The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-21
NO ONE MAN POWER
will Be Permitted by the Republicans
When Reed Goes.
COMMITTEE is TO BE NAMED
10 Perform the Duties Of DiCtatlon to
Congressman.
IT is A VERY SIGNIFICANT MOVE.
i is A VERY SIGNIFICANT MOVE.
Not Yet Decided Who viii Be Put in the
Cars Place.
HOPKINS HAS The BEST CHANCE, Ills SAID
Administration Measures VIII rrob-
ably Encounter Less Opposition
Than In Inst Congress.

Washington April 2O,A number OF re-
publican statesmen in the city at present
think thoy see a scheme In the retirement
oi speaker Reed 10 pnt through a number
OF bills that Will give the republican party
an uusavory reputation In the next cam
paisn. They have already inaugurated
move to curtal tho power Of the next
speaker, whoever he may be, \ COMMITTEES
Of seven is 60 be appointed to mako rules
for the guidance Of tho house: say what
legislation shall be enacted aud what shall
not; divide time for speeches and perform
all work OF that nature the speaker Is
not to be member OF that committee.
1t is very significant move aud will
be productive of history
New York. April 20, "A Herald special
from Washington says Speaker Reeds ree
fremont from congress is an event that
can not but have an important bearing on
the course OF legislation and politics for
the next few years.
1t not only opens up the question OF
spakership in the Fifty-sixth congress.
but 1t means that the house Of representa-
tlves IN that congress will not DO doNl-
mated by any single man, for there is M
man in that body sufficiently strong TO
step Into MIR. Reeds place as dictator.
az well RS presiding officer of the house.
who Mir Reeds successor Will be s
question that can not be answered nov.
II is one that will probably remain un-
answered uutr tho meeting of the repub-
lican caucus on the eve of the beginning
OF the next congress, for no one man on
the republican side occupies such com
maudug position as 20 Justify a prodic-
ton that he Will be chosen.
Several names have already been men
toned, in Guiding those Of Messrs. Payne
and sherman of New York, Dalzell Of
Pennsylvania, Grosycnor Of Ohio. Hopkins
and Cannon of Illinois and Henderson and
Hepburn OF Iowa.
Some OF these can be eliminated az once,
Nh Grosyoncr can not be considered ior@
uidablc candidate for the reason that he
Is from Ohio, and that Ohio VIII advance
no ono but Mir. Henderson. Some OF the
others mas stay in the race, not with any
hone of being elected. but Tor the purpos
OF holding votes until they can delly<r
them to Bome other candidate. It Is BE-
lievcd that tho contest win ultimately mar
row down to fight between Mr. Sh trh'sn
of New York and Mir. Hopkins of illnoS
MIR sherman, II is expected hero VIII
have the support OF Mir. Reeds persona
following very largely, while Mi HOP
kns Will receive the support OF She msi
from tho West. There will be some eXcep-
tions to thLs rule, however, as one OF tbs
first men to suggest Mr.. Sherman for
speaker In the event OF the retirement o.
Mr. Reed was a Western man.
Whoever may be elected II is prooablt
that the speaker will be more In harmony
with the Mckinley administration than has
been the case with Mr.. E-s>d in tho chair.
This VIII mean administration measures
viii encounter less opposition from tho
speaker with his immense power over tho
house. than was the case when the
Nicaragua canal bill, the Pacific cable hiis
and other measures desired by the presi-
dent were before the house in tho last con
gresa.
Mr.. HOPKINS, wbo Is regarded rs hay-
ing rather a better chance OF election than
any other candidate, Is not, strictly speak
ing, an administration man. He was ont
o; those who were dissatisfied with the
slowness with which the president moted
in the events which brought about the VII
with SDair, and he participated In and WAS
made the chairman of the meetings OF ne
dissatisfied members OF the house. he imiy
arpreclates the necessity or harmony in
rrrty action, and his efforts on that uetH-
sion were directed TO b7-.--ging about re
mony between the president ana the nous,
where another man in his position mlsnt
have widened the breech.