St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-31
The House Reorganization.

Special 10 UQ6 UlODe-
WASHINGTON, Oct 30.-The ra ther
curious feature of the present season is the
lack of gossip regarding the reorganization
Of the house of representatives. Usually
at this distance from the date of reorgan-
ization there is a great hubbub over the
matter and a score of men are scrambling
for the places. This time, however, you
hardly hear the matter talked of, and when
it is there is general acquiesence in the
belief that nearly or quite all the old officers
will succeed themselves. Let us run over
the list; Speaker Carlisle will probably have
no opposition for the place. This is so well
understood that Mr. Carlisle, who is
really very modest man recently went so
far as to say in letter since published,
that as he was to be speaker Of the next
house, he was not formulating any plans
regarding his own course on the silver ques-
tion. Nobody seems to have any doubt
about the selection of Mr.. Carlisle for the
place. AS to the clerkship. Gen. Clarke,
the present clerk, will probably be re-
elected. If there are any other candidates
for the place they have not developed. He
is pretty good worker and has been here
some time and manages to catch every
Democratic congressman who comes to
town and make his calling and election
sure. Clarke is fellow Of a good deal of
nerve. He
WAS DIVORCED FROM HIS WIFE
some four or five years ago under very pain
full circumstances. He had cousin in con-
gress also of the name of Clarke, and one
day shortly after divorce proceedings had
ended, Gen. Clarke, the present clerk, got
into car, as was his custom, to go to the
capitol to attend the session of the court
Among the passengers was rather talka-
tive old gentleman, a member of congress
from one of the Eastern states. He shook
Gen. Clarke warmly by the hand, and re-
marked in a cheerful way: 81 see
that your cousin has been having
some bad family troubles; been
getting divorce from his wife"
"Oh," said the general. without moving
muscle of his face, although he knew he
was the target for every eye in the car.
"Yes,' resumed the old man in his cheer
full way, ''seems to be pretty bad case. l
was very sorry to hear it, too. Beautiful
woman, very smart" and he ratified away
with string of comments which might
have been appropriate if relating to case
with which the general was entirely discon-
nected, but especially painful since it was
the divorced man into whom he was firing
all this. Everybody in the car who knew
the circumstances got hot and uncomforta-
BILE, but the general was apparently
AS COOL AS A MAY MORNING,
and the old man was allowed to relate on
until he had exhausted the subject when he
switched off ON to some other topic and
Clarke escaped. For sergeant-at-a it
appears that MI. Leedom is pretty sure of
reelection. He is said to have the written
pledge of 107 members and as there are
few antagonists he will probably pull
through without much difficulty The
chief opposition to Leedom is from Ben Le-
fevre and some other Ohio people. Ben
tried large scheme, endeavoring to get
candidate from every Ohio Democratic dis
trict in Ohio. believing that if he could di-
vide up the Ohio delegation he would be
able to throw Leedom off the track. He is
down on Leedom because he failed to ap-
point Ben's brother deputy sergeant-at-
arms, giving the place to Ike Hill instead.
Leedom is not likely to have as hard race
as he had two years ago. Then John G.