Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1891-02-06


A little more jumping
around and it will become difficult
to determine the party affiliation
of certain United States Senators.
There is one consolation IN
the present Congressional situa-
ton, Democrats no longer have an
excuse fer making an extra session
necessary.
In Milton, Oregon, the
Chinese have been driven out by
moh. in terror of their lives. 1t is
fairly we'll established now that
the fight at Wounded Knee was
less of battle than massacre.
If two such outrages occurred In
China, all Western civilization
would be shocked. Occurring IN
America it is different.
-Sockless Jerry Simpson,
the Kansas statesman, is original
in more things that his feet cover
ing. Some conservative orthog-
raphIst having accused him of in
ability to spell, the horny-toed
patriot retorted that he would not
argue with man who could only
find one way of spelling a word.
Jerry's answer was as successful
as his campaign.
The committee investigating
the alleged Congressional silver
pools is holding meetings almost
every day and taking lots of tesh-
mony, but what it is actually find
ing out is not taking up much
space upon its books, but much OF
the testimony is of such a nature
as to keep the public in constant
expectation of something highly
sensational.
Both Senate and House have
made fair progress with the regu-
lar appropriation bills during the
last few days, and if the demo-
Gratis do not purposely delay mat
tiers an extra session can easily be
avoided, but there are some ugly
rumors floating around of a combi-
nation among the Southern demo-
Gratis III the House for the purpose
OF forcing an extra session. They
want the loaves and fishes.
We fail to see either the
benefit or the necessity for the
prominence which has been given
the bill to guarantee the bonds OF
the Nicaragua Canal company by
the Sc late caucus committee. The
bill may be good enough, although
of that we have our doubts, but
there are many others in which
the people are much more inter-
ested, and which should not have
been pushed aside to make room
for the Nicaragua bill.
Though Germany is oppos-
ed to the importation of American
pork, our beef is admitted to that
country. Recent shipments of
American dressed beef to Ham
burg were well received and sold
at remunerative prices. 1t WAS
pronounced much superior to the
Australian beef. The demand of
the masses in Germany fer cheap
er meat, makes shipments of
American beef welcome, and must
soon force their government to ad-
nit American pork.
Already gossip is busy sug-
gestirg names for the successor of
the late Secretary Window, and it
is generally agreed that the presi-
dent has an unusually hard task
before him in filling the vacancy.
There sre fortunately plenty of
strong, able and skillful fnan-
ciers; men of the necessary broad
ness of mind and strength of pur-
pose to move straight ahead on a
line of policy, once adopted in
spite of the thousand and one wild
cat financial schemes which will be
certain to spring up in the next
House of Representatives, but, it
will be difficult to get these men
to consent to assume responsible
ties, the weight of which have un-
doubtedly killed three men-Sec-
retaries Fol ger, Manning and
Windom-within the last three
administrations.
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