Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1897-07-08

fork he was entirely harmless.
Mr.. Tillman made some uncompli-
mentary illusions to ex-President
| Cleveland for his veto of the
immigration bill. Another break
in the dull monotony was the
two-hour speech of Senator Tur-
pie in favor of his tariff amend
ment to tax all inheritences over
$4,000. Mr.. Turpie has one of
the most picturesque yocabularles
in the senate and he drew on it
! heavily in his speech. He told
the republicans that the tariff
bill would not furnish the money
needed by the government, and
closed by declaring that there
was no more right in abandoning
the free coinage Of silver than
there would be in abandoning the
free coinage of gold.
| Senator Tillman's tariff amend
ment imposing a tax of S1OO each
on immigrants and making it a
n1isdemeanor for any alien who
does not intend becoming a citi-
zen to enter the United States for
the purpose of engaging IN any
mechanical trade or manual labor,
until silver is admitted to our
mints for coinage on the same
conditions with gold and at a
ratio of 16 to |, received just three
votes, one from a populist---But-
ler, lone from a republican-Quay
land one from a democrat--Till-
man. 4S votes were cast against
/ it.
Secret service officials of the
treasury have discovered that the
new S5 silver certificate has been
counterfelted by the photo-lltho-
graphic process. The only coun-
terfeit yet secured by the officials
is a very bad one, not likely to
deceive anybody even fairly ex-
pert in handling money. Much
of the printing is blurred aud
indistinct, and the green is lighter
than that on the genuine certifi-
cate. Handlers of these notes
i will lose nothing BY observing
them closely.
4 If audacity will help her cause
any the ex-queen of Hawaii, who
has been in Washington for some
months, can furnish it in unlinit.
ed quantity. This week she was al
the Capitol ''carding' individual
senators out and making persona
appeals to them to vote against
the ratification of the treaty for
the annexation Of Hawaii Ii
view of all the circumstances
there have been few more auda.
cious things publicly done il
Washington than this lobbying
of this dusky ex-queen agalns1
annexation.
1t is doubtful whether there is
a single senator who really be,
lieves that the amendment to tho
tariff bill prepared by the major
ity of the finance committee ant
labeled antitrust, " will actually
result in hurting single trust
The amendment is nothing more
or less than a sop to public opin
ion, which thinks that congress
ought to be able to help the peo
pie against the trusts, just as the
antitrust laws now on the statute
books were in their time. There
may in time be some effective Law
against trusts, but it will not bt
a part OF the Dingley tariff bill
An incident small in itself has
: caused a lot of talk in Washing
ton. 1t is customary after new
U. S. minister has been sworn ii
at the state department for hin
to send his card to the minister t.
, the U. S. of the country to which
he is accredited. This week Gen
Woodford, the new minister tc
Spain, was sworn in, and insteat
of sending his card to Senor D.
LONE, the Spanish minister, Gen
{, Woodford made a personal cal
2 upon the Spaniard. He wa