San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-03-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., March L.
DAILY LIGHT:
Senator s''anlord said today that
any body that wanted to, might speak
slightiDgly of, or make fun OF his re-
solution inS;Tuctlng the senate finance
committee to inquire into the teasibIl-
ity of the United States government
loaning the farmers of the country
money at one or two per cent per an
mum taking mortgages upon their
land to secure payment, but that the
resolution was offered after mature
consideration, and he believed it to he
entirely practicable and also 10 he
the best method of restoring prOsperi-
" 10 the depressed agricultural inter
ests Mr. stanford also stated that
he prop seS using all the Influence he
had to get the committee to frame
and report a bill on the subject. The
thing looks somewhat Startlin" at
first glance, but when Il man of Mr..
Stantord'S business experience adj
vanceS business proposition, it is
certainly worthy of careful c2nsidera-
ton.
Secretary Tracy has become dis
%usted with the tlreeOme, long drawn
out, red tape method OF conducting
business i'm certain bureaus of the
navy department and has determined
to have a change, and in order to
| have it made according to his own
ideas he has gone to the Norfolk navy
yard to make a personal nVesIiga-
tiOn into the delays that have attend
ed the completion OF the cruiser Bal
timOre at that yard. Commodore Full
ton, chief of the bureau of provisions
and clothing of the navy department
has resigned and others may go in
consequence of the secretary's deter
! mimatiOn.
Represen tative Lodge, of Massachu-
sets, has introduced his federal cleo
ton bill. 1t contains many features
similar to the Australian system of
! voting and is intended to apply TO all
| congressional and presidential cleo
tions. Each polling place is put in
charge of six Judges, three represent
/ ing each political party. Voters who
| cannot read aud write may have their
tickets marked by one OF the judges,
! in the presence of another represent
! ing the opposite party. pom petition
of 500 voters in any district, the feder-
al government will assume full con-
! troll of the polls under the same regu-
latiOns that apply to state control.
The President has issued prOc!a-
nation warning intending settlers to
keep Oft the Cherokee strip IN the In
dian territory, which many people
seem under the impression was opened
to settlement by the passage OF the
Oklahoma bill. A commission is now
negotiating with the Cherokee ln-
dams for these lands, and it is prob
able that they will be open to settle
ment in the near future, hut they are
not open now.
The democrats have bee. indus
triOusly engaged for some time past
in trying to get up political sensa-
ton by making statements about the
enormous appropriations this Con-
gress was TO make and the big de-
fiCiency there was to be III the Treas
ury instead of "A surplus. Rcpresen-
tative Cannon, of Illinois, who is
chairman OF the House ApprOpria-
ton committee, has, by a statement
Of facts spiked every gun on the dem
Ocratic line. Mr. Cannon says that
with the exception of a pension bill
the appropriations of the present ses-
sion of congress will probably be less
ohan that of the last. and that there
will be surplus enough lett to enable
the republicans to make the contempt
lated reductions in the tariff. Mr..
Cannon is authority in this matter
as no appropriation bill can get be-
fore the House until 1t has been
passed upon by his committee. The
democrats will have to get up some
thing new
A resolution has been adopted by
the house calling for Information
from the secretary of war as to the
facilities and money at his command
to guard the levees and government
works from damage and destruc ion
by the present flood in the Misss-
| sippi river, also what steamers can
be used to rescue those in peril.
The worlds fair bill as approved
by the Chicago committee will prob
ably get before the house this week
1t provides for commission to con-
SYST of two representatives from each
state and territory and two from she
district of Columbia and eight COM
missioners at large to be designated
as the Worlds Columbian Exposition.
1t also appropriates ST ,500,00 for the
erection of buildings to display the
government exhibits, and that the
| United States shall not be liable for
any debts incurred by the said incor-
porstion. The question of date is still
uncertain. The Chicago folks say
they will be satisfied to have con-
| gress settle that.
Speaker Reed proposes to make