The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1893-08-08
HARD AT IT WITH A VIEW
TO THE VERY BEST APP
PoINTMENTs.
Gold-Financial Questions First.
Republican Misrepresentation Re-
Futed-The Truth Comes
From Democratic Source.

| WASHINGTON, d. c., August t.
Speaker Crisp has been here since
Monday, and it is not probable that he
will at any time during the session
have to do harder weeks work than
that which has been imposed upon
him since his arrival. The first thing
that Democratic member of the
House wishes to do after his arrival is
to have little private conversation
with the Speaker, about his commit
tee assignments, etc. Mr.. Crisp does
not shrink from these conferences on
the contrary, he has caused it to be
known that he wishes every Demo-
cratic Representative to call on him.
and make known his committee pre-
fcrences, in order that he may, as far
AS possible, give them the committee
assignments they desire. The COM
mittees might have been announced
this week, except for this desire on / he
part of Mr.. Crisp to meet the wishes
of the members. 1t will, the Speaker
thinks, take about two weeks after all
the members arrive to get the COM
mittees satisfactorially made up.
Treasury officials are pleased to see
gold again coming into instead of GO
ing out of the Treasury. The reserve
fund crawled over the $I00OO0,OO0
mark last week for the first time in
many weeks and it is still increasing.
While it is not probable that the
financial question will be submitted
to Democratic caucus of either Rep
resentatives or Senators, Democrats
almost without exception express
themselves as believing that an agree
ment will be reached after a little
time upon financial bill that will re-
ceive the support of practically all of
the Democrats i'm both House and
Senate, and the existence of that be-
lief adds materially to the probability
of such an agreement being reached.
Secretary Carlisle and President
Cleveland probably never took the
time to spend a thought upon the
numerous misstatements which have
been made during the last few days
concerning their relations towards
each other, because they knew that
the authors of these ridiculous stories
would all be hunting for holes to
crawl into in short time, as they ac-
tually did when the official announce
ment was made, several days ago, that
Secretary Carlisle had gone to Gray
Gables to assist President Cleveland in
preparing his messages to Congress.
The invitation for this visit was ex-
tended and accepted the day that
President Cleveland left Washington,
after issuing the call for the extra
session, which shows how much those
fellows know who have been giving
the public in detail an account of Sec
retary Carlisle's intended retirement
from the Cabinet because of the
Presidents failure to consul: him
about his message to Congress.
Moral get your news from Democrat
ic sources, if you want it to be
straight.
President Cleveland and Secretar-
les Carlisle and Lamont will return
to Washington together. The other
members of the cabinet, with the ex.
ception of Secretary Herbert, are at
their desks, and he will return be-
tween this and Monday.
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The first business to be taken up by
the Senate which will not have to
lose any time in recognizing, that
having been accomplished at the
March extra session, will be the con-
tested Senatorial elections from the :
Northwestern States. A caucus of
Democratic Senators will be called {
early next week TO discuss these cases
and arrange a party programme.
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A half million eof dollars ls to be
spent, it is said, by a lobby in endeav-
'ring to secure the repeal of the Geary .
Chinese law, and those who thrive in 1
hat sort Of business are anticipating /
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