San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-05-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 8, 1872.

boldest political scheme ever attemp-
ted In this country. He proposes, Ii
his scheme succeeds, to become Presi.
dent, even he does not receive the
nomination from his party. How?
By assisting the third party to carry
| enough States to throw the election
of President into the House, which ne
has on two occasions shown himself
to be completely master of. OF course,
he prefers to receive the nomination
from the National Convention of his
party, but if he fails to get 1t, he
hopes to reach the White House. not
withstanding the manifest duty of
that body, in the very unlikely
event of its having to elect any body,
to elect the man who receives the
party nomination, in case it SO hap.
pens that neither candidates receives
Majority OF the votes cast in the
lectoral college.
Hill has given up all hope of the
| people electing q democratic Presi.
dent, and is only struggling for the
nomination because ne prefers that
| the House should follow precedent
| when it elects him; but all the same
| he intends 1t shall elect him anyway,
| if he can throw sufficient mum Der
of States to the third party North
| Carolina is one of the Southern States
| he Is counting on; hence his trip to
| that State next week to throw the
election into the House. 1t Is said
| that he Is securing pledges from
mem bers of the House to vote for
him, If given an opportunity, whether
| he be nominated by the Chicago con-
| vention or not Was more auda.
| cious scheme ever conceived? 1t is,
| however, but q waste of time on the
| part of Mr.. Hill, as a majority of the
votes in the electoral college will,
| unless all present indications are at
fault, be cast for the ticket nominated
by the Minneapolis convention.
| No one enjoyed the circus more
| than the democratic members OF the
House whose districts have suffered
| by reason of the parsimoDy OF Rep.
resentative Holman, when eX Speaker
| Req figuratively held Mr.. Holman
| no by the slack of his trousers while
| he showed the House and the country
| that the economical principles OF the
| Indiana member did not prevent his
| supDOTliDR all
| are to he expended in his district,
even an item in the River and Har'
| Dor bill which has been adversely
| reported upon by the United States
engineer in charge of improvements
| on the Ohio River.
The Senate committee on Post
Office and Post Roads does not be.
lieve with the democratic House that
the people of the country wish the
| pos tai service TO stand still while the
country is continually rushing ahead.
1t believes with Postmaster General
| Wanamaker that what England and
| other European countries have done
can be and ought to be done in the
| United States, and that while the
people in large cities and towns have
their mail delivered at their doors
several times q day IL is but simple
( Justice that the people residing in the
country should have increased facili.
ties for getting their mail; therefore
| it has reported an amendment to the
Postoffice appropriation bill appro.
| priating 100000 to enable the Post
master General 10 continue and ex
tend his free delivery experiments in
| villages and farming districts Sena-
| tor Mitchell of that committee says
| he has every reason to believe that
| the Senate will adopt this amend
ment, aud he thinks the house will
concur, If its members will vote as
their constituents thluk.
| Republicans in Congress, and on:
| of 1t too for that matter, are delighted
| to know that a large number OF den
| ocrats are coming out from behind
| the mask of tariff reform" which
they have won tor so many years,
| and are at last showing themselves
| in their true colors- pure and una
dulerated free trade. representative
| johnson, of Ohio, arranged for the
publication of Henry Georges Free
Trade or Protection" in the Congress
sioual Record, and who is now "rop-
ing in" his democratic colleagues to
sending out thousands of copies OF
that book in pamphlet form, under
their personal franks" is the dem
ocrat to whom the republicans are
| indebted for this boon. This book Is
An argument for free trade. pure and
simple, aud if Mr.. Johnson and his
| free trade friends succeed in their
intentions of distributing one million
J copies OF the. pamphlet throughout
the country it will bring such pro-
lection tidal wave next November as
the country has not enjoyed for
years. In a square fight between
! protection and tree trade, with all
side issues eliminated, at least seven
tenths of the voters will be found on
the side of protection. The Chinese
minister has filed formal protest
with the State Department against
the new Chinese law, signed by the
President last week, and there are
ali sorts Of rumors about retaliation
con templated by the Chinese govern