The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-10
MILLS AND CRISP.
The Speaker Writes a Letter
Which Causes Comment.
lie Takes His Defeat with POOr Grace
Republicans Trying to Make Much of it
Mills May be Il Senatorial Candidate.

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch
New YORK, Jan. S.-The E-orld'S special
from Washington says: The following
letter from Mr. Mills to D. w. Phillips, an
alderman of Austin, Texas, has appeared
in print here:
WhsHINGToN, Dee. II, 1891.
MY dear MIR. Phillips
THANK your for your ispatch of the 10th
inst. 1t is very gratifying to me TO know
that my friends in Texas sympathiza with
me- The blow to me is less severe than
it is to the Democratic party. The authors
of my defeat must be
REBUKED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
or large element that has been voting
with US will abandon US in the coming
struggle. The defeat of one man is nothing,
but the defeat of a great cause is every
thing. (Signed) r. @. MILLS"
Many Of the Democratic members of the
House have read this letter with deep re-
greet. 1t contains expressions which they
think cannot be justified by dispassionate
reading of the facts, 1t is calculated on its
face, therefore, not only to
in the House, but to keep alive and entirely
out of season the excited feelings engen-
dered by the speakership contest. The date
! of the letter affords some excuse for it's
unfortunate and Incorporate tone. MIR.
| Mills was at the time still acutely feeling
the sting of defeat, and moreover was in
the tolls of neuralgia and the grip. He
| wrote at great disadvantage, but all the
same the Republicans are asserting that
the tenor contains
DISTINCT DECLARATION OF WAR,
and that the session will not be a month
older before Mr.. Mills will be in open re
volt in the House against the speaker and
| his premier and laying down the law in re-
gard to the tariff, with his friends behind
him. The friends of Mr.. Mills repudiate
the Republican Interpretation of the letter,
They declare that a month has elapsed
since the letter was written and has
brought q SOLDERING and enlightening infiu-
ence with it, and that neither Mr. Mills
nor any man would feel justified now in
any policy that would ald and comfort the
enemy. Mr.. Mills, they declare, will re
turn from his home refreshed and strength
ened in his Democracy and disposed to
ACT IN CONCERT WITH THE MAJORITY
for the benefit of his party. They add that
| /.
but no revolt has been proposed or consid-
cred, nor will any such action be taken
Some Of them point to the fact that at last
| there is not so wide q difference between
the Crisp policy and what by confession
the Mills policy would have been. Had Mr..
| Mills been elected speaker, Mr.. Bynum, of
Indiana, would have been chairman of the
ways and means committee, and Mr.. BY.
nun had declared
AGAINST A SWEEPING TARIFF BILL
at this session Judge Crisp was elected
and MIR. Springer is chairman of the ways
and means committee, and he de
| clares against sweeping tariff
bill and outlines measure which
differs in only the slightest degree
from that proposed by Mills. Where is
there to be room for division in the ranks
of the majority which certain alarmists.
particularly the Republicans, are predict
ing! The speaker and MIR. Mills will make
their temperance in the House at about
the same time. They have not met since
the speaker contest was decided They
will probably be in consultation when both
are aOle TO go to work again, and growing
cut of such a meeting will probably be
much of great interest to the party al
large.
THE FEELING IN DEMOCRATIC CIRCLES
here is that the two men have only to know
each other better to insure an excellent
understanding between them. AS matter
of fact considering that they have served
together through four Congresses, they
have seldom met. Mr. Mills was occupied
always with the tariff, and Judge Girls,
with the legal aspects of contested election
cases, and in that way they were never
thrown together.