The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

Ii IS Salu LQdI over 1O,OOV ASSI 1ldfO
been killed in the woods of Maine this
year, but it took more than $4,000 hunters
10 do 1t.
At last we get the welcome news that
Tom Watson has decided to retire from
politics. The new era is evidently dawn
ing everywhere.
Some of the Senators may have been
recreating themselves during the holds avs,
but most of them were undoubtedly writ
ing speeches on Cuba.
Ihe coercion of the Sultan will con-
tinue to be the biggest drama on the Eu-
ropean stage this winter, but whether it
will be farce or tragedy remains to be
seen.
If the Cubans and Spaniards are left
alone much longer there won't be man
on the island and the women Will be ad-
vertising to swap sugar plantations for
husbands.
II California gains a representative in
the Cabinet and sends to the Senate a
stanch, staIwart, brainy Republican she
win have a prestige at Washington Sec
ond 10 none of her sister States.
There is a great deal of work awaiting
the lawmakers at Sacramento, and for
tunately among the Legislators there are
many men who can be counted on to at
tend to it faithfully and do it rightly.
In Cambridge, Mass, there are no sa-
looms licensed and yet the police during
the past year arrested over 1900 persons
for drunkenness. 1t will take Harvard
graduate 10 explain the logic of the stu
alton.
The call for mothers congress, to be
held at Washington, has been met by a
counter call for a fathers congress. The
next step IN this development will be a
boys' congress after the old folks have ad-
journed.
From the work achieved last year the
Merchants Association can draw abund-
ant confidence for the prosecution of the
work which is to come. 1t has now
proven its usefulness and will have plenty
of people to help it.
A St. Louis Judge recently declared
from the bench that there has not been
in that city in ten years policeman who
had ever seen anything, and now the
force has resolved to see him the next
time he runs for office.
wild goose recently joined the flock
kept by the city on lake in Garfield Park
in Chicago, and now the city authorities
are in doubt whether to run him off as a
vagrant or put him IN the census as
another settler from St. Louis.
According to the New YORK Sun Con-
gress should recognize the independence
Of Cuba at once and then discuss after
ward whether it has a constitutional
right to do so, and it must be admitted
that the plan has the merit of enterprise
The Supreme Court of Missouri has
just decided that clause in the charter of
Kansas City imposing penalty upon
every qualified voter who fails TO vote at
general election is unconstitutional-so
another reform scheme goes a.glimmering.
Among the bills presented to this Con-
gress is one appropriating $1,000 to be ex-
pended by the Library Committee TO
"extend aid to the stage and assist the
usefulness of the theater as an educator" ;"
so at last there is hope of reward for the
heavy villain.
The Mckinley Cabinet according to re-
ports IS far more mysterious than any
cabinet ever seen at spiritualistic seance.
The facility with which it is at one time
shown to be full of dignitaries and the
next moment empty beats anything Herr
mann ever did.
Henry Watterson says that after retir-
ing from the Presidency Cleveland should
sit quietly like a statue of Buddha with
folded hands contemplating the pit of his
stomach" but in this Mr.. Watterson has
clearly overlooked the fact that Grover
has a much bigger pit than that to con-
template.
1t is said that the basis of all our rela-
tions.with Spain is an old treaty ratified
IN 1885, 1t has been addel to from time
to time by protocols. conventions, etc. /,
but the original remains as the m ain
treaty, and it is said to be so antiquated
that the State Department of neither
country understands it.
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The fact that this country, after an
existence OF more than century, has not
yet cecided whether the President or
Congress has the decisive voice in reccg-