The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-11-30
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4 Cosby Letter from the Capital
City.
Senator Mills in Washington Looking
After the Speakership.
OF WEST VIRGINIA, AHEAD
Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, Te-
clares Absolute Su~p nsion of I'm
migration the Thing.

clares Absolute Su~p nsion of I'm
migration the Thing.
WesHINGTON, Nov. 30 SPECIAL i
Fur will soon begin to fly in the contest
for the speakership Of the Fifty third
congress. 1t is not going to be re-
election of the present incumbent Il de.
fault, as has been until to-day generally
expected. One Roger Q. Mills, of Corsi
tor, has whetted his knife for twelve
months for the scalp of Charles Freder
ick Crisp, of Americus, Ga. 1t will be
recalled that when Crisp was made
Springer, of Illinois, by making him
chairman of ways and means, a position
which public opinion accorded TO Mr.
Mills. Speaker Crisp went further, and
offered Mills the chairmanship of com
merce, an inconsequential place, which
the vanquished aspirant for the speaker.
ship declined with thanks
Mills regarded the tender as a we'll
such a conclusion he was not ,Oversensi
tive. He has since said his day would
come, and Crisp would go to grass 1t is
well known that Speaker Crisp's plan for
reforming the tariff is not that of Mr..
Mills, nor is it that Of majority of the
democrats elected to the Fifty-thrd con
gress, and still more important it is not
the plan of the man who will go into the
| White House on the fourth Of March
acting upon the pretext that there must
be a speaker who is in accord with the
administration and his party upon the
important subject of revising the tariff.
Senator Mills has for two days in Wash
ingtOn been organizing raid upon Mr..
Crisp. He has been in consultation with
Mr.. Bynum, of Indiana, who is his most
active and determined lieutenant, and
shortly a conference of the old Mills
standard bearers will be held for the pur-
pose of agreeing upon real tariff re,
former for tue speakership who will be
pushed in opposition to Mr.. Crisp as
Crisp is a Hill man it is taken for granted
that Cleveland will advocate the election
of another man than Crisp to the speaker
ship The fight will be bitter and de-
termined, and it looks as though Mr.
Crisp would have very hard shedding dur
ing the next few months.
Mr.. Wilson, of West Virginia, who rep
resents the collegiate theories of free
! trade, has already been named to supplant
/ Springer as chairman of the ways and
means committee in the next house, but
1t now seems probable that Mr.. Wilson
will be selected as the Cleveland
| candidate for speaker. Mr.. Wilson would
! be the ideal candidate Of all the elements
! Of the democracy and of the larger ele-
ment of the mugwumps whom Mr.. Cleve-
land has pleased 10y his speeches at the
Manhatten club dinner in New York and
/ by his subsequent letter, warning Office
/ seekers not 10 bother him while he was
! shoe ing ducks.
/ Mr.. Wilson is the best representative of
! the so-called scholar in politics" that the
/ democratic party contains, and as the
! superstition Of superior intellectually
among the tinkerers Of the tariff is
! thought to be popular by the democratic
managers, the fact that Mr. Wilson has
actually declined within year a college
! presidency only adds to his availability
as candidate for the speakership. His
candidacy would mean the abandonment
! of the amendment of the tariff by de-
! taChed bills such as those passed by the
| last house under the Crisp Catchings
| policy and senate finance committee and
would substitute general free trade as
sault along the whole line, including not
only such raw materials as wool, but cut
ting down the duties on steel rails, cut
| lery and manufactured woOlens. and in
volving, in short, radical reduction of
the tariff schedule. 1t is in this idea that
the opposition to Speaker Crisp'S re elec-
ton will find its strength, and it only re-
main. for Mr. Cleveland TO abandon duck
shooting for politics to show how much
force the movement will have.
Some far-seeing Cleveland democrats
have proposed a plan by which they
hope to get their party in congress to-
gether on tariff bill II is to have the
! treasury officials as soon as they are in
/ stalled under the nev president begin
the framing of IAN ADMINISTRATION tariff
bill" the work To be under the general
direction of President Cleveland and the
/ leading democrats in congress When
congress comes together the measure Is
| TO be agreed upon in caucus, repo ted 10
the house through the CoG2migtee on
ways and means aud passed with "a lit
tie alteration as possible. They believe
this will be the only way in which the
party can be gotten together upon the
tariff and that ii will insure harmony
and speedy action.
Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire,