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Abroad.
In England the situation is intense. As
ire luuuiaicu msi. ween, me riouse 01
Commons prepared a "budget" of taxes to
be levied and appropriated to the expenses
of the realm. The custom in England
for two or three hundred years past
has been for the House of Commons to
arrange all matters of taxation. The
House of Lords has always concurred
with the Commons. But during the past
week the House of Lords has voted to
reject the budget. This has brought on
a crisis. The king has prorogued Parlia
ment giving it a recess till January 15.
In the meantime there is to be a referendum
to the people of this question.
Later advices are to the effect that the
king has dissolved the Parliament and
called for a new election of members. If,
in these elections the Liberals shall prevail,
the House of Lords will be in danger
of final dissolution. There is much
feeling in England in favor of abolishing
the upper House altogether.
In Nicaragua the revolution has so far
succeeded that the United States has officially
recognized the insurgents. The ambassador
of President Zelaya at Washington
has received his pass ports, and half
a dozen vessels of war, with 3,000 marines,
have been dispatched to the ports
of Nicaragua. Our government is re
ported to have issued orders to prevent
the escape of Zelaya by sea, and to have
demanded that he be put on trial for murder,
in the execution of two Americans,
Cannon and Groce.
A Possible Canal Route from the Atlantic
to the Pacific lies through Nicaragua.
It is a longer route than the Panama canal,
but it utilizes a lake and a river, so
as to make a canal practicable. The pa-,
pers intimate that both Germany and Japan
had their eye upon this tract, with a
view of the possibility of a rival Inter
oceanic canal. How much this fact is influencing
our government in inducing
such prompt action in Nicaragua will appear
in due time.
At Home.
A Very Serious Strike of Railroad
Switchmen is reported as existing on the
various railroads in the Northwest, beI
tween St Paul, Minn., and the Pacific
Ocean. Passenger trains are running as
usual, but there is almost an absolute
| stoppage of freight traffic. This means
| suffering to the whole community for
want of coal; suffering also for want of
flour and meat; the stoppage of all fac|
tories and mills for want of supplies, and
emorcea idleness (and consequent suffering)
for all their operatives. The demand
of the Switchmen is for increased pay.
The suffering entailed upon the community
at large outweighs a thousand times
the question of the wages to be paid to
one set of employes. Th^ welfare of the
community ought to be considered.
The Value of Deep Waterways is the
| subject of a recent article by Mr. F. A.
JTH. December 8, 1909.
Thompson, of Richmond, Ind. He is secretary
of the National Rivers and Harbor
Congress. He notes the fact that transportation
of freight by rail costs on an
average of seven mills per ton per mile.
But that freight rates by water on the
Great Lakes is less than one mill per ton
per mile. This is because there is a
steady and reliable depth of water on the
Lakes from one end of the season to the
other. The argument is that if'a uniform
depth of water, all the year round, can be
secured on our western rivers, a like economy
of freight rates would follow.
One Dollar spent in freight, according
to Mr. Thompson will haul a ton by horse
power, four miles. On the railways of
this country from 125 to 200 miles; on the
Erie Canal, 666 miles; on Certain European
canals 1,000 miles; on the Great
Lakes, 2,500 miles. The Sioux St.
Marie Canal was opened in 1855. The
saving by freighting on the Lakes since
that time is estimated by him at five
thousand million dollars.
Population Follows Cheap Freights. Mr.
Thompson says that in 1800 the population
of the eight principal cities on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers was larger by
218,000 than the largest eight cities on
the Lakes. But now the eight Lake cities
exceed the eight river cities by 1,334,000.
He argues that a uniform depth of water
in the rivers would now do a like work
for the cities on our rivers.
1 ? \/ 1- rsiM... av - m s _ _ i
ncn w win vny iiit: i auimaay leaders
are reported as making out a list of appointments,
which Mayor Gaynor will be
asked to make. The mayor resents the
effort to dictate to him and will have
none of it.
A Happy Temperance Decision. In Bowling
Green, Ky., the county court acting
under the "Merchants" and "Druggists'"
provision, issued a saloon license to Chas
Ewing, who was not a merchant. The
court of Appeals decides that the license
is invalid; that the county court must,
in such cases, exercise its discretion in
refusing license.
The Sugar Trust Frauds. Trials are
now progressing in New York of those
who were involved in the false weighing
in the New York Custom House. Several
men of prominence, heads of departments
in the trust,'are on trial. The
pressure of a secret spring in the scales
it attested on oath. It diminished the apparent
weight of dutiable packages.
The Tariff on Wood Pulp is causing
trouble. In the sixtieth Congress Representative
Mann, chairman of an investigating
committee, reported in favor of
reducing imports on printing paper from
six dollars per ton to two dollars, and of
admitting wood pulp free. But Congress
fixed the tariff on paper at four dollars
per ton, and provided a tax on pulp from'
any locality, which should charge an ex
port tax or its equivalent. Canada resents
this action. The Province of Ontario has
forbidden the exportation of pulp and the
Province of Quebec has ordered a stumpage
charge on pulp wood amounting to
25 cents a cord. These movements threaten
a tariff war, unless the United States
shall recede from its action on wood pulp
and printing paper.