The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-01-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular Correspondenl)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30th, 1892.


speaker Crisp's visit to President
elect Cleveland, on II special invita-
ton from the latter, has been the
most absorbing topic of conversation
in political circles this week. 1 he
visit of tre Speakar of the Democrat
ic House-the highest position now
held by Il democrat-to the demo
cratic President-elect was, of course,
naturally All event of great interest to
democrats, but the efforts of the busy
bodies who have ever since the cleo
ton been striving to create the i'm
preston that these two eminent dem
ocrats were antagoniStic towards each
other has mate it of interest to every
body, except the aforesaid busy bodies
who expressed doubts about the two
men holding Il conference until it had
raj, too, for that conference topped
over all the carefully constructed sto-
rles of enmity between the Speaker
and the President-elect which had
been SO widely circulated duling the
last six OF eight weeks. Those who
profess to see something strange in the
invitation and visit forget that for
nearly two years past Speaker Crisp
has been the official leader OF the
democratic party. The strange thing
would have been for Mr. Cleveland,
the leader elect, to have neglected to
get the views of the party's present
official leader
Senator Carlisie's experience with
the New York reporters this week
caused him to ''swear off" on being
interviewed. He says he was APP
preached by some twenty odd report
ers 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 interviews with him,
making him say things he had never
dreamed of. He says, further, that
any future publication purporting to
be his opinion which does not have
his signature attached will be bogus.
Mr.. Carlisle's friends say that for pri-
vate reasons lie has declined the sec
retaryship of the Treasury, which Mr..
Cleveland rendered to him.
A rumOr is current here that Mr..
Cleveland has succeeded in persua-
ding Hon. Don NJ. Dickinson to be his
Secretary of State. This, as the late
Artemus Ward would have said, is
important if true. Mr.. Dickinson
told his friends when he was here the
other day that he would not be a
member of the cabinet.
A Senator who saw and talked with
Mr.. Cleveland this week says that one
of the first things he proposes 60 do
after becoming President is to put a
man at the head of the Pension bu-
reau who will take the work of that
office entirely out of politics and run
it Oh strictly business principles.
Speaker Crisp has some very deci-
ded ideas on the migration question,
and they do not agree with those
most popular just now. He thir ks it
will 5e IA mistake to suspend all imi.
grafton, but favOrs the enactment of
laws that will shut out and keep out
the undesirable migrant, while well
coming those made of the stuff to
make good citizens. He fears, how
ever, that the cholera scare and other
gress, and that some very radical leg
isialion inlay be railroaded through.
The Inauguration committee has
opened headquarters, and. notvith-
standing some frictions concerning the
membership of the committee, every
thing is now moving harmoniously
towards the grandest Inauguration the
country has ever had.
Representative Geary. of California,
although young man, has already
gained il reputation for level headed
ness far beyond hat of his older col
leagues, and his telse summing up of
what the party needs will add to chat
reputation. He says: 'What the
democratic party needs most is to get
together We don't want any rows.
or c.iques or sets of men who wish to
tear down present organization and
set up another of their own. 1t is on
ly by getting together that the Fifty
third Congress will be able to accom-
pllsi the mission of tariff revision
which the people at the polls directed
it to perform"
Ii Senator Gray, of Deleware, be-
comes Mr.. Cleveland's Attornev-Gen-
eral, as many democrats now think,
it is expected that ex- Secretary Bay
ard will again become Il member of
the Sen2te.
Mr.. Harrison has called upon all the
executive departments of she govern
meat for Information as 20 unjust dis
elimination against citizens or rail
roads of the United States by the Ca
:adian Iacilic Railroad. This is be-
iicvod here To mean that he intends to
send Ii special message to Congress