The San Francisco call., 1895-12-02

JIG Ninth street; open until O'Clock.
OAKLAND OFFICE:
90S Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 80, "a Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Special Agent.
MONDAY. DECEMBER p 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
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Congress claims attention.
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Growers message will say much and
mean little.
Do your Christmas shopping while the
sun shines.
Tom Reeds house viii keep the White
House warm this winter.
Poor, old, tired Grover will probably
think that Congress is too fresh.
Not even a silurian can deny that the
Bay View boulevard has good prospects in
view.
In selecting holiday gifts for your
Eastern friends don't overlook California
products.
The ropes are already laid for the fund
ing bill fight and the railroad champions
are in the ring.
Speaker Reed advises a conservative
session, and it will be Cleveland's fault if
it becomes aggressive.
Politicians who escaped the ordeal of
Sherman's book are not yet out of the fire.
Holman is writing his memoirs.
Kaiser William seems determined to
stamp out socialism, even if he has to
trample on all Germany to do it.
II Cleveland waves a red rag in his mes
sage Washington City Will be the scene
this winter Of the biggest bull fight on
record.
Ii it were not for the Senatorial buffer
between them, Cleveland and Congress
would make a beautiful collision before
they go far.
The railroad monopoly may win in the
courts, and it may win in Congress; but it
cannot prevent the people from building
competing roads.
II the Presidents message does not ex-
plain the mystery story of that vigorous
foreign policy, Congress Will have a right
to demand an appendix.
The New Workers called the affair at
Madison-square Garden a "clotheshorse
show" and perhaps ours at the Pavilion
Will make it two of a kind.
So many cities viii fight the Chicago
drainage canal in Congress this winter
that the Windy City is liable to find her
self upset in her own ditch.
If 1t be true that the Southern Pacific
will try to rush the funding bill through
before Christmas. there are no holidays in
sight for Western Congressman.
The Railroad Commission, as well as
the railroad monopoly, is on trial now,
and if the Commission cannot control the
monopoly, then the Commission must go.
1t was wrong in Governor Altgeld to
criticize at Scotch banquet Campbells
praise OF Cleveland, for when a cuckoo is
invited to sing one must expect cuckoo
song.
France is rejoicing over large increase
in her exports, but as the increase is at
tributed by her own papers to the Wilson
tariff in this country, we cannot rejoice
with her.
Thn 1fnr+
HIPS appearance on the lecture platform
is the knowledge that Cleveland dislikes
him SO much he will never follow the
example.
The concert of European powers at Con-
stantinople makes music too much like
the harmony of Democratic convention
to justify hope that it will ever strike
the key note of the situation.
According to the report of the Commits
sioner OF Patents there were Sc, 9S7 appli-
cations for patents in 1894, and 20, 803 were
granted. Among the applications granted
were five for flying machines and 189 re-
lating to bicycles.
That the United States has a lust claim
body doubts, but it should pursue that
claim against the property of the men who
defrauded the Government and not against
the people of California.
Mrs. Lease is reported to be a new
woman, bat she has certainly great deal
of the old style about her, for she broke off
an engagement to lecture few days ago
because the lecture committee did not
meet her at the depot with carriage to
escort her TO the hall.
a movement has been started in Mexico
to authorize and assist American scien-
lists in making explorations among the
antiquities of that country, and it is be-
lieved discoveries will be made that will
give US largely increased knowledge of
the prehistoric races of the continent.
Among the bogus stuff manufactured by
counterfeiters in this country. the Secret
Serviea Ruraau discovered q uumher of