San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-01-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 8. 1883.


!. Locally, Washington cannot cor
: plain OF the year just ended. TRAD
has been good, and tho city has pro
pered. The health statistics are OF
: couraging. and should silence all tal
about malaria" Building has col
. tinuod 10 n remarkable degree, an
the steady demand for houses show
that the increase Accommodation In
not been speculative. The value o
land has also firmly increased. Til,
District government has given faiI
satisfaction, and the city is growing
more popular yearly with Congress
The Treasury cheerfully opened
the New Year with o table showing 0
debt reduction during 1888 OF one
hundred and ten millions of dollars;
and this in spite Of the tax Legislation
of the last Congress, which in the first
operation Of the new law, has cut
down the revenues, twenty eight mil
lions OF dollars. The reduction in
debt for December was twelve mil
lions.
After IN interval OF two weeks Con
gress reassembled Monday, and the
zeal work OF the session has now be-
gun. Among the business awaiting
the house are several interesting in
vestigations to be made at an early
date. One is the charge made by
newspapers OF reputation
and good standing in the party, that
D member Of the Supreme Bench of
the United States was appointed to
mis- position to carry out the the con-
litions of bargain made between
he President then in the chair and
unknown New York capitalists. The
Of the supreme bench is
t stake as long as this charge stands
or until it is proven false
y a committee of Congress. For
his reason O member of the house
rho halls from the same state as the
ccused Judge, told me he intend
d soon to offer resolution, calling
'r a thorough investigation of the
harge by a committee to be selected
ON the ablest members of both
arties in the presenthouse. Anoth
!. matter to be investigated is the
amer in which the Office of Attorney
eneral has been conducted with
ference to the political indictments s
South Carolina, Mississippi, and i
ouisiana. Grave misconduct in Of
70 is charged against the Attorney
eneral in the management of the 6
'osecutlon of these cases. The
embers from these states are all in
vor of an inquiry that will show the
untry just how the cases were tried "
is charged that the Attorney Gen =
al in appointing the Hon Richard 1
'owley (at the Presidents request '
special counsel to aid in the South J
n prosecutions, Crowley being a u
ember of Congress, violated the d
ltute, which forbids a member of ID
'ngress to take fee in any case in u
,ich the Government is concerned. u
is stated that vouchers on file will
ow that Crowley drew pay for his i
,al services, while he was drawing Il
! salary as member of the House. 81
A third matter that Congress will n
TX into, when fairly in working Or =, y,
r, is charge made against Hon. f.
70. Bliss, special counsel for the m
to the effect that he re- tt
we'd thousand dollars for giving Il
adverse opinion in the Ottman ~,
'e against the Government. =,
The tariff reformers and the men h,
% want the unearned IMMIGRANTS tt
tored to the public domain, will u
1eavor to get their work before the ~
'use early in this month, for fear II
ler powerful committees will get tt
lad of them. They hope to send til
tariff matter to the Senate by ttr
first of March, which will give 70 =:
t body plenty of time to develop tn
position on tariff reform. Like n,
Honse it contains new men, who al
re yet to make q positive record I'd
that question: fact which makes IN
outcome quite uncertain. III
Governors Message. fiji
The entire message being too LONG 10