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Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

Out of the gloom of the financial trou-
bles, caused by the raid upon gold and
the refusal of the president and his
h%enchmen to permit the relief hat
would come by silver legislation, the let
ter of Secretary Carlisle sent to congress
yesterday appears like a ray of hope.
While the letter by no means gives the
information asked for by the senate, it's
contentious utterances indicate that the
secretary desires the country to under
stand that he takes an optimistic view
of the situation. In spite of that the
letter will bear a careful p%erusal. It is
guarded, even diplomatic in its tone. 1t
s~catters to the winds the details asked
for as being unessential and with a posi-
tive and lordly air deals in aggregates
and genera!ities and reaches the %co1clu-
sion that the receipts for the calendar
year will exceed the expenditures by
twenty-five and one-half millions of
dollars. AS for the figures upon which
this estimate is based it is none of the
senate's business. He says on 1.-The basis
of laws now in force he "believes" the
revenues from all sources will vindicate
the figures he has presented. Mr.. Car
isle can certainly approximate the ex,
%penditures under existing laws for the
appropriation bills are all before CON
gress and there will be no radical
changes made in those yet Enacted upon.
AS for any legislation entajling large
additional expenditures that is out of the
question. Therefore his predicate as to
expenses may be agreed to as safely cor
rect. But as to the other side of the
ledger. He believes" the revenues will
roll in, but he does not tell from what
source. Naturally he is counting largely
on the income tax What if that fails
him? Again he may be relying upon a
large revenue from the additional tax on
beer, but that is not yet a law.
Without these two resources the
believed" surplus will vanish and in
it's stead there will appear an ugly deficit.
1t is to be hoped that the secretary is
correct in his diagnosis of the case, but
it must be remembered that all the
machinery of the law is being invoked to
defeat the collection of the income tax
and that the brewers will leave no stone
unturned to prevent the beer tax. Mr..
Carlisle would have done much hetter
had he answered the resolution in detail.
Their congress and the people would
have known just where he expected the
money to come from.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08
TIL DAVIS WILL.

The Davis will contest has bobbed up
in Boston where, at the instance of Err
win Davis, a brother Of the deceased, an
administrator has been appointed and
required to give bonds in the sum of
100000. This move is liable to bring
on a conflict OF authority between the
Montana and the Massachusetts courts.
Ii our recollection Of the inventory is
correct the assets Of the estate show
$4,000 due by this same Erwin Davis.
1t is represented by two notes which the
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08
WOMAN Il.

The Woman suffrage movement has
been making great strides during the
past ten years, especially in the west,
and Montana seems likely to be the
scene of their latest triumph. A major
ity Of the states already admit women to
a partial participation in the right of
suffrage, allowing them to vote in mat
tiers relating to schools, and in recent
years a number of progressive western
states have gone away beyond this
grudging sort of a recognition of the in
teIlectual equality Of women, and ad-
mitted them to equal rights with men in
the matter of voting and holding Office.
1t is conceded even by the opponents of
the woman suffrage movement, that
none of the dire disasters to family and
home ONE of the alarmists predicted
have followed this progressive action,
and the ladies' have shown as good
political judgment as their fathers and
brothers where they have exercised the
ballot, and have generally been found Oh
the side of public morals and good gov
eminent.
The question of increasing the limited
rights Of suffrage possessed by the
women in this state has been brougt t
before the legislature by a bill intro
duced in the house by Representative
Huseby, providing for the submission of
an amendment to the constitution to the
popular vote at tne next election, which,
if carried, will amend section , of article
8 30 as to give equal rights to both mon
and women in the matter of voting and
holding office. The proposed amendment
contains a proviso that nothing herein
shall be construed as qualifying any fe-
male to hold the Office of judge of any
court, sheriff. constable or peace officer,
or to serve as a juror" The restraining
clause just quoted might we'll enough
have been left out. The good sense of
the ladies might have been trusted to
prevent them from aspiring to any Office
for which they were manifestly unsuited,
and if this were not SO, certainly the
good sense of the people might have been
trusted not to elect them in such in
stances.
Some of TIE ladies of Great Falls are
taking an active interest in the matter,
and at a meeting held yesterday at the
Grand Central hotel parlors committees
were appointed 10 circulate petitions in
favor Of the bill. One of the ladies with
diplomatic skill which would indicate
a mind capable of even rep
r%esenting this government at Homo
lulu under the tortuous foreign policy of
Gresham and emerging with credit to
herself suggested that young and good
looking ladies be sent around with the
petitions among the business men. The
TRIBUNE feels sure that the precaution
is unnecessary and that the ~gallantry of
the Great Falls business men can be
trusted even without the irresistible in
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

