Show jucs correspondence washington feb 22 athe bacsi n 0 coni si s i dawd ti a dose the taffs their best to net a aud heart in the campaign still be in progress during the recess ashou as congress meets again the t speaker of will occur and tins the last opportunity the several wilt have of trotting any considerable number of members together until within a week or two of when the election must take place it is felt by every candidate that liis success will depend ipoch upon ilia ability toi tret a good anit guv having a large number af his to hain and many workers in the field in li ia casuse durine anuw and the time cf their bet A great deal of work lias been done during the session by eacle of the c and the old bembera the democrats who are elected to the next house have pretty generall their preferences the contest for ahe is not of course atie which is mccu alie of the members who will be the majority in the next house with a majority of a hundred and fifty the division of committee assigns menta is and important thing to settle ana it a matter of concern to every member where lie is t go io the new ion with this in mind every democrat is conducting himself with to promote his present st andins in alie guard any sli which might injure him it ithie cu ian for old members to iru first claim to consideration inthe of the house experience con itar for as much ns ability in tins iv alie elates which continue their members louy in service have a great advantage over thoa which adopt a system of rotation in office but the of the axt house ia such aa to threaten the overthrow of the time honored custom of judging men by the length of time they have been before the eyes of the public th e committee can hardly be divided up among the old embers according to their enoice when the majority of lie party of the house will be new men many of whom will have eminent ab lity to match against the experience of those 0 longer service democrats will come from which have been represented ly republicans heretofore it is not that the men alio appear in the next house to make their debut in public life will demand special honors in return for their votes in the contest so much as that they will want to have a voice in fashioning the committees which are to make the policy of the next house therefore there is an element iu this contest which ia unusual and will be perplexing to some of the candidates |