San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, July 10, "
The President, like all other repub-
licans, is perfectly satisfied with the
| record OF the democrats in the first
sess ion of the Fifty-second congress.
soon to end, aud believes that it
alone, to say nothing of the msgniti-
cent record of the National Admins
ttalion, would be sufficient to elect
the repub lican national ticket. The
democrats although having two
thirds of the House, have accom-
plished practically nothing. They
came In power shouting repeal of the
Mckinley tariff law, q shout which
| very SOON quieted down TO q whisper,
and when they began what one OF
their own number-Pierce, of Ten
nessee-has characterized as q "pop
gun attack on the tariff" they were
openly tainted by Jerry Simpson
with being afraid to vote for bill
repeating the Mckinley act.
| They owe not few OF their seats IN
the house to misrepresen tations OF the
sppr prlations OF the so called Dill
lion dollar" congress, and their prom-
ises ON the stump and in the columns
of the party press to economic In
public appropriations. They have
kept those promises by appropriatlug
in the aggregate more than $4,000, 600
| in excess of the amount appropriated
| by the first session OF the last con-
gress. Is 1t any wonder that repup-
licans are satisfied with the demo.
| cratic record.
| Washington g. A. r mon, in add.
ton to preparing to entertain their
comrades who will come to the Ma
tionsl encampment in September,
have begun to work for the election
/ OF mem Der of q Washington post to
the honorable position OF commander
in. chief. The Washington candidate
IL. Colonel Charles p. Lincoln, at pres
hent deputy commissioner of pensions.
vCol. Lincoln was q candidate tor the
I position at the last encampment, but
| withdrew for fear that his candidacy
might prevent Washington getting
the encampment.
Another session of congress is to
close without even the ground hav-
! ing been purchased upon which to
uild q new Government Printing
Office, notwithstanding the constant
in the present un. ATE building are ex-
/ pOStu. ul6 10 lt5Cli
enough, but the means by which
congress has been controlled In this
matter are still more scandalous.
Two years ago site would have
been purchased, and by this time the
building might have been nearly
completed, If an ex member of the
U. .. Senate-Mahone, OF Virginia
had not objected, and succeeded by
means of nis secret relations with
senators, mostly democrats, In post
poning the selection of q site until
the present congress met. The secret
of Gen. Mshone's tsvoring postpone
ment was that he owned ground ne
wanted to sell to the govern ment,
and the old committee hav.
ing selected another cite post
ponement would give him another
chance with q new committee. The
new committee showing no intention
of favoring Mahone's ground, one OF
the democratic senators he controls
! Vest, OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to take
the matter out of the hands of the
committee by offering an amendment
TO the sundry civil appropriation hill
authorizing the purchase of the Ma
hone site and apprOpriating the money
to pay for 1t. This insult'to the joint
committee recently authorized to
select . site was promptly resented
by the senate, but Malone has con-
soled Tor his defeat by seeing an
amendment instructing the committee
TO report the site selected next De
cember adopted, which means another
postponement OF six months or more
and another chance for Malone to
con troll the committee.
The third party congressman are
not happy. They have been trying for
months to organize q congressional
campaign committee ior the distribu-
ton of documents, ETC., and they now
con fess that they cannot do 1t, Reason:
lack of funds; those who have money
are not disposed to contribute iT for
the dissemination of visionary ideas.
Secretary of State Foster, says the
recent action of the Canadian govern
ment concerning marine tolls 10 In no
sense concession to us. He does not
say so-he is TOO good q diplomatic to
give himself away-but il is evident
that he believes congressional action
| to be necessary to bring Canada to
her senses. Senator Higgins has
introduced sweeping bill cutting off
about every privilege that Canada
enjoys by the courtesy of this country
| that " Guild bo retaliation indeed, II it
became a law.
! Mr.. Thomas II. Carter, the new
chairman of the Repu blican National
committee, was not widely known
previous to the Minneapolis conven-
ton, but his mastery WORK there
| gave him at once a national reputa.
| ton as q shrewd political manipula.