San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-11
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
Washington Flowers and Senate
Doorkeepers-National Museum
and a Texas Hero-Vest In
the Martyrs Role.

tFrom our Regular Correspondent
WAsHINGToN, January 5, 1889.
Daily LIGHT.
| Mid winter and still the handlers of
the trowel are busy laying brick in
the capitol city. A passing glance at a
| thermometer yesterday on D street,
showed the mercury had sought a
very pleasant point, 40 degrees. To-
day, can be plucked in the Capitol
| Park, blossoms from the Towering
ounce, the yellow jasmine, and an
other modest flower unknown to me.
| 1t has been suggested that nature
wears so broad a smile at the near
prospect of Growers total eclipse. A
malicious, but truthful, paragraph in
the Washington Press runs thus:
Capacity will succeed obesity in
fifty-nine days" ..
Isaac Bossett, assistant doorkeeper
of the senate, gave me the following
anecdote of Gen. Houston, who was
an almost constant whittier in his
seat and out of it. Though not a part
of their official duty, it had become an
unwilling obligation to furnish him
daily, several billets of soft pine,
which, before the hour for adjourn
ment was reached, had been turned in
| to shavings by the generals keen knife
that were troublesome to sweep from
| the heavy carpet, one page holder
than the rest, stated this grievance
to him. Instead of dou bling him all
ND. as he did Santa Anna at San
Jacinto, he kindly said: "Why boy,
whiting is necessity with me; y
habit too firmly fixed to be gotten rid
! of. Hereafter spread some news
| papers around my desk and you can
gather the shavings up with but lit
| tie trouble,n and the suggestion was
carefully followed.
Yesterday an assistant doorkeeper
| of the senate, an Ohio man, and one
of Senator Sherman's trusted ones at
the Chicago convention, pointed to a
vacant chair at his side, at the east
! entrance to the senate chamber, and
your correspondent dropped into it in
search for an item.
Major Mckinley is the only buck
eve i'm the field for the speakership,
General Butterworth being out of
the race. said the doorkeeper. If Mr..
Sherman has any longing for cabi-
net position, he has given no sign
of it.
Mr.. w. H. Michael, clerk
of printing records, of Nebraska,
but an Ohio man by birth, is always
courteous and frank. From his inter
course with senators and representa-
tives he is of the opinion that ma
jority of them are in favor of an extra
session. On this matter he believes
that Gen. Harrison has come to no de-
termination, and will not until he has
taken his seat, when he will be SO cir
cumstanced as to decide it.
He believes Senator Sherman has no
desire for cabinet appointment, as
that is one of the political honors that
he has already enjoyed. If President
Harrison wishes an adviser from Ohio
Mr.. Michael is inclined to the opinion
that Major Mckinley will not lack
Mr.. Sherman's support, as the former
gave him unselfish, unqualified allegi-
ance at the Chicago convention.
A Wisconsin senator's secretary
said number of the senators are OPP
posed to an extra session to avoid the
pressure of office seekers; that the SER
vice would be better filled by not call
ing it. 1t will depend largely on the
, view Gen. Harrison takes of it. The
surplus is not causing repub-
lican senators, he remarked, any
great amount of anxiety, but they are
wearied by their unprecedented Ia
} bors before and since the campaign.
Among them it is the best preserved
tireless ones, that favor an extra SEES
sion.
Mr.. Michael said it is held to be
, true that some kind of a certificate
has reached the clerk of the house
certifying to the election of Bates, O
y Tennessee.
An addition will shortly be made
! to the attractions of the Nationa
museum that will be of no small in.
terest to Texans, as it includes bus
of General Houston, by Henry Dex
ter, the noted sculptor. 1t is one o
3 those modelled by him of thirty-one
l governors in Office in 1860. Through
| the kindness of Senator Hoar, YOU
! correspondent obtained the history ot
, this very valuable collection.
t In 1859 Mr.. Dexter conceived the
7 idea of making these plaster busts
which he purposed executing il
marble, to be purchased by the states
; to be placed in their capitols
or that of the United States
: In the group is bus
3 of President Buchanan and al
but Gov. Wisner's were modelled
from life, he having died before the
artist reached him, which necessitateo
: the use of his photographs and sug
2 gestions from his family.
The artist travelled over 1000 miles
visiting the capitols of all the states
but California and Oregon, which the
war prevented him from reaching
= Although the excitement was great
( and the Falling towards northern