San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. Is, 1872.

"AohlNSIoNt Aug. 10, %.
| Capt. t. H. Mckee, assistant secre.
tary of the National republican COM
mittee, is now quarrered in the same
building with the congressional cam.
paign committee, and he has more
than half hundred assistants hard
at work mailing documents.
| Secretary Mcpherson, of the con.
gressionsl campaign committee, who
is veteran of many campaigns. is at
present acting in an advisory capacity
to Capt. Mckee, aud the two "Mc's"
make q strong team; but little later
on he will give his individual atten-
ton to the congressional districts
which are marked doubtful on the
little list he keeps. Mr.. Mcpherson
knows how W be silent in nineteen
languages about the work upon which
he lie engaged, out he told your cor.
respondent that he thought the pros-
! Iect for wrestling the house from the
democrats was good aud improving
ell the time.
Capt. Mckee says the following are
the documents which he is sending
out the largest number of: "Better
Dead Than Homeless;" "Free Traders
Unveiled" "a Farmers Appeal to
Farmers;, EARN Mortgages not an
Evidence of Distress" EARN Imple-
ments Abroad" "The A B e. of the
Tariff" "How Protection Increases
the Nations Wealth." "The Tariff
Riddle, q Key Thereio;" Where I
Spent My Money After ALI" "Amer-
lean Ideas Conquer" Represents.
tive D. B. Henderson on the False
Cry of . Billion Dollar Congress;" "a
Town Built UP by Protcction;" and
Ingersolps "Why l am Republi-
cam" Capt. Mckee also edits the
National Bulletin" of which thou
sands are sent out each week. The
repu bliean campaign text book will
be ready about Sept. LIST, and already
| orders for an enormous number are
| booked.
lone thing was apparently over
looked by those who accepted rs true
the story that Judge Walter q.
Gresham would soon take the stump
for Weaver" said an old member of
| the Supreme court bar, land that is,
that Gresham is at this time judge
| of q United States court. Until he
resigns that position, and I haven't
heard that he had any intention of
resigning, there is not the slightest
| probability that he will take the
stump for any body. do not remem-
Der to have heard of q United States
Judge making political stump
speech and, L think l know Walter
Gresham's idea of the dignity which
should always be maintained by the
National Judiciary we'll enough TO
predict that he will never make q
speech favoring Weaver or any one
else for the Presidency as long es he
remains United States Judge, and
do not believe he would support
Weaver for President If he were q
private citizen"
The greed or the great Wells Fargo
Express Company compelled the Gov.
| ernment to make at its own risk the
recent shipment of $40. OO0, 900 in gold,
from San Francisco, ana Ii may re
suit in transferring q very profitable
line of business from the express COM
panies to the government-the trans
portation of large sums of government
money. The United States made
that shipment of gold from San Fran
cisco to New York for about S57, 500
less than the Wells Fargo company
charged for doing il, and 1t may be
that the express companies will not
be asked to do such work in the
future. Not long ago the government
paid the United States express COM
pany So 800 more than the cost of
bringing $50, 100000 across the CONT.
nent for carrying 100000 ia gold
from Philadelphia to New York, q
job that was completed in q little
more than two hours.
The change in the British admins.
tration has caused delay in settings
date for the meeting of the Inter
national Mon etary conference, but the |
state department is advised unofficial |
Iy that it will be one of the first mat |
ters to be taken up and disposed of |
by the new Gladstone government, so |
that the delay in fixing date is not |
likely to be long one. Only two of |
those selected by the president to be |
United States commissioners to the |
conference-Senators Allison and |
JOnes-have formally accepted their
appointments, but there are no
reasons for expecting any OF the others
to decline to serve, although the point
has been raised by an outsider that
neither senators nor represen tatives
are Eligible to act as commissioners at
this conference, but nothing is
thought of this in official circles.
The @. A. r .encsmpment commit
tee will spend about sos 900 in the
erection OF barracks for the accommo-
dalton of the veterans who do not en-
gage their own sleeping quarters, and
while the committee does not under
take to supply food it proposes to
make arrangements that will result
in good food at reasonable prices for
those who will occupy the barracks,
and it will also provide place of safe
keeping for the baggage of che old