CfV Jerald.
FISK BROS.
Publishers.
R. E. FISK,......Editor
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1888.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
A Territoral Republican Convention will be
held at Livingston, on the 19th day of May, 1888,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of
electing two Delegates and two Alternate Dele
gates to the Republican National Convention, to
l>e belli at Chicago, June 19th, 1888, to nominate
candidates for President and Vice-President of
the Cnited States. The several counties will be
entitled to representatives as follows:
< 'oxrsTtm. No. of Delegates.
Heaverhead....................................................... 4
I aseade...................................................... 3
Choteau.............................................................. 3
Custer............................................................... 5
Dawson........................... 1
Deer Dodge.........................................................10
Fergus................................................................ 3
Gallatin.............................................................. 5
Jefferson............................................................ 6
lewis and Clarke.............................................13
Madison.............................................................. 4
Meagher.......................................................... 3
Missoula............................................................. 7
Park................................................................... 4
Silver Bow.........................................................18
Yellowstone...................................................... 3
Total......................................................... «0
The county Republican Committees of the sev
eral counties (except Cascade) will proceed to
call County Conventions in their respective coun
ties, and elect Delegates and Alternate Delegates
to the Territorial Convention as above desig
nated.
In Cascade county the County Convention may
lie called by the member of the Territorial Com
mittee of that county.
It is desired that ample notice of such Con
ventions be given.
The following rules have been adopted for the
government of the Republican Territorial Con
ventions in the Territory of Montana :
1—Delegates and Alternate Delegates shall lie
elected in the future to Territorial Conventions,
and in the event of the failure of a Delegate to
attend, the Alternate Delegate shall cast the vote
of the Delegate whose Alternate he is.
~—In the absence of a Delegate and his Alter
nate a majority of the Delegation from that
County, shall cast the vote of the absentee.
3— In the absence of all the Delegates and Al
ternate Delegates from any county, no vote shall
be cast for such county.
4— In the county in which the Territorial Con
vention shall be held, when any Delegate and
his Alternate Delegate are absent there shall be
no vote cast in their liehalf.
• r >—Delegates and Alternates must be Republi
can residents of the County which they repre
sent.
By order of the Territorial Republican Com
mittee.
L SALiirvoER, Isaac D. McCctchzoit,
Secretary. Chairman.
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we have arranged to furnish.
Cleveland is said to have secured the
support of Tammany. What did Tammany
secure ?
There is high water in the upper
Mississippi. There ought to be reservoirs
for this surplus.
Cleveland may get the delegates at
large from New York, but he is not certain
of the district delegates.
There is an unusual amount of floating
ice in the North Atlantic, making it dan
gerous for vessels, and breeding storms and
cold. _
Dr. Steele's remarks before his medical
brethren on the occasion of Dr. Eckles'
death were most tonchingly appropriate
and do him infinite credit.
The short inaugural of Mayor Fuller is
full of sound advice and gives sure
promise of such an administration for this
eventful year as will be a credit to himself
and of the highest advantage to ns.
It is not of much importance to the pub
lic who is instigating Gov. Hill's use of
money in elections. The main questions
are • How mach did he use ? Where did
he get it? What are legitimate election
expenses ?_
What did the factious South gain by
the nine days stoppage of business in Con
gress except dishonor and discredit ? The
South pays but a small portion of the
national revenues, but it wants a controling
voice in disposing of them.
The German Emperor seems to be im
proving in health, and it may not be im
possible that his disease should prove to be
something else than cancer. It frequently
proves to be the best medicine in the world
to have something to do which arouses the
ambition to live.
A marked improvement is noted in re
cent Mormon church utterances, and better
still, it is said that there has not been a
plural marriage for more than a year. It
is just barely possible that the Mormons
may learn something and become fit assc
ciates for civilized society.
Inter Mountain : The attempt of the Ter
ritorial Democratic committee to usurp the
power which belongs to the people has re
ceived emphatic condemnation in Helena,
Ilozeman and Missonla, which in the fall
of '86 all went Democratic, and which
within the past week have gone Repnbli
can by heavy majorities. Free wool, free
lead and ring rale cannot be forced down
the Democratic a sophagus.
It has hardly seemed possible to con
ceive that the marriage of two young peo
ple should rapture the established govern
ment and policy of Germany and involve
Enrope in war, but these court alliances
are always diplomatic and political affairs.
