San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-03-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8, 1886.

ing between il and tho PRESIDENT anu
GOOD entertainment is expected by
tho galleries, A most decided change
Inns como over tho spirit OF senator
Edmunds' dream since the forty-iirst
congress. A speech delivered then
has just been unearthed, which shows
that he did not always think as nc
does now about tho presidents pre-
rogatives. In it he said: sit Is
cause enough for me, sir, constitu-
tional cause, when the president OF
the United Statos, acting upon con-
scientious sense of his responsibility
to the people, chooses to send in one
mans name for a place that another
holds"
And then / remember sentence OF
bis eulogy in the senate over senator
Morton, delivered some years ago.
II made even the studiously unim-
questionable Corailing smile and look
puileless. 1t was when he hit the
administration foul by saying senator
Morton was not one of those repub-
leans that believed tho best inter
ests of a cause would be promoted by
appointing its opponents to office.
To tho surprise of many senator's
the educational bill was endorsed by
three.fourths Of their body. In the
debate which had been going on for
three weeks the opponents OF the
measure had decidedly the best OF
tho argument, but many senators
were committed upon it by their
votes in the last congress. There
will be no such obstacle to independ-
ent Judgment in the house, where the
bill now goes, and 1t is believed in
Washington that it will pass that body
and become law.
Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, held
that the condition of the South war
ranted the Legislation Of this bill as
temporary eXpediency to meeta great
public exigency. The aid offered
should not be regarded as daily
bread, but as medicine for grave
national disorder. Said he, "The
South of to-day is not the South OF
twenty-five years ago. The exhaus
ton Prussia under Frederick, or OF
France under Napoleon, was not
more thorough than had been the
ruin of the South. All her local in
stitutions-industrial, financial, edu-
cational and religious-had been
shattered and pulverized, their very
foundations turned up and destroyed ;
and her political rehabilitation had
been committed to her former negro
slaves, not only elevated to be free
men, but enfranchised and intrusted
with political control"
Mr.. Stanford, California's million
aire senator, is among the earnest III
dorsers of the proposed Permanent
Exhibition in Washington in connec
ton with the celebration of the cen
tennial anniversary, in 1889, of the
adoption of the constitution. A per
munent exhibition of the products
and attractions of the three Americas
at the national capital strikes many
congressman us an admirable idea,
because of it's benefits to the business
interests of the country.
Delegate Josephs, of New Mexico,
who is the only Spanish-American in
congress, is enthusiastically in favor
of the enterprise. He says the i'm
mense trade of the South American
republics which we ought to have
England controls, for the reason that
there is lack of business acquaint
ance between the United States and
the southern countries.
The recent adheslvoness of the dis
tinguished DIR. Newman to the rich
California senator has caused the lat
ter some discomfort of late. Mr.
Stanford has shown some interest IL
the Metropolitan church, of this city,
to which DIR. Newman has been
called, by attending it occasionally
the Baltimore Conference, which is
sitting here now, is ready to make mp
pointments, and Rev. Newman is anX
ious to secure this passionate. Among
reports about this matter is one tC
the effect that senator Stanford was
exerting himself to secure the posi-
ton for Dr. Newman, and it is Ger
tain that the people of the Metropol
itau church have been led to believe
that if DIR. Newman gets the appoint
ment the church will receive substan.
tial aid from senator Stanford.
1t would seem that the Cr9sus OF
the Pacific coast does not relish thi,
kind of popularity and gossip, for he
has recently taken pew at st. john
Protestant Episcopal church, and III
tends to occupy it. Senator Stan
ford is by far the richest man in con
grcss.
He is not considered an intellectual
force. but he propably gives the mOst