San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent

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| The president wisely leaves to
others all the worrying about the re-
publican presidential nomination.
!, He finds enough. and, as Secretary
| Blaine recently so aptIy said, more
| than enough to do in transactiDg the
legitimate duties pertaining to the
chief magistracy OF the greatest coun-
| try in the world. He would be more
than human if ne were not gratified
by the action of republicans in
various states In instructiDg delegates
TO the Minneapolis convention TO sup.
port him for denomination. but he
| is doing nothing that might be the
| widest stretch of the imagination be
| construed into seeking q renomina.
| ton.
! All the talk about his withdraw
| ing is the variest bosh. A man can
not Withdraw from what he has not
entered into. The President has
never said to any man that he would
| accept the nomination again, and his
| devotion to the principals and well
fare OF the repu bican party has been
| such that it is certain that he will
| not allow his name to be presented
to the national convention, unless he
is convinced that the leaders of the
party consider him to be the most
available candidate to lead the party
to victory, fit shall be plain after
all the delegates to the conven ton
| shall have been elected that any con-
sid cradle portion of them are opposed
| to his denomination, Mr.. Harrison
| will, predict, forbid the use of his
| name as candidate, and it would in
no sense be q withdrawal for him to
do so, as he is not by any section of
| his own, further than by the faithful
performance of his public duties, q
candidate.
The probable early holding of an
international monetary conference to
consider the silver question meets the
approval of congressman of all shades
| of political belief, except the ultra
| silver men, who believe that the
United States should take the lead by
| establishing absolute free coinage.
The senate has adopted resolution
asking the president for information
| concerning the proposed conference.
| Senator Hill may be losing ground
as fast as some of the newspapers say
he is, among democrats away from
| Washington, but he is certainly not
losing any ground among the demo.
| Gratis of the house. On the contrary,
he has shown that he is absolute
ruler of the votes of 40 of the demo-
cratic members of that body, and that
| only 80 of them dare to vote again Vt
his villa number OF them lodged
the vote-even to sustain the report
| of the elections committee, q report
which was adopted by the votes of
| democratic members of that commit
tee. A more outrageous case of po-
litical theft was never endorsed by
any party in congress than when the
house, at the dictation of Boss Hill,
voted to retain Mr.. Rockwell, of New
| York, in the seat to which its own
committee had reported that Col.
| Noyes was elected. Aud what makes
the case all the more pitiable for the
| democrats is that the result has been
for weeks past boastingly announced
| by Hill and the Tammany congress-
men. CHIPS heelers" Is the way
those l40 democrats are now referred
to by the Cleveland democrats in con-
gress.
| The action of the g. A. r. posts of
Lincoln, Nebraska, in sending com.
mittee here to oppose the proposed
congressional appropriation to aid in
furnishing lodging, etc, for the IN.
usually large number of veterans
unable to provide tor themselves, no
will attend the national encampment,
is not understood in congress, and it
has been very harshly criticised. The
state legislatures have almost in
variably made appropriations to aid
the cities In which the annual en-.
campments have been held, and that
Is all that Washington has asked for.
Congress Is Washington's legislature,
and it has been asked to appropriate
500, 900, one-half to be paid out of the
revenues of the District of Columbia
aud the other half out of the general
treasury, to be added to $50, 900 con-
tributed by private individuals.
A little breeze has been caused
among the Cleveland democrats by
the personal announcement of Sena-
tor Palmer that he intends maxim 9
fight for the Illinois delegation at the
Chicago convention, and that he is q
presidential candidate. Morrison's
friends say that this Is breach of
faith on the part of Palmer.
The house Chinese exclusion bin
has been the basis for some very in
teresting debate in the senate, and
there will be more of it before the bill
IS disposed of. 1t is probable that
there will be some radical changes
made in the bill before it passes the
senate.
Since his recent spell of sickness
Senator Hoar has been considerably
troubled with his eyes, and he has
asked tor and obtained leave of an
sence for the remainder OF the session