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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-12-20

Yellowstone Journal: Though this
particular portion of Montana is not
a mineral bearing section, it never
the1ess takes much pleasure in point
ing proudly to those parts thereof
which give freely forth the precious
treasures of the rocks and rills. To
this end it would be pleased to OBJ
serve that this territory should be
properly represented in the national
silver convention which 10 soon to
meet ut Denver. Colorado. This body
Ia intended to be the nucleus lof q
grand movement for the proper pro-
lection of the silver interests. Our
territory now can 60 forth there, and
elsewhere, with the proud and sub.
stantial claim of possessing the best
mining camp in America-that of
Butte. In the face Of this pre-eminent
fact of so substantial a nature, Nor
tana must make a strong impression
Of . permanent character upon other
sections OF our common country.
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Stanley Speaks for Congo

LONDON, Dec. lS.-Stanie' i%s
written \ letter III reference u nv ~,
Congo matter in which he pnlp'' ,ss
the urgent necessity OF se'ti'ps
DECENTRALIZATION Of the Cor go c'uln,,
of determining dehnatrly Is IIop'n1
and o. bringing about the gtle'"
recognition Of the Arican ln,er rin
tiOnal asso .iation it;olr TIE D
conference ha- cnnluGei us lSod
II thts .,.rObltnl~ shall mol 'tSe wa
ne thinks tina, Congo ~l1'h's Pp,,.
q tempting bait to Frame Az and
tngal. H. thinks 4 siaho a'nrD
PROPOSE t. Germany I ii III 10 ,ats
rs The association fou!d lN bs
war, therefcre war sho'ia W,be
made again>t tie ass clat''.u. ,no.e
cOnferei &c dl>hauds prl"'e ,l.d
rrea, questions nav ''rrn ss.' sud
then fare veil to tn Cong" ".7'""
to its Development
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THE KEY NOTE ON SILVER.

In his discussion of the silver
question, day before yesterday, sena-
tor Beck gave the true inwardness
of the opposition by bondholders to
the standard silver dollar. They were
made payable in the gold and silver
coin of the United States. Bond
holders desire a higher rate of in
terest, and to obtain it they would
make money dearer by driving out
silver from u money circulation.
Mr.. Beck also asserts that United
States treasurers, Including ex-Sec-
rotary of the treasury Sherman,
failed to comply with the law in pay
ing interest," upon Government bonds
in gold only. because customers pre-
ferred it to silver. While this infor-
nation Is not new, 1t is reiterated at
the proper time, and being repeated
by 3 Democrat it comes from the
proper man.
His speech may be accepted as the
keynote of the sentiment upon sill
yer entertained by Democrats in
Congress, and as the sentiment of
the incoming Democratic admins
tration. "Give US the control of the
other end of the Capitol" says MI.
Beck, land we will find u way
to dispose of our silver." There
is no question about it. The
very men who have for years fought
to ~depreciate the value of the stand |
ard silver dollar and to impair or to
destroy altogether its purchasing
power, will, when they are compelled
to receive it in payment for their
bonds or for interest upon them,
unite in their efforts to appreciate its
value aud encourage its circulation
among the people. I'VE can wait
sixty days, thank God" says MI.
Beck, "when we will let the world
know we propose to maintain our
silver currency and to pay our bonds
according toour obi cations" This
s q notice to foreign holders of our
bonds of just what they may expect.
Paying them Tin the coin of the
may open their eyes to the
necessity Of q bi-metallic standard in
England apd Germany, OF at least of
compliance with the wishes of the
States in regard to the hold
ng of an international silver confer
nee. and that the ratio between the
royal metals may be definately
ixed.
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There is IN effort now on the part
of some of the Blaine papers to prove
that Dr.. Burchard's clerical cussed'
ness" Is = matter of heredity, a2d
the latest showing il that he lie
directly descended from the DR.. Bur-
chard who once reproved Aaron
Burr for coming into church With
squeaking boots, and was summarily
snubbed for so doing. But DR.. Bur-
chard is so completely down now
that tracing bis descent is quite su-
perorogstory. The Blaine papers
should leave the poor old gentleman
In peace.
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One of the late MI. Blaine's m0st
ardent newspaper supporters, writing
of Mr.. Cleveland In the Philadel-
phla Times, says:
1t may be that the great majority
of the American people can live on
stern Honesty and nothing else for
four years, but I always found ven-
ison dry at the end of that time and
wanted q change.
1t is the custom of the supporters
of Nh. Blaine to sneer at honesty in
official places. With vivid recollec-
lions of their tlate candidate they
could hardly do otherwise, but the
has made up its mind to try
. little Of that venison " by way of
q change.
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Representative Warner, OF Ohio,
who was defeated In the late election,
was growing in the House recently
about the practice of permitting bore
some members to dump undelivered
speeches into the Congressional Rec
ord. He claims that his defeat was
attributable to q speech which was
thus surreptitiously smuggled into
the official record Of the supposed
proceedings of the House, censuring
his course on certain pension bills.
Perhaps. after q few more members
have suffered as Warner has, this
costly nonsense will be stopped.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-12-20

