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i Yesterday's Proceedings of the House and Senate. The Fits John Porter Bill Pimi the Senile—If Nnw doe» to tho President—A Yi*rm Debate In Which llutler Comee to (lie Defense of the South. Washington, July 26.—Immediately af ter the reading of the Journal the speaker laid before the house the various veto mes sages yesterday transmitted by the presi dent. They were read by the clerk and severally referred to the committee on pen sions or on invalid pensions, until that ve toing the bill to grant a pension to the widow of Major General Hunter was reached, when Hepburn, of Iowa, moved that its consideration be postponed till Tuesday next. The motion was lost; yeas 9(1, nays 141, nnd the message took the usual course. The other messages were appropriately referred. The senate amendments to the agricul tural appropriation bill were non'-concurred in. Hatch, Winans and Price were ap pointed conferees. The house then went into n committee of the whole on the sundry civil bill. Bland, of Missouri, offered an amend ment to the silver certiilcate amendment adopted yesterday so ns to place small cer tificates on the same footing as to redemp tion nnd rc-issue as large certificates al ready issued. Agreed to. A short debate ensued upon the const survey clause of the bill, ana this was fol lowed* by a discussion of the internal reve nue paragraph. Ermcntrout, of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment providing that $3000 of the ap propriation for the recoinnge of gold and silver coin shall be expended in recoining dollar for dollar into silver dollars or sub sidiary coins, trade dollars which may he presented at the various mints six months after the passage of this act. Pending action the committee rose and house, at 6 o’clock, took a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be for the consideration of the pension bills. Sen ut i*. Washington, June 25.—On motion of Sewell the senate took up the Fitz Joliu Porter bill. Logan addressed the senate on the bill. He opened with an objection to the bill on a constitutional point. The bill, lie said, provides for an increase in a number of pensions on the retired list of the army provided the president appointed a certain person to the place. If he did not make Hint special appointment a vacancy was not to exist. Where did the senate get the power to name to the president the person whom he should appoint to an office? Whi re did the home of representatives get, any power to name to the president the person whom he should nominate to an office? The fact that Fite John Porter and others, whose names it was not necessary to mention, conspired to make it impossible for a westci n officer to command until Grant took hold of it, and at that time Porter and some of his kind were not then in it. It was a part of the programme of Porter and his friends that no western man should command that finny. Logan assorted that Porter was tile cause of the first Hull Run defeat by per suading Patterson to retreat from Win chester with 30,000 men. In support of this he had the clerk read some extracts from his published work. “The Great Con spiracy.” He denied that he was endeav oring to prosecute Porter, when he was only defending Lincoln. “As God is my judge,” said he, “I would stand over the dust of Lincoln and swear by all the gods to his act as being an honest and just act.” “ You gentlemen that were down in the confederacy,” continued Logan, “don’t know anything about this case except what you have read, and you come up here and vote without reference to the facts. Until you have examined them vou should not vote merely out of sympathy for this man. Every man restored to tlte army by con gress’ after dismissal for sympathy with the rebellion had found republicans in con gress to aid them. The prophecies of a few years ago were coming true. The legislation of the war was being reversed every day by the republican vote.” ? * “ Within the last few days,” Logan said, “ a man who above all others ought not to have done so, had dragged from the grave the honored bones of the greatest secretary of war that this country bail produced, and they had been bestirred and besmirched by the vilest slanders. So the men who protected this government were to be vili fied, while if anybody stood up to defend the upholders of the union lie is called a persecutor. Union men were now the men to be kicked, and enough republicans were found to vote with the democrats under the Confederate (lag against their own flag. Any man who wanted to fight under the Confederate flag in this cham ber had a right to do it. Logan meant, this, of course, only in a political sense- in the sense of a political fight, but be did mean it in that sense. While republicans here were helping the democrats to pass bills like this, there were hills giving pitiful little pensions of $5 to *16 a month to disabled soldiers of the republic that were being vetoed by the president. So for fighting for the flag, for standing up in the time of war, for being- ready to die that the union might, live, - the heavy hand of the chief executive of the republic fell