From the National Journal, Dec. Is.
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Mr.. RANDOLPH has sustained the views we yester-
day threw out as to his incompetency to act as
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means.
by sending to the Speaker his resignation of the Of
flee. If this step was not the result of reflection


if the objections we urged against his appointment
did not urge him to the measure we are left to
make the only inference which is left at our option
that he was originally appointed by the Speaker,
with the understanding that he should resign so as
to leave the chair vacant for Mir. McDuFFIE. We
can scarcely believe that the Speaker calculated on
a cordial co operation in the Committee between Mr.


RANDOLPH and Mr.. McDUFFIE, since he must have
recolected the contemptuous manner in which the
former expressed himself of the latter, and the in
dignant retort of Mr. McDufFe, some few years
since, in the course of a debate in the House OF
Representatives. 1t is probable that Mr. Randolph
has neither forgotten nor forgiven that retort. 1t
he has not, he could not serve on the Committee
with Mr.. McDuffie ; and if the Speaker knew this.
he must have made the appointment with full
knowledge that 1t would be resigned whether the
step now taken by Mr. Randolph is in fulflment Of
an original understanding or is the effect Of some
sudden insight into his own incompetency, we will


not decide In either case, the effect is the same
MIR. McDufie is the chairman ofthe Committee.