San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, ID. c., September 30
The President has been greatly ben-
Gifted by his stay at Deer Park and
is now fully prepared to tackle the
eight or nine months of hard work,
which it may fairly be said have al
ready began at the White House. No
one more deeply regrets the tune that
the publication of the correspondence
between "private" DalZell and "Cor-
poraln Tanner has given to the retire.
ment of the latter from the Pension
uffice than the President, and he wish
es all comrades OF the Grand Army to
unders tand that he is now, as he al
WAYS has been, their friend and COM
rade, and that their interests are not
in, or likely to be in any danger while
he remains in office.
Again it is being positively asserted
by parties very near to him that At
torney General Miller is to be appoint
ed to the vacancy in the supreme
court at an early day. Nothing can
be learned on the inject at the White
House.
Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son has gone to the warm springs in
search of health. He has worked
very hard for the past seven months,
and being only human 1t has told on
him. He says he only needs few
days rest.
The repu bIicans in this city under
the auspices of the Ohio state assOcia-
worth, who has just returned from
Europe, big reception tonight; $500
people attended and great enthusiasm
prevailed.
One of the 5000 ton cruisers to be
built by the navy department is to be
constructed at the New York navy
yard, and the other at the Norfolk
navy yard. If the secretary can build
these vessels as well and as cheap as
he thinks he can, they will in all
probability be followed by many
others.
Ill-informed people speak of the
changes that are to be, or should be
made in the rules governing the
House Of Representatives, when in
fact, there are no rules. When
Speaker Carlysle adjourned the House
of Represen natives of the Fiftieth
Congress on the 4th OF March, last, at
high noon, that body as an organiza-
ton ceased to exist and with it died
the rules, with which it had been
misgoverned. On the first Monday in
December the first session of the Fiji
ty-tirst Congress will begin, and one
of the first things to be done in the
House after effecting an organization,
will be to adopt rules, and right then
the political fighting is likely to be.
gin. 1t is understood that an effort
will be made to get up set of joint
rules which shall govern both House
and Senate. In the past both Houses
have always had their own separate
rules.
Judge Croft, the new Commissioner
of the General Land office, has taken
Off his coat and buckled down to work.
He has made a very favorable i'm
preston here.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
has furnished the President sched-
ule, showing in detail the present
status Of every presidential postoffice
where no change has been made by
the present administration. Con-
gressmen and others hunting for this
species of scalps may prepare them
selves accordingly.
Most people here seem to think that
the Tanner-Dalzell correspondence
will result in barring both of those
gentlemen out of the official pasture.
1t makes one think of Inauguration
times to see the preparations being
made here for the Knight Templar
conclave which assemblies here next
week for ten days stay. Well take
good care of the 1000 people ex-
pected just as we will of the great
crowd that will attend the American
Exposition of 1892.
The Vice President is in Washing
ton experimenting the completion of
his new residence, and of the man.
moth building to be known as the
Morton flats. He expects to occupy
the residence by the first of NOvem-
Der.
Who shall be Pension Commission
ner, is still an open question, though
The appointment is looked for every
hour. Mr.. A. B. Campbell, of Kan
sas, is the present favorite, but the
friends of ex-Representative Brown,
of Ohio and the other candidates have
by no means given up the fight.
Senator Sherman left for Ohio to-
day. He will put himself into the
hands of the state committee, filling
all engagements they may make tor
speeches.
Secretary Rusk is again at his desk,
looking all the better for his western
trip. No man has ever gained great
er popularity in Washington in the
same length of time than "Uncle Jer-
ry," as nine people out of ten call the
secretary of agriculture, has. If he
should some day be called up higher