upon these poor soldiers. Yet republi can senators here were willing to vote to give *3000 a year to a man who was a traitor to his commander. So if men wanted to be paid liberally by 1 be United States they had only to he treacherous when they should be true. “If you are true when you might be treacherous, you arc vetoed. That,” said Logan, “is a strange thing to take place in this country.” Plumb, in opposing the bill, said lie would ventue to soy that not a man in the senate who served the confederacy in arms would hesitate to say that such a soldier in the confederate army would have been dis missed in disgrace, if not shot, for failing to perform the obvious duty whieli Porter failed to perform on the 29th and 30th of August, 18(12. Plumb understood the court martial that had tried Porter came within one vote of decreeing his death. Sewell asked Plumb's authority for that statement. Plumb asked whether Sewell denied the statement. Sewell did deny it. Plumb said that while there was no posi tive proof of his statement, ns the court was sworn to secrecy, but it bad gone into tile common knowledge of men. This so- called vindication of Porter was la stab at Abraham Lincoln. Plumb conceded that there was a division among the northern people about the matter, but it was a di vision like that occurring on tlie Mis sissippi river, the eddy going one way and the great full-headed stream the other way. It was not a new thing for the north to divide. Would tile south divide on a question? Was there nothing significant in the fact that every man who served in the confederacy would vote to put Fitz John Porter on the roll of union heroes? We had heard lately of an apothesls of Jefferson V).at the same time that w-e got the ck-L ,ij..tlon of Edwin M. Stanton. Was then, beneath all this a fellow feeling lor the northern man who defeated the union army in bat tle? The reinstatement of Fitz John Porter was the beginning of an attempt to re-write the hlBtory of the union army, and to that put which was disloyal and unfaithful above that which was loyal and faithful. This was our quarrel, if quarrel it was, and the other side ought to refrain from voting on it. Butler interposed to say that he had sat during this discussion without opening his mouth either for or against the bill, but he submitted that there was a point beyond which forbearance ceased to be a virtue. That point was about reached so far as he , was concerned. It had been intimated by : innuendo, almost directly, that southern I men were easting their votes to restore ; Fitz John Porter to the army because he was disloyal to * the union. ; “I do not only protest against | that, Mr. President,” continued Butler, i “but, sir, for one 1 denounce it as absolute ly and entirely and unqualifiedly untrue, and, sir, if it were in another forum, I would denounce it as cowardly, because we are here in the exercise of our constitu tional rights ns senators on this floor, cast ing our votes as our conscience dictates. That we should be aspersed in this way is beyond my comprehension among men and gentlemen. I have not opened my mouth for Fitz John Porter. I know of no man from the south, or who was in the confederate army, who has. \Ve have taken the fround that it is not a quarrel; but, sir, are we supposed to sit here like dumb brutes call ed upon to exercise a constitutional duty to vote, and because we vote as our con- 1 sciences dictate, without regard to his loy- . alty or disloyalty, following the track of 'the republicans who brought this question here, we are to be aspersed anil our integ rity impugned. I repeat, sir, that if that aspersion were put upon me in another forum ! would denounce it as false and cowardly.” He Butler) had listened for the last time without at least a protest to these constant aspersions upon men from the south, who were simply doing their duty as they understood it. lii conclusion, Butler said, “I am the last man in the world, sir, I can inform the senator from Kansas, who would sustain a traitor to the union cause. I am the last man or. this floor who would have respect for a man who I thought deserted his colors, but upon the evidence which i have had, laud which i have looked at i think judicially,! i do not believe that Fitz John Porter was a traitor. I do not be lieve he deserted his colors, and believing that I shall vote for this bill.” Plumb—“ I knew all that before the sen ator got up.” Butler—“Then I hope the senator will stop ills insinuations.” Plumb—“ As the senator bus not restrain ed himself from a somewhat lively speech here, 1 hope lie will not lie under any re st mint elsewhere. ’ ’ Butler—“I can say this to tfie senator, that 5f he were to indulge in just such sen timents and expressions elsewhere as he has here, he would be very likely to hear from mb." Plumb—“Oh, Mr. President, we hear a great, many things in these days. There arc signs and portents and ail that sort of thing. It is just what the senator has said that I was commenting upon, that while the men who served in the union army and the northern people worn divided i<» some extent on this question uflectingtlx honor, good name,faithfulness and loyalty