The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-06
Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON ID. c., Dec. 81, 1892.
Speaker Crisp's visit to Presldent-elect
Cleveland, on IA 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 po-
Sition now held by "A Democratic the
Democratic PreSident-elect was, of course,
naturally 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 ii of interest to everybody, except
the aforesaid busv-bodieS who expressed
doubts about the two men holding IA con-
ference until IL had actually beel held.
That was natural, too, for that confer
| ence topped over all of the carefully con
strUH,ted 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 pro-
| fess to see something strange In the in
vitation and visit forget that for nearly
! two years past Speaker Crisp has been
the official leader of the Democratic par
ty The strange thing would have been
| for Mr. Cleveland, the leader elect, to
have neglected to get the views OF the
partv's present official leader.
Senator Carlisle's experience with the
New York reporters tins week caused
him to '.swear off, on being inter
viewed. He says he was approached 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 inter
views with him, making him say things
he had never dreamed of. He says,
further, that any future publication pur-
porting TO be his opinion which does not
have his signature attached will be bo-
gus Mr.. CarliSle'S friends say that for
private reasons he has declined the Sec
retaryship of the Treasury, which Mr..
Cleveland rendered to him.
\ rumOr Is current here that Mr..
Cleveland has succeeded in persuading
Hon. Don. NJ. Dickinson to be his Sec
retary of State. This, as the late Arte-
mus Ward would have said, is import
ant if true Mr.. Dickinson told his
friends when he was here the other day
that he would not be a member of the
cabinet
4 Senator who saw and talked with
Mr.. Cleveland this week says that one
of the first things he proposes to do af
ter becoming President is to put man
at the head of the pension bureau who
will take the work of that office entirely
out of politics and run it on strictly bus
ineSS principles.
Speaker Crisp has some very decided
ideas on the immigration question, and
they do not agree with those most popu-
lar Just now. He thinks it will be a
mistake to suspend all immigration, but
favors the enactment of laws that will
shut out and keep out the undesirable i'm
migrant, while welcoming those made OF
the stuff to make good citizens. He
fears, however, that the cholera scare
and other influences will be too much
for Congress, and that some very radical
legislation may be railIoaded through.
The Inauguration committee has
opened headquarters, and, notwithstand-
ing some friction among citizens con-
cerning the membership of the commit
tee, everything is now moving harmoni-
ouSly towards the grandest Inauguration
the country has ever had.
Representative Geary, of California,
although a young man, has already
gained a reputation for level -headedness
far beyond that of many of his older col
leagues, and his terse summing 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
cliqueS or sets of men who wish to tear
down present organization and set up
another of their own. 1t Is only by get
ting together that the Fifty-third Con
gress will be able to accomplish the mis-
sion of tariff revision which the people
at the polls directed it to perform.
If Senator Gray, of Delaware, be-
comes Mr.. Cleveand's Attorney General
as many Democrats now think, IL is eX-
pected that eX-Secretary Bayard will
again become a member of the Senate.
Mr.. Harrison has called upon all the
executive departments of the Govern
ment for information as to unjust dis
elimination against citizens or railroads
of the United States by the Canadian
Pacific railroad. This is believed here
to mean that ne intends to send spe-
cial message to Congress recommending
retaliatory legislation.
The subcommittee of the House I'm
migration committee having the mat
ter in charge has agreed upon a Nation
al quarantine BILL and will report it to
the full committee next week. NJ.