San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-05
WASHINGTON LETTmR.
WASHINGTON. July %, 1872.

one of the latter, Watson of Georgia,
having charged in a campaign book
he has written that democratic mem
bers have reeled around the floor OF
the House, drunk, aud made maudlln
speeches on public business when
they had to stop in the middle OF a
sentence and ssk"Mr.Speaker, where
am l at" The charge made the
democrats very mad, and they at
once passed q resolution for an i'm
mediate investigation OF the charge
by special committee, and it did not
ease their lacerated feelings at all
when MIR. Watson produced the fol-
lowing mem bers of the House before
the committee, and they unanimous
ly sustained the charge: Otis, White,
Halverson, Davis, Butler, Shell,
Glover, Baker and Ken. In addition
to these Miss Bessie Dwyer testified
to seeing one member drunk while
making q speech on the floor. The
committee has not reported, but de-
mocrsts already regret that the lnves-
tigation was started.
The democrats are still filibuster-
ing against the Worlds Fair appro-
prIation in the House, and, rs last
years sundry civil appropriation had
only been extended u Saturday, the
Government Printing Office shut
down Saturday night at /! o'clock,
and no work can be done there until
the new bill becomes law or joint
resolution extending the old one is
passed and signed by the President.
The Senate passed q resolution Satur-
Inu avfnnHinn old annrnnriQ tinn
to August 4, but when it was attempt
ed to get it through the House there
was objection. Republican Senators
are firm as rocks in insisting that no
adjournment shall take place until
the sundry civil bill, with the
Worlds Fair appropriation amend
ment, shall pass the House, and it is
expected that the filibusterers will
be knocked out within the first half
of this week.
Representative Oates; of Alabama,
and his democratic associates on the
House sub. committee, which so pre-
cipitately rushed off to Homestead,
acting under house resolution
adopted months before, expecting to
obtain evidence that would crush the
protective tariff, are now playing
towards All OF the evidence taken
by the committee, having any bearing
whatever on the tariff having been
decidedly favorable to protection, the
committee has decided not to make
any report until the next session of
congress, on the protested round
of wishing to con tinus the inves.
tigation during ths recess. 1t
was known from the first that the
committee proposed continuing its in
vestigation during the recess; but its
chairman, Mr.. Oates, announced with
q great flourish of trumpets, when he
expected to make big haul of demo-
cratic campaign material, that q pre-
limiDary report would be presented at
once to the House, and the only reason
the programme has been changed, is
without directly or indirectly en-
dorsing the protective tariff and con.
demniDg free trade.
Senator Proctor, says he regards
strikes as an evidence of prosperity,
because they would not occur If there
was not a great demand for labor.
The same senator says that wages of
all kinds would be reduced at least
one-half in this country if the demo.
cratic national Platforms declaration
for free trade is ever carried out.
Representative Funston, of Kansas,
made telling hit in preparing the
minority report of the House commit.
tee on agriculture on the effect of the
present tariff law upon agriculture,
when he said that 1.-The fact that the
democrats in the HOus having a ma.
jority over the repu blicans of l53, are
to adj Ourn without having made any
effort 70 repeal the Mckinley tariff
law should settle the question as to
whether or not in the opln-
ion OF the majority of the
Louise, the law is wrong and oppres.
sive. That the agriculturist is having
a hard time no one will dispute, but
we cannot, however, look back to any
better times, nor to so good, excepting,
of course, war times.n The report
also directs attention to the decrease
in the cost of living since the McKin-
ley law went into effect, and asserts
that there is not q single article on
the list of American goods that Ia not
cheaper today under q protective
tariff than it was under the free trade
of 1860.
Ex-Speaker Reed SAYS the battle
cry of the democrats this year lie:
"The Prophet and the ballot. box
both stuffed" This epigramatic
summary of the opposition has already
caught the town, and will probably
catch the country during the rest of
the campaign.
The president is suffering, like
every one else in Washington, from
the heat of the past week, which ex-
ceeded that of any other week since
an official record of the weather has
been kept. AS soon as congress ad
journs the president will Join Mrs.
Harrison at Loon Lake, remaining
there until about the first of Septem
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