of one of their own soldiers, no confederate soldier hud any doubt upon the subject, but voted nem con that he was not guilty.” After some further remarks Plumb said lie had just been informed that the presi dent hod vetoed the hill giving a pension of $50 a month to the widow of Major- General Hunter, who had been presiding officer of the court martial that had tried Fitz John Porter. That seemed a fitting accompaniment for the passage of the Fitz John Porter bill, but the loyal people of the country would see to it that Mrs. Hunter should not suffer. Teller offered an amendment to place upon the retired list Gen. Alfred Pleasan ton. Rejected—19 to 29. Plumb offered an amendment to place Mrs. Hunter on the pension roll-at $50 a month. Lost—15 to 29. Logon offered an amendment to place on the retired list every volunteer officer who received wounds producing total disability. Rejected- -18 to 29. Blair offered an amendment providing that rejected pension claims may be taken to the United States courts with the privi lege of a jury trial. This amendment, he said, would relieve congress of many bills for privatelrelief. Beck said the Fit/..John Porter bill should either be passed or voted down on its merits and without reference to any other proposition. After further debate Blair withdrew his amendment. Logan offered an amendment providing places on the retired list for union officers who lost an arm, leg or eye at the battle of Bull Run. Rejected. The hill was then brought to a vote and passed—yeas 30. nays 17. as follows: Yeas—Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Brown, Butler, Call, Cameron, Cockrell, Coke, Col- quilt. George, Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Hoar, Jones of Arkansas, Jones of Nevada, McPherson, Maxe.v, Mitchell of Oregon, Pugh.Ranson, Riddleberger, Sewell,Vance, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, \Vhitthorn, and Wilson of Maryland—30. Nays—Aldrich. Allison, Conger, Culluin, Evar’ts, Frye, Hale, Harrison, Hawley. Ingalls, Logan. Manderson, Palmer, Saw yer, Spooner, Teller and Wilson, of Iowa The bill, having already passed tin- house, and not having been amended by the si nate, now goes to the president for liis signature. Adjourned till Monday. \ Bin Kiiilniini Ciiiisnliihdtim. Richmond, Va., June 25.—The Newport Nt v. s m ii Mississippi Valley railroad com pany lias leased the Chesapeake ami Ohio railroad. This consolidation makes a gland trunk line under one management from Newport News to New Orleans, where it will connect witli the Huntington system to the Pacific ocean. The consoli dation will not effect the present manage ment of the Columbus and Ohio, as offi cers of that company occupy the same po sitions in the Newport News and Missis sippi Valley railroad. President C. P. Huntington is reported as having stated that in less than two years there will be ten thousand miles of railroad tributary to Newport News. In a few days the name of the Chesapeak and Ohio will be drop ped and the road will be known as tin- Newport News and Mississippi Valley railway. Tin- Vnli-s Wilt. New London, June 23. In the univer sity boat race Yale bent tile University of Pennsylvania; corrected time, Yale 23.33, Pennsylvania 24. Iti. A mil tier .! iiror li-ci-iiti-il. Chicago, June 25.—As a result of to day's work in the criminal court, a fourth juror was accepted by both sides ami sworn in for the anarchist trial. The Lake Shore Switchmen Interfering With Train). Tin* Police nnd the Striker* ll»v<* a Slluht Conflict —The Kaliroud Mutuum Determine to Mtind Kirin—Other News About Labor Troubles. i Chicago, June 25.—At ft meeting of the . striking Lake Shore switchmen last night the following communication was re- . ceived: I “To D. O. Reilley, chairman: The offi cers of this company are in receipt of your 1 message of this date, reading as follows: ‘We have unanimously declared ourselves on a strike on the old issue of April 17th, ’ and have established ourselves at No. 1321 i Westworth ave., where the committee 1 . may be seen at any time between 7 a. m. I ana 10 p. m.’ ' “By the old issue it is understood you mean the demand made unon the company in April last, that it should discharge from , its service certain employes who it was ; claimed were objectionable individuals. If | this is correct, there is no other answer to be made than that contained in the letter then addressed you by S. L. Jones, general yard master, April 17th last. This stated that under .no circum- 1 stances would the company discharge ! old, faithful audefficicnl employes on such a request. The officers of the company desire the committee and those whom they represent to he advised th: 4 ’’heir dec laration that they are on a strike is accept ed by the company as notice of tlierr with drawal from its service, and any members who desire re-employment must make ap plication before noon Friday. [Signed] P. P. Wright, General Supt. A call has been issued and quietly circu lated for a meeting of.all general managers and general superintendents of railroads entering Chicago. The r bject is to dis cuss the merits of the strike and the course to be pursued by the connecting roads