San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-15
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Interview with Chandler--Special
Session--Harrison Southern
PoIicy--Coke'S BoluS--

Chandler 10 Tell udUuTdllSJ "HeGlleI
he belonges to the animal or vegeta-
BILE kingdom. Men are by nature
specialists, and congressman are
not exceptions. Each has his fa-
vorite field. and the New Hamp-
shire Senator delights in sub
soiling that south OF the line. pre-
sumably to rid it of the noXious ele-
ments that men like Coke revel in,
whose moral systems are onl y adap-
ted to an atmosphere of carbonic acid
gas.
Senator Chandeliers views on some
of the political topics of the day were
given your correspondent yesterday
at his residence. An extra session is
imperative in his opinion, and will
10 called very soon after MIR. Harrl-
sons Inauguration, before congress
men have left for home; very early iii
April at least.
An indianapolis Associated Press
dispatch of Friday said General Har-
rison has finished his inaugural ad-
dress or message, which was devoted
almost exclusively to the southern
question. Mr.. Chandler said it was
very improbable that the incoming
president, or any one in his conf
dence, would make its contents
| known now; that the telegram must
have been wholly based on the sur
mise of the press reporters, who made
it up from Mr.. HarrsOn's frequent al
lusions to southern election Outrages.
No doubt, declared he, that the mes
sage will deal fully with that prob
lem.
When asked whether or not the
senate was disposed to be as liberal
with its combinations as Cleveland is
with his appointments it would be
improper, he replied, for any of its
members to state.
Referring to the muddle in West
Virginia, he thought the republicans
had not handled the drift-woOd of its
legislature as adroitly as their OPP
ponents, who seemed to have slight
advantage so far. The labor men of
that body ought to have been induced
to side with the republicans.
1t is pertinent to mention here that
Gen. Golf was in the city few days
ago, and it is said had consultations
with prominent Knights of Labor, and
as members of that order hold the
key to the situation in the West Nir-
ginia legislature, this may have some
significance.
The debate on the report upon the
Washington county election case is
set for tomorrow in the senate. Sena-
tors HOar, SpOOner, Evarts, Chandler
and other republican senators will
take an active part and are loaded for
bear, but will have to pull trigger on
much smaller game. Your cores
pondent on Friday last saw a
copy of the Forum, containing
Senator Morgan's article on the negro
question, lying on the desk, in the
committee room Of one of the above
named senators, and from marginal
pencil dashes in it is likely the
Ala bama man will learn what those
dashes were for ere the debate ends.
Coke does not seem as eager to
come up to the scratch in the last
round as he did two years ago TO
enter the ring in defense of the bull |
dOsers and assassins of Washington
county. The fact is he is badly |
winded. He looks like he had taken |
a dose of rough on rats. which has |
sickened him, but he is so surcharged |
with the political virus of his |
section that he is proof |
against all other poisOns. However, |
there is a constitutional prOph- |
yJactic at Gen. Harrison's command |
that will be an effectual antidOte to |
the burly Texas senator's baneful !
qualities, and he will have to take his |
medicine, but it is presumed he will |
have to be forced to swallow it, fin |
gers on nose and mouth pried |
open.
The museum at the navy yard is so |
far removed from other places Of like |
resort in the central parts of the city
that the ceaseless thrOng that flows in |
and out of the latter is not met at that |
of the navy yard. Long before Colts |
inventive brain fashioned the deadly |
weapon, that has cursed Texas and |
stained the souls of so many of it's |
citizens with blood, another had, in |
1907. wrought revolving seven shoot |
ing flint lock rifle, of heavy calibre, |
but its cylinder had to be revOlved |
by hand, and is of simple and neat
workmanship.
A bronze breech-loading cannon,
that in 1890 aided the cruel Cortez to |
subdue the Indians of Mexico, is one |
of the unique curiosities to be seen in |
the same building. Though made |
largely of copper, it is so hard that a
stroke on it by a heavy wedge OF |
wrought iron makes scarcely any
mark. AS the janitOr of the museum
said the knowledge of hardening
metal of that kind is one of the lost
arts. 1t was captured at AlvaradO in |
our war with Mexico.
Near by is one of the first, a Gatlin !
gun, which fired 400 shots a minute, |
but it is quite harmless when |
cOnopora5 with rho ip1proyyoJ 1,,l,ioL /