The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-30
HAS A MIND OF HIS OWN.
CLEVELAND WON'T BE RULED BY
CONFERENCES.

He Will Look Upon Their Suggestions
as Advisory and Will Then Do as De
Thinks Best-Everybody Trying to
Gain Information From Speaker
Crisp.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-Speaker Crisp
was sought after to-day by politicians and
newspaper men. who were eager to learn
what he had found out in New York and
especially during his long luncheon with
ex"Secretary Whitney yesterday. as to the
prospects respecting an extra session, cabi.
net appointments and tariff and silver legis-
lation.
Speaker Crisp is a diplomatist who knows
how to converse huently without telling
anything he doesn't want to tell. and most
Of his callers we're no wiser when they went
away than when they came. To his conf
dants the speaker is understood to have said
that the chief impression made on
his mind in New York was that President
Cleveland had reached no conclusions and
would defer his decisions as long as possible,
especially as to calling an extra session. It
Is understood that the speaker, like every
recent visitor to New York, got the idea
that President Cleveland will be at once
more independent and more conservative in
bis second than in his first administration.
Il is evident that his action in any given
matter will not be determined by CONFER
ences" held either in Washington or New.
York.
CLEvKLAND'S INDEPENDENCE.
"Conferencesn between prominent demo-
Gratis Of all sections Of the party will doubt
less continue to be held here and in New
York, the leaders comforting on behalf Of
their respective followings, with ex-
Secretary Whitney, vino is recognized as
the common friend for all and the mediator
OF all party differences. But none Of them
will have anything more than a merely
advisory character in Mr.. Cleveland's eye.
When he has heard all that the extra
session and the anti extra session men, the
advocates of all extreme tariff or silver
policy and the advocates of an extreme or
conservative financial policy have to say,
he will proceed to do what he thinks best
and until he makes up his mind
1t is recognized by all the democrats here
that 1t is idle to predict what he will do.
There is this to be said, however. on the
extra session question, that there are evi-
dences in what is said on both sides of a
possible willingness to compromise on the
proposition first suggested in these dis
patches to call an extra session to meet next
spring, assuming that, as now seems settled,
the democrats will control the Senate as
we'll as the House, organize the two
houses, appoint the committees, or at
least the important ones; authorize
the preparation cf g tariff bill
by the ways and means committee to be re-
ported on the reassemblipg of congress and
then adjourn until Oct. l, by which time
the tariff bill could be perfected, as could
any other legislation deemed necessary.
Opinions differ as TO whether anything else
whatever should be done at the spring meet-
ing, but that could be left for determination
by the democratic caucus, under the advics
of the democratic administration. The idea
of appointing a new tariff commission to
begin an investigation of the question
which is now better understood then any
other In politics, never met with favor, and
even a commission charged with the prepa-
ration of tariff bill would lack the au-
thority and influence pertaining to the reg
ular ways and means committee.