Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-11
DO NOT KNOW OF PEACE SIGNING
Washington, JAM 1.-THE state department
give official confirmation the public
that the Chinese been signed by
voys at Pekin.

badly fooled. That is not proper par
iiamentary proceedings and 1 won't
stand for it,
1t has remained for the present assem-
bly, to carry off the rather dubious honor
OF creating three offices unknown at any
previous session of the Montana legisla-
ture-reading clerk, assistant journal
Clerk and keeper of the cloak room. OF
course the appOintees were friends of
the fusion members and had to be pro-
vided for. If Lii Hung Chang and Queen
Liliuokalani desire to get their feet into
the financial trough, they may do it by
showing the fusion members of this spot
less body that it is in their power to turn
trick when the time comes for electng
short term senator.
Almost all the legislators here have
severe colds; especially is this true of the
members of the lobby or third house."
Their physical condition is leading to
good deal of ''joshing' around the corri-
sdors of the Grandon and the Helena.
| The departure Of Mr.. Heinze for Butte
last Wednesday at noon is regarded in
this city as having a political bearing
The populists and labor delegates all re-
fused to sign a caucus call, and it is a
| commonly expressed opinion that Mr.
Heinze emulated the Bedouin because he
didn't want 10 be blamed for their re-
fusal.
The generally accredited rumor that
Dan Mcdonald of Butte will be appoint
ed commissioner of the bureau of agri-
culture, labor and industry is a source Of
satisfaction to that genial persons
numerous friends. Dan played promi-
nent part in labor circles during the re-
|. . cent political conventions, and has gone
| on the historic page as one of the human
vases of oratOry that can be called upon
for verbal pyrotechnics at any time and
never be found wanting.
! The labor delegates to the present
lgislature, by the way, are showing a
spirit not usually observed in them in
! the past. They have refused to sign a
| caucus call.
| Among the bills which will be intro
duced during this session, that of Repre-
| sentative Gilchrist of Silver Bow is at
| tracing the most attention. He served
| notice yesterday that today he would in
! troduce "a bill providing for an act pro-
| aiding for an amended location Of mining
| Gains and for the finding of amended
| de,.laratory statements"
| Representative Hedges has the honor
| of attempting to further a novel sciell-
| tific experiment. He wants an appro-
priation of $500, the money to be used
| in experimenting with the incubation OF
! the virus of deadly contagious diseases
on the muscular integument of wolves
and coyotes. In this way. he believes
wolves and coyotes in Montana viii soon
| be extinct. The bill does not provide for
the burial of any specimens that may
fall by the wayside, and for this reason
| some humane persons may think it bor.
ders on the barbarous. However. it is
| not so bad as the theory that the In
| curably ill should be put out of theil
| misery, and the wolves and coyotes vii
never kick about it. anyhow.
| Cne truly remarkable fact in cOnnec-
| ton with the seventh legislative session
! OF this state is that the assembly con.
| tans only three lawyers and the senate
| only four 1t is argued that, for this rea
| son, a majority of the bills which ma,
; be passed will not be declared uncon
| stitutional.