The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-20

man. however, that he would GO Waat ne
could TO comply with his wishes. MT
Morrissey thanked him and ret'-ed Nnen
the committees were announced Join MOT
rissey's name appeared at The tail end OF
the Committee on Revolutionary claims
ad somewhere else. The New YORK gentle
man lost no time in showing his apWe-
the beginning of each weak during the
session ne sent Mr.. CoIfay box OF the
finest cigars that money could buy
The Hon. George Fred Williams had
remarkable experience in che Fifty-Sec-
ond Congress. He was rabid support
er of Roger Q. Mills in tie canvass for
Speaker-so rabid that after participating
in the Democratic caucus he refused 10
vote for Charles F. Crisp, the caucus
nominee, on the ground that Crisp was
free silver man. After his election as
Speaker, Crisp retaliated by placing Mr..
Williams on the Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures. If by this action
he intended to bury George Fred he sig
nally failed. Richard P. Bland was chair
man of the committee and he turned out
a free silver bill.
George Fred WWilliams wrote the mi
nority report, and delivered a mastery
speech against the bill. II was an oppor-
tunity which he never would have had if
he had not been uncermoniously landed
upon the committee. The report and the
speech gave him a national reputation.
The Hon. Joseph H. O'Neil, however. had
more political sagacity than Mr.. Williams.
He voted both in caucus and in open
House for his colleague, Hon. Moses T.
Stevens, for Speaker. He excused the vote
by saying that he was pledged by his con-
stituents not to vote for a free silver man.
A vote for Stevens while not a vote for
Crisp, was a vote against Mills. the adj
ministration candidate Crisp evidently so
regarded il. for he placed A1r. Stevens as
the New England Democrats member of
the Ways and Means Committee, and land
ed Mr.. O'Neil upon the great Committee
on Appropriations. A favorite with Crisp,
O'Neil retained his grip at the White
House, and after failing TO be renomin-
ated, was appointed Sub-treasurer at Bos-
ton. He had no trouble in finding bonds
men.
OF course, there is more or less fun in
every committee Some of the chairmen
take Congressional life very seriously and
preside with great gravity anddecorum.
Others are less stern and give the commit
tee meeting a social turn. The members
indulge in running conversation ratheu
than discussion, and talk with the free
dom of old-time friends. A few seem to
regard political life as joke, and run
legislation with an easy throttle. The
serious chairman is more apt to arouse
storms than one not so serious The man
who tries to run his committee by the
rule Of three awakens a corresponding
feeling in the breast of its members. Each
man asserts his rights in asking questions
and insists upon putting his oar a the
proper time. The voluble member is check
ed when his more placid colleague insists
upon his turn. Irritation supervenes, ex-
pletives follow, and trouble ensues. a gen.
ial chairman inoculates his committee with
his geniahty and has very little trouble
in grinding out bills. An Indifferent chair
man may have plain sailing in committee,
but is mighty apt to lose his topsails,
spanker boom, and possibly his mainsail
when he reaches the House. There he will
be overwhelmed with questions, and if not
thoroughly conversant with the measure
reported from his committee is sure to be
waterlogged. if not capsized.
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