The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-01-28
EDITORIAL NOTES

It is very strange that such an as
tute lawyer as General Butler should
have died without will, and left his
estate to furnish fat fees for attorneys
and to be- wrangled over by his heirs.
Great men make mistakes, and this is
indisputable evidence that Butler made
one in his life in the line in which the
people thought him absolutely perfect.
The free-silver craze has reached
the Oregon legislature, and the Popu-
lists aired their eloquence in favor of
their pet financial theory yesterday ;
but until some international under
standing can be arrived at the world
will transact its commercial affairs on
the same besis it does now, and little
attention will be paid to the imprac-
ticable visions of dreamers
The grave solons at Salem some
times unbend and Indulge In faoetiae,
and one of these occasions was yester-
day afternoon when Senator Raley,
the author Of The Dalles-Celilo port
age bill, was found to be the author of
an unaddressed letter in the mail box,
which proved to be an effusion of
spring poetry. Of course this caused
an immoderate laugh, and will GO on
record as one of the funny incidents of
the session.
Stockman county, the Antelope
division of Wasco, has reached the
second reading, and we see nothing of
any remonstrance being presented. Ii
the friends of the old county do not
desire to see it cut up in most un-
seemly manner it is time that some
thing was being done in the shape of
giving information to the legislature
that there are several citizens who are
not favorable to the formation of this
new division of Wasco. A remon-
STRANGE, numerously signed, should
have been presented before this.
In a Washington dispatch to-day
Senator Dolph refuted the allegation
of Governor Pennoyer in his message
that it was he who defeated portage
railroad in the senate by introducing
bill for a ship-railway. 1t was Sen
ator Mitchell who originated both
bills, and their defeat in the house was
caused by Pennoyers letter to Chair
man Blanchard in favor of the port
age. The government is not very
Ii kelly to build any railroads; but if 1t
had not been for Oregon opposition a
ship-railway would have been begun.
The legislature reporter of The Ore
go'aia'a is very hard pressed for copy,
for in the column of his Salem news,
he says the senate "had quite a laugh
at McGinn, yesterday afternoon, be-
cause the young man was the only one
who voted In favor of tabllng "Vander-
burg's long concurrent resolution about
obligatory referendum" 1t may be
the elements of the stolid Anglo
saxon IN US, out, as sidney Shlltn
said regarding Scotchmen, it would
take surgical operation to engraft In
our Uranium the least semblance of wit
in such proceeding.
Colonel Watterson queries: "What
is there sacred about sugar that it
should not he taxed 2" N othino. Col.
absolutely nothing, says an eastern ex-
change. 1t is a sweet morsel which
touches the nations tongue; but go
right in, pop on the tax, and "down
the robber tariff that oppresses the
poor man." and makes him pay nearly
a quarter of cent more for his ''little
dinner pail" Don't wait to fool with
faucets and bungs, but knock in the
head of the barrel, and, as it were,
scoop things according to the rules Of
the Chicago Democratic platform.