San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-17
GAY WASHINGTON.
EVERYBODY PREPARING FOR A
SWELL INAUGURATION.
To be Made the Grandest Affair In the
Nations History-Democratic Howl
ers-Lsgislature Gossip.

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er one turns in Washington. Work
upon the street stands from which a
portion of the spectators will view the
paarde, which promises to be the hand
soonest, if not the largest, ever seen,
has been started, and the Inauguration
committee has begun the distri-
button of fifty thousand paper
tias and fifteen thousand portraits of
Mckinley and Hobart, to be used by
the residents along the route of the pa
rade to assist in decorating their hOus-
es. These are given away by the COM
mittee. So general is the sentiment
in favor of having the West Point and
Annapolis cadets take part in the pa
rade that ii seems probable the joint
resolution, offered in the Senate by Mr..
Frye, and in the House of Representa-
tives by Mr.. Baker, of n. H., request
ing the president to order the cadets
and their bands to Washington and
appropriating the money to pay their
expenses, will go through. 1t is known
that Mr.. Cleveland favors having the
cadets in the parade and that he will
adopt the resolution.
The Democrats are already begin
ming their howl about the total amount
of the appropriations that will be made
by the Fifty-fourth Congress. 1t is
true that the total of the appropria-
tions for the two years will exceed ST.
900, 100000, but the Democrats would
show more wisdom if they would
point out a single appropriation made
or to be made in the short time remain
ing of the session, that is not needed,
or that the government will not get full
value for, instead of yelling "extrav-
agant appropriations" like a lot of par
rots. The Senate is not a Republican
body-would that it were-yet it has
not only approved all of the appropria-
tions made by the House, but has in
nearly every bill increased them. Be
sides, it should not be forgotten that a
considerable amount of the money APP
propriated by this Congress was made
necessary by continuing contracts
made by the last Democratic Congress
for river and harbor improvements,
public buildings and the increase of
the navy. Chairman Cannon, of the
IlOuSC COlllilllllCG Oh
correctly stated the situation when he
said that contracts previously made
had to be observed: that Congress
could not allow unfinished public build
ings to remain exposed in all kinds of
weather, and that the pension laws
could not be ignored. In short. that
no appropriations have been made that
were not necessary for the conduction
of the government and the preserva-
tim of its interests. Mr.. Cannon's
ideas of economy in public expenditures
are 80 rigid that he has offended many
personal friends by refusing to sane
ton propositions for appropriations
which have come before his committee.
There is no item in any appropriation
made by the Fifty-fourth Congress
that amy Republican need be ashamed
Of; the appropriations are all needed
and the money is all to be spent among
the people and for the people.
1t is about settled that the arbitra-
ton treaty will not be voted upon at
this session, but will go over to the ex
ira session of the Senate, that will
meet March 4th, and remain in session
until the extra session of the full Con-
SIGSS InGelS. Ills has bttll llldiuG lit
cessary by the opposition to the treaty
in the Senate.
Representative Woodman, of Illinois,
has asked the House ways and means
committee to increase the revenue tax
on cigarettes from so cents to $50
thousand. Mr.. Woodman's object is
to stop the smoking of cigarettes by
children, which he says is "a habit
which is destroying our youth, filling
our insane asylums, and shrouding in
gloom, by the destruction, mentally,
morally and physically of their young
sens, many of the best homes of our
land" Mr.. Woodman said in his
speech to the committee: GAS long as
boys can buy the death-dealing article
at a cent piece or two for a cent, so
long will the evil continue. When
they are taxed so as to produce lar
ger revenue, which tax will place them
out of the reach of school children, then
Mr.. Chairman, we may look for a nit
igation of the evil. Then may we
look for protection that protects.
Then we may congratulate ourselves
on having performed one act the re-
suits of which the whole nation, with
one accord will approve"
Representative White, of Chicago,
made quite a stir at the last meeting
of the House committee on public
buildings and grounds by charging
that the insertion of the name Of ex-
Mayor Grant, of N. Y, son-in-law of
Senator Murphy, as one of the five
commissioners provided for in the bill
for the New York custom house, and
of one of the other commissioners was
the result Of deal. The commission
ers are to get $1,000 a wear and no lin