HOUSE COMMITTEES.Speaker Crisp Puts an End

to Speculation.

Make np of Committees Form-ally Announced.

Springer Entrusted with the Ways

and Means Chairmanship.

Free Coinage Given a Very FavorableShowing?Senate Proceeding* and

Other Doings at theCapital.

Associated Press DiSDatcnes.Washington, Dec. 23.?The Demo-

cratic section of the house this morn-ing was early filled witli members onwhose faces there were looks of anxiousexpectancy and curiosity. Little groupsgathered here and there, discussing theprobabilities and possibilities of com-mittee completion. Although a greatdeal of credence was placed in the pre-dictions heretofore made by the press,there was a general feeling of uncer-tainty which could be dispelled onlyby the official announcement by thespeaker.

Soon after the house convened thespeaker announced the members of thecommittees as appointed by him. Thereading of the assignments was listenedto with attention without any mani-festation of approval or disapproval.

Meredith oi Virginia announced thedeath of his predecessor, Lee, and asa mark ot respect the house adjournedto meet January sth.

SPEAKER CRISP WORN OUT.Immediately on the adjournment of

tbe house the speaker went to theMetropolitan hotel and went to bed.He is prostrated aud worn out by hiaarduous labors, and at the same time issuffering with a heavy cold. A few days'rest, it is hoped, willrestore his health.

THE HOUSE COMMITTEES.

A complete list, of the house commit-tees as announced by speaker Crisp, isas follows:

Ways and means ? Springer, 111.,chairman; McMillin, Term.; Turner,Ga.; Wilson, Va.; Montgomery, Ky.;Whiting, Mich.; Shively. Ind.; Coch-ran, N. Y.j Stevens, Mass.; Bryan,Neb.; Reed, Me.; Burrows, Mich.;McKcima, Cal.; Payne, N. V.; Dalzell,Pa.

Elections ? O'Farrell, Va.; Moore,Tex.; Cobb. Ala.; Painter. Ky.; Brown,Ind.; Lockwood, N. Y. ; Laweon, Ga.;Gillespie. Pa.; Johnstone, S. C.; Hau-geu, Wis.; Taylor, Term. ; Diau, Ohio;Johnson, Ind.; Revburn, Pa.; Clark.Wyo.

Appropriations ? Holman, Forney,Sayrea, Breckinridge, Ky.; Dockery,Mutchler, Breckinridge, Ark.; Comp-ton, O'Neill, Mass.; Livingston, Hen-derson, Cogswell, Bingham, Dingley,Groute.

Coinage, weights and measures-Bland,Charles, Tracy, Williams, Kilgore, Rob-inson, Eppes, Williams, Mass. ; Mc-Keighan, B.trtine, Taylor, III.; Stone,Pa. ; Johnson, N. D.

Banking and currency ?Henry, Bacon,Wike, Trans, Cate, Uickerson, Bperry,Gantz, Cox, Term.; Cobb, Mo.; Walker,Mass ; Brosiua, Townseud, Hender-son, 111.

Judiciary?D. B. Culberson, Cate,Bynum, Stockdale, Goodnight, Boat-ner. Buchanan, Va.; Chapin, Layton,Wolverton, Taylor, O.: Buchanan, N.J.; Bay, Powers, Broderick.

Pacific railroads?J. B. Riley, Lan-ham. Lane, Brown, Ellis, Coveit,Castle, Coolidge, Snodgraas, Raines.Flick, Lind, Taylor, 0.

Interstate and foreign commerce-Mills, Wise, Price, Raynor, Brickner,Geary, Ilouk, 0.; Mallory, Patterson,O'Neill, Mo.; O'Neill, Pa.; Lind, Ran-dall, Surer, Ketchum.

Rivers and harbors ?N. C. Blanchard,Catchinge, Stewart, Lester, Ga.; Clark,Ala.; Haynes, Waedopk, Jones, Paige,Byrnes, Henderson, 111.; Derman,Stephan, Stone, Pa.; Quackenbush.

Foreign affairs?J. H. Blount, Mc-Creary, Hooker, Chipman, Fitch, An-drews, Cable, Isadore, Raynor, Geary,Pitt, Harmer, O'Bonnell, Sanford.

Military affairs?Outhwaite, Wheeler,Ala. ; Newberry, Patton, Rockwell,Mitchell, Lapham, McDonald, Crosby,Bingham, Belknap, Bowers, Hull.

Agriculture?ll. H. Hatch, Lewis,Alexander, Youmans, Shell, Forman,White, Caminetti, Moses, Long, Funs-ton, Wilson, Ky.; Jolly, Waugh, Cheat-ham.

Pensions?Wilson, Mo.; Henderson,Bankhead, Norton, Barret, Barwig,Jones, Moses, Stewart, Scull, Waugh,Houk, Term.; Powers.

