San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-07

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has had several consultations with
President Green of the Western
Union Telegraph company, and
rumor says that compromise be-
tween the government and telegraph
company is on the eve of being effect
ed. Mr.. Wanamaker refuses to con-
firm or deny the rumor. In reply to
a direct question he said:
II have nothing to say about the
conversation with Mr.. Green. There
is nothing to be said publicly about a
matter which is under private dis
CUSTOM"
The President on Friday settled
one of the hardest fought contests
for all office that has yet been fought
before him, by the appointment of
Frank p. Clark, to be collector of GUS
toms at FL Paso, Texas. There were
thirty seven candidates in the field
for this office and each of them has
been, since the fourth of March
"hustlIng" as only a Texan knows
how to hustle" to "get there.n The
man appointed has from the first been
the choice of Secretary Window for
the place and four times his commits
sion has been sent to the President
for his signature, but the other candi-
dates by combining succeeded each
time in preventing the attachment
of the Presidents autograph thereto.
This case gives good idea of the
trouble there. is in filling the offices.
All of the cabinet officers except
Secretaries Blaine and Rusk are now
in the city, but it is probable that
several of them will take short vaca-
tons during this month.
Secretary Tracy has several intri-
cate problems to solve, and is COM
PEELED to deny himself to official call
ers for several days to come. He will
first give hearings to both sides in
the controversy over the battle ship
"TeXas" now on the stocks at the
Norfolk Navy Yard. One side con-
tends that if built on the present
plans she will not float, and the OF her
that the plans are all right. Both
cannot be right, and the amount of
money nvolved-mOre than 100000
makes the question very impor-
tant one. In addition to this the
Secretary will try to arrive at some
conclusion regarding the completed,
but unaccepted vessels Nesuvius,
Petrol and Charleston.
The national museum here has just
been presented with two interesting
war relics. One is the gun-a light
double-barreled fowling piece-with
which Col. Ellsworth Of the New York
Iouaves was killed on the steps of the
Marshall house in Alexandria, Vir-
ginia, as he was returning from the
roof whittier he had gone to remove
confederate flag; and the other is the
old fashioned army musket, with
sword bayonet, with which the slayer
of Ellsworth was shot and afterward
pinned to the floor by Private Brown
ell. The weapons were presented to
the museum by Mr.. Brownell in whose
possession they have been since the
unfortunate tragedy, which at the
time of its occurrence-May "A, 1S6i-
created profound sensation through
out the United States.
The navy department has been
notified by the Cramp Brothers of
Philadelphia, the contractors, that
the new cruiser philadelphia" will
be launched ON the 9TH inst.
Representative Caldwell, of Ohio,
who succeeds General Brown, is in
town. He says the Ohio delegation
will vote as unit for Mckinley for
speaker, and that all the talk by
friends of the other candidates of sup
port from Ohio is without the slight
est foundation.
Hon. Edward Wolcott, the new
senator from Colorado, is in Wash
ingtOn to secure q house. He refuses
to discuss politics saying that he
wants to familarize himself with
things before, as they say in the
mines, shooting his mouth off"
Sixth Auditor Coulter is one of the
new officials courageous enough to
say that he believes the offices should
be given to the men who helped elect
the President. He also believes in
keeping up the work of his office, and
he has just given practical illustra-
ton of how to do it, by putting his
whole force to working until O'Clock
at night in order to catch up on the
examination of the money order &C
counts from $500 postotfices, which
he found much behind. Mr.. Coulter
is what the Mugwumps call a "spoils-
man, but to "a man up q treen it
1T looks as if it would be good thing
to have more like him in office
Washington knows that the gov
eminent which owns enough ground
here to place the necessary buildings
upon for the Worlds Exposition of
1892 will never consent to it's going
elsewhere, hence she is not losing
any sleep on account of feeble efforts
of New York and Chicago to capture
the show.
In view of the frequency of mail
robberies the postmaster general has
issued an order OFFERING $1,000 reward