San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.

thrOm Our Regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Doc. Is, 1890
Special to the LIGHT.
The President, aided by the cabinet
has reached what he and they believe,
10 be a satisfactory solution of the
problem of how to end the striDgency
OF the financial market, and 1t is eI-
pected that he will send special
message to Congress this week, re-.
commencing that authority be given
the Secretary of the r. easury to pur-
chase a large quantity of silver bull
lien immediately-just how large /
cannot positively say. Secretary
Window. who has just returned from
New York, where he went to confer
with the leading lights of the finsn-
cial world, is understood to favor
purchasing the present stock of 49,,
000. 900 ounces OF silver and also of an
additional amount, equal to the re-
turned national bank Dtes, estimat
Ell at S20, 100000. If both these sug-
gestions are adopted by Congress. it
will place $50 DOC. 900 in circulation
Treasurer Huston also has an idea
that with the assent of congress will
authorize the transfer of the $1,000,
lying idle In the treasury aud the
S., O0O, 900 i'm silver trade dollars, also
lying idle, to the bullion account for
recoining into standard silver dollars,
and to allow the secretary of the treas.
ury to issue treasury notes there
for.
Secretary Window reports greatly
improved feeling among The New
York bankers, who believe the worst
tu have passed, and that confidence
will soon ne resro ed There's the
ONT of the trouble. Once restore
confidence, and money will soon he
easy again, and although many pro
minent senators and representatives
believe congressional Legislation to be
unnecessary. they have expressed
themselves as being willing t. sup
port any reasonable measure. because
of the effect 10 will have IN restoring
confidence among the people.
nave discovered the true inward.
ness of the movement among leading
democrats, to re-Organize their ma
tiOnal and congressional committees.
for the purpose of beginning the work
OF the next presidential campaign.
An Englishman, representing u So
cret organization of English, French
. I'D German manufacturers, who is
at present in Washington has been
the moving spirit in the matter. The
men he represents have raised All
enormous fund, said 10 he well over q
million of dollars, which they wish
used to combat the epubiicau party
aud the protective tariff, and he has
been sent over here to tender it to the
democratic leaders, IL they will prom.
Use 10 begin at once the distribution of
flee trade literature among the voters
of tue country, u promise which IL re-
quired no persuasion to obtain from
the democratic bosses, who are ubl-
liant among themselves at the prospect
of an unlimited campaign fund. The
reorganization scheme is only little
dodge to blind the public.
II Secretary Noble can have his
way, the pension attorneys will soon
nave to seek new employment He
is working to get every state to adopt
system similar to what has been
working satisfactorily in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Massachusetts, tor
some time. That is, tor ex-soldiers Of
the several states TO file their appli-
cations for pensions with the attorney
general of the state, who prosecutes
the claim before the pension office,
without cost to the claimant. The
House committee on Invalid pensions
seems to he in sympathy with Mr..
Noble, for it has m Ide favorable re
port on bill reducing the attorneys
fee to 81 for prosecuting applications
for increase of pensions, on account of
increase of disability.
Senator Squire, chairman of the
subcommittee which went to the
Pacific coast to investigate the work
ings of the anti Chinese law, has re-
turned. He says the committee
learned that many Cinnamon and
much opium have been and are being
struggled over the northern border,
Tut that 1t Is due to not having
sufficient force of men employed to
enforce the law, and not to defects in
the law.
Senator Pettigrew, South Dakota,
who arrived here Saturday, Is indig.
nant over the outrageous Indian sto-
ries which have been printed in the
eastern papers. He says irrespon-
sible "space" writer's are responsible
for the scare, which has only existed
in their imsginations. II.
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