The business of the country occupies a p...

The business of the country occupies a position of expectancy. It desires to know the basis upon which future operations are to be carried on, both as to rates of duty and the time of taking effect. It is the duty of the senate to settle this uncertainty at the earliest possible moment. In spite of the opposition of the ministrythe house of commons voted Tuesday in favor of the abolition of the house of lords. This seems to indícate that tne great battle which Gladstone in his last speech pronounced imminent and irrepressible has begun. The pathway of Lord Rosebery is not strewn with roses. The action of the senate finance committee in eliminating some of the best features of the Wilson bill is pretty conclusive evidence that the country will not get from this congress any such reform of the tariff as was promised in the platform and voted by the people at the last national election. In the conspiracy cases at Lansing, Judge Person overruled the motion of counsel to quash the indictments but granted the request for separate trials. The only case that is likely to be brought to trial this term is that of Secretary of State Jochim for making a false public record. This case will be called on April 9th. The other cases will go over to the May term. Some days ago a British man of war landed a body of troops at Bluefield, Nicaragua, for the pupose, it is alleged, of reviving an ancient British claim to the Mosquito country. It is claimed that this landing of troops was in violation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and the American minister protested against the same, whereupon the troops were withdrawn. Keports from Washington now assert that Admiral Benham has been ordered to the vicinity to look after American intesests. It is reported from Washington ♦ that when the Bland seniorage bill reaches the president he will neither veto it nor sign it, but will permit it o become law by his failure to reurn it within the ten days' limit, t is said he will do this from moives of policy because of the de;isive vote with which it passed the iouse and the strong support it is receiving in the senate, and in order to get the silver question out of the way of the tariff bilí. lf this bill becomes law it will add 55,000,000 to the circulating medium of the country. The Brazilian incident seems to t have come to an end with the utter ' collapse of the insurgent cause. i miral Da Gama and his officers have t placed themselves outsitie the j diction of the Brazilian government t and his forces have surrendered 1 conditionally to President Piexoto. ] This ends the rebellion in the north, 1 and that in the south will probably : soon follow suit. The people of the United States will be pleased with the result. It was in the main ( a causeless war, brought on by the 1 scheming of ambitious men and the ] alleged arbitrary conduct of President Peixoto. It is probable that . the stand taken by the Washington 1 authorities and the firmness of miral Benham in protecting can interests at Rio had something to do in bringing the affair to a close. It was made very apparent that no pretender to the overturned throne of Brazil need look for any comfort from the United States. The republican members of the senate finance committee desire ten days in which to consider the tariff bill before it is reported to the senate. This the majority dare not refuse them although it is well understood that their only purpose is to put off to as late a date as possible the final enactment of the bill into law. They hope by delaying the passage of the bill until dog days to give the country no time to recover from the inevitable first effects of the measure before the fall elections come on, and that by such a course they will be advantaged as was the case with the McKinley act and the democrats in 1890. On account of the idiotie rules of the senate the majority dare not oppose their scheme, because if they did, the minority might talk until the present congress expires by limitation. Since there is no limitation on debate the bill cannot be brought to a vote so long as anyone desires to talk upon it. It is necessary, therefore, for the majority to keep the minority in good humor lest they prevent forever the passage of the bill. In the meantime the business interests of the country be damned. Fie on such.servants of the people. It is the duty of every foreigner, who comes to this country for permanent residence, to become an American citizen, pure and simple. And in becoming citizens of the republic, they are in honor bound to perform the duties of citizenship wfah an eye single to American questions and American questions alone. They have no right to bring questions of European politics into their political actions here. All such should cease to be Irishmen, Englishmen, Germans, Italians or Scandinavians and become unqualified Americans. When these adopted citizens perform honestly all the duties appertaining to true American citizenship, it is an insult and an outrage to discrimínate against them on account of birth, creed or previous condition.