San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-29

comfortable, that correspondence con
tlnues between the Mexican and United
States governments, Is still in progress,
| contemplated by the United States at
present. Beyond this all is conjecture.
The widest rumors prevail, and hot
headed partisans on both sides are spoil
ing for fight. As a matter Of fact, the
true inwardness OF the case may be diff:
ferent from surface indications. Were II
not that this government is so everlast-
ingly slow in asserting the rights OF its
citizens abroad the people would have
much more patience in this instance.
Treading as it does so hard uIOn the
heels of the fisheries Outrages the
apathy Of the foreign department grows
| mOnOtOnOus.
Projection or free trade, is destined
to be one of the watchwords of the great
| political campaign of 1888. On this rock
the democracy are doomed to split and
some of their expert trimmers will be
| hIo 10 NuC III
evitable destiny of the now solid south
| to be divided on the question OF free
trade. In this division inheres the fu-
ture emancipation of southern industry.
MAJOR General John NJ. Claiborne
publishes twenty reasons why Ross
should be elected governor. There Is
just one good reason on the other side
which will outweigh all General Johns
twenty -Sull Ross won't have votes
enough.
The SWANS and Martins are having n
high old time in Houston to-day. Har-
ris county is out with war paint and
feathers and there will be music in the
air before the delegates are chosen. The
clerks will be provided with ready
reCkoners" and all columns of figures
will be verified by experts from both
factions before results are announced to
the convention. Martin ia supposed to
have the inside track, but the Swain
men do not concede this. Great is the
democracy on counting, but who will be
counted In no man knoweth.
TIE United States senate refuses to in
vestigate the charges made by the Ohio
Legislature, the republican press of the
state and the governor. This is in effect
for the senate to say that buying the leg
islative caucus of a state is not an in
discretion for which a senator should be
called in question, provided he is rich
and can afford it. Seventeen senators
voted that 1t was an indisCretiOn and
should be Investigated, but the other
forty and four said no and they were too
hefty for the righteous seventeen.
Great is standard oil.
The RIVER and harbor bill now before
congress with all its amendments and
changes sees very little chance OF ever
becoming law. The morning dispatches
report more cOncilIatory feeling
among the cOnferees of the house and
senate, but little dependence can be put
in any definite results by conference so
long as the senate insists on provisions
to which the house is unalterably OPP
posed, and the Hennepin canal people
are determined to press their claims to
the better end. This Hennepin canal
construction scheme has been before
congress several years, its friends are
many and powerful and it will not be so
easy to shelve it as some of the members
OF congress imagine. Its friends may
have strength sufficient to kill all confer
ence compromises that set aside its
claims, ifno more. These obstacles over
come, there remains the threat of the
presidential veto, which, like binding
lightning, strikes no one knows when
or how until the damage is done. The
river and harbor improvements of this
country are quite likely to be hung up
TO dry until after the next session of
congress
The RIOT in Amsterdam, in which
eighteen police were severely wounded,
arose from the police attempting to pre-
vent the lower orders indulging in
barbarous pastime called eel killing,
which has the sanction of antiquity to
recommend it and has been long given
its recognition in the calendar of popu-
lar sports.
Thu New York Sun is exasperating.
Ii reads Of st. Paul sunstrokes, st.
Louis mercury at 100 In the shade, Cen
trail Illinois blistering at l02 under the
verdant tree tops, Texas raking in the
persimmons for scorchers at l07-and
then getting on the lee side of one of
those Labrador ice-bergs with which.
the North Atlantic sea coast is dotted
this July, pens an editorial on the "cool
summer" This is adding insult to in
jury. Let the writer come out west,
down south, say to Dallas or Waco or
Austin, and he will soon repent, saying,
81 believe in hereafter, send me my
summer clothes"
ENGLAND, Scotland, Ireland, and even
little Wales, are all at sea concerning
the outcome of the Irish question. Sails
bury finds the formation Of cabinet,
even on paper, a most formidable task.
What may he not find it when he comes
to confront the liberal hosts with his
patched up policy Of peace for Ireland.
There Is such a general impression that
his cabinet cannot hold together six
months that no man of brains wants to