The marriage of the daughter of Emperor
Frederick to Prince Alexander would be
interpreted by Russia as an alliance of
England and Prussia in a policy of war
That Bismarck opposes such an alliance
seems strange, and it is still stranger that
the Emperor and his family with Queen
Victoria of England should be urging a
matrimonial alliance so fall of thm»tniwg
danger to the peaoe of two continents.
SINGULAR IF TRUE.
There are rumors, somewhat fishy, of
the discovery of a resident of Montana,
who pretends to think that the passage
of the Mills tariff bill would be a benefit
to the wool-growers of the territory. As
might be expected, this individual is
described as "a leading capitalist." It
might safely be inferred that he was not
a wool-grower. Perhaps this capitalist
has his money all loaned out on sheep,
and expects to reap in his securities at
forclosure sale. There are alway a few
who make money out of others failures
and losses, ghouls and vultures fattening
on the harvest of death. This "leading
capitalist" very naturally anticipates as
the result of the passage of the Mills
tariff bill, that there would be plenty of
sheep for sale at the buyer's own terms.
But he shows his ignorance of the busi
ness in supposing that free grass is all
that is needed, and that sheep take care
of themselves for the other four months,
when free grass is not accessible.
Sheep are not raised to any great ex
tent on lands in the States worth from
$50 to $100 per acre. There is plenty of
land in every one of the States which
can be bought as cheap as any lands in
Montana, on which sheep are pastured
and where sheep herders can be hired for
one-half the wages paid in Montana.
And in the Territories of New Mexico,
Arizona and portions of California and
Colorado, sheep can be raised at one
half the expense and at less risk than
in Montana. Montana is no cheap
country to raise sheep in. Unless we
can raise superior breeds with superior
wool and meat, we can never compete
with other sections where land and
wages are cheaper and the climate is
more favorable.
The "leading capitalist" seems to con
clude that the Mills hill would kill out
the industry generally throughout the
States, and that Montana would harvest
the advantage from their loss. With a
general influx of sheep from other parts
of the country it would not take long to
over stock our ranges, {ind a vast amount
of fodder would have to he stored to
carry these large herds through the win
ter months. How long has it taken for
free range to disappear in Dakota?
The Mills hill has not been designed
for the benefit of Montana, and the fact
that we might gain from the general loss
would hardly secure the passage of the
bill through Congress. Whether any
body would get cheaper clothing is one
of those uncertainties and improbabili
ties that would not do to bank on.
SCHOOL MATTERS.
In oar recent reference to the contest
over school trustee, in this city, we may
have done unpremeditated inj astice to the
intentions of the trustees, bat oar only
apology can be that the matter is of too
great importance to pass unnoticed and
without allowing the subject to degenerate
into a personal controversy or to draw in
question personal motives or deal in sus
picions of ulterior designs, it is perfectly
legitimate, and as we conceive, a duty of
every citizen to know just how oar public
schools are managed and to endeavor to
have them so managed as to secure the ut
most efficiency. That there has been lack
of harmony and confidence between the
trustees and superintendent of oar city
schools daring the year past with
consequent relaxing of discipline
and loss of efficiency is notorions. We are
free to say that we do not believe there
was any intention on the part of the trus
tees to deprive the superintendent of his
proper anthority and influence. The
records of the board show the adoption of
resolutions that if strictly and consistently
carried oat give the superintendent ample
powers. And yet it is a fact that in numer
ous instances teachers have been employed
without consultation with the superin
tendent, and those so appointed naturally
felt to some degree independent of the
superintendent and bave not as they other
wise wonld have cordially co-operated to
carry oat his plans and wishes. We think
the whole trouble comes from an incorrect
estimate of the fonctions of ,a saper
intendent. He is not simply a teacher, re
sponsible for a certain department of the
general work, but should have power cor
responding with his responsibility for the
efficiency of the entire system and control
of every part necessary to accomplish this
end. A general cannot fairly be held re
sponsible for the results of a campaign, if
he has nothing or bat little to say respect
ing his subordinates, on whom the execu
tion of his plans depends. There is a vast
difference between a formal, general obe
dience of orders and that hearty co opera
tion and alacrity in execution which alone
can give certainty of any great success. As
we said before, if a superintendent does
not enjoy the fall confidence of a board, he
should not be employed, but when em
ployed, he should have all the powers to
ensnre success and be held responsible for
the results.
As the parties more directly involved
desire to avoid even the appearance of con
troversy, we have no right to speak of the
matter farther than general interests are
affected.
The Senate military committee to-day
favorably reported on the nominations
of Crook and Brooke for Major General
and Brigadier General respectively. Their
confirmations will be heard from following
the next executive session—probably the
fore part of next week. It is thought that
Brooke will be assigned to the command
of the Department of the Platte, with
headquarters at Omaha.
