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Show Editorial Notes. in. ; . Secretary Foster acknowledges ,that there will be no Treasury sur plus next year. Republican editors 'will please take notice. Mr. Harrison travels on free .special trains, when Mr Cleveland was President and wished to go anywhere any-where he bought a ticket just as or-,ditiary or-,ditiary people always do. No comment com-ment is necessary. Afn. Blaine's intercontinental monetary conference was a decided failure, as far as results are concerned. concern-ed. All admitted the desirability of a coin that would circulate in all A erican countries at the same value but it was shown that the difficulties in providing such a coin are at the present time insurmountable. Af. Harrison has asserted his . ' - authority and put a break on Mr. Blaine's reciprocity policy, as far ai it relates to Canada, by peremrtor-, peremrtor-, ly ordering the Secretary of State jBot to enter upon even informal negotiations ne-gotiations with the Canadian commissioners com-missioners until it shall suit his(Har jison's) convenience to De present and to take part therein. What makes this action all the more humiliating hum-iliating to Mr. Blaine is that he had agreed, and appointed a time, to listen to an informal presentation of the Canadian government on this subject, and the representatives of ,Canada were already in Washington or that purpose when the Harri .son veto was given to him. It seems ,to us that in addition to being a snub ,to Mr. Blaine this action on .the part of Mr. Harrison was decid-. decid-. edly discourteous to Canada, and a discourtesy that was entirely uncalled uncall-ed for. It would have neither injured in-jured nor committed this country to have heard the informal prepositions of the Canadians, and, unless Mt. Harrison has entirely lost confidence jn his Secretary of State, there is no good reason why he should personally person-ally listen to these propositions. |