The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-22
FORGET -ME-NOTS.


the matter Of vetoing bills. Up to the present
he has vetoed six, and he has approved only
about three hundred. This does not quite come
up to Mr.. Cleveands average, but it beats all
previous records except Cleveland's, and there
is no telling how President Harrison's average
may improve as his hand becomes accustomed
to the work. The bills which Mr. Cleveland
vetoed were mostly private pension bills while
those vetoed by Mr. Harrison up to the
present are mostly bills providing for new pub
lie buildings and other public works. He has
openly declared war on public-building bills,
just as Mr. Cleveland openly declared war on
private pension bills. The bill just vetoed by
Mr.. Harrison was a bill enabling the city of
Ogden, in Utah Territory, to borrow money
in order to make some public i'm
provements Then came the vetoes of bills
providing for new public buildings or enlarge
ments of existing public buildings in Dallas,
Tex, Hudson, NY, and Tuscaloosa, Ala Dur
ing the past week the President has vetoed a bill
to change the boundaries of the Uncompahgre
Indian reservation, and bill to authorize the
supervisors of Maricopa county, Arz., to is
sic bonds in aid of the construction of new
railroad.
During the short session of the Fiftieth
Congress 592 bills and resolutions were pre-
sented to President Cleveland for his approval.
OF these he approved 5O6. Twenty-four became
laws by lapse of time without his signature.
Thirty-one he vetoed, and he pocketed thirty
one more; that is to say, they failed to become
laws because he had not signed them at noon
on the 4th of March when he was about to de-
liver the Presidential Office over TO bis success
sor or the thfrty-one bills vetoed twenty-five,
and OF the thirty-one bills pocketed nineteen
were private pension bills No President in
what is the cause of this growing tendency
toward the assertion of the one man
rule: Is it tendency toward monarchy?
1t is evidently due to the fact that one man in
power feels that he is wiser and better than the
people or their representatives, and that the
crowd is not to be trusted. Feelings of this
Kind lead to revolutions, to usurpations and to
monarchy Feelings of this Kind have twice
turned french republic into a French mon.
archy. Revolutions are not so easily accom-
pllshed IN this country as they are in France,
Dut these tendencies are dangerous and ought
not TO be encouraged. Unless halt is called
we may expect thirty or forty years hence to see
BABY Mckee, at the head of great army riding
rough-shod over an enslaved people, and rear
ing royal throne on the ruins of the Constitu-
ton. 1t is worthy remark in this connection,
that since the days of Queen Anne no English
sovereign has dared to veto a bill passed by the
Parliament of England.
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why are the girls so much prettier in sum
mer than in winter? An old philosopher who
was asked this question the other day said it
was probably because we saw more of them in
summer.
Joe Cannon, of Illinois, is great story teller
he has lots of all kinds of stories, and he tells
them all well. The talk about the Silver bill
and the demonetization of silver prompted him
the other day to recall the view OF this subject
taken by former member of Congress from the
state OF Illinois, man of no very great learn
ing or polish, but of great, sound common sense
"Demonetlzation of silyer,n said this states
man, seems to me to be just like dehorsetza-
tioh Oh tne horse" And this characterization of
Ihe morse he explained in this way Suppose a
man IN my district has some work to do, sup
pose hundred horses are required to do it, and
suppose he contracts with another man to
furnish him hundred horses. Well, after
awhile 1t appears the horses can't be had: but
the work must be done, so the best thing the
contractor can do is to furnish hundred mules
instead OF hundred horses. The horses are
not there, but the mules do the work Now
that what | call characterization of the horse
ana ana demonetization of silver is pretty much
the same thing.'
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A-hcIJ DOuy auiulJs IuaL the House OF Repre-
sentatives, under Speaker Reeds rules and
Speaker Reeds management, has contrived to
do business this session. So busness-lille has
the House become that, as Congressman Cain,
OF Texas said the other day, at is much more
OF an executive department than a deliberative
body now'
What a bad lot Commissioner Robert finds
Us to be in this town. Even the Iieutenants of
police, that we had supposed were engaged in
preventing and putting down badness, turn up
10 be bad themselves, and to be protectors of
crime and cOnfederates of criminals Accord
ing TO Commissioner Robert, the city of Wash
ington, when it rises in the morning from its
troubled sleep and looks at its debauched re-
lection in the mirror, can't help exclaiming
with Topsy: "Golly, rs Wicked
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The police and some of the civilians are be-
ginning to remark that Commissioner Robert
should mind his own business. The Office
which he temporarily holds was created 10 look
after sewers and other engineering problems
II Col. Robert wants to be popular he should
attend 10 his sewers. Busybodies are seldom
well liked, And moreover people who inter
fere with ether peoples business are generally
not attending well TO their own. If our police
Heutenants are bad people, if they are monkey
ing with crime and criminals, they ought to be
disciplined or discharged, according TO the
gravity of the offense. But that is not Col
Roberts business. That belongs to the other
end Of the Commission
So the census man thinks that Washington
is not going to come out as big town as we
had fattered ourselves we lived in. The cal
oIllstiOn is that the CITY has q uoDulation of