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IIAN'DALL'S SOUKY I’LIGMT
xsurpßn n* in his m'hi m:-:s
His TRIES TO HEDGE.
Letter* to Speaker Carlisle Which of
ThemseWes Bespeak the Krfiptt&egg of
the Protectionist Pretensions A
Probability That a Motion Will Be
M*ulo to Go Into Committee of the
Whole on the KandaM Measure.
Washington. Fob. 8.— I Tbe following
was to-day to Speaker Carlisle:
W ashington, l). C., Feb. 8, I^B7.
11 > v. John G, Cjrlialt % Speaker of the Home of
Rfprt § nf. i tir?ft i
*>BAK —We regret exceeding! v that you
could not sec your way clear to give recog
nition on yesterday to some Democrut to en
able him “to move to suspend the rules lor
the purpose of giviug the House an o portu
aity of considering ihe question of the total
repeal of tho nicrual revenue tax on to
bftf co.” Your refusal to give this recognition,
together with your letter of Feb. 7, deserves
more than passing notice. If two-thirds or
more of the House are in favor of such repeal
it was a grave responsibility for you to op
pose such h large majority of the representa
tives of the people. Assuming* however, for
the sake of argument that the trends of the
proposition constituted a less number than
two thirds, their strength is cer
tainly such that they ought to have
been permitted to test the sense of
the House upon the question, especially since
the country is watching with intense interest
the action of the House in respect thereto,
and the constituents of a large number of
members of the House have been urging them
to obtain, if possible, consideration of this
subject. We do not wish to be misunderstood.
We earnestly desire from a party standpoint
that recognition should have been given to a
Democrat to make the motion, but we would
vote cheerfully for the proposition, whether
made by a Democrat or by a Republican.
You assume in your letter tons that we ig
nored your communication of Feb. 3, and had
deliberately failed to make a response there
to. Our friends did uot have
an opportunity of considering that
communication until Friday evening, Feb 4.
It was of such a character as to require more
than a formal reply. We called at your hotel
the next day, Saturday, but through no fault
of yours or ours we did not succeed in obtain
ing an interview until the day after. We be
lieved that the friends of the repeal of the
tobacco tax were ~o strong ip the Housfc that
we would save to the oppressed taxpayers of
tins country an annual reduction of taxation
to tli© extent of $28,000,000 if
a motion for a repeal could
be made in the House on Monday of this
week, the latest day when such a motion, to
be effective under the rules, would be in order
durinur the Forty-ninth Congress. The mo
tion, it made during the last six days of the
ses>ion, would almost certainly be too late to
secure favorable consideration for the ques
tion in the Senate. We did not anticipate a
refusal of recognition for tlie purpose in
tended. We understood you to say to us ver
bally that if you gave to any one of our
friends the desired recognition, fair play all
around would require you to give other
Democrats an opportunity to make a like
motion to pass some <ii*tiuct proposition
having relation ton reduction of tariff duties.
To this we assented. You instanced as one
such proposition, nutting salt on the free list.
We think that a revision of the tariff and of
the internal revenue laws can be attained
from time to time by reforming the obvious
and greater grievances of the two systems,
an.l that we should not refuse to make such
reforms because sweeping charges have not
been practicable. The country is expecting
to obtain from this Congress relief from
grievous burdens of taxation. It some of us
cannot get all we want we should all
take what we can get. Our single proposi
tion for a ropeal of tlie tax on tobacco was
not intended and cannot fairly be construed
ns intending to exclude consideration by the
House of “all other measures for a reduction
of taxation.” We wished to obtain considera
tion for that proposition, but we were no*
pressing lor a reduction of internal revenue
taxes to the exclusion of other measures for
r revision and reduction of the tariff. \
Democratic caucus cannot successfully
deal with “tjie whole subject of revenue
reduction’' at this last stags of the
se-sion. That suggestion comes too late.
