The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-20
WHERE THEY ARE LIVING /,
Montana People Spending the
Winter in Washington.
TAKES A DIFFERENT VIEW
A Tongue River Resident Opposes At
torney Porter's Scheme for the Chey-
ennes-senator Carter Preparing
to Raid the Pie Counter.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.

Montana colony in Washington Is COM
fortably located for the winter season.
Senator Carter has fine residence at
1432 Houghton street, in the elevated
and fashionable northwest. He has
lived here for several years The loca-
tion is admirable and the neighborhood
excellent. Congressman Hartman. with
his wife and daughters, lives at 1719
Oregon avenue, northwest, not great
distance-as the crow flies-from where
Senator Carter resides, and also in
very nice part of the residence section
of Washington. Senator Mantle, who
has just arrived by way of New York,
is located at the Colonial on H street,
northwest, Immediately opposite the
Shoreham. The senator takes his meals
at the latter hostelrie. Mrs w. w.
Dixon is living at the Shoreham while
her son is taking a law course in this
city. A block east of the Colonial is the
Elsmere, a well-known old family hotel,
where Judge and Mrs. Botkin have
apartments. Miss Botkin is now in
Europe
Representative Hartman has started
in to have a 'plebiscite of the voters of
the District of Columbia on the ques-
ton of whether there shall be a form
or popular government He has intro
duced bill providing for vote on the
question of a change in the form of
government here. There is likely to be
formidable agitation for the abolition
of the curious bureaucracy that now
controls the city.
w. w. Dixon will probably be made
the Montana member of the democratic
congressional committee. The matter
of filling this position has been referred,
by the democratic caucus, to special
committee 1t is customary to select
sitting congressman or ex-congressmen
for members of this committee. Some
time ago it was proposed to nominate
two or three silver republicans or pop
ulsts as members of the congressional
committee but as none of the "a popu-
lists and silver republicans in the house
have participated in the democratic
caucus, the idea has been abandoned.
Congressman Hartman is high in favor
with the democratic leaders and it was
supposed that he would be made the
Montana member. But as he is the
Montana member of the silver repub-
lican national committee. he has not
felt free to participate in the demo-
cratic caucus.
Senator Mantle has received a letter
from a well-known member Of the gen.
eral assembly of Montana taking a de-
cidedly different view of the situation
on the Grow reservation from that ex-
pressed by T. j. Porter of Miles City,
in a letter recently published In this
correspondence This gentleman says:
Il understand that a bill will be intro
duced in the senate. at the instance of
the Indian commissioners, to enlarge
the present Northern Cheyenne Indian
reservation by buying out the settlers.
| represent the sentiment of the entire
population residing on Tongue river,
and we respectfully urge you to oppose
any such scheme. AS you know, we
took our homes prior to the order of
the interior department setting aside
the Tongue river lands for the pur-
pose of allotment to Indians and We
believe it was i'll advised action on
the part of the government to have
auartered half-civilized and thieving
Indians on us.
There are millions of idle acres on
the Crow reservation and these Indians
should be placed there without regard
to the likes or dislikes of the Crows.
But in the event that the government
should not look at it that way, we beg
that you will use your good offices to
have them removed from Tongue river
by making the crest of the divide be-
tween Tongue and Rose Bud rivers the
boundary line of the reservation. IL
you should deem it advisable. / would
make the trip to Washington and ex-
plain to the commissioners OF Indian
affairs the topography of the country
and the wishes and interests of the
white people concerned.
I'VE thank you for your efforts in
our behalf in the last congress for hav-
purpose of treating with the Crows for
lands for the Cheyennes, though moth
ing came of it, for the reason the said
commissioner disobeyed the law by not
coming here at all.
The secretary of agriculture has de-
termined to make some experiments in
Colorado, in the success of which Mon
tana people are vitality interested. He
has promised to furnish the Denver
chamber of commerce half ton OF
sugar beet seed
1t Is the intention of the chamber of
commerce to have each farmer to
whom the seeds may be furnished
plant small patch. about 80 feet
square. under given rules and regula-
tions of the department of agriculture.
After the beetS are grown each farmer
is to send statistics and samples of the
crop grown to the government agent,
stationed at Fort Collins. He is to
make tests as to the sacchrine matter
contained in the beets and to furnish
other information. The secretary of
agriculture expresses himself as much
pleased with the plan and hoped that
similar experiments might be made in
other mountain states. He has long
been greatly impressed with the feast
bility of extensive sugar beet crops in
all the Rocky mountain region.
The constituents of Senator Carter
are to have another good chance at the
pie counter. The senator has intro
duced and secured a favorable report
on the bill providing for the census of
1900. He will have great deal to do
with the establishment of the census
bureau. His bin makes it easy TO be-
come a clerk without being bothered
too much by civil service regulations.
1t is therefore probable that the sena-
tor will be able to land good many of
his friends in comfortable berths that
viii last several years. for the census
work of 1890 is not yet completed and it
is certain that the census of 1900 will
drag it's weary length along until
1905
A prominent citizen OF Butte. who
has been in the city for some time,
made a hasty trip to New York. and
on his return he assured the Standard
that he had bought 100000 worth of
bonds Now" he said. II can no long
%. h.. onHon I'M hY taxes In Non