San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-13
cok.-oNDENcE.
An Interview with the Father OF the
House-Some Sights In WASH
ington-HilI and Goodbye
Grover, Goodbye.

the house, the Hon. WIN. ID. Kelley
of Pennsylvania, would introduce {
resolution shortly, inquiring into thu
murder of Jno. NJ. Clayton. A cal
was made on him last night to verify
it, and it was found wholly untrue, al
expected. 1t would be useless TO dc
so now, he said. as it would be re-
jected by the democratic majority. He
is in favor of refusing to seat Mr..
Breckenridge in the next congress IN.
til an examination shows that
he is entitled to be seated,
and this is concurred in by the repub,
lican members to whom he has spoken
on the question.
Since the Clayton assassination the
following query appeared in city
paper: Can the title to a contested
seat in congress be perfected by the
murder of the contestant? Which
Mr.. Kelly said was a remark made by
him to reporter, who Photographed it
for the editorial columns. This query,
Mr.. Kelly declared, summed up the
whole matter.
Coming from one who has
been continuously i'm the house
for twenty-eight years and reelected
to the 5lst congress; man cOnserva-
tive and friendly to the south, and
who in '"The Old South and the New"
has so glowingly described her re-
sources and future, his views on the
Clayton assassination are of more
than ordinary weight, and may be
rightly held as outlining the purpose
of the republican horse hereafter.
Mr.. Kelley spoke of Col. G.. w.
Jones, of Bastrop, in a manner that
showed that he held him in high re-
spect, and that while in congress their
relations were of more than ordinary
intimacy. When the interview end
ed Mr.. Kelley presented me with
copy of his work entitled "The Old
South and the New" in which, with
a kindly pen, are set forth the manu-
featuring capabilities of that sec
ton, as also its agricultural. When
will its people deal as literally with
the wished-for emigrant, politically
and socially, as nature has with those
native to the soil.
This city is a gathering place for
unique malformations in humanity.
One son of Ham can be seen on the
streets pOwerless to go ahead or re-
treat, for he can only move sideways,
while another moves always |
with the same leg in ad-
vance, cross legged; but the
most pitiable object of all is he who,
at a tortoise pace, walks upon his |
hands and feet, with his face up
turned to Heaven, with never |
charging, agonized look to his Max er
for relief. TO one who, having any
pity in his nature for the afflicted, |
has once looked on this poor wretch |
with its narrowing, tOrturing crawl, |
memory holds fast with a grasp that |
is painful.
And a one-armed bicyclist goes
whirling by with an ease and skill |
that leads one to feel that another |
wing would be an impeachment.
Last Sabbath, after a nine mon tbs |
stay in the city, an invoIunt ary view
of Grover was had while talking TO a
friend in his parlor on Seventeenth |
street. The solid South's pet creation
passed by in a barouche, with the |
mistress of the White House along
side the presidential satyr-ought it |
not to be spelled satire? When has
he by message, word or pen con-
demned the crimes that made the
election to his place possible?
Senator Stanford has secured a |
room on the Avenue, from which to |
view the inaugural parade, at the |
trltling sum of scotland yet the fund
for the poor of the city is exhausted,
and the police report constant and in
creasing calls upon them for aid.
4 morning paper dissecting R. @
Mills, says: "He is now known for
well balanced political economist in
stead Of a Thereafter" yes, he has
been weighed in the political balance
and found wanting; Samuel J. Ran
dali was meant.
What an amazing quantity of good
republican material was wasted in
SamuePs composition. He looked
perfectly at home today when he am
bled into the senate with that peculiar
walk Of his, and took his seat on
the republican side, by the genial,
big-minded Allison. A senate door
keeper said today, if there is a man in
it without spot or blemish, the Iowa
senator is built that way. Mr.. Ran
dali is a favorite with all; has no
enemy but himself. Naturally of q
powerful constitution, he finds him
sells at sixty with but little physical
capacity to sustain the mind of a
giant.
Speaker Carlisle was in the chair
today, or rather on his feet in front of
it, humping his desk almost con-
stantly with either the big end
Of the mallet, or varying the
monotony of the thumps, by
striking it with the handle, be-
seeching, commanding the members
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