Arizona republican., 1892-02-04

one of the most remarkable men of the
times. was talking about this the
other day with representative O'Fer-
rail-, of Virginia, who succeeds Mr.. Crisp
rs chairman of the committee ON cleo
tons. For six years" said Mr.. OFFER
rail-, Judge Crisp and | have served
together ON that committee Ii is in
that committee room that we have thun-
der and lightning There we try many
lawsuits, in every one Of them the fire of
party passion heating things up TO
high temperature. In all tho hand to
hand fighting in that committee, in all
tho cross firing and personalities Incl
dent TO n desperate combat, never once
saw Mr. Crisp lose, even for an instant,
his self possession, never for n second
change his manner nor his words from
that even and polite tenor which is his
nature What is more, never knew
him to make a mistake. He is indeed
ono of the notable men of our times"
There is no more popular man in the
house of representatives than Mr.. Nc
Millin, of Tennessee, who was thought
by many at one moment to be almost
sure of receiving the speakership nomi-
nation as dark horse. The day on
which Speaker Crisp announced his com
mittees Mr.. McMillin was taking lunch
con with new member who had not
been given u very high place on the
committees, and who was in conse-
Quence much discouraged. Before you
conclude that you have been cruelty
treated" said Mr.. McMillin, "let me tell
you my experience. When | first came
TO congress my committee place was
worse than yours 1t gave me no OPP
portunity whatever. | sat up nights
| trying TO evolve some scheme by which
| could distinguish myself in the role
which the speaker had assigned me, but
couldn't do it. was reelected, and
when | came back to the house | natu-
rally expected to be promoted. But i
wasn't. II anything, my second com
mittee assignment was more discourage
ing than my first one. Finally Phil
Thompson, OF Kentucky - he and
We're in the same boat as to
committees-held a council of war.
Phil said |, L am dying of dry
rot. | must do something or perish.
Not for fifty years has any man repre-
sented my district more than two terms,
and unless | can stir something up I'll
not get back here. What can we doY
Nothing but raise hades, Mac replied
Thompson. Very well, said |, let's
go in and raise hades. That will be
preferable to sitting around doing moth
/ ing SO we made it up between us that
whenever we saw a chance to jump on
some fellows little public building or
other local bill or anything else that
looked as if it might be extrayagant or
foolish, we would sail in regardless Of
curses and kicks and have some fun.
| We enjoyed ourselves in this way for a
time, and finally we found a great op-
/ portunity. \ log rolling scheme was
devised by which 40 members who
wanted public buildings in their dis
/ tricts agreed to stand together and help
pass each others bills. 1t was strong
/ combination, and seemed invincible.
Carlisle told Thompson and me that we
| couldn't beat it. Holman told us it was
| too big for us to tackle. Everybody
said the same thing. But Thompson
and didn't care how big thing was
we were ont for fight and this was too
| good n chance to DO lost. told Phil to
prepare himself on ancient histOry-with
a set of 1870 census reports-whilo
| took up modern history rs found
! in the census Of 1880. The first day the
/ combination got to work, Thompson
| quoted ancient history on them to show
/ that the towns for which it was pro-
posed to make appropriation were mere
| villages in 1870, when followed with
modern history to show that they were
only small country towns in 1880. Tho
first day they passed three bills on u.s. The
next day they pushed two through. The
third day they called "A halt, for they
found that as fast as bills were passed
they lost the support of the men behind
those measures. All the fellows with
bills in their pockets became alarmed,
and the combination was bursted. Just
five bills out of the 40 passed, and Phil
/ Thompson and |, ont Of a simple de-
termination to stir something up to keep
ourselves from going to dry rot, saved
the government a great many millions
of dollars. Since then have not cared
what committee | was placed on, or
whether was on any committee at all.
There is some satisfaction in being free
lance"
The new member Of congress from the
west is one Of the characters of the cap
ital He wears striped trousers, old
fashioned black string neckties, a SLOUGH
hat and big boots. He is earnest and
studious and good deal of a man. One