The San Francisco call., 1896-02-08

The news from Washington and Frank
fort yesterday threatened Mr.. Huntington
with two Waterloos at once.
1t seems the Secretary of the Interior,
as well as the Secretary OF State, can make
a grand-stand play on occasions.
The Cleveland Cabinet seems to have
had a surfeit OF bonds and have no desire
10 issue any for Huntington's benefit.
If the puglljsts are shut out of the wild
and woody Territories they can go to Bos-
ton and give boxing matches to finish.
Foreclosure, says Hoke Smith, en-
phatically, 'does not imply Government
ownership and operation of the railroad"
There is no winter sunshine like ours,
but all the same Truckee insistently in
vites US to come up and try a toboggan
slide.
Eastern floods have come prematurely
this year and we shall soon hear COM
plants that they have washed the ice crop
away.
Between the Democratic factions there
y
will soon be nothing but hole in the
ground.
In the lexicon of the Senate there is no
such word as emergency" and accord
ingly the tariff bill has been laid over until
Monday.
There is Frightening prospect that the
monopoly will soon be in our hands in
stead of our being in the hands of the
monopoly.
Once more Governor Bushnell declares
Ohio is solid for Mckinley, and once more
there is suggestion that he doth protest
too much.
The gold men in the House put the silver
bill on the bargain counter and are now
offended because they got more than they
bargained for.
The burning of the sugar-houses in Cuba
causes the American sugar producer to
consider that the war is going on in a
blaze OF glory.
HJapan gives subsidies to her shipping
and we put heavy taxes on ours it will be
easy TO foretell which will get the bulk of
the ocean carrying trade.
Stevenson thought Samoa was para
disc, but our Consul there is willing to
give up his Office for the sake of getting
away, and he is Democrat at that.
The Mayors veto of the appropriation
for Folsom street was a bad break, because
it put brake upon one of the best move
ments the City has chance to make.
Grove Johnson may be little shaky on
the refunding scheme, but he has spoken
brave words on the right side for free
silver coinage and the restriction of immi-
grafton.
The Senatorial contest in Kentucky
threatens to be fight sure enough, but as
there is talk of calling out the militia
there is still reason to believe no blood will
be shed.
The Senate has done well in asking Sec
retary Carlisle for an explanation of the
new bond issue, but it would have done
better TO ask an explanation of the syndi-
cate deal.
The reason the Italian war in Abyssinia
is not getting as much advertising as 1t
deserves is because the Italians do not
wish it, and the Abyssinians hayen'ta tele-
graph line.,
As something of a scandal is already
limited at in the new loan, it appears that
Cleveland cannot even undertake to do a
popular thing without doing it in scan.
daIous way.
Carlisle will give preference to those
bidders for bonds who promise to bring
gold from abr DAD, which is another way of
saying he will give preference to for
iegners and the Morgan syndicate.
1t was curious combination of calami-
ties that inflicted Boundbrook, N. j.,
with flood and conhagration at the
same time. With water six feet deep in the
streets the people couldn't get out to fight
the fire.