San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
CFrom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 10

DAILY LIGHT:
Representative Mckinley has had 6
hard task to keep the republicans o.
the house up to the scratch on the
various amendments which have been
proposed and voted on, to the tariff
bill, and on two occasions verbal
amendments which originated from
the m majority of the ways and means
committee, have narrowly escaped de-
feat when the vote was taken.
The senate is still discussing the
Jones silver bill and there is little
probability thata vote will be reached
upon it this week. 1t is believed
that it will finally be passed although
on the repu bllcan side Senators Teller
and Stewart are openly opposing it
and Senator Sherman has said that
he will vote for it very unwillingly, if
at all.
The delegation from the Farmers
Alliance which has been working up
on congress in favor of the bill estab-
fishing government storehouses which
shall receive on deposit agricultural
| products, issuing certificates therefor
| which shall be accepta BILE as currency,
converts among the law makers, on
the contrary their idea is beng vigor-
ously opposed by congressman. There
is little chance of such a bill getting
through this congress.
The election of Representative Car
Isle to be senator gives general salts
faction here among the memb ers of
both parties. There is probably no
democrat in the country whom the re-
publican senators would sooner have
as a colleague.
The committee appointed by the re-
publican house caucus to examine
and report which was the best to
adopt, the Lodge, or the ROwell fed
eral election bill, has reported in IA
vOr of the Lodge bill Invested of the |
Australian ballot feature. Opinion |
still differs widely as to what con-
gress will do in this matter. A large |
majority of the republicans believe |
that a federal election law SHOULD be |
enacted at the present session of con-
gress. hut there's a powerful minority |
of Influential republicans, in and out |
of congress, headed by 10 less per-
sonage than James G.. Blaine, who be-
lieVe that the enactment of such a
law at this time would be very poo r
politics, and that the republican party
would lose much more elsewhere than
it could possibly thereby gain in the
south.
The House and Senate having
agreed to disagree on the pensi
question the matter is now being con-
sidered by conference committee OF
the two houses. There is not a par
ticle OF foundation for the reports
emanating from democratic sources
in this city that the present dead
lock was intentionally gOttenSup 10y
the republicans in order to prevent
any pension legislation at this ses-
sion. The present difference of Opin-
ion between the House and Senate is
an honest one, but the repu blicans
in both houses are fully determined
upon the passage of a pension bill,
and it only remains to adjust the de-
tails as to how far it shall 90 and
what it shall cover, and this will be
done soon.
Secretary Proctor will make an Off
eial inspection of the military posts at
WilIets Point, Sandy Hook, Fort
Hamilton and Fort WadswOrth, New
! OrK, TINS week. senator PlumO Will
accompany him if he can arrange his
senatorial duties so as to spare the
time.
Ex-Civil Service and Indian Com
missioner Oberly has become the bus
mess manager of a daily Democrat C
paper here. He will find a decided
difference between hustling for the
printers and paper makers and draw
ing $1,000 year from Uncle Sam,
while the other fellows hustled.
Ex-senator Plumb of Michigan,
United States minister to Spain, has
placed his resignation in the hands of
secretary Blaine. He proposes to re-
turn to Detroit to live, and says that
he will not under any circumstances
be candidate for governor.
Many democrats will never forgive
Mr.. Mills for having stated on the
iOOr of the house thBt he did not be-
ieve that the majority of the ways
and means committee had been I'm
approached or influenced
while preparing the tariff bill. Such
a statement destroys the political am
of the two-fOr-a-cent style of
democrats and they hate Mills for
having made it. r.