San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, July %

| now before the aSnlngUOn pubic
1t was bad taste and an outrageous
assumption of authority for Mr.
Cleveland to have written that let
ter and it only aggravated the case
when he compelled Mr.. Wilson to
read it as part of his speech on the
floor Of the House; but there is no
denying that the letter has had, at
| least partially, the effect it was in
tended to have. 1t has made it GER.
tain that the House will never
agree to the Senate amendments to
the tariff bill, because, as Senator
Hill significantly remarked, such
agreement would merely result in
| getting the bill vetoed. 1t has had
another effect, however, which it
is certain was neither expected
nor intended by it's writer. 1t has
wrought a sufficient number of
Democratic Senators to control the
Seante, with the help of the solid
RepublicanlvOte, up to publicly de-
claring that they would refuse to
vote to accept any conference re-
port that puts upon the free list
any article upon which the Senate
amendments placed duty.
That is just the way the thing
stands at this writing. The House
will not accept the Senate bill, and
the Senate will not accept the
House bill. Now the only change
that can take place must involve
the surrender Of either the House
or the Senate. 1t can be surmised,
without making mistake, that
Mr.. Cleveland will be able to pre-
vent any surrender on the part of
the House, and as the democratic
Senators who added the protection
amendments to the bill did so be-
cause of pressure from the
states they represent, it would
seem that they might
be counted upon to stand
firm even if they were not strength.
ened by their hatred of Mr.. Cleve-
land, not only because of the in
sulting manner in which he refers
to them in his letter, but also be-
cause Of the manner in which he
has tried to boss his party in Con-
gress-aye, and succeeded, too
from the day on which he became
president. Still, if there is
break in the lines of either side 1t
is beloved that it will be on the part
of the Senate. The Republicans are
playing the part of onlookers at the
contest, but they are by no means
disinterested. On the contrary, they
are so much interested that Sena-
tor Aldrich has asked all impaired
Republicans to be on hand and to
remain within call until the tariff
is in some way disposed Of. The
Republicans wish to accomplish
one of neutrality-suspicious. any tar
i'll legislation, if that can be done
otherwise to aid in getting as many
Of the Senate amendments as pos
sible in the bill that finally gets
through.
Mr.. Cleveland's alleged argu-
ments in favor of the sugar trust
and of the Whitney Nova Scotia
coal syndicate, in which all the
world knows the money Of his
closest personal and political
friends is heavily invested, have
greatly weakened his position and
added to the chances for non action
on tariff bill. Everybody knows
that Mr.. Cleveland's friends put
their money into that coal syndi-
cate solely because he as
sured them that free coal
was certainty, and although
it is not absolutely known, there
are excellent reasons for the belief
! that other friends of his have OBJ
tanned options on certain Cuban
iron mines upon assurances that
iron ore was also to be free.
Did some Democratic Senators
commit perjury when they swore
that they had never purchased
stock in the sugar trust? The di-
rect charge has been made that
they did, and the Senate commit
tee has reopened the Investigation
and is again taking testi-
mony. 1t is keeping the
testimony very dark, too, men,
bers Of the committee claiming
to be afraid thai its publication
might result in preventing the
committee obtaining important
evidence. 1t is currently ru-
mored that at least one witness
has sworn to having a written or
der for the purchase Of sugar stock,
which was given by Democratic
Senator and is now in existence,
and to have told the committee in
whose possession it is. The gossip
concerning this matter has been
very much enlivened by the state
ment that certain parties who had