It is said that the judges Of the
United States supreme court will not
resign during the Democratic ad-
mlnistration which will be inaugura-
ted next March. They will hold on
to their positions in hopes a Repub-
lican administration will follow
Cleveland's and their places be filled
with Republicans. If one thinks
politics does not enter into the calcu-
lations of. our supreme court judges
he knows but little of the men who
the highest court of the
land.
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ADMISSION OF TERRITORIES.

The United States Senate by a stric
party vote has passed the bill pro
viding for the admission of Dakots
in the Union as q State. When tn,
bill is acted upon by the House it i.
quite likely an amendment will be
tackled to it providing. also, for
the sdmission of some. other Terri
DRY or Territories at the same Tins
tr be defeated. Unjust as it is to the
Territories it is nevertheless a fact
that neither house of Congress, as
both are politically composed, is
willing to add political power to the
opposition by the admission of Terri
tories as States. Dakota should be
admitted as a State; SO should Nor
tans, and Washington Territory.
and New Mexico. In fact there ia
no valid reason why every Territory
In the Union should not enjoy State
hood, If its people feel able to assume
the responsibilities and wish it.
But the wishes of the people of
Territories r not consulted in this
matter. Political considerations gov
ern Congress 1 the admission of ter
ritories. Nevada was admitted, not
because she had the requisite number
of inhabitants, but because two Re-
publican United States Senators were
wanted in Congress at the time. All
the territories named above have q
larger population than Nevada had
the time of her admission. Mon.
lana has nearly double the number
Of votes that State has, yet we all
know that the Republican Senate
will not admit her unless some pro-
bounced Republican Territory be
coupled with her and admitted at the
'ame time.
1t is hoped that Congress will ad-
nit all the Territories at once that
iesire admission. Dakota and Mon.
ana, New Mexico and WASHINGTON.
Wyoming and Arizona can each pad
lie its owl canoe as a state, as we'll
s the thirteen Colonies padded
heirs when they first formed q Con.
of States. The Territories
ave the wealth and the people the
Intelligence to govern themselves.
Let them all come in at the same
ime.
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BAYARD AND THE CABINET.

1t appears it was understood at
washington that Senator Bayard
was invited to take a seat in MI.
Clevetand's cabinet before he went
to Albany to visit the President-e]ect,
IL Ia also stated On high Democratic
authority that Senator Bayard per-
sonally prefers the Treasury port-
folio. and IN his interview with Gov.
cleveland said as much. It is also
believed that the President-elect had
originally intended Mr.. Bayard to
nave the position of Secretary of
State. He is only embarrassed at
present to find just the man for that
place, and If he Is successful in tb,s
direction Mr.. Bayard will have the
Treasury portfolio. There is not a
man In the country who does not
regard Bayard Is one of the stronp-
est and best men Mr.. Cleveland could
have about him. 1t is said that Mr..
Bayard does not regard the post of
Secretary of State as one that would
be as congenial as that of the Treas.
ury. All his public experience has
been in the line of financial study.
He has been upon a number of in
v~estigating committees to examine
the Treasury, and understands It
very fully. He has but little taste
for foreign affairs. It is, however.
understood that MI. Bayard, while
he was offered his choice of the Cab.
met places, might be persuaded to
the secretaryship of State, If in
the end MI. Cleveland would he bet.
ter satisfied with that arrangement.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-12-20

