The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-13
FORGET T-ME-NOTS.

The United States Senate has the reputation
of being a conservative body, but it can make
mighty quick change just the same. See its
performance on the silver bill On June II the
Senate, by a majority of seventeen, passed
bill providing for the free and unlimited coin
age Of silver. But the House of Representa-
tives refused to accept that bill, and so on July
10, by majority of thirteen, that same United
States Senate passed bill which was as far
from being free silver coinage bill as anything
could well be. The Senators who performed
the lightning change act were all Republicans.
Not single Republican Senator voted in the
minority last Thursday. For discipline and en-
tire obedience to the party whip commend me
to the good old Republican party every time.
The efforts made by several Senators to recon-
cile the vote OF June II with the vote of July 10
were partly amusing and partly pitiable. Sen
ator Blair had the honesty to give candid
statement OF his case He never made better
speech in his life than on Thursday, when he
rose, dust before the vote was taken, and after
other Senators had given their peculiar e1plana-
tions,) and made the following announcement:
Mr.. President | think nothing so adds to the
happiness of the surroundings for a sick man
to take his medicine cheerlully; and as | in
tend TO vote for this bill, after listening to one
Senator from Oregon who finds in it the gold
standard, that ii is a gold measure, and the
other Senator from Oregon who finds in 1t uu-
limited or free coinage in substance, and the
Senator from Kansas who is satisfied that it is q
free coinage bill, and the Senator from Col
oradO who is not satisfied precisely what it is,
but is very well satisfied with it, | thought that
would vote for the bill, but that | would give
notice TO the Senate that under no circumstances
Whatever, here or elsewhere, would ] ever give
a single reason for so doing.
Senator Blair is not half appreciated by the
American public. He is much better than he
gets credit for being. There's more innocent
merriment in him than a casual spectator would
imagine.
So it appears that we are going to have a
fight. England and the United States are go
ing to war to decide who shall have the seal
skins. Well, it's abont time TO have good war,
Things are pretty dull; and if we don't hurry
up and have war we will run the risk of for
getting that mans chief mission on earth is to
slug his fellowman But We are in poor shape
to whip the British at present at all events on
the scene of the dispute We might walk up
into Canada and wipe out every vestige of
British rule there; but Britannia, it appears,
still rules the waves, and the British naval
squadron now in the Pacific could, probably,
lick the Pacific Squadron Of the United States
Navy without even taking of its coat The
British have seven good war ships available for
service in the Pacific, and at the head of
these stands the War Spike, which is AS
much better than our best as John L. Sullivan
would be stronger than Marshal p Wilder in a
prize ring. The best ship we have on the Pacific
is the cruiser Charleston. All the others are
third-rate, or lower Even if they were all con
centrated they could make but a poor show
against the British, but as it is they are scat
tered all the way from Alaska 10 the Samoan
Islands Admiral Horham, who is in command
of the British Pacific Squadron, is the same