San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-30
McKINLEY'S POLICY.
ON TIE CUBAN QUESTION UNDER
STOOD BY THE HOUSE.
Free Silver Buster, But The Democrats
Are Scared Civil Service Fraud
Still Worrying The Pie Hunters.

Washington, May 29.-Special.-Whsn
it comes to expressing their sympathy
for Cuba, or showing their confidence
in President Mckinley, the Republi-
cans of the House stand with the pres
ident They know that it is not neces-
sary to pass the Senate resolution de-
claring that the belligerency Of the
Cubans should be recognized, in order
to convince the adoption of that reso-
luton at this time would unnecessa-
rily embarass the president, who is
working out a policy that will be of
some practical benefit to the Cubans,
which it is far from certain that the
recognition of belligerency would be.
This being the situation, it is not like
ly that the House will act upon the
belligerency resolution or take any
other action relating to Cuba, until
President Mckinley has had time
enough to formulate and announce his
policy. The real friends of Cuba want
more than a recognition of belligeren-
cy; they want to see the island indie
pendent; and to that end they are
steadfastly working, meanwhile, the
money appropriated by Congress for
the relief of destitute Americans in
Cuba, is being used for that purpose
by the U. S. consuls. There is no
good reason for any undue haste in
taking the next step, especially when
haste might defeat the very object
sought-the ending of bloodshed in Gu
ba. President Mckinley has promis-
ed to act in a short time, and Republic
cans are willing to accept that prom
Use and wait.
The Bryanites are constantly talking
about the increase of free silver senti-
ment in the country and saying that
the result of last November would be
reversed if there were National
election now. OF course everybody
knows that sort of talk to be mere
bluff and buster. If proof was need
ed it is furnished by the fact that the
Democratic leader of the House-Bai-
lev, of TeXas-and other prominent
Democrats have gone into the first
congressional district of Missouri to
speak and work for the election of
Democratic. successor to the late Rep
resentative r. p. Giles, The silver sem
timent is growing so fast in the silver
state of Missouri, that stump speakers
of National prominence are needed to
make sure that the Republicans do not
carry a district that last November
elected a silver Democrat. Facts like
this are more convincing than loud talk
lust as a man is always judged to a
larger extent by his actions than by
his words.
President Mckinley has been so &C.
cupied with other matters that he has
not had time to decide what to do
about revoking the extensions of the
civil service rules, made by Mr.. Cleve-
land. but he has heard the complaints
of many prominent Republicans con-
corning the injustice of the most of
those extensions and there is very lit
tie doubt that when he takes the ques-
ton I'D, some, if not all, of those ex-
tensions will have to go. Some idea
of how some of these extensions are
regarded by prominent officials, who
know by experience just how they are
working, may be had from the follow
ing vigorous language used by Assist
ant Secretary Ryan of the Interior de-
partment 1.-The civil service law has
been perverted and dragged into the
mire to serve partisan ends; but even
that is not the worst of 1t. A new ad-
ministration has come into power,
pledged to carry out policies which in
many important respects are directly
contrary to those of the last admins
tration, and it finds itself confronted
on every threshold by an army of Off
cial incumbents hostile, or at the very
least, Indifferent, to it's aims and pur-
poses-an army intrenched behind
newly devised rules and regulations
which were never contemplated or
dreamed of by the trainers and sup
porters of the civil service law, whose
design was to elevate and improve the
efficiency Of the clerical service in the
executive departments of the govern
ment"
Mr.. Ryan was a member of the