The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-05

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We shall get perfect tariff by and by.
The Dingley bill comes out of the first
round considerably disigured.
1t seems to be conceded by the orch ard
lists that the dropping OF the fruit this
year is only healthy natural process of
thinning it out.
The Cuban Congress is expected to meet
in May to revise the constitution of the
Republic, and still WeyIer insists he has
pacifed the island.
1t has now been announced almost every
day for two weeks that the rage of the
Greeks is increasing and before long We
may expect them 10 get their mad up.
The House of Representatives does not
meet often nor stay long IN session, but
all the same the Democrats find tine to
bring their diseords to the front and howl
their songs of passion.
General Miles has been in no hurry
about starting to the seat of war, and evil
IDENTIFY intends to study it as completed
volume instead of wasting time with it
while running as continued story.
1t is now said that the King OF Greece
has heart trouble and may have to leave
Athens for his health, and there can be
no question that If he leaves in the face of
the mob it will be because his heart failed
him.
The German statesman who in his
wrath against the Dingley bill Is eager to
begin a tariff war with the United States
bears the title, Count Won kanitz- Podan-
gen, so the whole thing sounds like the
programme of comic opera.
Now that Chinaman in Boston has set
up as a reformer and begun an agitation
for the suppression OF opium dens we shall
have to admit that the Monaghan catches
on to everything. and that there is no
game in which he cannot take a hand,
and, moreover, take the tricks.
The proposal OF some of the m mbers of
the German Reichstag to adopt retaliatory
measures against the Dingley tariff did
not receive any great amount of support.
The Germans, as a rule, nave too Gear an
understanding of business to enter into
any scheme of mixing up commerce with
spitefulness.
The losses by the foods in the Mis-
sissippi Valley this year are apidly rising
10 the 500 000, 600 mark, and the big river
is still booming. 1t would pay the people
OF that section TO organize the whole
region a gigantic irrigation district and
begin 10 grape with the evil with force
strong enough to master it.
To Senator Morgan's plea for i'm mediate
action on his Cuban resolutions Senator
Hale objected and asked for lime in which
to prepare speech, and thus the settle.
ment of an issue on which depends the
lives of many persons is postponed in
order TO give q dilatory orator time to
polish up bis rhetoric and fix his SMILES.
Not content with her enormous output
OF dried fruit of all kinds Santa Clara
County has started the new industry Of
drying potatoes, carrots, turnips and other
vegetables ami eventually there may be
scheme for making everything in the
county dry except the Sunday sermons
and life in San Jose.
Since the election last November Bryan
has address d the legislatures of Colorado.
Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Missouri,
Nebraska, Tennessee Texas, Kentucky.
Kansas and Delaware. The legislative
season, however. is very nearly closed,
and Mr.. Bryan will soon have an oppor-
curious what he has been saying 10 all
these Solons.
The quarrel between Morgan and Till.
man in the Senate, taken in connection
with the dispute between Bailey and
Simpson in the House, shows that even
among the Democrats who supported
Bryan and survived the tidal wave of last
year there is no harmony of sentiment
nor any unity of purpose. Each is fight
ing for his own hand and is making but
poar fist i'll doing it.
The appointment of son of General
Daniel E. Sickles to be secretary of the
legation at Madrid seems to signify that
the Government intends to pursue Wig
orous policy in regard 10 Cuban affairs.
in Spain and his views are not generally
known. but his father is one of the strong
est supporters of the indie 2endence OF
Cuba in the country and there is reason
10 believe his son is chip of the old
block.
The members of the Bimetallic Com
mission will sail for Europe on Saturday
10 begin the work of arranging for an in
ternationai conference on the silver ques-
ton and We shall soon know what we are
10 expect of the nations of the Continent.
1t is clear at any rate that the Mckinley
administration Is acting promptly in
carrying out its cam aign pied ges and has
intrusted this particular work to men who
can be counted on to advance it with
energy and zeal.