The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-10
NO COMPROMISE POSSIBLE.
Unconditional Repeal Before Any
Other Consideration.

Washington, d. c., Sept. 9.-The pros
pect reported a few days ago of the APP
parent willingness of the President and
Secretary Carlisle to agree to some CON
cession to the silver mon has disappeared.
They are uncompromising, and viii not
even entertain the thought OF NIr FaulS-
ner's proposition. Senators who repre-
sent the administration now take the
same position. MIR. Voorhees, course, in
not attempting to restrict senators in
their right to discuss the measure to their
full satisfaction, but insisting that there
shall be no gaps in the discussion, is re-
garded as the proper course and one cal
culated soonest to bring the bill to
vote.
CLAIMS OF BofH SIDES.
Friends of repeal think the discussion
will soon exhaust itself if not given di-
version from the question itself by an at
tempt to force the matter. On the other
hand, radical silver men speak more con-
fidently than for some time. They say
they will keep up the fight until some
terms in the way of compromise are Of
fered them. They do not ask much, but
insist on something. One senator says
the silver men have q list of twenty dem
ocrats and seven republicans who win
never yield to allow a vote taken until
some compromise is agreed to by the re-
peal men. Another report is that Secre-
tary Carlisle has conferred with Mr.
Voorhees, and other leading democrats,
and with Mr. Hale and other republican
repealers, and that an agreement was
made TO close the debate on the 25th in
stant.
SPEAKER CRISP A STATESMAN.
Speaker Crisp is round, not angular
His friends, in the beginning of his career.
regretted that he did not have more of
the sharp corners Of a crank in his make
up, thinking that it was only the man
who had edges to cut who rose rapidly.
They watched eagerly for angles to devel-
op in congress, but he remained aggravat-
ingly round. AS one of his intimate
friends said, he saw no chance to ever
make him speaker for "Crisp just says
what he is
Angles makes a crank in congress;
roundness a statesman. This is the dis
tinguished feature between Crisp and so
many of his compeers, who mistooz no
toriety for fame and crankiness for great
ness He has grown gradually, and now
stands in national politics as GeOrgia's
greatest statesman and al the head and
front of the statesmen of the great SOUTH
The term politician is never applied to
him, even by those who have telt his
power at organization and suffered de-
feat at his hands He is ranked along
with Clay, Carlisle and otherof his great
est predecessors in the cAair
One who has watched him day
after day from the galleries
and floor, knows wherein his power
and strength lie. His calmness, clear
Judgment, uncompromising integrity, are
the handmaidens of the brilliant qualities
of his hand and heart. He is withal sim
pie and transformations, never forgetting a
face, and uniformly courteous and polite
to all VINO come in contact with his daily
life. He is "Mr. Crisp" to the pages and
messengers, and each one he calls by name
as he passes through the lobbies of the
capitol
NO OLD TAPE ABOUT CRISP.
AS Secretary Gresham has dispelIed
the mysterious atmosphere of awe, which
for years hung like veil about the state
department, so has Mr.. Crisp removed
the red tape which kept the public from
the speakers room. His hour out of his
chair is his hour Of recreation, and form
ality has ceased to be the characteristic
feature of the speaker of the House. AZ
ter the session he throws himself into a
big leather chair and gives himself up to
unrestrained laughter over the Jokes
which the various members come in to
tell him.
Bourke Cochran says he would rather
retail poor joke to Crisp than hear a
good one himself The speaker has de-
llclous sense of humOr, and no point, no
matter how fine. is ever lost on him. His
homeor hotel life is even simpler than his
life ex officio. Instead of being a social
lion to which he is heir as speaker, he
prefers the seclusion of his apartments at
the old Metropolitan and the company of
his own boy.
HIS DOMESTIC LIFE.
Speaker Crisp is essentially q domestic
man. He declines almost all invitations,
preferring to stay with Mrs. Crisp in his
room at the Metropolitan than to feast on
the daintiest delicacies provided by Les
Danes of the administration. Mrs. Crisp
cares as little fer the giddy vortex Of So
ciety as her husband, The gayety-lOviug
faculties ef the family are all slowed in
Charles Crisp, Jr., though he is by no
means ultra in his views, and has made
it a rule seldom to go out except when he
feels it necessary for the family to be rep |
resented. He has all the jOVial |
cordiality of his father. and, in fact, the |
two are so near alike that in spite of the
difference OF their ages they are the .
greatest chums in Washington. He is 1
the speakers confidential man, and is Ger /
tainly the most imperturbable clerk to be /
found in the vicinity of the capitol. He /
never knows anything but what is ofici- |
ally announced, and in spite Of the |
fact tnat he never gives out pre- /
mature news, he is hail fellow /
well met with the newspaper .
who infest Washington. .
Ee occupied the same attitude 10 his
father that Logan Carlisle did to the pre- (
sent Secretary Of the Treasury when he .
was speaker of the House Mr.. Crisp |
lives as simply as a representative should /
who was sent to congress on an economi- I
cal platform. He keeps no carriages nor
horses, but when the evening is cool ne
usually takes a hanson and drives with
his wife about the city, through Airing
ton or around the Soldiers home.
THE sPEAKER's INTIMATE ASSOCIATES.
His most intimate associates are Catch /
ings Of Mississippi, Montgomery Of Ken |
lucky and Fellows of New York, though !
he is on the pleasantest social terms with /
every member Of the House, /
whether democrat or republican populist /
ot ru11cyzv11rnD He never ga YrFriag his no