The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-22
gsntte Weeelp 2Niner.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1881.

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The custom house at New Orleans is the
largest building of its kim in the world. 1t
was begun in 1S4S, has cost $4,SoO,0OO, and Is
still unfinished.
At the close of the afternoon session on the
18th inst, SO bills have been introduced
in the house and 45 in the council. 1t will
require rapid voting to dispose of them all
within the next three days.
We were greatly surprlsedto learn that the
bill providing for the punishment of women
heaters was defeated in the council by a tie
vote. We are satisfied that the ladeis OF Mon
tana would like to see the names OF the
"Noes'' on the final vote on the bill. It's
safe to say that the young, good-looking IN
married members of the council recorded
their votes in the affirmative.
The bill providing for the better observance
of the Sabbath has been resurrected in the
House and finally passed that body, Mr.. Glenn
voting in the affirmative for the purpose of
moving a reconsideration of the vote by which
it passed. Last Saturday he gave notice that
he would make the motion On the Monday
following. 1t is presumed he did this, but the
bill passed the house by a fair majority and
Mr.. Clem's hostility to the measure will not
1efeat it in that body.
President-elect Garfield is paying the pen
atty 81 greatness. 1t is stated that he is COM
pletely worn out. His face is flushed, his
sjsyes look as if they had not been closed in
.slumbcr for weeks, and his voice is heavy and
husky. He says he shall stay at Mentor I'M
iii the I'd or Sd of March. He only wants
TO start from home soon enough to assure his
arrival in ample time for the Inauguration
ceremonies. He receives an average of 100
~iletters \ day. The largest number ever re-
l,eiveG in a single day was 264. Those, to-
.ether with the countless number of papers,
magazines, etc., he daily receives, consume
what little time he has left after entertaining
i score or two of ofice-seekers during recep.
ion hours.
Messrs. DeWolfe Houser, Bell and Pardee
IRE pronounced home-rulers in the matter of
\ he division of this county. In the debate in
(, he house on the 18th inst, when the council
amendments to H.. B. No. 6 were under dis
i russion, Mr.. Houser emphatically declared
ne would rather not see the bill pass than to
concur in them. We are inclined to think
he council will recede and give us the dvis-
on. If 1t do not, the responsibility of de-
eating the expressed wish Of the great mass
# our citizens for a division of this county
will rest upon that body. The house has
ignified its willingness by a vote of % to 2,
o respect the request of our people. Three
or four men in the council ought not to set at
defiance that request.
Representative Page, of California, has just
ound out that congress has been Ignoring
The interests of the Pacific coast. In a recent
Ilebate in the hous in which he engaged, he
, aid /: sThe Pacific coast had been unfairly
aeated, and if 1t was his fortune to participate
a the organization of another house, and in
he election Of a presiding officer, he would
ote for one who would recognize that there
7as a country west of the Mississippi river.
vhich ought to be considered by the house,
We are in hopes that Congress will become
thoroughly alive to this fact. When it is
ully awakened to the needs and just de-
hands of the western states and territories,
here is no doubt that one of its first acts will
ss,e to extend to the latter the privilege of
lecting all their territorial officers. 1t is a
i onsummation devoutiy decired by our
eople.
u When H.. B. No. 6 was recently under con-
1 liberation in the house, Mr.. Pardee took oc-
aston to remark that he sthought a county
Jerk and recorder who was owned body and
aoul by the town of Deer Lodge, would ham
leap the county of Silver Bow in settling the
ebt between the countless" We cannot SUBJ
I cribe to Mr.. Pardee's assertion. Mr.. Mean
irews, who has long served the people ofthis
ounty in an Official capacity, has proved him
i elf to be a capable and honest officer. In
lew of the reputation he has gained as such,
I've do not apprehend that he would lend
imself to any scheme whereby the new
ounty, if formed, would be wronged out of
cent. We surmise that these words, spo-
T. .en by Mr.. Pardee in the heat of debate,
Iould have remained unspoken under less
gravating circumstances than those that
, allied them fort