San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent

The President is not worrying him
self about the cyclone of bills which
have been introduced in the House by
authors of the bills, that there Is not
even 8 slight probability that any bill
repeating or hampering the proper
administration OF any law enacted by
the Fifty-first Congress will become
law during the lite of the Fifty-second
Congress; and thereis no doubt that
he ~ common with other repu olicans
has been amused to see the antics ofthe
Ieauerless majority in the House. The
President is going right ahead prepar
ing his proclamation of retaliation, q
warning which has been given the
| countries interested. against those
countries which have neglected to
negotiate reciprocity agreements with
US, just as though Representative
Andrew had not introduced q bill
repeating the clause OF the reciprosity
law which gives the President this
authority. The proclamation will
be issued an the 18th of March, and
will restore the duty which existed
before the Mckinley terff law went
into effect, upon sugar, molasses,
coffee, tea and hides from those coun I
tiles.
The fact is regarded as significant
by the Cleveland democrats that
Senator Hill has already become t.
cropy of Senetor Gorman's. 1t has
convinced them of the truth of the
rumored combination between these
two man tn control the democratic
Presidential nomination. Ard It
effsc ually disposes of the silly-b lily
talk about German being Cleveiand's
friend In fact there are not three
democratic Senators who can be real
~ cal Ell rIends of Cleveland, and
yet tn y may all be compelled by cir
IN stauce- to swallow their dislike
aud support him for President But
il trickery can prevent ClevelaD DIS
nomination Hill and German will
succeed in doing it.
There are" said mem Der of the
House committee ON patents, lots of
inequslities in our law system. Ii q
THE f Is detected stealing my pocket
hook, C ntaining only a few dollars,
I can have the satisfaction of seeing
him sent to prison for 1t; but If an
irresponsible Fundamentally ire
sponsible mean stees my idea, re-
presented in q patented invention, no
matter how valuable it may be, my
only redress is to sue him tor damages
knowing before hand that the judge
ment will not be worth the paper it
Is written on. This ought to be chang
ed and am glad to see q growing
sen timent in favor of making the pa
tent thief amenable to the same law
as the other thieves. / hope to see it
done at the present session
The big democratic majority in the
House is already beginning to fioun
der around helpiessly for lack of q
competent leader. Mills has
! washed his hands of the whole BUSH
ness snd gone home to work for the
Stna orship, and before he lett he
made no secret OF his disgust at the
outlook for his party. Crisp is etill
confined to his room, and there Is too
! much rivalry between such man as
Springer and Holman to admit OF
eth or of them being accepted as lead
er. The only thing that the demo
Gratis are certain of is that they are
opposed IN appropriations for any
purpose Many of tn, m are clamer-
ing for q caucus, but the older heads
| fear 10 call one until they know the
! intersions of the new members a
little better. Springer's positive
! statement that no tree silver bill will
| be passed by the House has raised a
! rumpus, and democrats who favor
tree silver are resenting 1t as an I'M
warrented assumption of bossism.
Nonsincal stories about the state
| of Secretary Blaine's health are again
| plentifu Mr.. Blaine is not sick, on
! the con trary he is daily performing
an amount of arduous work which
proves him to be in very vigorous
condition. The CHILEAN Minister
could, if he desired, give some con-
|, elusive testimony on this subject,
based upon his personal negotiations
with Mr.. Blaine.
Senator Sherman received warm
congratulations, when he returned
from Ohio. He has nothing but kind
words for Ex-Governor Foraker. who,
by the way, made many new friends
here by bis manly speech to the legis-
lative caucus after his defeat.
Secretary Foster has entirely recov-
| erd, but IL WAS thought best that he
should take short rest before re-
Stunning work, 80 he has gone to Fort
ress Monroe.
Postmaster General Wapamsker's
idea of extending the free delivery of
mail matter as''caught on" in Con-
gress and three bills authorizing such
extension have already been intro
dueed In the House.
Mrs. Harrison held her first pub
lie reception of the season Saturday
afternoon. She was assisted by Mrs.
Justice Gray, ard Mrs. Justice Brew
or.
Senator Perkins was given warm
XeIcoma In the Senate. and what is