Nevada County picayune., 1891-10-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our special correspondent. WAsHINGToS, D. C., Oct. l6, '9l

Representative Mills and Crisp, the two candidates for the Speaker ship of the House, who are by gen eral acknowledgement the leaders Tn the race, and one of whom will, bar ring unexpected developments, be gwen the coveted honor of presid- ing over the next House of Repre- sentatiyes while the other will lead the party on the floor, both happen ed to be III town at the same time this week, and everybody was on the lookout for news of their Speaker ship prospects, but both of the gen. tlemen are apparently more interest ed in the several State campaigns now going on than in their own. The Speakership campaign will really not begin in earnest until after the State elections, because no considerable number of Representatives will be in Washington until then.
 The Italian Chamber of Commerce of New York City has for long time, in fact ever since the passage by Congress of the meat inspection act, been at work trying to convince the Italian government of the wis dom of removing the restrictions which it had, in common with other continental nations of Europe, placed upon the importation of American pork. This week NJ. l.. Contencln, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, came to Washington to announce that the effort had been successful, and that the Italian gov ernment would shortly repeal the re- strictions. Straight away there was concerted yell from the adminlstra- ton crowd about "the great diplo- matic triumph achieved by the ad- mnstration through Minister Porter. Diplomatic fiddlesticks. There are, strictly speaking, no diplomatic re- lations between ltal y and this coun- try. Italy has had no minister here since the New Orleans incident. Whatever triumph" there is about this pork business is entirely con- mercial, and belongs to the organi- zatiOn of Italian merchants in New York City, and not to the admins tratiOn.
 Mir. Harrison has succeeded in corralling Fred Douglass, who since he was kicked out of the Haytian mission, has shown a disposition tC use whatever influence he possesses with the negro voters of the country against MT. Harrison. Not only has Mir. Harrison got llat-footed pub lie avowal of support from Douglass, but he is also supposed to have been at the bottom of the slur which Doulgass made in speech here this week upon Secretary Blaine and his management of the unfortunate Mole St. Nicholas matter. Douglas claims to have documents in his pos session that would if published, show the Department of State in very different light from that which It IS now viewed. Mir. Harrison may be the warm friend of Secretary Blaine that he professes to be, but it is nev- ertheless q fact that MT. Harrison $ friends invariably when saying in public something nice about him add something either directly or by im- plIcation derogatory to MT. Blaine.
 Representative Mills, who made nineteen speeches in Ohio, is now resting in this city preparatory to taking part in the campaign in Mas sachusetts. where he is under en- gagemcnt to make six or eight speeches. MT, Mills reports Gov. Campbcll's prospect of growing bet ter every day. Speaking of his speeches on the free coinage of sill yer, Mir. Mills said II am convinced that the best interests of the party demand that tariff reform shall be made the principal issue in the pres ent fight, and as nothing practical can be accomplished in the way of silver legislation during the next Congress, there is no use to agitate the subject now"
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