, 1884-03-06

and Pacific oceans together. What
Europe dug with the spade she
would maintain with the sword
The house committe on public
lands have voted Z to 4, to recon-
mend to the house the forfeiture of
ali granted lands contiguous to that
portion OF the Northern Pacific rail
road not completed on July 4, 1879,
all amendments having been with
drawn or voted down. This is really
the most favorable position that the
committee could have left the subject
in. They have acted in accordance
with the Holman resolution, which
was almost unanimously adopted by
the house; but their recommendation
is so sweepingly unjust III its char
acter in this case, that it can only be
concurred in by a supreme act Of
demagogism on the part of congress.
1t is estimated that about 35,0G0,000
acres of the Northern Pacific lands
already patented to it, will be forfeit
ed if the committees bill becomes a
law The iIlegality of this summary
action, to all intelligent statesmen,
no less than its disastrous effect up
on the communities of the northwest,
and as the house committees report
is but the first skirmish of the battle.
we may anticipate widely different
result when the question is finally
settled. 1t would be well, however,
for the people OF Washington Teri
tory who are IN favor of the compile
ton of the railroad to send remon-
.strances to congress against the pas
sage of the forfeiture bill.-TdcoHa
NeiCs.
The editor of the Walla Walla
Statesman is of the opinion that
Gould has already a controlling in
terest in the Willard system, and thaG
the goods will be turned over about
the first of the month. Parker says:
In case this should be SO, this city
will have to pay tribute to Portland
to greater extent than ever before;
and those of our merchants who now
obtain carload rates So per ton less
than Portland, will find that after the
first of March next that there is an
end to all things.
A great big, burly fellow stepped
into the editorial rooms of one of our
contemporaries yesterday
and said: Il want to clean out this
Office" ''Wha-what's the trouble |
now?" feebly asked the editor-in-
chief, turning ghastly pale. Moth
ing's the trouble L will clean out
this office and scrub down the stairs
for 81" Then the editors face re-
sumed its natural color, and splitting
half way across the room, he shouted,
Get out of here you tramp, or 1 will
spill you head first into the waste
E-s.a
Senator Miller says, in alluding to
the criticism of the press of San
Franciso upon the Chinese bill as re
ported from the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations, he is opposed
to certain features of it as reported.
He says it don't follow that because
the bill was SO reported that it will
pass in its present shape. The ma
jority of the Committee is in favor of
the Objectionable section, and when
the matter is brought before the Sen
ate the bill will probably be amended
and changed in many particulars.
One thing is certain, he, says, no bill
shall pass which does not improve
the Original Act.
1t is stated that many persons in
Eastern Washington are mortgaging
their ,farmslto obtain meats 10 go to
the gold mines in the spring. If
they would stay at home. their farms
would bring them more gold then
they will ever get out of the mines.
Even If the mines are rich, and there
is no probability that they are, there
are sufficient idle men already to
FORK them. The chances for farm
er in any mines is not half as certain
as making a fortune by crops. Bet
ter raise potatoes on puget Sound.
with q sure market for them, than
own salted gold mine a thousand
miles away.-Trdnscript.
The Inter Ocean of the 25th
inst. says the Omaha Republican will
to morrow publish replies from
three hundred leading republicans,
covering every county in Nebraska, |
indicating first choice for Presidential
as follows: For Blaine |
IO7; for Logan, 70; for Arthur, 81; for
Edmunds, IS; for Conkling, Is; for
Lincoln, -; for General Sherman,
10; for Senator Harrison, 6, for
Grant, t.. There is nearly a unani-
nous preference for Robert Lincoln
for Vice-President Commenting on
the returns the Republican will say
IF Blaine continues in his present |
position as not an avowed candidate,
the Nebraska delegation will undoubt-
edly go to the National Convention
Delegates will prob
ably be elected in Congressional dis
trict conventions.
Governor Stoneman has decided to
call an extra session of the California
legislature for March Doth. 4 proc
amatlon to that effect will be out
within four days. The object is to
the taz cases.