If Dakota were a Democratic State, or
could give reasonable assurance of becom
ing one, the admission bill would go
through Congress and be approved by the
President in no time. It is a crime to be
punished with disfranchisement for a citi
zen to be a Republican in Dakota jut as
it is a crime under English law for a man
to be an Irishman in Ireland.
EXPATRIATION.
There needs no stronger proof of mis
government and'discontent in Ireland
than the fact that 2,600 emigrants left
that unhappy country last week. This
would amount in a year to 135,000, and
all this is in spite of the most earnest
efforts of the political leaders and Catho
lic clergy.
It is not altogether owing to the fact
that the outlook for home rule is so dis
couraging, because there is every reason
to believe that the cause is gaining sup
porters all the time in England, and that
some tardy measure of justice will soon
be granted to the Irish people. Many
of the same causes are driving into vol
untary exile the people of other Euro
pean countries, Germans and Scandina
vians.
There are no reasons to suppose that
the Norwegians, Swedes and Danes are
oppressed or over-burdened with taxa
tion. They leave to better their condi
tion, just as they did a thousand years
ago, and have been doing ever since.
The glowing accounts sent home by
those who have come to this country,
and the frequent home visits of those
who have gathered fortune and fame in
this new world, which they never could
have obtained at home under the most
favorable circumstances, are perhaps the
chief incentives to emigration.
But in the case of Ireland, it seems to
us that a wise British government would
recognize the necessity of fostering
manufactures for the retention of the
people, and seek to make them both pros
perous and contented subjects. Ireland
could easily support double its popula
tion with any sort of government inter
ested in promoting home industries.
But the same policy is still pursued by
the English towards Ireland that [drove
the American colonies into revolt and
independence. It matters not how many
Englishmen go over to Ireland to work
the estates abandoned by the native
tenants, they become just as Irish as the
natives in ihe course of two or three
generations. In fact, the descendants of
English settlers are now the most de
termined opponents of British misrule,
the most active Land Leaguers. The
time is approaching when all the great
colonies of England will become inde
pendent, and all that will be left of
Great Britain will be the British Islands.
Then will appear the amazing folly of
the course that has driven its best blood
into exile and wasted the only means
and opportunity to make a powerful
nation at home.
WELCOME WATER.
Yesterday was a great day for Helena
however little notice was made of the fact,
that for the first time practical demon
stration was made that oar city
coaid be supplied with a plenty
of pare, cheap water from unfailing
sources near at hand. For years it has
been the great and anxious study of our
people to know from what source they
could hope to secure a sufficient snpply of
good water for a great city. It seemed as
if there was no way to reach such a sap
ply except to go to the Missouri river
and bring it thence at a heavy
outlay and by works that would
take years to complete. The
fact of the existence of a great under
ground lake right oar doors, was not sus
pected till Woolston discovered it, and in
one short season demonstratad that it was
available, and at his own expense con
structed the works to supply our wants.
Instead of having to pay fabulons sums
for water snpply and bond our city to the
utmost limits of its credit to build works
and wait years for results, it has all come
to ns with little trouble and no municipal
expenditure whatever. The old supply re
mains, snch as it is, undiminished. The new
supply is virtually a new creation or dis
covery, an addition of hundreds of thou
sands to our fixed capital and permanent
wealth. The growth of our city at its
most critical period is assured to proceed
uninterruptedly. The great danger of
fires, from which we have heretofore suf
fered so much, and which was increasing
greatly as the city became more compactly
built with loftier structures, has been
greatly diminished and with it
the rates of insurance will gradu
ally be reduced. Our streets
can be sprinkled,our lawns overspread with
verdure, onr yards and roadways outlined
with agreeable shade trees. In fact, a new
era has dawned, aud Helena has acquired
the greatest boon that she most needed at
little or no cost to her corporate funds.
Hurrah for pare, clean water ! Exit worms
and vermifage, and slum dams on the ali
mentary canals ! Whisky is less of a nec
essity and more of a dispensible luxury
than ever before in Helena.
CRITICISING HAUSER.
Colonel Daniel Searles, who was once
the free trade editor of onr esteemed con
temporary, the Miner , thus touches np
Governor Haoser in the Slock Growers'
Journal for having told a New York
reporter that the people of this territoiy
favor the passage of the Mills bill:
Ex-Governor Hauser, of this territory, in
a recent interview in an Eastern paper, is
credited with the remark "that the wool
industry of this territory would not be
mach affected by the Mills tariff bill which
places it on the free list," and the wool
men of Montana are fighting mad over it.
