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zEivi wy \on (i: nt crprbc, B:0. H, WRIGHT, - - - tditor and Proprieior. OK KM III. IMI'KR OK I'lKK fOl'NTY SATI'IIDAY. JU1 .V 23 1892. •Hitore»! »t the iMirttntfli'H ID Livingston. Mont , -»ei*«!fnl el**!» in nil matter KOK I'KESlllK T: IUFNJAMIN IIAKMSO.V Milt \ U K l'UK»ll)l;\T, Win TEL AW HE II). (II New York The Herald still continues to prate about the responsibility of the tariff for the troubles at Homestead in face of indubitable evidence to the contrary. Even the members of the amalgamated iron and steel workers' association have entered their protest against the inter pretation of labor troubles by the demo cratic tariff tinkerers. In this issue appears the re|M>rtsof the national banks of this city. The show ing made is a Mattering one, and consid ering the fact that these statements were called at the season of temporary lepression just preceding the movement j it). indicate a healthy con of the woo dit ion of these well as general munit v. financial institutions as prosperity of this com Under the lieneticent influences of the McKinley bill w ith its reciprocity pro vision there was a slight reduction in imports the past year, while the exports reached the highest sum in the history of commerce. An increase from 8384, 180,810 to 81,1130,335,(1215 in the exports of the country in one year is an argument in favor of protection that will stagger the most ultra free trader. The selection of Hon. Thomas H. Car ter to be chairman of the national repub lican committee is received w ith evi donees of satisfaction all over the coun try, and is especially gratifying to'.tie jieople of Montana. It is a merited com pliment to an able and fearless leader j and a recognition of the claims of the west in striking contrast with the utti tude of the standard bearer of demo- j cratic gold-bugism and free trade. i - , The vigorous denunciation of the free lead bill by prominent democratic mem-1 hereof the mining congress at Helena ] last week indicates plainly that the min eral producers of the west, irrespective | of party affiliation, realize the benefits of protection to the lead industry. If \ protection is desirable for the mainten mice of American wages in the produc tion of lead it is equally beneficial to other industries which should be accord ed similar treatment. rp. ... . r > î the Mining Review is wrong in as ... , , sunnng that "from the latest rejiorts of t un, m „ . ,, .. .. the Coeur d Alene troubles that Judge » i • , , , * Lynch is needed over there with a larire 1 annniv nt „ i. „ . sujiply of spun hemp. lhe trouble has been occasioned by t< the law in the jiast, and this cannot lie I m I remedied by further resorting to lawless I nr,lirw» rph 1 . . .. " proceedings, lhe demand in the Coeur • , . ... ! d Alene country is for the restoration of . I the law in the * i !, T r6Bard for j tlie law in the jiast. and this cannot lie nK i„.„ji , . î order and legal processes whereby those t , • , . J . '• guilty of violating the law can lie . , j promptly convicted and punished. j Hon. Thomas H. Carter has tendered bis resignation as commissioner of the general land office in order to give his entire attention to the duties of chair man of the national rej ublican commit tee. Lnder his management the busi ness of the land otlice lias been brought up to date, making a record far more favorable than under the Sparks regime,, when settlers were purjiosely annoyed and patents delayed ujion the most trivial pretexts. Mr. Carter retires from the ottiee of land commissioner with a highly creditable record. Suspension day in the house has come and gone again and yet no action has j been secured by Congressman Dixon ujion the mineral land bill or any other measure of vital importance to the west. It must be ajiparent to Montana's repre sentative as well as to every observer of congressional proceedings that the southern wing of the democratic party will ignore every measure calculated to benefit the jieople of this section, while they ojienly attack only the leading in dustries of the west in jiursuing their jiieceineal tariff policy. The policy of the democrats to ignore the interests of the west is shown bv the promptness with which the house jiassed j ée free w*ool and free lead bills. On the j f other hand they have delayed the pas-1 Q sage of the free lumber and free iron ore bills until after election because they realize that party success would be en dangered thereby in North Carolina, A1 atiama and Tennessee, the | southern ! states interested in these industries. ! ine cause for this is apparent when it j is considered that jirosjiects for demo- ; cratm success in the west are hopeless ; W .o. U. 11 " 80Uthern , 8Ute . 