San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 6, 1891.

evidently feeling much more conf
dent of being masters of the situation
today than at any time during the
present session. 1t now seems to be
only question Of getting and keep
ing every republican senator in his
seat until the victory is won. Urgent
kilograms have been sent to all of the
absentees to return at once to take
part in the big fight which will be
opened as soon as there is repubIi-
can quorum present. The republican
senator's held q conference this MORN
at which they got nearer together in
their ideas of what ought to be done
than they have been able to do at any
OF the previous conferences. That
means business and the democrat Is
know it and are correspondingly de-
pressed.
Senator Aldrlch will not call up his
cloture rule until the effort has been
made to force vote on the election
bill by holding a continuous session
OF the senate. The democratic sem
ators will not attend If their presence
is necessary to make q quorum, but if
there Is quorum of republicans the
democrats will all attend and resort
to fillibustering in order to prevent a
vote being taken. So, with a quorum
of repu blicans present. and there Is
little doubt of there being one, the
whole matter will resolve itself into
question of endurance, and it will not
he surprising should the record for
the longest con tiDuous session of the
senate-72 hours-be exceeded during
the present week.
1t is not certain that the repub-
licans can succeed in wearing the
democrats out, but IL was thought
best, in difference to the wishes of
small number OF senators, to try this
method before adopting the cloture
rule, in order to demonstrate to the
country the necessity for such o rule
to enable the senate to transact the
business for which 1t has assembled.
All the democratic hurrah about re-
publican opposition to the election
bill is founded upon exactly four
votes, that being the number Of re-
publican senators who will refuse to
vote for the bill, and it is not probable
that more than three of them will
carry their opposition to the extent of
voting against the bill, and there is
possibility that neither of the four
merely refuse to vote for it, and 1t is
almost ceetain that neither of these
gentlemen will aid the democrats i'm
breaking quorum by absenting
themselves.
The president is understood to have
written message to accompany the
correspondence between Secretary
Blaine and the British foreign office
on the Behring Sea dispute, but
have excellent reasons for believing
that the message and correspondence
will not be transmitted to Congress
until after the election bill Is disposed
of.
The reduction of the public debt in
December was slightly in excess of
Si1 ,000, 900, which means that just
that much money was put into active
in addition to the ordinary
of the government.
The idea of fractional paper curren-
cy has again been brought TO the front
by Represen tative Kelly, of Kansas,
who has introduced bill in the house
directing the secretary of the interior
to print S50,0O0,000 of it in bills of 5,
10, 25 and so cents, the same to be
legal tender for all debts for any sum
not exceeding ten dollars.
Associate Justice Brown, the new
memb Der OF theUnited States Supreme |
Court, took his seat today in the |
presence of distinguished audience,
most Of the legal talent |
of the house and Senate, besides q |
large mum Der of the country's most |
eminent lawyers. He presented a
most striking appearance with his |
strong, clearly shaved lace and we'll |
shaped head which made him look I
to be every inch a judge and the |
peer of his colleaues whe form what |
has been called 1.-THE greatest judi
cisI body In the world"
The friends of the shipping bill will |
endeavor to keep that measure be-
fore the house this week until it Is
of, but 1t is not certain that
they can succeed as Mr.. Cannon and
, strong following will insist upon
of some of the appropria-
ion bills. The house may find its
business blocked at any time owing
10 its not having quorum of repub-
leans present, although the repub-
lean leaders are confident that they
IAN get quorum of republicans here
vt any time that it becomes necess-
Try.
The democrats are trying to bluff
he republicans by claiming that they
rave no objections to an extra session
# congress, when the truth is that it
g the one outcome of the present
ession that they fear most, and this
ear will probably prove a powerful
actor i'm restraining the natural OBJ
tructive tendencies of that party.
Cnl0rahn l,aniSIafura