regarding it. It is recognized that if the Switchmen’s Union is disposed to hack up the Lake Shore men, complications must arise with other roads, as in that event members employed on other lines will refuse to switch "over to the Lake Shore cars from the west consigned to that company. The managers say they will in sist tiiat this work be done the same as if no trouble existed on the Lake shore, and if the Switchmen's Union order out on this point the issue will be fought out and railroad traffic come to a standstill. THE fe IT CAT ION YESTERDAY. At the Hoot street crossing of the Lake Shore railroad this morning, the police on duty numbered thirty, which included every available officer in the town of Lake force. There was no change in the situa tion up to 9 o’clock, and no intimation of any attempt to move trains had been re ceived up to that hour. There was, how ever, a prevailing impression in spite of the peaceful declaration of the strikers, . that trouble would occur to-day. A car load of switchmen reached. Chicago about midnight from Toledo, and it was thought they would be put to work about 9 o'clock. The imported switchmen were taken out to Third street in charge of Sunorir.vndei.t Amsden. They remained in the car and had not up to 9:30 o'clock bean expostulated with by the strikers. The imported men number about twenty-five and include many of those brought to Chicago during the*last strike. Shortly before 10 o’clock the offi cials, with the assistance of the police, succeeded in attaching the engine and caboose to the waiting freight train. Be- yound the expostulation of the crowd no trouble was experienced until after the caboose was attached to the train. The latter consisted of ten cars for South Bend. The crowd grew in pro portions and more threatening. The po lice and railroad employes were surround ed and threatened with violence. In the meantime the small force was uivided be tween the train and in guarding the switches to prevent the latter being turned to make impossible the free movement of the train. Finally, responding to the cries of several leaders, the crowd rushed for the police and turned the switches in spite of the lat ter. The police had their clubs drawn and used them in a few instances, but the officers were either so thoroughly astonished or over-awed by the crowd that they made no successful resistance. A por tion of the crowd at the same moment surged toward the train which had com menced to move out, but which passing upon open switches was thrown from tii* track, the engine and nil the cars being de railed. To complete the wreck the coupling pins were withdrawn ai.d thrown away. During the melee the police succeeded in making two arrests. The excitement in the vicinity is still very great. The railroad officials are now endeavor ing to remove the wreck, and until that has been accomplished further efforts l*• move any cars will be impossible. On* of the men arrested is a member of the ex ecutive committee of the Switchmen's Union. At 11 o’clock the crowd about the switching yard was very large and con stantly growing. Despite- the frequent rain showers the temper of the crowd i*- still very ugly. A passenger train ap proached the scene soon after the attack on the freight train and one of the rioters, picking up a coupling-pin, (lung it at a brakemau standing on the platform. It caused no damage, nowe\er. Xootberd monstration was made against the passen ger a min operatives or passengers. !..\tkA large crowd is s unrounding lheiouiidhoi.se and will not allow an;, engum ♦ *» come out. Eight new switch- im *. : a. •_ •...* u severely beaten and gone home. Some of the imported switchmen w* r* attacked by the strikers shortly aft* r noon and several were injured. It is staled that , a number have refused to work owing to fear of violence. The crowd at 13d sire* « at 2 o’clock numbered about 2000. A conference of the gem mi inanageis was held to-day. All the roads entering into Chicago were represented. Tnc con ference was very brief. The managers as sured President Newell that they would, require their men to do their full duty and handle Lake Shore cais as well as those of otlu r roads. At 4 o'clock this afternoon fifty of Pink erton's police appeared at Forty-third street, ace* mpaniecl bv thirty switchmen. The strikers still remained in the vicinity and when an attempt was made to move an engine from the roundhouse the ciowd made an effort to run u box car on the: track. The police force t hen, how ever, knocked two down with their clubs. Three men were placed under arrest, and with them a fourth man who was active in his efforts to cause a blockade. The*crowd then retired a short distance and the train abandoned in the forenoon was successfully made up under a heavy guain and r< n north to frbtb Mr* et. when it pas.