The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-02-23

/ Nebraska on May 8, 1900.
The financial bill that has been
before congress for sometime pass-
ed the Senate on the 15inst. by
vote Of 46 to 20. The house has
the bill now and the confereers are
looking into the bimetallic amend
ment adopted by the Senate.
The consideration of the form Of
government and tariff for Porto
Rico makes this an unusually in
teresting week in congress from
the fact that the steps taken in the
case will directly and permanently
effect all our foreign possessions.
Excsluiyeness is catching, for
a long time the Senate restaurant
had one dining-room exclusively
for Senators and their guests, and
now the House restaurant has set
aside one dining-room for the ex-
elusive use OF Representatives.
The Senate also has one elevator
used by Senators only, but the
House hasn't got that far yet.
The House committee on inter
state and foreign commerce decid-
ed by a vote Of to 5 in favor of
the laying Of Pacific cable by a
q. private company and the payment
of an annual subsidy for twenty
years by the government fox the
F, use OF the cable for government
, messages. There is likely to be a
lively fight on this question Oh
the floor Of the house, as there il
strong sentiment in favor Of gov
eminent ownership of this cable.
Representative Levy Of New
b. York, has introduced a bill provid-
ing for the construction Of an
isthmian canal between the Allan.
b. tie and Pacific oceans which differs
radically from all previous bills
ltprovides fornegotiations between
= this government and all mardtime
nations, with view of securing
their cooperation and contrbu
tions to the cost of the canal, eacl
j nation to contribute in proportion
to its shipping tonnage. In othel
words, to make the canal an inter
national institution.
Z The British Boer war is assum
ing an anxious point. Genera
French has entered Kimberly an,
about has controle while the Bocr.
have lost their held on XululanC
and lower Natal, and probably
Ladysmith by this time, in draw
ing off forces TO hold Roberts anC
French in check. Though sue
, cessful retrcating is one of III,
leading features of war and tn,
Beers are doing good work on thi,
line it appears that the British
have massed and organized thei
forces for the turning point tina
must necessarily come in time.
f The national antitrust league
e. was organized in Chicago last wcel
hoping to bring the people togeth
o er for the purpose of controlling
] and wiping out of existance the
. trusts that are imposing upon the
v people and threatening the very
v eNistance Of our republic. A con
$ vincing argument that such an or
- ganizatioa is a necessity can be
- seen in the statement of Henry
Friok in regard to the Carnegie
Steel company, which with an or
igmal capital of $l0,O00,000, and ,
capital Of S25,000,0oJ uller
! reorganization, had earned NE
S profit during the past year Of $2i
e O0O,O0O, and TINT he estimates the
| net profit Of 1899, at Sl2,0O0,0O0
When we consider that this is the
r profit of only one trust and that
here are huulcelsof such corpor-
t atiops sappiug the life Of this ma
! ton We should begin to realize the
T, absolute necessity cf the Anti-uUs;
League move or some such orgam-
$ zation to cope with it's graspings