Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-15

but ia intellectually, mastery OF par
liamentary law and invsriable model
bearing In the chair Carlisle Is without
a peer in the history of our country.
But for the majority which the Re.
publicans obtained in the Fifty-First
Congress probably Mr.. Carlisle wonld
have been speaker TO this day. That
freak 10 the domination of his party In
the House prompted mis- friends in Ken
lucky to send him TO the Senate. Had
he remained In the House he would
have been elected Speaker year ago
without opposition, aud II he had con-
tinued member Of the House for a
quarter of a century believe the DEM
ocrats would have chosen him for their
presiding officer every time they found
themselves in control OF the body.
With Carlisle and Morrison gone.
Mills was left alone at the beginning OF
the present Congress. He aimed for
the speakershIp and had the powerful
support Of his old allies Both Carlisle
and Morrison spent days and nights en-
deavoring, fruitlessiy, to boost their
friend into the chair. Their hope was
TO obtain control OF the House and
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third Of their framing; but they failed,
and Mills shortly afterward followed
Carlisle to the Senate, where 10 doubt
Texas will keep him as long as he cares
to stay. Colonel Morrison has made
several efforts to get into the Senate.
and we need not be surprised II these
| friends vet meet In their declining years
as fellow members of the upper House:
All three OF these men have exercised
peculiar sort Of fascination over their
! followers. Not one is what might be
called genial or even companionable
man. Yet young members OF Congress.
rising statesmen everywhere, have rail-
] lied around them in great numbers
Their strength has been in their earn
estness, their singleuo's of purpose,
their devotion to one great cause.
Whether we agree with them or not, we
must admire them. The resolve which
they together formed, the tripartite al
lance 20 which they gave their hands
fifteen years ago, was TO revise and re-
duce the customs tariff along the lines
dictated by their principles.
Never for one moment have they
abandoned their purpose. Defeats, de-
lays, appointments they have en-
dured in great number, but now at last
they think they see fair chance of sue
cess. The greatest legislative measure
in America during the next four years
is to be new Democratic tariff oill-an
economic revolution. The three men
who are TO frame it, or at least TO die
tate the principles to be followed In its
construction, are the trio of friends
who set out with thai very object in
view fifteen years ago-Carlisle, Mills
and Morrison.
Mr.. Carlisle is surely to be Secretary
OF the Treasury; Mr.. Morrison may be
Secretary of the Interior; Mr.. Mills
will be in the Senate. The understand
ing of the matter which politicians in
Washington haYeis that President-elect
Cleveland wants tariff bill framed by
his cabinet during the coming summer
ready for presentation to Congress In
the fall, and that this explains his de-
sire 10 have Mr.. Carlisle and perhaps
Mr.. Mills in his cabinet.
Carlisle, Mills and Morrison are all of
Kentucky stock. Ali three are plain,
simple men, approachable, unaffected,
admirable in public and private life.
All are poor so far as property and
money go-too poor, fear, to easily