The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-01
9utte @eekrp Miner.
TUESDAY,, MARCH /, 1881.
NOTES.

1reSlQenJ-eleCt 0aTHelu recently eNpTeSseu
great annoyance on account of the division
existing in the republican party in Pennsyl-
wanna. He said he should not select any
member of his cabinet from that state until
the discussion disappeared.
1t is now stated that Chief Justice Folger,
Of New York, will be secretary of the treas
MY in President Garfield's cabinet What
has become of that western man that the
cabinet makers have insisted would occupy
that position?
The council has drawn the line at II. b.
No. 81. They refused to consider it, as the
bill had been introduced in the house after
the passage by both houses of the concurrent
resolution relating to the introduction of bills
and to adjournment.
Senator elect Fair, of Nevada, arrived at
Omaha on the 10Th inst. and remained over
Sunday. From that point the senator pro
eeeGs to Concord, n. H., to visit his two chill
dren, who are attending school there, and
then goes to Washington.
The Congressional Temperance society
at Washington held its 47th anniversary OH
the evening of the goth. Addresses were
made by Senator Dawes and Representatives
price, Munroe, Ward and Ballou. A resolu-
ton was adopted requesting the president to
forbid the sale Of liquors by the storekeepers
at army posts.
The labors of the Montana legislature will
close to-day. Many important measures have
been perfected and are now the laws of the
land, while many more will fail for want of
time to perfect them. We will, as soon as
portant ones that have received the signature
of the governor.
One of the principal objections urged
against Stanley Matthews, says the Denver
Republican,, is his inability to hold more than
half an hour or so to the same opinion.
With him on the bench, an adjournment
over night, or for dinner. or even to 60 out
and take a drink, might change the decision
of the court on the most important question.
The consolidation Of the large telegraph
companies which has recently been effected,
has forced the French Cable Company to
bring the matter before the courts. 1t ap-
pears the French Gable company has con-
tracts with the American Union for the
exclusive use of its lines in all trans Atlantic
telegraph business. The French company
claim that this consolidation will impair their
contracts, hence it asks that the agreement
which has been made between the W. U. and
other companies be declared to be against
public policy and of no effect. In response to
the prayer of the company, Judge Blatchford
has granted "a temporary injunction, in which
argument will be heard on the oath inst.
AS may be seen by recent kilograms, the
steamship subsidists have sustained a Water
loo defeat in the United States Senate. Sen
ators Beck and Bayard stripped the scheme
of the DISCUSSES with which Mr.. Blaine had
clothed it, and held it up to the view of the
people in all its naked deformity. The result
Vas that out of a Senate of As members, only
IA could he found who had the hardihood to
endorse Mr.. Blaine's impracticable measure.
Mr.. Bayard denounced it as a scheme for
taking the public money from the treasury
for private use, and declared that "subsidy
and communism are twin bIothers." While
all the western men cannot subscribe to the
last assertion, the most of them will unite in
sustaining the action of the democratic
majority in the senate to protect the treasury
against the raid that John Roach and other
large ship-builders had planned against it.
The following, from an eastern exchange,
will be read with interest by everyone en-
gagged in silver mining, and will be endorsed
by all who have that interest at heart: ssWhile
the country is peaceful and prosperous there
will be no large demand for coin, but the
moment danger comes the people begin to
look after their paper currency. If the ma
tonal treasury and the banks are then well
prepared with reserves of coin to meet this
alarm, the country will be safe. If not, de-
probation and decentralization are inevitable
consequences. 1t becomes necessary, there
fore, to maintain the coinage, not of gold
alone, for we have no surer foundation in
nonometalism than Germany, but of silver.
The standard dollar may not be worth 100
cents to day, but when panic comes, or a re-
versal of trade to take away the gold and de-
Preciate our paper, the dollar of our daddies
will be in such demand as to make 1t worth
as much as the gold dollar. 1t is not gold
which is the petted favorite in our magnif-
cent prosperity, but the greenback treasury
note, and neither metal will resume its old
relations of importance as money until ca
lamity strikes us. The old weather-stained
maxim, sin time of peace prepare for war;"
applies with prodigious force to the currency
Of the present. We are on the high tide of
progress now, but in the evolution of time,
peace and war, prosperity and calamities, are
equally distributed over all lands and people.
Silver will be needed by and by. and will ha-