The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-01-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2ad., 1892.

fact it has been aroused, and he is
now as angry fellow any one
would care to see. lie has been
i.skunkedn in the game of politics,
and he believes that a .scold deck"
was used against him. Springer is
ambitious-those who do not ad-
mire him say, far beyond his abili-
ties. Be that as it may, every
body incongress knows that Spring
er is ambitious. It will not be
forgotten that he was candidate
before 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 cleo
ton. Another result that Crisp
was so grateful that he made
Springer chairman of what is al
ways, when in competent hands,
the most prominent as we'll as the
most important committee of the
house-ways and means-notwith-
standing earnest protests against
such action from the 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 majority of his own
party in congress by his s'pop gun"
tariff bills. which were reported
from his committee and passed the
house at the last session. But
that was not plain to him, for he
recently announced himself as IA
voring the Cleveland tariff pro-
gramme-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 a
:slead pipe cinch0 on the chairman
ship of the ways and means COM
mittee of the next house, a posi-
ton which promises to give its
holder much notoriety, il no actual
fame, during the life of the fifty
third congress.
When Speaker Crisp returned
from that much talked of confer
ence with the president-ele with
the Cleveland trade mark stamped
all over him, things began to get
SO slippery under Mr.. Springer's S
feet that he wondered why some
inventive genius had never put po
litical ice creepers Oh the market,
and even while he was wildly wav-
ing his arms in all 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 he fully realized
that the tariff bill to- be prepared
perhaps "approved" is the pro-
per WORD ; it certainly will be if it
turns out to be true, as now re-
ported, that Mr.. Cleveland will
have that measure prepared under
his own personal superyision-by
the ways and means committee Of
the next house will not bear the
name of Springer.
Misfortunes never come singly.
While Springer was meditating on
the suddenness OF his fall and the
vanity of ambition he was inform
ed that the man he hates above all
others, Hon. w. r. Morrison, has
been endorsed by the entire IIli-
nois delegation, himself excepted,
for seat in Mr.. Cleveland's cabi-
net. Now you know why Springer
is the maddest man in congress.
He still wears buttonhole boquet,
but the expansive smile, which
was erstwhile the most prominent
feature of his face, has vanished,
perhaps forever, and he has the
look of a man who is working his
nerves up to the point of doing
something desperate.
Senator Allison returned to
Washington to-day. Needless to
say that he was warmly welcomed
by his senatorial colleagues and
his friends, both in and out of pub
lie life. He called on the presi-
dent OF once, and they had all
hours talk about the deliberations
of the monetary conference, to
which Senator Allison was adele
gate. The senator agrees with
Secretary Foster in believing that
the conference has accomplished
some good although failing of any
practical results. He declines to
express an opinion as to whether
any sort of agreement will be
reached by the commission when
it reconyenes next May.
New Years day has usually
been the most brilliant of the