The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1892-02-06

house building burned Monday and a
the county records were entirely cor
e sumed. The loss Of the records leave
the county in bad straights. The Nc
Layne house, in which General LIE
signed the terms of surrender to Gen
eral Grant, at one time was threatene'
with destruction.
The navy department has been in
formed that the United States cruise
Concord left Bahia on Saturday TO
Montevideo. The flagship Philadelphia
is expected to arrive at the last namet
port in few days. The Boston ant
Yorktown are still at Callas and it ha
not yet been settled whether either o
both shall be sent to Valparaiso.
The senate committee on finance ha
decided that on next Tuesday the Stew
art free coinage bill will be reported t.
the senate. There is little doubt as tC
the nature of the report, for the discus
sion showed that two democratic sena
tors would probably join with the re
publican majority in recommending al
adverse action upon the bill.
Negotiations for commercial treaty
between France and the United States
are progressing slowly and it will be an
other week before they are completed
The Temps speaks deprecatingly of the
new tariff, saying: "French trade now
finds itself confronted by the uncertain
and the unknown The Liberte and
other journals speak in similar vein.
The house committee on the election
of president, vice president and congress
men by formal vote has approved the
principle chat United States senators
should be elected by the people of the
respective states. The question of de-
tails of the amendment to the constitu-
ton to effect this purpose was referred
to a special meeting, to be held next
Wednesday.
The anti-Chinese bill reported in the
senate Wednesday provides that any
Chinese or person of Chinese descent
once convicted and adjudged to be not
lawfully entitled to remain in the United
States, and having been removed and
subsequently convicted of like offense
shall be imprisoned at hard labor for a
period not to exceed six months, and
afterwards removed from the country.
Washington dispatch, 3rd: Senator
Power was taken suddenly i'll with hem
orrhage last night, but today was re-
ported much better. When retutnlng to
his rooms at Wormley's hotel last night
Senator Power fell in the passageway at
the head of the stairs, where he was
found by the hotel clerk. He was car
ried to his room and a physician immedi-
ately summoned, who pronounced it a
hemorrhage of the stomach. He has
since improved slightly and is resting
easily, but is very i'll and weak. This
evening the senator's condition is
somewhat improved though he is still
very weak. 1t is not expected that he
will resume his duties in the senate for
some time.
The United States supreme court
Monday upheld the constitutionality of
the anti-lottery act of the last congress,
affirming the decision in the cases Of the
publishers of two New Orleans newspa-
pers indicted on charges of sending
through the mails newspapers contain
ing lottery advertisements. The court
said the power vested in congress to es-
tablish postoffices and post roads en-
braced the regulation of the entire pos
tai system of the country, and to desig-
nate what may and what may not be ex-
cluded. The power granted to congress
was complete and carried with it the
power to forbid the use of the mails to
aid in the perpetration of crime or i'm
morality. The court says it must be
left to congress in the exercise of sound
discretion to determine what shall be
excluded. There is no abr,dgement of
the freedom Of the press, for the reason
that the government does not prohibit
communication by any other means, but
simply through the government agencies
which it controls.
The United States supreme court
Monday decided in favor of Boyd in the
Nebraska governorship case. All the
justices except Field concurred in the
conclusion of the court that Boyd was a
citizen of the United States and entitled
TO the Office of governor of Nebraska.
Justices Harlan, Gray and Brown con-
CURED in that part of the opinion which
held that Boyd was citizen, because
from the record in the case it must be
considered as established that Boyds
'ather, having exercised all the rights of
} citizen, had, in fact, in 1854, taken out
MS final naturalization papers, notwith-
standing that he did not have the record
If such final naturalization papers.
These three jurists, although the fact
was not stated in so many words by the
court, did not assent to the conclusion
'eached by the other justices that Boyd
s also citizen on another ground, viz:
That the enabling Nebraska act consti-
,uted collective naturalization of all in
labitants thereof at the time of its ad-
mission into the union, except such as
that they intended to retain
heir rights as citizens or subjects of a
oreign nation. and that the various Of
ices held by Boyd and the exercises of
he right Of suffrage by him, with the
,aths of allegiance to the United States
he took at various times, shows clearly
lis intention to become citizen of the
United States, and that in fact he so
considered himself.
Notice to Stock Men.
In accordance with section 3 Of tho