The times., 1899-08-30
Changes In THE HOUSE
Henders0n's Intentions Regarding
Leading Republicans.
The Next Speaker May Defeat Hep
burn's Aspirations for the senate
by. Putting Him Where Possibility
of Good Fortune VIII Not Arise
Payne to BE Displaced by Hopkins.

of Good Fortune VIII Not Arise
Payne to BE Displaced by Hopkins.
zone of the most interesting develop
ments of the Henderson administration of
the Speakership is going to be the change
in the Iowa delegation, said a gentleman
who has served some years in Congress,
yesterday. Heretofore he continued,
''the Iowa delegation has occupied the
next most important place to that of
Maine. William p Hepburn is Chairman
of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee, today the most important COM
mittee of Congress. John F. Lacey is the
head Of the Public Lands Committee Here
are Hepburn controlling the Pacific Rail-
roads in their commerce and Lacey in
their public lands Dolliver has second
place on the Ways and Means Committee;
Cousins is a member of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs while Henderson is Chair
man of the Judiciary Committee, passing
upon the legality of all the laws.
Hepburn has been an independent char
acter-strong in ability learned in the law,
with great personal force. Like Cannon
I
is strong beyond comparison in his dis
trict. but unable to do anything in the
/ State at large. The reason is that Hender-
son, who has had aspirations for the Sen
ate, if Allison should be nominated for
the Presidency, both living in the same
town, and the late Senator Wilson, together
with Allison and Gear, had combination
\ TO prevent Hepburn from rising in the
State. They came near beating him for
/ ,fra hut
he would have been beaten at the election
Reeds friendship to Henderson enabled the
! latter to beat Sherman of New fork Tor
the Speakership by combining the support
of Hopkins of Illinois and Payne of New
York. Hepburn had defied Reed and
awakened his enmity. His position gives
/ him great opportunities on the floor, and
much influence before the country. Reed
regretted that he had been put at the
head of the Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee but he could not de-
| throne him without it being apparent as a
result of jealousy or pique on the part OF
Reed.
May Reduce Hepburn.
Henderson will be willing as favor to
Reed to reduce Hepburn. Hepburn will not
be willing to serve Henderson in any
truculent manner Gear is a candidate for
/
of deadlock or serious conflict, Hepburn,
Henderson. and Dolliver are legitimate
candidates: Henderson, by reason Of the
new Speakership. having the advantage,
but, being Speaker is not likely to be
| changed. The chances, therefore, would be
| in favor Of Hepburn. Should he be chosen
and the Fifty-seventh Congress be Demo-
cratic. Henderson would again be an ordi-
nary member and Hepburn in the Senate
To defeat this, Henderson will try 10 put
| Hepburn where such possibility or good
fortune will not arise. What disposition
he will make of him is problematic, but
his fortune will be different from that
heretofore enjoyed. That much is certain.
mo less certain is the future OF Mr.
Payne Payne is a great big, lubberly.
lumberiy piece of humanity that breaks out
in spouts which pass for speech. He lit
orally fills the old Latin definition OF voX
ct praeterea nihiI. He is the personifca-
ton of that joke of the Mississippi River
steamer which every time she blew her
| whistle had to stop her boilers. But he ls
at the head of the Ways and Means Com
mittee since the death of Dingley. He
1 would never have been put there as an
original proposition. He affects to know
the tariff. 1t is the sugar schedule today
/ he is most acquainted with. That is TO
say with Mr.. Hagemeyer and Mr. Searles-
During the fight on the Wilson bill he ad-
| yocated free sugar. or free breakfast table.
but under the Dingley bill he was for high
sugar and big profits to the Sugar Trust.
To Fill DingIey's shoes.
Payne has been put upon the American
Canadian Commission in Dingleys place.
This was done with the understanding that
he would execute Dingley's wishes and the
desires of Maine in respect to her fisher
men having a right to fish on the Bruns-
wick border without tribute and to ship
/ white pine into Canada without tariff.
Payne has neither shrewdness nor art. Nor
has he courtliness of manner nor Quickness
L of address His position on the Ways and
Means Committee makes him formally the
floor leader Henderson can remove him.
Henderson has seen the chairman Of that
committee go to the Presidency because of
the country knowing his name rather than
knowing the man New York has given
| Henderson no particular support. Penn
sylvania has, however. Dalzell is the
| shrewdest man on the Republican side and
best fitted for parliamentary fencing. He
is both sagacious and adroit and his ex-
perience fits him happily. Hopkins of Ill
nois is alert and ready. Hopkins and Dali
zelI have more strength than Payne. Payne
coming into the Speakership race was for
the purpose of giving that office TO anyone
| else but Henderson. Hopkins Withdrawal
made Henderson's election certain Hop
kins is on the Ways and Means COMMITTEES
from Illinois, the middle West Illinois
holds no important place at present. 1t is
not unlikely that Hopkins will be promotes
TO the place now held by Payne and will be
given the craftsmanship of the Ways and
Means Committee.
DoIfiyer the Orator.
"Dolliver will be kept in his present po-
sition. for which he is fitted. He is q
student He never. tries to make a speech
I without thorough preparation of weeks be-
fore His most ardent friends were disap-
| pointed, many OF the chagrined, at the
disclosure of the unQuestioned fact that
r Dolliver was not debater but an orator
D that he was not a prepared man, but had
e to prepare himself. In his fencing debat,
| with Johnson of Indiana in respect to the
Philippine policy of the President, in th'
s | closing session of the last Congress, ht
] was tossed around like the toreador would
5 drive the burly, clumsy bull, and drew gor'
, as often However johnson is not in tht
next House. and DoIliver will not have t
suffer this punishment again from him.
: Walker of Massachusetts. Chairman o
0 | the Banking and Currency Committee il
the last House, having been retired by tn
| discriminating intelligence of his classi
constituency, leaves a vacancy. It eanno
: | be filed. vacancy left by Walker coul
E | never be filled unless one could take al
I | octagon and a parallelogram and com
bine them and make them fit some form O
a niche Walker was both many sided an
? squared He made farewell speech be
I | t,o lsfs and damon ~ fe