The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-04-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

toed the Saxton ballot reform bill
The decrease of the public debt fc
March is estimated at S11 100000.
Con gresham Daniel Wilber of tI
twenty-fourth New York district died j;
his home at Albany Tuesday morning.
The committee on public building
has eported to the house, cutting dow
the appropriation pro posed for Helen
from 100000 to 100000.
Plumbers to the nu mber of one thous
and struck at Chicago Tuesday for al
advance from s3.15 to 1915 per da,
Nearly every shop in the city was al
fected.
| W. j. McGregor, teller of the Fourt
National bank and treasurer of larg
number of secret orders at Pittsburgh
Pa, is missing. There is shortage il
his d -ounts at the bank.
! to Treasurer Archard of Marylan,
is short In his accounts and an investi
gation Of the affairs of his office are il
progress. Intimate friends offered t,
N axe good his shortage, but their offers
were rejected.
The court of claims at Washington
has given judgment in favor of Repre-
sentative Grain of Texas, in a suit t,
compel the government to reimburse
him for money lost through the dciaica
tion Of Clerk Silcott.
At a meeting of the Associated Cham
bers Of Agriculture in London resolu
tion was adopted declaring the relaxa
tion Of regulations prohibiting the i'm
portation Of American stock cattle woult
be extremely dangerous.
At a special meeting of the ways ant
means committee Monday Chairman Nc
Kinley presented the republican tarif
bill. The minority will be allowed ter
days to offer amendments to the bill
According to Mckinley it will effect /;
reduction Of S4,5O0,000 in revenue.
Acting on the decision of the attorney
general that in the absence of the law
therefor Indians cannot lease their res
ervations, the comm issioner of Indian
affairs has issued not. that all cattle
on Indian land in Il4llar territory, fol
grazing purposes, must be removed not
later than October.
The democrats at Chicago made q
clean sweep of all Offices in the principal
township elections Tuesday. The repub
licans had previously had the north and
south town offices. In the recently an
nexed town the republicans maintained
their lead. The democrats all made de-
cided gains among the aldermen. The
new city council will stand A democrats
with 81 republicans, 2 independent dem
ocrats and indep endent republican.
In the house Tuesday the committee
on judiciary reported resolution recit-
ing that it is alleged by the attorney
general that in many district courts the
practice Of suspending sentence in Grim
inal cases prevails without warrant of
law, that in some parts of the country
United States district attorneys, mar
shals and their deputies and United
States commissioners have been guilty
Of maladministration and corruption in
Office, and directing the committee on
Judiciary to inquire into the extent,
cause and effect Of such illegal practices.
The report was adopted.
The bill admitting Wyoming to the
union does not repeal or nullify the
clause in the constitution of that terri
tory granting to women the rights Of
suffrage, but it may be amended in the
senate SO as to have this effect. While
the admission of Wyoming was made a
party measure, there is great deal of
dissatisfaction with the constitution
among many on the republican side who
voted for it, as we'll as among the demo
Gratis. Many of the republicans believe
there we're gross Irregularities in the
adoption of the constitution and that
the result might be set aside in the
courts because of the fact that of the
eighteen thousand votes cast in favor Of
the constitution as it now stands, at
least four thousand were cast by women,
who under the statutes of the United
States have not the right of suffrage.
There is belief also that the territory
does not contain sufficient population
to justify its admission into the union,
and that there are several features of
the constitution that are antagonistic to
republican institutions. The bill will
be made party measure in the senate
as it has been in the house, but will be
more strictly scrutinized there, although
there is little doubt of the final admis-
sion Of the territory.
Information as to the state OF affairs
in the flooded Laconia circle, section
Of country between Helena and Arkan
sas City, lying between the Mississippi
and White rivers, says the people have
been in the tops of their houses and
clinging to the trees for week, and
that many of them are nearly starved
to death. Many of their cattle, which
were placed on platforms, were washed
away and drowned The citizens of
Helena, Arkansas, sent steamer to
Houston to aid the people. Men went
over the whole circle in skiffs and trans
ferred the people from trees and roofs to
gin houses, which generally are large
and substantial. All are packed with
people, there being 200 in some of them
The steamer brought out 13O people and
10 head Of stock, arriving at Helena
Monday. When this steamer came out
the steamer Titan, with barges was go-
ing in and it is thought they can bring
out all the remaining stock, and as many
people as desire to get away. Many
planters are utterly ruined.
Elections were held in Kansas Tues