The Portland daily press., 1895-11-15
MIR. MILLIKEN TALKS.
lhe Fourth District Congressman
Makes Interesting Observations.
HE BELIEVES MIR. REEDS CHANCES
FOR PRESIDENCY EXCELLENT.

Hopes that Mr.. Dingley Will be Chosen
Chairman of the Ways and Means
Comnittee-Spins an Apt Story in Re
Cleveland-Also Talks Solon Chase
and the Popu Iistic Honor.
Congressman Milliken, who was met
recently on train by newspaper man
talked lightly and in an entertaining
way of the political situation in the
country. Mr.. Milliken expressed hope
that Congress would not remain in
session longer than July, but hardly
looked for an early adjournment. He
said he believed the House should formu-
late tariff bill, and send it TO the Presi-
dent for his signature He remarked
with a smile that President Cleveland
ought to be ready to sign tariff bill
calculated to provide sufficient revenue
for the running expenses of the govern
ment, as he has always claimed to be in
favor of tariff for revenue, and as the
Wilson bill has failed to raise sufficient
revenue for the ordinary expenses of the
government it seemed to him that he
should be willing to try some other plan.
"But would he sign such billp' was
| asked, and Mr.. Milliken said the question
reminded him of story. Some years
ago farmer in a town near Belfast
thought he owned remarkably fast
COLT. and was anxious to race him. He
offered to match him for $500, against
"any thing you filters have got"
None of the farmers who heard his talk
wanted to try conclusions with his
trotter, but at last an old fellow said :
'sSam I'll take that bet, an I'll enter my
young steer"
Sam thought the matter over for q
moment and said: 81 won't do it.
You never Ecan tell what burned
steer will do. "
"And no more,'' said Mr.. Milliken
"oan you tell what Mr.. Cleveland will
do"
Mr.. Milliken spoke in the highest
terms of the value of Congressman
Dingleys services as a member of the
committee of ways and means and ex-
pressed the hope that he might receive
the Craftsmanship of that highly i'm
portant committee. In that connection
he referred to the time and labor given
by Mr.. Dingley to the Mckinley bill. OF
course Mr.. Milliken did not mean to
suggest that the Republican majority in
the House should formulate ''tariff for
revenue bill, but only that the Presi-
dent ought to be willing to sign any sub
stitute for the Wilson bill that would pre-
vent the issuing of more bonds. He said {:
f'The President ought to sign a bill that
would impose tariff equal to the
difference in wages here and in Europe :"
Mr.. Milliken believes that Mr.. Reed
stands as good chance as any other man
who has been named in connection with
the Republican nomination for the presi-
denoy.
Mr. Milliken does not anticipate the
making of any special effort to prevent
his nomination next year, and spoke in
the highest terms of Ex-Governor
Burleigh, who made SO strong a canvass
against him previous to the last oonven-
tion in his district He spoke of Solon
Chase as likely to make a very good
presidential candidate for the Populist
party, ''only he has more brains then
those he would lead" Mr.. Milliken said
that the mcst unique political speech he
ever heard was delivered at Belfast by
Mr.. Chase in opposition to the proposed
fusion with the Democrats. Other green
hackers supported fusion because they be-
lieyed they would IN the end swallow up
the Democratic party, but Mr.. Chase in
sisted that the exact reverse would be
found to be the result, and that the
Democratic party was altogether too bad
to die. In this connection Mr.. Milliken
said it was hard to see how any man
could bring himself to feel that he was
so far completely in the right as to make
it an impossibility for any man to
honestly differ from him. 81 believe in
argument he said, "speech may be
full of the very poetry of abuse and yet
as a speech fall fat, convince nobody,
and convert nobody"