Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-01

Congressmen are accused or DeihB indifferent in regard to legislation for Hawaii.
 The senatorial investigating com mittee at Sacramento received only cold crumbs of comfort from At torney Herrin.
 The latest howl from the eonti- nent of Europe is that decision of the U. s. supreme court will injure German and French manufacturers and benefit English manufacturers.
 Under charter from the Inter national Typographical Union, a Newspaper Writers Union has been organized in New York City. Its workings will be watched with in terest by those engaged in the mak- ing of newspapers.
 A seven-foot Arab is en route from Constaptinople to New York, 10 fight Sharkey. His manager is al ready in New York and has issued sformal challenge, saying he is will ing to put up either Arabian or American money on his na9.
 Col. Dan Burns told that invest igating committee that he did not decide to run for United States senator until the day after Christ mas. He only did so then because De Young and Spreckles continued their attack on him and said he should not have the place. It is a fight to the finish now.
 The industrious Washington cor respondents are now telling just what the report of the war investi- gating commission, shortly to be made to the president, will contain. As the guesses are of all sorts and conditions, some of them are quite likely to be correct.
 There is neither reason or sense ID l Maricopa county maintaining its quarantine against Prescott. Our citizens should make vigorous pro test against it. The small pox con- tagion has been under control for a month, there having been only two eases reported this month.
 "Will say now that while the re- publicans did put such a plank iu their platform (meaning the initiat- i've and reierendum.-Ed.) that the world will die of old age before any republican congress or legislature will give the people or any portion ofthem any such privilege. Courier A republican has introduced such bill in the council of the territorial legislature. We will see whether the democrats, who are in the ma jority, will vote for it or not.
 While legislatures should be very careful about pensioning private ln- dividusls there is an exceptional case of this kind now up before the present legislature. IL is that of Hon. Chas. D. Poston, the proposi- ton being to give him S25 per month. It is doubtful if any man in the territory familiar with the part the old gentleman has taken in the history of Anzons would ob- ject to the territory's paying him this small pittance.
 California, like Maine, is afflicted with senator who will vote against the treaty and the practically un- animous sediment of his state. The California egotist has constitutional scruples against the development of our Pacific commerce. The best thing about him IS that he drops out March 4.-Globe-DemOcrat. The senator's name is Stephen NJ. White, who prefers to represent his own individual views on the question Of expansion to that of representing his constituents.
 The initiative and referendum Is ali right. The Courier is for it. It is really a democratic measure.- Courier. The above is at variance with the ante-election howls of the above paper. The initiative and re- ferendum constituted a plank ID the republican platform, which was de nounced from soda to hook by our contemporary. An effort to intro duce it in the democratic platform was voted down almost amidst misses, showing tha. if it IS a democratic measure 1t Is not wanted by Arizona democrats. I' The saloon keepers of the territory do not seem to be falling over each other in a scramble to raise a sack to defeat the passage of the pro posed blll 10 prohibit the employ ment of singers in saloons. In Tact it is broadly hinted that no effort will be made to defeat this bill, much less that any money will be paid for 1t. It is argued that fl such a bill passes all saloons will be placed on an equal footing and one place will not be compelled to hire attrac- tions of this kind in order to success fully compete with some other one which does. There IS not less than ' from SI0.OOO to Sl5,O00 per annum pad out for this class of help in Prescott alone, and the saloons in the county pay about S5O,00O annu- ally for them. I
 A bill has been introduced in the i New Mexico legislature which pro- I vides that upon the first days of C January and April oI each year every { insurance agent doing business in C