, 1886-06-10
PicklngS.

The house of representatives has
passed the bill fixing the first Monday
in January as the time for thu assem-
bling of the Legislature in this terri,
tory, and that the sessions shall he
biennial The law is to go into effect
with the incoming Legislature The
senate also will probably pass the
bill.
Juneau, Alaska, where they have a
law which prohibits the sale of liquor
for all but medicinal, mechanical,
scientific and sacramental purposes"
has twenty open saloons, and 400 gal
Ions of whisky manufactured from
dough and chemicals were seized last
week The saloons were not closed
| however.
The president has been vetoing
pension bills lately by the wholesale,
and tie best citizens of the country
will support his action There are
few who will deny to him who has
been wounded in the defense of his
country, or suffered from impaired
health, reasonable pension; but of
late years, and as the rebellion drifts
farther into the past, it is rights and
proper that limit should be placed
somewhere.
Dalles Times -M0untdineer:: 1t
appears that the Republican senate
are going to visit tho sins if such
they may be terme0 of the father
upon the son, and for that purpose
will not confirm the appointment of
Capt. Beecher as collector of customs
at Port Townsend. This is a malig-
nifty which would be scorned by
Hindoo, and be behtting an Apache
Indian. If such miraculous event
as the election of Blaine should occur
in 1888. what a terrible reckoning
there will be in some quarters.
The Ohio legislature has adjourned.
The session was one of the most re-
markable in the history of the whole
country. Our readers are familiar
with the Cincinnati frauds and the
contests thereby engendered, of the
seating of the ten republican contes-
tants in the house, the reelection of
Senator Sherman and the deadlock
over the question of which party was
TO secure the four senators from Ham
llton county. Then followed the in
vestlgation by the non-partisan COM
mittee and its double headed partisan
report. the flight of the democratic
senators to Tennessee and the ddyan
tage it gave the republicans. The
childish action of the democrats dis
gusted everybody. Seeing what they
had lost, they telegraphed that vet
eran democrat, Allen0. Myers, ask
ing what they should do, to which he
replied go and hang yourselves"
Our Canadian friends will proba-
bly, soon have to deal with the prob
lem of secession. The people of Nova |
Scotia have never been satisfied with |
their connection with the Dominion |
Government, and there is every
indication that their dissatisfaction |
Is about to develop into determined |
move for separation. Some twenty
five years ago the people of Canada |
thought secession an excellent thing. |
They We're enthusiastically in favor |
of it as applied to the United States,
and they regarded the contrary views.
which were largely held by the peo-
pie OF the United States, rs unjust
and unholy, There is some element
of satisfaction in the feeling with
which an American regards the pre-
sent attitude of Nova Scotia. If
secession was snch an excellent thing
as applied to America, why should it
not be an excellent thing as applied
to Canada! The Canadians can now
ponder over their own reasoning of Il
quarter of century ago and seek
the points wherein it needs revision.
P.-L