San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-02-10
EDITORIAL CLIPPINGS.

Paris News.
The next Legislature should be COM
posed of men who will submit cOnsll-
tutiOnal amendment that will provide
for the speedy trial of all persons charged
with crime.
Victoria Advocate.
Where, oh, where, is the cash balance?
Roberts was pretty generally cursed for
accommodating it, and Ireland Will most
likely be as thoroughly damned for
spending it.
Cincinnati Timcs-Star.
Congressman and others who declined
TO take stock IN the Pan Electric Com
pany are now cOngratulating one an
other. Sunset Cox shakes hands with
himself in far distant Turkey.
Fort Worth Gazette.
The boycotters are riding high horse.
but it is u dangerous animal. Before
long it will buck and land them in the
mud. Public opinion will not tolerate
everything in the sacred name of liberty.
Houston Age.
1t would be well for the county and
the people to have the immense sums Of
money heaped up in the Government
Treasury vaults put into circulation.
Yet nobody wants to see Congress make
extravagant or foolish appropriations.
Fort Worth Mail.
In rendering u decision the other day
in New York Judge COwen said 1t was
"a wicked and awful crime fOF-smuni-
pal legislator to sell himself for corpra-
lion money" 1t should be made fell
ony everywhere, and Tweed the exam
pie.
Chicago News.
Mr.. Randall explains his peculiar con-
duct toward q newspaper correspondent
who was summarily ordered from the
presence, by saying he had an attack OF
the govt. The frightened reporter
thought it was a sudden case Of the "git
out"
National Republican lWashngtOm.
1t is cheerfully predicted that the time
is not far distant when the House of
Representatives will begin to think 1t
probable that it would not be bad idea
to consider the propriety of work as one
of the possible contingencies of its glo-
rious future.
Chicago Intcr-Occan.
There never was a time when the
United States Senate could more apprO-
priately say all that ii has got to say In
the presence of all the people. The
President having gone behind glal
doors is an additional reason why the
Senate should throw its doors open.
St Louis Globe-pemocrat.
The Republicans had their Credit Mo-
bilier and the Democrats have their
Pan-Electric. The Republicans shared
the profits of the Credit Mobilier with
the Democrats, but the Democrats do
not seem to have shared the profits of
the Pan-Electric with the Republicans.
Dallas News.
Senator Cameron has introduced a
bill from the committee on naval affairs
providing for the appointment OF an
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, whose
salary shall be $1,000 and term Of office
be for life Here is a chance to get one
Democrat in office who will hold it
against time and bad luck of his party.
Gonzales Enquirer:
There is no use in any more comedy
troupes coming to Texas, for we have
one at Austin that like the poor is al
ways with us, and which in ridiculous
farces and all sorts of humorous perform
ances can put Joe Jefferson to shame.
OF course we refer to the Land Board,
which is regarded as a huge joke per-
sonified. Oh Terrell! what fun We do
look forward to this summer.
Washington Critic.
A cutter from the Austrian man-of-
war, now in New York Harbor, was run
into by a tug. Following so soon upon
the Kelly episode, this may lead to the
further arrangement Of the two coun-
tries. The Austrian Government should
be promptly informed that.there is moth
ing unusual about the accident. The
New York tugs have been frequently
known to run down our own aavy in
| the same way.