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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], Complexion of the standing committees — great Dissatisfaction. (search)
rmanship of eighteen committees, with three Western members on the committee of ways and means. The pressure from the West on the Speaker was very great. The changes in the old committee of military affairs elicited the greatest surprise--Generals Garfield and Farnsworth being left off, and their places supplied with new members. The partial effect of the bill introduced into the House by Mr. Patterson, of New Hampshire, is to repeal the charter of the city of Washington. In view of the almost certainly of negro suffrage, and for other substantial reasons, a movement is on foot among some of the citizens to surrender the charter of the city to Congress. The bill introduced by Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, to facilitate commercial intercourse between the several States is in accordance with a paragraph in the annual message on that subject. It prohibits a per capita tax by a State on passengers traveling by rail or boat, and looks to a so-called air-line railway between New York