The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-25
Republicans Cannot Pass a Cur
rency Measure.
WITHOUT THE PARTY PALE
Silver Republicans in Congress Fully
Approve the Removal of Senator
Mantle as Chairman Tho
Post Praises Bryan.
Washington Bureau of the Standard,
No. 1145 G. Street N. w.

managers have abandoned all attempt
to pass currency legislation at the pres
ent session, and have given the surren-
der all the publicity possible Repre-
sentative McCleary of Minnesota, the
sponsor of the Hugh Hanna greenback
retirement scheme in the house, has
formally withdrawn the bill for which
Mark Hanna's brother has been labor
ing so hard since the election of 1896.
This bill was originally drafted by the
Indianapolis bankers convention and
Is the one in which Commodore Power
took SO much interest during the late
campaign. Power, as one of the vice
presidents of the Indianapolis enter
prise. assisted in circularizing the coun-
try in favor of republican candidates
for congress. The letters and the man
ner of their circulation have been here
tofore fully exploited in this CORE
spondence.
When McCleary Withdrew the bill he
made feeble effort to explain that it
might be represented, after a new vote
IN committee. But when Representa-
tive Richardson of Tennessee cornered
him with an inquiry as to how and
when it was to be reported he lodged
the question by declaring that he was
d
prophet. 1t requires no prophet, how
ever, to successfully predict in the
premises. The bill will never be heard
OF again at the present session of con-
gress and probably not at the next.
The silver republicans of the senate
and house in their resolutions approx
Ing the removal Of Senator Mantle as
chairman OF the Montana state COM
mittee have given an unequivocal in
dorsement to the course of Chairman
Towne. But it is not yet apparent that
Senator Mantle recognizes the author
1ty of his colleagues in the matter. He
says he considers himself a silver re-
publican and actively identified with
the only silver republican party in the
state of Montana, and he does not see
that the resolutions have anything to
do with the case" The silver republi-
cans, however, regard this resolution
as placing him definitely without the
party pale.
The Washington Post thinks that
have been very forceful and fortunate
and have improved his status before
the country. The Post, which is a
strong gold paper, says in a current
editorial:
1T has rarely been the happy fortune
OF any political leader in the United
States to please so many of his fellow
deliverances of the Hon. William J.
Bryan since his retirement from the
army restored to him the privilege of
discussing public questions. His prompt
and clear perception of the necessity
of ratifying the treaty and his logical
and eloquent advocacy of that step
came at the right time and in the right
way He saw, and he enabled a good
many others to see, that the first duty
was to put a formal end to the war
that had been only nominally ended by
the protocol and the signing of the
treaty. That done, the time for discuss
ing questions relating to the govern
ment of the Philippines would have ar
rived. This patriotic and statesmanlike
attitude won the approval of all men
OF all parties, saving only the few inn
placable opponents of the acquisition
OF the sovereignty Of the Philippines
Not less fortunate in pleasing his
countrymen is Mr.. Bryan's continued
advocacy of free coinage. In this he
mas the hearty approval alike of the
friends of 16 to 1 and the advocates of
the gold standard. The former believe
with him that there must be no sur
render of their cause and that in 1900
a second battle of the standards must
pc fought. The latter believe that Is to
! Is slowly but surely dying out, and
they think that such speeches as Mr.
Bryan made at. Denver on the 18th in
slant will hasten its final exit. They
hope he will go right on with his cru
sade until the November election in the
last year of the century. Even the
small contingent of both parties who
are displeased with Bryan's advocacy
OF ratification bid him good cheer as he
goes up and down the land on his free
silver mission. When before did any
orator or statesman ever win the plaud-
its of all men of all parties by dis
cussing political questions?'
Special Agent James McLaughlin's
report on the conditions of the Tongue
River Indians has been sent to the SEN
ate. Senator Lee Mantle has prepared
an amendment to the Indian appropria-
ton bill covering McLaughlin's recon-
mendations This amendment sets aside
as a permanent Indian reservation the
following lands:
Beginning in the middle of the chan
mel OF Tongue river at its intersection
with the southern 40-mile limits of the
grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad |
company, thence west on the said south |
ern 40-mlle limits to it's Intersection with |
the eastern boundary line of Grow In
oian reservation; thence south on said |
boundary line to it's intersection with |
the line dividing townships five and SIX |
south; thence east on said dividing line |
OF townships five and six south to its |
intersection with the line dividing Sec |
tlons u and 35 in township |
south, OF range AZ east; thence
north two miles on said section
ine: thence east on the line dividing |
sections % and &c to its intersection with |
COOK creek; thence down Cook creek to |
us confluence with Tongue river: thence |
down the middle of the channel of |
Iongue river to the place of beginning.
Certain tracts approximating S. acres,
y west OF tongue river, in sections
rs and "a in township four south, of
range 45 east, owned by Joseph Scott
and the northeast quarter of sectio,
.hree in township three south, of range
a east, belonging to Saint Labra's Mis-
sion, and the south half of the north
west quarter of section 10 in township
;wo south, of range A east. belonging
% X, +. Colbert, are excepted from the
reservation
This shall be called the Northern
cheyenne reservation and shall be for
he use and the occupancy of the In