We do not believe that the governor made
such a statement, and that he will very
promptly deny it. Nobody knows better
than Governor Hauser the effect that the
proposed redaction would bave on ihe in
terests of the territory, for he was one of
its earliest settlers, and has seen the
growth and development of the wool in
dustry to its present magnitude, and
knows of the hardship and privations that
sheepmen have undergone in making a
humble home and living for themselves in
this territory. He knowing also how much
damage the last reduction in wool inflicted
upon the industry in Montana, we think
then will soon appear a plain statement
from him on this subject
LOWELL ON STATESMANSHIP.
James Russell Lowell has written
much and many things well. He served
with credit as Minister to the court of
St. James. He is posing now as an
"independent in politics," and professes
to be an expert in statesmanship. Very
singularly, to illustrate his views of
statesmanship he cites and compares the
views of Burke and Dr. Johnson on the
American troubles in our revolutionary
days. On that issue, of course we all
coincide that Burke sbov ed himself a
statesman, not only in comparison with
Doctor Johnson, who was only a great
scholar and writer, and made no pre
tense of being a political leader, but in
comparison with Lord North, who was a
statesman of the Tory school, and much
more of a statesman, considering the age
in which he lived, than Salisbury of the
present day.
It takes more than a single act or the
advocacy of a single wise measure to
constitute a statesman. Burke's im
peachment of Warren Hastings and his
furious opposition to the French revolu
tion, however brilliant, are not gener
ally regarded as statesman-like. Burke
was a staunch supporter of monarchy
and aristocracy, and, judged by the best
standards of authority, is not and never
has been considered a great statesman,
like William Pitt, for instance.
Lowell again cites Fessenden and
Trumbull as statesmen for voting against
the impeachment of Johnson. How
ever wise and independent these Sena
tors may have acted in that instance, it
is a narrow basis on which to erect a
general claim for statesmanship. Both
have higher and better claims [to the
rank, and in the case of Trumbull, as in
that of Horace Greeley, his affiliation in
later days with the party that opposed
every principle advocated by them in
their better days, shows him to be a base
and cheap counterfeit of a statesman.
We are glad for once to agree with
Lowell that Lincoln was a statesman.
He was wise and consistent throughout,
conciliatory, never headstrong, groping
sometimes in dark and difficult places,
hut always keeping close to the heart of
the people. In some of Lowell's recent
utterances we remember that he has said
that Grover Cleveland was the greatest
statesman since the days of Lincoln. No
details are given, but we can easily sup
ply them from the heterogenous annals
of mugwumpery. Cleveland has been
a staunch supporter of civil serv
ice reform in theory and a per.
sistent violator of it in practice. Besides
he has adopted the exploded vagaries of
the Cobden school and reached the con
clusion that the wages of American
workmen are too high and that we can
get our manufacturing done cheaper in
England. But even Lowell has to say
that "If we (the mugwumps) have not
got all we hoped for from the present
administration, we have got more than
we expected." Pray, what did you ex
pect?
Boiled down to its essence, the Lowell
test of statesmanship is free trade. Mons
partuerii, et nascitur ridiculus nuis.
Lowell complains that the advocates of
protection shift their ground. No ! The
Bhoe is on the other foot. Protection is a
definite thing, clearly understood. Give
ns a tariff that will protect American
labor in générons wages and encourage
capitalists to invest their money at living
rates of profit in creating new industries at
home aud opening new and larger fields for
the employment of the more profitable
skilled labor. We ask nothing more ; the
lowest rate of duty that will yield this
measure of protection is all that we ask.
It is the other side that is constantly shift
ing ground. They argue, as Cleveland did
in his message for free trade, pure and
simple, but when you confront them with
the consequences, such as the substitution
of direct taxation, they say at once that
they do not mean free trade in fact ; that
nobody really believes in strict free trade ;
that neither England nor any other nation
ever practiced free trade for themselves.
When you come down to the bottom facts
if you can ever get a revenue reformer
cornered and pin him to the issue, what he
seems to want is a tariff so low that manu
facturing in this country shall become un
profitable, and that laboring men's wages
shall be reduced to the average of the con
tinent ; that everybody shall go to raising
com, cotton, and other products of the soil,
aud take their chances of finding a market.
If this would not be stimulating unhealthy
home competition, we confess we do not
know the meaning of the terms or the
natural results of human actions.
