Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-12-07
Congress will meet next Monday.

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 A difficult financial propositions: Is MT. Goldberg, councilman-elect from Msricopa, a gold bugf
 About the only thing the demo cratic press of late has overlooked, is the Pans riots, in IlloHois.
 Phenix has water troubles of it's own, and seems to be facing the knotty problems that Prescott has struggled with.
 The Wisconsin is said to be stuck deep in the mud at San Francisco In that respect she is like Arizons on the statehood proposition.
 Three years ago but one Pacific Coast Congressman voted against silver. In the next House the dele gation W III be gold standard 10, sil yer l.
 The old man of the Enterprise, al Pheniz, forgot to mention in his last issue the removal of Governor Mur- phy. Probably he is as tired as the people are.
 Two e1-Rough Riders, Corporal Knablauch and Sergeant Worden are on their way to Europe in the hope of finding war there shortly after their arrival.
 We violate no confidence in say ing that Col. Bryan is not one oi the democrats who wants to nomi- nate Dewey for president.
 The democrat who seeks the nom- instion for president, to run against Mckinley, will be an air chaser of the first magnitude.
 The unkindest cut of the car toopists is the picturiDg of Spain as 6 jsckass. Now, every body knows that the democratic party has ex- elusive rights in that animal. The war department is preparing . Medical and Surgical History oi the Wal with Spain" that will be studied with interest by members of the medical profession in all coun- tries.
 The question of whether an extra session of congress will be necessary, in the spring, may be safely left to President Mckinley, who will be sure to decide 1t right.
 With a penitentiary in course of construction in Prescott, the water works inaugurated, mining develop ment progressing, what will be the matter with old Prescotti
 Seventeen of the twenty western states in which fusion tickets were srraiged this year gave republican majorities. The American people are not admirers of hybrid politics.
 It has been said that annexing Hawaii would burden us with an elephant. The animal is so we'll be- hsved that the Philippines "ele- phant" may be expected to turn out equally we'll.
 The popular rating of the war heroes, as shown in the naming of new postofices, now stands as fol- lows: Dewey, 17; Schley, 5; Shafter and Sigsbee, f each, and Sampson 3.
 Tucson and Phenix, in their mu- nicipal elections, draw the party lines. Prescott, however, throws aside these features, and goes on the principle of may the best man win"
 An Indian squaw carrying a pa poose in one hand and a rife in the other, attracted considerable stten- tion on Washington street yesterday. -Phenix Herald. Hurrah for free silver and statehood!
 Gold is known to exist on nine of the Philippine islands. A rusn there of adventurous Americans would be better than a Klondike boom and yet should be undertaken guarded ly.
 Hill, of New York. and Harrison of Chicago: are Tammany sugges- ton for a presidential ticket in 1900 That is sn excellent metallic com. biaation also. Hill is for gold and H1rrison for silver.
 The Pheni1 Enterprise says that the McCord regiment is to bt mustered out, and that Genera McCord will be appointed governor again of Arizona. With all due re spect to General McCord, th' Enterprise is liar.
 The press of the country is some what eDgrossed over the new fangleC method of voting by machinery and the rspidity with which vote gre counted. If there is any genius who can improve on the machine methods as they prevailed in Yava pal county at the last election, ler him be trotted out.
 Admiral Dewey's expenditures il shot and shell to sink the Spanisi feet st Manila, according to his owI official report, was about S45,0O0 The cost for the same item in dis posing of Admiral Cervera's fleet of Santiago, is between S9O,OOO anc SlO0,OOO Experts regard the figures in both cases as surprisingly low.
 The Enterprise, of Pheni1. wants the general government to pass leg islation for the building of big stor age dams, and yet, in its endeavor tC see the mammoth enterprise started it condemns Governor Murphy and each and eHerH financial policy oi