San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1888.

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an official act that gave his colleagues
more genuine satisfaction than wher
he declared the senate adjourned sine
die. And it is only the truth to say
that the adjournment was received
with great satisfaction by every one
it might have taken place six weeks
ago without detriment to any one, as
no business of any Importance has
been or could have been by any pos
sibility passed by both houses. The
adjournment was brought about by
necessity; only handful of congress
men being in attendance when the
adjournment took place-less than a
dozen in the senate, and not twenty in
the house. The session may fairly be
said to have died from exhaustion. 1t
was the quietest adjournment ever
seen in this city, about the only Incl
dent worth mentioning being the
singing of the DoXolOgy by a group of
very, very tired newspaper correspon-
dents in the press gallery of the
house, Immediately after. Speaker
Carlisle declared the house adjourned
sine die. If anybody has right to re-
turn thanks for this adjournment it is
the occupants of the press galleries in
the house and senate, who have just
completed nearly eleven months of
consecutive service, writing daily on
such exciting and eXhilerating sub
jects as the tariff, the Chinese ques-
ton, etc.
The Senate Finance commi5tee will
continue its investigation OF trusts
during the recess.
The first session of the tifCieth con-
gress was just eighteen days longer
than the longest previous session in
the history of the government.
The delegation of sixty Sioux In
dian chiefs have gone back to their
reservation without accomplishing
anything. All but IA of them posi-
lively rejected q proposition submit
ted to them by Secretary Villas, 10
want %. and want it all paid at
once by the government,
Gen. Alfred PIeas&ntOn has, 10y
act or congress, been placed on the re-
tired list of the army with the rank |
of major. This is the rank which !
Gen. Pleasantom held in me regular |
army at the close OF he war, when he |
resigned.
Senator Mitchell has the honor Of |
having introduced the last bill in the |
senate previous to the adjournment. |
1t was bill, too, thai 4 good many |
people think should become law. 1t |
proposes an amendment to the cOnSti-
tuition providing for the election OF
United States senators by the direct
vote Of the people.
The directors of the Garfield hospi-
tai in this city have raised quite a
rumpus by electing a Canadian physi-
clan to be house physician OF that in
stitution. 1t is probable that the
courts will be called upon to decide
whether this action is not a violation
of the law prohibiting the importation
Of foreign laborers under contract
Trinity church, New York, had to pay
3 fine of 81, 900 for importing an assist
ant rector from England. The two
cases are similar, but whether the
Judges in our courts will rule as the
New York judge did, remains to be
seen,
The notorious Eugene Higgins, ex-
chief clerk in the treasury depart
medt, has been here hob-nObbing with
the big democrats. This is a sure sign
of crookedness somewhere. Higgins
should be carefully watched between
now and election day. 1 understand
that Higgins will have charge of a
gang of ballot box experts in New
York, on election day, who will get in
all the crooked votes for Cleveland
and Thurman that they possibly can,
provided, of course, that the wide
awake republicans of New York City
do not succeed in getting them Put be-
hind the bars beforehand.
The latest effort to bolster up the |
falling fortunes of the democratic
party in New York City, is the an
that Mr.. Cleveland will |
review the democratic parade which |
is to toxic place there next Saturday.
If the sight of Cleveland can raise any
among the citizens of |
New York, then they must differ very |
widely from the people in this city.
The republicans of this city are |
working hard in order to send every
man that votes in either OF the doubt |
full states to his home before election |
day. Those whose cannot afford to |
pay their way have transportation |
furnished them gratis.
III is IlGIle queer 10 IlOle JIe laFGe |
of vessels in our small navy |
that are just now in urgent need of
repairs. 1t is also queer that they
are all sent to navy yards located in |
states that the democrats are making
special efforts to carry. But then |
perhaps there is connection between
The two facts. G. A. S.
SAN ANTONIO, BeXar county, and
the entire tenth district, will enter
up protest against free trade and