Show THE SHIP first gun in the contest fired the slight to speaker crisp intentional As the reform club Is said to be controlled by I 1 and the plan Is to dictate the of tho the fifty third congress Cont tross from the outside this Is quite amusing to burke cockran NEW YORK c dec 1 12 2 in connection with tho tile failure of toas ti naster ellery anderson at the R deform club dinner on saturday night to call on speaker crisp for a speech eee 11 I 1 it might be added that anderson charles fairchild and Mo Farland of the club knew in ili advance that crisp expected to be called upon and had a speech prepared anderson landerson was so informed by an associated press representative senta tive he ile expressed gome some surprise but said ho lie was very glad to hear it for crisp waa was sure tomake to make an interesting speech mcfarland who had bad the distribution of the tickets in charge was seen at the office of the reform club on saturday before noon and was told by an associated press reporter that t typewritten type written copies of crisps speech hada had already ready ge been sent out to the papers he ile remarked that he ile su supposed crisp would take the place on oil tho tile pro gramme of ilor rigon who was unable tobe to be present shortly afterward fairchild was seen by a reporter and told that crisps speech had been received by the tile associated press AVAS washington dec 12 the farst gun in the tile contest of the fifty third congress on g ea has been fired by the reform club I 1 u b of f N new ew york and the battle is now on while the reform club was doubtless in entire apo ignorance rance in advance of the philippic philipp ic which hie tom tin 0 johnson of ohio pronounced against the speaker and chairman 16 inger bof the ways a and n d means committee the disposition of congre congressmen s amen is to consider johnsons utterances and the tile discourtesy offered speaker C by his hosts as only part of a plan which has its origin out of congress and which is an attempt of tho tile club to dictate the tile of the fifty third congress Con press for the first time din there was a desire expressed for a list of f the membership of the Ite reform forin clu band cockran Coe kran and others who succeeded in examining such a list assert that at fit all times the and it ite c publicans public ans are able to control the destinies and policies of alie club and that therefore it is not much of a democratic club after all till there is a general expression expresion ion in congressional Fress ional circles that cleveland and crisp have havea a thorough understanding as to the tariff reform course to bo in tho fifty third congress and the president resident elect I 1 is in entire ignorance of th the g intended tended slight to bo be placed upon speaker calp speaker crisps speech h had ad it been delivered saturday night would have shown that while in the present congress with a ite republican publican senate he lie favored the tentative pla plan I 1 of separate bills his opinion of the tile course to be pursued after next march when the tile democrats control not only both branches of congress but the tile pre presidency as well is that the tariff should be revised by a general e bill As the morning papers today confirmed th alio e previous reports of the slight imposed upon speaker sneaker crisp and strengthened the impression that it was intentional and designed for popular effect throughout the country the house itself itsel took early and effectual means to resent the indignity which had been offered its presiding officer and as the speaker entered to ra rap p the tile house to order there waa was a denion demonstration st aaion amounting to an ovation when silence was finally restored and alter niter the chaplains prayer mon members ibers mounted the rostrum and anti grasping tho the speaker by the tile I 1 hand and congratulated him upon the esteem i in n which he was evidently held by the house it is doubt doubtless leas a matter of great 9 gratification to speaker crisp that among rl those ose who most emphatically con condemn denin tile iab inhospitality 0 of the lle reform forni club are many members rs who were not even hia his supporters in the lat last congress Con groes to bourke cockran cocktail of new york the incident ci is the subject of much merriment 1 I told you all about these people said he be when wo we took up the management of the tile zt iii it in new ork cork we to give them then a kinf single le appointment or chance to speak they would have ruined everything yet now when everything is over and we have won the battle these six hundred s come forward forwar tl and want to read six hundred adred thousand regular democrats out of the tile party |