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OFF With the Junket.

II LGER's junket, concerning which
I \-,there has been so much talk dur
ing the past few weeks, has been
called off. Secretary Alger had invited
a number of nators and congressman
to accompany him on a trip to Cuba
and Porto Rico. A government vessel
was to be used and the government
was to pay the expenses including the
champagne. The expedition was to
start Immediately after the adjourn
ment of congress.
A few days ago all the democrats who
had been invited on the trip declined the
invitation. They said it would cost a
quarter of a million dollars of the coun-
try's money and they could see nothing
to be gained by it. This opened the eyes
of President Mckinley who inquired of
Secretary Alger if he believed that the
good of the country requires his expen-
sive West Indian iunket. Mr.. Alger re-
piled that while the junket is not alb
solutely necessary he believed much in
formation could be accumulated by per-
sonal observation which might prove
valuable in the future. The president
manifested his disapproval of the iunket
and Alger took the hint. There will
be no picnic.
Apparently the president is beginning
to tumble to the fact that the people
are on to Alger. 1t would be well if it
were off with Alger as we'll as with the
junket. 1t would pay the government to
reimburse Alger for the campaign fund
he placed at McKinleys disposal and
get competent secretary of war.
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n \ ARK TWAIN once told a unique
IV story about a young man who
! was starving in London al
though he had ten thousand pound
bank note in his pocket While no one
seems to have been starving in Helena
during the session of the legislature.
which closed yesterday, nevertheless If
Is reported that thousand dollar bills are
proving very troublesome. They are
unWieldy things. If reports are true,
they have been the cause of untold
worry and anxiety to some of the men,
bers of the legislature
1t is said that one or two saloon keep
ers in Helena prepared themselves to
break any thousand dollar bills which
might be showed on the bar. But only
one or two of the big bills were pre-
scented for change. A thousand dollar
bill is such a dead giveaway that no
member of the legislature can present
one without in reality confessing his
guilt. He can't use such a bill to nav
his board bill. He can't take 1t home
and put it in his local bank without
giving himself away. He cant deposit
the big bills in Helena bank without
meeting the sarcastic smile of the re-
ceiving teller. The bills are reputed to
be very hard things to successfully
hide If placed between mattresses
the landlady is apt to find them while
making up the bed If concealed any
where in ones room a legislator is nat
urally nervous all the time he is awav
from the room for fear that his room
Will be ransacked by detectives lunt-
ing Tor evidence or by burglars. 1t must
De equally unpleasant to keep the
money on ones person. Il is an open
secret that there has been an influx
Oh hlshWaymen and toughs into Helena
Ihey have scented these thousand dol
lar bills and they have located the
men who have them. If they don't sue
coed in holding 'them up before they
leave Helena they propose to follow
them un.il favorable opportunity ar
rives.
Those members Of the legislature who
have rolls of thousand dollar hills T.,
their possession have only two coursas
open to them. They must either RIM
over to Butte and deposit the money in
the bank of W. \. Clark & Brother. or
have that bank negotiate for bonds in
return for the money; or else they mus,
with the adjournment of the legislature
take trip to St. Paul or Chicago or
San Francisco and negotiate with banks
in those cities for the purchase of gov
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A Case of DISCRETION.

7 N his speech at the Auditorium a few
weeks ago, when he ratified his own
election, w. A. Clark pledged him.
self to stay with the present Legislature
until Deer Lodge county should he
divided so that all of the county except
the city of Anaconda should be made
into a new county to be known rs
Powell county. He pledged himself to
see that the circle was removed from
the ballot so that only men of educa-
ton could vote in this state He
pledged himself to see that the gamb-
ling law should not be modified, but
should be so rigidly enforced that the
gamblers would have to go.
The Legislature adjourned yesterday.
and what has been the outcome of
Clark's pledges? AS soon as Clark had
received his certificate of election rs
senator he Immediately deserted those
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The Republican Part in 1t.

