San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, August 2.

holding out for free raw materials
until the Senators are compelled
to surrender but their private talk
and acting tells another story. Mr.
Cleveland has discovered that he
could not dictate to the Democratic
Senators in matters affecting the
welfare of thousands of citizens OF
the states they represent, and he
is said to deeply regret that he
allowed the advice of Don Dickin.
son, the Michigan rainbow chaser
to outweight that of Secretary
Carlisle, who advised him not to
send that letter. He hasn't
changed his mind about free coal
for the benefit of the Whitney
syndicate; free iron for Carnegie
crowd, and protection for the
sugar trust, but he has found out
that he went the wrong way to
get this unique combination of
"tariff reform" He wants them
as bad as ever, and some say he is
willing to see all tariff legislation
fail rather than not to get them,
but he regrets having jumped on
those who know how and do not
hesitate to fight back.
Although the conferees held
their first recorded meeting today
since the bill was on Friday last,
send back to conference without
instructions by the Senate, the
Democratic conferees spent all day
Saturday and Sunday in trying to
patch up the differences between
the House and Senate, but as no
satisfactory answer has yet been
found to the ultimatum Of the
Senators, "take the bill as it is or
you'll get nothing" the status is
unchanged. Some of the shrewdest
observers are convinced that vic
tory for the Senate bill is assured,
and that the time Of the Demo-
cratic bosses is now principally
taken up with arranging series
of more or less confusing changes
in the bill which shall make it
seem that concessions were made
on both sides or as one man puts
it: "finding a soft place for Cleve-
land to fall on" The House con-
ferees are individually willing to
hold out against the Senate, but
the Democrats Of the House gener-
ally are not willing to keep up the
fight and they have plainly shown
their disinclination to fight Mr..
Cleveland's battle for him.
Secretaries Gresham and Car
Isle are doing their best to defeat
the bill which provides that inn
migrants shall be inspected by
L. S. COnsuls, before being allowed
to start for this country, and
which was recently passed by the
House and is now before the
Senate immigration committee.
The principal ground for their
opposition, according to their
chief spokesman, Mr.. Stump, L. S.
of immigration, is
that the bill, if it became a law,
would stop all immigration. That
will hardly defeat the
bill, as there are many who be-
lieve that immigration ought to be
stopped, for a time, any way.
Representative Stone, Of Pa, the
author of tho bill, and by whose
shrewd management it was en-
gineered through the House in
spite of the opposition of the chair
man of the House committee on
immigration, thinks it will be just
the law that is needed; that it
would shut out the undesirable,
giving us only the class OF immi-
grants who are always welcome
in all countries.
Mr.. Cleveland seems to have
little difficulty in controlling the
actions of Dem ocratic members Of
the House. Only the other day
the Democratic members of the
House committee on Commerce
were insisting upon the necessity
for the adoption of the resolution |
that committee to
make an investigation of the recent
because they did not con.
slider the law under which Mr..
Cleveland appointed the investi-
eating Commission broad enough
to furnish the necessary authority.
Mr.. Cleveland gave the chairman
If that committee hint that he
thought one investigation enough,
md straightway the Democrats on
The committee began to talk about
The clashing that would be caused
1y two Investigations and to
Indicate very plainly that the
resolution was dead. Mr.. c.
would doubtless be willing to pay
arpelV for q racine that wOu1d