Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-08-30

for no ball could get past him. If
the rules of the game allowed Mrs.
Lockwood to catch with her apron
she would be no SLOUGH.
CHICAGO Journal. A most ama.-
ing scene in politics is being acted
in New York. In 1885, when Gov.
ernor Hill was in the midst of his
campaign and needed money he
gave notes for $4,000, which were
endorsed by the Democratic aque-
duct contractors and cashed at their
bank. They afterward mot Gov
ernor Hill paid the notes. The
people of the city of New York are
being taxed for the construction of
the agueduct, and, of course, the
money to pay Hilps notes came out
of their pockets. Mayor Hewitt, in
a letter to Governor Hill--previous
to the late special session of the
New York Northumberland
that this money should be refunded
to the city of New York. 1t is now
found that unless Hill is renom-
mated for Governor there will be no
possibility of Cleveland's carrying
that state, for Hill's men would
"knife" him everywhere. Ex-Mayor
Grace, of New York, a special
Cleveland man, says that Hill's re-
nomination "would disgrace the
Democratic party" But he will be
renominated, and Cleveland will
shoulder the load and the disgrace"
SINCE the Senate refused to ratify
the Presidents disgraceful treaty
with Can ada, in which treaty every
concession was made by the United
States, Mr. Cleveland has written a
message to Congress abandoning
his own policy and that of his party
in the past on the fisheries question,
and recommending the policy of
the Senate whic h is retaliation, and
asking for additional authority to
carry out these measures. The fact
is the President does not need ad-
ditional authority in law to do just
what he says he desires to do. The
existing statute on the subject au-
thorizes him to exclude Canadian
fishing vessels from American
waters and ports SO long as Ameri-
can vessels are excluded from Cana
dian waters and ports. 1t also au-
thorizes him to prohibit the entry
into any place or port of the United
States of Canadian products. This
provision enables him to exclude
Canadian wheat or fish from enter
ing American ports in bond for the
purpose of being transported across
American territory to other Cana
dian ports or for ocean shipment.
He is now supplied with the exact
authority with which he asks Con-
gress to clothe him anew by add.
tional legislation. If the message
is something more than a campaign
document to catch votes, if he re-
ally wants a chance to retaliate, as
he pretends, then why does he not
put into exercise some of the
power given to him by the statute of
1887, which he not only approved,
but which the two houses of Con
gress passed almost unanimously.
1t looks as if he were clustering
and making false pretenses. The
outside public look beneath the sur
face of sound and rant, iuquiring
into the actual facts of the case.
There is something disgustingly
demagogical to the average citizen
in a President calling franticaIly
for more authority when he has for
eighteen months steadily refused to
exercise what he has already. Sen
ator Edmunds hit the bulls eye
when he compared Cleveland to Nc
Clellan. The more troops the latter
had the greater difficulty he expert
euced in moving them, yet his re-
spouse to President Lincoln's i'm
portunity that ne should move was
that he could not until he had more
troops. That is precisely the Cleye-
! land policy.