San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-02

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have as rocky a row to hoe as sill.
yer repeal before it is out of the
hands of the Senate. 1t is not sc
certain as it looks to be how Sen
ate will dispose of it.
Gladstone dares the British
House of Lords to force a dissolu.
ton of parliament, assuring them
that if they do they will find some
other issues confronting them out
side of Home Rule.
The cOmptroller's report does not
show the state treasury in as bad a
state as the circular sent out by
the governor would set forth. All
the same there is no money for the
department clerks.
The state Prohibition convention
held in Iowa was very slimly at
tended, but the ticket makers went
through the motions all the same.
They will not figure largely in the
election this year.
The Republicans in Congress are
ready to help the good money
Democrats in their work of legisla-
ton, but they are not ready to sit
up until midnight in senatorial
session to do it.
The ways and means committee
have about decided to restore the
duty upon sugar and put wool on
the free list. They would not do
this if Louisiana and Texas We're
doubtful states.
The papers throughout the state
are making favorable mention of
the coming events of the San An
tonic Jockey club meet. They
will find good sport in this city on
that occasion.
Those democrats seem to need
good deal of grease to oil the ma
chinery of state and national
government. The revenues at
Washing ton and Austin are alike
inadequate.
Galveston News pays more at
tentlOn to Houston local affairs
than she does to those of the island
city, and the Houston Post re-
ciprOcates. This is jug-handled
journalism.
John J. ingalls, is not after Pfef-
fer's seat in the senate so much as
he is after the seat that Pfetfer
conjured away from him. Ingalls,
had the prior claim, or at least he
thinks so.
The Democratic pie pleaders
think that Cleveland ought to come
Outs west and see how much of
Gods country he is overlooking.
Cleveland is not stuck on the west
just now.
Those silver senators who would
betray the United States for the
profits of their silver mines are the
descendants of him who betrayed
his Master for thirty pieces of sill
yer.
The United States export trade
is good and growing better. I'm
der these conditions it is not likely
that there will be any considerable
demand abroad for American corn.
There is not a shadow of doubt
that the whole coast country is in
better financial shape than it was
one year ago, and the agricultural
promise thereof is far in advance.
Relations are seriously strained
between the Vatican and the Qui-
rinal. Pope Leo and King Hum
bert are both walking around with
chips on their shoulders.
There are no ladies in the bomb
throwing section of the anarchist
army. Women cannot throw a
stone, and would not engineer a
bomb any straighte +.
Has Hogg been try ing to make
out a case of political prescience on
his part in the report that he has
made of the finances of the state?
1t squints that way,
The Democrat senators who
| fought the nomination Of CleVe-
land are now getting back at him
by opposing his policy Of silver re-
peal.
The latest is an international
oyster congress, at Chicago. The
windy city will serve things on
the half shell.
The state horsemen take as nat
urally to San Antonio Jockey club
as George Wilson to Negro min
strelsy.
The present condition Of the
state treasury cannot be charged
to the misfit legislation of Repub-