San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-02
The Daily Eight.
FRIDAY, JUNE ,, 1898
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, May 30, 1898.


Although supposed to stand for
everything that is anti-CleVeland,
particularly on the financial ques-
ton, he has controlled more PreSi-
dental patronage up to date than
any other single member of the
Senate. That's why so many peo-
pie say that he has bargained away
his vote on the silver question, at
the coming session of Congress,
for patronage; but of that
your correspondent does not in
tend to express an opinion; the
record of Mr.. Voorhees, is well
known, and if he goes back on it
when Congress meets the public
can draw its own conclusions, but
so long as he can get offices for con-
stituents it is not probable that
they will bother themselves about
little thing like a somersault on
the financial question.
But it was of little political
trickery in which he is just now
engaged that started to tell. OF
course every newspaper dealer is
familiar with the high handed do
ings of Postmaster Donham
at Terre Haute, Ind, in
dismissing all the Republican let
ter carriers as soon as he took
charge of his office, against the
rules of the p. o. Department as
we'll as the civil service law. Civil
Service Commissioner Roosevelt
went out there and made person.
al investigation and his report
is dead against the postmaster,
although it has not yet been APP
proved by the other commissioners,
but it unquestionably will be. Now
that particular postmaster is one
of Voorhees, henchmen, and NOOr-
hees got here as soon as Commits
siOner Roosevelt did, determined
to prevent his being punished or
dismissed. In order to strengthen
himself with Mr.. Cleveland, whose
weakness he has long ago learned,
he had himself interviewed as soon
as he arrived in Washington, and
filled a half column with the
most fulsOme tlattery of the wis
dom and craftsmanship of the
President. He calculates by this
bit of humbuggery to pull the wool
over the Presidents eyes and pre-
vent any action being taken on the
report of Mr.. Roosevelt. Mr.. RoOse-
welt cannot begin to match the
senator for thickness, but is all the
same hard fighter and is deter
mined that DOnham shall be pun
ished, and if he isn't look out for a
row.
Secretary Hoke Smith has re-
pealed an order that was issued by
Gen. Raum and Assistant Secre-
tary Bussey, constituting "disability
not of service origin" which he
hopes will keep the veterans out of
from $l5,OOO,OOO to S2O,0OO,OOO a
year. Under the construction
which Secretary Smith has decided
shall be put upon the pension act
of 1890, mans "disability not of
service origin" will have to be suf-
ficient to prevent his earning sup
port by manual labor before he
will be allowed a pension.
Attorney General Olney has, ac-
cOrding to a story current here,
been sat down upon by Mr.. Cleve-
land. Mr.. Olney was determined
to make the fight of his life to COM
pei the Worlds Fair people to
obey the law as to Sunday closing,
but Sec. Gresham told Mr.. Cleve-
land that it would make the adj
ministratiOn very unpopular in the
west, where the people were prac-
tically unanimous in favor of Sun
day opening, if any extraordinary
efforts were made by the attorney
general to compel it to close. Then
the Attorney General was told
that he must do nothing more than
he was compelled to do in the mat
ter. He objected to the interior
ence with his plans, but he was
quickly made to understand who
was bossing the machine, just as
his colleagues had been before him
and he suddenly concluded to
make a visit to Boston, leaving
the district attorney at Chicago to
make his fight for Sunday clos,
ing alone, and without even the
moral support of the administra,
ton.
Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, who has
proved his ability as an executive
officer, and as diplomat, by foul
years service in the cabinet and by
four years service as L. S. minister
to Great Britain, is in Washington
for the purpose of making his fina
report to the department of state
He will resume his connection will