The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-04-06
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON April ,, 1894.
Speaker Crisp has always been popular
man with democrats, in and out of Congress,
at Washington, but his popularity is to-day
Que hundred pei cent greater than it ever was
before. His refusal Of seat in the Senate
when all his personal inclinations were for
taking it, because it was q arly more benet-
ca to the democratic party for him to remain
Speaker Of the House during the remainder of
this Congress, was of itself enough to account
for much of the increase in lis popular ty, but
It was another event. the greatest triumph OF
the Speakers Congl essonal career-that cap
ped the climax and made every democrat in
Washington ready to throw his hat in the air
and give three cheers every time the name
"Crisp' is callei. He humbled ex-Speaker
Reed, as that legislative bully was never be-
fore humtled Cd the floor of the House. They
have had many parliamentary contests. in
which the Speaker got the best of the Mar,
but never until this time has the Speaker sue
ceeded i'll completely humbling Reed so CON-
pletely that he sat- after having been made to
do so by the Speaker, like whipped cur. If
the Georgia democrats are of the same mind
as the democrats hereabous Mr.. Crisp will
certainly be a Senator after the 4th, Of next
March, and they are talking at this end of the
line of some thing higher yet for him in the
future.
Senator VOORHEES, in opening the tariff de-.
hat n tho 10 m adj tie rsa ot his
! ordinary orato rical power. He just gave
plain straightforward business TX. largely 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
| upo the urgent necessity for speedy ACTION
According to the present programme, very few
| set speeches will be made by the other demo-
cratic members of the Finance committee.
| and no attempt to limit the debat, will be
made until the republ cans have been given
ample opportunity to state thir objections
| to the bill.
| | am glad to be able to state positively that
| there is absolutely no truth in the published
| statement that democrats who are dissatisfied
with President Cleve lnd's veto of the land
| bill intend TO vote for free coinage amend-
ment to the tariff bill. Not single democrat
| c Senator who tavors silver will say that he is
| in favor of such an amendment, and Mr.
Bland, who certainly has the right to speak
| for the silver democra IS in the House, if any
| one man has-he has been their leader, both
| in this and in number of previous Congress.
| DC ol,,ran ri1 ba
a crime that would do no good and would, if
carried out, result: in the certain defeat of both
Tariff reform and free coinage.
| Mr.. Bland W H. as soon as the House can
get and keep democratic quorum long enough
| to dispose of the report Of the election commit
tee in the contested Case Of O'Nel VS.. Joy, of
| Missouri, which has beeu hanging for more
| than week for ,ck of voting quorum, move
| that his coinage bill be passed over the Presi-
DEF is veto. 1t canuct pass, unless the repub-
cans who Voted against the bill should refuse
| to vote, and even then it coul hardly pass, as
there are number of democr. Is who voted
for the bill when it was passed who will not
vote to pass it over the Presidents veto.
There is little doubt that a free coinage bill
will soon be reported to the House from the
Coinage committee, of which Mr. 81 and is
| chairman, but there is much doubt of its being
passed.
We'll, the long wait is over. A dem ocrat
Public Print er is to succeed Mr.. Frank W.
Palmer, the republican who has held the Off
| ce since May 1889. The lucky man is Mr.
| Thomas E. Benedict, of New Y )rk, who held
the office from September 1886, until Palmers
| appointment. While there u.s. of course, some
personal disappointment among democrats
who were close trien DIS of other candidates for
the appointment, there is general democratic
rejoicing that the position which CONTROLS the
appointment of nearly three thousand employ
ees, all outside OF the classified service, is to
be ii led by democrat. Mr.. Benedict is not
only good democrat, but. as proven by his
record when in control of the Office, he is a
good Public Printer, There will probably
not be one single objection raised in the Sc
ate to the confirmation of his nomination.
Secretary Carlisle has become so accustom-
ed to being lied about and misrepresented in
republican newspapers that be would not know
what 10 make Of any oportuEity for the manu-
factlre of a fresh batch of stories being lost bv
The writers for these papers. He knew before
| he went over to New York for day or two Of
change and recreation that his visit would be
made the basis for lot Of more or less ridicu-
| lous stories, and he was Lot disappointed by
the result.