If a caucus could have controlled the legisla
tion of the Forty-nmth Congress from the be
ginning. the country might have been better
off. It the House was considered competent
to deal with the silver question, with the
pension question, and with the oleomargarine
question, free from the dictation of a Demo
cratic caucus, we think it ought to be com
petent to deal with the questiotTof the reduc
tion of taxation. A caucus ought not now
to he invoked to justify the policy of delav
and non-action on this matter. We
sincerely hope, with you, “that some plan
mav yet be devised which will enable the
House to consider the w hole subject of reve
nue reduction” and revision, “in a spirit of
fairness to all interests,” and In accordance
with the letter and spirit oi the platform of
the national Democratic party, adopted at the
convention held at Chicago in the year 1884,
and we assure you that we arc ready to meet
auy of our Democratic associates who are
prepared to treat with us on such a basis.
John a. Hknpkr-on.
George and. Wise.
Samuel, J, Randall.
6TILL ANOTHER LETTER.
There Was sent to Speaker Carlisle to
day a long letter signed by Representa
tives Randall. Warner, Henley and Mc-
Adoo in response to his communication
returning the substitute bill presented lor
tbo consideration of himself and those
holding similar views respecting tariff re
vision. The letter says:
The gentlemen present at ouf recent con
ference, representing States .South, West and
North, were led to hope that the way hud
been dually opened for an agreement on a
measure that could be generally supported
by our political friends, and we sincerely re
gret, in view of the importance of the adop
tion bv tins Congress of some measure ihat
would materially reduce revenue* and
prevent further accumulation of the Treasury
surplus, that differences so wide as appear
in your communication should still exist. It
was hoped that a basis of compromise could,
be reached without requiring of any one the
sacrifice of principle or of convictions enter
tained on the subject of the tariff and internal
taxes. To do tlii-j it is evident that those
things respectiug which radical difference*
exist in the minds of men must be excluded
from a hill intended as a compromise meas
ure. It was believed there could be fouud
room inside of the.-** limits for an
agreement on a list of articles to
be remitted to the free list, as well ss upon
many on which the tariff could he reduced,
thereby effecting a material reduction or me
revenues without injuring or endangering
any important Industries nr impairing the
earnings •>f labor in this oountry. It is be
lieved vet that such a measure ought to be
agreed upon and car led through ttie House
at this session As to the items in the pro
posed bill on wh’eh it is el a lined that an in
crease in the tariff would result, wo have to
say that the apparent Increase arises in moit
instances from a change from ad valorem
to sped lie duties, made in accordance with
recommendation* troin the Treasury Depart
ment. The principal object in making duties
specific w her* they are now ad valorem is io
prevent deception and dishonesty practiced
by under valuation, and u hue. in fixing what
Is deemed to be fair spec lie equivalents an
apparent increase may arise, it is behoved
to be apparent only, and not real. However,
on all these matters, inasmuch as the pro
posed bul is not intended to lo a revision of
the tariff but a bill for the reduc
tion of the revenues and a correction
of certain inequalities only, we think there
I will be no difficulty in agreeing ei:her to
[strikeout of the bid such articles, or to re
vduce the proposed rates so as to Insure no in
crease In Hie actual duties manyeuae. A
careful examination of the lit shows, we
think, that, except as to a very few articles,
■you are in error iu the statement that the
■duty is increased. * * *
I Certain of the things which you ask to be
minced on the free )i-t, as proposed in the
Morrison bill, raise vital questions which
have heretofore prevented harmonious action
on the tariff question, as many of us believe
that such a step, if curried to it* logical con
euucoii, would be destructive of very m my
of our most important agricultural as well as
mechanical iiuluslries, and as we are in this
matter retire eating not only our own con
victioust bul the Interests of the people we
represent, vrecouM not, of course, make this
concession, and we did not expect to he asked
to make it. * * * *
In striking from the proposed compromise
nu& urc ;t repeal of the tobacco tax. the tax
* ■ t brandies, alcohol used in the aRa,
weiss beer and the alternative proposition o
reduce the tax on all distilled spirits from 90c.
to ooc. per gallon, you eliminate from the bill
all proposition to reduce internal revenue
taxes, except the retail license provision.aud
this you do not in terms agree to.
