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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08
CARTER AND HIS TIMBER
RULES.

AS was expected the Leader rushes to
the defense of Tom Carter and his tim
Der rules and regulations. But it is a
poor defense. The Leader should have
kept silent. The law is not to blame as the
Leader well-knows or should know if it
knows anything at all about the matter.
The law empowers the interior depart
ment to formulate such rules and regu-
lations governing the cutting of timber
upon the public domain as in its judg-
ment may best preserve the forests of the
west. If the law prescribes the rules
and regulations why did MI. Carter
cause their publication over his own sig
nature? Is it customary for heads of
bureaus to take laws bodily from the
United States statutes, afix their
signatures to them and call them "rules
and regulations?" The Leader will not
assert that Mr.. Carter did this.
The fact is Mr.. Carter is wholly re-
sponsible for his timber rules and rcgu-
%lations. 1t does not help his case any
for the Leader to revert to the time
when Carl Schurz became crazy and
old Sparks cranky over that republican
timber law and put the people of Mon
tana to much inconvenience fora season.
Schurz cxacted stumpage; Sparks OBJ
jected to the wholesale telling of trees
by lumbcrmcn. Carter asks no stump
age, nor does he object to the telling Of
every tree in the state, but he insists
that d man who wants Il tent pole or Il
stick of firewood must first obtain per-
mission of the interior department to cut
it. The Leader mar could take AN axe
and cut what iirewOod or lumber he
wanted anywhere N the public domain
ii few months ago. The time will soon
come when he cant do even that unless
Mr.. Carter revise his rules and regula-
tiOns. For all the available timber on
the public domain will soon be in the
hands of a few corporations. The Lead
or could have bought a load of cordwood
"A few weeks ago from a woodchopper on
the street. 1t cant do it now without
violating MIR. Carriers rules and rcgula-
tons. Does the deficiency" of Mr.. Car
ter come in right there, Mr.. Leader?
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08
THAT

The alliance men in Kansas knew
what they were about when they elected
Mckay, the Topeka man, judge. He did
not claim to know anything about law
and rather prided himself upon his ig-
norance Of it. In fact that was the
prime factor of his success at the polls.
A nan learned in the law was not wanted
by his supporters. There was certain
work to be done-a mission to be filled,
in which the trained conscientious law
yer was not at home, but in which Nc
Kay shines. This work or mission is to
prevent the foreclosure of farm mort
cages in Kansas. AS far as Mckay is
concerned he has succeeded admirably,
for all mortgage foreclosure cases brought
before him he has taken under advise
ment and he will force them to the su-
preme court. And now it is said his
action will prevent the foreclosure of a
mortgage in his district during the next
four years.
McKay's boosted contempt for the law
brought him before the supreme court
of the state, but he proved equal to the
occasion. He declared no contempt was
contemplated by him and the court, af-
ter reading him a lecture, let him go.
OF course Mckay is simply the tool of
intelligent, designing advisers and faith
fully does their bidding. But it is a
question whether the farmers alliance
car long survive its McKays. The law
may work a hardship to members of the
alliance, but it's repeated violation will
work a greater one in the long run.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

SECRETARY FOSTER proposes that the
Mckinley tinplatc liars shall preserve
consistency until after the Ohio election,
at least. immigration Commissioner
Owen knew that republican newspapers
lied in stating that ~tinplate making was
an established industry in this country
and 30 did Niedringhaus know it when he
asked Owen if he couldn't let in a few
skilled ~tlnplatc workers to help him out
in his seven by nine works in st. Louis.
Owen said he could as the prohibitivc
clause in the foreign labor contract law
applied only to established industries and
not to proposed or contemplated new in
dustrles. But Foster bucked. The Ohio
campaign was about to be opened. Nc
Kinley's integrity as a tariff tinker and
prophet must be maintained until after
election and SO N~iedringhaus can't get
his tinplate makers for the present
Wire h humbug!
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

tNTED STATES treasury and national
bank notes will be printed upon IA new
distinctive paper as soon as the supply
Of the kind in present use shall be OK
haustcd. The new paper is cream white,
its distinctive features consisting of a
localized red and blue silk fibre incorpo-
rated in the body of the paper while in
the process Of manufacture, so placed as
to form a perpendicular stripe on either
side Of the center portion or vignette
Of each note. None OF the new de
signs has yet been printed, but it may be
.coniectured from the description given
they will strikingly resemble IA convict's
suit with a black belly band attachment.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08
CARTER AS MOBILES SUCCESSOR.

