The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20
PRESS COM n

Russ Harrison has been whitews,.
by a minority report in the congressm
investigation of the Yellowstone p1
lease scandal. 1t was the wicked, N
man who gave the bride who was
blame. and not the dear innocent
whom it was sent.-Denver News,
The presidential campaign will bed
in earnest next month. 1t would be-
tinitely better to hold the national nod
mating convention sixty days before I
election instead of six months. n
company rarely begins in earnest urj
two months before the election Nd
neapolis Journal.
1t is noticed that President IIaral
in his frantic efforts to r%e-elpct hinsl
has about the same difficulty 10 pwi(
ing presidential electors he bad in N
viding a man to act as Chairman Of j
campaign committee. The number
republicans who are prevented nd
serving as republican presidential \
tors in the different states, by ua
private business" is unprecedentlyA
Spokane Chronicle.
The %silliest story of the campal
far is that General Stevenson, ID
cratic candidate for vice president |
at the time of the last war, a memN
al alleged reasonable order callet1
knights of the Golden Circle" ThaJ
that organization WAS years ago IN
Oughly investigated. and its menben]
purposes, correspondence. etc, eSpai
Stevenson's name has never beforeM
connected with it. The absurdlty d1
tale is shown by the fact that twiceV4
a candidate for congress, he was ea1
by the votes of wal democrats anaf
publicans. Salt Lake Herald,
The Tribune has discovered that i
prosperity reigns at Fall River VA
the chief seat of the cotton cloth a
ming industry in New England al]
sure that it is due to the effect o. 4
Mckinley bill. as the compaTlsol
figures for 1890 and 1892 proves 70 !
satisfaction. The chief product ON
Fall River mills is cotton cloth, emhFs'
under schedule | of the act II lS"'
which the duties were reduced b!H'
II per cent to 20 per cent. as ronEsSf'
with the tariff previously II force 3"
York Times.
What. then, has this conglcs. 'oa
for itself: 1t has consldrrab.r u
position was a peculiar one. The Ns
house was strongly democratic the
per house and the executive N the hal
of their opponents. Legislation u
distinctly partisan nature WAS mPy:.,
BILE. Under these circumstances Y
curses were open. The ]telnoa'i d
house might pass laws to put the rrF..
lican senate and executive Oh Ie'If
but they are on record ALREADY anu.
would be merely a loss of time. W. u
other hand, they might use tie tliIF !
their disposal to prepare for wI5r ',S
lation in the future. This Is wha' u;
decided to do and what they are ~
doing. Tacoma News.
The chief end of congress is to 'a" "
express ideas and notions. and tog,t,SsJ
every member from every pare X.
country an opportunity of eXpressl. ".
views in speeches, in bills, in resoluy.j,
to his hearts full content. ConsF''n
the safety valve for the fermentatOD IL y
the volubility of the whole lano 4 h
every possible bill be introduced aDO I"
bated. and then let 1t be lald Oh =,
table, or let it slide down into ln' q".i
of the forgotten; above all, don' ",
pass. 1t would be better that 10 ii
should be enacted except with me ~
stantial unanimity of all parties !"
York Sun,