San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
ActTrNy c,mOnu Nav II 1901


ington the last of this week, and he
will find important matters requiring
his attention in nearly every one of
the departments of the government,
80 that he will have to put IN several
weeks of hard work in order 10 eaten
up with current affairs. rho
State departments has the Spau-
ish agreement for reciprocity be-
tween the United States aud cuba
and Porto Rico; the venezuelan reci-
procity agreement and q number of
minor affairs including the question
of our right to sieze ON open seas the
Itata, the Gillian insurgent vessel
which after being seized at SanDiego,
California, by a deputy U. s. Mar
shall, on order from the attOrney-gen-
eral, sailed away with the marshal
a prisoner, but afterwards put him
ashore. The Treasury department.
has the proposition of Secretary
Foster as to returning TO
the old form of making up the
monthly statement of the nations
liabilities and assets, continuing the
IL per cent bonds that will mature
In September at per cent, and other
important matters pertaining to our
financial affairs. The interior de.
partment has some questions to sub
init as 10 the payment of certain
moneys appropriated to the purchase
of Indian lands.
There are also some details about
the Behrlng sea matters that the
Presidents advice is wanted upop.
Secretary Foster has mailed the in
structions for the present sealing
season to the commanders of the Rev
enue cutters, aud has notified
them that supplemental instructions
will be telegraphed to them at
Portland Oregon, or Seattle Washing
ton, If they shall be deemed
necessary after the presidents return.
Secretary Foster positively declines
to make public the nature of the in
structions sent, so that It'll not known
whether the cutters will sieze vessels
illegally sealing or not. There is q
general belief here that some under
standing has been reached with Eng
land that will stop all sealing for this
season, although it is not based on
By the way, speaking of Behring
sea matters, it is interesting to note
the opinion of Senator Morgan, the
leading democratic member of the
Senate committee on Foreign Affairs,
of Mr.. Blalne's manner of conducting
the negotiations. Senator Morgan
said of Mr.. Blaine's last letter TO Lord
Salisbury, made public several DAYS
ago: "Mr. Blaine is very adroit, and
he has now got his questions just
right. 1 like the letter. 1t is direct,
clear, dignified and has sufficient
pugnacity about it. He keeps Lord
Salisbury right down to the point so
that he cannot get away. The solemn
truth is that ever since the war of
the revolution, when we escapedtrom
under the laws of Great Britain, the
sentiment of the British government
has been hostile to us. We cannot
make as satisfactory treaties nor
reach as liberal agreements with her
as We can with other nations. There
is that ever present disposition to in-
terfere with and hinderus in some
way. The time may not be far dis
tant, If this con tinues, when she will
go tether's length too far. We are
surrounded as 1t were, by q cloud of
British influences. We feel them on
the Behring sea and in the fisheries
on the east, in the Nicaraguan canal
matter-everywhere about us she is
reaching ovt to iDjure u.s.
have it on good authority that the
national democratic managers are
working like beavers and spending
money lavishly to get the Farmers
Alliance to put a gubernatOrial ticket
in the field in Ohio. believing that 1t
will draw enough republican votes to
elect the democratic candidate for
governor. 1 asked g prominent Ohio
republican connected with the ad-
ministaatiOn, what he thought of the
prospect He laughed and said: ''The
Ohio republicans who have Joined the
alliance are far too smart to vote lin
the air. to help their old time op-
ponents, the democrats. The repub-
licans Of Ohio are determined to NOM
mate and elect Mckinley governor of
that state, and they will not be
stopped by any democratic trickery."
Secretary Blaine is In New York,
but he will return in time to meet the
president on his arrival.
Secretary Noble has gone to st.
Louis on private business, and is not
expected back for two weeks.
The treasury department has issued
to customs officials circular of in
structions on the new copyright law,