San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-03-07


WASHINGTON. ID. c., March 3.
DAILY LIGHT.
The president is understood to be
taking a great deal of interest in the
II Investigation of the civil service COM
"A mission now going on here, and there
y is reason to believe that the resigna-
ton of at least one member OF the
present board will as a consequence
be asked for at an early day if it is
not rendered voluntarily. Up to the
time that Shidy, confessed perjurer
and the man who was given posi-
ton in the census office here for turn
ing states evidence against the post
master at Milwaukee, was put Oh the
witness stand, Commissioner Lyman
was the only sufferer, but Shidy
Mt made 1T plain that all three of them
Inc are in the same boat and now the
Mt popular verdict is guilty. Guilty of
l@S trying to bamboozle the public with
M. reform talk while following practices
~ that would bring bushes to the
Ne cheek of the most hardened spolls-
man. If this be reform the people
have had quite enough of It,
The senate committee on elections
discussed the Montana senatorial
con test on Saturday without arriving
at any conclusion, and appointed
observation-disclosures Hoar and
NJ Gray-tO make a collection of the facts
|i' in the case and report them to the full
committee next Saturday.
The president of the Western Union
Se telegraph company made an argu-
ment before the house postoffce COM
mittes Saturday against Postmaster
General Wanamaker's postal tele-
graph bill.
Vice President. Morton and family
have gone to Florida for stay of sew
-, eral weeks. Senator Ingalls, has been
elected president pro tempore of the
senate to act during Mr.. Morton's alb
sence.
Secretary Window has accepted
the offer of the North American COM
mercial company of New York and
San Francisco and awarded it the eX-
elusive privilege of taking seals in
Alaskan waters for the next 20 years.
The amount to be paid is bout 81 ,OOO,-
600.
Secretary Tracy has returned from
his hurried trip to Brooklyn. He
looks well, but his extreme restless
ness tells the close observer that his
- shattered nerves have not yet resumed
their normal condition.
The house has seated two more re-
publicans, Atkins, of West Virginia,
apd Featherstone, of Arkansas. The
other contested election cases are to
be pushed along as rapidly as pos
<ble.
Ex-President Cleveland has sold
is suburban residence near this city
Or $l40,OOO His friends say that he
as cleared 100000 in the transac
Hon, but lots of people here believe
that the entire amount received is
profit as the place was given him by
real estate syndicate for the purpose
of booming property in the vicinity.
The bill providing for the holding
&.zn of Worlds Fair in 1892 is still in
the hands OF the house committee,
and will not be reported to the house
until it is fixed up to suit the Chlca-
go people who have not yet fully de-
cided just what they want. 1t will
pass the house though without OppO-
stion, but it's fate in the senate is re-
IA garded as very uncertain.
A Many republicans are beginning to
81 talk up Speaker Reed as the candi-
date for 1872. We might go farther
- and fare much worse. Mr.. Reed has
- two of the principal requisites to
make successful presid lent brains
and backbone.
The members Of the senate in their
attemsts to discover where and how
the newspaper men get the reports of
the proceeding in executive sessions,
are furnishing a heap of fun for the
newspaper men without gaming any
information. If all the senators at
tendent upon an executive session
were locked up for "a hours after
wards it would be perfectly safe to bet
that the newspapers of the next day
would not have the proceedings of
that session.
The Three Americas congress has
adopted a resolution recommending
y the appointment of a commission to
las examine and report upon the feasbil-
ity of building a railroad to connect
the three Americas, and Representa-
- tive BuckaleT has introduced in the
= house joint resolution, authorizing
the president to have an examination
In made and to report the result to con-
II J gress. Il.
The New Discovery.
Won have heard YOUR friends and neighbOrs