Show declined a salary he was not an american of course the tho r refusal ift oft isai isal of sir edward thornton tonto to accept the tho halary provided for the umpire of the mexican claims commission a position which he has filled with so much ability industry and fairness struck tho the centennial american aghast when the subject came up tip in cabinet the other day the nev now attorney general suggested a writ de lunatics luna tico mr chandler who never misses an opportunity to smite the british ion lon lion llon under the fifth rib lib tho thought it was good ground for de declaration clarai ion lon of war mr bristow who has bad had a great deal to do with penitents peni tents lately thought that no action lad bad better be taken as yet since sir edward might change his mind mr hir robeson suggested after shivering his timbers that the refusal of anything from a glass of grog to tile the copper bottom of a condemned vessel was entirely beyond his co that to him looked like a diplomatic torpedo which would explode somewhere when hen you least expected it but he would ouli like to hear from jack buns by y u J d ho be turned his quid and his tarpaulin ir paulin in the direction of oi mr ar 1 fish ish the secretary of state lodged the comparison and coin corn compliment pil lent with becoming gravity and after ter chewing on a piece of red tape ipe keeping the cabinet in s sus sua pense suse for several minute quoted grodus vattel and wheaton Wheat ot danals anas anaa edition and baid bald aid taid t that within i his long experience the conduct of sir ed eliward ward thornton thoroton was with out it precedent that while it reflect edon eaon d on the tho president and most of lis ils is cabinet who had under re similar circumstances and rould now have adopted a diamen opposite cour neby aeby neby accepting he salary with a vigor which ouid astonish the keely motor ie ic did not think that sir edward bant any disrespect that since he days daya of sir roger da de I 1 anglish knights were accustomed do eccentric th inga harmless in tiem Ilem selves he thought however bublic service of any sort added might have a bad ear effect act lat they would be expecting expect irig every to work faithfully for his gh 11 h salary or six hours a day on j deuced wa wage iges ages I 1 tt that at the non nonae ac otance of anything r ou on the part sir edward might discourage the tho position to give on the part of 0 people that if such a spirit i ce posse possessed sed the mass mases p public ualle b a would have no attractions for rny any ny of his distinguished coadou ps s for himself he thanked d that he was waa materially from anxiety on this and his whole salary went for acken salad which was devoured the tho lunch fiends of the idress press lit d lie he believed with peter pinic turnpike road to po peoples hearts 1411 through their stomach sto raach or 1 I mankind d that ho he stuffed staffed every corre with terra terrapin and g gratl ra 4 t i 0 at the same time r jewell heio interrupted and I 1 he thought it was extremely ind in sir E edward dward to refuse this ry that with the money in his ket there was an assurance of verzenay Verz enay at the english 0 amadora dinners but that he had rd d of an instance of social econ ocein when the guests were w ere divided three classes champagne ts i sherry guests and water ts i the latter consisting of g ladies ladles who could nt get the and nd have the second ewell owell did not give any names eeling ly added he agreed with author of tristram idy ly that when you cant get gel L you want to tale take tal tai e up with lext best thing to it is pitiable nd id description I 1 I 1 robeson and mr sir els fish b eed red d glances of aston astonishment ishm ent indignation ignation ad at this interrupt 1 n the part of mr dir jewell jowell but i lie ho had gotten through the tary of state resumed where A d left off and said 1 I was on the appetites of news people but the theme is too sive to permit further farther consid n at this session I 1 will ho how W without prefacing my corie coric lu the why and wherefores y y diplomatic system which I 1 ay say for sir E dwards edward gratify i 1 suggest a bei temple malmsbury and f I 1 will I 1 say solve this ni ily ils liy ey r tl that kli kii of forcing this salary upon sir edward we make him a present silence ensued it al always way s does in deliberative bodies consult the congressional record or ofton greeks the iliad and you will find that they had occasional brilliant flashes of silence the pies Ries president ident in the meantime was wrestling with a happy thought gentlemen said the president 1 approve of the secretary s proposition give sir edward a present by all means the question was put to a vote and carried I 1 the the next thing is to decide on the gift said mr fiah fish mr robeson si suggested ag an an old ironclad as being especially appropriate for the representative of the mistress of the seas mr jewell thought that there was enough material in two large sized mall bags baga out of which to make sir sit edward a pair of boots mr taff objected to this and end said as sir edward was a great walker it would make him fe feel ellke elike like ilke a letter carrier to by be perambulating the city with his legs encased in mr jewells condemned leather pouches the attorney general thought that an elaborate brief of bisin his in a will case put in lu a gilt frame would be acceptable to t sir si edward as an accompaniment to henry the Ei ahtha statute on the subject of testamentary dispositions mr ur chandler suggested recalling the patent for kidwell bottoms Bottom and sand transferring it to sir edward as it gave no title but read well and looked well on parchment the president laughed all of these proposals to scorn and the happy thought which had bad posses possessed ed him found utterance 1 I propose gentlemen aa marshal bi own has got a few more of or those pups that we present sir edward thornton wilh will an anglo angio american terrier mr fish approved of or the suggestion because the gift had something international in its character the rest of the cabinet acquiesced and the reward of merit will be formally forwarded to sir sin edward E d washington capital june ath |