San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, July %, 1872.

From Our Regular Correspondent
The Southern democrats In the
House. aided by Holman and others.
OF his class, have undertaken con-
tract entirely too great for their
strength and staying qualities in at
tempting to prevent the appropria-
ton soT the worlds Fasr. The repub-
lican senators will keep congress in
session all summer, Ii necessary to
compel these democrats to agree to
this appropriation, which only carries
out the pledged faith OF the Govern
ment to the Column bian Exposition
and the nations of the world, which
have accepted the official invitations
OF the United States Government to
take part therein. The democrats of
the House succeeded in temporarily
defeating the appropriation last
| week aud they are now threatening
that when the matter again comes
up this week, they will ftllibuster
against motion to recede from the
position now occupied by the House
and agree to the appropriation, IL
| they find themselves unable to con-
troll the House by q direct vote. If
they do, so much the worse for the
democratic party. and so much more
humilating will be their defeat, which
Is bound to come, for the very simple
| reason that the republican party has
| never repudiated an obligation hon.
| estly incurred and its representatives
| now in the senate will not allow this
| aid to be withheld from the EXPOSE
ton.
Representative Oates, of Alabama,
| who is chairman of the subcommittee
which rushed off to Homestead In
such precipitate haste in search of
evidence to break down the populari-
ty of the Mckinley Tariff law. and
who was so profoundly disappointed
| at the evidence taken there by the
| committee, was accused by John
Devlin, q member OF the executive
| committee of the Knights of Labor.
| of having shown extraordinary favors
to the Pinkertons when they we're
before the committee, in allowing
them to read all of the questions sub
mitted by the K. of l.. committee be-
fore answering any of them. Oates
told Devlin to go to hill, called him
d-liar, and had him hustled off
the floor of the House, where the
accusation was made.
Canada knows by this time that
when the President threatened to
retslIste for the unjust discrimins-
ton against American vessels using
Canadian water ways, he was not
making a bluff" but was giving q
friendly warning. Congress has, prsc-
tically without opposition In either
House or Senate, passed the bill
authorizing the President to retaliate
| upon Canadian vessels by levying
toll or by shutting them out of ST.
Msrys Falls Canal, as he may deem
best. The new law is q harsh one.
or it may be made such In its bearings
upon Canadian interests; but 1t Is
still In the power of Canada to take
such action as will prevent the Prest-
dent exercising the authority just
con ferred upon him.
The democrats are already trying
to hedge" on the free trade plank of
their platform. This was made
manifest to all by the selection of
William F. Harrlty, of Pennsylvania,
to be chairman of their national COM
mittee. Harrity was prominent
among the supporters of the late
Sam. Randall, the man who kept the
democratic party off the free trade
rocks for so many years. Republican
managers smile at this acknowledge
ment of weakness, and will see that
the free traders are not allowed to
speak out of the issue they deliberate
ly made.
No measure ever before Congress
has been the subject of more radical
and at the same time perfectly honest
differences of opinion than the anti
option bill which has passed the
House and now has the right of way
in the Senate as the "unfinished
business" Those who favor 1t, and
they are unquestiOnably majority of
the Senate, are emphatical In their
statements that it will not injure any
legitimate business its only aim being
to put stop to the fiuctuatiOn in
prices caused by gambling in"fu-
lures" Those who opposed 1t are
Just as emphatic in their statements
that 1t will cripple the business of
the country and injure irreparsbly
the very class it Is intended to bene-
fit the producers. 1t is difficult to
predict to certainty whether 1t will
be voted upon at this session, as its
opponents threatened, to resort to OBJ
structive tactics to prevent a vote,
and as soon as the Worlds Fair
appropriation is made adjournment
will almost certainly follow. Ii
vote is reached the anti-option bill
will in my opinion, be passed.
GIanders In North Texas,