Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-04-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, d.. Aprll - Vf
Sc .ker Crisp has always been a
popular man with democrats IN
and out of Congress, at Washington
but his popularity is today one hnn'
dred per cent greater than it ever
was before. His refusal of the seat
in the Senate when all his personal
inclinations were for taking it. be-
cause it was clearly more henFilcal
to the democratic party for him 10
remain Speaker Of the House dur
ING the remainder of this Congress,
was of itself enough to account Tor
much OF the increase III his popular
,tv. but it was another event the
greatest triumph Of the Speaker ;
Congressional career that capped
the climax and made every DEM
ncrat in Washington ready to throw
his hat in the air and give three
cheers every time the name "CFiSP
i called. He humbled ex-ol q .Ser
Reed. as that Legislative bully WAS
never before humbled on the floor
Of the House. They have had
many parliamentary contests IN !.
which the Speaker got the best OF
the ex-Czar, but never until tits
time has the Speaker succeeded
in completely humbhng Reed so
completely that he sat, after having
been made to do so BY the Speaker
like a whipped cur. If the GeoF-
Ola democrats are of the same mind
as TIE democrats hereaboats Mr.
Crisp will certainly be a Senator
after the 4, of next March, and
they are talking at this end of the
line OF something higher yeS for
him in the future.
Senator VOORHEES, in opening the
tariff debate in the Senate made lit
tie nse of his extraordinary Orato-
rical power. He just gave 2 plain
straightforward business ta!k, urge
" in the nature of an explanation
of the changes made in the bill by
the Senate committee of which he
is chairman. and laying special
stress upon the urgent necessity fol
speedy action. According to the
present. programme, very few speech
es will be made by the other dem
ocratic members Of the Finance
committee, and no attempt to limit
the debate will be made until the
republicans have been given ample
opportunity to state their odIect'
ions to the bill,
ana glad to tie able To state pos
itiyely there is absolutely no truth
in the published statement thai
democrats who are dissatisfied with
President CleyelanaS veto Of the
Bland bill intend t. vote for a fret
coinage amendment to the tariff
bill. Not a single democratic Sen
ator who favors silver will say tina
he is in favor of such an amend
ment, and Mr.. Bland. wb'
certainly has the right to speak TO
the silver democrats in. the HOUSE
If any one man has-he has beef
their leader, both ip this and IN
number of previous Congresses
characterized the idea as IAN out
rage and a crime" that would do o.
good and would if carried out, re
suit in the ce, tain defeat of bet
tariff reform and free coinage.
Mr.. Bland will. as soon as tn
House can get and keep democrat
&c quorum long aaGugh to disFOs
of the report of che election con-
mites in the contested case Of o
Neil VS.. Joy, of Missouri, ~hlc
has been hanging for more tina
a week for lack Of voting qq'
rum, move that his coinage bill !
passed oyer the Presidents veto.
cannot pass, unless the repq5i'
cans ,wbo voted agGp't thu bl
shoulArefuse to vote. an evan the
it could hardly pass, ~ there are
number of democrats who vote
for tue bill when it was passed VA