Naval affairs?Herbert, Elliot. Cum-miugs, Geissenhaner, Daniel, Meyer,Lawaoo, Va.; McAleer, Page, Boutelle,Lodge, Doliiver, Wadsworth.

Poatotrlces and post roads?John S.Henderson, Blount, Klye, Pattiaon, O.;Crosby, Hopkins, Caldwell, Wilson,Wash.; Bergen, Loud. Came.

Public lands?T. 0. Mcßae, Pendle-ton, Tucker, Herman, Bailey, Dearmand,Seerly, Alire, Stout, Pickler, Townseud,Sweet, Clarke, Wyo.

Indian affairs?B. W. Peel, Allen,Turpin, Rockwell, Bradley, Lynch, Eng-lish, Glover, Kern, Wilson, Wash.; Jo-seph, McKeuna, Hooker, N. Y. j Hop-kins, Pa.; Harvey, 0. T.

Railways and canals? T. C. Catchings,Lester, Va.; Cate. Bentley, Beltzhoover,Causey, Cobb, Mo. j llalveraon, Davis,Ran iail, Bergen, Hull, Loud.

Columbian exposition ?A. C. Dur-brow, McOreary, Riley, Houk,. O.;Wheeler, Langan, Little,Cogswell, Ding-ley, McKeuna, Doliiver.

Merchant marine and fisheries ?Sam-uel Fowler. Fithian, Moor , Caruth,Buchanan, Va.; Forest, Wagner, Stump,Wheeler, Mich.; Hopkins, Hi.; Atkio-

\u25a0oo, Wilson, Ky.; Perkins, la.Mines and mining?VV. H. Cowles,

Cooper, Peel, Can pbell, Pendleton,Caminetti, Arnold, Bowman, Miller,Townaend,Stevenson, Post, Huff, Smith,

Territories?.l A. .Vashington, Kil-gore, Mansur,Campbi 11, Parrett,Branch,Terry, Jerry Simpson, Donovan, Rife,Smith, III.;Perkins, O'Donnell, Joseph.

Immigration and naturalization?ll.Stump, Covert, Elliott, Geissmheimer,Eopea. Ryan, Hare, Ooburn, Ketohuin,Funaton, Wright.

Education ?W. I. Hayes, Caruth,Brunner, Donovan, liretz, Everett,Grady, Coburn, Beeman, Taylor, 0.;Cheatham, Sanford, Stewart, Pa.

Labor-J. C. Tainey, Willcox, Dickin-son, McKiegan, Dungan, Bunting,Cape-hart, Causey, Davis, Buchanan, N. J.;Brosiua, Haugeo, Wilson, Wash.

Private land claims?A. P. File' ,Brunuer, Babbitt, Van Horn, Winn,

Arnold, Crawford, Buahnell, Bingham,Lind, Storer, Otis, Smith.

Irrigation oi arid lands?S. W. T.Lanham, Clancey, Bretz, Gorman,Coolidge, Dickerson, Simpson, Pickler,Curtis, Sweet, Came.

War claims?F. F. Beltzhoover, Stone,Kentucky ; Enloe. Clancev, Cobb, Mo.;Winn, Scott, O'Neill, Dolliver, Tickler,Houk, Rife.

CHAIRMEN OF OTHER COMMI TTEES.Manufactures?C. 11. l'age.Leveee and improvements of the Mis-

sissippi river?S. M. Robinson.Patents?G. 1). Tillmann.Invalid pensions?A. N. Martin.Indian claims?B. 11. Dunn, of North

Carolina.War library?Amos J. Cumminga.Printing?j. D. Richardson.Enrolled bills?J. W. Warwick.Reform in tbe civil service?J. F. An-

drew.Election of president and vice-preßi-

dent?J. L. Chipman.Census?VV. F. Willcox.Ventilation and acoustics ?W. G.

Stahlnecker.Militia?Edward.District of Columbia ?J. J. Hemphill.Revision of laws?W. T.Ellis.Alcoholic liquors?W. F. Haines.Expenditures in state department?

R. E. Lester of Georgia.Expenditures in treasury department

?G. H. Brickner.Expenditures in war department?A.

B. Montgomery.Expenditures in navy department?

C. A. 0. McClelland.Expenditures in postoffice depart-

ment ?W. C. Gates.Expenditures in interior department

?J. W. Owens.Expenditures in department of jus-

tice?.!. M. Ellen.Expenditures in department of agri-

culture?C. EdmundsExpenditures on public buildings?ll.

