Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-02-22

ton has not been settled yet, and the
more it is stirred up the worse it gets
or Keller. Nobody here accepts his
statement that Boynton made a cor
rupt proposal to him, as against the
latter's good character and reputation.
Boynton has never been known to
have any interest in jobs, and the mo-
ney in this one is on the opposite side
from the one he is said to have es-
poused. A committee of the House
will endeavor to find out whether Kei
fer has not added contemplate false
accusation to his other meanness.
Probably the most Disguised man,
though, is the unfortunate McGarra-
han, who owns the immortal claim
which started the controversy, and
who now sees it led off, side-tracked,
as it were, on one of the innumera-
BILE branch issues that have marked
its course through the departments,
the courts and Congress for tho past
twenty years. He has no concern
with the Keifer- Boynton controversy,
except in so far as Mr.. Boynton tried
to do him slight kindness, as almost
any one would who knows his story;
and it's agitation will probably put
him further off than ever from getting
a hearing on the merits. ''Mac" takes
his long rambles about the streets by
night and day, which seem his only
method of working off surplus activ-
ity, more dejectedly than is his wont.
1t looks as though the rich New ldria
Company would keep him out of his
own for many years longer.
Mr.. Morrison's tariff bill has been
on the whole rather favorably receiv-
ed as an eminently conservative and
Just measure, which aims to make one
step towards needed reforms without
Gripping any protected industry.
Whether it will pass both houses this
session is question not easily an
swered at the present time. There is
a tendency to complain of the expen-
SEES of Representative Haskell's fune-
raj last December, which cost 50, 500
largely for meals, "lunches," cigars,
carriages and "sundries." A friend
who went along with one of these
public funerals, that of Senator Sum-
ner, says he found that the funeral
baked meats were not furnished forth
@scoldly," nor the funeral mixed drinks
either 1t was rather an irreverent
thought how the great Senator, who,
like other great men, was generous
liver, would have enjoyed it all.
Those who complain do not do JUS
tice to the physiological effects of
grief, with which they are, perhaps,
not well acquainted. Sir John Fal-
staff explains how signing and groan-
ing may puff up man like bladder
and the result of public, organized
woe is always to breed an inordinate
hunger and thirst in the mourners.
So, at least, it appears.
The bloody shirt scheme of Sena-
tor Sherman and some of his Repub-
lican associates has fallen SO fiat as to
be hardly worth carrying on. The
committee appointed will pretend to
take testimony, which will be printed
and circulated for campaign purposes;
but it is doubtful now whether this
sort of thing will not do more harm
than good to their own cause. Pres
idential booms are growing numerous
now, new ones springing up every
few days. The most astonishing thing
is the apparent inroads made by Lo-
gan on the Administration strength,
1t looks now as though there would
be nice fight between Logan and
Arthur, which will probably defeat
them both. Senator Don Cameron
writes to a friend in Washington that
he will not take possession of his seat
In the Senate until after the question
of Presidential candidancy has been
settled. He says that he wants to be
out of the way, because if he inter-
ested himself in behalf of any can
kidate the cry of bossism would be
raised ia the convention. 1t cannot
be that bon is quietly working foi
the nomination himself. Such politi-
cal modesty is unparalleled.
There are two significant signs OF
the growth of Washington as a win
ter resort for the wealthy. One OF
them is the ssboom" in the furniture
business, which is really worth pas
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