The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-03-24
ana the bill will he considered hsrsae.
ter, no matter how many are present.

'eA' nv ni"'tei how ihhhy are present.
The President has pardoned Captain
McCalla Of the navy, who was court
mnrtialed several years ago and SEN
fenced to the loss of ten numbers In
rank. Captain McCalla is one Of the
ablest and bravest officers In the navy,
and was placed in position where he
was compelled either to suffer humuli-
alton or violate the rules of the SER
vice. A court-mnrtial found his gull
ty. He suffered the penalty and was
restored to duty just in time to per-
form not only useful but distinguished
service In command of the cruiser Mar
blehead during the war with. Spain.
As a recognition of those services the
President has granted him a full par
don and restored him to the place he
formerly occupied on the naval list.
The highest compliment that could
have been paid Captain McCalla and
one OF the most striking illustrations of
the generosity and chiyalry Of the SER
vice was a letter addressed to the
President by the ten fellow officers
who would suffer from his restoration
asking that 1t be made. The President
could not resist such manly appeal.
Senator Depew is very remarkable
man, both for his obliging disposition
as well as for his Intellectual versatile
ty and his physical endurance. On Fri
day night he made an elaborate adj
dress to the Yale alumni In Washing
ton. Saturday morning he went to
New York with the Gridiron Club and
made the principal speech at the din
ner given in its honor by the Lotus Club
Of that city. He returned to wash
ington on Sunday and Sunday night de-
livered an address in behalf Of the
Boys Republic at the Columbia thea
ter, at which the President and other
distinguished men were present. Al
the close Of his speech he took the
midnight train for New York, where
tonight he is to deliver another
speech of an hours length before an
association of business men. He has
two other engagements for public nh-
dresses during the week. On all OF
these occasions Senator Depew spoke
without notes and without other prep
nration except reflection, and his four
topics were as different rs they posi-
bly, could be.
The House has passed bill to regu-
late beach mining ut Cape Nome, and 1t
is said to be satisfactory to the several
representatives Of Alaskan interests
who nre now here trying to get some
kind of legislation under which mining
camps may be organized and order pre-
served during the rush of next sum-
mer. The act of 1893 reserves along
the coast and shorts of ull waters in
Alaska highway Of sixty feet in
width and the riparian rights MS the
property of the government. Last
year the richest deposits Of gold were
found upon this reservation and the
beach between 1t and low water, which
Is termed tide land" Although for
hidden by strict Interpretation Of the
law, no power on earth can prevent
the miners from washing the sand
along the seashore, and In order that
they may do SO peaceably 1t is neces-
sary to make some kind Of regulations
under which 1t may be permitted.
Congress has been convinced Of this by
the testimony Of every person who has
come here from Alaska. The effect
of the bill which passed the House
Monday, and is almost sure to pass the
Senate within few days, is to legal
lie what the mincrs at Cape Nome
have already done on their own &C.
count and to give the force Of statutes
~ kut ICk ulu(lOuB lucy huUplCu IOI
their own government. It allows indi-
sea beach, which is government res
eryation, twenty-five feet in width,
and miners meetings may on their dis
erection enlarge them to n maximum
limit of 800 feet in width. 1t Is be-
lieved that this will prevent iawlcss-
ness in the struggle for wealth that Is
expected at Cape Nome during the
coming summer.
Sooner or later the Republican party
will. come up against an economical
question which will seem thousand
times more serious than that which
now perplexes its leaders in connection
with the government of Puerto Rico.
1t will be blessing for all concerned
If 1t can he settled by the courts before
1t reaches Congress, but even then ev-
cry Republican, from the President
down, will be compelled to adapt them
self to new conditions which the ex-
pansion policy of their party has Gre
ated. At this session of Congress the
Republican managers and the high
tariff protectionists have been sorely
disturbed by the reciprocity treaties
which their national convention
pledged the President to make; by the
admission OF Hawaii, which was also
a prominent feature in their platform,
and by the Puerto Rican tariff law.
Every new proposition connected with
commercial or territorial expansion
seems to hit some industry that is pro-
tected by the tariff and to involve the
political future of one or more Republi-
can politicians and the control Of the
House of Representatives. If the
French reciprocity treaty is ratified the
New England and New Jersey manu-
facturers will bolt; the wool growers
of Ohio, Wyoming. Montana and other
states will vote the Democratic ticket
IL the Argentine treaty goes through;
the sugar-beet farmers threaten to re-
volt II the reciprocity treaties with the
British West Indies are ratified, and
Connecticut will go Democratic If Puer-
to Ncan tobacco is admitted free.
These and others that might be men.
toned are Republican propositions.