The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1882-03-25
Fears Of \ Veto.

Fears ola Veto.
The New York Hc,ulds Washington
special says: A stage Of the anti. Chinese
OIL tias come to it which the politicians
who have engineered it do not like to dwell
upon. 1t Is thought very desirably by the
Republicans to carry the Pacific States
next tall. The Republican Congressmen
trom the three States have asserted they
could not be carried unless the Repu5,i.
can party made haste to pass the anti. Chi.
nsse ea11, and very stringent one. This
afternoon some OF its Republican advocates
tear the President will veto it on the same
ground taken by Ed.nunds, that a twenty.
year Suspension is contrary to the spirit If
the treaty.
Distress In the Flooded Districts.
Captain Lee, OF the Government relief
steamer Aninta, has information that there
Is great distress and suffering throughout
the Yazoo Delta. 1t was originally de.
signed to remove the people from their
flooded homes to secure and comfortable
Quarters, but 1t l. learned that there are SO
many ofthein that it would require whole
fleet Of steamers and boats to carry out
their plan. Peopie will, therefore, be lett
arrangements will be made to furnish them
supplies from depots which will be estab.
ished ut eligible points. Captain Lee held
y consultation with prominent citizens Of
Greenville, and ut last accounts was max.
ing all haste to Yazoo county.
Seven persons were drowned when the
levee broke at Prentiss.
Children Buried In a Tunnel.
A horrible accident occurred at ST. Toe,
on tile 10Th, where some boys had been
digging u tunnel in u hill on the outskirts
OF the city. The tunnel was five feet high
and eight feet wide, and had been pushed
into the hillside about ten feet. At = O'clock
five boys were In the tinnel. and wl,en
their companions returned, ut s o'clock,
they found the mouth Of the tunnel closed
by heavynass Of earth. Their cries 10 their
companions brought no answer, and they
hastily began to dig. Two feet from the el,.
trance to the tunnel the protrudiny rand OF
one otthe missing boys. named Failrs, was
An alarm was then spread,
and in shor: time hundreds gathered on
the spit. The liieless bodies OF the five
boys were recovered, amidst the anguish oi'
the mothers and sisters Of the unfortunate
lads. Only one boy, named Gari>h, gave
evidence OF life by the pu sation OF his heart.
which ceased almost as soon as the body
was exhumed. All the boys belong to we'll.
to.do families.
Uncle Sam and Mexico.
The New York Gyuthic's Washington
correspondent says 1t has been discovered
that the two chief awards made BY the
Mexican Claims Commission, to the ex-
tent OF $l,2oo,o,,o, were obt; ined by per-
jury and fraud, and the Secretary OF State
has stopped payment Of the installnent due
at this time, 80 flagrant was the imposition
on the Commissioners.
The treaty between the United States
and Mexico has been made, and It is now
lying on the table Of Secretary Frcvling-
huysen, all ready to send to the Senate for
The copy belonging to Mex.
leo has been signed BY Romero and bears
the grand seal OF the United States, and is
already on It's way to Mexico to b. sub
mitted to the Mexican Senate for ratitica-
tion. 1t will certainly be ratified, because
|, is for the benefit Of Mexico, to prevent
the Mexican treasury from being rlundered
Of a vast sum Of money under the shadow
Of the United States authority. Freling
huysen will also send the other copy to the
Senate next week, probably, when such
of fraud aud conspiracy will he
made by the representatives Of the Mexican
that It is believed no hesitancy
will be felt as to the proper course of action.
Comments Ofthe Press on the Anti.
P0lyyamy Bill.
The New York Times says of the anti
polvgamy bill: A more radical and
sweeping scheme than this could hardly
have passed Congress. 1t is a Republican
measure contrived for the extirration Of
the loathsome cancer Of polygamy. The
Democrats opponents Of the hill (and only
Democrats, opposed M invariably began
hypocritical srerches by saying: l will
join hands with any gentleman in this
Chamber in any attempt to put down ro-
lygamv, s'but" and the "but" in each case
was invariably objection to the bill which
effectuallv prevented the speaker from
supporting this particular measure. ltis
possible that the new law will not prove
as ctfectuai in the suppression Of polygam.y
as its friends expect and hope, but It Is
stepin the right direction and an attempt
to crush out the great and scandalous evil
by law.
lutc IaItu III TIC C'uCdSy " tuS h'S"""S W
achieve all the results at which it aims.
The Mormon p, oblem is quite as difficult
as some persons find the Chinese one, but
it Is project worth testing before resort
ing to the dread expedient of military
government, and now it rests with the
Mormon polyga,ni>ts themselves whether
the United States shall be compelled to
that final alternative.
The WWM says: Yesterday was great
day for buncombe in the House OF Rep
resentatives. 1t is not often that members
get chance to relieve their minds on two
such subjects AS polvgamy and the Chi
nese. The bill expressing the horror OF
the House at rologamy was passed. of
coarse it /, all nonsense. Polvgamv can
not survive many wears in Utah for the
simple reason that Utah will soon become
socially as we'll as politically part ot the
United States, and when ever it does, the
maio, ity Of its people will be opposed to
polygamv and will take measures to stop
it's practice. There is no use in trying to
hasten that condition Of things. Possibly
the law against polygamyin in Utah may be
useful to aid in the seating of Republican
who was not elected to the House, but It
will have no effect upon the practice OF
nolyga,nv in Utah. The only salvation OF
Mormonism is isolation. 1t has preserved
itself for many wears by taking flight from
Nonvoo to Salt Lake. 1t can only pre-
~ :&,,f ,,.,v nv another flight into the