Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — MEMBERS’ VIEWS. [ARTICLE]

MEMBERS’ VIEWS.

Political Status of the New House of Bepressntatives-Carlisle for Speaker. Strong Feeling in Favor of Reducing the Powers of the Appropriation Committee. THE NEW HOUSE. Its Political Complexion. The House of Representatives, which convenes at Washington on the first Monday in December, consists of 184 Democrats and 141 Republicans. In this classification Weaver, of lowa, Greenback Democrat, is counted as a Democrat, and Brumm, of Pennsylvania, Greenback Republican, with the Republicans. The annexed table shows the political division of the several State delegations: State. Dem. Rep. Alabama 8 Arkansas 5 California 1 5 Colorado 1 Connecticut 2 2 Delaware 1 Florida 2 Georgia 10 Illinois 10 10 Indiana 9 4 lowa 4 7 Kansas 7 Kentucky 10 1 Louisiana 5 1 Maine 4 Maryland 5 1 Massachusetts 2 10 Michigan 7 4 Minnesota 5 Mississippi 7 Missouri 12 2 Nebraska 3 Nevada 1 New Hampshire 2 New Jersey 3 4 New York 17 17 North Carolina 8 1 Ohio 11 JO Oregon 1 Pennsylvania 8 20 Rhode Island 2 South Carolina 0 1 Tennessee 7 2 Texas 11 Vermont '. 2 Virginia 8 2 West Virginia 3 1 Wisconsin 2 7 Total 184 141 QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Views of a Large Number of Members on Important Questions.

The Louisville Courier-Journal recently published letters from 160 members of Congress, 59 Democrats- and 91 Republicans. The letters are in response to four questions sent out by the Washington correspondent of the Courier-Journal, as follows: 1. Would you favor an amendment to the rules of the House providing that the general appropriation bills, except tho legislative, sundry civil, and deficiency bills, shall be prepared and controlled hereafter by the appropriate standing committees on the several branches of the public service ? 2. Do you favor any change in the laws governing silver coinage and silver certificates, and if so, what modification would you regard as desirable ? 3. To what extent, in your opinion, would a revision of the tariff and internal revenue laws be desirable at the next session? 4. Who is your choice for the caucus nomination for Sneaker? In the Democratic responses* forty-seven are unqualifiedly in favor of an amendment of the rules, five give a qualified answer, four oppose a change, and three are noncommittal. As to the second, or silver question, four favor legislation, forty-nine oppose, and six are non-committal. As to the third or tariff-reform question, fifty-three favor tariff agitation, three oppose and three are non-committal. For Speaker fifty-seven are for Carlisle, one for Randall, and one non-committal. The whole number of Republican members who responded is ninety-one. For amending the rules of the House, fortyeight unqualifiedly approve, twelve qualify their answers, nine oppose, and twenty, two are non-committal. Sixty favor legislation on the silver question, sixteen oppose, and fifteen are noncommittal. Seventy-five oppose tariff legislation, four favor it, and twelve are non-committal. For Speaker, thirty are for Frank Hiscock, twenty-three are for Reed of Maine, eleven for Gov. Long of Massachusetts, and thirty-seven are non-committal. The correspondent of the CourierJournal, in summing up on officers of the House, names for Speaker John G. Carlisle; Clerk, John B. Clark, Missouri; Ser-geant-at-Arms, John B. Leedom, Ohio; Doorkeeper, Samuel Donelson, Tennessee; Postmaster, Lycurgus Dalton, Indiana.

Michigan Congressmen pn the Silver Problem. Senator Palmer, of Michigan, who went to Chicago to attend the Fat Stock Show, said to a Tribune interviewer that he should favor the suspension of the silver coinage in the coming session of Congress. He believed the silver dollar should contain 100 cents’ worth of silver, and not eighty-five. As to the legislation subsequent to the suspension of the coinage, he said he had made up his mind as to what he should favor. lie did not believe under any recommendation that the President might make in his annual message that the silver question would become a party issue. The Senator’s views were nearly identical with those of the Democrat who represents Detroit in the lower house—Congressman Maybury. The latter said, in an interview, he was opposed to the continued .coinage of the dollar as it is, and, while not a single-standard man, he nevertheless believed that they should be nearer together than at present. As to the views of the remainder of the Michigan delegation on the silver question, Mr. Maybuiy said he had talked with none of the members about it, but was inclined to the opinion that quite a number agreed with him.

Mb. Samuel J. Tilden is “building one of the largest and most complete conservatories in the country on hra premises at Greystone. It will be supplied with all kinds of fruit, so that fruit may be plucked the year round. William L. Pabks, of Fall River, Mass., has been driven insane by reading the reports of Boston's big scandal, the Taber-Downes divorce case. A drama taken from Emile Zola’s “Germinal” was interdicted in Paris lately because it reflected upon the efficiency of the police.