San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-07
WHAT WILL 1T BE =?
OLBVELAND'S MESSAGE ON CUBA
ANXIOUsLY AWAITED.
Senator Walcott is Working on His Own
Hook-Human Republican Senators.
The House is Down to Business.

special message to Congress on Gu
ban affairs, which report says he has
prepared curing the recess, but his
action in ordering the cruiser Vesuvi-
us and the dispatch boat Dolphin to
proceed to Florida waters and join
the U. s. vessels already there in pre-
venting filibustetng, is a notification
to Congress that the administration
has not in the slightest changed its
attitude towards Cuba. Conserva-
tive men in the Senate will endeavor
to privately argue with those sena-
tors who are regarded as likely TO
make incendiary speeches on the Cam
erOn resolution, in order to have them
not speak at all, or at any rate if they
do speak, not to use language calcu-
lated to excite the country. There
is no question that conservative
men in both branches of Congress,
regardless of their personal opinion
about what should ultimately be done
by this government, believe that as
long as the matter has been allowed
to stand up to this time, it will be wis
est to leave it Enacted upon until the
change of administration. And it is
the opinion of your correspondent
that whatever the Senate may do,the
House will take this view of the mat
ter and will do nothing.
The fact most strongly brought out
by the first week of the tariff hearings
before the House ways and means
committee is that, taken as a whole,
the men who have appeared before
| the committee have taken a common
sense business view of the tariff, and
have asked for nothing that could not
| be granted without violating the an
| nounced intention of the committee
to make moderate tariff bill-juSt
enough protection to give our own
manufacturers, producers and work
| ingmen the first call on the American
| market, admittedly the best in the
| world. Needless to say that Chair
man Dingley and his Republican col
| leagues. on the committee are pleased
with the hearings as far as they have
gone. 1t would have been a waste of
time for anybody to ask unreasonable
| things, but it is none the less pleasing
| that they have not done so.
The House reaSSembles with a pro-
gram mapped out for a weeks work,
outside of the appropriation bills.
which are being steadily pushed ahead
4 al
| Wednesday the Loud bill, shutting
novels, books published Serially and
| sample copies of newspapers out of
the privilege of being sent through the
mail ut pound rates was discussed and
disposed of. Today the Pacific rail
road funding bill will be taken up, and
after four days discussion it will be
voted upon. The general impression
is that it will pass, although its OPP
| ponents will make n strong fight
| against it. and are claiming that they
can defeat it.
| While Republicans in Congress have
| nothing but good wishes to express
| towards the trip Senator WOlcOtt has
| undertaken for the purpose OF aScef-
tanning what is thought in Europe of
! the proposed effort to bring about in
! ternatiOnal bimetaliSm, which this
| Congress will authorize, and which
| will be made early in the administra-
| tion of President Mckinley, they do
| NOT wish the statement to go uncon-
trodictcd that Senator WolcOtt went
unon this errand at the request of the
RpDublican caucus committee OF
which he is chairman, or of President
| elect Mckinley. This contradiction
can best be given in Senator Wolcotts
own words: Il am going solely at the
request of the bimetallic league to
examine into the general sentiment
on the subject throughout the world,
and report to the league. l go infor-
mally and unofficially, and deprecate
any publication which intimates any
thing else. The league desires to
know before the extra session of Con-
gress is called, exactly what the sit
nation is. l expect to be able to re-
turn and make my report within two
months. / cannot say what my course
will be abroad. except that l will first
consult with the bimetallic league of
Great Britain"
The Republican senators are just
human enough not to do anything to
prevent the silver Democrats carry
ing out their threat of hanging up the
nominations of gold Democrats sent
to the Senate by Mr.. Cleveland, ex-
cept in cases where failure to con-
firm might make future trouble, as
for instance, Secretary Francis. 1t
might make disagreeable and costly
legal complications for years if the
Senare failed to act upon his nomina-