| 20 fallacy that can be made can
M relieve the republican party and
the silver republican party, if
there is any, of the ignominy which
sticks to their skirts in consequence
of their ignoble conduct in the late
session. One hundred per cent. of the
silver republican members of the Leg
isiature betrayed their party, thus prac-
tically wiping that party out of exist
ence in this state. SeVentyfive per
cent, of the republican members proved
equally faithless to their party and to
their pledges to their constituents.
No deception can hide these facts. Who
hereafter can trust such men? What
republican can refer with anything but
deepest shame to the conduct Of the
bulk of the republican members of the
legislature?
The honor of the session belongs to
the democrats who refused to sell them
selves to Clark and who return to their
constituents with regulations unstained
by dishonor. 1t belongs also to the
four republican members of the egis-
nature "hom no pflce was big enough
to induce to sell themselves and betray
their party. The people of Montana
irrespective of party will do honor to
these four republicans and to more
than fifty per cent. of the democrats
who resisted temptation. AS to the
other republicans, however republican
organs may strive to condone their Of
Tense, the people cannot be deceived
They are thoroughly convinced of the
inducements which led republicans to
betray their party and no subterfuge,
no fallacious argument can change the
universal belief. Nothing can be said
which will lead any sensible person
to contend that an atom of honor at
taches to the republican party in the
state legislative session.
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eminent bonds or stocks in exchange
for the thousand dollar bills. But that
is very troublesome and somewhat dan
gerous. Suppose detectives should fol-
low them on the train and follow them
into the bank? 1t might prove I'M
pleasant. And 10 take the big bills
home is worse yet. for foot pads and
thieves are likely to follow them ana
there is no secure place for money.
Money is a nice thing to have, but
sometimes one gets rich too rapidly.
Uneasy lies the head these days of the
Iegisla tor who has thousand dollar bills
pinned into his inside vest pocket.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
Welcome to Butte !
~ o Butte to-day will come a n

~ ~ bulLc tO-udy Will collle lull-
Der of the members of the Mon
tana legislature. Citizens of
! Butte will welcome the legislators and
give reception at the McDermott ho-
tel in their honor.
The members of the legislature who
will come to Butte to-day are men who
do not have to make any explanations
to their constituents. Their hands are
clean. They have broken no obliga-
tions or party pledges. They have prov
en- faithless to no trust. They have ac-
cepted no brides. They can look any
friend in the eye without a quiver
They are in no danger of being hanged
in effigy or of having old friends walk
across the street to avoid them. They
are men who have conducted them
selves with honor. There are number
of members of thu legislature who are
unable to claim that.
1T seldom comes to men to be beset
by greater temptations than those
which beset members of the legislature
during the senatorial fight. For that
reason all the more honor is due those
who preferred self-respect to shame.
There are men among those who will
be welcomed in Butte to-day who were
offered as high as $4,000 to sell their
votes to Clark for senator. Some of
those to whom brides were offered are
men who have worked in Butte and in
other parts of Montana for wages not
exceeding Sion nor Tho Ioo;,,..
ure has adjourned and they will 60
back to their same modest positions.
But they will go back respecting them
selves and respected by all. W. A.
ozark has more respect for these men
to-day that he could not bride than he
has for any one of the despicable crea-
lures who sold themselves to him. All
the money in Clarks bank could not
buy single member of the Silver Bow
delegation. The Deer Lodge county
men also, and most of the Missoula and
Ravalli and Cascade county delegations
will return to their homes unsullied by
dishonor, untainted by suspicion. Equal
honor IS due the members from Madi-
son, Park, Meagher, Granite, Beaver
head and other counties who in spite of
temptations that were terrible proved
themselves true men. The four repubf:
cans, too, who placed principle above
pelf, who thought more of their man
hood and their self-respect than of any
considerations that could be offered,
are deserving of the honor and esteem
of all good citizens. They will not need
TO make any explanations when they
go back to their constituents, they can
hold up their heads among their neigh
hors, and their friends can shake their
hands and know that they are shaking
the hands Of honest men.
There is a loyalty which is beyond
price. There is fidelity which is incor
ruptible. There is an honor which is
not for sale and which no man can pur-
chase. Such loyalty such fidelity and
Euch honor are represented by the men
who to-day will honor Butte with their
presence. The people of Butte will make
them welcome.
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Current Comment.
The MuZZle Declined.

From the Springfield (Mass) Republican.
blshop LaWrence's demand that all crti-
clsm Of the United States government
should cease now that it is facing soma
enraged natives in the Orient is calculat ted
to raise smile. To achieve that end the
bishop should have begun 100 years ago to
educate the American people in the idea
tfat the king can do no wrong. So long
as there is free speech in this country
there will be public criticism of the United
states government in its policy and trans
actions. No Protestant Episcopal bishop
can stop it.
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whom he had made the pretext Of try
ing to "emancipate." He left Helena
and Montana and went to Washington.
He had secured everything he wanted
secured it and paid for it. He left the
oppressed to themselves. The Powell
county bill was beaten, the bill to re-
move the circle from the ballot was
beaten, the gambling law was so modi-
fled as to give the gamblers apparently
what they wanted. And all this in
spite of the profuse pledges made by
Mr.. Clark and his several newspaper
organs.
The Butte Miner Of yesterday says:
The bill to remove the circle has been
allowed to be slaughtered in what it
house of it's friends. Fine friends in
deed when not a voice is lifted in it's
behalf What influences produced this
unexpected result the Miner is not pre-
pared to say. What it is prepared to
say is that the sacrifice was unneces-
sary. unwise, unmanly, even cow
ardly."
Yet these very men who refused to
say one word in favor of the bill were
lauded to the skies few weeks ago
by the Miner for voting for Clark. The
fact is apparent that these men whom
Clark was trying to induce to pass
spite legislation would not consent
to pull any more chestnuts out of the
fire unless Clark and his barrel camped
right in Helena with them. The legis-
lators whom Clark counted on to do
his dirty work refused unless they were
paid for it, and Clark was never known
to put up money except to benefit his
own candidacy. Clark deserted the
noble" cause of emancipation He
had all he wanted.
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NEW STYLE BOOK AGENTS.
New Men who Look for Some Vital Point
of Attack.

