The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-12-29

IOf Inc NOMINATION. OF speaker. II 0I6cC-
ed to congress. If the league program
me be carried out there will be silver
man nominated for speaker of the
next house and if the sentiment Of the
the districts has been correctly repre-
sented and the alliance with the labor
organizations shall be faithfully CARR
ed out, he will stand good chance of
being elected.
The silver in the treasury is of two
kinds. First, that purchased under
the Bland-Allison act at the rate of
100000 month. This has been coin
ed and is behind what is known as sill
yer certificates That is, each silver
certificate on its face simply certifies
that there has been one silver dollar,
or five silver dollars, according to- the
denomination, deposited in the treas
ury. Second, the other silver is that
purchased under the Sherman act at
the rate of 100000 ounces per month.
This silver is uncoined; that is, still in
the shape of bullion. For the purchase
of this silver there were issued what
are known as treasury notes. These
notes were paid out for the bullion
bought under the Sherman act. Though
this silver is not coined it still really
forms part of the circulating medi-
UNI of the country in the shape of the
treasury notes issued for its purchase.
THERE is note of alarm in the an
nouncement that Secretary Herbert
has appointed board to report as to
the stability Of certain ships OF the
new navy. That is to say, the navy de-
partment suspects that some of these
vessels are topheavy and likely to turn
turtle the first time they encounter a
modern sea. This is cheerful state of
affairs. Our war ships have developed
about every other known weakness.
Their machinery has broken down;
their turrets have been wrecked by the
recol OF their guns, as in the case Of
the Monterey, and as a general thing
their speed has been shown to be un-
satisfactory. On top Of these short
comings we are, it seems, likely to
learn that the only safety for the navy
is to keep it in port, lest it flop upside
down upon venturing to sea. This
condition Of things may account for
the fact that many of our warships
spend most of their time on sand banks
and mud flats. The officers in COM
mand feel safer there They are not
likely to upset.
THERE has been some very interest
ing gossip floating around concerning
the reason for the rapidity with which
the house has passed the bills for the
admission OF Utah, Arizona and New
Mexico as states. According to~this
gossip, an attempt is to be madesto get
the bills through the senate as prompt
" as they went through the house, in
order that the senators from the new
states may get here before the senate
reaches 3 final vote on the new tariff
bill, the idea of the administration and
of the Democratic leaders being that
whatever the politics of the new sena-
tors they will certainly be low tariff
men as such VIII vote for the bill. It
is believed that majority of the sena-
tors would, il given an opportunity,
vote for the admission OF all the terri
tories, including Oklahoma, but they
may not get the chance. There are
some influential eastern senators who
are opposed to the admission of any of
them, and there are indications of
much religious opposition to the adj
mission of Utah. These things may re-
suit in preventing action on the bills
in the senate.
OUR English cousins must be very
sore over the result of the information
81 yacht race. Here IS a specimen Of
their talk, taken from Black and
white: I.ord Danraven is to be con-
graduated on his pluck. but hardly on
discretion IA the Va1lSyrie he has
probably the hest sailed. best manned
best built and fastest yacht in the
world, but here was his wisdom when
hs took his fine vessel across stornay
"a pit her against adoastsng
zs8fE Ike She mere trick