will cut rather an insignificant figure in the next house as far as committees are con- cerned. MT. Sherman is already chairman of Indian affairs, an important place, but hardly up to the rank of the second leading candidate for the speakership.
 Cannon will remain as chairman of the appropriations committee, and 1t Is not un- likely that Sherman will be put we'll up on the list in the committee. DalZell will, of course, remain on committee on rules, which will not make it possible to put him on that committee unless the committee is enlarged, thing that has been suggested for a number of years.
 If General Grosvenor is made the chair man of the ways and means committee he will make an admirable one as far as hand ling himself and the committee is con- cerned. With Reed and Dingley no longer in the house he is by far the best equipped parliamentarian on the republican side
 nOSSQSSeS the panapitv tnO Of fo91t- ing the opposition with the weapons of sarcasm and invective as no other man has since Reed was on the floor and before he made himself obnoxious with these quali- ties in the chair.
 TQle republicans seem serious this time in their efforts to get some finapcial reform bill through congress- Not only will there be a new chairman on the committee of banking and currency, but almost the en- tire personnel of the committee, both dem- ocrats and republicans, will be changed. General Henderson was ard still is a mem- Der of the republican caucus committee which met at Atlantic City for the purpose of drawing up some compromise measure.
 The trouble with the old committee is that every member on 1t from Walker to I Cox of Tennessee had a pet scheme about the finances of the country, and would not l see any virtue that was not comprehended in their plans for currency reform. The | division of opinion in this committee can be understood when 1t is known that of the whole committee Representative South l gate was the only member who did not | introduce in congress some bill of reform. l
 There was the Hill bill, the Hill-Fowler l bill, the Cox bill the Walker bill, the Me- | Cleary bill and so on ad infinItum. When l the list gave out, the members, to further | complicate matters, got up joint bills, such | as the Hill-Fowler bill. The republicans will be taken largely from the list of those | on the caucus committee. They are Repre- sentatives Henderson, who will be speaker, and Representatives Dalzell, Payne, Lover- ing, Overstreet, Loud, Hawley of Texas, Babcok of Wisconsin, Kerr of Iowa, and Curtis of Kansas
 The senate committee will meet in a few days to consider the agreements reached by the house members in Atlantic City. These plans are well known. There has been doubt as to the wisdom of fasten- ing the gold standard on the country by means of legislation for the fear that after this is done the feeling of security would