Omaha daily bee., 1885-03-31

separated from the united states by
water the same may be said of Alaska
and the latter is more distant from
Washington territory than Is Domingo
from the coast of Florida. This island is
one of the most valuable in the group o
the Antilles, rich with all the fruits ap
pertaining to the tropics, presenting {
desirable resort to the colored people oil
the south who might desire to leave tina
section, with a climate to which they are
well adapted. 1t would have given us
AN EXCELLENT COOLING STATION
Speaking of treaties reminds me, that,
during the first part of Washiugton's sd.
ministration, when he desired to make O
treaty he would first have q rough draft
prepared, and then would take 1t in
person to the senate In executive session,
explain Its proposed features and take
the views OF senators, and then negoti.
ate. On one occasion he went into the
senate with a projected treaty, in secret
session, and they modified 1t, slashed 1t,
cut it up, and emasculated it to such a
degree that Washington got mad
anatching up the papers and his hat,
LEFT IN DISGUST,
saying he would be id If he would
ever enter that body again" From that
time to the present, the practice has
been, first to negotiate the treaty, and
then, signed by the contracting parties,
present 1t to the senate for ratification.
This Incident Is related upon the
authority Of Hon. G. w. Crawford, sec
rotary of the treasury under James
Monroe, and one of the FIVE candidates
for the presidency In 1924, He related
1t to President Monroe and John Quincy
Adams, then secretary of state. Monroe
said he (himself) entered the senate early
In Washtngton's administration, and he
remembered to have heard something of
that kind.
1T Is PAINFUL TO BELIEVE
that Washington used the wicked word
parenthetically described above, but
there Is a good deal of traditional evi.
dence over In Virginia, tending to show
that the father of his country would, at
times, be provoked into using language
of great pungency.
There was dynamite in the air yestsr
day, and sky rockets, aud plenty of ex.
plosions. when it was known who were
nominated for foreign missions. "Who
is Phelps?' dominated for the English
mission passed from mouth to mouth
"Never heard of him before" was the
universal answer. The president is Civ
Ing the waiting democrats a surprise
party every day, but they don't appre-
ciate It.; they are mad, az, ''mad' does
not express 1t, too tame; they are up.
roarously mad; they are furiously MAD;
Their are rantankerously mad; they are
fighting mad; they are
DANGEROUSLY MAD,
and what Is more, there appears to be no
remedy. They are now repeating the in.
terrogatory of Flanagan, the Texas states
man. who put the question In the Chicago
republican convention in 1880, because
the convention condemned the spells doc
trine, ''what are We here for?' and for
lorn democrats sadly echo back the an
swer, "yes, what are we here for? Why
did we elect Cleveland" and then, the
philosophical sollcqny:
IF we are so soon done for,
81 wonder what we were begun for"
I'VE might just as we'll have elected
Blaine" say they. There is trouble in
the democratic household is shifted In
the air-the times are %portentous OF po-
storms, simoons, earthquakes and
cyclones, and mono can tell what a day
may bring forth. "And they shall flee
unto the mountains of Hepsidam, where
the lion roareth and the whangdoodle,"
etc., etc.
During oil this wreck of democratic
hearts and hopes, the republican monitor
riding uerenely In a sheltered harborr
thoroughly overhauled and reftted,
to be ready for the signal to hoist her
colors and go bounding over the political
again In triumph.
In one of my late letters, the type or
my manuscript, caused a vexipg blundcr.
What 1 intended to say was: "There are
only two now In the senate who were
members of that body when Upton and
the writer entered it in 1S67-Sherman
and Edmunds." JOHN M. THAYER.