The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-01
EBETO NOTES.

emulate the example of all ladies time out
of mind and declare that the white house is
the worst looking house she ever saw, and i'll
%sinuate that that Hayes woman wasn't much
of a housekeeper anyway.
The city council Of Denver has accepted
the proposition made by c. G.. Ruthraff and
others for lighting the city with the Brush
electric light, for two ears at $4,000 per an
nun. Tie city is to be given thirty days
trial of the light before its formal accept
ance.
TIL boom Of the bimetalists is apparently
at hand. The call for the iong-talked-ot
monetary conferences is reported to have met
with much favo i'll foreign countries. Bust
ness men in Berlin are reported to be extern
sively signing a memorial faysring hinetal
ism. and Bismarck is said to be favorable to
a representation Of Germany in the confer
ence III case the United States shall accept a
return to the double standard.
G. &, No. 40, repeating the Helena and
Benton railroad act, passed both houses but
the governor. heeding1h he earnest protesta;ions
VI tlV icdtIlJp tltlLciIS VI tltlclia, " ltililhlu
his signature to the bill. AS it was net pre-
sen'ed to his excellency three days before the
tiual adjournment Of tie two houses. the gov
ernor will exercise his plerngative and quiet
ly pigeon-hole the objectionable measure.
The ace which the bill repealed provided that
The citizens Of Lewis and Clarke, Mrag1er
aud Choteau counties may vote upon a pro-
position for substituting a railroad to run
from Helena to Benton.
This is the way the cabinet makers have
filled the various secretaryShips for Garfield:
Secretary of state, Blaine secretary of the
treasury, Charles J. Folger; secretary of the
navy, Nat. Golf; postmastcr-general, Charles
Foster; attorney enerai, Howe; secretary of
war, Davis, Of California; secretary of the in
terror, either Wilson or Allison, of Iowa.
Robert Lincoln, of Illinois, was left cut. be-
cause It is said all the lllinsisans have got the
''big tead.' Garfield may take it into his
head TO appoint one er two of his own cabi-
net advisers, in which event the above slate
will be Knocked into 'smithereens."
During Washington's administration the
cabinet consisted of three members. 1t is
now composed Of seven. Washington was
permitted to appoint his secretaries without
being besieged by an army of place hunters.
In those good Old days the president was
supposed to be capable OF selecting his advis-
ors. The people consded in his judgment.
Blu times have sadly changed. In these lat
ter days we'll organized legions Of politicians,
without rnp3rA IN .traph rnlnr ~. rn,i,.,
condition Of servitudc," are formed who pro-
coed, with the precision Of we'll drilled veter-
ans, to attack the president elect in the front
and III The rear and OIL either flank, until,
from sheer exhaustion, he is forced to yield
to their demands. Office hunting is now re-
duced to a science.
1t is stated that Col. Sanders, Bob Fisk and
Alex. Beattie propose taking in Mentor on
the way to Washington. The Colonel, 1t is
said, desires to interview the sage of that
classic retreat upon the SUBJECT of the Mon
tana governorship, and to canvass his own
chances for occupying the building next to
the Independent Office. Capt. Bob, it IS ru-
moIed, desires to call the attention of HAYES
successor to any one of the $40 different DO.
Sitions in which lie is anxious to serve the
"best government the sun ever shone upon,'
while Alex. will suggest to the "fayorite SOM
that he is willing to accept any situation the
income of which exceeds "SS25 per annum
besides the fees allowed by law" 1t IS re-
ported the triumYirate travel on emigrant
trains and carry their lunch basket. We un,
derstand they joined the CaInpbelite church
before they left the territory.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says the people
of the United States are afflicted with too
much "courtesy" in the senate. The abom-
Unable system of trading among senators fire.
quently leads to the contemplate surrender
of the body of the senate to the lash of a
donineering few, or even of one man. The
evil is not confined to one party, Tat is inter-
changeable and all pervading. If senator A
senator b, whatever his convictions may be,
feels Obliged to coincide in view of the fact
that he will in the future want senator AS
assistance in overthrowing or elevating some
body else. The president, the chief magis-
trate of the whole people, with all the states
for a constituency, is now blockaded in his
appointment by the servility of the senate to
a man who owes his position to his ability TO
manage the machine in a single state. The
situation is shameful to the senate and dis
heartening to the country.