Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-12-09
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Vice President Stevenson waG
remem bered with large basket Of
roses. A bunch of roses lay on the
desks of Holph and Dougherty
champlonsof white metal. Stewart wal
recipient of a basket of beautiful
marched neils.
The galleries were we'll filed and q
touch Of color was lent to the scene by
the bright winter toilets of ladies
present. After the vice presidents
gavel fell Blinn, chaplain, delivered on
eloquent prayer. The roll call showed
fifty-six senators present. After the
passage of the usual resolution
notifying the house Of the meeting OF
the senate and appointment of q
committee to join like COM
mittee from tire house to wait on
the president and notify him of the
assem- bling of congress and one fixing
the time of meeting at noon each day.
| The senate took a recess of an hour
to enable the committee to wait Oh the
president.
IN TEE HOUSE.
Crisp raped the house to order at
noon with fully three hundred mem
bers in their seats. Conspicuous among
| the vacancies on account of their
chairs being draped in mourning were
| u D - 0f I'll 4
Lilley, of Of Pennsylvania. The Key
stone state is thus cut two short of
full representation by death.
DETROIT, Dec. At is estimated that
there are $4,000 men in Detroit with
| out employment and their chances for
getting anything to do this winter are
very slim. Every day since the cold
weather set in hundreds of people
have thronged the poor Office in search
of something to keep them from star
walton, and hundreds block the en-
frances awaiting their turn. Dona-
tions OF clothing ard money are con-
stantly being received to relieve this
distress.
ST. Louis, Dec. "A special from
Denver, Colorado, says: Governor
Waite, it is stated here, has In hand a
convention of miners which is to pass
resolutions urginga special session of
the legislature TO protect the SILVER
mining industry. Governor Waite has
been in correspondence with President
Diaz, OF the republic of Mexico, and
has, so the state cabinet AYERS, arrang-
ed for the coinage of a hybrid silver
coin upon wbicn will appear the Mex
lean mark as we'll as the Colorado
coat of arms. The coin is TO be made
IN the Mexican minis, of Colorado sill
yer, the Mexican government having
the seignorage as profit. Governor
Waite declares the state can purchase
the bullion, and issue certificates
which can be used as medium OF ex-
change until the return of the hybrlds
with which the certificates may be re-
deemed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. at is sui
generis and novel and L must decline
To express any opinion ABOUT the prop
osition, as | may be called to act
officially in the matter" were the
words which leading treasury Official
used today when a reporter of the
Associated Press showed the Denver
arranged for the coinage of a hybrid
silver coin upon which is to appear the
Mexican marks as we'll as the Colorado
coat of arms. All the officials of the
department with whom the reporter
talked declared the statemonts con-
tanned In the dispatch were news to
them, as they had not heretofore
heard anything of it.
hot h.
plan was not feasible as it was believed
the Mexican president would not erter
into such an arrangement with a slate
government. as that said TO be in CON-
temptation, bat negotiate. if at all,
with the national government. Assam
ing such coin as these described were
issued, It is pointed out that they
would have huctuRting value; no.
body would take them except for their
bullion value, and that they wouldno
have any circulation outside of the
state of Colorado. They would not be
legal tenders, the United States gov
eminent would not receive and the
banks could throw them out ae they
do Mexican dollars. Besides this"
said one official, "What would the
profit on the transaction amount to |
after the transportation charges had |
been paid on the bullion to Mexico and |
on the CONS on their return to the |
United States?"
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 4.-Rev. Charles |
Johnston was hanged at SWainboro, in |
Suffolk county yesterday for the MUIR |
der of Rev. William Shields. John |
stone preached his own funeral sermon |
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Superintend- |
ent of Indian School, Daniel Dorches-
ter in his annual report takes issue |
with the stats ments that the indians |
are increasing in number. The num-
Der of troublesome Indi6ns is dimin-
lshing rapidly. 1t is declared the gen.
eral average of government schools is
above that of contract schools. The |
paramount problem of the bureau is to
teach the American Indian to work in /
the field and raIse his own subsistence.
Already there are favorable indlca-
lions, and only twenty-five per cent of |
the Indian population now receive gov
eminent rations. The allegations of |
brutal discipline are denied.
CHEYENNE, Wis, Dec. 4.-On Tuesday
Foreman Hudson of the Pratts- Perish |
cattle company apprehended SIX men
While in the act of killing cattle on the
-aDge. Nhe man were arrested, |
here last night and today
.,ied in the district court, found guilty
md sentenced to years imprisonment
n the penitentiary. In pleading
guilty one of the number, speaking for
he party, said they stole to keep their
families from starving. All were farm
,rs living in Box, Butte county, Ne
)raska, crops had failed, their farms
we're mortgaged, and their families
we're starving. The pathetic story
affected the judge and court officers to
ears. The lightest sentence aIloWed
VAS imposed.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 2-Hundreds. of
destitute persons are applying to the
)rovident association for aid and each
ne represents from two to ten per-
ons. A large proportion of the ap-
,lcaDtG for helm are DaUrOac ord O |