The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-02-18

Sherman law. The output of gold
has been such that legislation is re-
quired in this regard to avert financial
disaster, and the Democracy will re-
ceive the Enforcement of the people IN
stopping the ruinous drain on the
treasury.
The caucus nominations of the Re-
publicans in the legislature for rail-
road commissioners will very probably
be elected, and they are men in every
way qualified for the position. Hon.
J. B. Eddy, the member from Eastern
Oregon, is we'll and favorably known
in this portion of the state. and more
competent commissioner could not be
selected.
The Aslatic cholera is again raging
in European cities, and several deaths
have occurred. This fact will make
the restriction of immigration peril.
nent subject for discussion. The
United States should not become the
dumping place for the plague-stricken
cities of the old world, as well as the
asylum for her poor and political
scayengers.
The repeal of the mortgage tax law
and the exemption for Indebtedness
clause appear to meet with general ap-
proval in all portions Of the state; but
capital will concoct some plan ny
which to evade the burdens of tax
alton. 1t is difficult to equalize mat
ters in this regard, for schemers will
always frame some excuse by which
they will escape. =.
The senate has reduced the civil ap
preparation bill, ard this is something
very unusual for that branch of con-
gress. This reduction will affect the
work at the Locks; but, if possible,
Senators Mitchell and Dolph will have
the amount for rivers and harbors re-
placed in the bill. They are indefat-
iguable workers, and never neglect the
interests of their constituents.
The legislature will adjourn in a
few days, and the friends Of the Raley
portage bill should call it up and again
put it on its passage, There should
be no delay about the matter. Our
people are very much in earnest about
the portage road, and they desire thst
it should be passed before another dol
lar is voted out Of the treasury for the
institutions of the Willamette valley.
Dispatches received in the city to-
day announce the fact that the
Worlds fair bill appropriating $780,
900 had passed the legislature over
the governors veto. This: is very
meagre sum for great and growing
state like Oregon to properly represent
her resources at Chicago, and if
the legislators had increased it to
S250,O00 the action would have been
supported by the people.
Chill has not forgotten the BALI
more affair, and will not be represented
at Chicago this year. If the authorl-
ties Of the little South Americ n re-
public do not dssire to take any part
in our great exhibition nobody will be
iblamable but themselves, and, perhaps
it may be success in every way with:
out them. The murder of our sailors
was very properly resented, and it is
hoped hereafter the half-civilized sub
jects of foreign countries will not mo-
lest American citizens.
Kansas, SO often the battlefield of
warning political factions, is again in
trouble. The Populist governor called
out the militia to drive the Republi-
can legislature from the state house;
but this they refused to do, and Gov
ernor Lewelling was forced to succumb.
The National Guard are citizen SOL
diers, and they would not shoot down
their neighbors at the command of the
executive. If they we're regular SOL
diers the streets of Topeka would be
deluged with the blood of some of the
best citizens of the state; but the mill
tia are not hired butchers, and herein
is one of the admirable features of the
present system over that of standing |
army.