The Helena independent., 1892-12-27
Speaker Crisp Said to Have Become
a Jealous Partisan Of the
President
Will Have q Conference Soon and
Arrive at a Satisfactory
Understanding.
Gossip Concerning tho Next
Cabinet-Phsips, CarIisle, Morrison,
Tucker, Hatch. and Others.


that Speaker Crisp has entered into neRo-
tiations to have al interview with the prssi-
dent-elsot during the next week or ten
days. The result of that interview will be
suggestive. 1t 10 understood that Crisp ID
ready to surrender and promise to do any
thing and everything that the president
elect may desire, providing Mr.. Cleveland
will consent to his re-election az speaker.
Crisp's surrender IL complete. Whether
Mr.. Cleveland will accept his surrender is
another question. 1t Is understood that at
a conference between the speaker and Don
NJ. Dickinson the speaker requested Mr..
Dickinson to arrange for an interview be-
tween him and Mr.. Cleveland during the
holiday recess OF congress.
SO it may be presumed that Mr.. Cleve-
land and Mr.. Crisp will confer within few
days, and after that meeting there will be
moro light on the situation. especially on
the speakerahp situation. Everybody, Of
course, who understands Mr.. Crisp we'll
here, has no hesitation in asserting that
Mr.. Crisp will promise to do anything that
Mr.. Cleveland wants. He will promise az
freely as he promised chnirmanshipa during
the last speakershlp contest. He will try
to mako peace with Mr.. Cleveland and try
to induce the president-elect to believe that
! at president he ia one OF the best Cleveland d
men in the United States, and that the
speaker of the house will be straightout
administration man.
In the meantim before going on this pill
| grimage to the presdent-elect, Mr.. Crisp
/ caused to have published in his chief organ,
the Washington Evening Star, a statement
1 &C.. has Sri 1aad afr
ceiving the democratic nomination for the
speakership of the next house of rspresen-
| tatives. All OF the Washington papers are
| for Crisp's denomination. This thing itself
| is rather suggestive. The Washington pa
pers are never in favor of anybody that the
| lobby ia opposed to. just now. however,
MIR. Crisp is claiming everything, but 1t will
| be very advisable, at least for the present,
| for democratic mem bers- elect of the Fifty
third congress to refrain from making
pledges BY accepting this advice they
may be relieved from good deal of embar-
rassment later on. and IL cannot hurt them
much anyhow to keep their minds to them
selves.
Gossip regarding the cabinet is still inter-
| esting. The statement made in these dis
patches that the president-elect had prao-
tically agreed upon four members of his Of
ticiai family is very generally believed here,
| especially on those who there is reason to
believe enjoy Mr.. Cleveland's confidence.
| General comment among republicans and
| democrats alike is that If Cleveland finishes
up mis- cabinet as he has begun ii, it will be
the strongest body of men that ever q
president Of the United States surrounded
| himself with. There is some reason to be-
| lieve that an actual tender of portfolio
| has only been made to one man up to date,
| and that is to Mr.. Carlisle, and there il
also good reason to believe that the presi-
dent elect and Mr.. Carlisle have discussed
other members of the cabinet, and that Mr.
Cleveland has made up his mind to tender
portfolios to four gentlemen: Mr.. Phelps
of Vermont, for the state department,
| Carlisle for the treasury, Morrison for the
interior, and Tucker for the attorney gen
eralship.
The stating of Col. William II. Morrison
for secretary of the interior, which is gen
eraly regarded as ii straight tip, is consid-
cred here as giving Col. Hatch boost in
his ambition to become secretary of agri-
/ culture. The secl etary of the navy and the
! secretary of state are pretty certain to be
taken from the states east OF the Alleghe-
/ MES. 1t is regat ded as pretty certain that
the sec,etaryship of war and the postmas.
ter generalship will be divided between the
central west and the northwest, which have
shown such strong symptoms OF becoming
permanently democl attic. This would leave
the place as secretary of agriculture as the
only one that could be awarded to Mis-
souri,, and tor that position it is believed
that Col. Hatch would have strong support
not only from the farmers of his own state
but from the agriculturists of all parts o!
the union. II there is any credit attached
to it, Col. Hatch is entitled to the credit o1
being the father of the depai tnent of agri
culture, as it was mainly due to his work al
chairman of the house committee on agri-
culture in several congresses that the bu-
reau of agriculture was raised to a depatt
ment and entitled to Il representative in thu
cabinet