and many OF the legislators appear to
have fallen into the trap without count
ing the cost.
If the bill passes the commission will
be appointed and the site purchased at
once, for which warrants will of course
be issued and interest commence. From
that time Helena will not lose a trick,
and the paper will be floated as long as
there is an excuse for issuing it, and it
will always find purchasers. The rev.
enues from the lands may for a little
while pay the interest, but it will not be
long before the state treasury will have
to be tapped. The provision of the bill
that the warrants shall never be a charge
against the state treasury is simply rot.
The warrants will always be a lien
against the ground and buildings and in
the event of default of interest the state
will be compelled to protect them against
seizure. In all respects the bill is a
faulty one and should not be passed.
The cunning lawyer lobbyists will try
to explain away its Inconsistencies and
defects, for it IS to their interest to do go,
but no matter what they may say, this
one fact should be borne in mind-Mon-
tana can borrow all the money it needs
at a far less rate of interest than 7 per
cent, and it can make a loan that will not
be surrounded with doubts and compli-
cations that are so apparent in the pond
ing measure.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

special administrator has declared worth
less. In addition the estate owns, or did
own, a large block Of stock in the Butte
and Boston, and we think a block in the
Parrot, one being a Massachusetts and
the other a Connecticut institution,
These interests are now represented and
held by the special administrator sub.
ject to the order of the Butte court,
whose appointee he is. and it is difficult
for a layman to understand what the
Boston man will have to administer on.
However, a layman has no right to have
an opinion, and all he can do is to watch
and wait and see to what oxtent the
lawyers will be benefited by this new dc.
parture in the litigation.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08
CITY

The recent license ordinance passed by
the city council has created a good deal
of hostile criticism. One of the most
obnoxious features of the ordinance was
the tax laid on drummers or travelling
men. The tax was beyond question
unconstitutional, having been so held by
numerous supreme courts as we'll az
United States courts, and an attempt on
the city's part to collect it was a good
deal in the nature of bIackmail, as it was
inserted with the idea that many people
would rather pay it than have any
trouble over it, whether it was a legal
tax or not. The board of trade at a
recent meeting appointed a committee
to lay before the council the OBJ
n~oxious features of this tax and
request it's repeal and the return
of any money that might have been
collected under this section. 1t is under
stood that, in view of these and other
objections that have been raised to the
late city license ordinance, the commit.
tee on taxes and licenses have prepared
a new license ordinance, which will be
submitted at the next meeting OF the
council. In the new ordinance the drum
NOR tax is eliminated and other objec-
tionable features have been altered. In
some instances the amounts charged
have been reduced. The most noticeable
instance of this kinds in the matter of
saloon licenses. In the old ordinance
this was fixed at $50 a quarter, while in
the new one the amount has been re-
duced one-half and is fixed at S25 per
quar'er. Prior to the passage of ordi-
nance No. III the license was SIS a quar-
ter. 1t is stated that the saloon interest
is satisfied with the proposed new rate.
which ls only a small advance on what
they have been paying heretofore. A
city license bill hat will satisfy every
body is rather a hard thing to achieve.
The city is in urgent need of the in
creased revenue and it is claimed that
the new bill prepared by the committee
hill produce the maximum revenue to
the city with a minimum amount of
kicking.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08
That was an apropos ouery of Sans

That was an apropos query of Senator
Brosnan when the medical bill was in
troduced in the legislature. He simply
asked whether the measure was for the
benefit of the doctors or for the benefit
of the people. The answer was "both."
Yet If the bill be carefully scanned it will
be found that the interests of the medical
gentlemen are pretty we'll taken care of.
Opposition to quacks is to be commended
and legalized, but the ethics of the pro.
fession 60 far beyond that and personally
ostracize, and seek by law to prevent
from practice, because they differ in
minor matters, men whose title to M. d.
is as uhquestioned az is that of the most
punctillous stickler for the code.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

The wisdom of THE TRIBUNE's advice
to the council to go slow in the matter
OF the proceedings to obtain control of
the city's water supply is apparent al
ready. The counsel employed in the
matter by the city have discovered that
the city is commencing proceedings in
a wrong manner, and recommend the
repeal of the ordinance transferring the
money from the water fund and the
commencement of direct proceedings to
test the validity Of the c%ompany's fran
chise and contract. THE TRIBUNE has
held the opinion from the start that this
is the proper mode of procedure if a
legal fight was necessary. 1t believes in
the wisdom Of Davy Crockett's maxim,
"first be sure you are right then go
ahead" and it hopes this water question
will not be dropped till the rights of the
people are ascertained and obtained.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

