The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-03
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Itisnow clear the tariff bill will never
be jammed through the Senate, but all
the same it will be preserved somehow.
If General Miles does not hurry to the
seat of war the only proceeding he will be
able to study when he gets there will be
coroner's inquest.
The most interesting point in the
Eastern question now is to know whether
it is the Kaiser or the Gar who is acting
as referee in this fight.
If the Senators do not hurry up little
bit with that tariff bill the country will
soon have its attention distracted to base
ball and forget all about it.
As upward of a thousand men are said
to have left Chicago to fight for Greece it
appears that almost any excuse does a
CHICAGO man now when be wishes to
escape.
1t is said that Bailey of Texas has the
most genial smile of any man in Congress
and if the smile is of the usual Texas kind
it is not surprising the Democrats
follow him as a leader with cheerful
alacrity,
The Boston Herald is right enough in
saying: IF a duty is placed on hides we
shall all have to foot the bills,'' but it
should have added that even in that case
the duty would not be bootless pro-
lection to the cattle industry.
The people from other cities who at
tended the Grant celebration in New
York are now asserting that while Grant
said "Let US have peace" the New
Workers adopted the motto "Let us have
all" and what is more they took it.
: Several musical critics are engaged in
what seems concerted attempt to shame
England because she hasn't a national
opera, but the chances are that if she pro-
duced one it would be even more dis
graceful than the lack of the thing.
When Cleveland raised to Office a man
d named Dink Bolts he doubtless thought
that in that respect he had passed be-
yond the reach of rivalry, but Mckinley
has equaled if not eclipsed him by giving
a postoffice position in Montana to Tank
Smutchers.
The statesmen out of Office in Europe
are making life very unpleasant for the
statesmen in Office and rightly so, for if
ever men in power really required prod
ding with sharp stick they are the Of
fciaIs who could save Crete from Moslem
rule and refuse to do so.
By and by there will be kaleidoscope
syndicate to send battalion of men with
machines to take battle scenes in al wars,
and then the folks that stay at home
will have q chance to see the fights as
they occurred, and war correspondents will
no longer have a free hand in describing
terrific sIaughters every time there is
skirmish along the front.
It is announced that in response to an
invitation from Philadelphia fifty or more
representative business men from South
and Central America and Mexico will
visit the principal cities of this country
during the summer to see what can be
done in the way of trade, and it would be
a good idea to bring them West for time.
There is chance for them to find trade
here as well as in the East.
Petitions are pouring in upon Congress
from all parts of the country requesting
that the President be authorized to ap-
point currency com mission for the set
Element of the financial question, and as
the Senate seems determined to take its
timein dealing with the tariff the House
may yet get tired of sitting round doing
nothing ana take the petition up for i'm
mediate action.
New York has discovered that for the
year ending September 30, 1885, it cost the
State 1855, 204 to take care OF the public
buildings at Albany, while the National
Government pay 8 only about $500, 900 for
the maintenance of all the public build
ings at Washington, and now New York
is wondering whether to consider herself
bigger than the Nation or only a little
more liberal with her money.
The Indiana law fixing the streetcar
fares at three cents in all cities having a
population of more than 1000 has been
suspended by an order of an Indianapolis
Judge until the question of its validity
can be decided. 1t would seem that an
act of the Legislature should be pre-
sumed to be law until it was declared
otherwise, but recently the courts have
acquired habit of presuming the other
way.
The sponge industry off the coast of
Florida has been found so profitable that
bill has been introduced into the Legis-
lature of the State to encourage the ex-
tension of it by artificial cultivation, and
the proposition seems to be cordially sup
ported by The people. This is another
evidence OF the eagerness with which the
Southern people are turning their atten-
ton to new industries and proof of their
enterprise in developing every re source in