The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-31
EDITORIAL NOTES

. eNS 49, i~Nt
In the Whitaker Court Martial the prose-
cution occupied thirty-four days and the de-
! Tense twenty-eight. At last advices the deci-
sions in the case had not been rendered.
The Omaha Herald says that "Conkling
has brains enough, if squarely distributed
among the President aud his cabinet, tomake
them all smart men,"
y THE Germans have sat down on Bis
marck's resolution of creating a larger inter-
nal revenue for the government by the i'm
J position of an increased tax on beer.
General George d. Mcclellan, has been
made president of the proposed underground
railway for New York City. the Generals
acknowledged ability as an engineer has Sc
cured fer him this .esponsible position.
The St. Louis sGIobe-Democra is spelling
for a fight. Hear it. "The stalw arts If Ohio,
will not be worthy oftheir name OR their call
ing if they fail to beat Charlie Foster for
Governor. The sneaks have thrown down
the gauntlet, and the stalwarts must take it
up. Let us have a little fun all around
It now appears chat the reason why England
does not and will not interfere in the matter
of the French occupying Tunis is that at the
Berlin Conference England agreed to let
France alone in the latter's dealing with Tu-
,, mis- in consideration of France raising no OBJ
~jections to the British occupation of Cyprus.
The Chicago Inter-Oce0n calls the Blaine
Garfield wing ofsthe republican party "Feath-
srheads," the Denver Republican refers to
them as ssne AXIS - the New York Herald con-
temptnously speaks of them as "Halfbreeds,''
and other stalwart journals in eriticizing tn EN-
have exhausted the vocabulary of derisive
terms. If names we've arguments the admin
~istration republicans would be demolished.
For the benefit of those in this Western
country who imagine that advertising III
Eastern newspapers is cheaply tone, we re-
print from an exchange the following: " For
one column, one year, the Chicago Tribune
gets $4,000. The New York Hsraid re-
ceives for Its lowest price column $50, 634. and
for the highest $34S,000. The New York
Tribune gets for It's lowest $50, t94, and for
the highest SIS, 65S, and these papers are never
at a loss for advertisements to fill their coll
mns."
Il w dSIIAiiStcH Cp1ttSLbiIu'iIG pt ult new
York Mail, under a recent date, says g The
removal Of Commissioner LIE Due and the ap-
poiutment of Dr.. Loring, of Massachusetts,,
meets general approval. LIE Due has proven
a noisy and eXtravagant official, constantly in
trouble with his subordinates and never ceas-
ing in bis appeals to Congress for money
wharewith to magnify his Office and prosecute
fN,}fsl D,lo -, -,
and in many things iamentably ignorant, he
has brought the Department of Agriculture
into contempt, and there is universal salts
faction that a country gentleman is to take his
pllce, one who is capable of making it what
it should be aud whom the people will res
spect.'
From the dispatches which we publish this
morning, 1t appears that more trouble is
brewing in the republican camp. 1t is in
timated that either Blaine or MacVeagh will
leave the cabinet. From another dispatch
We learn that "Boss" Blaine went to New
York to enter into the fight against Conkling
and said never a word to Garfield about il.
OF course Garfield was "surprised' when he
heard of it. This means that the Ohio '.half-
breed" was mad. A general breakup of Mr..
Garfieid's cabinet would be a fitting end to |
the disgraceful scenes that have been enacted
at Washington since the 4th of March, and to
which Mr.. Garfield has been a prominent
party. For the good of the country it can't
come too soon.
The Occasional Correspondent" of the
New York Herald, who recently so thor
oughly ventilated the little bargain made in
New York during the late presidential cam
paign between Conklisg and Garfield, now
further states that Garfield was the prime |
mover Of the conference and the director OF
its deliberations. He says .sFrom first to
last the conception and execution of the
scheme was his (Garfield's) own. The plot
was born in his fertile, scheming brain. He
is as responsible for It's paternity as he is for
the authorship of the letter to Cakes Ames,
whom he begged to call the Credit Mobilier
dividend a loan, or for the $1,000 argument
he made in the De Golyer contract FRAUD be-
fore Boss Shepherd. L challenge the denial,
and when it is made by some responsible
representative of the President, or represent
alive even of the INSCRIPTIONS, impudent pol
itlclan who molds him as he would a piece of
putty, | shall be ready with the proof."'
IN the Pennsylvania Senate, on the 18th
inst, a resolution was introduced declaring
"that We heartily indorse the course of Sen
ators Conkling and Plat in resigning their
seats as members Of the Senate of 1.-THE United
States and recommend that Senators Gamer
on and Mitchell do likewise" The resolu-
ton was referred to a committee composed
entirely of Democrats. designations are now
in order and may be INDUCED in to an alarm