8 wil1 re,uain : session. They hone bv this 1 lVrwxTitifnI ey hope by this hypocritical ;.u... D . i..!._: ,end f hl P. ° f free i j tli.) wll Iobo the confidence of .11 by their cowardly straddle. , With its characteristic disregard fur I truth the Herald states that the wastes i paid workmen at the Homestead works ; of the Carnegie company were 90 cents ■ to 83 per I lay. The scale as published shows that wanes at those works were from 81.8(5 to 89.15 j>er day. and the min imum amount was paid to ordinary sweepers, the better class of whom were paid 82.11 per day. Hut facts are not what the average democratic calamity shriekers rely upon in attempting to de fend the false doctrine of free trade. The selection of a committee compos ed exclusively of Montana men to treat with the Crow Indians for a modifica tion of the former agreement is com mendable. It shows a confidence in western men strikingly in contrast with the administration of the interior de partment under Cleviffand, when ninety per cent of the people of the west were denounced as tiiieves. And the result of any agreement reached by the gen t lernen named should lie satisfactory to the people of Montana, who are chiefly interested in the opening of the Crow reservation upon terms alike equitable to the Indians and intending settlers. I If the dispatches from Washington are to be credited there is at least one mem ber in the senate who has outlived his j usefulness and demonstrated by bis pet ulunt demeanor that he is not a fitting representative of the American people. This man is Senator Harris of Tennes see. During Monday's session he was urging a measure for some southern railroad lobby which Senator Sanders, in the discharge of his duties, felt called upon to oppose. This raised the ire of the childish senator from Tennessee.who left his seat and going over to Senator Sanders applied an opprobrious epithet to that gentleman. With characteristic forbearance and almost superhuman re gard for the senility of the southern fire eater the Montana senator treated him with dignified contempt that won the admiration of all and especially those fa miliar w ith his record for intrepid cour age as a pioneer of the Rocky mountain region. Even the Tennesseean abashed by his impetuousdemonstratinn ! j i j in the face of Senator Sanders' dignified bearing alR l retreated to his seat to apologize for his rash conduct, j _ ~™— i that the democratic house has , twice refused to recognize the right of the white metal to occupy its rightful wa8 j position in the circulating medium of ] the country the only liojie for silver must come through republican efforts, | The advocates of bi-metallism therefore look hopefully to the coming monetary \ conference to restore silver coinage, and this they find warrant in doing by the favorable attitude of President Harri son. Under his direction the arrange ments for the conference have pro grossed favorably until it is now an as î su red fact and correspondence relative ... ;t to it was placed before congress the u - rh , , . . , P ast week, lhe only delay has been , ,, , ... due to the absence of the receipt of 1 u • » „ 4 M F Russia s acceptance. All the nations in I a i , , ^ ~~~ I of the delegates who w'ill represent the I uf . v ' . United States. Senator John P. Jones is L„:j i . , u . ! said to be the only name as yet dehnite I vited have now formally accepted, and j the president is considering the names î ly decided on. me place select t hu ; w r , '• the meeting is Berlin and the tn i . j close of next month. The refusal j gress to pass an The place selected for time the of con unlimited coinage bill 18 believed, facilitate the consid erat 'on °f an international agreement for aa enlarged use of silver, particular, "I he statement made by the Enter prise that a ditch had to be made through Alderman Bauman's yard to carry off the water near where th« tiling I »»'A™ The ditoii that lhe ditch that was , _____ t j from the overflowed ground above the made was not intended for that jiurjiose. and the tiling put in is ample drainage for all the water that ever accumulates at the point in question." Herald. If the ditch referred to was constructed for any purjx.se other than to convey water tiling across P street the Herald will confer a favor upon an anxious public by divulging the object for which it was in tended. That the ditch was constructed and that it performed good service in carrying away a large amount of surplus water that couid not find an outlet through the tiling is certain and will permit of no denial. It may have been constructed simjily with a view* to beau tify ing that part of the