Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-11

n $780, 900 Lobby-The Hawaiian
Matter May Come Before This
Session.
(From our Regular Correspondence.)
WASHINGTON, August 4, 1893.
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
a Democratic member OF the house
wishes to do after his arrival is to have
a little private conversation with the
speaker, about his committee assign
ments, etc. Mr.. Crisp does not shrink
from these conferences; on the con-
trary, he has caused it to be known
that he wishes every Democratic rep
resentative to call on him and make
known his committee preferences, in
order that he may, as far as possible,
give them the committee assign
ments they desire. The committees
might have been announced next
week, except for this desire ON the
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 commit.
tees satisfactorily 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 $l00,O00,OOO
mark this 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
a Democratic caucus OF either repre-
sentatives or senators, Democrats al
most without exception express them.
selves as believing that an agreement
will be reached after little time upon
financial bill that will receive the
support of practically all of the Demo-
Gratis in both house and senate, and
the existence of that belief adds ma.
terially to the probability of such an
agreement being reached.
Secretary Carlisle and President
Cleveland probably never took the
time to spend thought upon the nu-
merous misstatements which have
been made during the last few days
concerning their relation toward each
other, because they knew that the
authors OF these ridiculous stories
would all be hunting holes to crawl in.
to in short time, as they actually did
when the official announcement was
made, several days ago, that Secretary
Carlisle had gone to Gray Gables to
assist President Cleveland in preparing
his message TO Congress. The invita-
ton for this visit was extended and
accepted the day that President Cleve-
land 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 Secretary Carlisle's in
tended retirement from the cabinet,
because of the Presidents failure to
consult him about his message to Con-
gress. Moral: Get your news from
Democratic sources, if you want it to
be straight.
President Cleveland and Secretaries
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 between
this and Monday.
The first business to be taken up by
the Senate which will not have to lose
any time in recognizing, that having
been accomplished ut the March extra
session, will be the contested Sena-
torial elections from the northwestern
States. A caucus of Democratic
Senators will be called early next
week to discuss these cases and ar
range a party programme.
A half million of dollars is to be
spent, it is said, by lobby in endeavor-
ing to secure the repeal of the Geary
Chinese law, and those who thrive in
that sort OF business are anticipating
living in clover. although it is not ex-
pected that anything will be done I'M
til after the opening of the regular
session.
Although Secretary Gresham de.
clines TO discuss the matter at all,