San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-14
The Daily Eight.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1913
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from Our Regular Correspondent

MrCleveland has it in his power
to end the silver debate in the Sen
ate in twenty-fOur hours, but he
so far has positively refused to do
il. Perhaps now that Mrs. Cleve-
land has given birth to another
girl and that the mother and
daughter are doing well, he may
be sufficiently notified to consent
tOwhat will close the debate, ad-
mitted by all, silver and
anti-silver men alike, to be doing
more harm than good. His latest
ultimatum, given to an admins
tration Senator who had called on
him to suggest that the COmpro-
mise proposed by Senate or Failk-
ner, of West Virginia, or a similar
one be adopted, was that the Noor-
hees repeal bill must be passed
without any condition whatever.
If he still maintains that attitude
he may, indeed, probably will in
the end see the Voorhees, bill pass
ed, but it will only be after
long and bitter struggle that
will almost certainly disrupt the
democratic party. The cOmpro-
mise suggested is that two or three
million of silver dollars be coined
each month until the total shall
reach SS,000,00O. The suggestion is
personally approved by many ad-
ministration Senators, but, of
course, they will not vote for it I'M
less Mr.. Cleveland says so.
The House is dragging along in
manner that indicates to all the
world that it has received its orders
to kill time until further orders. II
is understood that an attempt IS
to be made in the House to stir up
a bitter partisan debate over the
bill to repeal the Federal election
laws, the idea of the Democratic
leader being that such debate
will draw party lines sharpIy,sOlld-
ify the Democrats in the House, land
stop the threatened stampede of
southern democrats to the peoples
party on account of the silver ques-
ton. The republicans in the
House will neither seek nor avoid
such a debate, but they will GER
tainlainly oppose, by every means
at their command, the repeal of
these laws, the only restraint now
left upon the democrats of the
South and of the large cities.
The position taken on the Chin
csc question by the administration
is certainly a little odd. After
waiting many months it now Ot1i-
cially announces that all Chinese
convicted under the GeaTy law
will forthwith be depOrted, al
though it is perfectly we'll known
that the funds at the disposal of
the treasury department, for this
purpose, are not sufficient to pay
for the deportation of one per cent
of the Chinese who have made
themselves liable to the law by
neglecting or refusing to register
The senators and representatives
from the Pacific coast have been
constantly urging Secretary Car
Isle to enforce the law, and at first
they were disposed to think that it
;
had brought about the chan ge
1t has, however, been unofficial lily
announced that it was because the
new Chinese minister had made
no move towards securing a new
treaty between the two countries
that the law is to be enforced. /
that isn't an odd reason to public
ly give for enforcing a law, one was
never before given. 1t is as if the
administration had said to the
new Chinese minister: 1--WE shall
now begin the deportation of you
cOuntrymen, unless you at once
submit propositions for a new
treaty" Surely the ambitious
composer of comic opera will no
overlook such promising material
If EXSpeaker Reed continues t,
crOSs-questiOn and make fools o
the paid attorneys Of the free
traders who appear before the
committee, Notwithstanding tn
uncOncealed efforts of Chairman
Wilson and his Democratic col
leagues on the committee to bro
tect and aid them, the Democrat
will be mighty glad when tn
public hea rings before the HOus
Ways and Means committee com
to an end. AS at present conducted
they are a farce anyway ; the con
mittee was Organized to report
free trade tariff bill and it will
it, unless the order is cOunte
manded from the original sourc
the White House.
Senator Teller made one of IL