San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-01
Ths 1ai1u Eight.
FRIDAY, AUGUST l, 1890.
WASHINGTON LETTER.

DAILY LIGHT.
Secretary Window is preparing, at
the request of the president compre-
bensive statement of the amount of
revenue derived from the importation
of sugar by the government. 1t is
generally understood that this state
ment is to be used as the basis of a
special message which the president
proposes to send to congress, giving
his ideas of what amendments the
senate should adopt to the tariff bill.
There is doubt as to whether the
president will ADVISE the adoption of
reciprocity outright, as advised by
Mr.. Blaine, or some sort of comprO-
mise. The probabilities are strongly
in favor of his taking the latter
course.
The tariff debate has so far been
confined entirely to the democratic
senator's; long speeches have been
made by Senators Voorhees,, Vance
and Morgan. The republicans are
waiting until they have definitely de-
termined just what points in the bill
are to be covered by the amendments,
and one of them said today that he
did not think the vote would be taken
Oh the bill before Septem Der.
Speaker Reed has appointed as con-
ferees on the part of the house on the
Original package" bill, passed last
week, Representatives Reed, of Iowa,
Thompson, of Ohio, and Oates, of AL
ALBANIA. 1t is regarded as practically
certain that the house amendment
will be agreed to by the senate.
The committee on rules reported,
and the house adopted q resolution
instructing the committee Oh pensions
to investigate the charges which Rep
resentative Cooper, of Indiana,
recently made on the floor of the
house, against Gen. Raum, commits
sioner of pensions. The committee
in it's report stated that all of the es-
sen tial statements of Mr.. Cooper are
hearsay and his conclusions conject-
ural, and that they did not know
whether they were true or false: but,
continues the report, whether true |
or false your committee believes that
an investigation should be had to the |
end that the truth may be ascer-
tanned; the public service must not
even rest under q suspicion
and the character of public
officials must be so clean and their
so honorable and
as to command the
public confidence and withstand the
most careful scrutiny. Every public
official should invite the most careful
investigation Of his public and official
acts, and your committee believes
that General Raum, whose public
and private character has been here
tOfOre without faint or suspicion, will
gladly promote the investigation
Raum is very much pleased
with the action of the committee and |
Of the house. He refused to dignity |
the charges by officially asking tor an |
but he has not hest |
tated 10 say privately to members of
the committee that he wished for it.
Senator Sherman has the people |
with him in his effort to have the |
Congressional Record" edited. If
ever there was a publication that |
needed careful, pain taking editor, |
1t is that same cumbrous and mis- |
named Congressional Record"
Postmaster General Wanamaker |
has resumed his warfare upon the
lottery, and is determined, |
if it can possibly be done, that con-
gress shall adopt the bill which the |
house committee on postoffices has |
just reported, which prohibits lottery
circulars and tickets OF drawings,
money or drafts for purchase of lot |
terry tickets or newspapers ntaing
lottery advertisements or drawings
from being carried in the mails or de-
livered by carriers, and imposes a
penalty OF a fire not exceeding $500
and imprisonment not exceeding one
year upon any person depositing such
matter in the mails.
The House committee on elections
expect to decide the celebrated
Clayton-Breckenr con-
tested election case this week. 1t is
believed that it will, by party vote,
decide that Mr.. Breckenridge is not
entitled to the seat which he holds,
and Col. Clayton having been MUIR
dered while trying to obtain evidence
in the case, another election will be
ordered.
Senator Frye has received another
letter favoring reciprocity from Sec
rotary Blaine, and that together with
the correspondence in the Behring
sea negotiations, has caused Mr..
Blaine to be the most talked about
man in the United States. Mr.. Blaine
is very much in earnest about re-
ciprocity, and calls attention to the
fact that as long ago as February he
made q statement to the republican
members of the house committee on
ways and means urging them to con-
ca tr In, b iro In