San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-03-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March, %, 1891.

Inc president has not abandoned
his Pacific coast trip, as was rumored
several days ago, but it is among the
probabilities that he may be COM
PEELED, much against his will, to do
so by the pressure of important pub
lie business. For the season, there is
an unusual number of questions re.
quiring the personal attention of the
executive. The Behring Sea matter
heads the list of International bust
ness, and as the sealing season is
about to open and the negotiations
between Mr.. Blaine and Sir Julian
Peuncefort, the British minister, over
the details of the proposed arbitration
are of a very delicate nature, compli-
cations positively requiring the pres
ident's presence in Washington may
arise at any time.
Among the important domestic
questions to be determined by the
president are the organization and
membership of the land claims court,
provided for by the late congress, and
the new United States court judges,
whom Mr.. Harrison has about decid-
ed to appoint before congress meets
again, in accordance with the recent
opinion of Attorney General Miller
that he had q legal right to do so.
These are the things that have made
it dou btful whether the president can
get away from Washington for quite
q while, but he is SO anxious to make
this trip that he will certainly 60 if
these things can be put into salts
factory condition before warm wealth
or sets in. The first intention was to
have started about April /, but that
is impossible, and If he goes now 1t
will not be until some time in May.
No orders have yet been issued in
structing our minister to France and
Germany to notify those govern
ments that unless they removed the
prohibition they have placed upon
American meat and meat prophets,
we would retaliate by placing like
value now imported by US from their
respective countries, but the feasibili-
ty of some such action on the part of
this government has been several
times discussed by the cabinet, and
Secretary Rusk is known to bestrong-
ly in favor of it, believing it to be not
only justifiable but required as an
act of Justice to American interests.
This being the present status of the
matter, it would not be surprising If
such orders should be issued at any
time.
Senator Sherman has for great
many years occupied an interesting
position in American politics, and
never more so than at the present
time. Some months ago Is was stat.
ed that he would not be candidate
for re election to the senate, state
ment which he has neither denied
nor affirmed. Now the news comes
from Ohio that ex-Gov. Foraker is to
be a candidate for the senate. Ex-
Congressman Thompson, of Ohio, is
now ia Washington, and he was ask
ed who he thought would
succeed Senator Sherman. John
Sherman, he replied, has a very
strong hold upon the people of Ohio,
because they believe in his ability
and integrity, and as long as he de
sires to remain in the senate he will
have no difficulty in being elected.
Mr.. Sherman never leaves his con-
stituents in doubt as to his wishes,
and you may be certain
that his position will be ful-
ly defined at the proper time
Will the republican state convention
adopt the Illinois idea of recommend
ing a Senator? 1 shouldn't. be sur
prised if it did; the idea is being ag-
itated and il is popular. However,
that would make no difference in the
result.
Mischievous dame rumor, after a
protracted rest, has again begun the
foolish work of predicting cabinet res
ignations. Secretaries Proctor aud
Noble, according to the unreliable
jade, are shortly to resign. AS a
matter of fact 1 don't believe that
either of them has ever had even the
remotest idea of reslgning. Mr.. Proc
tor is out of the city, on tour of in
sDection, but Assistant secretary
Grant assured me that there was not
the slightest foundation for the silly
rumor, and that he knew that Mr..
Proctor had mapped out work for
himself in connection with the de-
partment that would last for the rest
of the present administration.
The rumor of Secretary Noble con-
templated resignation, which by the
way mas now become quite a "chest.
nut" Is also, l am informed by those
who would certainly know, equally
foundationless, and probably origi-
mated with parties who would like to
see him out, because of their failure
to control his decisions upon certain
important matters in which they were
pecuniarily interested. X.
THE Laredo Times grows hot in the
collar because the LIGHT truthfully
asserts that the Border Belle has got
into the soup by the reactions of
busted boom. Keep cool dow there.
Summer is coming and Ii eroWs warm