If it is true, as reported, that the aristo
cratic British Tories are attempting a social
ostracism of Gladstone, it will prove the
most disastrous undertaking ever attempt
ed for them and wiil hasten their over
throw at a very early day. The British
aristocracy does not stand on a very solid
and seen re basis. Much the largest share
of them are bankrupts in fortune, and still
worse, bankrupt in character and devoid of
any inherent qualities that can command
respect This glamour of noble birth goes
but a short way in this particular age,
which submits all claims to close inspec
tion and makes short shift of baseless
fabrics. We venture the prediction that
within twenty-five years the upper house
of the British Parliament will be radically
changed, become elective and be reduced
in quantity and improved in quality. Glad
stone does not need a patent for his nobil
ity, nor does nobility that deserves the
name.
It was very naughty for President Cleve
land to drink firewater with the Chippewa
chiefs. With snch examples how can any
Indian of less rank be expected to resist
the temptation. What a splendid oppor
tunity was that for the President to read a
temperance lecture to the Indians and con
vince them that thus was no civilization
for them except on the plain of total absti
nence.
Senator Coke, in his speech yesterday,
said that it was apon the farmer that the
tariff fell with its most crashing weight.
He then goes on to advocate free wool in the
interest of the farmer, who raises the wool.
Bat this, he says, should be done in the in
terest of the consumer and not of the
manufacturer. The farmers of the United
States now produce five sixths of the wool
need in the country, and do not consume
one-fourth of it The only logical infer
ence from the principles that Coke appears
to advocate would be to retain the duty on
wool aud admit free of doty all woolen
manufactures. He seems possessed with
uncompromising hostility against manu
facturers, bat tarns apon the product of
one of the great staples of Texas in a most
illogical fashion in recommending
measure that wonld crash the
producer before it wonld aid the consumer.
Senator Coke ought to know the interests
of his own constituents if he undertakes to
represent them. Texas will always be a
great wool-growing state. This industry
will outlive the cattle business as now car
ried on, and the time will surely come that
the states that raise the most wool will the
most interested in its manufacture also.
The farmers generally of this country are
intelligent to see that it is tor their inter
ests to provide markets near at
home for their bulky products.
In vain they will increase their products if
manufacturers do not buy them and convert
them into forms suited for consumption by
the application of skilled labor. Manu
factures bring in capital aud turn to profit
able use home capital. They build np
cities and open markets for all other farm
products. Would Senator Coke deliberate
ly prefer to pay tribute to foreign manu
facturers rather than to home manufac
turers? Somebody must convert the raw
material into shape to use and consume.
The farther this raw material has to be
be sent to market and the finished article
brought back, the more of the final cost is
paid for transportation and the less will
the producer of the raw material get for
his capital and labor. Texas will not al
ways or long be so misrepresented in its
vital ite rests.
The factions opposition to the direct
tax bill in the House comes entirely from
those States that are delinqaent in the
payment of that tax. If they are opposed
to the refunding of that tax to those States
that have paid, let them exert themselves
to secure their own States to come np to
the discharge of their dnty. It is an ont
rageons injustice that some should pay aud
others be let go free to refose payment.
Even to postpone the consideration of this
measure, on top of such a prolonged de
linquency, is of itself an on trage on jus
tice, a triumph of the very worst element.
Postponing this measure under any sorf of
agreement till after the next presidential
election will not remove it from considera
tion and controversy. It will prove an
issue in the campaign, and those who ad
vocate free trade and direct taxation will
be confronted with the practical operation
of direct taxes.
If the Republicans resist the passage of
the Mills tariff bill by the tactics employed
for so mach worse purpose in the opposi
tion to the refunding measure, there wonld
cot be a chance for a single item of the
bill to get throngh. We would not advise
or approve of the Republicans resorting to
the same tactics even in a wortheir cause
Let the country see what mischief the
Democrats would work if they had a
chance. The Mills bill will be a very dif
ferent thiDg when it emerges from the
House and will never get through the
Senate without still greater modications.
We should like to see some reductions of
duties made, though the result would be
an increase of revenue' Any real reduc
tion of revenues must come from a repeal
of internal revenue taxes. Sweep away
all tobacco taxes and those on fruit bran
dies and redace the whisky tax to 50cts.
per gallon. This willl reduce the revenue
as mach as it can stand till our debt is
paid. _
"The tendency of excessive protection,
which thoughtful men dread most, is that
it stimulates unhealthy home competition,
leading to over-production and disasters,
which are its tainted offspring."—Lowell.
