The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-10
Some of the Mcntanans Who Like
to Winter in the East.
WHAT TELLER is UP TO
He Proposes to Put Some of the West
ern Men on Record Timely Talk
From the National
Capital.
Washington Bureau of the Standard,
No. f4i5 G. street n. w.

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| The senator was not in attendance at
the sessions of the senate III December.
| He spent the holiday season In New
York. III. G. Cunningham of Butte was
also over to the new world metropolis,
| and witnessed the celebrations Incl
dent to the birth of the Greater New
/ York The gentlemen report an un-
| commonly large number of Montana
visitors in the big city. Ex-Governor
Sam T. Hauser is at the Fifth avenue
| hotel. and will sooa come To Wash
| ington to see the new controller CT the
/ currency relative To Montana Dank
matters. Carlos Warfield and his bride.
| to whom he was lately married, are
passing a part of their honeymoon very
/ pleasantly in New York. Mrs. Marfield
] is a native of Prescott, Ont, where the
couple were married. r. A. HeinZe and
/ r. L. Whitmore of Butte, James For
| bis and family and Will Thornton are
also denizens of the greater Gotham.
| W. \. Clark is in New York completing
| arrangements for a trip to Europe. l..
A. Dunham is engaged in promoting an
enterprise to ship men and supplies to
| the klondyke by the old route around
Cape Horn. George Childs of Helena is
also in New York. He has lately re-
| turned from Mexico where he has been
engaged In business since the failure of
| the Helena bank with which he was
| connected. He is now Interested in "a
company which contemplates the erec-
tion of a mammoth family hotel at the
corner of Broadway and Seyenty-sec-
| ond street
The Montana contribution to the re-
lief of suffering Cubans was the most
prompt response that has reached the
state department from any part of the
| country, and the siza was out of all
proportion to the relative population of
| the state. Nothing but praise of the
| enterprise of the Standard and the lib
| erality of its constituency Is heard al
| the state department. The money was
| promptly forwarded TO New York and
/ thence to Havana. and before this can
| be read by the people who made the
contribution the unhappy Cubans will
he enjoying the fruits of Montana gem
erosity. All the Washington papers
contained complimentary notices of the
| Montana contribution. and the assoei-
ated Press and Scripps- Rae league
sent accounts Of 1t to newspapers in
every part of the country
/ e. ID. Neal of Helena is in the city.
He is here on business connected with
the patent office. and will remain in the
captal some days.
! Senator Carter was a witness In an
| interesting case that has Just been
| tried in tho District of Columbia The
| case involved the estate OF General
| Moses NJ. Bane, a distinguished ex-
| army officer of Quincy. ILL.,. who was
| IL iltIk III the NSHFTdf ldflu once during
| Mr. farters term az commissioner.
| Senator Carter testified that General
| Bane's mental condition was very bad
| during his incumheney of the commits
sionership. This testimony WAS impor-
tant in determining a contest over Cen
/ eral Banes estate between his widow
and his sons. About six weeks before
his death the general married a wom-
an named Eeftwiteh, to whom he left
his property. cutting off his sons. These
sons, one Of whom. Edgar. is in Mon
| tana. contested the will. eontending
i that their father was of nnsound mind
and under duress when he made the
will. The suit resulted fayorably To the
dsinherited sons.
Congressman Charles S. Hartman is
interviewed in the Post this week He
says: I'm Montana The silver renubli-
cans had $4,000 out of $4,000 republican
Votes. II MIR. Mekineys election were
Ia be held to-day | think he would re-
| eeive 1000 less votes in the state than
| he received in 1895. While we have
things within our power If We choose to
go IL alone, | am still IN favor of the
unifcation of all the silver forces. This
| should terminate in the triumphant
denomination of Mr. Bryan in 1900
While we are striving for principles and
not for any mans glorifeation. Mr.
Bryan's personality Is SO identified with
the cause that he dominates it to- day
more than any other man
IL is the common judgment of veteran
hahitueS Of the capitol that the present
session of congress cannot be prolonged
| much after the LIST Of June III is the
settled conviction of the same persons
that IL will be- distinctly d do-nothing
session. The big appropriation bills
VIII 60 through, cut Just a. low pos
sible. and there will be oceans of talk
| about Cuba and pensions and silver.
| But nothing will be done and nothing
1 10 fad IN he ha
cans at best have but slight exnecta-
tions of carrying the next congress. and
| even that expectation would vanish
into thin air, In the opinion of many
| leading republicans, II congress under
| took In do anything with any Of the
important national questions which are
| pending. l. is interesting, indeed
langhable. 10 notice the contempt With
| which the senate still treats the Nc
| kiniey monetary commission PROPOSE
tion. which was passed by the house in
| such feyerish haste last summer. There
Is no likelihood that this bill will ever
emerge from the pigeonhole in which
il has rested all through the summer
and fall vacation.
Interest in the silver question as il
may arise this winter. is chiefly dividsi
between Wolcett.s proposed speech ex-
planning where the international con-
ferees are al" and Teller's proposition
to nut MesSrs. Carter Wolcott 4 co.
on record as being for or against the
enactment Of the celebrated resolution
offered by stanley Matthews in 1878
Senator Teller wiii offer this as a SEN
ate amendment te one IF the big appro-
urEation bills. and 1t is SO woraed a. te
make the mountain state Mckinleyites
break Tor cover immediately Some oi
the l8udest OF the modern goldbugs
like Allison. for instance. voted for thf
Matthews resolution. and il was passed
by virtue OF republican votes 20 years
ago.
senator Woleottss statement-in- lieu.
of "a report which he has promised
shall he made this month. will prob.
ably he reached by him about the iatf
~ January. \ great deal Of specula.