Show A HEALTHY SCRAP I It is pleasant to think that In the closing hours of the Senate both Scna tots Ilanna and Curler Jumped upon Senator Pcttlgrcw and stamped him into time ground Cartel concluded that Petllgrew was a liar and Ilanna gave him the benefit of the doubt and loft him to elect whether he was a liar or a lunatic or both All the actions of Pet ligrew during the present session of Congress havo seemed to Indicate that iu his desperatIon at his own situation politically he has lost whatever of level headedness he ever possessed and that he is mad with all the world Like other lunatics he seems to have a giand passion pas-sion to nssafl i the men who had all his life been his friends Ho has been altogether al-together reckless and unscrupulous in his assaults and like a near contemporary contempo-rary Ihc word oC time veriest vagabond on earth has been more sacred to him than that of the President of the United Stales Gens Merrill Law Ion and Oils apjd Admiral Dewey combined The trouble is that his words nro taken down as those of a Senator and will have their Influence In crystallslng into history the events of these clays hence it j is good that the antidote be given along with the plague When at the close Senator Carter admonished ad-monished the ollior side of the Senate that the dog was lying down with them and they must expect fleas ho established estab-lished Pctligrews status pretty well for while it was not refined talk for the Senate chamber it was a case where It was entirely Justifiable to heap upon Pettigrcw the only thing that would hurt him Ihe contempt which he has so industriously earned We are bound to say too that Senator Ilanna showed off splendidly in Ihe scrap He held himself down first rate and when lie < struck out every blow counted it was altogether a healthy row and ought to greatly clear the atmosphere of the Senate 1 |