city or giving additional work to the city marshal's team, but we choose to believe differ ently. There was evidently sufficient intelligence employed in its construction to indicate to its originators the obiect f or which it was intended and this fact Q f itself would be sufficient to confuse the editor of the Herald. J A Driven from its untenable jxisition in defending the extravagant expenditures of a democratic city administration and P convicted by its own utterances of hav ing recklessly juggled with figures to sustain its false position the Herald re sorts to its usual tactics of personal aba86 * It can not and dare not attempt '" ae 1 u'Kiok ih«.. __ __ î ________i i which they are based having been care full> taken ,r °m the city records. The ±rri.t äütä ■ and will Btmul as i these columns • . , i * V justified by the record ns they have ajqieared in without reiteration and J without fear of a truthful contradiction by the organ of democratic free trade and misrepresentation. THE TIN INDUSTRY With the approach of the presidential I campaign the democratic free trade 1 press is again engaged in manufacturing roorbacks intended to disparage the ben efits of protection. As in the last cam paign the tin industry promises to fur nish a prolific source for campaign ma terial. 1 he latest sensational report, and one ujion which the democratic papers have been exhausting the stock arguments of the Cobden club, was startl'd by the San Francisco Examiner, » «V, . rf » » .L ri, . to the effect that the lemscal tin mines of California have proved a failure. While this could make no possible dif ference so far as the tariff is concerned, from the fact that manufactured tin plate and not the product of the mines is protected, it shows conclusively to ! what ridiculous expedients the tariff tinkerers w ill resort in attempting to sus j tain their false position. In this in i stance as in almost every particular where the McKinley bill is assailed the report is without foundation, and all pa triotic Americans who desire the devel opment of the country's resources will be interested in reading the opinion of Genaise Purcell, the financial agent of the Tomscal mines. He emphatically declares that far from being exhausted the mines are in the infancy of develop ment. A hundred and fifty men are at work and new machinery to the value of 85,000 has just been ordered. Shipments of tin ore are made by the car load, and the output of the mines in June was double that of May. He further says that judging by the results of explora tions and developments already made by the mines being worked, may be regard ed as practically inexhaustible. He suvs , HS a rule tin mines improve with depth. ...... 1 1 No significance is attached to the de . ... , , jiarture of Superintendent Harris for London and failing health induced the latter to tender his resignation. THE SEGREGATION BILL. Indications are that congress will ad j journ next Monday without taking any action ujion the segregation bill passed by the senate, returning to the public domain such portion of the National Park as would permit railroad construc tion to Cooke along the Yellowstone river the only feasible roule to that ex tensive mineral district. The trouble with this measure seems to have been that it was demanded in tiie interest of western peojile and therefore met with opjiosition from the southern wing of the democratic house. The same fate awaited the mineral land measure and every other bill introduced for relief of the west, notwithstanding the earnest efforts of Congressman Dixon. But lit tie else can be reasonably expected from a party whose candidate, while occupy ing the position of chief executive of the nation, pursued a jiolicy in every way degrading to the jieople of Montana. In fact the policy of ajijxiinting federal of ficers from outside the state, in direct violation of the spirit and letter of the democratic n'atioual platform, became so offensive that even Governor Hauser, the only appointee from within the state, found it desirable to resign and permit ! the selection of a carpetbag successor. ! This was not all. ..... ..... . | .......... In selecting a commis stoner for the land office a position ! more intimately connected with western 1 interests than any other-Cleveland ap pointed Andie w J. Sparks, a typical re,.