Arizona republican., 1899-05-26
THRONE OF THE GAR
No Determined Effort to Re-
 tain Reed as Speaker.
However much His Friends on inc Various Committees May Desire 1.-The Status oEfhe Contest Be- fWSen Sherman and Hf EderSon.

l i Reed to reconsider his determination
 to quit congress appears to have no
 other basis than the desire of some
 members of the Fifty-fifth congress who had under MT. Ro-d the best they could expect in the way of com
 mittee assignments, and who cannot 1 look for any satisfactory "rake-oh'' n
 the reorganization of the house There
 is no rule or uniform custom by which
 members holding a committee assign
 ment in one congress shall get the
 same or the next highest vacancy in | the next congress when there IS a
 change in the speakership Each speaker is free to make his own seIec- tions for every committee appoint ment, and to carry cut any agreement he may have entered into or to acquit
 any obligation resulting from the con i test between the several candidates When a speaker is reelected the com
 mittee appointments Of the previous congress having been his own it is GUS
 tomary for him to follow the order of
 promotion suggested by the vacancies
 caused by retirement of members from
 the house, but when a speaker IS
 elected all committee places are va
 cant, and he can fill them as he
 pleases.
 Members who have 10 reason 10 ex-
 pect an Improvement in their condi-
 ton to result from reorganization Of the house would Ike to see Mr. Read
 appoint the committees of the next housa, and the latest suggestion that
 he postpone lis retirement long enough to organize the house and then retire, leaving nothing to be done fn
 tfe way of reorganization except the election of a speaker to fill out his un- expired term, disc!oses the sentiment behind the suggestion.
 It is more than ids, talk since it would be out of all character for MT Reed, after personally informing the l other candidates that he would not be | in congress and that they wers. free to ! declare their candidacy and contest for election, to change his mind ard | take the speakership after they have | been put to the trouble of making a | campaign which they would never | have made against him.
 Moreover, there is not a universal sentiment in congress Gn f9vor of MT. Reed, and though he would have been elected had he net voluntarily retired, there was an opposition to him which was held in restraint only by the feel ing that 1t could not be successfully in the face of the powe- which he exercised.
 It is known that the administration was not disappointed on account of his determination to retire, and that the opportunity to reoEganize the house is seized as a good fortune, in that it opens the way for the majority organ zati0n of congress to be placed in en- ire harmony with the administration.
 Friends of Mr. Sherman are not dis urbed by the intimation that the Pennsylvania delegation will decide to vote for General Hen- lerson. They say that a break like his in the east will destroy all argu- nents in favor of solidity of the west gainst an eastern candidate, and will esult in Sherm2n's getting more 7otes from tho west than he can lose n Pennsylvania It is evan intimated hat Sherman's supporters would not . ave it otherwise If they could, and hat, perhaps, they could if they want q to. Sherman has grsat many riends among the western members I the house, and some western inf1u- nces are very favorable to him therefore, it is sad, the only thing hat could solidify the west would be 1r the east to appear n a closed line D or an eastern candidate
 It is understood that a combination
 being organized on the speakership yer which prominent senators will zcrcise an Influence, and it is thought V kelly that there will be a c0mbina- W on, after the manner of what was B alled the combine which divided up u le offices of the last organization. It W
 ssid that the most powerful infu- g lees. both political and legislative, dt ill be operated in the interest first Sherman, and next of Henderson, as in cond choice, opposition being di- p1 icted against Hopkins. JC The election of Sherman is generally D lticipated within the informed circle. G, It the possibility of Henderson being ot ected is conceded and taken into dr count in the general plan. In other TT ords, it ts said that if a western man ci
 to be elected they will be satisfied di th Henderson, and plans are being ranged to the end that the choice all rest between Sherman and Hen rson. It is anticipated by those W. 10 are figuring on this adjustment of stl e situation that a considerable vote H; 'm the east will go to General Hen stl rson, thus giving him the lead over na