We are not advocating "excessive pro
tection," bat only such a degree as will
protect the wages of American working
men, and give us a chance to compete in
the field of higher skilled labor with the
established manufactures and cheaœr cap
ital of the continent. Pray, why should
the dangers of home competition be so
mach greater than the competition of for
eign manufacturers all the world over?
Those who mannfactnre solely for onr
home markets can snrely see more clearly
than those thousands of miles away what
the market demands and jndge best how
mach will be consumed. Every man of
ordinary intelligence will confess that
home competition is a better regulator
than foreign competition. It can more
readily see and supply a deficiency in the
market, and just as readily see and avoid a
glut from over-prodnetion. Such silly talk
as this from Lew ell is not statesmanship,
it is not even good sense. We are not in
danger from home competition. We want
it. Our capitalists and manufacturers are
shrewd enoagh not to bankrupt them
selves and overload the market. We are
in greater danger from trusts that choke
off competition.
Minister Phelps on Free Trade.
New York, April 13. —The Tribune , in
an interview with Minister Phelps, says :
"The English people are beginning to
think," he said, "that free trade wonld be
bad for them on account of the almost
certainty of industrious and enterprising
Americans driving them oat of the mar
kets altogether. The English undoubted
ly admire Mr. Cleveland, bat not because
he is in favor of free trade, for, as a rale,
the people over there know little and care
little whether a man be a Democrat or a
Republican."
He spoke of Mr. Blaine, who was re
ceived in London with the most marked
attention ; of Chamberlain as "destined to
play a great part in English politics," and
of Parnell as "a clever tactician and an
able speaker."
Children Cry forJ^tcheHs Castorià?
TEE NEW REGIME.
Mayor Fuller and the New Aldermen
Take Their Seats and Assume
the Management of the
Mu nicipality.
Detailed Account of the Proceedings of
the Local Solons—Reports Filed, Bills
Audited and Appointive Officials
Nominated and Confirmed—
An Interesting Session of
the Old and New
Councils.
All interest centered, last evening, in the
joint session of the new and old city coun
cils. and at an early hour the council
chamber was com/ortably filled with offi
cials, spectators, candidates and prospective
appointees. At the customary hour order
was called and the following proceedings
were had : ,
City Treasurer Barden presented his
quarterly report? ending March 31st, show
ing the following :
Balance on hand and receipts
from all sources.................... çl9,8o5 60
Expenditures........................... 14.799 56
Balance on band............ 85,036 04
Receij. s for the year show.....? 2
Disbursements......................... 72,526 38
Bonded indebtedness............... 19.500 00
Clerk Botkin reported having drawn
warrants apon the treasury for March for
the sum of $S,826 30.
Numerous bills, current expenses against
the city, were audited and ordered paid.
Police Magistrate English reported that
he had received $405 20 in fines for the last
month, which had been paid to the treas
urer.
Street Commissioner Smith reported that
he had done work daring the month to the
amount of $549.75.
City Marshal Read's report showed that
daring the month of March there were 100
persons arrested, 88 of whom were for vio
lating the city ordinances ; 13 were dis
charged. The remaining 75 were fined; 36
paid their fines, and the remaining 37 were
committed. Twelve were arrested for vio
lating Territorial laws, and those who were
convicted were turned over to the proper
authorities.
An ordinance from Porter, Math & Cox,
permitting franchise to operate a street
railway, was made a special order for the
next meeting.
MAYOR STEIu." RETIRES.
The hoar of retirement of the old coun
cil having arrived, the following resolution,
by Alderman Simons, was read and unani
mously adopted :
Resolved, That the thanks of the council
are hereby tendered to Hon. Wm. L.
Steele, mayor, for ihe ability, impartiality
and courtesy with which he has performed
his duties ; and that the members of this
body, in severing their official relations,
exprees their sincere wish that his life may
be as long and happy as it has been honor
able to himself and useful to his fellow
men.
In reply Mayor Steele said. "I did not
expect to say anything on retiring, but the
resolution touches a tender chord in my
heart When I accepted the chair I knew
more about the diagnosis and prognosis of
a case than about Jefferson's manual or
parliamentary rules. I know I haven't
made as good a mayor as I should have
made or could have made. Yet possibly
the city has not been any loser. I thank
every member of the council for their
kindness and courtesy to me. Some I did
not know when I came here, bat of them
I think I have made friends. I am partic
ularly indebted to Mr. Stedman over all
others, because he devoted as much of his
time to filling the chair as I did. Again I
thank all of the officers.