Book agents? Oh, come! you're be-
hind the times. We don't have book
agents now: we have book solicitors. -
So said the head of the subscription
department of a publishing house, a
man who has the reputation among
publishers of having been one of the
most successful book solicitors" on rec
ord If there is any one in the business
who knows the best tricks of the trade
the best ways and means of selling
books on subscription, he is the very
man. His name is not Seller, but it
ought to be. Hence he may be called
by that name
The book solicitor of to-day" said
Mr.. Seller, lis "a very different person
from the book agent of ten years ago,
The solicitor has inherited all the
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-03
Embarrassing House Rules,

From the Indianapolis Sentinel.
Speaker Reed is giving the administra-
uoh ana the various syndicates and com
pfnes which control 1t no end of trouble
THESE days. The extraordinary rules
winch he invented amidst II chorus of APP
pause from the trusts and monopolies in
whose interest they were at first employed
are now proving a patent instrumentality
IN his hands for the defeat of various ad-
ministration schemes for their benefit and
a noWl of rage is going up from news
paper organs of these robbers and iobbers.
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From the Louisville Courier Journal.
Ihat was perhaps an Unprecedented
scene IN the house of representatives when
the proposition to make Dewey admiral
not only passed unanimously but with
cheers, For once there was neither hon
est opponent, partisan nor fool to saw nav,
The country is fortunate In having on
man at the mention of whose name every
member of even the house Is willing to
acknowledge himself an American.
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Too Busy Watching the Ticker

From the Philadelphia Record.
The senate is becoming more and more
an assemblage of speculative personages
who are quite as much interested in the
ups and downs of stocks in Wall street
as in the public business which they are
selected to transact and which they are
paid for transacting
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From the New York Tribune
The big orders for American locomotives
for English railroads indicate two things.
one is that the recent strikes in England
nave seriously injured the industries of
tEat country, making establishments un-
ahle TO I'LL orders. The other is that the
United States is capable of supplying de-
mands more promptly than any other ma
ticn, and as satisfactorily as any at least.
in point of quality.
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Philippine Barbarity.


From the Lafayette Journal.
Among other hideous barbarities prac-
ticed by the Philippine rebels" they do
not hesitate to attack with bows and ar
rows American soldiers absolutely I'M
armed save for machine guns and Krac-
JorgenSon rifles
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From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
France has been so long torn by mob
violence that 1t is refreshing now to sec
the authorities stretch forth a furnishing
h&nd to restore order. If president Lou
bet can succeed in persuading Paris that
government is something real and strong
and dignited he will have accomplished a
mission in which the nation will have am
pie reason for many generations to thank
him
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From the Springfield Republican.
This will be a billion and half con-
gress, but the country must await the next
one to thoroughly realize the possibilities
of true bigneSs.
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Butte. Missoula and Great Falls, where
advertising rates will be furnished on APP
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Thousand Dollar Bills,

n u ARK TWAIN once told UNIQUE
wi story about young man who
was starving in London al
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HOT ON THE TRAIL.
Sheriff Dunn of Carbon County Has
Probably Met the U. P. Robbers.