-* n i.j * n tin n.H»n truck. Guard* d ly iu!ly ID: j o- lice it again proceeded south etdjioMd out of t lie city. A Firii* r. Lot; is. June 25 Knig'its of Lab — Durinj Ad v or at the trial rh McGi rv. ( several otlu Missouri Pacific employes who participa ted in the late strike, charged with con spiracy, an altercation arose between the former and prosecuting attorney McDon ald. The judge advocate, who waa defend ing his own eases, was interrupted by McDonald, and hot words fol lowed, ’ which were followed in turn by blows. McGury was struck under the chin and hurled backward and would have fallen had he not been supported by spectators, lie recovered from tnc shock and rushed upon the prosecuting attorney striking at him viciously. The men clinch ed. but were finally separated. MeOary was fined $25. GOSSIP FROM THE CAPITOL. A Spirit***! IM**it<* In tin* II*/un<* The President Takes a Day Off— Seuutor Payne's Case—Itlvcr and Harbor Hill. Kte. Washington, June 25.--While the house was considering pension bills this evening i Gil .son, of West Virginia, criticized several ! of the reports submitted ny the committee 1 on invalid pensions, and stated that ho | would raise the point of no quorum upon certain measures. Thereupon, Baine, of Pennsylvania, rose ■ and attacked the president lbr his recent veto messages on pension bills, lie was j astounded at the vetoes. In the whole his- , lory of the republic they were without ! a parallel. The austere and rigorous An- i drew Jackson, desirous of asserting Ii is 1 power and making his individuality con spicuous had never monopolized power as the present president had done. With reference to those pension bills this man had even had the teme rity to sneer at the , reports of the committee of this ! house. He had the temerity to put the seal of his sarcasm on the reports of the committee granting u p( nsion to the widow of some man who had been slain in the service of his coun try. This man, himself no soldier, himself walking the ath of peace when all these | oth**r men imperiled their lives to save the union, came in and put his veto on tho unanimous vote of the house and the sen ate of the United States. What constitutional asperity had the rm sklent for going to this length? Who had invested this man with such power that he must assert himself, ami say to the people of the country: “I am larger than you. and I know more about what should be the law than 325 members of the house of representatives and 7(5 members of the senate ?” It was the. fault i>1 men endowed with brief authority to ar rogate knowledge that they did not possess. He was no better than any other. He v. as no better than any American citizen, and lie, by God. was not the equal of any man who perilled his life and went out to save the union. [Applause on the repub lican side.] Matson, of Indiana, defended the presi dent, who, he declared, was fair ana just, and prompted by his conscience. Two men might honestly flitter upon a question, and that - was all there was in all this talk All the gentleman has said in the way of abuse of the president was uncalled for. The pres ident wa.-> an honest man and the people ol the country knew it. [Applause.] Though he Matson■ did not agree with the president on this question, the presi dent was a courageous man, and he honored him for it. He was tlie piivVunt o/ tin United (States and was called upon in the exercise of his iiigh office to take the grave respon- sibilitv.f approving or vetoing hills, and when lit did it. though he ‘Matson might differ from his views, he would not abuse him, and the gentleman from Pennsylva nia could make no more capital out of abusing him than lie made out of abusing his own president, Arthur. Peters, of Kansas—“We cannot honor the president for an ignorance of his pre rogatives.’' Matson—“He knows his prerogatives, and knowing them he has the courage to exercise them.” [Applause.] Warner, of Ohio, defended the presi dent’s course, declaring that his aim was only to keep off the pension roll men who were not entitled to go there. The at tempt of the gentleman from Pennsyl vania and others to make capital out of vetoes would fail, because the country be lieved that, though in some eases the presi dent was mistaken, he was honestly en deavoring to keep off the roll men who were dishonestly endeavoring to get there. Blanchard, of Louisiana, thought that there was no need to answer tlie assault made upon the president. The president could stand the assault made upon him by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, or any other gentleman. Tnc country was pre pared to applaud the action of the execu tive when lie pointed out the mistakes which had been made by congress. The discussion continued at some length, the president's action and the conduct of the pension bureau under-Black coming in for criticism and defense, and then, with out transacting any bussne.ss, the house at 10:45 p. in. adjourned. \ Day Ofl*. Washington. June 25.—The* president to-day ••took a day off” and went fishing dc wn the* river on n private yacht, along with tv.o or three members of congress. Yisteiday was probable tin* busiest day the president lias had since his inaugura tion. It v.hs dc\oted almost entirely to tlie considerate n of pension cases. During the day he ucted upon 118 private pension bills. Alter gi\ii g * ach c ase a thorough personal examination, thirty were vetoed and €ighty-eigl-t approved. The pr« i- dent v :* t* : • \tt< messages himsilf \\itl< .shim ly dictation or other- uis( Tb'.v ;l-out fifty pages of el* ‘i < *•< ap. Indi< d, it is Mat* • nit the i h sidelit has personally write n » \»iy n • .