San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-02-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. II, 1894.

| Ine cleveland JarlH Dill Is 10 DE
reported to the Senate this week.
1t Is not to be torn all to pieces by
the Finance committee, as many
had expected. 1t is only to be
sufficiently amendeded before be-
ing reported to gain the support OF
| those Democratic Senators who
| had announced their intention to
vote against it unless their de-
mands were complied with. Moth
| ing has yet been officially given
out concerning these amendments,
! but it is regarded as certain that
they will include duty on sugar,
both raw and refined, and a
duty on coal. These conces-
sions to the Senate from Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia and Louis
lana, are not to be called prOtec-
ton. The Democratic party is OPP
posed to protection, you know. So
the claim is to be made by the
committee that these duties are
levied solely for revenue purposes
and with no intention to protect
cold, hard facts these proposed
amendments are not pleasing to
the Democrats, except those from
| the states that will be benefited,
and they are only to be made be-
cause the bill cannot be passed
with even four DemOcra-
| tic senators voting against
it, and as an Offset the duties on a
number of articles principally pro-
duced in states that are reliably
Republican are to be still further
reduced. The income tax is TO re-
main in the bill, unless struck out
by vote of the Senate. The Re-
publican senators will probably
hold a conference as soon as the
bill is reported, in order to deter
mine upon the plan Of opposition
they will follow. The advices they
are receiving from their constitu-
ents are somewhat contradictory.
Some want them to merely put
themselves on record as opposing
the bill and then to allow it to be
passed; others want them to use
every legitimate parliamentary
method to delay or defeat it.
Colonel E. It. Lee, of Monticello,
Ill, Secretary of Shiloh Battle
Field association, is in Washing
ton for the purpose Of presenting
to the congressional committees
the memorial adopted by the asso-
citation, asking Congress to pur-
chase battle field of Shiloh and
turn it into a National Memorial
park. The association at a recent
meeting held at indianapolis desig-
mated Senators Harris, of Tenne-
see, Sherman, of Olio and Villas,
of Wisconsin, committee to take
charge Of the memorial in the Sem
ate and the following Representa-
tives to perform a like duty in the
House: Col. d. B. Henderson, of
Iowa; Gen. Joseph Wheeler, of
Alabama, and Gen. John c. Black,
of Illinois.
Representative Geary-"Chinese
Geary, as he is often called-of
California, is a Democrat, but not
a cuckoo, as will be seen by the
following language Of his : 81 have
as much respect for the president
as any one else, but do not see
why congress should first learn
the wishes of the president or con-
suit the wishes of the executive de.
partments before legislating. Con-
gress is here to pass laws without
consulting anybody and |, for one,
am growing tired Of the con-
slant interference Of the executive
departments in the work OF Con-
gress. Let Congress make its own
laws, and if the president does not
like them, let him exercise his con-
stitutiOnal prerogative and veto
them" That's the most sensible
Democratic speech of the session.
The charge was made several
days ago that Secretary Gresham
has had a long letter from Presi-
dent Dole to Minister Willis in his
possession more than a week, and
that 1T was withheld from the
House for fear that the terrible
arraignment Of Willis for his
double dealing since arriving in
Honolulu, which it contains, would
have defeated the cuckoo resolu-
ton which the House was
fairly driven to adopt last
week, and the charge has
not been denied 4 1t certainly looks
as though the administration were
determined to sink itself to the
bottom of the pit of public infamy
in dealing with Hawaii. Mr.. Dole's /
letter is said to be something like |
ten thousand words long, and to go |
into minute particulars concerning |