The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-13
POLITICS At THE CAPITAL.
The Extraordinary Work Done by
Secretary Carlisle.

Made to DUreat WllSon-Ihe Ger
tifcate Of Speaker Crisp's Birth.
Other Matters of Special Interest.
Washington, D. c., Sept. 12.-With
I congress and the President and seven of
the eight cabinet officers away, Washing
ton is about as dull as it is possible to be.
/ Secretary Carlisle is the only cabinet
ofhcer in the city, and if his duties did
not compel him to remain here, he would
/ soon be away. The Secretary of the
/ Treasury has had business sufficient TO
attend TO since the first of September to
/ keep ten men busily employed. He has
! issued all orders to collectors of customs
] and revenue officers himself; he has anal
/ yzed and explained all obscure
! passages of the tariff bill; has
/ construed all disputed paragraphs him
1 self, and ne has prepared a number of
/ lengthy decisions for importers as well as
1 custom house officials The result is that
/ the new law is working as smoothly as
/ can be, and there has been none of the
! appeals which ordinarily come whenever
/ tariff laws are changed. It takes year
usually for custom house officials to &C
/ commodate themselves to a change in the
{ CAAoS4LS COuG SuCu was Lllb CdoC WuCu
! the Mckinley law went into effect; when
| the tariff of 1888 became a law; and in
/ fact it has been the case whenever a seri-
/ Gus change IN the fiscal policy of the gov
/ eminent was effected. He has left none
of this work TO his subordinates, but has
/ attended TO the minutest details himself
VOLUNTEER SPEAKERS CALLED FOR.
Both congressional committees are call
! ~-.H,. 49,
/ time not very many have come forward
/ to offer their services in other states than
! their own. Every one who thus volun-
/ teers is placed on an available list, and
| before the campaign closes every one
/ who has offered his services will be given
an opportunity TO educate the people on
! the burning issues of the day"
| Lawrence Gardner. secretary of the
/ democratic congressional committee, says
/ that the south more than any other sec
! ton is making the greatest demand for
/ speakers. Care will be exercised by the
committee in its selection of orders for
| the south, as that section requires very
! different line of eloquence and line of
| thought than is needed in the north and
east The south has the populists to fight,
and the plan of fighting the devil with ire
| will be generally adopted in all the
! southern districts. The populist orators,
( If indeed they are such, are stump
ing the states of Georgia, Alabama and
Texas, and circulating wherever they 90
that no silver has been coined since the
repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman law. The campaign committee
has secured from the treasury department
over a thousand silver dollars bearing
i the stamp of 1894. The committee is dis
/ tributing this coin wherever the populists
have raised the issue. and the people will
be taught the kinder garJen object lesson,
that not only is silver being coined, but
that the seignoirage is being put into
money form
The campaign committee expect the
Democratic party to make big gains in
the west, and that will be the chief point
of attack. In some of the more important
districts, where the contests are not apt
to be close, and where only the liveliest
kind of a cant ass can save the democratic
candidate from defeat, mem bers are en-
deavoring TO supply their own
congressional stump speakers in
addition to those assigned TO
them by the committee. Democratic
senators who have no political battles on
themselves will be freely used during
the coming election. 1t is interesting to
note to what section certain senators will
be assigned. Mills will Oe sent to the
southeast, while Senator Lindsey
of Kentucky, will be asked to
go into the northeast. Senator
prejudiced view regarding the old fed
eral soldier, will be sent into the Mid
die states, where the war is fought
over every year Brice of Ohio will
be assigned to New York, New
Jersey and pennsylvania. Gray of Della
ware will contine himself TO his own state
with an occasional excursion into adj DIN
ing states. Hill will have his hands full
saving New York for the democracy He
will be greatly aided in this by the fac
tiOnal fights In the Republican party of
New York Voorhees, has all he can at
tend to in his state, and Jones of Arkansas
Will content himself in securing the re-
election OF his colleague, Senator Berry.
Blackburn will conuue himself to the
Blue Grass state, and Palmer of Illinois
will have little opportunity to go beyond
the confines of his state.
WILSON'S DISTRICT.
Congressman Wilson's district in West
Virginia will be the theater of the most
aggressive campaign in the coming cleo
ton. The republicans will 40 all IN their
power TO defeat the chairman OF the ways
and means committee, and the democratic
congressional committee intends bending
special e orts TO defeat their purpose.
The republicans will mobilize their heaV-
lest trorensic speakers and men of ma
tional reputation TO carry this district in
oruer to set up the claim that e en- Mr..
w 4lSOu > own pGOplS nave T6puuldJGQ MS
views. The approaching campaign there
is compared oy some with that in Nc
kinley's district im uedIately after the
adoption of his bill, when democrats
gave their most strenuous efforts
TO defeat him. aud succeeded. There
is absolute confidence expressed, how
ever, in the ability of the state and con-
gressional committees to secure mir. vii
sons return TO the House, anu while the
district has always been close, IL is con-
ceded that Wilson is stronger in il than
ever before. Nearly all of the promi-
nent men who took part in the great
tariff debate in the House have voluu-
teered to relieve MIR. Wilson of as much
of the can, ass as he desires. There is
Speaker Crisp ice Presluent Stevenson,
Bourke Co3Kran, Mcmillan. Montgomery
and Catching, all TO speak in behalf of
the chairman Of the ways and means
committee. There are few leading men
Offering their services 10 New York. This
is the tcome of Hills antagonistic pol
icy during the past session toward his
democratic confere-s.
BETS AND GUEssEs'
During these days everybody talks poll
ties. and Ruesses and bets are being made
on the result of the next national conven-
tion. Viewing the held from this point
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