Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-01-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
lspEc1AL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR
Washington, Jan. 2, 1892.

mild hammered sort of a man, but his
ire can be aroused; in fact it has beer
aroused and he is now as angry fell
low as any one would care to see. He
has been "skunked'' in the game Of
politics. and he believes that e'colo
deck" was used against him. Springer
is ambitious-those who do not adj
mire him say far beyond his abilities.
Be that as it may, everybody in Con-
gress knows that Springer is ambi-
tious. 1t will not be forgotten that he
was a candidate before the democrat
ic caucus of the present House for
Speaker, and that at an opportune
moment he threw the few votes he
controlled to Crisp, and the result was
Crisp's nomination and election. An
other result that Crisp was SO CRATE
full that he made Springer chairman
of what is always, when in competent
hands, the most prominent as we'll as
important committee of the House
Ways and Means = Notwithstanding
earnest protest against such action
from democrats who had years ago
sized up Springer's brain power.
AS chairman of the Ways and
Means committee Mr. Springer has
not only made failure, but he has
made himself the laughing stock of a
majority of his own party in Congress
by his ''pop- gun" tariff bills, which
were reported from his committee
n I>x- f1,n of fhn loo
session. But that was not plain to
him, for he recently announced him
self as favoring the Cleveland tariff
whatever that may be
and was instrumental in securing
pledges from democratic members of
the next House to vote for the re-
election of Speaker Crisp, which he
fondly hoped would give him dead
pipe clinch' on the Craftsmanship of
the Ways and Means committee of
the next House, position which
promises to give it's holder much no
toriety, if not actual fame, during the
life of the Fifty third Congress.
When Speaker Crisp returned from /
that much talked of conference with .
the President elect, with the Cleve- /
land trade mark stamped all over
him, things began to get SO slippery
under Mr.. Springer's feet that he .
wondered why some inventive genius
had never put political ice creepers
on the market, and even while he was
wildly waving his arms in an attempt
to keep his balance both feet went
out from under him, and he saw it
written among the stars that his scalp
had been demanded by Mr.. Cleveland
and promised by Mr.. Crisp, and then
ne fully realized that the tariff bill to
De repared-perhaps ''approved" is
ihe proper word; it certainly will be
f it turns out to be true, as now re-
ported, that Mr.. Cleveland will have
hat measure prepared under his per-
onal supervision, by the Ways and
Means committee of the next House
will not bear the name of Springer.
Misfortunes never come singly.
While Springer was medi tating on the
of his fall and the vanity
If ambition he was informed that the
nan he hates above all others, Hon.W.
{. Morrison, had been endorsed by
he entire Illinois delegation, himself
for seat in Mr.. Cleveland's
abinet. Now you know why Spring
r is the maddest man in Congress.
lie still wears a buttonhole bouquet,
ut the expansive smile which was
the most prominent feat
re of his face has vanished, perhaps
brewer, and he has the look of man
Tho is working his nerves up to the
oint of doing something desperate.
Senator Allison returned to Wash
1gton to-day. Needless to say that
e was warmly welcomed by his Sen I
torial colleagues and his friends, ]
9th in and out of public life. He ]
allied on the president at once and i
hey had an hours talk about the de- |
berations of the International none I
Try conference, to which Senator AL t
son was a delegate. The Senator Y
grees with Secretary Foster in be- 6
ewing that the conference, has ac- r
some good although fail 7
lg of any practical results. He de- q
ines to express an opinion as to b
neither any sort of agreement will S
e reached by the commission when a
reconvenes next May. t
New Years day has usually been L
he most brilliant of the year in Wash S
lgton, but this year is an exception. G
he first day of the year falling on Y
unday, to-day is observed as the c
oliday, but the gorgeous reception E
the White House, with all the dip v