The Washington correspondent OF the
Pioneer Press referring to Secretary
Mobiles reported resignation and the pos
sibility of Tom Carter being appointed
to the vacancy thus created in the cabl-
net says:
During the brief time Mr.. Carter has
been in public Office he had made an en-
vieble record. AS a member OF congress
he was most successful for his state n
section. As commissioner of the general
land Office he has made a splendid record.
There is no doubt that the whole north
west, and especially what is known as
the new northwest, would feel highly
complimented to have a cabinet officer.
The TRIBUNE has:no desire to bclittle
Mr.. Carriers services to his party or to
strip him of the honors he gained in Sc
curing appropriations for public build
ings in Montana and in securing free and
unlimited silver coinage for the people
at large. Mr.. Carter has made his rec
ord in congress as a representative from
this state, and the people voiced their
opinion of that record at the polls last
November. AS far as Montana is o
cerned the gentleman must stand or fall
by it. He may be regarded at Washing
ton as a very efficient public officer, but
out here in Montana his recent
rules and regulations governing the
cutting of timber upon the public
domain have not added to the lustcr of
record as commissioner of the gen
cral land Office. In fact, the people Of
this state will have occasion to regret his
to that Office, unless he re
the rules and regulations named.
With them in view the average Mon
tanian is of the opinion that Mr.. Carter
is decidedly in the wrong place, and that
his elevation at the head of the interior
department, where the field for mischief
making would be much broader, would
be in the nature of a public calamity.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08
MATTERS.
The last congress appropriated {

Inc last congress appropriated SZZ,-
100000 in excess of the previous allow
ance for carrying on that branch of the
government. 1t must be assumed that
the department was fully advised as to
its needs and made its demands upon
congress accordingly. But it appears
that Mr.. Wanamaker either overlooked
Great Falls or underestimated the bust
ness of the office in this city, or greatly
overestimated the physical capacity of
the already hard-worked postmaster.
For in the general distribution of mon
eys allowed for clerk hire it is found that
only $1,000 was appropriated to it for the
hire of assistants This pittance is 80
palpably insufficient for the purpose that
words are hardly required to emphasize
the fact. Here is a city of 5000 inhBbit-
ants. They were neither born nor raised
here, but have come from nearly every
state in the union and many of them
from the other side of the Atlantic.
They have left friends and relatives at
their old homes with whom they are in
constant correspondence, while hundreds
of them still take the papers published
at the place of their nativity. The re-
suit is that aside from the business let
tiers received here, the outside letter and
paper mail is simply enormous. The
outgoing mail is correspondingly large.
In view of these facts it should be ap-
parent that the sum of $1,000 set apart
by the department at Washington for
clerk hire in the postoilicc in the city
falls far short of its actual needs. And
in view of the further fact that the Office
is a source of revenue and not a burden
to the government it would seem that
simple justice demands a largely in
creased apportiOnmcnt for the purpose
named. 1t is not necessary here to in
quirc as to who is blamablc for this
meagre allowance. We have the fact
not a theory to deal with. The post
master has only a certain sum at his dis
posal. If he a hire the necessary as
sistance with it, well and good. If he
cannot the service will suffer unless he
or someone else pay his assistants.
The question which most affects the
citizens of Great Falls is that touching
the prompt and efficient discharge of
the duties of the postmaster. If this be
impossible without the employment of
more clerks than the allowance will JUS
tify steps should Immediately be taken
to represent the matter at Washington
and ask for an increased amount. In
this the business men of the city could
effectually supplement the efforts of the
postmaster by joining in a petition or re-
quest for the sum needed. The TRIBUNE
believes that if the situation here be
properly represented to the authorities
at Washington and they become con-
WINGED that the amount appropriated for
the Office here is insufficient they will
unhesitatingly increase it. That is what
they are there for. The citizens of Great
Falls should take hold of this matter if
they desire a prompt mail service at this
place. Let it be done.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08


THE resignation of Collector of Gus
toms j. Il. Erhardt of New York gave
Harrison an opportunity to cur the
New York republican delegation to the
national convention next year. lie held
Erhardt's resignation until he perfected
arrangements with Boss Plat and then
appointed Platt's man, j. $. Fassctt of
Elmira. Fassctt turned himself loose in
the New York customs house last Satur-
day, the LIST inst, and Harrison retired
to his roost in the white house, thanking
the gods for his good luck and clatcd
with the brilliant prospects which the
resignation OF Erhardt and the appoint
mcnt Of Fassctt opened to him. Ilar-
rison has shown that he plays a pretty
good hand at politics himself.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

THE fact that Mr.. James Gordon Ben
nett has been indicted by a New York
grand jury for publishing an account in
his paper, the Herald, of the late electro
cution at Sing Sing, brings before the
public that very silly feature of the New
York statute which not only excludes
newspaper reporters but forbids the
publication of any account of the execu-
ton beyond the bare announcement
made by the prison officials. Other
papers have also been indicted for the
same ~otfense, not for the purpose of pun
ishing them but to test its constitution
ality and to create a public sentiment in
favor of the repeal of the obnoxious pro-
vision. Gordon is in the swim in Paris
and will pay no attention to the indict-
ment nor will the papers be served upon
him, but he will doubtless contribute
his share toward wiping the restrictive
clause from the statutes Of his state.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

