Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE RUSH FOR THE SPEAKERSHIP
OF THE NEXT HOUSE.
Hiscock and Kasson Believed to Have
the Strongest Backing-Our Own Dun
nell Entirely Ignored-Cheap and Shah
by Entertainment of Our French and
German Guests-Mahone Denies Any
Intention of Fighting Duel with Jubal
Early.
THE sPEAKERsHIp.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-During the last
few days Congressman Frank Hiscock, OF
New York, and J.. Warren Keefer, OF Ohio
who are candidates for the Republican nomi-
nation of speaker of the house at the next ses-
sion, have been in town. They held long
conference with their friends in the senate and
with the handful of representatives IN town.
They are expected to return by the lst OF NO
vember, when other candidates for the noml-
nation will be here. Kasson, of Iowa, Keefer,
of Ohio and Hiscock, of New York, are I'M
derstood to be the leading candidates. Page,
of California, would be willing TO
serve as a representative of the Pa
cific slope, BelfOrd as representative
of Colorado and its neighboring sister, Rob.
inson of Massachusetts, as representative OF
New England, and Haskill of Kansas, and
Burrows of Michigan, on general principles
working quietly elsewhere all summer, and
both claim already majority of the canvass.
Neither will receive the votes OF all the repre-
sentatives of his section. Their positions on
the tariff Will do much, however, to array the
West against the East.
THE NATIONS GUESTS.
Minister Outrey and Scholzer, our French
and German guests respectively, have accept
ed the invitation of the authorities of Boston
to visit that city after they leave Newport on
the way home. They expressed in doing SO
their great qualification at the prospect OF
visiting Farnell Hall, Washington's head
quarters at Cambridge, and the other hlstori-
cal spots around Boston. Since leaving New
York they have seen very little calculated to
impress them, either with the ability or the
inclination of Americans to give respectable
reception to their European guests.
The Oriole celebration in Baltimore narrowly
escaped being fizzle. The ceremonies III
Washington on Friday and Saturday were,
with the exception of the drives on the beau
tiful roads out of town, series OF acts in a
farce. Of course the strangers have said
again and again that they were "charmed,"
stdelighted, )" s'trebly pleased" The polished
Frenchmen and Germans could say little less,
but apy one who saw them received at the
railroad station here by the municipal COM
mittee, again at the capital in the cold, damp
rotunda by the president, and again by the
senate in their disordered chamber, and mark
ed the ennui on their faces, knew what they
exactly thought. The only entertainment the
committee could find for them yesterday was
visit to the alleged agricultural fair just out
side the city, which could be duplicated in the
poorest county in New York. At night an
attempt was made to light Pennsylvaia avenue
with electricity. One lamp only could
be induced to burn, even Tor lew minutes,
and gentlemen fresh from the exposition OF
electricity at Paris, had the pleasure of wit
Messing another tiasco.
MAHoNE'S ARREST.
Senator Malone assumes to-day, as he did a
few hours before his arrest, that he had never
entertained the idea of leaving the district to
fight duel with Early. He had advised his
Readjuster friends in Virginia not to allow
themselves to bo turned aside in campaign
work by personal attacks, though it was not
necessary to forget them. He
felt that there was no more necessity
for him to note Early's attack than hundreds
of others made upon him since the canvass be-
gun In fact there was even less necessity.
Early had had many personal difficulties, but
had fought no duel, and the attempt to force
quarrel upon the readjuster leaders, he thought,
arose from consciousness of an approaching
Funder defeat at the polls.