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Show York and Connecticut each have one. Of the New York democratic representatives Bourko Coekran, Tammany's mouthpiece, has the most important place, on the ways and means committee. Bacon of the Orange county district, is complimented compli-mented with the chairmanship of banking and currency. Tracey is on the coinage committee, Pitch on foreign affairs. ( bapin on the judiciary. Cummingaon naval affairs, Warner on public buildings, Msgner on fisheries, Covert on Immigration and Pacific railways, Little on the Columbian exposition, exposi-tion, Lockwood on elections, Fellow-, on the District of Columbia, "Tim" Campbell is put off with a plan- on mines and mining and another on territories, and Stahlnecker with the chairmanship ol ventilation and aeons tics. The New York republicans, considering their number, have fared rather better than the democrats. Payne is on the ways and means, Ketcham on commerce, Kay on the judiciary, Quackenbusb on rivers and harbors har-bors and patents. Sanford on foreign affairs and ednoagod, Wadsworth on naval affairs, Raines on Pacitle railways, Wcver mi claims, Bclden on the District of Columbia. It will be noted that Ihe chairman of the rivers and harbors and of the Mississippi levees committees are both Louisiana men. Papa llolman will groan in spirit when their appropriations are reported. Tbo ways and means contains only four tariff smashers to six tinkers and live republicans. The coinage committee contains two "gold bug" democrats and two silver republicans, it is gratifying to observe that the naval affairs committee is one of the strongest on the list. The four republicans are Hoiitelle, Lodge, Dolliver and Wadsworth. and among the aemocryts are Cumniings and UeUsen-hainer, UeUsen-hainer, both good men for their places. The representatives have now two weeks to study over the committee list and make up their minds what to do. "n the whole it, must he said for Mr. Crisp that he has done rather more for the Mills men than could have been expected, and has treated most of of the republicans very fairly. THE CONGRESSIONAL PLUMS. Mail and Exprei-s. A careful examination of the full list of all the house committees given in our columns yesterdav brings out some interesting facta. (If the forty-three regular eominil lees, the chairmen of twenty-seven are from the -olid south. Texas has two ebairinen, Missouri four, Georgia two, Arkansas two, Alabama three, Norib Carolina three, Bontb Carolina two, Louisiana two, Kentucky tun, Mississippi Missis-sippi two, Virginia two and Tennessee one. Uf the sixteen Chairmen that go to li e north Illinois gets two, New York two, N, w .1 ersc) one, Indiana three, Ohio two, Rhode Island one, Pennsylvania two, Iowa one, Wisconsin one and .Michigan one. (If the joint committees New York, Ohio and Tennessee have each one; of the select committees Massachusetts, Michigan, New |