San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent


tomorrow for Cape May where they
have accepted a cottage from Post
master General Wanamaker. Mr..
Harrison will return in a few days,
but Mrs. Harrison and the rest OF the
family will not return for several
mon tbs. During the warm weather
the president will pay them weekly
visits and spend as much time with
them as his duties here will permit.
Representative Vaux. the pictur-
esque successor TO the late Hon.
Samuel J. Randall in the house, made
his maiden speech Saturday. 1t was
a eulogy of Mr.. Randall.
Speaker Reed says he is not a can
didate for president, but that does
not stop the rapidly increasing senti-
ment among repu blicans that he pos
sesses all the necessary elements of
successful presidential candidate, nor
| does it prevent any shrewd and long
headed men from predicting his NOM
ination and election in 1892.
The civil service committee of the
| house has at last made its report up
against the civil service commits sion.
The report exonerates Commissioners
Roosevelt and Thompson and makes
Commissioner Lyman the scape goat.
1t is thought here that Mr.. Lyman
will feel compelled to tender his
resignation to the president and there
isn't the slightest doubt of it's prompt
acceptance. No one believes that Mr..
Lyman has wllfully done any wrong,
but by his lack of tact and Judgment
he has shown that he is out of place
on the commission. Campbell, the
brother-in-law of Lyman, and the
man who stole the questions which
were offered for sale, has already re-
signed.
Secretary Noble has announced
that no person will be allowed to
settle upon the Cherokee lands until
the agreement by which they have
been coded to the government shall
have been ratified by congress.
Senator Evarts, from the senate
library committee has reported bill
appropriating $50, 900 to buy the man
uscripts and correspondence of
Thomas jefferson, which are now in
the possession of his descendants.
The senate committee on commerce
has, by additions, raised the amount
appropriated by the river and harbor
bill since it passed the house. to S25,-
100000. The bill will be reported to
the senate this week.
The Senate Finance committee eX-
poets to report the Mckinley tariff
bill to the Senate this week, unless
the democratic members OF the COM
mittee shall wilfully delay the consid-
GRAFTON of the several schedules of the
bill which have been turned over to
them as fast as the republicans COM
plete them.
Pursuant to instructions OF the
House, republicans caucus the
Lodge and the ROwell Federal cleo
ton bills have been merged into one,
with some notifications in both, and
tonight the consolidated bill will be
submitted to another caucus which
will finally decide whether it shall
be passed at this session.
General debate on the Jones silver
bill in the Senate was closed this |
afternoon, and the House bill, as
amended by the Senate Finance COM
mittee, was substituted therefor.
investigating the fish commission has
already taken some very interesting
testimony going to show that Com
missioner Mcdonald has used the
clerical force of the bureau on his pri- |
waite work, and that besides putting
several members of his family into
lucrative positions, he has made a
practice of using the boats and oars
owned by the commission to carry
pleasure parties composed of his
family and friends.
Last week the president found it
necessary to veto another bill prOvid-
ing for the erection of a useless public
building.
The demOCrOtiC press now has it
that Mr.. Blame ard Speaker Reed are
jealous of each other, and that each
of them is trying to shipwreck the
political bark of the other. This is
simply summer twaddle, both Mr.
Blaine and Mr.. Reed are too big and
too sensible to be troubled with that
disease of small minds known as
envy or jealousy. While they may
not be i'll perfect accord on all the
subjects of the day, there is no i'll
will or hard feeling in the honest
difference of opinion existing between
them, and such stories are told by
democratic papers because that party
fears these two men and would like
to see them out of the way.
Senator Sherman has introduced in
the senate the same bill, for the in
corporation of the Pan-American
bank, which Representative Hill re-
Gently introduced in thehOuse. r.
The young man targumentativelyl