Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-06-10
wAsHINGToN LETTER


JOycO tuc Otc0A maui ~ oso osouou'
otiicial duties by his visit 10 Phila'
delphia this week, where he partici'
pated in the exercises attending the
opening OF the Commercial Museum
and the meeting Of the National
Manufacturers Association, and the
American med ical Association. He
was accompanied by distinguished
party including two members of the
Cabinet, and large delegation from
both branches of Congress and the
diplomatic corps, together with the
ladies of their families.
The tariff debate as far as 1t has
gone, has been particularly pleasing
to the Republicans of the House, be-
cause most of the schedules which
have been adopted are nearer
what they were in the Dingley Bill
az it passed the House, than they
expected them to be when the
amended bill was reported to the
Senate. There Is report that SEN
atOr German is at the head OF a
scheme to delay the final passage OF
the tariff bill until September, be-
cause ne prefers making his cam
paign In Mary and before the people
have an opportunity to see the good
effect that the new tariff bill will
have upon business. However the
Democrats have not yet shown any
to delay the bill.
Speaker Reed was amused at the
exposure of the sensation manufac-
tured by an Anticipated fellow who
imagines himself a detective and a
newspaper man. This fellow wrote
letters threatening the Speakers life
IL he did not do as he directed, and
signed "A Cuban" and after mailing
copies of them to Mr.. Reed peddled
other copies OF them among the
Washington correspondents, and ac-
tually succeeded in selling them to
the represe nta tives Of several noto-
riously sensational papers. Speaker
Reed knows that the policy of the
House, which he is carrying out so
we'll, is endorsed by the best in
terests of the country, and that is
all he wants to know about 1t.
Representative Henderson Is not a
profane man as a rule, and he prob
ably did not intend to be profane,
when, after jerry Simpson had de-
livered one of his usual abusive
TRADES against the Speaker, because
he had not appointed the House
and several democrats
had repeated for the hundreth time
idiotic about the majority
of the House having been bucked and
gagged by Speaker Reed, he indig-
nantly said: "Why this hell In tea
pot; this boiling over from the
realms of Kansas" After calling at
tention to the fact that the policy
now being carried out was the will
of majority of the House, as repeat
eddy shown by the vote when at
tempts have been made to set 1t
aside, he declared that the abuse
at the Speaker was neither
nor honest. General Hen
derson concluded with this flashing
for Jerry Simpson: 1T takes time
to ascertain the predictions and
of members. Take the
gentleman from Kansas. Imagine
trying to pick out place where he
could be useful to his country, when
every time he opens his mouth he
makes the problem more difficult"
Representative Grosvenor put the
House in a glorious good humor with
his description of the changes in
democratic leadership, and his re-
marks were interpreted with shouts
Of laughter. He said in part: "Eve-y
now and then they spring something
new on us in the shape Of a new
leader. When the talented young
Texan Galley, who Inherited his
leadership rather than earned 1t, was
In command, little flattery and
few kind words sufflced and we got
along very well. or course we had
some trouble with the disappointed
leader from Tennessee (McMil!in),
who grumbled a good deal. We got
used to that. But when the great
leader from Kansas (Simpson) sudden
ly flashed upon the horizon, and
swung the minority into solid
phalanx, / thought, perhaps, that
God Almighty had decided to wreck
the democratic party under his lead
ership. But he dropped out /
never knew exactly how. Perhaps
his time was out. Then came the
gentleman from Washing ton (Lewis).
have not Examined his credentials
yet, and don't know whom he rep
in this contest. don't know
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