The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-12-27
EDITORIAL NOTES

The following is the committee Of terrific
RES: Burrows. Of Michigan Aldrich, Var
Voorhees,, Aillen, Dawes, Crowley, Grant,
Mills, Richardson, OF South Carolina; Dugro,
Leedom and Pettigrew.
The following is the committee on mines
and mining Van voorhees,, Davis, OF LII.
Bingham, Fulksrsor, Hubs, Calkins, Young,
Cassidy, Berry, Beni. Wood, of N. y; Cur
ey and Brown.
The bill for Presidential $ ckness expenses
a~ppropriates, among other items, the sum OF
5000 to Surgeon General Lamb for his ser
vices at the autopsy. That is pretty steep for
one hours work, hut ssthat's the way the
money gees" etc.
The Inter Mountain last night character
ICES the sentiments Of this paper upon the
railroad question ~ "un-American." II -
stated that the two editors and business man
aser Of the Inter Mountain were all born in
England, and the ur-American joke is the
most stupendous that was ever perpei-ated
in this region.
The San Francisco Chronicle says: The
Choctaw Indians are not modest. They have
a slilt!e claim" at Washington for S1o,o00,-
600. for damages which have resulted from
the inroads of the festive pioneer with = taste
for choice quarter sections. 1t is TO be feared
that the Choctaws will have to shave down
their cIaim-ssy strike off the last three fig
ures. The remainder will keep the nation in
tobacco and whisky for some time.
Where cities spring up in mining regions,
tie Inducements are very great for parties to
attempt to make a corner OH parcels OF valu-
able real estate under the forms of the Min
eral Land Act. The opportunities for levy
ing a sort Of immense tribute, or whatever
people may choose to call it, is so great in
these cases that newspapers have been estab-
lished upon this single issue. The decision
of the Secretary of the Interior, published In
to-day's dispatches, seem S to lessen the profits
of this kind of business.
Senator Edmunds, having . national rePu-
tatien az one of the finest legal minds in the
country, contributes to tho January number
of Harper's Magazine a paper on the Political
doptCL vi w LIZ oSoeSs SN>
to be sths eradication OF polygamous institu-
tions consolidated into one community, con-
s~istently with republican theories Of govern
mept and with Anglo-S,xon notion concern
ing the trial of persons accused Of crime" An
arbitrary law, which will disfranchise and de-
citizenize the entire Mormon following evil
IDENTIFY would not be consistently with repub-
lican theories of government"
The Louisville Commercial publishes an
account of a runaway boy who served some
time as a sailor, and finally becams connect
ed With Wadleighis Arctic expedition in the
Alliance, and returned to his people
who had long thought him dead. The AZ
count says: "His description of the black
fog which looked as though it could be bail
died with a shovel and dug with a spade, in
other words, the Arctic night, Al well as the
c~easeless glare Of the sun Or the Arctic day ;
The discovery OF a Csal mine i'll that extreme
land, and Of agrsveysrd well Defined
Wherein the bones Of thirty or forty bold
whose undertakers had gone
none knew WHITTIER, added a weird ness to his
story which made it all wildly and romantic
ally interesting"
Senator VOORHEES,, OF Indiana, made q
speech on the silver quss!ien in the
Senate on the 10th. He characterized the
recommendation Of the Secretary Of the
Treasury for the repeal of the authority fer
silver certificates and for their early retire
40 s wanton and, to his mind, a GRIM
iual assault upon the ~tnancial stability and
business prosperity OF the country. 1t was
deliberately proposed to retire more than
500, 000, 900 of money and destroy it, and the
consequences Of this could be imagined.
Ths bare proposition to contract and disturb
the currency at this time would CT cate disor-
der auG panic. He charged that the Secre
tary Was the mouthpiece of the banks, aud
that the design was to hand over the supply
and circulation of currency 'to the care OF
the moneyed corporations whose tenderest
aercies are legalized cruelty ard multiplied
usuries."
The Cl&yton-Bulwer treaty, adopted in a
between the United States and
Great Britain over thirty years ago, is now
becoming a document of considerable inter
est. According to the articles of that con
~vention, the high contracting parties, in re-
fsrring to an intsr-oceanic canal through
Nicaragua, agreed that "neithsr one nor the
other will ever obtain, or maintain for itself
any exclusive control over said ship canal,
and that neither will erect or maintain any
tortiication commanding the same, or in the
vicinity thereof" In addition to this the
high contracting parties agree sto extend
their protection by stipulations to any
other pI PRACTICAL communications, whether by