New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-17
REFRE HARMING Up.

Unless we greatly mistake, we shall shortly
have music by the full band. All signs point
that way The music will be war-dance,
and the principal saltations-need we say 7
by our own Beebe, who on wednesday
skipped preliminary, and pitched pref
atory war-whoop. We shall presently
see him in his war paint. For the
atmosphere is tremulous with foretokens OF
his coming. Said Beebe on Wednesday, when
Mr. Potter found himself without a quorum
to pass his fraud resolutions: "Why not
proceed to enforce the attendance of abb
sent members under the call, instead OF
"moying to dispense with further pro-
"ceedings under the callT And little
later he expressed the hope that an order
would be issued compelling the attendance oil
absentees All of which goes to show that
Beebe IS gradually warming up for the repe-
titlon of his great twO-desk act, so success
fully performed during the closing hours oil
the last Congress. The announcement WILL no
doubt, send thrill of delight to the hearts
of all who witnessed that performance. No
one who saw him then will fail to be on mana
at the pending repetition. For, though there
have been circus performances in that arena
in infinite variety-0ne horse acts, two-horse
acts. somersaults, ground and lofty tumbiing,
hurdle-leaping and all that, to the accompani-
ment of the r1ngmaster's whip and the clowns
broad jest-there was never anything that
furnished to the whole country so much ana
such innocent entertainment as Beebe strad-
ding his desks shaking his wild, eliish locks
and beating with doubled fists the empty ar,
while he roared himself red in the face with
,,,;,opinfy fiuy nf ippohprpucp.
That was the time he felt the burden OF the
universe upon him, and warmed up to the JOD
of CARRYING it alone. The great theme that
kindIed him then is again uD, and he Is again
warming to it. Precisely how he proposes to
compel members to comply with his desires,
does not appear. Possibly he intends to act on
the suggestion Of Mr.. Caldwell take the recu-
SAINT Republicans in hand and fling them bodily
between the tellers. He might do that. And
that would have an element of acrobatlc hu-
NOR in it that would serve to make the per-
Torrance at once lively and amusing. We
have no doubt, from the earnestness
he displayed when this subject OF the
Presidential election was up IN the
last Congress, that he would engage i'll
an enterprise of that kind with We
hement enthusiasm. Ii is a subject upon which
he seems to have pondered profoundly. And
the more he ponders the madden he seems to
get about it. Others were indignant-he raved
and threatened; others were angry-he
rose up in his wrath and danced. He
is apparently getting ready to do it all
over again. Aud we suspect. from the casual
remarks he let tall during Wednesdays de-
bate, that his programme is 10 solve the
problem and break the deadlock by seizing
the minority bodily and firing them between
the tellers. Preliminary to this, war dance
on the desks.
Upon this spectacle the country waits the
ringing up of the curtain. We have but
single suggestion to make: Floor the desks
over, and give him a speaking trumpet.