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Show Speaker. Reed's assignments of committees are almost universally univer-sally . commended by Western members! The section west of the Missouri River received remarkable recognition at Mr. Reed's hand, and the committee list evidences his desire to be more generous than any of his predecessors with that great Republican section of the country reaching westward between the river and the ocean. Delegate Cannon of Utah was assigned to the committees which he had requested, by other dele-v dele-v gates. They are unusually good V appointments for a new member and a Delegate, and will be filled by Mr. Allen when he reaches here on the 1st of next month. Mr. Cannon is given tenth place on Mines and Mining and Coinage, Weights and Measures, aud seventeenth seven-teenth place on the Committee on Agriculture. Ex. |