The bill for the state capitol building
slipping through the legislature as easy
as 4 ~tOto-gan goes down Il slide, 1t is
all right ;hat Montana should have a
capitol building. but the Legislators in
their haste do not appear to be giving
the subject the consideration it deserves.
y committee has examined the question
j%ections t. the scheme TO raise funds,
but have the members counted the cost:
the bill as it now is appropriatos $780,
600 for the purchase Of d site and the
construction Of the building. Where is
the money to come from: That little
item Las been settled by the lea ~ls!ators
as follows: The bill provides that a state
capitol building fund ehaIl be created
with al, moneys derived from the sale
or rental nf surh lands AS have been or
may be granted to the state of Montana
for the purpose Of constructing public
buildings at the state capital, and all OF
the moneys aforesaid as fast as realized
from time to time shall forthwith be paid
into the state treasury and by the state
treasury placed to the credit Of this said
fund" SO far so good, but with the
knowledge that funds from this source
will not roll in in amounts sufficient to
meet the demands when the site is pur.
chased and the building begun, the bill
provides for the issuance of state capitoI
warrants, which will bear interest at tie
rate of : per cent. Here is where the
members need to do a little figuring be,
fore they vote. The bill goes into effect
upon it's passage and no time will be lost
in buying the site, whether there is any
money in the fund or not, and the 7 pei
cent warrants will be issued and handed
over and begin drawing interest, and sc
it will be after the building has been be
gun. 1t will be a long time before any
large sum is received from the sale ant
rental of lands but there is nothing t.
prevent the issuing of the warrants W
to the Sl.5O0,OOO limit. This is eimpl,
pledging the credit Of the state to Dor
row money for a specific purpose at
large interest running for an indefinite
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

1t appears that some of the owners of
lands sold to the city for parks are not
at all anxious to have the deal legalized.
George Stanton, representing the former
owners of Park Island, appeared before
the council yesterday and requested them
to take back their warrants and deed
back the property. The wisdom of that
particular purchase is already indicated.
The city got the land at a bargain and
the owners can already do better il they
had it back again. 1t will not be long
before the same state of affairs will
appear with reference to the other pur-
chases, and some of the present DIRECTORS
will be kicking themselves because they
didn't know a good thing when they
saw it.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08
PARTING WAYS.

Senator Vest of Missouri has an.
nounced that he has reached a parting
of the ways with the administration on
the financial question and that he will
never vote for the gold ideas Of the presi
dent. Good for the senator, it he sticks
to his text. 1t would seem that there
are a great many ways leading from the
white house on this subject, and while
the Missouri gentleman may not have
many fellow travellers on the one he
treads the president has far less on the
one he has marked as his own. When
they were laid out his idea was the roads
would all converge at Gold Standard
park, but since then there have been
short cuts taken, cross roads and paths
broad and narrow beaten down by fire.
quent travel ard, strange to say, all of
them lead ia the direction of free silver
coinage. Oh, 90, Mr.. Vest is not alone
in parting ways with the executive. lie
has any number of fellow travellers, and
while they are pursuing different routes
all are headed for the same objective
point and, what is better. they Will all
reach it at no distant day. There may
be Ii few bills to climb and rivers to
cross. They are only temporary obsta-
Giles and Will be overcome.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

period. The interest on the total sum
will be $105,OOO per annum, and the
gentlemen who are to pass the bill had
better sum up what and when the pos
sible receipts will be before they agree
to the issue of state paper based upon
an uncertain revenue but for which the
state is liable. A better plan and one
that would have the element of exact
knowledge about it would be to submit
a constitutional amendment asking
authority to borrow the needed amount,
the bonds to be issued at stated periods
as needed.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08
MINERAL

Assistant Secretary Sims of the inter
ior department has just rendered a de-
cision that the report of the surveys of
government land does not determine the
character of the land. In other words,
il the surveyor returns land as agricult-
ural and it proves to be mineral the re-
port is open to amendment and reversal
by the ordinary procedure followed in
such cases. This is an important ruling
If it is applied to corporations as we'll as
individuals. la almost specific terms it
declares that the character of the land
can only be determined by actual exam
i%nation, and until that is done the gov
eminent will not guarantee an irrevo-
cable title. 1t il true the decision re-
fers to individual cases and assumes q
contest 10 each case, but if the principle
is correct why not give it a general ef-
feet? This is all that the people of
Montana are contending for as against
the Northern Pacific. They ask that the
lands within the grant for which the
road now seeks patents as agricultural
be properly examined and their charac.
ter determined and those that are found
to be mineral be excepted from the pa
tent. This is the letter of the law, but
in spite of it there is an EXPIRE >sed pur-
pose on the part of tho department to
violate the statute and issue patents
for lands without knowing or
caring whether they be mineral
or agricultural. If the assistant secre.
tary is right in his construction Score,
tary Smith is certainly wrong in his
There is this difference: the ruling of the
assistant was made to meet the case OF
an individual, that of the secretary was
made at the instance OF a great corpora
ton, just why any advantage should
be given the latter is not apparent tc
any honest man, but the Northern Pa.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

