San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-05-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
wAsluSGros. May, -, 1884.

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WAsIusGroS. May. ~, 1884.
Since the great event OF tho pas
week, tho defeat OF the Horizont
! Tariff bill in tho House Of Represer
tatives, Congress has taken action Of
a number Of questions, which wer
not of universal interest. tn
Virginia election case OF OFarral
against Paul was taken up and tn
former seated. The bill loanini
81, 100000, to the New Orleans OK
position was passed, and private ant
pension bills were disposed OF. Thu
Senate passed the Frye shipping bill
and FREQ bridge for this city across
the Potomac.
The Democratic Members OF the
ways Means committee met at thu
apartments of Hon. Abram s. Hewitt
on Saturday night and discussed the
revenue situation. Mr.. Hewitt expects
| to present anew Tariffmeasure which
he has not yet formulated, but which
will contain Horizontal reductions
similar to the Morrison bill. The
general opinion of the revenue re-
formers is, however, that neither this
nor any other tariff reduction bill
will pass this session, but it is
thought measure repeating tobacco
and fruit shirt taxes can be passed,
if the high protectionists can secure
most of the Republican votes for it.
Looking to an early adjournment
Mr.. Randall is in q great hurry with
the appropriation bills, now that the
Tariff BILLS out of the way. These
will follow one another for the next
few weeks to the exclusion of other
questions.
simultaneously with the announce
ment of Gen. Grants financial failure,
Senator Edmunds introduced bill
to place him on the retired list,
accompanied with the request that
the committee on Military Affairs
take action on it without delay. A
Democratic statesman thought if
Gen. Grant was to be reimbursed for
the failure of his Wall street firm, it
would be in good form to put the
unfortunate depositors on the pension
roll.
On last Saturday both Houses
attended unwilling OF the statue of
Chief Justice John Marshall, which
stands in the Capitol grounds, in
front of the west entrance to the
Capitol. Chief Justice Waite presi-
ded, prayer was offered by Doctor
Armstrong, pastor of the Richmond
church, which Marshall attended, the
Marine band discOursed music COM
posed for the occasion, and Mr.. Rawle
of Philadelphia, delivered the dedica-
tory Grafton. Besides many dis
spectators who had been
invited, were the Justices of the
Supreme Court in their official robes,
and about thirty of the descendants
and relatives of the illustrious fifth
Chief Justice whose memory was
being honored.
Doctors from all parts Of the United
States visited the city during the
week to the number of two thous-
md, and one of the notable features
of their convention was the presence
Of a number of female members OF
the association. These would have
passed for the wives of delegates had
it not been that now and then, a voice
with an unmistakeable feminine tone,
would be heard rising above the
deeper voices in q viva voce vote.
One of their number told me that
there were some four hundred regular
women practitioners in this country
now; but that they created quite
lively row when they applied for
admission to the Medical Association.
w. l.. HAIL, of the Dallas Herald, and
president of the Texas State Press Associ-