The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-19
WHAT HE HAS NOT DONE.

thought on the social and economic ques-
tions of the day.
WHAT HE HAS NOT DONE.
Prompted by desire to pay it's court
to the present congressman and the
powers that be, penetrated by the ne
cessity of justifying its receipt Of the
Congressional Record from the same
quarter, and led away, perhaps, by mo-
tives of personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT into
which we do not care to enter, the es-
teemed Herald has waded through an
ocean of congressional eloquence and
congressional sludge for the purpose of
extracting few drops of compliment
for Thomas Henry Carter. It is clear
case of loves labor lost. Such fruit
less dissipation of energy can but claim
the one merit OF having beaten the re-
cord in that special direction. Defeat
stared the Investigator in the face from
the very first and he must have known
it. Besides, it was foolish to expend so
much time and labor in disentombing
from the mass the record Of what Slip
perry Tom has done, when there was
to show what he has not done. Our
present congressman sins OF omission
have been much more serious than those
of his commission. There is scarcely
any matter he has undertaken in which
he has not achieved signal failure. No
doubt, he has had his reasons, and
equally, no doubt, he has kept them to
himself. The Hon. Thomas was not
born yesterday and to divulge those rea-
sons might be the signal for we'll
founded grumbling amongst his con-
stituents.
The Montana delegation to the st.
Louis Silver convention telegraphed
their congressman their desire that he
should not vote for Thomas B. Reed as
speaker of the house Of representatives.
Thomas Henry Carter cast his vote for
Reed. though he knew Reed as the pro-
nounced enemy OF free coinage. He
had reason that time which he was
not slow to give to the world. The tele-
gram was dispatched on the evening of
Thursday. Carter voted for Reed on
Saturday morning following. The tele-
gram was received by him Immediately
afterwards. He had forgotten to send
message "wire me-"
At one stage in the free coinage bill
there was, in the house, tie vote. One
more vote would have secured the boon
Montana craved and which Carter had
pledged himself to secure. Unfortun-
ately, the slippery one was absent at the
moment, gone out to see man, doubt
less. When he returned and it was
too late, he cast his useless vote for free
silver. This time it was Carter that
was wired and the other end of the wire
was manipulated by the speaker.
Where are those public buildings?
Helena, Butte, Fort Benton, Great Falls
answer-where. We readily admit that
it was little awkward Of Thomas c.
Power to use his position as a senator to
attempt to fill building speculation Of
his own, but brotherly love between men
from the same state must certainly con-
tinue and Helena had to go. And then
there is quite enough rivalry between
these cities as it IS, and, as man Of
peace, Thomas Henry thought it best
not to exalt one above the other. Per-
haps, when the Power skein is disentan-
gled, Carter will wire the Herald.
The good people of Bozeman are con-
fident that he has not done anything in
the matter of the Fort Ellis reservation.
Settlers are shut out from large guam
tity of highly desirable land, which is
being utilized for no purpose whatever.
Failure here is inexplicable. Is not
Thomas the friend of the autocrat of the
house, or is all that played out? What
of the diminution of the Crow Indian
reservation? Nothing done, again moth
ing.
At one time there was some talk of q
mineral land bill in the interests of the
miners. Republicans we're jubilant.
Was not our own Thomas chairman OF
the committee on mines and mining?
Now, we should see how to legislate.
This it was to be friend of the speaker.
Well, Carter has certainly done some
thing here. He has had that bill pigeon
holed for five months. But as for any
action being taken, Carter has once more
failed to materialize. No doubt there
are more hidden wires in that pigeon
hole.
And so We might proceed ad nauseam.
Helena postoffice has been raised to the
first class. Carter did not doit Curtis
did, and Carter took advantage of his
visit to Washington to Willy him to his
official superior. Carter opposed the es-
adjustment Of the railway mail service
between Devils Lake and Great Falls,
and it was secured in spite OF him. No,
the Herald's effort was failure. Tommy
will need to be strengthened with
stronger wires than the Herald has yet
found for him, before he can dance to
the satisfaction Of his disgruntled con-
stituency.
SENATOR Quar- has been characterized
in many different ways during the last
few months, but the following from the
Philadelphia News, which prides itself
on the staunchness of it's republicanism,