Show COMMITTEE ANNOUNCED L Speaker Crisp Makes a Great Many Changes MR SPEINGEE STEPS DOWN Bland is Still Retained at the Head of the Coinage Committee Delegate Ruvrlins is Placed on tim Coinage Coin-age Private Land Claims and Mines and Mining Committees Washington Washing-ton is Let OS tho Territories WASHINGTON Aug 21 Interest in the financial discussion in the House was dwarfed today in the greater interest every one felt in the announcement of the standing committees by Speaker Crisp No ono was prepared for tho radical changes made in the personal of some of the more irportant committees Mr F Springer of Illinois gives way to Wilson tfe the of West Virginia as chairman of I Ways and Means committee and the Ihnoisiau Is given the chairmanship on Bankini and Currency Holman of Indiana In-diana the venerable watch dog of the treasury is deposed from the Committee Commit-tee on Appropriation in favor of Sayres of Texas and given the head of the Com mi tee on Indian Affairs Mr Bland of Missouri va retained as head 01 the Committee on Coinage but free coinage people are disappointed in the committee being changed a it leaves much doubt whether free coinage people are in the minority and whether the financial policy of the administration may not find a majority in the committee Congressman Tracy of New York who is the administration man and second on th committee claims that the speaker deferred to the repealing element to such an extent as to make the committee mildly free coinage J and insists on counting Kilcore of Texas with the free coinage men The committee will only stand nine t eight for free coinage The Committee on Banking and Currency i said to be opposed to free coinage eleven to six The removal of Hr Holmanfrom the head of the appropriations committee is interpreted by some to mean that the speaker favors more liberal appropriations appropria-tions in the FiftyThird Congress The removal of Mr Springer from the ways and means committee gives this important chairmanship of the House to the south but it is said that this make up of the committee on ways and means does not indicate any essential change from the policy of the last Congress After the House met this morning Mr Powers of Vermont took the floor in support sup-port of the repeal ol the purchasing clause of the Sherman act Mr Hooker of Mississippi opposed the unconditional repeal of the purchasing clause Debate was then suspended to allow the speaker to announce the standing and select committees for the present Congress Con-gress Then en motion of Mr Bland Saturday next was set apart for general debate on the Wilson bill instead of debate de-bate under the five minute ruler rule-r Mr Cooper of Indiana spoke in opposition opposi-tion to the free coinage of silver while Alexander of North Carolina advocated free Eilver coinage and spoke for a larger currency Mr Sperry of Connecticut opposed free coinage and advocated the Wilson bill and Mr Cox of Tennessee argued against the pending bill Mr Settle of North Carolina opposed the free coinage of silver sil-ver and favored the Wilsnn bill A recess was then taken till 8 oclock At the evening session Mr McDannold Democrat of Illinois said he was in favor of the free coinage of gold and silver at any ratio that might be acceptable Mr Bartlett Democrat of New York said that with the message of the president presi-dent he was in lull and thorough accord Mr Steredale Democrat of Mississippi argued that the Sherman bill had little t do with the stagnation of business but V that it was attributable primarily to the tariff The House then at 1110 adjourned |