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Show ' The bill offered by Senator Kearns, , C ctdinp twenty acres of the Fort Doug las military reservation as a site for the Judge miners' home, met with no opposition in the senate and is not ; likely to meet with any in the house, t'nless by amendment some fctring is attached to the crant of land. . j The last copy of the Nation of San S i Francisco is a St. Patrick's Day sou- ? venir. and is the best of its kind ven- ; turing sucTi feature among our Catholic Cath-olic exchanges. Half-tone illustrations of prominent Irishment of the coast, . cleric and lay, adorn its pages, and i many articles of historic character 'I . tempt the reader to preserve the num- 1 icr for future reference. i! : " I The tippeiite of the imperialists is in- I satiable. To make up for letting go of I Cuba, which they regard as a mistake, 1 it Is now proposed to gather in the i uiaiK. repurjuc. 01 iiayii. under tne as- 1 , sumption that its people are una4)ie to I take care of themselves and need the I infusion of Hail Columbia and Ameri can civilization. It is the Salt Iako Tribune which suggests this humane proposition for stealing the black re-; re-; public. When a coal corporation does not I , tun everything else in a camp be- f 'ides operating in coal, it is not tip to 5 nuff. The Rawlins (Wyo.) Journal shj-.s that the company at Hamia has lracticaliy decreed that the men who I'ow conduct saloons there shall close "I' "tii uuriiicnK Ull i lie lil'Sl UL JUlie. I ;ood ladies of the W. C. T. U., don't I ( fiill over yourselves in resolutions- of praise to this corporation for banish-inS banish-inS tnf" drink evil from the camp. The "" vil will remain. The corporation sim- l'!y freezes out the old timers by raising rais-ing their' rent to ?'J00 per month. An I' Omaha beer ompany takes their ' lihifcs. , A bible must be a rare and valuable I ' object to tempt a person to steal it, I i . 'H a deaf mute in Kentucky was sen- tenced t'he other day to one year in f ; the penitentiary for purloining the - sacred volume. This does not argue "'at Kcntuckians value the Bible any , more than they value a keg of whisky "'' any other article of merchandise. I It simply shows that they uphold the f majesty of the law in punishing every form of theft. To prove it, after the I judge sentenced the deaf mute to a f year's imprisonment, he was the first j , to pass the hat for a contribution nmong the court officers for the pur-; I pose of purchasing a bible and pre- I senting it to the prisoner. t This incident in all its ramifications $ could provoke a two-sided discussion I among the members of the Salt Lake I Ministerial association. It would be ' interesting to learn their decision upon I ! ' '.be verdict of the Kentucky judge. I The Butte Engineers' union did the I proper thing when they declared J ; against the walk-out of the twenty-nine stationary engineers of the Amalga- I mated company. The action of these ft i . ' twenty-nine men in refusing to work 1 or the Amalgamated company unless i r ; ; their wages were increased from ?4.50 I . j to $3 per day tied up the mines in Butte I i ! ' :nd smelters in Anaconda, so that in : both places a total of 6,000 men were , !aid off for an indefinite period. But J ,:, ! S the Butte Engineers union, to which I lne striking engineers belonged, re- ;: ' i 4 . fused to confirm the action of the twenty-nine and will fill their places' w ith members of the union. The union took the ground that the contract made with the Amalgamated company providing stationary engineers at J4.50 per day ia binding. This prompt action will restore re-store the confidence of capital in the trades unions and prevent Mr. Heintze and his allied agitators from plunging Butte into a condition of labor anarchy. an-archy. In the message concerning Cuba sent to congress last week President Roose velt spoke of the new relations with Cuba, which should be broadened and strengthened "by wise and beneficent legislation, aiming to stimulate the commerce between the two countries." Monday the committee on ways and means voted to report a bill to reduce the duties on Cuban imports 20 per cent. This is a step, though an inadequate inade-quate one, in the direction of that "wise and beneficent legislation" referred re-ferred to by the president. Unquestionably Unques-tionably the president would like to see a longer step taken in that direction, direc-tion, but the wise man, when he cannot can-not get all he desires, accepts all he I can get. The ways and means com- I mittee bill probably will be taken up in the house next week. It will pass that body, but the beet sugar men are boasting that it will come to grief in the senate. Two Salt Lake papers have ceased their senseless warfare on the Cuban reciprocity proposition and accepted ac-cepted Bishop Cutler's statement that a more generous reduction even than the one proposed for Cuba could not harm the beet sugar interests of Utah. |