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E'Gg tine Season OF
1884.

117ADE HAMPTON, thorough. bred
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For Rent, or fer Sale on Rea-
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Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18
THE bill for the admission of South l

THE bill for the admission of South Da-
kota has passed the Senate by strictly
party vote, which indicates its fate In the
House. If there was not Democratic
Senator who could rise above partizan in
terest in such case of clear right and
positive duty, how can it be expected from
any Democrat of the House? There is no
reason to believe that the vote would have
been any different if the people of Dakota
had never thought of or mentioned the sub
iect of division. The reason is obvious, to
prevent the Republicans retaining their
control of the Senate. So far as carrying
through any Democratic measure is con-
cerned, the Democrats are just as power
less now as if Blaine had been elected.
They hope, by keeping out Dakota, to re-
cover the control of the Senate by regain
ing two Senators from Virginia. Only one
of ,Virginias Senator's time expires IN
1887, and if Illinois elects a Republican
there will hardly be possibility of re-
versing the balance The very means
used to retain ill-gotten gains will defeat
its own end. The refusal to admit Dakota
is an abuse of power that ranks well up
among political crimes, but in the arena OF
political ethics it is more than a crime, 1t
is blunder, defeating the very end it
seeks to attain
Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18
Washin 1tOn Notes

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-In the evoou
tive session of the Senate TODAY the nom;
nation of McCulloch to be Secretary of tbo
Treasury was further discussed. Senate tnr
Riddleberger continued his speech in on
position, and the session adiourned witb
out vote.
1t is learned that late yesterday after
noon, after the subcommittee had ad.
journed, Barker went to Judge Lawrence
and told him that if he brought out anv
testimony derogatory to his Barkers,
character, he would do so at his personal
peril.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
decided to report adversely or the Joint
resolution providing for the improvement
of the Indians by giving them citizenship.
A number of representatives are cousid.
ering the propriety of Offering a resolution
in the House for an investigation of the
use of Government vessels fer junketing
expeditions.
At meeting of the House Committee
on Naval affairs the bill recently intro
duced providing for the payment Of pen.
sions to relatives of those who lost their
lives on the Tallapoosa, and compromising
survivors who lost personal property was
discussed. Representatives Wise and
Buchanan strongly opposed its being
favorably reported, and said they would
protest against the use Of any naval veSSe
by the Secretary of the Navy for pleasure
purnOSes "
Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18

CAPT. BEDFORD PYM, who appeared IN
the Cattlemen's Convention as the advo-
cate of extending the cattle trail through
to the British provinces, is on hand with
two more projects of gigantic proportions.
One of these is to build railroad from
Cheyenne to Hudson's Bay as an outlet for
Texas cattle As this road would be in
tended to do away with the trail and would
not cross Montana, we are in the position
of dsinterested spectator and admlrer OF
the project 1t may be a little untimely
to push such project in the native stamp
ing ground of the blizzard, but for the
little portion of the year when ships could
get in and out of Hudson Bay it might be
a paying road, carrying cattle north and
lumber and ice south. The other PROPOSE
ton is to take Great Britain into partner
ship on the Nicaragua canal project. Even
this would be better than to reject the
scheme altogether, but we fancy the peo-
pie of the United States would prefer TO
play lone hand in this game. Our inter
ests, though by no means hostile, are far
from being identical. We should not care
to admit that our government would find
any trouble in providing the capital to
build it or the means to protect it. Great
Britain may be sure that in our hands the
canal will be open on equal terms to the
world
Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18

THOSE who sneer at our proposition to
combine Public Library and an Assem-
bly, Room on the school grounds, make
poor use of the superior wisdom they as
sumo in objecting to the occasional noise
of the school grounds and following it i'm
mediately with suggestion to locate the
library on Main street where there would
be greater noise and that necessarily. 1t
is not customary to put public libraries on
the main business streets A reading room
simply or principally has different pur-
pose in view to some extent and seeks the
patronage of different class by different
means But public library is for the use
of all the citizens living in every part of
town and it needs more retired and quiet
location than Main street If any wealthy
citizen should wish to erect an enduring mon
ument to his memory to be forever known as
the Hauser Hotter, Hale Cannon or Cruise
Public Library building, we should be only
too glad to welcome it, whether on or of
Main street. But if we are to raise the
money by subscription, it would seem like
folly to put it on Main street, where the
ground would cost more than the library
building on the school ground. Certainly
our proposition could never disgust any
one who did not have more personal ran
cor than regard for public library.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18

