The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-03-23
The Lasker Incident Well Over.

Thanks partly to tho indifference exhibited
by tho Reichstag, and partly to the common
sense of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
which made itself felt better late than never.
the House OF Representatives decided on
Wednesday to extingush tho fiory OCH1L-
TREE and the oxuberant Cox and to quietly
smother all the buncombc called forth by the
LAsKER blundcr under some placid, mock,
and cOl0rcss resolutions.
What was tho House to do in the RI
diculous quandary In which 1t had been
plunged by its own stupidity and tho nogll-
CONGO OF tho committee to which 1t had q
right to look for warning and instruction
1t could not without still further seli-stulti-
,lcation, essay to pull q lions skin down over
it's long cars and bray defiance at Prince
BISMARCK because ho civilly declined to
transmit message. nfwhose non-dolivcry
tho ReichstaR itself refused by large ma
jority to evince resentment.
No doubt IL might have been better for oil
concerned had Prince BISMARCK calmly
pigcon-l,olcd the obnoxious resolutions and
waited somo ten days. until their true insig-
uiflcanoe Ind beOn revealed to him
by the American newspapers, which he
unquestionnbly reads with profound at
tcntion. In the light OF their disclosures
Ile might have laid tho document received
from Washington before the Reichstag with
entire equaAtmity, merely adding word
or two OF comment to explain tho nullity Of
the absurd communication. He could have
shswn the popular branch Of tho German
PAEl1sinsAt that the message OF coincidence
which ostensibly expressed tho feelings and
Convictions OF the House Of Representatives
really expressed nothing Of the kind /;
that 1t embodied nothing whatsoever
but the thirst for notoriety of an
obscure and llght-headed person from
Texas. who in oil probability could not
read ten lines OF German. but who by some
odd chance had been permitted to oonsort
with the lnte DIR. LAsKER during the latter
5OjOurn in America. The Chancellor could then
have added that the resolutions, emanating
from such IN unimportant source, instead
Of being duly referred to the appropriate
committee. were hurried through the House
without debate or scrutiny, in the last con-
fused five minutes before adjournment, by q
remnant OF members eager to go to dinner
or to bed With this brief statement of the
facts Prince BISMARCK might have safely
eft tho Rcchstag to take the outpOurings OF
the Hon. Tom OCHILTEEE OF Texas for what
they were worth.
I!nluckily for his own peace OF mind and
FOR tho dignity OF our House Of Representa-
lives, the Chancellor did not walt to learI
what tho unweleome action OF that body
really signiiled. On their face tho OcHILTREI
resolutions, which, through ouOgizlng the
political course OF one OF BIsMARCK's op
ponents, condemned by implication the polio,
which created and still controls the German
empire, conveyed tho deliberate opinions
u parliamentary assembly. Nat
urnlly 1t was repugnant to the Chancellor t
accept gratuitous impertinence under tn
mask Of coincidence, or, rs no termed 1t, t.
act as postboy for n libel levelled at himself
We can help ourselves to appreciate tn
sting OF such demonstration by n few ap
annlogies With how much pleasure woul,
he Ministry OF NJ. jules FERRY, for ex
ample. peruse panegyric on tho public LII
II that stnlwart Bonapartist, NJ. RoUHER, VIII
lied the other day. How would KIM
HUMBERT's Government relish an ofilca
mark Of American sympathy for some un
compromising champion OF the Vatican
: How long would our Minister be allowed t
stay Mt Madrid II the death OF tho rcvolu
ZIONIST. GORILLA, were to call forth expires
lions OF regret from our Federal legisls
ure? To como nearer home. how would
Republican President Of the United State
lave acted, had he received from that BIRTHS
Parliament which looked with ill-disguse
complacency on the rupture OF tho Uniol
resolutions prsising Unfortunately the Ok
!iticsl career Of ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS
A. . matter Of fact, the people of I'll