Alderman Worth submitted the follow
ing resolution, which was also nnani
mously adopted:
Resolved , That the thanks of the council
are due, and are hereby tendered to Hon.
John Stedman foJ his capable and impar
tial performance of the duties of president
of the council, and for the valuable service
which he has rendered to the city during
his membership of this body.
Alderman Stedman feelingly responded
to the vote of thanks.
THE NEW ALDERMEN.
The aldermen-elect took the oath of
office. The following are the retiring and
incoming members:
Ward. Retiring. Incoming.
First..........William Lorey......C. A. Donnelly.
Second.......Herman Richter...Henry Klein.
Third.........Jos. Gans .............. Jas. Featherly.
Fourth.......John H. Saul.........Jacob Loeb.
•• ....... R. C. Wallace........Moses Morris.
Fifth...........John Stedman......Win. Harrison.
Sixth.......... F. E. Thieme......... P. S. Washburn.
Seventh Richard Hoback...F, Adkinson.
THE MAYOR INAUGURATED.
Aldermen Lissner, Howey and ex-Mayor
Knight were appointed a committee to es
cort the Mayor-elect to the chair, which
was done amid load applause.
Mayor Steele, in a few appropriate re
marks, introduced Captain Fuller. Among
other things he said : "Oatside of politics
there is no one to whom I would prefer to
render the gavel than Capt. Fuller. Gen
tlemen, your next Mayor." Mayor Fuller
replied as follows :
Gentlemen of the Council :—I enter
apon the position to which I have been
chosen with gratitude to my fellow citizens
for their flattering preference, and with a
sincere desire, though with little confidence,
that I may so perform its unties as to de
serve their kindness. For one who has had
no connection with the previous govern
ment of our city, and now stands only on
the threshold of his office, to recommend
specific measures would be improper on his
part and could be of no assistance to yon,
and the few remarks which I will make
should he regarded as nothing more than
suggestions submitted to your superior
judgment.
Approximately the city raised by taxa
tion daring the past year $60,000, and from
licenses and other sources $25,000, making
a total of $85,000.
Daring the same time it has expended,
in round numbers, $80,000. These figures
will guide us in estimating the financial
responsibility which we assume, and to
them mast be added the large amount
which it is proposed to expend upon a sys
tem of sewerage. In view of this, a thor
ough, business-like system of auditing
accounts,and the custody and disbursement
of the fund is clearly a matter of the first
importance, and I ask yon to consider
whether the
METHODS THAT HAVE BEEN PURSUED
in the past are sufficient to guard the
money of the people ander the present con
ditions.
Oar people bear cheerfully the burdens
of taxation, bat it is none the lees onr duty
to protect vigorously the money that they
ate forced to pay, and to direct its nse,
«wording to onr best judgment, only for
beneficial pnblic purposes.
At a special election held in January
last it was voted to grant the city author
ity to issne bonds to the amonnt of $150,
000 for the purpose of providing a system
of sewerage. The city council has em
ployed a sanitary engineer to mature plans
for the work, which will be submitted to
you at an early day. If these shall meet
with your approval, it will be desirable to
push the work forward at once, so that the
greatest possible progress may be made
daring the present season. There seems
to be a general agreement on the part of
onr citizens that this is a needed improve
ment, and that fact being established no
saving can be effected by delay. Yonr at
tention is also invited to the necessity 0 f
advertising the bonds for sale, and this
should he done promptly that there may
be fonds on hand to pay for the work as it
proceeds.
TEE CONDITION OF OUR STREETS
will not fail to receive yonr earnest atten
tion and energetic action. While it will,
□o donbt, be impracticable to meet the
wishes of all citizens, or even the needs of
all localities, mach may be done with the
funds that the people will gladly pay if
they are wisely and justly expended. The
question is submitted to yon whether, aside
from snch improvements of a general
nature as may be presented, it might nat
be advantageous to assign a limited sum
from the street fund to each of the wards,
to be expended ander the direction of its
aldermen.
Though our city is as free from crime as
most communities of equal population, the
police department mast alway be an im
portant factor of the government. Its effi
ciency must depend less on laws and regu
lation than upon the character of the men
who compose it, and while the duty of se
lecting rests principally on yonr executive,
you have the authority to confirm or re
ject, and I ask yon to use it with a wake
ful sense of your share of the responsibility,
to the end that fitness may prevail over all
other considerations.
An early examination of the condition
of the fire department will lie advisable,
that we may be informed of the sufficiency
of the appliances and of their location
with reference to the protection of differ
ent parts of the city.