IT seems to us that the suggestion OF
President Arthur in his message, for the
formation of an American monetary union,
similar to that of the Latin Union in
Europe, points the true way for the friends
of silver to direct their efforts. Both
England and Germany are proud and OBJ
stinate in their position and opinions. But
if. under the lead of the United States, the
whole of America could be brought to
agree to a relative value of gold and silver
and adopt common coinage, 1t would
then be very easy to extend this union to
include the south of Europe-France,
Spain, Italy, Austria, Roumania, Servla,
Greece, etc. Silver is already the current
coin of India, Siam, China and Japan. BY
proper combination and pushing, we could
extend the use of silver all over America,
Asia, Africa and more than half of Europe.
We could isolate England and Germany so
that they would be compelled to enter the
alliance or lose their trade. We have
worked directly on England and Germany
in this matter, and with no apparent effect.
Now let us try to work around them. Of
America we can be sure, for all the coun-
tries on this continent produce gold and
silver in about the same proportion as we
do By adopting common coin currency
of gold and silver it would aid us greatly
in controlling the trade of all these Amer
lean countries, especially in connection
with treaties for reciprocal trade Our
motto and aim should be reciprocal trade
and common currency of gold and silver
for America
Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18
SINCE the announcement of reciprocal

SINCE the announcement of reciprocal
treaties of commerce with Spain and San
Domingo the news is received that treaties
have been signed with Gautomala, San
Salvador and the United States of Column
bia, similar to that with Mexico. This
will make seven treaties of this class, in
Guiding Nicaragua, with which State there
are two separate treaties pending. 1t looks
very much as if this subject would mOnOpo-
lize the attention of the present session.
We certainly think no more important
business could occupy the attention of law
makers 1t brings up in practical shape
the somewhat obsure Monroe doctrine and
requires at our hands an answer as to what
we are willing to do to acquire a controll-
ing voice in the destiny of other countries
on this continent. Are we to play the
roll of the dog in the manger, neither aid
the development OF those countries our
selves nor allow any continental power to
do so? Or shall we seek to acquire such
preponderating influence, by seeking it IN
an open, honorable and legitimate way,
and by deserving the confidence we invite?
We have no desire that this matter should
be confined to the secret sessions of the
Senate or that it should be rushed through
in hot haste. We believe the more it is
discussed the more universal will be the
public conviction thai. the theory on which
these treaties have been negotiated is a
true and sound one and the approval will
be general and permanent.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18

If the Democracy thinks it can afford to
make a party issue on the admission of
Dakota we don't know of anything on
which they can butt their brains out any
easier No one but partizan devoid of
reason and principle can doubt or deny the
claim of Dakota to immediate admission,
and the longer justice is refused the more
unpopular will become the party that OBJ
structs the path and bars the door of ad-
mission. This game, kept up for two years,
may keep out two Republican Senators
from Dakota, but i. will bring in some Re-
publicans from other States and give Re-
publican House O. Representatives two
wears hence.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18
The Western Union Reduction.

GALVESTON, Dec 15.-The effect of the
recent order of the Western Union cutting
off the extra pay of operators is equivalent,
in the Galveston Office, to a reduction Of
S15 to $50 per capita monthly. The entire
force held a meeting yesterday and re-
solved to memorialize General Manager
Eckert to re-establish the former rates.
The petition sets forth that under the pres
ent reduction the operators are unable to
support themselves. Those having faml
lies will be compelled to seek more remu
nerative employment for the reason that
the cost of living in the city of Galveston
is higher than in any other Southern city,
The memorial also recites the fact that
skilled, careful operators are necessary
at Galveston to handle the heavy Soutn
American and Mexican business. IL IS
understood that other cities OF Texas are
also formulating petitions praying EcAer'
to rescind the recent order
Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18

