Orleans Independent Standard

Hon. Mr. Meacham.

The Washington Evening Star thanks Speaker Banks for appointing Mr. Meacham Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia, and of Mr. Meacham says:

Mr. Meacham is the scholar of the House, besides being a man of conservative views. From our personal knowledge of him, we feel very certain that he does not sympathize with ultraism of any sort on any question. Possessing excellent judgment and great firmness of character and purpose, he is nevertheless a public man endowed with proper liberality of views and all things touching the public interest. His long experience in Congress has thoroughly instructed him as to the true character of the community of interests between the general government and the District of Columbia; while this varied and profound accomplishments as a literary and scientific man, must necessarily lead him to take proper pride in identifying his name and reputation with the progress of the District of Columbia, now held in the hollow of his hand, as it were. We predict for him the most enlightened and popular administration of the important chairmanship to which he has been assigned so far as we know in the history of Congress.