San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Fec. S, 1885,.


Postmaster.GeDeral Wanamaker
has issued an order that will be
hailed with pleasure by Thousands
! of people in every section of the cOun-
try. It makes every Post Office
where GhePostmaster's salary exceeds
5000 per annum money order office.
Thus will within the next eighteen
months more than double the num-
Der OF money order Offices in the
country, and while giving so many
people this convenient and absolute
! ly safe way or sending money through
the mails it will add very little to the
= current expenses of the postal services,
and in tho end it will probably add
quite largely to its earnings. That
! Is the repu blican idea of business
| like administration OF the affairs of
| the government
There are more democrats from the
North, INCLUDING in that term all OF
! the States except those In the sOuth)
than from tho South, in the House,
| but it is now Very evident that the
| Southern men have outgeneraled the
/ other Fellows and captured every
| thing that will count in the legisla-
| ton of the House, and the expression,
"the South is again in the saddle"
| is literally true at this time, so far as
| the House of Representatives is con-
| cerned. rhe south has, the Speaker,
and the South has all three OF the
democratic members of the committee
| on rules, which under the new code
! OF rules has greater control over the
business of the House than any sim
/ liar committee ever had before, in
/ fact it is absolutely impossible Tor
| any of the other committees to either
| get business before the House or to
| get it disposed of alter it is taken up,
| without the assistance of that COM
mittee, except in the rare cases where
there is no active opposition On the
floor. The full significance of the
situation is just beginning to dawn
upon the out-witted mem bers, since
| the new rules have gone into opera
tion. They can do nothing now but
"grin and bear it,"
The representatives of the Cana
dian government will always find
this government ready TO listen
courIe0usly to any proposition they
may desire to make concerning com
mercial reciprocity between the two
countries, but as long as the repub-
lican party is in power the Canadians
need hope for DO treaty which fully
opens our market to them, while
theirs are only half open to us. The
President and Secretary Blaine will
be pleased to see the Canadian Com
missioners, but it is only upon one
basis that they will open negotiation
| with them. /
The present antI.Chinese law will
expire by limitation in May next;
hence the activity in Congress on the
| subject. There have been q dozen
| bills introduced but the Senate has
| reported in favor of bill continuing
the present law for period OF ten
years as q substitute for them ALL
A delegation from the Western
Water Ways convention recently
| held at Evansville, Indiana, has been
| explaining the necessity for LIBERAL
Rarbor and. River appropriations to
| the House aud Senate committees.
1t the Holman policy is carried out
there will be no liberal appropriation
for anything.
Representative Mills dagger is no
longer concealed; it is openly held
aiofb in his strong right baud wAnle
he has served notice upon the Ways
! and Means committee that he ia.
| tends tose it on the first tariff bill
it reports, that does not please him.
| Turn down the ligF is and let the band
play slow IN usic .a.
| The House In passing a def ;ieucy
bill of $500, 900 for the current fiscsi
year tor the Census Bureau, mad q
great opportunity 10 cary ont demo-
cratic threats of attacking Inst
Bureau, but because they knew Chay
had no case they made 40 attack
except by general inueudO. Relresen
tstive Sayers, Of Texas, who was IN
charge OF the Dill said: Had the su-
perinteudept OF the Ceucus been Ielt
10 operate his Bureau without out
side pressure to put in office large
number Of Incompetent persons, the
| expenditures would have been very
much lees" MIR. Savers forgot how
ever To add that the most of this out
side pressure came from democratic
Senators aud Represen tatives. Rep
preventative Stone, of Kentucky, q
democrat, said of Superintendent
} Porter's work: at has been efficient,
prompt and rapid, and better than
that of any previous superintendent.
} The resolution introduced in the
House by Representative Fithisn, of
Illinois, instructing the Ways and
Means committee TO report q bill put.
! ting all agricultural implements on
, the free list is bluff pure and simple
and nobody knows it any better than
its author. To put agricultural i'm
] plements on the free list without first
putting all classes of lumber and
metal on the free list would close
, every mandatory of any class OF
agricultural implements In the Unit
! | ed States. and the democratic party