Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-16

burden Of supporting the Government
/ which protects it in the enjoyment OF it,
property. "Will Sanders do this if he ie
elected 2" asked Mr.. Toole. The shouts o.
mo; no. which followed "a his ans Ser
there and ID the answer that swelis
up from thousands OF throate
over the Territory. Mr.. Sanders,
as charged by Toole, is the attorney and
agent of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company and Coal Company. and he will
be regarded whether justly or uniustly by
the people OF Montana as its agent and at
torney should he be elected.
Mr.. Toole gave his reasons for urging the
passage of the bill, providing Tor the addi
| ton OF another associate justice to the
Supreme Court of the Territory. He stated
| the injustice worked to parties ~litigant un
der the old system by reason OF delay il
the trial of civil actions, brought about by
over-crowding business and the Other
and more grievous injustice of thu
Judge before whom a case was tried ii
the lower court sitting on the appealed
case az a Judge of his own decision previ
ously rendered. He also enumerated thu
several propositions made by Congress
and the bills upon the calendar for appro
priations for the benefit of Montana.
Concerning the Northern Indian reserva
ton which comprises 80, 200, 900 acres o.
land, and upon which there are only 5000
or 5000 Indians, Mr.. Toole said q Com
missioner had been appointed to treat
with them, looking to thu
cutting down of their reser
walton and the throwing open
to settlement a large area of their lands.
From a conversation, however, he had had
with the head of the Interior Department
Mr.. Toole says he is convinced that the
Indians will, in the neal future. be re
moved to the large Sioux reservation in
Dakota. This would forever settle the
Indian question upon our northern boun.
Diary.
Another measure for which the people oil
the country will be under obligations to
the Democratic party is Reagan's Inter.
State Commerce bill. This bill provides
that no railroad shall discriminate against
short distance freight tr%ansporters and
that parties who ship goods from Miles
City Or Helena to Missoula will not be com.
PEELED to pay the same rates that a shipper
at Duluth pays or goods sent from that
place to Portland, Oregon.
Mr.. Toole dwelt upon the hostility shown
by the Northern Pacific towards the Mon
tana Central. He said that while the form
er laid down coal from Duluth to Helene
for SIP per ton it absolutely refuses to
haul a pound Of rails for the Montana Gen.
trail q much shorter distance for lees than
$50 per tom. Major Maginnis, in his Hell
ena speech, directly charges Col. Sanders
with i~nstigatine this hostility of the North
ern Pacific to the Montana Central, and in at
tempting to stop the latter from coming to
Butte in it's westward course.
The gentleman held that it is the duty OF
the general Government to reclaim it's
desert lands by q system of irrigation, and
for the purpose of testing the feasibility OF
sinking artesian wells in the Territory to
be devoted to that purpose, he introduced
a bill providing for an appropriation OF
$4,000. to be used in driving artesian
wells. This bill is now on the calendar,
with every prospect OF it's becoming a law.
As showing the desire of the
Democratic party to enact laws,
having for their object the bettering
OF the condition of the laboring classes Mr..
Toole recited a list of those enacted or
being on the calendar with little or no
opposition against them. Among them
is a bill providing for a board of arbitra-
ton to adjust differences between the en-
ployer and the employee; a bill preventing
the contracting of prison labor; a bill to
legalize National Trades Unions; a bill to
give servant girls and all other laboring
people the first lien upon any or all of
the property OF their employer; a bill pro-
hibiting the employment of alien or convict
labor upon public works, and a bill provid-
ing for the arrest and return to it's
home Of pagper labor OF foreign countries.
Concerning the latter bill Mr.. Toole ex-
pressed the opinion that his friend Sanders
would probably object to it. by reason OF
his love for the heather paupcrs as evil
denced in his attempt to place in the Re-
publican platform in 1871, a plank oppos-
ing Chinese restrictive measures then being
agitated by the people of the west.
The gentleman declared that Sanders
bore the brand of the Northern Pacific Rail.
road Company before and behind and that
to shield himself from the imputation
that he would use his official
position if elected, to serve "the best client
in the Territory" he charges that Mr..
Toole is employed with him in a case in
which that company is a defendant. In
other words, Mr.. Toole ought not to BE-
because he is employed to help San
ders in a case in which the Northern Pacific
is a party. "Now, the fact u.s." says Mr..
Toole, II severed my connection with the
firm of E. w. & j. K. Toole &Co. two years
ago, and that a card announcing the disso-
ution OF the law firm was published in the /
at the time, and that since he /
las not received a cent of the earnings of
w. Toole & Co." Mr.. Toole declared he /
Intended to hold Sanders where he belongs, |
Is the agent of the Northern Pacific Coal |
company, who in defiance of all esta blisbed |
ules OF decency has made rules and regu-
ations for the government of it's laborers
n the Territory that would cause the
lush Of shame to mantle the cheek of
very woman in the land. He then, in
lew OF Sanders characterization of Presi-
ent Cleveland az a ''thick necked brute"
lustrated in a forcible manner his lament
BILE want Of influence with heads of de-
in Washington. and imagined
anders sending the following
ords to President Cleveland: "Sir.
am stopping at blank
otel. If you want to see me l will be at
" room between the hours of 8 and Al
clock p. m" Mr.. Toole then stated the
lficulty experienced ia obtaining an audi
ice with some OF the Committees of Con-
and was of the opinion that Col. {
snders' arrogance and egotism would not {
d him in his efforts to advance Montana's .
terests in Congress. l.
Mr.. Toole g speech was well delivered, his
cas- clear cut and prominent, and his lam
age terse and u~nmistakable. He was i
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