The Jersey City news., 1906-04-04
Leaders Realizing Tha
There Will Be Hard Work
In the Next Campaign
Want Active Men
SHERMAN TO Be CHAIRMAN
FEARS THAT THE PUBLIC
BUILDING BILL WILL BE PUT
TO SLEEP APPEAR TO BE
GRoUNDLEss - EQUALIzING
SALARIES


Realizing that the Congressional cam
paign next fall will be one that win
mean plenty of hard work, the, Republi-
can leaders of the House of Representa-
tives are making preparations for COM
mittee that will be able to perform the
arduous task before it. Representative
James S. Sherman. of Utica. \. Y, it
is expected. Will succeed Representative
Babcock as the chairman of the Con
gressional committee
Mr. Sherman is lawyer by profes-
son, and has been member of Con
gress since the Fiftieth Congress, except
during the Fifty-second. He is ready
debater, good organizer. man who
stands we'll in the House. and he was
prominently mentioned for Speaker when
David B. Henderson was selected. He
is one of the best presiding officers in
the House of Representatives.
Representative Overstreet. of Indiana.
will retire as secretary Of the commit
tee. 1t is believed that the custom OF
having a Congressman fill the position
will be adhered to. 1fr Loudenslager. of
Camden, is now being mentioned for the
place He was in charge of the Wash
! ington headquarters in 1900, and he has
been through many of the campaigns
with the eommi2ee The condition of
his health has been one reason why Mr..
Loudenslager would be reluctant to as
sumo the arduous dqlties of the position,
but it is understood that if he will agree
to take the place he will be given plenty
of assistance.
Much Of the detail work of the COM
mfttee falls to the secretary and the po-
sition is an exacting one at best. On
account of having their own campaigns
to manage few of the Congressman want
to assume the duties incident to the posi-
ton Representative Watson, of Indi-
ana, has declined to take the place, and
Mr.. Taylor. of Ohio, and Colonel Daw-
son, of Iowa, are both under considera-
tian. 1t is felt. however, that the ex-
perience Mr.. Loudenslager has had with
the committee makes him better fitted
or the place than any of the other Con-
gressmen.
Some of the Congressman who are not
in the combine are still talking about
the peculiar manner in which the House
at times ''equalizes'' salaries. This gos-
sip is the result Of the passage of the
legislative, executive and judicial appro-
priation bill, which had to have rule
to break rule" before the members of
the House can be gagged" sufficiently
to get the bill through and passed. In
the general scramble to increase salaries
the postmaster of the House of Repre-
sentatives, who has nothing to do but sit
and watch hi sassistants and clerks hand
out the mail for the Congressman, was
given an additional $500 year, making
his salary $4,000.
One of the increases which was object
ed to most strenuously was that of 81 600
for the doorkeeper, Frank B. Lyon His
salary was raised from $500 to $500;
he was allowed clerk at 81 200 year
and a janitor for his room at 81 ,200
year, both of which, it was claimed by
some Congressman, was an extravaganza
and unwarranted. At the Same time
some of the men in the folding room,
under the supervision of Mr. Lyon, had
their pay reduced from $50 to $40 a
month. In the equalization what was
added to Mr.. Lyon vii be saves in the
deductions made from the men who do
tfhe hard work
The fears that some of the Congress-
men had that the public bdildsAg bill had
been fput to Sleep seem to have been
groundless, inasmuchs as the latest report
is8to the effset. that there will be pub
lie building bilT and it swill carry appro-
priotions amounting to $20,oooooO. The
bin viii not be reported for ten days or
two weeks, and it may be held back as
club over the heads of some of the
CongFessrnen whose votes may be needed
to pass some of the appropriation bills
yet to go before the House.
When the bill 70 remove the duty on
denaturalized alcohol comes UP in the
House there promises to be lively de-
bate because it .AlI be an amendment