Gov. Richards has approved the joint
resolution of the legislative assembly
providing for the employment of special
counsel to prevent the absorption of
mineral lands in the state by the North
ern Pacific. The governor, however,
blandly informs the legislative body that
while the law is a good one and meets
his approval, there was no need for its
passage, for there is no money with
which to pay the lawyers. In this con
dition Of affairs there will be no appli-
cants' Even the Helena judges who are
out Of a job will not break their necks
seeking executive favor. 1t must be
poor game that some of that crowd would
not take a chance shot at.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

The %coroner's jury at Butte has con
the victims of the explosion of January
Ii and returned a verdict. The investiga
ton was a long and patient one and
every witness whom it was thought
could throw any light upon the terrible
affair was examined. Those who have
followed the evidence from day to day
know that the testimony was rather
contradictory in several material re-
spects, but that was only natural. No two
persons ever see any event, attended
with excitement, exactly alike. 1t is not
to be supposed that they would. But
from the mass of testimony there WAS no
intelligent escape from the main conclu-
sions reached: that the fire originated in
the Kenyon-C Council warehouse, that
there was in it and also in the Butte
Hardware warehouse an amount of pow
der in excess of that allowed by law,
that in each of them an explosion occur
red, the result being the awful loss of
life, and that the owners of the ware
houses are responsible for the deaths.
The conclusion is a serious one to those
who are thus arraigned, but the jurors
could do no more or no less and do their
duty.
The question now is what will the out
come be-: The responsibility has been
primarily placed, will the matter end
there: 1t is hardly to be supposed that
criminal proceedings will be insti-
tuted, for corporations cannot be
neld amenable criminally, no matter how
gross the negligence or how serious the
resultant accident. Besides, as THE
TRIBUNE Butte correspondent points out,
no n has attempted to discover the
origin Of the fire, though all the evidence
indicated that it was the act of an incen-
diary. This will, of course, relieve the
owners OF original responsibility, but to
what extent it will mitigate the penalty
for storing powder in violation of law
is 3 question. That some civil actions
for damages will be instituted is to be
expected, but when these are tried, if
ever, the witnesses will be held down to
the strict rules of evidence and subjected
to rigid cross examinations by astute
lawyers. instead of given the latitude
permitted at the inquest. Under these
circumstances who can believe that it
will be possible to secure a verdict. 1t
may be that the state and city could get
a verdict for violation of the law in stor-
ing an excessive amount of powder, but
even that is doubtful and the chances
are that while the jury fixes the moral
responsibility no legal penalty can ever
be exacted.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08
CAPITOL

Senator Flowerree has finally intro
duced his bill for the construction of the
capitol building. 1t is not a very ex-
pensive bill, but expensive enough. 1t
provides for a superintendent at about
$4,000 and a clerk at $1,000 per annum
out of a total appropriation of 81, 100000.
This is a humorous feature of the bill,
but not go humorous as the clause re-
quiring the building to be completed by
the year 1900, provided the money in the
fund ie sufficient. When the bill Great
ing tho fund is read and considered IT
will be found that the clause spoken OF
is superfluous. SO long as the clerk can
find time, pen and ink and paper to
draw I per cent warrants the fund will
rot be exhausted until Tie $l,500,OOC
limit is reached. II, however, the com
mission, the superintendent, and the
clerk arc industrious that is liable to
occur before the year 1900.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

cific has always found a way and tools
to outrage law and strangle justice. In
spite Of competing roads, unless the peo-
pie of this state use the most e~xtraordi-
nary efforts to check the e~ncroachments
of this corporation, they will in a few
years be as completely at it's mercy as
the people of California are at the mercy
of the Southern Pacific.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

fuence of youth and beauty to support
the justice of their u
The truth Of the matter is that the
chief obstacle to the progress of the
woman's suffrage movement lies with the
ladies themselves, many of whom are
apathetic or opposed to it. 1t is safe to
say that whenever any large majority of
the ladies desire the privilege of voting
they will get it as they get about every
thing else they sac fit to demand from
the majority of mankind.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08

A wealthy bachelor declared that a
horrid bag had glared at him through
the night. His friends laughed at him
but he insisted that the house was
haunted. He grew i'll, complaining of
ext rene heaviness in the stomach, his
appetite failed, he grew sallow, ENACT
ated and respondent, believing he was
going to die, the spook being a warming,
and declared he could hear funeral bells
ringing in his ears, and even limited at
suicide. A friend induced him to use
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
and he rapidly grew well, spooks and all
his distressing symptoms disappearing.
A torpid liver and dyspepsia caused his
suffering and the medicine cured both.
A pamphlet free or a large book, on
Liver and Stomach Diseases aud how to
cure them (l3G psges) for 6 cents in
stamps. Address Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08
To Union Miners

\ All union miners are warned to stay
away from Lethbridge rs the wages in
that place are from $500 per day to 81 so.
A CoLvILLE,
Secretary Sand Coulee Miners Union.