Wirm tho great and pious Wanamaks
ut tho head Of the poatoflice departing.
a republican congress that Increased t
usual appropriations for the mall servl.
OF tho country by s22,OOO,MOO, and T.
"vcry efficient" and ever "wido-awakt
Tom Carter IN II representative in t.
lower house ~ look after tho interests
Montana, Gront Falla finds itaelf with
bcggarly pittunco /" support In pos
office. Tho 1890 allowed for clork-hii
should be Increased u $1,000.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

KgsrCcgY IN all right. With the cleo
ton ~ a full stats democratic ticket by
majorities ranging from 10000 10 5000,
the average Kentucky democrat may
keep q stin upper lip and his usual sup
ply ~ sitter old bourbon. kentucky In
safe for a go,t round democratic n a..ority
fDf president IN lSH.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

UNDER the caption, "Givc Mrs. Is
a Show" the Minneapolis Times
discourses: Judge Aikcns of South
kota has put a damper on the amt'
Of the divorce seekers who are CROW.
to that state for the express purprs
securing divorces that they could MOI
tain elsewhere. He refuses to grant
vorces to any but bona fide citizens
South Dakota stamped on their
fronts. The judge is all right fir.
Judicial point of view, but he is stol
a lot Of heavy paying immigra
Among the applicants whom his dec
hits is Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., w
a highly deserving young woman. |
judge "A but strain a point and
her her freedom from the brainlcss
conscienceless good-for-nothing v
Blaine he will have earned exec
press notice everywhere. The pre-
the entire country appeals to the
airy OF South Dakota to set Mrs. b
free.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

IT. there be any honors attached to
pugilism the colored people of the
try are 'In it," The Black Pearl repre-
scnting the heavy weights recently gath
cred in a laurel wreath or two at st. Paul,
while George Dixon is cock Of the walk
among the bantam weights. These
descendants of Ham make it very weary
for some Of the sons Of .Japcth.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

TnE fact is being forced upon I
minds Of those interested in Chica-
great Worlds fair that the McKiL.
tariff has erected an insurmounta.
barrier between foreign productions q
the windy city. And rs II Worlds I
without displays from abroad would
u misnomcr- simple exhibition
home productions tho management
that enterprise is looking around 70
way out Of tho dilemma which G,
fronts il,
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

Mr.. PARNELL should come to America
and take to the lecture platform. Ac-
companied by his wife he would make a
fortune for himself and any shrowd man
ager who would properly handle him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Captain O'Shea Parnell
would be taking cards in the Atlantic
scahOHrd cities.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

Pools of water in a city is an insight
ly picture to say the least, but when the
depressed ground in which the pools
form become the receptacle for old boots
and shoes. cast off garments, dead cats,
loose paper. rotten eggs and other oifal
the aroma arising from the cvaporating
water during a hot, sultry day is not SO
fragrant as the balm Of a thousand flow
crs. During ordinary Seasons pools of
water are notsc in this city, but this
has been an extraordinary rainy
one and Il few have formed. This prob
ably accounts for the absence heretofore
Of an ordinance compelling their sup
preston by drainage. Now that the city
passed n providing for the removal of
the nuisance, the law abiding people of
Great Falls who may happen to possess
M Of these modern pools Of Sloan up
on his premises will hasten to remove it.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

BRAIsERD JOURSAL: The advice to
western farmers to hold their wheat for
the highest obtainablc prices will not
very eagerly be accepted, it is safe to
gay, by those among them who are pay.
ing from " " "a per cent. per annum
for money hired by mortgages on their
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

TmE past July has been the coolest
throughout the upper Mississippi states
than any previous July since their settle
mcnt by the whites.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

WITH Ohio wool 4 cents a pound
lower than it was before Mr. McKinlcy's
tariff measure took effect it would ap-
pear that gentleman will have no prim-
rose path to travel among the small
sheep raisers OF his state. Mckinley Ii
"a good ono il he convince them IL Ia 10
their interest TO support him and his
tariff.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08
II INTER MOUNTAIN,
PLANT.

