The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-29
Aas Not Yet Reached Under
 standing With Williams
MATTER OF GIVE AND TAKE
Underwood Secures Additional Car riers for Properly Handling Holi- day Mails In Birmingham.
 Col. Reed Retires.

Washington, November 2S. S.-(Special)- Speaker Cannon and MT. Williams have not yet reached an understanding as to what shall be the democratic representa- ton on the House committees, but MT. with himself.
 MT. Cannon does not intend to deprive the democrats of one place on every com mittee, and 1t may also be said that he does not intend to oust any of the demo- crats reelected from the committees on which they served in the last Congress. His action will not be governed by any rule. He has concluded that he must have ten or fifteen places formerly held by democrats for newly elected republicans, but what places will be reserved for them is question to be made the subject of detail negotiation between him and MT. Williams.
 It will be a matter of give and take. Where there are two democratic vacan- cies, such as will be the case on the ways and means committee, MT. Cannon will claim one. There are sixty republican and ninety-fou democratic vacancies. There will be sixty-six new republican and thirty-five new democratic members. Of the ninety-four democratic vacancies, forty were held by democrats who were not reelected. Mir Cannon thinks he may properly appropriate ten or fifteen of these without giving the democrats just provocation to be ohstreperous, especially so since he will make his selections in a way not to disturb any democrat who has been reelected.
 Seems Fair to Cannon.
 To Mir. Cannon the proposition seems eminently fair one. He does not think the democrats have any provocation to become aroused and 1t may be said of him that he does not desire to weaken the minority, but that he wishes, rather to do what he can to make it a viri1e minority.
 But problem which is perplexng the prospective speaker far more than this Is how to extirpate some of the tariff revis- ion sentiment with which the ways and means committee has been corrupted. ' Should MT. Williams have the naming of two democrats the ways and means com mittee would stand very closely to the report of some measure reducing the pres ent tariff rates. This of course he Is anxious to avoid, hence the republican membership Is causing him much more worry than that on the democratic side.
 Tawney Is Revisionist.
 Tawney of Minnesota, n member of the committee in the last Congress, is an out and out revisionist. here 1t is regarded as likely that the speaker will take him off the ways and means committee and make him chairman of the appropriations committee. The vacancy on ways and means would go to McCleary of Minne- sota, who can be depended upon to vote against any tariff changes This arrange ment would give the anti-tarlff people a clear majority on the committed. some thing the speaker wants. It is reported here tonight that the President contem- plates sending to Congress a tariff revis- ion message late in the session and will make a fight along that line as soon as he dlsposes of the railroad question.
 Place for Underwood.
 Representative Underwood of Alabama may go back to his old place on the ways and means committee, which he held in the Fifty-seventh congress. There are at present two Alabama members, Taylor and Underwood. on appropriations. When the committees were rearranged in the last congress MT. Underwood was the Cannon, therefore, took him off the com mittee and gave him the next best assign ment appropriations. This year there Is vacancy on the ways and means com mittee and there is not member on the democratic side better fitted for 1t than MT Underwood.