‘■‘■age that has been issued li< i.i ‘Li v. hit*- 1 oie-c during bis udminis- trr.t:* n. H< nty of work will he reaciv for him < n hi- i< it.n. In m his yacht ing cruise, as ‘J 3 bills he\c just i.em neeiud from toiignss lor hi:- a tjon. (if these* all but si.' t -’v.n me privet* p* nsion bills. Washington, June 25.—The senate com- mittee on pri\lieges and elections held a short n:*«* f irg this morning and voted to rcpoit ad\«-rsely to any investigation of the charges of bribery in connceti n with the election of .Senator Payne. The ma- jori1\ of the committee think there is not suffn i* nt t \ idtiice to show that money was used in the election, and are very confident that the result was not in any way effected by improper means. There will be a minority report in favor of an investigation. It is said that onlv Senators Hear and Frye will sign the minority re port, and that Senators Kvarts, I-ogan. ssaulsbuiy. Vance, Pugh, and Eustis will sign the majority report. 1C her .net tlarlmr Hill. Washington, .min 25.- Th« senate com mittee on * on in* ; c* agreed this morning to r* j Ml 1) < t.\‘ r and barber hi}] next Moi.baw \ -uh-ciiinmittee was appointed to ex;-)) ji!« tb« measure with a vi«*w to a corn (tun of any wrbal errors, but the an * unt- r*} n i d in the bill as ht r< tof'ore ni.b'bl:**. an- in stand unchanged. The Hci |,( I :n I i I al bus b* cm placed on the bi’ll y ili -«ii te and (jb.nuo is apj r«.- 1 i i;• tc e t« !•< gin the v.oi k. A Dominion Statesman's Broad Views on the Fishery Question. Folly of Poorrlon—llow the Men ItiHtructioiiN May llrlnir Aliout a I'aclth* Solution Antoni Truth* I’rh II(*k**n WmiCmI. Boston, June 22.—The Boston Globe of to-morrow will print an interview by its Montreal correspondent with Hon. Peter Mitchell, privy councillor. Mr. Mitchell said: “Ever since the difficulty arose I have maintained that the Canadian gov ernment had no authority to seize a United States vessel engaging in any commercial transaction, pro video she complied with our customs laws. I hold that there was no authority for seizing the Adams for purchasing bait, and 1 advised the govern ment to surrender the vessel. I urged j them not to engage in any international contest- on such a weak and worthless case: i as the opinion of the commercial world i would be against them, and we could not afford, as a country aspiring to a national position, to have this influential element ! condemning us. Moreover, that ! when they came to find the British gov- I eminent decling to buck them in such an I extreme position, they would have to almn- j don their claim, and would incur the anger of the Canadian people for having weak- ! ened .an otherwise strong position. But , the governient took their own head for it, i and only a few weeks passed before they ! j)ad to issue new instructions to their col- J lectors of customs, from which were omit- i ted the former orders to seize shipping crews for purchasing supplies, and doing anything else (except fishing or preparing to fish within the three mile limit) in al leged violation of the convention of ISIS. I FISHERIES CANADA’S STOCK IN TRADE. | “Then you think it is only right that the , United States fishermen should he ex- j eluded from Canadian waters?” “Most decidedly. Why not ? The United States people must learn to respect our rights in our waters and in our fisheries. If our fishermen were to persist in fishing in United States waters, as New England fishermen do in Canadian waters, and without acknowledging the rights of the United States or offering any conipen.su- , lion to those whose, fisheries and territorial rights would thus be invaded, what an oat en there would he, what a demand for the despatch of gunboats to drive off the in vaders from one end of th<* union to the ! other. We are just as jealous of our rights as the people of the United States are- no i more, no less. Our fisheries are a part of our national stock in trade, and we don’t propose to surrender them to foreign use without some substantial compensation. Not in money we don’t -want that lap in commercial transactions which will be mutually beneficial to tlie two countries. It our fisheries are of no value to the fishermen of the United States all right. In that ease we need not expect to find them In our waters. But the presence of hundreds of New Eng land vessels around the coast of Nova Scotia; the boasts by skippers of how they evaded the Canadian laws am* eluded the Canadian protective vessels; the threats of arming Gloucester fishing vessels, in order to force their way into mu vatura and attack our protective fled should tln v he molested, the outcry that is raised by the agents of tile Gloucester fish symlicates-- ull these tilings show how absurd is the pretence that there is nothing for the New England fishermen in Canadian waters. If there is nothing for them what brings them here? Why is there such an outcry? We are not selfish—we have shown tluit. What we want is fair play, fair tariffs, fail- trade.” THE TRADE RELATIONS. “ Wlmt about extending