The present German parliament
seems to be q rebellious body. First
it defeated Bismark on his famous
Kultur-Kanspf measure. More recent
~ it reduced his demand for an ap.
preparation with which to complete
the Notification in Alsace-L oraine
by one half, A day or two ago it
refused to grant him an assistant for
which he piteously pleaded. 1t ap-
pears, therefore, that the Germans
have recovered their backbone and
have neither fear of the Chancellor
nor of an early war with France.
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Earl Morley thinks the coercion
act must be enforced in Ireland next
year to prevent outrages and law
lessness by the Irish people. That
may be the case, but it strikes US the
attempted enforcement of that act
has been the cause of more disturb
ance in that country than any other
law passed by the British parliament
during the past decade. We appre-
bend England will have her hands
full in the attempt to REINFORCE that
act.
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According to our news columns
yesterday morning, Captain Howgate
has been heard from. It is supposed
he il In Nebraska. Probably he is,
and then again probably he isn't.
The redoubtable Captain, like the
author of the Morey letter, and the
long missing Charley Ross, has been
found q great many times, but the
proverbial flea is not harder to put
hands on than is the ubiquitous ex-
chief signal officer.
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THE SIBERIAN DAVIS NATTER,

Some time ago General Sherman
asserted that In his famous march
from Atlanta to the Sea" he in.
tercepted = letter written by Mr..
Jefferson Davis, In which the latter
proposed establishing . Dictatorship
over the Confederacy. Nj. Davis
denied this in language more en-
pAatic than polite, in which he in
timated that General Sherman was
a prevaricator of stalwart proportions.
When the great general saw the de-
NAL he simply shrugged his shoulders
and remarked that the matter vas
one which concerned only MI. Davis
and himself, and he would settle it
as became gentlemen. This wa con-
strued by some IS fighting language.
and a challenge was looked for from
the General to Mr.. Davis. Gen eral
Sherman also stated that the letter
referred to was addressed to q then
Brigadier General in the Confederate
service. hut who was now q United
States senator from one of the South
ern States. Washington newspaper
correspondents have since inter-
viewed every Southern United States
senator who had served in the Con-
federate army, and each denied hav-
ing received OF having heard of such
q letter.
But now comes q letter written by
Davis to the then Governor and now
Senator Vance Of North Carolina,
which is said to be the letter inter-
cepted and read by General Sherman
at the time named above. A careful
perusal of the letter fails to disclose
any proof to sustain the charge that
MI. Davis contemplated the establish
ment of a Dictatorship for the Con-
federacy OF tnat he'proposed to force |
any one of The Southern States to re-
main in the Confederacy. The letter
is published among our dispatches of
night before last. While we would
not intimate that General Sherman |
wrongfully charged MI. Davis, we
certainly hold the proofs of his asser-
zion are not found in the letter re-
Ferred to. The Inter- Mountain should
revise its head lines over the COM
named.
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1t seems that France viii have to
wait until the last of the Napoleon's
10 put under the sod before some OF
her cranks will return to reason and
realize the fact that that nation is
now q Republic and will remain one.
The Napoleon dynasty expired at
Sedan, but it appears that q few of
the old moss-backs of France have
not yet fully comprehended the fact.
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SIDE DISHES.

A Lament.-Dowager: cts been
the worst a / can remember
Sir Jemes! All the men seem to have
got married, and none of the girls !! ,
Punch.
A Connecticut centenarian has
been found who has voted for every
Democratic candidate for president
since Madison.
The Prince OF Wales is Colonel of
no less than sixteen regiments, and
yet no one thinks of Shaping him on
the shoulder and saying "Howd'ye,
kernal. Hartford Post.
An agricultural exchange says that
a good hog should weigh as many
pounds as he is days old, This Is a
new way of getting at the age of the
man who occupies two a SEATS
Burlington Free Press;
Poverty has its cares, nv son. but
then wealth has its scares, too. more
than poverty, ten to one. Look at
the panics on the money MARKET
every week! Do you ever hear Of a
financial panic in an almshouse?-
Brooklyn Eagle.
AT q recent cat show in London.
one feline valued at $500. 900 was
exhibited. It must have been q gold
cat encrusted with diamonds. Just
fancy throwing q 25-cent boot1ack At
q $5OO,0 900 cat on a backshed worth no
more than 50 so! Etc.
The Mahdi is q thorouph-poino
temperance man who will not allow |
his soldiers even coffee or tobacco-a
soldier who was caught smoking got
l5O lasbes recently but the Mahdj |
na@ trirty-nine wives Waterbury
Doctors daughter "This cook.
book says that pie-crust needs plenty
OF 'sho- teniDg.' Do YOU know what
that means. l.a?" Old doctor-.!It
means lard" D ,cIor's daughter
But why is lard called shortening,
Old dortor-''Because It Short
ems life. "-Ph2adekphia Call
"A change in degree: A French
widow took on drtsdfully st the
funeral of her husband. WIN
madame" said her maid. "vGn
hated him SO while living 7 do
not why you should be so demon.
,trattve nowthat he is dead" "Whv.
1 don't hate him half 10
now as l dld."-Boston Jour-.
aQk.
"A Cn1ca2o man wanted y divorce
because MS wife persisted in singing
lymne. The court laughed at him.
ina ne would have lost his case had
10y Tue lawyer summoned the wife :
o the witness stand, and started her I
lnglng. At the fifth verse fha &
;ourt threw up the sponge and the !
.un. ~"'"
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AMALGAM.
Al Squeezed From Our Terri'oF'A'
Exchanges.

