San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-15
JERRY SAT- UPON.
REED MERELY REGARDS HIM AS AN
AMUSING LITTLE OUss."
Cleveland Responsible Mckinley Reir-
stating Old Soldiers Roosevelt May
Make Some Trouble,

Washington, April 15.-Special.-
President Mckinley returned from his
little outing much improved. The
weather was more or less disagreeable
during the entire time he spent on the
Dolphin. but he got what he went af-
ted and what he needed most-rest.
Jerry Simpson made an attempt to
, r .oye that he was a bigger man than
they,antire House, but he only proved
himsEHf a monkey. He thought, or ra-
Their II, thought that he thought, that
he could compel Speaker Reed to ap-
point thet committees and the House
TO go ahead with miscellaneous bust
ness, although majority had decided
that the legislation of the extra ses-
sion should be confined to passing left
over appropriation bills and the tarln
hill. both of which the House has
done Jerry made the point Of mo
quorum" to prevent the House ad-
iourning from Saturday to Wednes-
dav but the Speaker had no difficulty
in counting quorum, and Jerry found
himself down while the House ad-
iOurned. Whether he intends to get
himself knocked down every time the
House meets just for the notoriety
there is in it, is yet to be seen. 1t is
evident that Speaker Reed regards Jer-
nv merely as an amusing little cuss."
Secretary Alger, under whose direc-
ton the 100000 appropriated last
week by Congress for the relief of suf-
ferers by the floods in the Mississippi
valley. will be spent, lost no time in
uniting the, machinery of the war de-
partment to work in order that prompt
-reG'ief might be extended, wherever
NED eded. It may be a hard thing to
san but. it is strictly true that the
ClaEeland administration was respon-
sibLe for much of the damage done by
thdf Mississippi river floods, by its pol
icyfOf delay in spending money appro-
pribted by Congress to strengthen and
raiEe up the levees along the MISSISSIPPI
nj BIT those points where United States
engineer officers had reported the ne
cessity of such work. Reports are on
file in the War department from en-
cineer officers, made after Congress
had appropriated the money, urging
that contracts be made and the work
rushed on these levees, but it was the
cleveland Carlisle policy to hold back
appropriations as long as possible and
these floods came before the strength
ening Of the levees had been COM
pleted. A number of the breaks are
at the points reported weak by the en-
gineers and ordered to be strengthen
ed by Congress. For all the damage
done by these particular breaks, the
cleveland administration is clearly re-
sponsible.
President McKinley's announced pol
icy of re-instating all ex-Union SOL
diers who were dismissed from office
by the Democrats for no other reason
than their politics, is being carried out
in all of the government departments
as fast as the heads of the depart
ments can get around to the cases.
In the cases of the chiefs of divisions,
the Democrats are being given better
treatment than they gave Republicans.
They are allowed to remain in office,
in a lower position, instead of being
dismissed, as so many Republicans
we're under the last administration.
A Republican senator speaking of the
talk in regard to the appointment of
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, to be assist
ant secretary of the navy being likely
to make trouble, said: Roosevelt may
NAVE trouble in the navy department,