the trade rela tions of the two countries, Mr. Mitchell ?” “ United States politicians talk of encour aging trade with Mexicans and the blacks, who are non-progressive and need scarcely anything the United States have to sell. Here are five millions of English speaking people, as progressive and intelligent as any on the race of the earth, who are only too anxious to trade with the people of the United States on equal terms. We have | coal for their Atlantic seaboard; we have | iron ore for their western furnaces ; we have lumber and fish, which they need everywhere; we have unlimited fields of enterprise for their business men and capi talists. Why do the fifty or fifty-five millions oi intelligent people in that great country allow themselves to be taken by the throat by a few capitalists in Gloucester and a few other New England towns? They cannot even man their fishing vessels except with Canadian crews, and are forced to adopt a policy which estranges tin.* two countries, dries up the springs of commercial inter ests, and would, if controlled by Gloucester hot heads, bring about net uni hostilities be tween two countries whose territory is eon- term inous for 3000 mih-s; whose facilities for mutual commercial development urc equally enterprising and equally desirous of employing tin* great resources of the t wo countries for mutual advancement and prosperity. RKOjI’ROf’ITY. “Since 1879 we have had on the statute book of Canada a standing offer of reciproc ity of trude with the United States. We did not want the old reciprocity treay ter minated; that was tlie* act of the United States congress, misled by interested parties. We did not want tin* fishing clauses of the Washington treaty abro gate*!, that was brought about by tin* mameuvros of tin* New England fishing capitalists in a spirit and from motives hostile to tlie best interests of the United States. After the treaty had fully expired, and when New England fishermen- had no rights whatever in fair waters, we permit ted t hem, as an act of courtesy to t he presi dent of the United States and his cabinet, ::ewly come to office, to use our fisheries for six to nine months longer, hoping that the good sense of the people of that country would prevail over the ef forts of the dcmsigngucs and fish monopo lists who talked so boldly of the national interests being involved in making fish dearer to the masses. Every reciprocal trade measure that has been agreed to by the representatives of the people of the United States we have accepted, rejecting nothing, and every time some selfish inter est, assuming the disguise of patriotism, has succeeded in rebuking reciprocity to tlie injury of both countries. AN INCENTIVE TO PEACE. “There are in Canada, you may say,’’said Mr. Mitchell, many who favor an Ameri can continental commercial policy in preference to imperial federation, which means a commercial union of Britain and her colonies as against the world. They believe the interests of Canada lie here oil this continent, and they are waiting patiently to see whether the narrow,miser able log rolling in congress, which united for sectional and mercenary monopolistic ends—interests that have nothing in com mon and exist only on the breath of con- is to h* the permanent condition of lasting injury of the of the • ll.opl,.; that is to say wliutlur the 1‘niti'd States will continue to refuse trade with a neighbor country whose territorv, refusing the proffered and valuable com merce that mast soon find a channel !■ Home direction and enrich some country. It need not surprise any one if these Cana dians who have lived in tho hope of see ing the commercial relations of the two neighbor countries greatly extendea, but who have heen doomed to disappointment, should abandon hope in that direction and turn their faces toward the schemes which in my judgment offer nothing substantial to Canadian commerce but duzzle some be cause of the imperial consolidation which its promoters are constantly harping upon. I know that many of the first-class business men of the United States lament tho folly which prevents a broad extension of the trade re lations with the two countries. I have met them—men from New England, from New York, from the groat west—nnd they are ashamed of the narrowness of view which rules the hour in congress.” “Then you favor a very large reduction of the tariff between the two countries?” "Certainly- large reductions, even free trade in many things in nil natural pro ducts, forMlistMice, This alone would lead ton largely Increased commerce.” THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR. Tlie I.uiKIiiIImii U liirli Tlie, A-ik olToincreiH. Wash i noton, June 25.