San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-12
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SATURDAY, JULY II, 1890.
WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From Our Regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c., July Z, 1890
DAILY LIGHT.
Senator Morrill,, chairman of the
committee on finance, today called up
the Mckinley tariff bill, as amended
by his committee, in the senate and
made speech, opening the debate,
the end of which no man is rash
enough to attempt to set date for.
There was a disposition on the part of
senators favorable to the river and
harbor bill to have that measure dis
posed of before the tariff bill was TAX
en- up, but owing to the fact that
there is q doubt in the minds of many
senators as to whether the president
will sign the river and harbor bill, if
it is passed by the senate and the
senate amendments agreed to by the
house, but little was done towards
antagOnizing the tariff bill with it.
Democratic senators are openly
threatening to talk out the rest of the
Fifty-first congress on the tariff bill,
unless the republicans will promise
not to take up the federal election
bill in the senate at this session.
This can be done under the present
rules of the senate, If the democrats
have the nerve to carry out their
threats. Of course the senate can, if
so disposed, changs it's rules so as to
upset this little democratic scheme,
but from conversations with num-
Der of leading republican senators
think the sentiment is at this time
in the rules which would be necessa-
ry to doit. Many republican senators
are under the impression that there
is no general demand by the party |
throughout the country for the enact 1
ment of a federal election law, SO that |
1t may be said that the fate of the |
measure is III the hands of the repub |
lican voters of the country; if they |
wish iG passed let them make that
fact known to their senators, and it |
will be done. That's the whole stu
alton in nutshell.
U. s. Treasurer Huston, who has
been ill for quite a while has recover
ed and resumed his duties. Mr.. Hus-
ton is deservedly popular official.
Ex-Representative Valentine, the
new Sergeant at arms of the senate,
has made jump into popularity by
raising four mammoth United States
flags at the feet of the Goddess of
Liberty on the top of the dome of the
capitol, on the Fourth. Strange as it
may sound, this is the first time that
the national flag has been raised over
the capitol since that building was
com pleted, except when the house
and senate was in session, because
Of the rules, which say that
the flags over the respective houses
Of congress shall be hoisted only
when they are in session, consequent
ly on all holidays and during the re-
cess of congress there has been no flag
over the capitol. This has been sur
prising to all visitors, particularly
those from foreign countries, and Mr..
Valentine is deserving of credit, for
having been the first one to solve the
problem of how to raise the flags.
He had four stats temporarily erected
pointing north, south, east and west,
and it is probable that they will be
made permanent.
Today is individual suspension day |
in the house, and what is to come up |
later in the week is not yet fully de- |
termined upon, though the committee |
on elections will try to get some Of the |
contested election cases disposed of, if |
the appropriation bills, which usually |
have the right-of-way, do not pre-
vent.
Mr.. Blaine has gone to Maine and is |
not expected 10 return for some time,
unless the complications with Great |
Britain in regard to the Behring Sea
fisheries shall reach q crisis. There |
was rumor here last week that the |
Squadron of Evolution" had been |
ordered to Behring sea to protect |
American interests at all hazards, but |
1t is stated at the navy department
that the squadron is on its way home,
having sailed from Rio de Janeiro
Saturday.
There are now forty-three stars on
the legal flag of the United States,
the President having signed the bill
admitting Idaho as a State on the
3rd inst, the law providing that
the new star shall be added on the
Fourth of July succeeding the law
admitting a new State. Owing to
Senate amendment the bill admitting
Wyoming is still on the Speakers
table in the House. r.
THE Beeville Picayune thinks that
Col. Ropes refrained from mentioning
the:capital of Bee county, in his speech
welcoming the Pythian delegates,
because he was jealous and envi-
GUS" The writer of that screed does
not know Ropes; and In any event,
Chopus Christi getting jealous of Bee