The Indianapolis journal., 1895-08-13
William Court Gully, Speaker of the
Liberal House, Elected to the Same
Position by the Conservatives.
CHARLES F. CRISP PRESENT
THE GEORGIAN WATCHES THE PRO-
CEEDINGs WITH GREAT INTEREST.
He Is Much Impressed with the
Speaker and His Wife and Mr.. Bal
four-Queen vfctoria's COmman nds.

LONDON, Aug. 12-One of the most inter
ested spectators of the opening of the House
of Commons to-day was Mr.. Charles +.
Crisp. ex-Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives. MIR. Crisp was
present in the Speakers gallery at the
special invitation Of Mr. William Court
Gully, who was reelected Speaker OF the
House of Commons TODAY.
Mr.. Crisp. in conversation with a reporter
after the House of Commons had adjourned,
said: Before the House met Mr.. Gully
showed me the paintings representing the
former Speakers of the House of Commons
and the comments which he made on each
Of them were quite interesting. Mr.. Gully
also showed me the statues Of great states
men of the past and particularly. called my
attention to the fact that Pitt and Fox
faced each other / took great delight in
studying the portraits of the deceased
British statesmen, as / have spent many
hours studying the lives of Pitt and Fox"
The reporter learns that 1t is probable
that mutual friend will arrange a meet
ing between Mr. Crisp and Mr.. Gladstone
on the formers return TO London from his
visit to Paris At the request of the re-
porter Mr. Crisp wrote the following ac-
count of his impressions formed at the
opening Of the House of Commons to-day:
II attended the opening of Parliament
to-day. 1t proved a great treat to me.
naturally, as 1 am much interested in
English forms and methods of legislation.
One of the most striking differences between
our methods and those in use here is that
the Speaker is non-partisan. The members
of Parliament are certainly a very fine
looking body of men. To an American,
however, it looked very odd to see members
of the House sitting with their hats on.
After the adjournment 1 called upon the
Speaker and was escorted by him to his
official residence, where 1 had the honor of
being introduced to his wife. 1 found the
Speaker very agreeable gentleman. / also
met Mr.. Balfour. the eonservative leader.
and found him to be Eplendid type of the
English gentleman. L I'D not mention silver
during my conversations With either gentle
man. When / was leaving the Parliament
house. Mr.. Balfour accompanied me out to
the gate, where large crowd was collected
When they saw the conservative leader they
cheered him most enthusiasticaiiy. As As
election of the Speaker 1 was unable to
learn much of their legislative methods. I
am satisfied. however, from what did see,
Mr. Crisp also said: After adjournment
Mr.. Gully had me escorted to the floor of
the House and introduced me to the leading
members / afterward found myself in an
extremely handsome room which supposed
was part of the lobby of the House. but Mr.
Gully said that it was the private dining
room of his official residence. There we
were joined by Senator Cabot Lodge and
Mr.. Henry White, ex-Secretary of the
United States Embassy. We were all es-
certed to the public dining room of the
Speaker, in which we were introduced to
his wife. Mrs. Gully is a most affable
lady. The room was crowded with ladies,
who were waiting to personally congratu-
late Mr. Gully upon his reelection. After
leaving the Speakers residence, Mr.. White
took Senator Lodge and myself to the
House of Commons and introduced us to
many of the leaders We were next taken
to Mr. Balfour's room and introduced to
him. He is a man of much personal mag
netism and impresses one Immediately as a
striking intellectually. Although he did
not appear to be so, knew he was hurried
and so did not think it the proper occasion
to broach the subject of bimetallism.
"As Mr.. Gully had not been reelected
when / first saw him, he was not in official
dress. 1 made a remark this subject to
him and he said that tomorrow he would
only be in half dress and wear a half wig.
as his election would then only be half
approved. On Wednesday, however, his
election will have been fully approved and
he will wear his full official attire. All this
strikes me as strange"
Mr.. Crisp started for Paris tonight and
will remain there week.