San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. June Is. 1853,

Senator Sherman was asked if he
considered Ex-senator Thurman a
strong man before the people. His re-
ply was: mo, 1 do not. The only
elective office that he was ever a can
didate for was the governorship Of
Ohio, and he was then badly defeated
by Rutherford B. Hayes" This will
doubtless be new to many people. For
if one may judge from the amount of
gush printed about Thurman in some
of the democratic newspapers, many
have supposed him to be a kind Of
| popular idol, when the fact is, that he
has never held the very smallest cleo
| tive office, in truth never received but
one nomination, and was then defeat
ed. He would never have been put
on the ticket with Cleveland if it had
not been found necessary to put him
up to the head of Gray, of Indiana,
who was particularly Objectionable to
Cleveland.
A joint resolution has been passed
by congress granting leave to all per-
sons in government employ, who par
ticipated in the battle of Gettysburg,
to attend the reunion in July.
The senate has passed a bill appro-
priating $500 to place a bust of the
late Chief Justice Waite in the SUI
preme court room.
On motion of Senator Stewart, a
resolution has been passed by the
senate, instructing the secretary of the
treasury to report to the senate the
names of all parties who have offered
to sell, and the names of all parties of
whom bonds have been purchased
since April l, 1888.
An attempt was made Friday night
to hold a Cleveland and Thurman
ratification meeting in this city. The
attendance was very small, and the
enthusiasm was entirely lacking, not
withstanding the fact that red BAN
dannas were plentifully distributed
around the hall.
The Government Printing Office in
vestigation is at last over. There will
be two reports; the democrats will
condemn the methods of Benedict's
republican predecessor, and commend
those of Benedict. The republican re-
port will not waste any space or time
in defending a dead man, who was
unable to defend himself during the
investigation, and who is beyond pun
ishment no matter how guilty he
might have been, but will plunge at
once into the mismanagement of the
present Public Printer, as proven by
his own witnesses, and rumOr says,
the report will recommend his i'm
parchment.
About one-third of congress is in
Chicago, but the routine business is
moving quietly along. The regular
appropriation bills are taking up the
most of the time. 1t will require some
quick work to get all the regular ap-
preparation bills through by July l,
the beginning of the new fiscal year.
Mr.. Blaine will sail for this country
July 8, and Immediately upon his ar
rival, so he writes friend in this city,
he will lake the stump for the nomi-
nee of the Chicago convention. He
will speak wherever the national COM
mittee may think his services are
most needed.
Further consideration of the Fuller
nomination has been postponed until
the 2Sth inst. Likewise the fisheries
treaty.
Ex-senator Mcdonald and VIM. H.
English, who was the democratic
nominee for vice president in 1880,
called on Cleveland Friday, doubtless
to receive his congratulations on the
neat manner in which they killed the
Gray boom.
Senator Chandler proposes an in
vestigation into the peculiar election
methods in vogue in the state of
Louisiana. The Senate has an oppor-
tunity before accepting the credentials
of Senator Gibson, who has been re-
elected to the senate by the legisla-
ture, to get to the bottom of some
| things that are certainly peculiar if
nothing worse.
The spot where John Quincy Adams
fell in his fatal illness in the old hall
of the house of representatives, not
known as statuary hall, is to be
marked by bronze tablet on which is
inscribed, "John @. Adams, February
q, 1S4S." This is around the rim of
the tablet, and in the centre is the
word Here"
Chicago is the magnet toward which
we are all drawn this week, but the
character of the members of that con-
vention is such that all republicans
are willing to trust them, feeling sure
that whatever is done will be the
proper thing, as well as the best. and
that "Vim, Vigor and Victory" will
be the result.