The projected additional sme' >
buildings at Anaconda are 10 10 o~
feet long. c,4,
Tba Mndisonian. at Virginia CITY,
nas changed owners, Thomas BAKER
succeeding A. b. Klser.
Dakota,s exhibit of. grain ana
vegetables carried off the gold meuai
at the exposition at Amsterdam
Holland.
The estimated total number o1
cattle in Montana is 855 1858, wnlcn;
estimated at $35 per head, woulo
amount to $50, $40, $50.
J. A. Cummings was appointed
collector of customs at Fort Benton,
Montana, in place Of Hunt, who mas
been elected district attorney OF
Montana.
At the organization of the Idaho
Legislature, the entire antl-Mormon
d legation from Oneida county was
D .ated.
Ten double-deck cars Of sheep
we're shipped from Billings Friday,
18th inst, to Wisconsin where they
will be fattened and muttonized.
Dakota owes 1894, 600; Montana
owes nothing. Dakota has always
been Republican: Montana Demo
cratic.
D. d. LAWN. of Anaconda, threat
ened, q few days ago, to kill bis VIE.
whereupon he was arrested and fined
$50. she has since applied for u d.
vOrce.
The smelter at Huston, on Lost
River, Is turning out almost pure
copper, there being but a slight per-
centage of silver. In three days
Twelve tons of the metal we're run
out.
At Salt Lake the Mormons have
what il called q defense fund, COM
posed of contributions from the faith
tul for the purpose of fighting legal
proceedings instituted against polyR-
amists.
There is a general impression in
Washington that secretary Teller
will confirm the treaty made by the
Colorado Syndicate with the Crow
chiefs for 3,5O0,O00 acres Of thier res
ervati0n.
Marcus Mclean, who embezzled
the Northern Pacific company out OF
800 last August at Billings, has
pleaded guilty to the charge, and was
sentenced to one year in the territorial
prison at Deer Lodge.
The four northern counties of Idaho
at the late election pOIled 1870 vote :.
from which basis it is estimated the
population Of the territory will be
increased 16, 500 after the incorpora-
ton of these counties.
The funeral of Leland st ,nford, jr.,
was five times sOlemnized-in Rom.
where he died. in Liverpool, twice In
New York, and lately In San Fran
cisco. These were all expensive
psgeants, the preacher alone in San
FraciscO getting $4,000.
A petition addressed to Acting
Tooker is being circulated,
for the pardon of Pat Stray,
who has long been confined in the
pententlary under SEN
,ence for granddaughter, committed
near Glendale, Beaverhead county.
Some of the bunkO workers who
compelled to make hasty flight
rom Denver, have struck the. west
,rn portion of this Territory and are
here keeping open their weather
'ptlcs tor gulllble greenies who want
o win on q ''sure thing racket.
At Helena 10 persons each pay
more than 500 county taxes, while |
Y persons each pay more than 800
ity taxes. The heaviest taxpayer
s. T. Hauser, who pays county and
ity tax together amounting to S.
27.O4. and A. J. Davis of Butte comes
ext with $4,344.
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PORTLAND, Dec. 1s.--Lieut' A ms,
crombl-, OF G.n. Miles stall nS ~ has
returned from Alaska, where Inn.
been engaged government ,y,,kon
atoms. He explored Tue rpeb
river for 2 100 miles, and repo' usr.
uIacers for a thousand miles ~, ia. I'd.
ing $50 day to the man init.
son is sh.rt and mining Is finest
He says the fisheries are snd do cor
Known. The su'w ~il'cHa"ad rup'
Times. Srr.et-cars have s'"ppt5' .iues
ninr. No trains have arrived
Monday.
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Combinations BY The Senate.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-The con-
frmati0ns by the senate to-day are
Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the
Treasury, Robert X. Wright, Jr., OF
Pennsylvania. Consul to Colony of
Aspen wall, James E. Patram, of
Idaho, Register of the land office at
Occur d'Alene. Albert r. Swan, of
Michigan, Consul at Auckland, Jas.
II Thomas, of Missouri, Register of
the land office AZ Yokima, w. r.,
Receiver. Jas. F. Legate of Kansas.
Receiver of public moneys at
Occur d'Alene, Idaho, and q long list
o army nominations.
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KOsSUTH.

