San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent. !
WASHINGTON, May %.

scandal lead to the White House ?
Statements made by Democrats,
mind you, not Republicans, first
indicated that it did, and the ac-
ton of the Investigating commit
tee, in pretending to be greatly ex-
ercised because three newspaper
correspondents - one of them a
Democrat, and Senator Murphy's
private secretary-have declined to
give the names of those who gave
them information, has not weak
ened the indications. The COM
mittee may be perfectly honest in
it's attempt to make the correspon-
dents tell the names Of their in
formants, but experience should
warn them of the time they are
wasting. There is probably not
newspaper correspondent in Wash
ington who would not go to Jail
and stay there rather than to tell
the name of any man who had CIV
en- him information in confidence,
and nobody knows this better than
senators on this committee, hence
the belief that they are merely u.s.
ing the correspondents in making
a play for time, instead of asking
the men whose names have been
directly connected with the scan
dial for the information that will
establish the truth or falsity of the
charge that the sugar trust dictated
the sugar schedule of the tariff bill.
The present actions of the commit
tee confirm the impression of those
who predicted from the first that
the whole investigation would be
as great a fizZle as that part of it
which dealt with the alleged at
tempt to bride senators.
Several votes in the Senate haV-
ing demonstrated that the last
bargain took in all of the Demo-
Gratis except Hill, as we'll as the
Populists, and that the tariff bill
as bargained for is going to get
their votes, it is probable although
not yet certain, that the Repub-
licans will in few days agree to
the setting of a day for the final
vote on the bill. The sugar sched-
ule will be reached this week
and an effort will be made to up
set it, but for the reasons set
forth above it Will hardly sue
coed.
Civil Service Commissioner
Roosevelt has got his fighting
blood up. During the debate which
preceded the Democratic attempt
to drop the appropriation for the
Civil Service Commission, Repres-
entatives Pendleton, of w. Va,
Enloe, of Tenn, and StOckdale and
Williams, of Miss, made state
ments rejecting upon the integri-
| ty of the commission. and accusing
it Of always faVoring Republicans.
Mr.. Roosevelt sent a communica-
ton to Representative DeForest,
chairman of the House commit
tee on Reform in the
Civil Service, branding each
and every statement made
by the four Representatives as un-
qualifiedly false, and daring them
to attempt to prove them in an in
vestigation, which he suggests be
made. There is no likelihood Of
an investigation, as it is well un-
derstood that the statements were
made largely tOplacate disappOint-
ed constituents who had not been
provided for, and who might be
disposed to make trouble in NOM
mating conventions.
Gold, like everything else, is
afraid of this administration. At
least it gets away from it quite
fast. Notwithstanding the $780,
100000 in gold received from the
late bond issue, the gold in the
treasury is today below $S0,0OO,O0O,
and according to the opinion OF
many of the shrewdest observers
in Congress, including friends as
well as enemies Of the administra-
tion, another bond issue is only
question of time, and if there is
not a decided "let up" in the
drain on the treasury it will
be a very short time. All Of
the prophecies of Mr.. Cleve-
land and Secretary Carlisle con-
corning the return of gold from
Europe have proven false. Should
the tariff bill become a law by
the first of July, which the Demo-
Gratis claim, but the Republicans
do not concede, there will be an inn
mediate and immense drain on the
remaining gold in the treasury, as
the importers will want it to send
to Europe to pay for the goods
which European manufacturers
have been piling up to flood the