We have encouragement to believe that
the water snpply will soon be abundant
and well distributed, and this, with proper
machinery of the newest and most im
proved patterns, should afford us reason
able security against the destruction of
property.
As to the officers and employees of the
city who are appointed subject to your
confirmation, I think I may justly demand
correct habits, thorough diligence, and
undivided attention to their respective
duties; and I wish it to be clearly under
stood as my firm purpose, that a failure in
any of these respects will be followed by
dismissal, so far as that power rests in me.
Gentlemen : The task upon which we
now enter is one with which the interests of
onr city for an indefinite period are vitally
connected. We have assumed these labors
knowing that they are exacting, difficult
aud unrequited, and it is not only our duty
to devote our best efforts and our mutral
j udgment to their performance, but if wa
shall do so we may hope for some measure
of reward in witnessing the substantial
growth and enduring prosperity of the city
of Helena.
Concluding amid enthusiastic applause,
the mayor announced the appointment of
the following
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Taxes and licenses—Simons, Worth and
Morris.
Streets and alleys—Morris, Donnelly,
Klein, Kirkendall, Clewell, Howey and
Simons.
Police—Klein, Loeb and Washburn.
Fire department—Clewell, Featherly
and Loeb.
Ways and means—Lissner, Adkinson
and Clewell.
Water—Donnelly, Worth and Harrison.
Sewerage—Howey, Morris and Clewell.
Lights—Washburn, Harrison aud Loeb
Auditing — Harrison, Don nelly and
Washburn.
Pnblic buildings—Worth, Kirkendall
and Featherly.
Ordinance — Adkinson, Morris and
Simons.
Printing—Kirkendall, Simons and Liss
ner.
Building permits—Featherly, Howey and
Worth.
Judiciary — Adkinson, Harrison and
Lissner.
Library—Loeb, Featherly and A Ikinson.
Origin of fires—Donnelly, Kirkendai!
and Klein.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF A /'POINTEES
created some little stir, and the proceedings
were watched with close attention. A
motion of Alderman Howey prevailed, that
action of the council on the several nomi
nations be proceeded with by ballot. Liss
ner and Simons were appointed tellers.
Alex. C. Botkin was presented for city
clerk and attorney, aud he was confirmed
by a vote of 8 to 5—one ballot blank.
Charles D. Hard was named for city mar
shal and approved by a unanimous vote.
The nomination of R. J. Walker for city
engineer was disapproved by a vote of 9 to
4—one ballot blank.
George L. Wales, for street commissioner,
was confirmed on the second ballot by a
vote of 8 to 5—one ballot blank. The first
ballot, a tie, was not determined by the
Mayor, who declined to interfere with the
confirming power by giving the casting
vote.
Joseph R. Witmer, for chief fire mar
shal, was confirmed by a vote of 13 to 1.
Samuel R. Richardson, for tower watch
man, was unanimously approved.
Dr. W. R. Bullard, T. H. Kleinsehmidt
and John Stedman, for city board of health,
were approved by acclamation.
The mayor then submitted the name of
A. E. Cummings lor city engineer, and he
was confirmed by a vote of 8 to 5—one
ballot blank.
Alderman Moses Morris was unani
mously elected president of the council
for the ensuing year.
Council aJjourned until Monday, April
16th.___ ____
FAVORABLY REPORTED.
Crook and Brooke to be Confirmed at
the Next Executive Session--»
Their Probable Assign
ments.
Washington, April 14.—The Senate
military committee has agreed to report
favorably upon the nominations of Briga
dier General Crook to be Major General
and Colonel John R. Brooke to be Briga
dier General. They will doubtless be con
firmed during the first executive session.
The assignment of these officers has been
an open question with military authorities
since their nominations were sent in, but
it is now understood that General Crook
will be placed in charge of the division of
the Missouri, and that General Brooke will
succeed him as commanding officer of the
department of the Platte.
Heavy Failure.
New York, April 13.—The supenaion
of the American Exchange in Europe,
limited, was reported to-day, and William
C Boone, treasurer of the company, was
appointed receiver. Attorney Cromwell said
the liabilities were $400,000. The company
was formed in 1880, ander the English
limited liability law with an authorized
capital of $5,000,000, of which $ 780,000 was
paid in andsur ceded to the business of H. F.
Gillig &Co., which had been established in
1873, paying $3,000.000 in stock for the pur
chase. Henry G. Gillig remained as vice
president and manager, Joeeph P. Hanley
being president