San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-04-10

Of tho South. II would stimulate
them to grapplo with difficulty il
the presence OF which they stood
appalled,, and give TO common sehoo
education in that section an impetus
II had never known. The Mississippi
Statesman had closer attention from
Senators than is usually accorded tc
one Of their number.
| The Senate has seen III TO draw q
line on Judges Of tho U. s. Courts,
In passing bill which fixes their
annual salaries at $4,000, an amend
ment prohibits them hereafter from
providing for relatives within the
degrees Of first cousin. Tho people
will be grateful for this rs far as il
goes no doubt but will fail TO see any
point in discrimination against the
Federal Judiciary, while Presidents,
Cabinet officers, heads ofdopartments,
and bureaus, members Of tho Senate
and House, and army and navy officers
are permitted to make the patronage
OF the country family heritage.
The River and Harbor bill has
nearly been completed in committee.
The aggregate OF the bill will be about
eleven million dollars. The principal
items will BIO appropriations for the
Mississippi, Missou-Iand Ohio rivers,
and the great harbors on the Atlantic,
Pacific, Lake and Gulf coasts. To
the Mississippi md its tributaries
five million will be given, but it has
not been decided what part Of the
amount shall be expended on the
Mississippi itself.
A memorial has been presented in
the Senate from the Legislative
assembly Of Utah, protesting against
the passage Of masures now pending
before Congress, which affect the
interests of that Territory, without
full investigation by Congressional
committee.
The Senate committee on woman
suffrage has just reported favorably
the joint resolution proposing IN
amendment to the constitution to
extend the right of suffrage to women.
This was the action of the majority
of the committee. The minority will
present their views later.
FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.
Last week inaugurated the begin
ming of tho end of the session, in the
struggle for consideration among rival
bills which have been made especial
orders" The bill for the retirement
of the trade dollar was among those
which got the best of the scramble
for precedence and came before the
House. From this time forth there
VII be continual fight for prece-
dence among the five hundred bills
that are reported favorably and are
waiting the inclination of the House.
There are seven overdue special
orders, two pending contested cleo
ton cases, and ten appropriation bills,
not to speak of the threatened tariff
il,all of which have the parliamentary
right of way and are liable to be called
up at anymoment. Hence the chance
of even a favored bill is small as
against the field. Besides, at the
present rate of progress, which is
about fourteen bills and resolutions
in three months, Congress will be
obliged to sit for about nine years to
pass only these five hundred bills.
And Congress viii die of old age now
in less than year, and will only pre-
tend to attend to business for six
months of that time. It is, however,
usually during the last days of the
session that most of the actual-bill-
passing is done, but the flicker Of
energy excited by the touch of the
hand of death is but poor compensa-
ton for the sloth of the long months
Of leisure wasted in adjournments,
talk, dead-locks, roll-calls and alleged
eulogies. Fifty or a hundred bills,
generally of small and unimportant
character, are squeezed through at the
last moment by luck or good manage
ment, but the great body of work
falls by default. The Forty-seventh
congress fur nished an example OF
this chronic slow legislation, for over
one thousand favorable reports and
Senate bills were pending in the
House when the gavel came down
like the stroke Of fate on all plans
and hopes.
Active preparations are making for
the completion Of the Washington
Monument. The work of setting
stone will be resumed at the begin