The San Francisco call., 1896-04-08

Congress spoke loudly for Cuba, but not |
forcibly.
Harrison will soon be ready to talk poll |
tics again.
A 3-cent streetcar fare to the suburbs is |
worth working for as road improvement, |
There can be no doubt that Greece is |
moving. Those Olympic games are hot
stuff.
The Cuban filibusters are forcing the |
fight just now, and seem to be able to land |
al every lick.
In the way of legislation at present |
there seem to be as many snags in the |
Senate as Senator'S.
If the war does not go beyond resolu- |
tions the Spanish Cortes can show itself as |
powerful as Congress.
Concurrent resolutions are good deal |
like tireworks-they make brilliant flash,
but that is the end of them.
Growers sole remaining defender in the |
Senate is David Bennett Hill, and he is a |
political hole in the ground.
If Carlisle knows what he meant by his
letter on the Presidential nomination it is
more than any one else does.
Cooks Inlet is wide open for those who
seek Alaskan gold fields, but there is no
great outlet in sight for them.
The best thing Congress can do with the
debts of the Pacific roads is to do nothing
and let the law take its course.
1t is not enough for the California dele
CATION to keep an eve on the refunding
scheme. 1t should keep foot on it,
Once more the Spaniards have been sur
prised at the telegraph wire, and the Gu
bans have got in report of victory.
Bradley of Kentucky is another of those
favorite sons who cannot hold their own
with both hands and hamper-b basket
So many Democrats are retiring from
politics in these days there will soon be
more of them in the woods than in the
field.
The only way for Democrat to get out
of faction fights this year is to set up as an
independent and then vote the Republican
ticket.
Leaving California to hunt gold in
Alaska is another illustration of the way
some men drop the substance to grab for
the shadow.
Senator Wolcott was right in saying
civil service reform is an acquired taste,
and he might have added it is sometimes
perverted one.
The San Pedro appropriation contest
will have TO be fought out in the Senate,
and let us hope the good fight will lead to
victory as well as glory.
1t is now certain that Americans will
win many Of the contests at the revived
Olympic games, and can come home to
rightly claim the title of world-peaters.
There are many instances OF communi-
ties losing one Improvement because they
demanded two, but Los Angeles seems 10
have lost two ports by demanding only one.
1t is as sure as shooting that the recent
wedding was not the only occasion in
which Benjamin Harrison has found
happiness in the absence OF his son, Rus.
sell.
Cleveland ignored the concurrent resolu-
tions on Armenia, and it is likely he will
Ignore those on Cuba. Ignoring Congress
and the country has become a fad with
him.
1t was safe enough for Senator Allen
to call Cleveland mugwump, for there
is no mugwump in the Senate to hurl
back the charge with scorn and make him
apologize.
The funding bill fight might as we'll be
brought off at this session as any other.
The people are ready for it and would be
glad to see the vote taken in time for them
to revise it at the fall elections.
All the votes in Congress against the
Cuban resolutions came from the original
thirteen States, and yet it is just from
those States we should have expected the
fullest sympathy with any American
country struggling for independence.
Hepburn's objection that the appropria-
ton bill carries no pork for his district
was valid enough to base kick on. but all
fore the committee when he might have
saved his bacon.
Catchings is Democrat, but he ad.
mitted that the appropriation bill of this
Republican Congress is the most scientific
ally drawn of any bill of the kind ever
submitted to the country in his time. Hep
burn of Iowa, though opposing toe bill
also conceded its scientific character. but
he did not express il in that way. He said
sit has distributed the pork with even
ness"
The proposal to make the Southern Pa |
clic Company of Kentucky responsible for
the debt of the Central Pacific under the |
refunding scheme is absurd. The South
ern Pacific owns nothing except railroad |
leases and could very soon juggle those |
out of reach of the Government. If a |
surety is required it should be demanded |
from the private estates of the directors of
the road.