San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, '96.

voted for the free coinage substi-
tute for the house bond bill, which
passed the senate by a vote OF AZ
to 80, and three republican senators
who would have voted for it
Ha nsbrough, Of North Dakota,
Du bois, of Idaho, and Wolcott, of
Colorado,-were paired. AS there
is no possibility that the substi-
tute can become a law the only
interest attached to the matter
was the record made by the vote.
With the exception of Senator
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, all OF
the republicans are believed to
have voted in accordance with the
views of a majority Of their con-
stituents.
The democratic members of the
house committee on foreign affairs
having refused to agree to any
resolution submitted by the re-
publican members of that COM
mittee, the republicans adopted,
and, Of course, the house will also,
a resolution expressing the sense
of the house that Ambassador
Bayard's un-American utterances
in recent speeches in Great Britain
were improper and that he be
censured therefor. II Bayard has
any sense of manhood left he will
rnsign when the house adopts
that resolution.
Senator Pettigrew, of South
Dakota, sometimes has prophetic
mood. While one of them was on
him he said: "The bond bill will
die in conference. The house will
not agree to the free coinage sub,
stitute OF the senate, and all of the
various compromises that may be
proposed will 60 into the waste
basket. There is no common
ground upon which the houses can
meet. The revenue bill will be
reported from the committee on
finance without amendment, and
will pass the senate in the same
shape it passed the house. 1t will
then 60 to the president, who will
knock it in the head with his
little veto and end financial legis-
lation for this session. We will
then pass the appropriation bills
and 60 home before the first of
May, making the shortest long
session on record.
Speaker Reed has been presented
with q gavel from Mr.. Blaine's
birth place, accompanied by the
following letter, which is self-ex-
planatory: "The wood for this
gavel was taken out OF the win
dow frames of the Blaine mouse.
A living shrine is more satisfac-
tory than a sdead one mans
house is more attractive than his
grave. To see the rooms in which
he lived and talked, the bed on
which he slept, the chair and
table where he wrote, the very
pen which his living fingers guild.
ed-these very sights bring the
man before us and he lives again.
James g. Blaine belongs to his-
tory. Knowing the Hon. Thomas
B. Reed to be a friend Of the dead
statesman, we send him this
gavel as a token of our esteem and
respect for him personally, and as
our standard bearer in 1896. We
hope when taps of this gavel shall
call the house to order, it will call
before the members the form of
Hon. James G. Blaine, whose
words have echoed through the
chamber which now knows his
voice no more"
While there are many men in
both branches of congress who
are as much opposed to Mr..
Cleveland's policy as Senator Till
man, of South Carolina, is or can
be, there are few men in congress
who do not openly condemn the
blcakguard language which Till
man used to express his opposition.
The presidents position should
protect him from personal abuse.
The Union Republican club, of
Washington, proposes to celebrate
the fortieth birthday of the re-
publican party by holding big
mass meeting on the evening of
February 22nd. A large hall has
been engaged, and already the in
vitations of the club have been &C.
cepted by a sufficient number Of
republicans Of national reputa-
ton to make it certain that the
celebration will be the brilliant
success IL deServes tO he
II the democratic members Of
the senate all follow the example
OF the democrats OF the election
committee, it will be left for the
populists to decide whether Sena-
tor Dupont, Of Delaware, shall
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