Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-03-08

m the history of the government.
 President Mckinley has no cut and dried Philippines plan to cse- " out. He will do what in bis judgment is right until Congress acts upon the question, and the people are willing to leave it to him.
 General Miles is now where he is compelled to prove his several charges about bad meat issued to the army, to the satisfaction of the military court of inquiry, called by President Mckinley, or take the con- sequences.
 The military court of inquiry now sitting at Washington, is slowly but surely bringing out all the facts about beef issued to the army. II some of these facts are not pleasing to General Miles, he has no one to blame but himself.
 The Bulla vote in the California legislature March went to Barnes. The result of the seventy seventh ballot for United States senator stood as follows: Barnes, 20; Estee, l; Burns, 2; Grant. 26; Scott, 3; De vries O.. l; Rosenfeldt (D., l; White (D.), 2; Phelan (D), 2
 The Southern Pacific company has issued orders to close the fifty mile gap in their coast line between Surf and Elwood. The line is to be completed during the present year, when through trains will be run over this route instead of via the San Joaquin valley.
 The legislature is liable to sur prise their constituents one of these days and make a law rn the interests of the common people Gazette. When democraticl Legislature makes law in the interest of the common people, 1t will indeed be occasion for surprise.
 General Miles mouth piece, the New York Journal, the yellowest and vilest of the whole lot of vile, vel low journals, is just now making . vicious attack on President Mo Kinley and Secretary Alger. This is the democratic method which Miles has of trying to attract atten- tion from himself
 Aguinaldo may really have be- lieved a short time ago that the americans could not remain in the Philippines without his consent but he knows better now. His knowl- edge cost him an army, one-third of which has been killed or captured and the remainder scattered in the bush, in the interior of Luzon. Uncle Sam's trade with John Bull is good, thank you, with a heavy cash balance on the right side. In ! '9S We sold Great Britain goods 10 the value of S5SS,6 ,66l, ,7s7, and bought from her only Slll,S6l,6l7 wortbi an increase of more than 10 per l cent in sales and a decrease of more than 40 per cent iD purchases, com pared with '97.
 The juggling of the womsn's sui ! frage bill in the council has not raised the members engaged in do- | ing so, any in the estimation of the ' people of this territory. If mem bers of the council. who are opposed to this measure would have the man. Illness to come out squarely and op- pose tt, snd kill 1t respectfully they would be respected more by the Peo- ! pie.
 The woman's suffrage bill was re- committed to the coz mittee on ed ucstion the other day, thus virtually defeating the measure, as that com mlttee is said 10 be unfriendly to the measure and the council has DO power 10 compel 1t to report. The bill was committed by the vote ot Udall who has all along supported ! the measure. He says he voted for committing by mistake. He needs ! a steering committee.
 The other day in the council, while that body was in session, and a num- Der of visitors present, one of the members in speaking on a question, said he did not care a d-n what the newspapers said about him. A man who would make such a remark under such circumstances Tn the presence of ladies is certainly lack ing m self-resPect and common de- cency and shows himself unworthy to hold the position he does.
 Governor Murphy is being be- sieged to pardon Fred Hughes. The wise counsels of Mir. Hughes are be- ing sorely missed by the present legislature. When not s member of previous legislatures Mir. Hughes has almost always been on hand as the guiding star of the democratic members. With all his faults, and being as he is, in the penitentiary, there are worse democrats than be, outside of the penitentisry walls and they are not all m the legislature either.
 4 tug of war" entertainment is being advertised to take place in Pheni1 March II to Is inclusive. IT 1t can beat the one which has been going on for the past forty five days, during which the demo cratic legislators have been at one end of the rope aud the people al the other it will be worth going to. IL looks now as if the present con- tnst rnnnnld ha lnst hr tha nannla as