Special Dispatch to the Standard
Helena, June 21.--Sheriff Dunn of
Carbon county has probably ere this
captured or had fight in the noun
famous portion of Northern Wyoming
with six men who are supposed to be
the Union Pacific train robbers Joseph
Wooman, United States marshal this
afternoon received a telegram from Red
Lodge stating as much. The telegram
gave the essence of a letter that had
been received by Cashier Vail of the
Carbon County bank from Sheriff Dunn,
dated June Is, and sent from Lowell,
Wyo. The sheriff stated that he and
two others at that date We're hot on
the trail of the robbers, who We're pro-
ceeding up the Sinking Water river to-
wards McCulloughs peak, and that
1t was expected to overtake them before
the night of the 18th. The sheriff was
unable to secure additional help, but
any one knowing his record for fearless
ness meet not think for a minute that
that would deter him. The letter from
Dunn which was wired to Marshal
Woolman says:
I'VE are hot on the trail and will
probably mix with them before this
reaches you. TWO men about half a
day ahead of us are headed up Stink
ing Water on south side. four following
headed toward McCullough peak. We
expect to overtake them tonight Dick
Hicks, myself, Frank Beller. Can't get
help"
From the tenor of the letter it is ex-
pected that there was either an arrest
or fight between the officers and sus-
poets three days ago. The country to-
ward which the alleged highwaymen
We're heading, the source of the Stink
ing Water, is located in the Shoshone
mountains, and is reached after jour
ney through bad lands and a broken
country. 1t is a hard country to pur-
sue escaping criminals. The Sinking
Water is a western tributary of the Big
Horn river and Lowell, where Sheriff
Dunn's letter was mailed is located
on the Sinking Water about six miles
above where it empties into the Big
Horn. Marshal Wooman has received
nothing additional as to the outcome of
the attempt of Sheriff Dunn to capture
the suspects. 1t may be three or four
days before word can be received from
the intrepid sheriff.
Marshal Woolman received a teIe-
gram tonight from Marshal Tfudsell cf
Wyoming, stating that an officer armed
With a warrant and accompanied bv
one of the Union Pacific train crew had
left for Dillon for the purpose of seeing
the two men who We're captured at Red
Rock on suspicion of being the two
Roberts brothers belonging to the train
robbins gang. The railroad man with
the officer was with the train crew and
it is believed can easily identify the
Roberts brothers.
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A Quantity of Cigars Seized.

San Francisco, June 21.-Burt Thom-
as of the internal revenue service to-
day seized 250,000 cigars and tobacco
valued at $1,000 in the Capital cigar
factory, the largest cigar factory in
this city. For some time past Thomas
has been trying to connect the firm with
the refilling of empty cigar boxes, and
to-day succeeded in tracing lot of
cheap cigars which had been placed in
boxes which had formerly contained
imported cigars to the Capital factory.
The firm has also been initiating for
eign stamps and in other ways yiolat-
ing the internal revenue laws. This is
the most important seizure made here
for long time.
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MATAAFA SURRENDERS ARMS.
Malfeton Tanu Recognized as King by
the Three Powers.

Apia, Samoa, June IA, via Auckland,
N. H., June 21.-Mataafa has surren-
dered 1850 rifles and the loyalists have
given up 1000. After June 90 a heavy
penalty will be enforced upon natives
found with rifles in their possession.
Mataafa promised to turn in more
weapons.
The natives have returned to their
homes. Malietoa Tanu was recognized
as king by the commissioners of the
three powers and the decision of Chief
Justice Chambers in the matter of the
kingship was proclaimed valid and
binding. Malietoa Tanu then abdicated
in favor of the commissioners, who ap-
pointed provisional, government, con-
sisting of the consuls of the three pow
ers, empowering a majority to act in
all cases where unanimity is not re-
quired by the Berlin treaty.
Chief Justice Chambers continues to
hold Office and the various municipal
officials are confirmed. DR.. Wilhelm
Solf has been authorized to act as
president of the municipality of Ap;a
The commissioners expect to leave on
June rs, but they have requested Chief
Justice Chambers to remain Their re-
port recommends the abolition of king
ship in the island and the appointment
of a governor and an executive council
consisting of three nominees of the
three interested powers, assisted by
native house.
Under this scheme the governor
would have veto over general and
municipal laws the nominees would be
the department heads, consular, diplo-
matte and judicial functions would be
abolished: revenue would be raised by
an increase of duties and poll tax, the
jurisdiction Of the supreme court would
be increased; the municipality, under
mayor and council. would be extended.
and the postoffice would be under the
general government.
The British cruiser Porpose, Captain
Sturdee, left via Fiji on June s. Apia
and the country roundabout are resum-
ing normal conditions. The Americans
and Britishers express satisfaction at
the decision of the commissioners.
Among the Germans it is rumored that
DR.. Zolf will be the administrator in
the new native government.
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Weekly Crop Report.

Special Dispatch to the Standard
Helena, June 2l.-The weekly crop billie
tin issued to-day by Section Director
Glass of the weather bureau says that fire.
quent showers were general throughout
the stateduring the beginning of the week,
followed by bright sunshine and warm
weather, which caused all crops to make
rapid growth. Although the growing sea-
son has been shorter than usual. reports
are very favorable for a good hay crop.
Gardens are growing as well as could be
expected under favorable weather condi-
tons. Cut worms are giving some trouble
in Choteau county and potato bugs in
large numbers have made their appear
ance in the vicinity of Missouia.