-1 resentative of eastern democracy who in j every way possible harrassed settlers and I denounced the people of the west as ! largely composed of thieves and advent-1 urers. Therefore we repeat that the I j I treat 'u e tH accorded the west by the dem- , h °"" 1* 1» withth. bèmoernüc edmmifatratKm under Cleve- î land When - t becanif> np t th the people of Montana were unanimous in their demand for segregation anil a republican senate had indicated a wil lingness to accede to this demand the franchise lobbyists procured the offices of a southern democrat—Senator Car lisle—and an effort was made to divide the friends of Cook upon the two meas ures in hope ot defeating both proposi tions. But the senate with a republican ! majority accepted the expressed wishes of the jieople of this section and jiromptly I turned down the franchise scheme. The same tactics were pursued in the house, where Stockdaleof Mississippi was read ily induced to urge the franchise scheme to defeat segregation, and when the bill came from the senate its chief ojijionents were southern democrats. j In view* of these facts, which are in- ; disputable, it seems clearly to the inter- i eSt ° f ever * v P er8<,u desiring the develop ment of the west to unite in sending a republican représentative to congress, A western democrat can exert no more influence with eastern aud southern members of his party than a west ern republican and in the event of a re P ublican majority in the next house. which 8661118 reasonably certain, the de luands of a western republican, empha 81Z6d by an expression from hisconstit uen * 8 - will receive respectful consider atioD ' - congress at Helena last week and which r . ... ... ----- The majority report of the committee on resolutions submitted to the mineral Ä*sxr dl "' u " i,>n ,o - - * «•wvooctvu tu me t?.\ elusion of almost every other subject, was finally adopted bv a vote of °G4 to 27. The resolutions strongly favor the 1 IS " 1 irquuc lllttl me u* mo -fiver states and the state conventionsof free and unrestricted coinage of silver, and to this extent w ill be heartily en dorsed by the large majority of the peo ple of Montana. They go farther than this, however, and indicate that the first dispatches sent out to the effect that the congress would be conducted in the interest of the third party were not wholly unfounded. At least this would lie the inference from the following res olution which though adopted, was strongly opposed by a respectable minority and was the real objection that delayed action upon the report of the committee : "Resolved, That wisdom and patriot ism both require that the people of the all parties therein shall so shape their action as to secure the balance of power if that be possible, in the electoral col lege. to the end that the electors selected by the people of such states may so act independently in the electoral college as to defeat the election of any man us pr< sident who w ill not agree that the will of the people as expressed in any future act of congress in relaiion to sli ver shall stand withbut executive inter ference or veto. That in order to meet the contingency of a possible election of a president by the present house of rep resentatives the constituents of all mem bers of the present house be appealed to. to demand of all members of the present house who are candidates for re-election their promise that they will support no man for president who will not permit the will of the jieople as expressed in the future acts of congress upon the silver question to stand without executive veto." It undoubtedly was not the intention of the delegates voting for this resolu tion to endorse t lie candidacy of the peo ple's party nominee, but taking any other view of the matter it presents phases so impracticable that the wonder is it received the support of the con gress. The people's party is the only one declaring explicitly for free coinage and it would be idle to suppose that ,i ». , , ' either the republican or democratic can i i , . , , didates would ignore party declarations in advance of action by the electoral col lege. Admitting, however, that they could be induced to do so the movement of the silver men would be met by a counter effort on the part of monometal lists which, sustained by jiarty fealty of electoral delegates, would ignominous ly defeat the object sought to be ob tabled, and prove inimical to the cause of the white metal. The only logical conclusion to be reached from the ac tion of the mineral congress is that its members consider the silver issue of j»ar al »°unt importance to all others, and if accepted as such, the battle should be waged ojienly and fearlessly for a party a,R l candidate pledged to that issue. No good results can follow an effort to insidiously secure legislation upon a question which the larger majority of Die peojile through their representatives in national convention have declared is of much less vital imjiortance than those which now divide the two jinncljiai jiar ties. CtittirniMii TIioiiimn H Cutter. The