The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-02-06

The Butte flyer, "Gilt," broke all the
New Orleans sports at the recent meet
ing in that city. The mare won in la,
and lost no contest for which she was en-
tered.
A petition asking the president to ~
consider the action of the eeourt-martial in
the case of Colonel Guido llges, ON ac-
count of legal points and newly discover
ed evidence, was circulated at Benton
and contained over 200 names.
Senator Brown lives at the Metropli-
tan hotel at Washington. 1t is the place
where all provincial Southerners stop
and when the old man came here he
announced his intention of going there
because it was the place where all "our
folks put up" He is provincial in oil
things. Provincialism is popular. When
he first entered the dining room Of the
St. James hotel, IN New York, he called
the waiter to him by shouting: "Hyar,
hyar, get me somethin' to eat" "Vat
veel you 'ave?" asked the astonlshed
Frenchman. "Git me some aigs, sab"
said Brown; land have EN- cooked Gaw-
gaw style; nothin' on 'em; nothin' but
aigs."
The Salt Lake Tribune in commenting
on the new Northern Pacific President
says that the election of Robert Harris
superintendent of the Northern Pacific,
taken in connection with the fact that
Harris was taken from one of Gould's
railroads, with the sanguine picture that
Jay Gould draws of railroad products,
indicate very strongly that hereafter the
Northern Pacific is to be q Gould rail-
road. Considering the terms Of the pool
between the overland roads. it would not
be strange if it should prove to be q
Gould and Huntington road. The policy
of the Central Pacific has always been to
guard the approaches to San Francisco,
both from the sea and the land. The
completion of the Northern road is the
first real break that has been made in
that control. 1t would be but natural
desire on the part Of the OWNERS of the
o.,ly really through lines to counteract
tho sect OF that if possible. Manifestly
the onlv ,-ossib,'e way to accomplish the
task is to cain control of the rival road.
Mavbe tbst hos ho., - done. Maybe that
is why the war was MAJ a". u .r;., .,'
when ne was celebrating Ia. could ha
mph. OF course the land rate> H .s.ss ~
fixed by pool, but there is the =,
beyond, and the Northern company h.
six magnificent ships all ready to place
on the China and Australian lines. More
over, the Northern Pacific runs through
region which will make it the greatest
of overland roads. It looks as though it
was probable that the men who have
been chiefs are still to be chiefs.
When President Harris vas before the
house committee on public lands in re-
gard to the forfeiture of the land grant
of the Northern Pacific road, he gave the
history of the enterprise from the begin
ming, claiming that the same wise con.
sideration for not declaring the grant
forfeited that had prevailed on congress
should be continuad "A loaa,-
as the Northern Pacific company dis
played the energy in prosecuting the
work, and until the road. as originally
was completed. The good
faith to thousands of persons who settled
and are now settling on Puget Sound, are
looking to the completion of the Cascade
division and the direction east should be
an unanswerable reason why congress
and the government should do nothing
toward checking or delaying the work.
Senator Van Wyck asked whether any
was entered into with the
Central Pacific which prevented compe-
;ition in rates between San Franclsco
md the east. Harris was unable to
He had been only a few days
president of the road, and was not fully
amiliar with the details of the office.
lOl. George Gray, general counsel of the
Northern Pacific, followed. He referred
% the language of the charter, arguing
hat as no right or revocation of the grant
1ad been inserted therein, no such right
existed in congress. The courts alone
:ould lay basis for the re-entry of lands
md they only upon showing the COM
oany had broken its contract. He ad-
nitted no such breach. The charter was
lot only the law, but the contract and
congress was not alone the granter or the
,arty to the contract. In the matter Of
,olice power and regulation congress had
he right, but in 80 far as property rights
we're concerned. Congress had no power
o act except to further the ends of the
'riginal grant, namely, to secure the COM
'letion of the road.
Senator Mitchell has introduced in the
enate bill TO amend the pension laws,
which was prepared by the commissioner
# pensions. 1t adds to the list of per-
ons entitled to receive pensions because
# wounds received and disabilities in
urred officers and enlisted men of the
Missouri State militia and Missouri pro-
'isional enrolled militia injured, or who
incurred disabilities while such militia
ompany was operating with United
'tates forces; officers and enlisted men
t the Missouri Home guards and other
egular organizations called to the SER
ice by the general commanding the
Western department, or department of
he Missouri, when the service perform
d shall be shown by the records to be
hat prescribed by the act of March 25,
1852; officers and men of the revenue
marine service, disabled by wounds or
INJURIES received while in the line of
uty, the rate of pensione prescribed by
xisting law for relative rank of the navy
nd enlisted men that prescribed for en-
isted men of the army; masters serving
n gunboats and pilots, engineer and
ailors serving on gunboats or armed YES
els, whether regularly mustered or not,
rovided they were at the time of incur