Our dispatches announces. the death
of this patriot and statesman. Louis
Kossuth, the leader OF tile Hungarian
revolution, was born in Hungary in
1902, and was consequently At the
time Of his death 81 years old. Kos
suth commenced his political career
when be was 80 years Of age as editor
Of q liberal paper at Presburg. In
l847 he was sent by his county as
deputy to the Diet. His speeches in
that body aroused the people, and to
them must be ascribed, not only the
Hungarian revolution. but to the
instruction in Vienna the following
year. On the dissolution OF the min
istry in 1848, he found himself at the
head of the Committee of National
Defense. and he then commenced the
prosecution of the war against Aus
tria with that extraordinary energy
for which he was noted.
To put an end to all the hopes and
schemes of the moderate party, he
induced the National assembly, in
1849, to declare the independence of
Hungary, and that the Hapsburg
dynasty had forfeited the throne.
He Was then, appointed provisional
Governor of Hungary, but being dis
appointed in his hopes for the inter-
vention of the Western pow ers. and
finding the national ausejeopardized
by the arrival of Russians on the
scene of action. he endeavored to
arouse the people to q more desperate
effort. The attempt was vain. After
the defeat Of the Hungarian army In
August, 1849, he found himself COM
PEELED to abandon his position and
to feeinto Turkey, where, however,
he was made q prisoner, but though
his extradition was demanded by
and Russia, the Porte, true
to the principle of hospitality, would
not turn him over to those powers.
In 1851 he was liberated, and the |
government of France, refusing him
q passage through Its territory, he
sailed in an American frigate toll
England, where he was received with
every demonstration of public respect
and sympathy. In December OF the
same year he landed n the United
where he was met with most
enthusiastic reception. In 1852 he
returned to England. and there he
resided, until the Italian war
broke out against Austria, when al
most the whole of the Hungarian
then in England went
With him to Italy. He has since re-
ided at Turin.
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The most encouraging feature re-
garding the expected cholera in
vasion next year, is the energy with
which preparations against its spread
are pursued. The national confer
ence of health boards now in session
In Washington shows that the au-
thorities are alive to the danger and
determined to reduce it to q mini
mum by means Of sanitary precau-
fiOna.
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The $144, 745, O75 In the tire s>iiry OF
the United States in standard dollars
on the 10Th day of November, 1884,
IL valued at the rate ut which silver
to the extent of 1905 ,136, 900 Of the
specie reserve of the Bank Of France
at about the same time is valued,
would be worth as much as $149, IT,
3O4. We commend TINS pregnant
fact to those who ignorantly charac-
terixe the standard dollar a . "short
weight dollar"
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Ohio people are circulating q petit
ton to tho legislature to submit .
constitutional amendment abolishing
the October election. This move
will meet with determined OPPOSE
ton, because voting is a of the
principal industries of that state.
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s, MEw YORK. Dec. 1s.-Jo:n l..
soi'1van and Alfred Greenfield wer.
IA Gourt of general sessions TO-DAY
VIII q great number of nssocia1ss
and G.e ow9 or Spectators. Sullivan
charge osaneld were on trial on a
theirs e preferred by the police, that
Gsrdan neetlng in Madison SQUARE
Graens was In violation of law.
strucb 1eposed that he had not
ck sullivan any harder blows
n raaa ne had given pupils. and WITH
10y me slightest ill feeling. Sullivan
ce;vaT taat ne neither gave nor re-
w 1sseu blows that hurt. The ;nrv
"v vesS Tat eight minutes, and returned
q verdict mot guiltv."T u""
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Widow Butler, the horny handed
champion Of the working man, has
sold his three houses on Capital hill
In Washington. The old gentleman
probably begins to recognize the fact,
that mis- future cruising ground in
America is up Salt river, and
that q residence in Washington will
be as unnecessary In the future 10
him, as the traditional fifth wheel to
the traditional coach.