| Show washington NEWS the regular correspondent of the journal writes S SPEAKER P E A K E R CRISPS popularity re he refuses a seat beat in the senate in order to serve his hia party in the lower house washington april 4 1391 L speaker crisp has always been a popular man with democrats in and out of tile tiie congress at was washington but his popularity is today one hundred per cent greater than it ever was before his refusal of a seat in the senate when all his personal inclinations were for taking it because it was clearly more to the democratic party for him to remain speaker of the house luring during za the remainder of this congress was of itself enough to account for much of the increase increase in his popularity but it was another event the greatest triumph of the speakers congressional career that capped the climax and made every democrat in washington oton ready to throw his hat bat in the sir air ai and A give three cheers every every time the name crisp is callej called ile ho humbled bulli bled ex speaker reed as that le legislative bully was wag never before humbled 1 on the floor of the houze they have had bad many par hament iary contests in which the speaker got the best of the ex czar but never until this time has the speaker succeeded in completely humbling reed so completely that lie ho sat after having been made to do so by the SD speaker ealer like whipped cur if the georgia borgia democrats aie of the same game mind min d as the democrats hereabouts mr air crisp will certainly be a senator after the of march and tHey iare talking 1 at this end of the li line de of something higher yet for him in the future senator voorhees in opening the tariff debate in the senate made little use of I 1 his is extraordinary power he just gave a plain straightforward business talk largely antho in the nature of an explanation of the changes made in the bill by the senate committee of which lie he is chairman and laying special stress upon the urgent necessity for speedy action according to the present pro gramme 1 very few set speeches will be made by the other democratic members of the finance committee and no attempt to limit the debate will be made until the republicans have been given ample opportunity to state their objections to the bill I 1 am glad to be able to state positively that there is absolutely no truth in the published statement that democrats who are dissatisfied with Preside deni nl Clev elands veto of the bland bill intend to vote for a free coinage amendment to the tariff bill not a single democratic senator who favors silver will say continued on fath page from froin first page that lie he is in favor of such at an amendment and mr bland who certainly has the right to speak for the silver democrats in the bious e if any one man has he ila lias been their leader both in this and in in a number of previous congresses characterized the idea as an outrage and a crime that would do no 0 good and would if carried out res result alt in the certain defeat of both tariff reform and free coinage 0 mr bland wll will as soon is th the e house houie can call C get et and keep keel a i democratic quorum long enouf enough 11 to dispose of the rep report of tile tho election electia n committe comm itle in the contested ca case e of 01 oceil vs joy of missouri w which ic h has been hati hanging ging 1 0 for more th than ii a week for lack of a voting quorum I 1 moved that his coinage bill bel be passed over tile the presidents veto it cannot pass unless ciless the republicans who voted against the bl bill I 1 should refue to tn vote and even then it could hardly pass as there j area number of who ahoi vatch for the bill when it was passed who will not vote to pabs it over the president derit s veto there is little doubt that a i free coina coinage e bill will soon be reported to the house fron from t the coinage committee of which mr bland is chai chairman but there is much doubt of its being passed well the long wait is over A democratic public printer is to succeed mr frank 11 W palmer tile tho republican who has heli held tile the office since since may 1889 the lucky nian man is is mr thomas I 1 E benedict of now new york who held the office from sept 1886 until palmers halmers Pal mers appointment while there is of course some personal disappointment among democrats who were close friends of other candidates for the appointment there is general democratic rejoicing that the position which controls the appointment of nearly three thousand employees plo all outside of tile the classi classified fled service is to be filled by a demorat but as proven by liis his record anen in control of the office he be is a good public printer there will nill probably not be one sin single 0 gle objection raised in the senate to the bonfi confirmation rm of his nomination secretary carlisle has become FO accustomed to being lied about and misrepresented misrepresent eI in republican newspapers that lie devould hev rould not know what to inake of any opportunity for the manufacture of f a fresh batch of stories being lost by the writers for these papers lie ile knew before lie he went over to new york for a day dav or two of change and recreation that his visit would be 1 nade made tile the basis for a lot of more or 1 less ess ridiculous stories and he was not disappointed by the insult capitol |
