San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1890-04-10
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular correspondent)
WASHINGTON, j, @. MAR. "a, 1890

(From our regular CorrespondenD
WASHINGTON, D. @. MAR. "a, 1890.
Ex.Speaker Carlisle thinks the
Lodge Federal election bill one OF
the most Objectionable measures ever
before Congress, and considers that
il would be practically impossible to
hold legal election under its CON-
plicated provisions.
The Blair educational bill is dead,
But the Senator has come mp smiling
with another bill: this time the appro-
priation is only $5s,0O0.00O.
The republicans Of the House
don't vote as they talk in contested
election cases. The democrats were
led to believe that seven or eight re-
publicans would vote with them in
the case OF Mudd vs Compton, but
when the vote was taken Mudd got
the solid republican vote and the
seat
There are four contested election
cases in which all the arguments
have been heard, and it is expected
that the republicans Of the commit
tee on Elections will try to railroad
them through.
A favorable report has been made
to the House on the bill providing
for the appointment of a commits
sion to investigate the liquor traffic.
The announcement by the repub-
licans OF the House Ways and Means
committee several days ago that the
tariff bill was brought great deal OF
trouble upon them in the shape OF
objections from influential members
of their party to certain clauses OF
the bill. The result is that the bill
has not yet been reported to the
House and it may not be this week.
and it would not be surprising ii the
pressure should prove great enough
to compel radical changes in the bill
before it is reported. 1t is probable
that the democrats will prepare a
substitute, bnsed on the Mills bill,
but giving all raw materials used in
manufacturing place on the free
list.
The House has passed. the annual
pension appropriation bill. 1t WAS
for $93, 500, 900, and every man who
voted for it knows that it is not
enough, and that there is bound to
be big deficiency at the end OF the
next fiscal year, but that does not
stop the demagogues from getting mp
and bowling for additional pension
legislation. One OF them in speech
advocating o service pension said. M
coolly as II he was speaking buying
an apple, that the total cost OF such
bill would not exceed $64S,OO0,-
600,
When Mr.. CnrIisle's statement was
published recently that the appro-
pnations which the republicans OF
this Congress intended making would
cause deficiency in the Treasury
at the end of the next fiscal year, Mr..
Cannon chairman o. the Hhuse COM
mite on Appropriations, stated thst
it was o misrepresentation made Tor
political effect Now as good re-
publican as Senator Hawley states
on the floor of the Senate that the
appropriations to be made for the
next fiscal year will aggregate $685.
OOO. 600 agninst an estimated revenue
of $3.50, 900, 900, making a deficit OF
S72, 100000. Certainly Mr.. Hawley
was not talking for political effect.
Now it is discovered that the Sc
cretary of the Navy needs on assis
tant. Anything to increase the pay
roll is the motto OF the party in
power.
The Pan-American Congress wants
subsidized steamships and cables
from San Francisco to South Ameri-
ca.