The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-03-11
EDITORIAL NOTES

Portland had another suicide yester
day morning. The city on the Will
annette is becoming very metropolitan.
Secretary Carlisle finds the treasury
down 10 bedrock. This is the result
of the last extravagant Democratic
congress.
The ffty-second congress, which has
just closed its session, has passed into
history, and will be remarkable only
for what it left undone.
The Cleveland cabinet amounts to
considerable, measured by their ply
sIcal bulk. Big bodies sometimes sup.
port big minds, but not always.
The amount of expenditures during
the present Democratic congress will
overreach 100000 900. Democracy
is sometimes an expensive luxury.
The Democratic senate has held o
caucus and may be considered prop
erly organized to attack the Repubii-
can tariff and solve the silver probl m.
The Oregon Pacific has a new re-
ceiver appointed. 1t would take a
Henry Willard and another "blind
fool to put this road on a substantial
basis.
The closing hours of congress were
passed in coming to an understa nding
between the senate and house on az
preparation bills. These became laws,
and it adjourned.
The Republicans, being out of Office,
can enjoy the privilege of criticising
the administration, and in this the
Democrats have, in former years,
marked out the plan.
In the exuberance of its joy Dem
ocratic paper exclaims, "Hard times
come again no more" We advise our
cotemporary to keep cool and collected,
and wait until after free trade is in
augurated.
Governor Pennoyer takes the can
non affair at Salem Saturday afternoon
very good-naturedly, and maps out no
plan for future revenge. The gov
ernor has not forgotten the incident,
we presume.
Baker City aud Pendleton are rival
competitors for the location of the
branch insane asylum. The Dalles,
with little effort, could secure the
institution and leave both of these
towns out in the cold.
The legislators at Olympia are still
voting for United States senator with
out being successful in electing any
one. Allen has had the largest vote
on every ballot; but there are enough
discontents to balk the election.
The South American republics ap-
pear to consider free institutions insti-
tuted for the purpose of giving scope
to revolutionary ideas, and there is
hardly any news from those countries
except bloodshed, riot and rebellion.
The Orangemen of Ulster are being
watched by British police, and any
meetings held at which threats are
made will be dispersed by them. Fan
atlcism is dangerous in any country,
and as much so in Ireland as in the
United States.
The dispatches were not quite clear
whether the civil appropriation bill
passed at the last hours of congress.
With an open river to the sea, the Re-
publicans of Eastern Oregon could
possibly prosper even under Demo
cratic administration.
Buffalo offers big bid for the Cor
bett- Mitchell fight. There will he lots
of money change hands, aid business
will be lively. The Pacific coast. in
the "wild and woolly west," should
not let such golden opportunity pass.
1t might create boom in real estate.
The Cleveland administration does
not appear to be in hurry to annex
the Sandwich Islands, and very likely
commission will be sent to Honolulu
to inquire into the state of affairs be-
fore any action is taken. Democracy
has no use for the Kanakas without
they can vote.
The editor of the Atlanta Journal,
who appears to be informed regarding
the administration, says there will be
no rewards for personal services. Mr.
Cleveland intends to pursue advanced
IDEAS of civil service reform in his ap-
pointments This will cause great
disappointment TO very many Office
seekers, and may cool their ardor in
the next campaign.
The ordnance owned by the state
was captured by some Democrats IN
Salem Saturday, and belched forth its
thunder in honor of President Cleve-
land. Gov. Pennoyer is not easily
baked, aud undoubtedly we shall hear
from him laJer regarding this breach
of military discipline and violation of
his order as commander-in-chief of
the 0. n. G. in this state.
In a Democratic exchange one of |
the intricate questions mentioned for
the Cleveland administration to settle |
is the Bebring sea controversy. Ur
der the wise policy of Mr. Harrison's
of state affairs the plan
Of settlement of this international diff
Guilty has been determined, and the
will soon be held in
Paris. This was legacy from the
former Cleveland administration; but
Mr.. Blaine unravelled the knotty
problem, and there will be no further
trouble In the matter.
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