Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-18
ALONG TIE POrOMAC.
Some of the Men Who Would Like to he
the Next Speaker.

Some of the Men Who Would Like to Be
the Next Speaker.
Washington dispatch to Globe-Demo
crat: Now that the question OF an extra
session has been settled. the candidates
for the speakership and other Offices in the
next house may be expected to begin an
active canvass. While the cabinet has de.
cided against an extra session, the regular
session is less than three months away,
and the aspirants for Office may be ex.
pected to make the most OF that time.
Congressman Burroughs, OF Michigan, will
be here in a few days, and Major McKin.
ley, OF Ohio, is expected to return soon.
Messrs. Reed, Cannon and Henderson are
not expected until the latter part OF the
month, after the Presidents return to the
city. It is anticipated that all of these
i've candidates for Speaker will be here BY
the first OF October, with duly established
headquarters, all ready and anxious to
interview the incoming members OF Con-
gress. By that time the congressman
elect will begin drifting into the city, the
Administration will be once more wholly
in Washington, and the preliminaries to
the coming regular session OF Congress will
be in progress.
There are two candidates for clerk OF the
house already in the field, and a faint at
tempt has been made from Missouri to in.
troduce q third. The two announced are
both from Pennsylvania. They are Ed
ward Mcpherson, secretary of the Repub-
lican congressional committee, and Major
John M. Carson, the Washington CORE
spondent OF the Philadelphia Ledger. Mr..
MCPHERSON was formerly clerk of the house,
having preceded General John B. Clark, OF
Missouri, the present Democratic clerk.
The Pennsylvania Republican members
will probably determine in caucus to which
one OF these two candidates the state sup
port shall be given.
The situation is seriously threatened with
the candidacy OF Chauncey I. Filley. OF st.
Louis, and it is probable that other candi-
dates for clerk may turn up soon. Mr..
Filley is q candidate for postmaster OF St.
Louis, but if he can't get that he will enter
the race for c~lerkship. That's the way his
riends are figuring it out. 1t is understood
here that Congressman Veterinarians and
Frank, OF st. Louis, will support Filley for
clerk, but Mr.. Frank won't support him
for postmaster.
There are two leading candidates for
door-keeper. They are Charles Fl. Adams,
OF Maryland, and Captain Wheat, OF
Racine, Wis. Mr.. Adams publishes the
Hagerstown (Md.l News, and is backed by
Congressman McComas and other southern
Republicans, Mr.. Houk. OF Tennessee, is
for Adams, and he says the southern mem
bers will be solid for McComas' candidate.
Missouri is expected to stand by Adams.
Capt. Wheat's strength, 1t is explained,
lies in the northwest; but just what relation
his candidacy bears to that of Burroughs,
OF Michigan, for the speakership, is not
yet clearly defined.
The Ohio delegation has a candidate for
sergeant-at-arms, but they are keeping him
in the background until it is definitely
ascertained whether he will interfere with
McKinley's chances for the speakership.
No candidates have yet been announced
for chaplain OF the house, butit ia probable
that plenty OF them will be Forthcoming as
the season approaches. 1t is possible that
the candidates are concealing their aspira-
tions for the present, under the Impression
that the dignity Of the cloth might be low
cred by a too early scramble for Office.