San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.

From Our Regular Correspondent
Daily LIGHT.
WASHINGTON, D. c., September %.
The President will return to Wash
ingtOn this week, but from present
indications the White House will be
in no condition to receive him and
his family for at least ten days to
come, and to get it ready that soon
the workmen will have to do some
lively hustling. 1t has not been fully
determined where they will go, but
it is proba BILE that they will accept
the hospitality of Postmaster General
Wanamaker, which has been tender
ed them, until the White House is
ready for them.
The conference committee would
have reported the tariff bill today if
no time had been lost through dem
ocratic fillibustering in the House,
which compelled the House republi-
can members Of the committee to be
in their seats in the House when they
might just as we'll have been at work
upon that measure. The committee
has almost completed it's work and
the bill will probably be reported
Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest,
unless the lack of q repu blican quo.
rum delays it. AS usual, the numer-
Gus democratic prophecies of lrrecon-
cilable differences among the re-
publicans failed to materialize; there
has been no trouble whatever up to
this writing and none is expected.
The republicans of the committee
were unanimously in favor of the re-
ciprocity amendment, and they were
also unanimous for a new amendment
extending the time for removing
imported goods from bonded
warehouses to February l, 1891.
The President signed the River
and Harbor bill within twenty four
hours after he received 1t, and q good
many people in and out of congress,
interested in the various items car
ried by it, are feeling much better
than they did this time last week.
The bill closing the mails to all
matter pertaining to lotteries, includ.
ing newspapers which publish their
advertisements, was signed by the
President at the same time, and
the high-priced lottery lobby
are now engaged in trying to
discover some way to break the force
of the new law. 1t is understood that
they have advised the Louisiana
Lottery company to employ several
prominent gentlemen, including Mr..
Grover Cleveland, as attornies for the
purpose of testing the constitutional
ity of the law in the courts.
Secretary Noble has returned from
his vacation looking much improved
and, he says, feeling in tiptop condi-
ton.
Superintendent Porter of the Cen
sus bureau who was dangerously i'll
last week from nervous prostration
brought on by worry and overwork,
is much better though not yet entire
Iy out of danger.
To say that the present condition of
affairs in the house of representatives
is disgraceful is very mild way OF
putting it. Another week has been
entirely wasted by the democratic
hide and seek a method OF breaking a
quorum, and so determined were
these skulkers to get out of the cham
Der every time an attempt was made
to do any business that several of
them did not hesitate when they
found one of the doors locked to
kick 1T open in order to get out
before their names were reached in
the roll call. One of these kicking
democrats was Representative Kill
gore, of Texas, who several years
ago earned the title of "bully" by his
anxiety to fight man old enough to
be his father. His valiant assault on
the door is worthy of a place beside
Don Quixote's charge on the wind
mills, and Sancho Panza's place was
filled by AmosCumings, ablesjournal-
ist, who lately imagines himself
politician. There is only one remedy
for this state of affairs. That is, to
get a quorum of republicans on the
floor of the House, and for this the re-
publican managers have been striv-
ing for several weeks without
success. If they can get a
quorum of republicans to stayhere for
week they could pass all the meas
ures necessary, and If the quorum
does not materalize by the time the
tariff bill is reported from conference
serious trouble is feared. Every day
republicans expect to see that quorum,
but they have been disappointed so
often that they are almost losing hope.
r.
That quorum has come and repub-
lican congress is doing business at
the old stand. Ed.