San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-16
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LATEST OFF THE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
A Complete Epitome of the Days Happen
ings, Briefed and:Boiled Down, up
to Time Of Going to Press.

to Time Of Going to Press.
House occupied its time with private
| bills.
Sherman accepts the portfolio of
state.
Vice Consul Springer of Havana Wis
| its Olney.
Another Cuban editor arrested in
New York.
| Senate of Texas adopts the rules of
the last body.
Hampstead bests Yoakum in the
| chicken dispute.
No other names of cabinet officers
| are given out as yet.
Nicaragua canal bill gets first place
on Senate calendar.
Chairman Sheehan's friends carry all
the Tammany primaries.
Platt will take his seat as the next
senator from New York.
Anti-Pritchard caucus held in the
| North Carolina Legislature.
Senate and House promptly pass the
per diem and mileage bills.
Active spring trade is foreshadowed
in the southern trade reports.
Storage rates by the steamships re-
main unchanged until March Is.
Dudley's Georgian Minstrels dis
| band at Temple and start home.
Deadlock in the Idaho Legislature
| continues, but Dubois is not in it.
Bill offered in Congress for the pur-
l price.
House refers the Senate amendments
| to the free homestead bill to the COM
| mittee.
| Thirteen bills were thrown into the
Senate's hopper and SO into that of the
| House.
| Steel board act spromptl and work
on the ships at Newport News will be
| resumed.
| 1t is said that the next Cuban poll
| cy will differ little from the present.
All say so.
| Fee bills of those regulating elections
! will be numerous on the Legislature
| at Austin.
Spain concludes to introduce reforms
| in Cuba and will promulgate the same
on fete day.
Railroads will cut grain rates from
Chicago to New York so cents hun
dren pounds.
Cuban junta receive a letter from
| Gomez, acknowledging receipt of arms
and munitions.
| Senate will have a fight over the
nomination of Trice for assistant at
torney general.
Neither the words free" or ''unlim-
tied" will be used in the wording of the
bimetallist bill.
Three buildings and contents de-
| stroyed at Tyler; loss not stated, in
surance 21,10O.
Secretary Francis says that patents
/ are refused to Pacific lands on ac-
count of default.
1t is thought that the free homestead
bill is killed by reference to public
/ lands committee.
Prominent society people in Corsi-
cana cited to appear as witnesses in
gambling cases.
Senate adds S60475 to the total OF
the legislative, executive and judicial
| appropriation bills.
| O'Connor introduces bill authoriz-
| ing the councils of cities to pay debts
| barred by limitation.
Evans of Grayson has the call of 13
| bills offered as his first days work.
I Ward second with z.
Committee report favorably Greer's
| bill for a commission to settle Pacific
| railroad Indebtedness.
Delaware Republicans keep up their
| separate legislative organization and
will vote for senator.
| Railroad arrangements for carrying
| the president-elect and the escorts to
Washington are made.
The clerk and magistrate who tried
SanguilIy and Someillan in Havana
are promoted by Weyler.
Contestants in Tennessee for the gu
| bernatorial election must give bond
| for the costs of the contest.
Tillman's friends in Tennessee will
make up the amount of his bond Tor
contest of the governorship.