Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

News and Gossip froth the National Gapitol. Carlisle to lie Elected Speaker—Who Wil* Have Cknrge of the Ci)lnmitl,« Th« New Menln CongrrM. Jl There is not the. least doubt says a Washington special of Mr. Carlisle’s election as speaker, and a corollary of this will be substantially the re appointment of most of the chairmen of committees. Mills, of Texas, will succeed Morrison, of Illinois, at the head of the wayß and means committee, and is a man of far more tact and wider popularity than his predecessor. Randall will still have charge of appropriations. Culbertson of Texas, stands in the line of succession to the chairmanship of the committee on judiciary, but it is doubtful if Mr. Carlisle will give Texas two such prominent places as the chairmanship of ways and means and the judiciary. Belief is strong „ that General Collins, of Massachusetts, will be chair man of this committee. Bland, ot Missouri, will remain at the head of the committee on coinage. Clardy. of Missouri, will probably have the committee on commerce. Willis, of Kentucky, who has bungled so many river and harbor bills, is succeeded in this Congress by Mr. Caruth, of Louisville, and the river harbor chairmanship will doubtless go Io some new member,as it is very unlikely that Mr. Carlisle will put Blanchard, of Louisiana, a very light weight, in so important a place. Hatch, of Missouri, who worked so valiantly on the oleomargarine and pleuro-pneumon-ia bill last winter will remain at the head of the committee on agriculture. He is one of the grandest men on his side of the chamber, and is working like a beaver to be made Governor of Missouri. There is a strong feeling against Perry Belmont as chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, and an effort will be made to shift him to some other place. Little Joe Wheeler, of Alabama, will be chairman of the committee on military affairs in place of General Bragg, of Wisconsin, who is himself now somewhat famous for the enemies he has made, having been retired by the people. Herbert, of Alabama, will stay at the head of the committee on naval affairs. Blount, of Georgia, will, in all probability, be made chairman of the committee on poatoffices. .The election of O’Neali to succeed Mr. Cobb in the second Indiana district,throws the chairmanship of the public lands committee into the hands of Mr. Foran, of the Cleveland (O.) district. Peel, of Arkansas, will succeed WellbQrn, oi„Texas, at the head of the committee on Indian affairs. Hill, of Ohio, who played such a fine game with the bills for the admission of Dakota last winter, will stay at home, aud, unless Mr. Carlisle refuses to make a mistake. Springer, of Illinois", will T> «~lheh ea d of the committee. Springer will double and twist Dakota and all the rest of the territories worse than Hill did. George Wise, of Virginia, will still have the committee on manufactures. Probably O’Ferrall, of the same State, will be at the head of mines and mining, as it is improbable that Mr. Clardy, of Missouri, who will have the more important chairmanship of the committee on commerce, would remain at the .bead of this committee. Dibble, of South Carolina, will stay at the head of public buildings and grounds. Crisp, of Georgia, succeeds to the chairmanship of the committee on Pacific railroads, although the succession of several possible appointments. Mr. Carlisle will be very careful in making his .selectmen of the chairman of this committee. Mcßea, of Arkansas, is likely to be t l, e chairman of the Mississipi river levee committee. Chandler, of Georgia, will probably have charge of education. O’Neill, of St. Louis, will -stay at-the head of the committee on labor. Colonel Matson will still be chairman cf the committee on invalid pensions, unless in the shift of some of the other committees it should be desirable to give him some other place. Jones, of Alabama,is in succession as chairman of the committee on pensions, but it is unlikely that he will be appointed, as that State already has charge of two committees. Congressman Scott, of Erie, Pa , is likely to be made chairman, although he has no desire to take upon himself this line of work. Springer, of Illinois, will stay at the head of the committee on claims. Geddis, of the Maansfield district, having been elected to stay at home, Sterne, of Kentucky, stands at the head of the war claims committee. The chairmanship of tbie committee aud that of the Mississippi river levee committee would have fallen to the ehargeof Mr. Kleiner, of Indiana, had he been re-elected. These embrace the most important committee changes likely to be made. When Gongiess meets the old hands arouncl the capitol will hardly know it. Nearly one-fourth of the Senate will be new men. Over one third of the House are strangers to Washington. Few of the new Senators are at all known there. Men like Pasco of \Florida; Turpie. Indiana; Stockbridge, of Michigan; Bite, of Tennessee, and Faulkner, of Virginia, will be total strangers to nine-tentbß of the Senators. Half the incoming maeur however, are men of national reputation Frank Hiscock has been in Congress since 1878. Paddock, of NeISTiSfS, and Stewart, of Nevada, are well known to the older men of the Senate, with whom they served ten

years ago. Cush Davis, of Minnesota, ,ia Veil known as a prominent Blaine leader :n the northwest and a lawyer of national reputation. Quay, of Pennsylvania, is, of course, very well known as the hoes politician of the Keystone state. Old Judge Reageri, of Texas, who succeeds General Maxey, has been in publrf: life fortv„.yearß, aud has served in almost every sort of an office that is known to American politics. He was a United States surveyor iu Texas as far back qs 1830. He was a judge a dozen years in that State, and came to Congress in 185,7 and stayed there until the secession of his State, fn the Confederacy Judge Reagen was more prominent than he had been under the old government, being ope of the most trusted men in Jeff Davis’s cabinet. He was elected to congress in 1875, and has been a very prominent man in ail of its dobates. His advocacy of the interstate commerce bill has made his name almost a household word t all over the country.