San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Raly IL. 1872.


II the House committee, which
started for Homestead, Pa. today to,
investigate the recent killing of the
lock ed-Out work men of the Carnegie
Establishment by Pinkerton men is
as determined to turn that deplor-.
able Incident to the political advant.
age OF the democratic party rs men,.
bers of tina. party in the House and
Senate have shown themselves to be
no good results can possibly follow
anything 1t may do. 1t is probable
that the Senate will Also send q com.
mittee to investigate.
The Senate cOnfesees succeeded in
compelling the House conferees to,
agree to all Of the senate amendments.
to the pension appropriation bill, ex.
cept the one adding $4,000 for the
employment OF additional clerks.
Vbe hill now carries q total of $l46,-
1877 $50.
Mr.. cut it-down Holman is tempo.
rarily happy, After being knocked
down q score of times ne has &C last
succeeded In getting . majority of the
House to vote to reject the report of
the conference committee on the
naval appropriation bill, and to in
struct the new conferees to insist
upon striking out the Senate amend
ment providing for the construction
of new battleship; also that appro-
priating $50, 900 towards the expense
OF the proposed international naval
display.
The democratic party has many
sins, great and small, to answer for,
but none of them are more heinous
than the attempt of the democratic
senators and representatives to make
political. capital out of the bloodshed
by Pennsylvania labor. 1t shows, as
nothing else could, the desperation of
that party, and Is bound to prove .
boomerang, tor no sensible man can,
after coolly considering the matter,
endorse this bloody issue which these
democrats are trying to make. 1t Is
little short Of idiocy to charge the
protective tariff with being respon-
sible for the shooting down of work.
inginen by Pinkerton's hired murder
ers, aud the democrats who have
made the charge will live to regret
having done so.
The, Stewart free coinage bill ha
been favorably reported to the House,
and the committee on rules has re.
ported q continuing order for it's con.
sideration, beginning Wednesday of
this week; but there is not as much
confidence of passing 1t, among the
silver men. as there was q few days
| ago. The trouble seems to be that
the Cleveland influence Is being
| welded against IL, and q score of
members heretofore ardently In favor
| of the bill are now reported as being
willing to let 1t go over until the next
session, If it can be done in q way to
blind their cons tituents.
The democratic managers are
alarmed about Louisiana, as the news
from that state indicates that its
electoral votes will be cast for Harri-
son and Reid. Governor War.
mouth, OF that State is now In Wash
ington, and, being asked to give his
views, said "Our people want, protec.
ton for their sugar, rice and lumber,
and the free trade plank in the demo-
cratic platform Is little too hard
dose for them to swallow; they are
not ready for free trade. The
peoples party will poll at q low estt.
mate 5000 votes, which will reduce
the democratic strength just that
much; the republicans will stand
solidly, and IL we can only get fair
count we are hound to win, and IL Is
not believed that Governor Foster
will countenance frauds on the
ballot.
The make up of the republican ma.
tional executive committee, which
will manage the campaign, is highly
commended by republicans in con-
gress. Five members of the old ex-
cutlve committee-De Young. of Cal
itornla, vice chairman; Clarksou, of
Iowa; Hobart, of New Jersey; Fessen-
den, of Connecticut, aud Payne, of
Wisconsin-oocupy places upon the
new committee, all of the "tried and
true" sort and the new men-Manley
of Maine; Kersns, of Missouri; Brad
ley of Kentucky; Sutherland, OF New
York, and Tanner Of Illinois, -need
no introduction to the republicans of
the country. 1t only remains for the
President to finally decide upon the
successor to Chairman Campbell. and
he will probably do so during the
present week, to put the committee
in q position to begin the active work
of the campaign, which promises to
be aggressive from the start.
Many democrats are shocked at the
brutality and indecency displayed In
the personal attack made upon Gen.
Raum in the report presented to the
House by the democratic members of
the committee which has been inves-
tigating the Pension office. The per-
sonal animus of it's wording exceeds
that of any document presented to
congress in many years, and its I'M
fairness is shown by accepting as con-
elusive, statements made by irrespon-
sible persons, which were disproved
by witnesses of undoubted trust
xyortbinass t. Ia n fitting end to the