Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-02-21

Mir. Bryan has gone south to thaW ont the icicles he brought away from New Jersey and New York.
 The announcement that President Mckinley may serve as an aide-de- camp on the staff of Commander-ln Chief Shaw at this years G. A. R. encampment may puzzle foreigners, but it is all right.
 Andrew Carnegie is having as much trouble with his business part pers as he is with the foreign policy of President McKinley's administra- tion. It's hard for any man to be the whole thing, either in business or in politics.
 President McKinley's O. K. on that Nicaragua canal treaty is a sufficient guarantee that it is all right. but it will be further clinched by the ratification of the senate. Then, let congress provide for the construction of the canal.
 The house committee on territor- ies has favorably reported bill pro- viding a territorial form of govern ment for Hawaii. This or some other bill should be at once put through congress, as the present nondescript government is not satls- factory to anybody. President Me Kinley has asked congress to legis- late for Hawaii at once.
 Colonel Watterson, who is mas ter hand at political juggling, IS now engaged in trying to put the blame for all of Kentucky's troubles on a railroad. The law-abidlng people of the state have long ago placed the blame where it belongs on the democratic bosses.
 The senate passed the republican financial bill on schedule time, and now the senate bill and the house bill will go to a conference commit tee. which will decide how much of both shall be retained in the bill that will be sent to the president. The difference between the bills is not i'm portant enough to make any trouble in reaching an agreement.
 A telegram from Frankfort says that the latest move in Kentucky politics is an effort which is being made by a number Of prominent men to divide Kentucky into two states. After the present affair 1t IS said that it will be impossible for the mountaineers to live in harmony with the remainder of the state, and a division of the state is considered to be the only peaceable solution of the question. Kentucky has been pretty well divided for some time.
 The house committee on the cleo tion of president and vice-president has submitted report in favor of a joint resolution, for a constitutional amendment disqualifying polygam- ists for election as senators or rep resentatiEes in congress, and prohib- iting polygamy and polygamous as sociation between the sexes. The report refers to the Roberts con- troversy and says that while the de- cision of the house establishes precedent, it is not one of absolutely binding force so that a constitu- tional amendment is desirable.
 A correspondent writing from Kimberly says that "when the guns first engaged us, we passed the time by keeping tally of the number of shells fired, but everybody has given that up now. We know that up to today 1900 projectiles have flown oyer us or burst in the town, yet the number of persons killed or injured by the shells only amounts to about half dozen. Search the war his tory of the world and 1 believe you will find this to be the most marvel ous thing of the kind on record" This certainly looks like a terrible waste of ammunition.
 The Hague peace treaty is one for peace and not for mere med ding. Besides, the American dele gates signed only under the express written stipulation that the United St ltes should not be held required to interfere under the mediation cla Ise in any strictly European matter. The ratification of the tre Ity by the senate, therefore, does not bind the president to attempt the uninvited task of mediation in South Africa.
 The brave action of Representa- tive Sibley of Pennsylvania, in leav- ing hIs life long allies who elected him to office and coming over to the republicans is significant of the change in party issues. All else is rapidly sinking into insignifcance com pared with the mighty ques- tio l> involved in expansion and the extent to which the constitution ap- plies to the new territory. The pre- liminary skirmIsh on this question is to be fought in congress during the coming week.
 New England has been visited with terrible gales and rain storms during the past few days. For twenty hours a heavy rain, after wIPing away the snow and ice, brought to a climax the most unsea- sonable winter New England has known in many years. Tributary bodies of water which few weeks ago were so low that drought in midsummer was threatened, have hsen changed into torrents more | threatening in volume than in the usual spring freshets. Consideras ! damage is reported.