San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-02-08
WARRINGTON LBrTEH.
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lf' H-Ni y Jan. %, 70.

The House yesterday added some.
thing like . million dollsfs to the Post
Office appropriation bin, By agreeing
70 amendments Of the radical Senate.
The House has 90 far in the session
submitted 10 the domination OF The
Ssuats On I'll matters Of tho kind. and
the expenses Of the 0ovsrsnsat will
therefore bs for The next year greatly
in excess Of what they shosld b end
even Of what the House Appropriation
Conuittes reported. The direct re-
suit Of this loose way Of doing busi'
ness, unless checked, will b that The
coming Democratic Congress -shs 18th
will and itself forced 70 restore the
taxes on too, soHss and other articles.
establish an income TAX, and 10 other
ways make the people and the party
suffer. There ought 70 b Dsnoerats
enough 70 resist the tendency to OK.
trsvasanee. ,,
The House BY . decisive vote zee.
terdsy passed . bill imposing penalties
for the Importation Of moro than If
teen Chinese 70 this country in any
ono vessel.
Senator Edmunds has u last sue.
lN-N
ceeded IN getting up his resolutions
concerning the later or war amend
neuts to the Constitution. They,
with The substitute Of Senator Morgan.
which siirms that the whole Consti'
tuition is Of binding force within its
sphere, will have long discussion. OF
course neither side will make any con.
verts, but great deal Of campaign
literature will be got ready for 1880.
The most striking event Of the week
has been the eloquent speech Of Sena-
tor Hill, Of Ca, in which he declared
against the payment Of any Of the 80.
called war claims, whether to what
we're known ss loyal" or "disloya"
Southern men. He contended not
only that it was impossible for the
Government 70 pay them, but that 1t
was better for the South that they
should not be paid.
There il already . quarrel - to the
raising Of the s60.0O0,000 necessary
for the payment Of what ID known Is
the arrears Of pensions under thu bill
lately passed and approved. The reg
ular pension appropriation bill for the
year gives some go, 900. 900, but that
money cannot bs used for payment I'M.
der the arrears bill. II is said there
will be strong radical opposition to the
appropriation. Radicals, in voting the
bill through were working for popu'
larity among the ex-soldiers, but when
they came face to face with the $780,
OOO. 900 they seem to doubt whether
that much can bs spared from the
bondholders.
Much Of interest has been develop.
ed in the last few days in the inyesti.
CATION Of cipher and other kilograms.
It is shown that VIM. e. Chandler
the kilograms published in
the N. Y. Tribune, and also those
which General Butler had. A Senate
Committee clerk stole them from the
Committee room and gave them to
radical Congressman, the Congress-
man gave them to . high official who
turned them oyer to Chandler. The
thieving clerk, in accordance with civ
il service reform % understood by Mr..
Hayes. was given an important Office
abroad.
It was also shown that P. NJ. Gen'l
Tyner, then in Indiana. teleeraphed to
lack Chandler, then Ssc'y Of the In.
terror, that 5000 would be given for
the Indian Agencies, and that Chsnd
Ter agreed to make the appointments.
The money was used 10 the Indiana
campaign. This was in 1876. It was
.lso shown that the management Of
he Western Union Telekrsp Co., had
delivered up to various radical poll
Eicians the originals Of important and
presumably compromising dispatches
tent by them pending the Florida and
Louisisna electoral bargains.
Il 10 nov authoratively stated that
seuator Christisncy. Of Mich, will be
made Minister 10 Peru. He will be
,uccesded in the Senste by lack Chsnd
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