ALMOST simultaneously we hear of fresh
gold discoveries at the extreme southern
point of the South American continent on
territory belonging to Chilli, and in North
western Georgia, not far from Chattanooga,
where blacksmith, who was grubbing
bushes, picked up a handsome nugget,
with the natural results of creating a
great mining excitement all over the
vicinity And while specializing over the
results of these discoveries there comes a
report from Duluth that great excite
ment exists in that part of the country
over gold and silver discovered along the
Lake Superior shore north of Duluth, and
the papers say that 10000 acres OF land
have lately been entered in that section on
the strength of these stories. We should
like to see some new source of gold sup
ply opened to keep up the production OF
that metal along with silver. If Europe
is getting overstocked with wheat and will
not give us fair price in gold, we can dig
and coin our own gold and feed our wheat
to those who manufacture for us at home
what we now ship in from abroad. In
times of threatened general depression, it
is source of relief to know that we have
hidden treasures of the precious metals, OF
which there has never yet been known to
be glut in the worlds market.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18
The Congo Question.

BERLIN, December 1O.-The congo 'oNh'
mission to-day discussed the question u
free navigation on the Niger river. Mas
son, the American delegate, presenter !"
neutrality project which has a mu'n
wider scope than any other proposal 'n"'
has yet been made. His proposlnon' pI, w
sides providing for the neutrality ol 'G,n W.
the Congo and Niger rivers, includes III ~,
land territory, rivulets and canals; nI InT
delegates from France and for'usa, a.
strongly oppose Kasson's proposition rur' r"'
German delegates are silent and the hns hs.
lish delegates apathetic. No declslon ,,nou nrD
been arrived at by the committee !ojn upin
this subject. The committee meet asa,n
Friday, when Gen. Sanford expects o"mS
to the continued opposition OF rance ,"uS aus
Portugal. to offer amended railway PI"u,. r"n,'
BERLIN, December 12.-The Congo 0VI .be
mittee have pr, visionally accepted r;Js iJs
French neutrality proposals, when Plo,lndi and
for free navigation Of all the IiveiT :1,rav. ~Tc
canals and free passage over all raiIT"y Mi@e,
and roads, both of the Congo anu III bsl.
countries by all nations, peaceful auu "a ~, II
ligerent, for purposes of commerce anu "
time of war.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18
DAKOTA is part of the Northwestern {

DAKOTA is part of the Northwestern ter
ritory and has the right to claim the adj
vantage of that agreement that when
ever any part of that territory should
reach population of 10000, that they
might organize State government and
apply for admission as State. We have
not seen any occasion to retract our ad-
vice to the people of Dakota to 60 on and
organize State government, claim adj
vantage of this original agreement and let
the question be settled in the Supreme
Court. This would be acting in defiance
of the present Congress but we fully be-
lieve it would be held by the Supreme
Court of the United States to be in viola
tion of no law. but in compliance with the
terms of a fundamental subsisting contract.
Helena weekly herald., 1884-12-18

IT is very easy to show that the trade of
a people of sixty millions is good deal
more than that of couple of islands with
less than two millions of people, and a
large share of them very small buyers of
anything. 1t is not pretended that under
the treaty Cuba will give us as large a
market for our products as we give to
Cuban products. In part, this Spanish
treaty is following out the line OF policy
that led to the repeal of the duty on tea
and coffee. We have advanced so far in
paving off our national debt that the an
nual interest burden is scarcely more than
third what it was at its maximum.
We do not need as much revenue as we
did. In looking about for an article on
which to reduce the duty where the public
would be most benefited, sugar presents
itself as filling the measure most COM
pletely. In removing this sugar duty our
own people derive the direct benefit. The
twenty five millions of duty does not 60 to
Cuba, but to our own people. 1t is not
probable that the Cubans will get any
more for their sugar hereafter than hereto
fore. 1t only gives them surer market
for all that they can raise. We will get
by the treaty cheaper sugar, better
market for our products, business for our
shipping, and new field for the invest
ment of our capital, skilled labor and
directing energy, and at the same time we
are assimilating the people, binding them
to us by ties of interest and preparing for
closer union at some future time.