Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-03-09

. The silver question is too big for the party to tackle with any hopes of success; the "billion dollar con gress whoop" has lost its potency and the party seems to be in terri ble straits. A Congressman hailng from the classic precincts of Pike county, Missouri, recently intro duced resolution asking for the recall of Minister Egan from Chile, hoping thereby to bring the admin istration into disrepute in connec- tion with the Chile affair, but find ing that the sentiment of the coun- try, regardless of politics, was with the administration, the resolution has been lost sight of. while the "resolutor" has lapsed into inocuous desuetude. Another Missourian has come to the front now with another resolution. His name is Dockery. His resolution calls for an inyesti- gation of the reserve fund of the treasury. Its prime object, as ex- plained by its author, is to show that the country is on the very verge of bankruptcy, and that the repub- lican party is responsible for this state of affairs. If this can be shown it will furnish q whole lot of ammunition for the Hill campaign, but MT. Dockery and his coadjutors in congress may find that the carry ing out of this resolution may prove a boomerang.
 Hon. James G. Blaine has written a plain, straightforward letter in re- gard to the misalliance of his son, in which he successfully refutes the slanderous aspersions against his wife, which were made by the judge who rendered the decision in the di- vorce case. Mir. Blaine shows very conclusively that while the marriage of James G. Jr., was consummated without their knowledge or consent both he and his wife did all in their power to make the young couple comfortable, and instead of using their influence to cause an estrange- ment between them they assisted in every way possible to contribute to their comfort and happiness. At the time of their marriage young Blaine was only seventeen years old, while his wife was four years his senior. The young husband was not only young but was inexperienced and made a complete failure in New York. Of this MT. Blaine says: "At a family council, in Augusta, I learned the details of the dismal fail ure of their New York life and pro- posed that they should take our Augusta home, I paying for light, fuel, servant and furnishing the house, and carriage, in addition to assuring them of S2,5OO year until my son was able to earn an income of that amount. His wife replied that she would not stay in Augusta on any consideration. He was very much disconcerted by her decision and for the first time informed his mother and myself of his discontent and unhappiness. We then learned that he had been gradually estranged from her, and this refusal was merely one of long series of disagree ments which finally led to separa- tion."
 In June, 1890, five contest cases were decided in the Prescott land office in which the government was plaintiff and Henry Tuning, of Apache county, as transferee of five pre-emption cash entries, was de- fendant. Claimants to the land embraced in the several entries sub mitted their final proof at the Pres colt land office and it was accepted by the local officers, and final cer- tifcates issued to claimants. The proofs were submitted and certif- cates issued in 1885. A few years afterwards the government, through its special agent, instituted pro- ceedings to set aside the entries on the grounds of fraud, the cases being heard and decided in the local land office, as stated, in June, 1890. The position taken by Mir. Tuning was, that after final certificate is issued no action could be taken sucsess- fully looking to the cancellation of the entries. The decision in the land office at Prescott was adverse to MT. Tuning, when he appealed the cases to the commissioner of the general land office. They were exhaustively reviewed by that off cer and decision rendered affirm ing that of the officers of the Pres colt land office. Defendants at torneys, however, were still not sat isfed with the adverse decision of the law proposition laid down by them, and took an appeal to the Honorable Secretary of the Interior. The cases have just been reached by that officer, and a press telegram from Washington, dated February 27, gives the result of the review by him of the cases, in which he affirms the former decisions in the cases. The telegram says: Assistant Sec retary Chandler to-day made an i'm portant ruling to the effect that after the final cert ifcate has been issued it is not too late to set aside a land entry for fraud. Itis clearly the duty of the Secretary of the In terior to do so. He says: The case was that of the United States against Hen ry Tuning, transferee, and involved
 pre-emption claim in the Prescott land district, Arizona. Charles Stra- | der. an ignorant man made . Gl;ou