Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-01-06

Isle Declines to hold the 'sSack''-
Don Dickinson will probably ac-
cept the Portfolio of State-Pen.
sions must 60 outside of Politics
Together"
Speaker Crisp's visit to President
elect Cleveland, on a special invitation
from the latter, has been the most
absorbing topic of conversation in
political circles this week. The visit
of the Speaker of the Democratic
House-the highest position now held
by q Democratic the Democratic
President-elect was, of course, natu-
rally an event of great interest TO
Democrats, but the efforts of the busy
bodies who have ever since the election
been striving to create the impression
that these two eminent Democrats
were antagonistic towards each other
has made it OF interest to everybody,
except the aforesaid busy-bodies who
expressed doubts about the two men
holding a conference until it had
actually been held. That was natu-
raj, too, for that conference topped
over all of the carefully constructed
stories of enmity between the Speaker
and the President-elect which had
been so widely circulated during the
last six or eight weeks. Those who
profess to see something strange in
the invitation and visit forget that for
nearly two years past Speaker Crisp
has been the official leader of the DEM
ocratic party. The strange thing
would have been for Mr.. Cleveland,
the leader elect, to have neglected to
get the views OF the party's present Of
fetal leader.
Senator Carlisle's experience with
the New York reporters this week
caused him to "swear off" on being
interviewed. He says he was ap-
preached by some twenty odd reporters
and to each of them he gave the same
answer-that he had nothing to say
to the public; yet every one OF them
wrote up interviews with him, making
HIM say things he had never dreamed
of. He says, further, that any future
publication purporting to be his opin-
ion which does not have his signature
attached will be bogus. Mr.. Carlisle's
friends say that for private reasons he
has declined the Secretaryship of the
Treasury, which Mr.. Cleveland ten.
dered to him.
A rumor is current here that Mr..
Cleveland has succeeded in persuad-
ing Hon. Don Nj. Dickinson to be his
Secretary of State. This, as the late
Artemus Ward would have said, is i'm
portant if true. Mr.. Dickinson told
his friends when he was here the other
day that he would not be a member OF
the cabinet.
A Senator who saw and talked with
Mr.. Cleveland this week says that one
of the first things he proposes to do
after becoming President is to put a
man at the head of the Pension Blu
reau who will take the work of that
Office entirely out of politics and run
it on strictly business principles.
Speaker Crisp has some very de-
cided ideas on the immigration ques-
ton, and they do not agree with those
most popular just now. He thinks it
will be mistake to suspend all i'm
migration, but favors the enactment
of laws that will shut out and keep
out the undesirable immigrant, while
welcoming those made OF the stuff to
make good citizens. He fears, how
ever, that the cholera scare and other
influences will be too much for Con.
gress, and that some very radical leg
islatien may be railroaded through.
The Inauguration committee has
opened headquarters, and, notwith-
standing some friction among citizens
concerning the membership of the
committee, everything is now moving
harmoniously towards the grandest
Inauguration the country has ever
had.
Representative Geary of California,
although a young man, has already
gained a reputation for level-headed
ness far beyond that of many OF his
older colleagues, and his terse sum-
ming up of what the party needs will
add to that reputation. He says
"What the Democratic party needs
most is to get together We don't
want any rows, or chaues or sets of
men who wish to tear down present
organization and set up another of
their own. 1t is only by getting to-
gether' that the Fifty-third Congress
will be able to accomplish the mission
of tariff revision which the people at
the polls directed it to perform"
If Senator Gray. of Delaware, be-
comes Mr.. Cleveland's Attorney Gen.
eral, as many Democrats now think,
it is expected that ex Secretary Bayard
will again become q member of the
Senate.
Mr.. Harrison has called upon all
the executive departments of the
Government for information as to I'M
just discrimination against citizens or
railroads of the United States by the
Canadian Pacific Railroad. This is
believed here to mean that he intends
to send a special message to Congress
recommending retaliatory legislation.
The subcommittee of the House
immigration Committee having the
matter in charge has agreed upon q
national quarantine bill, and will re-
port it to the full committee next week.
Dem.