The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-22

House instead OF Sulklng Denlnu HIS
Texas fences. Such conduct confounds
their predictions and breaks their hopes.
journal.
The Journals new paragrapher APP
parently does not read the JOiundES
news columns, else how has it escaped
his observation that the first thing the
Hon. Roger Quarrelsome Mills did after
his ''smiling" and cheerful return TO
his seat in the House was to resign his
chailmanship of the Interstate and For
eign Commerce Committee! The Hon.
Roger, so far from showing ''smiiing"
or cheerful" countenance, is einulating
the little boy, who, when he doesn't get
what he wants, digs his fists into his
eyes and says: 'Well, there, now,
don't care, won't play"
Congress should call for the Chilean
correspondence and consider IL upon its
merits, and let Mr.. Harrison take his
time in the preparation OF his lingo mes
sage. ge.-Telegram.
The Telegram said Mrs. Cleveland
should name her baby Columbia. she
didn't do it. but the Telegram hasn't
allowed itself TO get discouraged. 1t
keeps right along advising, and since
Congress isn't likely to yield to its .peev-
dent, it will probably feel obliged To
abuse Congress for the rest OF the ses-
sion. But Congress won't mind. Some
how, nobody ever does mind the Teie-
gram.
In the minds of patriotic Frenchmen one
If the most serious consequences OF such
riotous conduct as their deputies have
been engaging in must be the fact that
the world will be compelled TO rank the
French Chamber even below the Ameri-
can House of Representatives in dignity
and decorum. journal.
If the Journal ever feels good humored
enough to condescend to a subject so
near home, will it kindly ask itself the
question, is there any one thing Ameri-
can to which it feels itself able to give
any measure of its approval3
One of the most interesting questions in
national politics just now is how much
longer eX-Speaker Reed can take these
doses of his own medicine without giving
some outward signs of the inner revul-
son.-Journal.
If there is anything especially obvious
in Washington politics at the moment 1t
is that the one person who is getting
most fun out of the antics of the Demo-
cratic majority is ex-Speaker Reed.
We do not observe that any of the adj
ministration officials are clamoring for
arbitration of the difficulty between this
country and Chile.-Telegram.
Ii would be natural. wouldn't it, for a
patriotic American to clamor for English
arbitration considering the part England
played in the imbroglio.
The Queens household consists of over
one thousand persons. II Victoria would
give the secret as TO how she manages to
keep hired girl she would endear herself
to a race of suffering housewives.-Chi-
cago Post.
It's no trouble at all. They have
plenty of "steady company"
The Tribune welcomes the General AS
sembly of Rhode Island with sigh.-
Westerly Tribune.
And the legislature, if it considers the
matter at all, probably returns the COM
pliment.
H. a, parait-il, parmi nos jeune Ca
nadiens, plusieurs marriages Thorlzon.
"The turtle doUes are mating. ."-Provi-
dence Correspondent Of l. Esperance.
We're glad to hear it. Hurrah! Vive
ramour! Vive la patrie Vive FEsper-
dnce! Vive Madame ct Monsieur!
Senator Teller's loudly announced con
viction that polygamy is dead In ntan Is
probably intimately connected with the
knowledge that that Territory, if made a
State, would send two more free coinage
senator's to Washington
That's fact, and it is one good rea-
son TO be added to others why Utah
should not be admitted.
EMr Quay's suit for libel against rural
newspaper in Pennsylvania, which pub.
lished n fac-simile of a letter ostensibly
connecting him with the Bardsley affair,
has resulted i'm verdict in the senator S
favor. In view of this triumphant vindi-
cation, there is naturally some curiosity
to learn whether he will now proceed
against numerous other newspapers which
have more distinctly accused him of far
more serious offences than this one. Dos
ton Herald.
But if Mr.. Quay brought suit against
all the papers which have libeled him,
he would have to have the years OF
Methuselah and the patience Of Job; and
we're net sure he has either.
When the New York sun calls upon the
thieving Legislature Of that. State "tc
halt they may well drop back on the
| breeching. Common stealing would not
move the sun to give such an order.-Chi-
cago Inter-Ocean.
The Sun and World have both called
that halt. and the halt has been halted.
The Democrats have lost their grip.
Commodore Folger says 10 would take
five years to whip Chile. He must think
we fight the way we solve the rapid tran
sit problem in Boston, build monuments
i'm New York and organize worlds fairs in
Chicago.
But Commodore Folger and Chile will
will be mistaken.
Chicago Is the first city to say. In re-
sponse 10 Mayor Boody's inquiries, that
She doesn't like the trolley. But Chicago
also admits that she HASN'T tried it,
Brooklyn Times.
It's always the fellows who haven't
tried il who make the fuss. Pawtuxet
is satisfied.
II Is safe TO say that Lieut. Peary's
party. i'm the land of perpetual ice, was nc
colder Yesterday than the people ut Sara
nae. i'm the Adirondack country, where the
HI.