The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-20
HOW IT'LL TURN OUT
Bond Bill and Tariff Bill to Be Put
Out Of the Way.
GOSSIP ABOUT SILVER MEN
Some Citizens of This State Who
Are Taking In the Country
Odds and Ends About Mon
tana's Men In Congress.
star Correspondence of the Standard

Staff Correspondence OF the Standard.
Simple-minded people get the
impression, through unrefiecting pre-
Judice, that all the people of the East
are constantly thinking about new
ways TO advance the interests of the
goldbugs and that all the western peo-
pie are thinking and talking of nothing
else but the free coinage of silver.
Some of this general misunderstanding
can be overcome by the setting up of
free personally parties of
eastern people to the West and by like
excursions of western folk to the East,
and 1t is not at all a matter of doubt
whether the enterprise would pay.
Some of the Montana folk have been
down here spying out the land, but not
for silver or for gold. Citizens Cooper
| OF Great Falls, Kenkle, Paulsen, and
one or two others, sent East TO look up
some ventilating apparatuses, reached
the capital one day recently and, in
their search for good air to be applied
TO ventilators, perhaps. they headed
| toward Old Point Comfort, Va. Fort
Monroe is not far away. but there is a
| general impression. which the Stand
| ards correspondent does not share
| that the winter weather is milder there
than 1t is here. although the two places
| are but $50 miles apart In a line, north
| and south.
These inquiring Montanans crossed
| the path of the Standard correspond
ent at the navy department. Happen
ing in there one afternoon, 1 found the
| assistant secretary of the navy writing
his name upon a couple of letters. And
he was wondering, poor wretch, what
| interest a group of Montana men, who
knew nothing about our navy except
that the state was to have a gunboat
named for Its capital, could have in the
fleet of Admiral Bunce. Glad to hear
It," grunted McAdoo, land hope they
will get Hartman and Garter and Man
tie to vote for some new ships and
some more seamen." Then IL was that
L found out that these travelling Mon
tana men were going to Hampton
Roads and that they were provided
with the instructions that would carry
them out In a launch to the vessels of
Bunce's fleet, the finest ever seen in
| this country under one officer and
that they would be taken allow and
alo1t to see what a modern fighting
machine is.
And up in the senate, where the re-
publcans are wishing to obtain control
of the patronage as we'll as the or
ganizaticn of the committees, all the
republican senators are waiting to re-
ceive with open arms the new senators
from Utah. They do not stop to IN
quire how they vote on a silver propo-
sition; it is enough to know that they
Will have two votes, and that If they
had only one II would be enough TO
allow the party to choose the senate
officers and take all the patronage in
sight without asking the leave of a
democrat or populist. In the corridors,
out in the cloak rooms, along the
streets, at the theaters. the free-silver
men and the gold-standard men, if
they are at all good fellows, get along
just as comfortably and agreeably to-
gether as If they were sworn brothers,
reserving all their assaults upon the
men who committed the crime of 1873
for the floor of the senate and the op-
perfume moment of debate
Montana's senators and representa-
tives are not having much opportunity
nowadays to help on any of the pro-
jects in which the state is most inter-
ested. The senate is tied up over the
bond question, and will come out of II,
when the debate is over. with a major
ity in favor of free silver, converting
the bond bill into a measure useless for
the purposes of the administration and
not very useful for anybody else
When the bill goes over TO the house,
Reed will send IL back to his ways and
means committee. and that committee
will smother it. 1 am told that II will
not even be reported to the house with
an amendment striking out the senate
proposition. That is what the silver
men of the senate rather expect. and
they will wait for that action before
disposing OF the tariff bill. The ex-
pectation now is that they will then
send the tariff bill over to the house
with a silver amendment attached to
tt The protectionists must either pro-
tect silver or get no more protection.
So Carter. who lives just beyond the
boundary. comes down from his home
in a cable car TO the senate, spends the
day IN listening 10 the speeches OF the
curious men from the South who have
been blown in" through the disrup-
tion of parties in that section, and
Mantle, who lives at Pages hotel and
who considers it proper for a Montana
man to fall i'll. stays in his room and
cultvafes a Washington cold.
1t will not do to rely too implicitly
upon any promises that are made by
Montana's representatives. either in the
senate or the house. that Butte or Hell
ena is TO have a public building by
reason OF any generosity on the part OF
the republican congress. Reed is de-
termined that until the income Is
greater there shall be no appropria-
tions for public buildings. The easy
formality Of introducing the bills for
both places can be gone through with.
But that signifies nothing. After the
bill has been passed 10 authorize
building. the appropriation has 10 be
made by Cannon. and he was always
careful about giving away money for