M. Youmana.A FREE COINAGE COMMITTEE.

Inquiry into the records of the mem-bers of tiie house committee on coinage,weights and measures, shows that byoast utterances or votes eight out of thethirteen members of the committee de-clared in favor of free coinage, whilethree of the othet members are out-spoken against free coinage and thefourth is said to be unquestionablyagainst free coinage. The members infavor of free coinage are Bland, Missouri;Williams, Illinois; Ivilgore, Texas ; Rob-ertson, Louisiana; Pierce, Tennessee;Eppes, Virginia; McKeighan, Nebraska ;Bartine, Nevada. Those opposed areTracey, New York; Williams, Massa-chusetts; Taylor, Illinois, and Stone,Pennsylvania. Johnston of North Da-kota was not in the last congress, but is

i thought by some to favor free coinage.The silver men are very well pleased

with the constitution of the coinagecommittee, and regard it as significantof the speaker's purpose to atford an op-portunity for the passage of the freecoinage measure. Chairman Bland isthe most pronounced Democratic advo-cate of silver in the house. The silvermen regard the fact that Bat tine headsthe list of the Republican members, asanother indication of the speaker'sfriendliness to a liberal silver policy.

THE TARIFF COMMITTEE,

Of the ten Democratic members of theways and means committee, all exceptStevens of Massachusetts and Bryan ofNebraska, who are in their first term incongress, were members of the fiftieth,and of these all except Whiting oiMichigan, are recorded as voting forthe Mills bill on its final passage.Whiting made several speeches uphold-ing the taritr message of PresidentCleveland, and was probably paired infavor of the bill. Springer, the chair-man, has always voted for tariffreformmeasures, but has by published inter-views recorded himself in favor of pass-ing specific bills to put a few articles outhe free list, and against a general re-vision of the tariff by tbe house at thiasession. The majority of hia Demo-cratic colleagues have stated in public

jthat they were in favor of thia line ofipolicy at the present time.

SEXATE PROCEEDING*.

In the absence of the vice-presidenttoday, Manderson presided over thesenate.

Anion)? the bills introduced and re-ferred was one by Sherman to amendthe Nicaragua Bhip canal act.

Two messages from the president ofthe United States were presented, readand appropriately referred. One was asto the arrangement and operation ofelectric wires in the District of Colum-bia, and tbe other as to uniform usage

,by all the departments of the govern-: ment in spelling geographical names.

After a short executive pesaion, thesenate adjourned tillTuesday, Januarysth.

CONFIRMATIONS.The senate in executive session has

continued the following nominations:United States ministers?A. Loudon

Snowden of Pennsylvania, to Greece,Roumania and Servia; Richard CuttsShannon, New York, toNicaragua, CostaRica and Salvador; Romualdo Pacheco,California, to Guatemala and Honduras.

Minister resident and consul general?John S. Durahaui, Pennsylvania, toHayti.

Jeremiah Coughlin, New York, secre-tary oi legation and consul-general atBogota.

Fenton R. McOreery, of Michigan,secretary of legation at Santiago, Chile.

Lars Anderson, Ohio, second secre-tary of legation at London.

Wm. C. Tripler, consul at Coquimbo.Richard C. Kerens, ot Missouri, mem-

ber of the continental railway commis-sion.

Kbenozer J. Oemsbee, of Vermont,land commissioner in Samoa.

L, W. Colby, of Nebraska, assistantattorney-general of the United States.

WASHINGTON NOTES.The first 12-inch gun ever made in the

Washington naval ordnance foundry,

was tested at the proving grounds yes-terday. Successful results were ob-tained, both from the titleand the pneu-matic carriage upon which it ismounted.

The office of assistant chief of thebureau was filledtoday by the appoint-ment, by Secretary Rusk of 8. B. Rock-wood, chief of the department of agri-iculture. Henry Casson, private secre-tv.ty of Secretary Rusk, was appointedchief clerk.

The president today issued an orderfor the removal of Samuel D. Warm-castle, collector of internal revenue forthe Twenty-third district of Pennsyl-vania, at Pittsburg, and designatingDeputy Collector Mitchell to performIhe duties temporarily. Warmcastle iacharged with neglect of duty.

A delegation of Blackfoot Indiansfrom the reservation in Montana willtomorrow or Monday have an interviewwith Secretary Noble. In an informaltalk with Commissioner Morgan the In-dians requested that tho departmentprovide them with additional stock andfarming implements. They also askedthat their rations be increased. They

strongly protested against parting withany more of their land.

Senator Hanabrough today introduceda bill in the senate authorizing thepostmaster-general to extend, whenpracticable, the free delivery Hystem torural or farming communities. The billauthorizes the postmaster-general to ex-tend such portion of the amount as mayhereafter be appropriated for the com-pensation of postmasters for star routetransportation aa may be necessary tocarry out tbe provisions of the act.

