The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-08
Why HE VOTED FOR CRISP.

Some Inside Facts that Do Not Rebound to
the Credit of an Indiana Congressman.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Representative
Mcclellan. of the Fort Wayne district, is
being roasted and basted by the Democrats
of Indiana. now in this city. on account of
his conduct during the speakership cam
paign. 1t was expected that MIR. Shivley,
in casting his vote for tho speakership,
would make sure of q committee position.
having served some years in the House,
but there was surprise when Mr.. Mcclellan
withdrew from the delegation at the last
moment and voted for Crisp. After the
smoke of the battle had blown away and it
was whispered around that the member
from the Twelfth district had made sure of
the craftsmanship of minor committee,
his colleagues nodded their beads and
winked their left optics significantly and
intimated very broadly that every thing
was perfectly clear to them.
A Democrat from Indiana who is well
known throughout the State and formerly
lived in Mr.. McCleIlan's district. and who
was here working In behalf of Mr.. Mills
during the latter part of the speakershlp
campaign. and who is thoroughly familiar
with northern Indiana politics. says of Mr..
McClellan's action: 1.-The fact is Mt. Mo-
C.ellan practically sold ont to the Crisp
camp for the Craftsmanship of the commit
tee on expenditures in the Navy Depart
ment. Soon after Mcclellan took his seat
In the last Congress he discovered that ne
could turn his pension correspondents
with his constituents to good account de
established his son the pension claim BUSH
ness at Washington and to him turned
over all letters relating to pensions, beside
using bis privilege as q member to call up
and expedite the claims which young Nc
Clellan represented. The committee on
expenditures in the Navy Department has
no business; no bills are ever referred to it,
and the committee never meets. 1t exists
simply to fix some member of the Nc
Cle)lan calibre and to provide him with q
clerk. Mcclellan wants this chairmanship
especially to place his son on the payroll
at 81 q day. Signing the pay
roll once month would not
interfere with young McClellan's pension
business During the balioting for Speaker.
Mcclellan made his wants known to the
managers OF the Mills men. He asked for
the very committee that Crisp gave HIM.
The Mills people would not promise him
anything. hence he sold out TO Crisp. You
buying Judgments and accounts from his
clients and shaving notes. and he lost
his own county tDekalbl by two hundred.
whereas Cleveland carried it by three
hundred. The clerk of this committee
like all session clerks. must be provided
for by resolution. and several of the Mills
men from the Indiana delegation will fight
the resolution giving Mcclellan the clerk.
The MIlls-Crirp fight has extended to Indi-
ana, and there will be some knitting done
all along the line
II am not greatly surprised. when l
come to think of it. at the course of Nc
Clellan in the speakership contest" con-
tinued the well-kown Indiana Democrat,
''for he has not impressed himself upon his
party in his district. He has done nothing
so far TO emphasize his ability as q Con-
gresham. For instance. in the last Con-
gress tariff speech appeared in the Con-
gressional Record, as having been deliy-
cred by Mr.. Mcclellan. which astonlshed
the lawyers of the Twelfth district. aud,
i'm fact all those who knew Mr.. Mcclellan
personally. 1t was widely circulated. aud
the farmers of the district sat up late at
night and read it. 1t was one of those
'leave-to-print' speeches. Confdentially.
l might intimate that Logan Carlisle. son
of the ex-Speaker. and now Senator of the
same name. would not make oath that he
did not write that speech"