Show The Ways and Means Committee WASHINGTON Dec 23Of the ten Democratic Dem-ocratic members of the ways and means committee all except Stevens of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts and Bryan of Nebraska who are in their first term in Congress were members of the Fiftieth Congress and or these all except Whiting of Michigan are recorded as voting for the Mills bill on final passage Whiting made several speeches upholding the tariff message of President Cleveland and was probably paired in favor of the bilL Springer chairman always voted for tariff reform measures but has by published interviews recorded himself in favor of passing spec ific bills to put a few articles on the free list and against a general revision of the tariff by the House at this session A majority ma-jority of his Democratic colleagues have stated in public that they were in favor of this line oi policy at the present time |