Mullen, Bluett m Co.' neckwear.

IHE CRAVES TRIAL.

Testimony as to the Writing on theFatal Mottle of Whisky.

Denver, Dec. 23.?1n the Barnaby-Graves trial today the defense openedthe case by placing Edward Field andColonel Ballon, the latter of counsel forthe defense, on the stand. Nothing newwas brought ont.

Two experts in handwriting sworethat although the inscription on thewhisky bottle was similar in writing toletters written by Graves, they did notthink both writings were by "the sameperson. In cross-examination, however,both experts admitted that many lettersin the inscription on tho bottle andthose on Graves' letters were the same.

J. A. Bennett, a veterinary surgeon,waa called to prove that araenite ofpotassium waa sometimes kept in liveryatables. The point to be madewaa to show that as thebottle of whisky remained ina buggy in a atable over night before be-ing delivered to Mrs. Barnaby, someof the hostlera might have drank theoriginal contenta of the bottle, and toescape detection refilled it from thenearest bottle at hand. In this waythey might have stumbled on thebottle of arsenite of potassium andemptied it into the original bottle.Upon cross-examination they could notname any positive instance in whichthey had seen arsenite of potassium in alivery stable.

Tf you want anything read our classifiedads.

Million,BJ.UOU .t Co.'s neckwear.

Fine Holiday Goods SacrificedToday

AT W INEQURGH'S.

Only one day leftin which to dispose of thebalance of goods, adapted for Christmas gifts,wo are determined to carry nothiug overProfit is the least consideration. Plush case.",dolls, purses. >ilk handkerchiefs, embroideredhandkerchiefs, lace scarfs, yarns, pou pons.Children'! clinks, dress patterns, all are beingBold today nt exceedingly reduced prices.75c leatherette comb and brush sets, now. 50c$3 50 French bifqac dolls, now 12.00$2 glass top glove aud handkerchief cases,

now $1.00$2.50 French plate mirror plush stann,- fancy bottle odor cases, very elegant.

now Il.no$(> manicure sets, with IS pieces, for $3.50?7.50 jewel manicure and glove Eet, with

7 amber pieces $1 50$15 fine Cornelian manicure sets, richly

upholstered with Japanese embossedleather and plush top, 10 pieces andheavy plnte mirror for $0 09

$5 royal purple combination plush collarandonffset, now $?> so

$1 hammered brass and copper combinedwhisk broom holders, now 50c

-5c veneered a':h wood perforated fancywhisk broom receptacle, now, each. . 10c

$3 heavy black satin colored silk lined,with ruflle, double jointed carriageparasols; now 11.75

40c good size indestructible doll', now 25c$3 India silk hand-painted picture

throws, each si.so35c silk embroidered Japanese handker-

chiefs 25c$1 tine embroidered and scalloped Japan-

ese silk handkerchiefs, now . 65c15c oxidized silver and brass match, ash

or toothpick stands, now. 10c$1.25 genuine Foster hook lid gloves.

black or colored, all sizes, a pair SI 00$1.25 5-button real kid gloves, every pair

warranted, a pair $1.0020 per cent reduction on all fine fan? above

$1.50.Winebuboh's, 309-311 S. Spring street.

THE LOS rANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1891.2

EAGLESONSLARGE : STOCK

OF

HOLIDAY GOODSAt Eastern Prices.

SILK HANDKERCHITFS,

MUFFLERS,

EMBROIDERED SHIRTS,

HOSIERY,

NECK DRESS,

SUSPENDERS

UNDERWEAR,

GLOVES, ETC., ETC.

ALL GOODS SOLD AT

EASTERN PRICES.

112 S. Spring Street,Opposite the Nadeau Hotel,

Former'y at

HG NORTH SPRING STREET.

; I Sale ends Saturday Eve,, Dec.2li. | Sale ends Saturday Eve, Dec. 26.1

jCROWDED TO THE DOORS Ii Is what the public is saying of the GREAT AND GLORIOUS SUIT AND H

! M OVERCOAT SALE at the Chicago Clothing Co., where they conic in multitudes IfH to purchase the values of their lifetime, for such they are, these nobby and I

1 gj elegant styles of Suits and Overcoats which would grace the form of a king or any jjI m other potentate. The success of this sale lies wholly in our endeavors to please I

H the buying public by cutting prices to the very core of cost, not considering onr BB

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I m B° o(^s come to > w^ien they pick their choice of over 2000 hue tailor-fitting garments

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m Overcoat we sell you. That is the present we mI give to every purchaser, with the privilege MSto buy your Turkeys and Groceries any- Im where you may see fit with the money you m

I save by purchasing from us during this great m

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| Sate ends Saturday Eve, Dee. 26. Sale ends Satnrilay&eJeeJJj