The Holly chieftain., 1900-03-09

unfinished business and will be consid
cred as soon as the conference report
on the finance bill shall have been dis
posed Of, next Tuesday.
The proceedings OF the Senate com.
mittee on privileges and elections In
the case Of Senator Clark OF Montana
Tuesday dealt with the bank accounts
of some Of the members OF the Mon.
tana Legislature. One Of these accounts
was that Of Representative Stephen
Bywater Of Flathead county, who de
posted $4,000 In the Bank of Mon.
tana at Helena on the Bird Of lasi
March, after the adjournment of the
Legislature. Mr.. Bywater was put on
the stand. He said that he had brought
$1,000 Of this sum to Helena with him
and kept 1t In his trunk all winter,
while 5000 had been received from
his brother as purchase money on IL
sale OF mining stock. He declared that
he had not received any pny for his
vote for Mr. Clark for the Senate, but
said that Mr.. Whiteside had told him
that he could get 5000 for supporting
Mr.. Clark, but he refused it.
General Greely. chief OF the signal
corps of the army, is finding difficulty
In securing efficient men to I'LL the VA.
cancies in his branch of the service.
Although the standing strength Of the
signal corps is less than LOCO officers
and men. more than sixty vacancies
exist. The difficulty in making enlist
ments is probably due to the rigid re.
quirements and low pay. Priyates and
non-commissioned officers receive the
pay of corresponding rank in the in.
fantry. 1t is not so difficult to secure
second-class privates. because they
need not be telegraph operators. ii
Will be readily seen that the salaries,
ranging from that of second-class prl
vate at SIT month to that of first
sergeant at S54, are hardly sufficient To
induce competent operators to enlist.
especially in view of the uncertainty OF
the assignments they may receive.
1t is the intention of the Treasure
Department, as soon MS the pendin.
financial bill becomes law. to expe.
dite as fast as possible the coinage OF
silver bullion purchased under the
Sherman act. still remaining in the
treasury. There is still ON hand bul
lion purchased under this act costing
SIS,O0O,6O5 and represented by that
amount of treasury notes outstanding.
The department has been coming this
bullion into dollars at the ratet of ST..
100000 per month. The financial bill
authorizes the coinage of enough of
this bullion into subsidiary coin to
bring the total subsidiary coins up 10
S1OO.0O0,0O0. This will require aboui
S25,OOO,00O in subsidiary coins and IL
will be coined as rapidly as possible.
In addition to this the department pro.
poses to increase the coinage of silver
dollars to 81 100000 per month, and an
effort will be made to have all this bn.
lion coined and all treasury notes re-
tired in year and a half.
The United States Supreme Court has
denied the application of Captain Ober.
lin Nj. Carter recently convicted by
court martial of defrauding the gov
ernment, for review of his case by
that tribunal, and thus ended one of
the most desperate contests In the his
tory of military law. Although the
punishment imposed upon Captain Car
ter Is one of the severest sentences
ever recorded, and the members of the
court have consistently refused to rec
ommend clemency, his attorneys and
many loyal friends still assert his in
nocence and consider him the victim
of conspiracy. No defendant in II
criminal case, however, had better or
more influential counsel. and they have
exhausted every resource that could
be devised. Nothing except the pardon of
the President now remains between
Captain Carter and the penitentiary
Carter will probably be taken to Leav-
enWorth, Kansas at once, under Il
guard, to begin serving his five-year
sentence in the military prison there.
Major General John X. Brooke, who
has been in Washington since his re-
cent detachment from duty as COVER
nor general of Cuba. has been slated
for the command of the military de.
partment of the East, with headquar-
ters at New York City. The change in
that command will not occur until
June next, when Major General Wes
ley Merritt will retire. General
Brooke was offered his choice of the
commands of the Department of the
Lakes and the Department of the East.
and expressed his preference for the
latter assignment. General Merritt's
retirement will result in the promo
tion of Brlgadier General +. S. Otis
tmajor general United States volun.
teers), commanding the military forces
in the Philippines, to the grade of ma
jor general in the regular establish
ment. 1t will also make vacancy in
the list of brigadier generals of regu-
lars, which will be filled by the ap-
pointment of some officer who has rem
dered distinguished services in the
Philippine campaign.
Mr.. Tlllman has been trying to jus
tify the policy of the southern states
in DISTINGUISHING the negroes by show
ing that the Republicans of the Sen
ate are not willing to allow universal
suffrage in the Hawaiian islands. He
argues that the half-civilized natives