executive committee of the re publican national committee met in New York Saturday afternoon. Among those j î resent were J. S. Clarkson, Iowa; J. R. Tanner, Illinois ; Henry C. Payne, Wisconsin ; Thomas H. Carter, Montana. ! Ne ^ her ° hairu,liu Campba11 ,lf Illinois - ! ° r ' iue Chalrulau d « Young of Califor | uia, were in attendance. W. A. Suther . , ! a " d ° f . W ' ork ' was te ®P°rary chair 1 maD ' " hitelaw Reid was called in con 8ultat,on b - v the committee. Campbell's res, « natlon as chairman of the national j C °" Unl ' t6e was «ccepted and a recess I " as taken - ! *y ter adjournment of the committee " nd ° f lts advis « r8 at luncheon dis I cussed the situation, and when the coffee j and cigars w ere finished, Thomas H. , „ . ... Cart.'»'... p„v.iW on to î ' ^ ' lle committee returned to the F ifth A venue hotel and placed the official seal on the recess ar rangement. When the committee* was called to order Clarkson nominated Car ter, Payne seconded the nomination and it was carried unanimously. In accepting the jxisition Carter made a brief address, I pledging his best efforts. J. F. Burke ; of Pittsburg was ajijiointed secretary jiro tern, the appointment of permanent ! 8ecretar - v being left to the chairman, ° n mot,on of Fessenden, the chair I ln " n Was 8Uthori: '* ed a PI*>int a sub ^° ,nm [Lt#e to be selected from non mem bet# of the committee to act as bd advi sory committee. A committee of five Was a PP° inted to secure headquarters in tb * 8 cit y* It was unanimously agreed to continue Campbell as a member of j the executive committee, be taking ; cbar S? tb e branch headquarters at i ChR ' a « 0 * " hen p artpr was asked > f tha accept ance of th « chiarmanship entailed the resignation of his position as land corn mi8 ^ on er, he replied : "I shall resign Bt a11 event8 *" d new cha «rman of the national re- ! P ublican committed was the recipient of \ na,ne rous congratulatory messages from all over the country. In the evening he was serenaded at Fifth Avenue hotel. 1 After a brilliant display of fireworks and music by bands, the executive commit tee appeared on the balcony, and Carter being introduced, made a speech, in' which he thanked the assemblage for it« cordial reception. Secretary Rusk also spoke. * «î rçRim. „ buying a piano, wri u- ee8 v T lmb ^ r lor ?\vSt2 oî ? iBI Before buU 0rK * n *' ees. Ri» Tt'nti^. m —for terms on L -----Piano. Wilcow I ite. or Dyer Bros., organs. | FISHING TACKLE! J»ipt received, an immense i ABBIE & IMBRIE s < elehrated Fishing Tackle, consisting of the largest assortment of Flic-. [, Koiis. Fh Books ami Baskets e\er displayed in the city, at PETERSON'S, LIVINGSTON. THE ORUCCIST, ALBEMARLE BLOCK, - Do You Know a Bargai WHEN YOU SEE IT? \Ye Call and let us surprise you. have fifty of our new and nobby dress jiatterns in stock almost any shade and every one a novelty. Some of them seem a trifle high in jirice because they are imjxirted and fine fabric. We sec we must cut the price in order to be reached by our patrons. We are w illing to do it—we must sell them—we are making a reduction on each pattern of from 83.00 to 86.00. Call this week and have your choice. We are showing the grentest values in Ladies' Vests you ever saw. Seventy five dozen to be closed out at once. We jnit the knife deep into Hosiery, firing your eastern values and see what we are doing. We have a few embroidered flounc ing« on sale at itt-is-iwo prices. Ladies'Shirt Waists at 25 per cent discount. Roys' Waists the best you ever saw at 25c. A few Capes and Jackets at one-half their real value. REMNANTS! REMNANTS!! in every line of piece goods from Out ings to the finest wash fabric. Remember all Summer Goods Mint Bk. Sol». Send your Mail Orders. LEE EISENBERG 8 Cash Dry Goods House. Livingston, Monta PARKS & GILBOY. DEALERS IN Staple and Fancy Grocttii FRUITS, CANDIES, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. I ; We would like to call your attention to the fact that we make a sjiecialiy GROCERIES of the best grade to be had in the market. We carry the most complete line of Fancy Groceries <n the city. We receive weekly consignments of the Celebrated GILT EDGE CREAMERY BUTTER Our TEAS and COFFEES need but a trial to convince you nf their s«!« quality. \A e handle the celebrated DIAMOND BRAND FLOUR. THE CARVER BUILDING, COR. PARK AND MAIN STS., - LIVINGSTON' MG' The Mayne & Burdick Leading Merchants ■ö Leaders in Low Prices, Best Quality of Goods in Every Departs 1 ® 111 Goods delivered free in any part of the City. ITanch trade specially solicited. Heavy discounts quoted on large orJ #rs * is the time to putcliase your spring supplies. Give us a call* MAIN STREET, . . LIVINGS!*»'-^