—The committee of the Knights of Labor appointed at the meeting of the general assembly held at Cleveland, (>., have sent a long letter to Speaker Carlisle, copies of which have also heen sent to Representatives Randall and Morrison. The letter snys: “At thespeciul session of tlie general assembly of Knights of Labor held at Cleve land, ()., May 25th to June 4th, 188(1, n committee of three, consisting of Ralph Bearmont, James Campbell and John J. McCartney, were appointed to visit the eapitol during the present session ot congress for the purpose of asking that body to puss laws to carry out the princi ples as laid down in our platform of principles, copies of which are enclosed to you. The committe have selected a few measures and embodied them in a memorial looking to that end and have sent several thousand to their different branches through the country for signatures and endorsements from the peo ple, and we expect lo be able in a few days to present your body these petitions with I lie endorsements oi' at least 600,000 signa tures. The following is a brief sum mary of t he petit ions; “Tin y ask flist, the passage of the house bill No.' 78117, repealing timber culture, pre emption and desert lni.d nets; second, the house bill No. 7021, for the adjustment of railroad and land grams; third, hills for feiting all railroad land grants, the condi tions of which have not strictly been complied with ; fourth, the house bill organizing the territory of Okalalioivia; fifth, tin' senate bill opening n portion of the great Sioux reservation to settlement; si x i li, the hill prohibiting all i ns from holding lands in the United States; seventh, the hill making presiden tial and congressional election days holi days, nnd punishing bribery; eighth, the hill dineting the disbursement of at least $21 it),OIK),(KH) of I lie treasury surplus, and sub stituting treasury notes lor bank notes re tired. “The party of which you are a member is in I lie majority some forty, and we, therefore, ioi’k to a majority to enact the necessary legislation to make these meas ures a purl of the law of the land.” flu Tlniliilf. NHw YoDK, June 25.—Coal stocks be came I he principal favorites at the stock exchange to-day, and utterances in regard 10 the dividend on Lackawanna were all of a rose colored nature, and tlie stock be came the principal speculative card. The dealings, beyond a few favorites, were almost without feature. There was liberal buying by the Chicago party of grangers’ stock, and they are also believed to have bought considerable Lake Shore and Lack awanna. Considerable help was given tlie advance in tlie morning by London advices quoting American stock active and advancing. There was. however, aliout $750,000 of gold orders for export to day, Iml the advance received no cheek until late in the last hour, and the final prices are close to the best figures reached. The market was strong at the opening, I lie first prices showing an ad vance of t to {. There was then a steady advance until near the close, when in consequence of realizing the market became heavy and sagged 011 small fractions. The net result of the day’s business is un advance in Almost everything on the active list, Lackawanna being up 2, Delaware and Hudson lb and remainder of the active list fractional amounts. Chattanooga made another jump to day, being up41. To-day's market indicated the complete command the bull cliques have over stocks. Sales 299,- 000 shares. Tin- l.iitlu*run S) nod. Roanoke, W. Va., June 25.—The south ern convention effected a union to-day on the Basis adonted two years a go at Salis bury, N. ('. f l he general synod was merged into a new body which embraces Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Car olina, Mississippi, Tennessee and Holstein synods. The Georgia synod is yet to he hoard from. This body of men Is named the l nited Synod of the Evangelical Luth eran church in the south. It will have un- iler its care the mission work at Guntoosa, India, and several important home mission ousts. In view of the facts that the union nnd heen consummated and that to-day was the 3H5th anniversary of the promul gation of the A ngusherg confession, special praise service was held this evening. \ I'riust Found (iiillti. Svrac tsk, N. Y., Juno 25.- Rev. John E, O’Sullivan was last night found guilty by a jury of criminal assault on Abbie O’Caii- naratthe Catholic parsonage in Camillus in May. 1884. The trial has been in pro gress three days and excited great interest in Catholic and other circles. The evidence was of a sensational character. This morn ing Judge Kennedy sentenced him to 11 years in Auburn prison. A stay of pro ceedings fora week was granted, during which time he will he confined in Onon daga penitentiary in this city. Tin* Kentucky Republicans. Louisville, June 25.—The republican state executive committee held a long ses sion last night, and decided to nominate candidates in every congressional district in tlie state. A call was also made for John W. Yerkes, of Danville, to oppose James Barber, democratic nominee foi judge of the superior court. Fit Hurt's of I Ik* Week. New York. June 25.- The business fail ures occurring throughout the country during tin* last week, as reported to R. Dun A Co., number for the United States 138 and Canada 24 a total of 162 against 155 last week. things, vast majority I -I i ral resow all L*nterpri.se‘ ale, To lie Vihcrsd) Reported. Washington, June 25.—The senate committee on the District of Columbia has voted to report adversely upon the nom ination of C. F. Matthews, (colored.) o Albany, N. Y.. to be recorder of deeds oi tlie District of Columbia. Km