San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

taken fresh start and now prom
ises to turn into a war of eXtermi
nation. Hill appeared to be quietly
allowing himself to be snubbed by
acquiessing in the confirmation OF
the nominations of his personal
enemies to federal offices until
Hornblower's nomination to the
Supreme court. Then he began to
prepare to fight back, ending with
a Touchdown blow for Mr.. Cleve-
land by securing the rejection of
the Hornblower nomination.
While Hill was receiving the con-
CALCULATIONS of his followers, in
and out of the Senate, Mr.. Cleve-
land saw his opportunity for re.
venge and promptly took
advantage of it by vetoing
the New York and New
Jersey Bridge bill, a measure
in which Senator Hill and many
of his most prominent benchmen
were known to be deeply interest
ed, some people say in a financial
as well as political way. Hill and
his senatorial supporters are not
doing any talking for publication,
about their plans, but when the
Cleveland tariff bill energies from
the Senate the effect of their next
blow will be visible TO all the
world without the use Of micro
scope. Republicans are enjoying
the combat and are perfectly will
ing to shout "go it Cleveland, go it
HILL" with sufficient energy to
keep 'em fighting.
The Democratic tariff "kickers"
have one more week in which to
try to amend the Cleveland tariff
bill, and it will include the sugar,
iron and coal clauses, to say moth
ing of the income tax, which they
will try to attach to the tariff bill
as an amendment; but if a result
of their efforts during the last week
is an indication of their voting
strength their efforts will only re-
suit in talk; they have succeeded
in securing only one amendment
that was opposed by the Demo-
Gratis of the Ways and Means COM
mittee---that making the free wool
clause 60 into effect on the passage
of the bill.
EX-Minister Stevens gave some
very interesting testimony to the
Senate committee on Foreign Re-
lations, on Saturday, concerning
happenings in Hawaii during his
period in office as minister. He
went over the whole business,
frankly stating that he favored an
neXatiOn and showing that for that
very reason he was so particular in
all his official acts up to the forma-
ton Of the provisional government
that the anneXationists thought
him opposed to them. 1t is almost
amusing to hear of the anger felt
by Mr.. Cleveland and the cuckoo
Democrats because of President
DOle's plain language to Minister
Willis concerning his intrigues
with the eX-queen and his lack Of
frankness in dealing with the pro
visiOnal government. If Mr.. Will
lis had not deserved receiving such
a letter it would perhaps never
have been written.
The LOnd issue announced by
Secretary Carlisle has turned the
POpulists and majority of the
southern and western Democrats
in Congress into bowling dervishes,
and wild and inflamatory talk is
INDUCED in by them. some of
which will be given an escape
valve by the resolution of Senators
Pfetfer and Allen, which Will be
made the text for some speeches in
the Senate this week. Whether the
action of Secretary Carlisle was a
proper one is question that your
correspondent will not deal with at
present, but there is no doubt Of it's
legality, even putting the strictest
construction upon the authority
conferred by the act Of 1873.
That act authorizes the is
sue of bonds for the
purchase Of gold for the redemp-
ton Of treasury notes. OF course
everybody knows that this
bond issue is really to get money
to meet current obligations, the
democratic tariff policy having re-
suited in causing the revenues to
fall below the amount neededy but
it must be plain to the humblest
student of finance that it will be a
very easy matter for Mr.. Carlisle
to comply with the letter of that
act by having his friends, the
Wall street bankers, present treas
ury notes for redemption in suf-
ficient amounts to require all the
gold received from the sale Of