The Inter Mountain, a Bla,
pion one day, Harrison's mou,l.
next; a gold bug, "dishonec'
''short weight" dollar, "fraudu.
lar shouter at one time, a pro,sD
and unlimited silver coinage
subsequently, and now a confs,
porter of the mongrel silver b,
last congress; a radical supporte u
Kinley's tariff bill before the ~.
attachment was pinned on, and 81
supporter of that free trade ~
the measure. but ever kickinp Z
and finding fault with democr,.sr
republican journals alike which
subscribe to it's ever changing vi ]
Kaleidoscope opinions. now coma
front with the assertion that. ~
evident, on the part of the ,e,s .
press, a painful disinclination +, X
the subject Of trade r%eciproctM
foreign nations" y
The TRIBUNE has failed to NJ,
Decentralization" Of which tks e
Mountain speaks and it also y
to note an inclination upon the A
many republican newspapers to !,
it. Reciprocity is a very tender l,
for Harrison organs to touch. TIL
mighty little to say about it. Y
offspring of Blaine's brain. y
posed by Mckinley and Garter Al
ers of like ilk, and none of them a
hilariously jubilant over it, for 4
forced down their Threats by tn 9
man. They were compelled to d,
medicine or his cold shouldcr !
took reciprocity. But they don, I
after it, and like the man whose \,
was hung, they don't brag about D
Inter Mountain, however, has MOI
say to these delinquent republic
tcmporaries. Instead of taking
the ears and leading them up to a
ciprocity fodder it goes after liz :
cratic newspapers of the state !,
they do not see fit to fill their |,
with this free trade rider to the X
ley tariff.
What can be said. about it az,
Thus far reciprocity is almost
known quantity between nations !.
islands among the West Indias la,
gotiated reciprocity treaties VII.
United States. Venezuela has r.,
it. None of the great European b,
have touched it, and now comes L
minion parliament with a vote ei :;
SO against it. The vote was ta'
Sir Richard Cartwright's motia,
amend the conservative tariff by 1
a clause calling for reciprocity k
Canada and the United States III
.ufactured as well as natural pro-
The conservatives favor reciproc,
would restrict it raw material. III
ministration at Washington fayGr
procity, but it restricts it to impts
produced or manufactured in Ills CO
try. This is one sided reciprocy,
not a fair trade. This county "a
foreign nations, "You take the hgl
and we'll take the turkey, or We.
turkey and you take the buzzard.
this matter of reciprocity the |
States never says turkey to the
power.
The fact is Blaine's reciprocity E
is the sugar that coats the Nc
tariff pill. Without it the pill wo
spurned by every workingman out
a manufacturers private Office. W
sugar coating it is only a delusion
The Inter Mountain tell
reciprocity may do. Now will it
tell what it is doing outside Of tn
islands named! The proof of tn
ding is in the eating thereof.
eating reciprocity pudding:
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

That was an excellent ordinance
passed by the city council against tying
animals TO young trees or to the frumes
surrounding them, within the city limits.
II should be strictly enforced.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

THg Leader says something should DO
done ~ help the Great Falls p~ostofiice
out. Will the Leader bead u subscrip-
ton 10 that cndY
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08

You can find everything Dr the Kitchen
.Ad dining room At the E@e Hive store.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08
CARRIERS RESPONSIBILITY.

1t will be time for the Leader to plead
the baby act for Mr.. Carter when that
gentleman himself denies his response
bility for the new timber rules and regu-
lations. Mr. Carter has not denied his
responsibility for them, nor will he deny
it. In it's attempt to saddle the respon-
sibility upon Secretary Noble, the
Leader quotes as follows: Shy virtue of
the power vested in the secretary of the
interior by the act of March 3, 1891"
but it forgets to add, "the following
rules and regulations are hereby pre-
scribed." 1t furthermore overlooked the
fact that the rules and regulations were
signed as follows:
Very respectfully,
4. II. CARTER.
Commissiu ner.
Approved: MAY ;. Iog!.
JoHN W. NOBLE.
Secretary,
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Carter
is the commissioner of the general land
Office at Washington; that he is supreme
in his department, and that one of his
duties is to exercise supervision over the
public lands of the United States. Mr..
Carter will brook no interference in his
discharge Of the duties OF his Office.
Concerning this the Washington CORE
spondcnt Of the Pioneer Press writing
under date of the md inst, says:
For many years past the position of
commissioner has been regarded as one
Of the hardest places to fill of almost
any similar Office in the government.
There have been very few commissioners
that made a success of the place. 1t is
an Office that has been interfered with
by the secretary Of the interior TO the
extent that it was fast becoming a chief
clcrkship to that cabinet officer. Com
missioner Carter has changed that state
of affairs materially. Il 4 y 4
Mr.. Carter IN the first commissioner that
has been in the position that has not
been harasacd and bcdeviled by the Sec
rotary Of the interior until he had to give
up his own individuality and let the
Office drift along IN best it would.
This seems 10 accord with MI. Carter's
sense Of his own importance. lie is de-
cidcdly master in his own department.
Tho formulating Of the timber rules and
regulations wnn II lmrt Of his duty and
no drew them. Mr.. Mobiles approval
was simply II matter of form. 1t does
not follow he drafted thom because he
approved them, no more than the sig
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