* * * In lieu of these provisions
in your bill you propose to repeal at 1 statutes
imposing restrictions upon the sale of leaf
tobacco by farmers, and to modify tho laws
relating to storekeepers aud gaugers at
small distilleries, and the destruction of stills,
also to modify the administrative features of
>h*‘ law relating to the issue of warrants, etc.
W bile to all these proposed modifications oi
the present law we readily assent, we do
not see iu them alone how the revenue is to
be reduced.
Our object in the matter of internal taxes
is two-told; first, to reduce the revenue, and,
second, to relieve the people of a vexatious
and inquisitorial method of taxaHon, and to
do this w ithout offering temptations to fraud
or to evasions of the law. Furthermore, ic
proposing the abolition or reduction of inter
nal revenue taxes, we believe we are acting
in harmony with the principles and declara
tions of the Democratic national plat
form. The internal revenue tax
in that platform is declared to. be
a war tax, and a repeal of the crushing war
taxes is demanded. It has, uioreover.been the
policy of our government after each war to
abandon this form of taxation first, as
evinced under the administrations or Jeffer
son ami Jackson, and a tax that requires an
armed force to execute it can never be pop
ular in a free country. You demand that if the
repeal of tho tobacco tax, or other internal
taxes in the whole or in part, is Insisted upon
by us, then you and those acting with
you will insist that in the same
hill an equal amount of reduction in the rev
enue derived from customs shall be made. If
It presented otherwise debatable ground for a
(V)mpromise, it seems to us to forestall such
action by your further demand that the re
duction In the tariff shall be made upon such
articles only as those with whom you are act
lug shall indicate. This is equivalent to say
ing, at the outset, that those holding different
views from your own, and the views of those
acting with you, shall he precluded from hav
ing any voice in determining what things du
ties shall be reduced on. But in the first place
interna! taxes and customs have never stood
on equal ground in our system of taxation.
Tariff taxes have been always our chief re
liance for revenue. Internal taxes have been
exceptional taxes. In the next plaoe we hold
it next to impossib’e to so adjust tariff rates
as to secure a definite reduction of the reve
nues, such as the repeal or reduction
of an internal revenue tax will produce.
When the direct tax is repealed we
know wh|U the loss to the revenue will be,
and when dutiable articles are placed on the
tree list—but a reduction of a rate of duty
may be followed by an increase of revenue,
and not a decrease. Between the two ex
tremes of free trade on one hand and a pro
hibitory tariff or no trade on the oilier, there
an* three principles, and ouly three, one or the
oilier of which must govern when duties aiv
intelligently laid. These may be
represented by three lines. First, a horizon
tal line representing an even rate laid upon
all imports for the purpose of revenue only;
next, an Irregular libe, representing maxi
mum revenue; and, third, a line representing
the difference in the cost of production aris
ing out of different conditions under which
production is carried on in this and other
countries. We art: ready tojoiu m reducing
the tariff on ail articles that are above the
line of difference in the co*t of production,
ami tm those things on which the rate of duty
l- now above that iin ■, thus permitting mo
nopolies to be formed to arbitrarily raise prices
to the consumer without benefiting labor.
We think it the imperative duty of Congress
to reduce the tariff *o as to prevent the possi
bility of a monopoly combination to put up
prices above the competing point.
* * * * Respecting your proposi
tion to submit the measure proposed by in to
a caucus of our political friends, all parties
to be bound by such action as it may take
upon the subjects to which the bill relates, is
one, it seems to us, that ought, not to be asked.
The question is not a political question It is
not a party question, for the Republicans
differ on it as do the Democrats. The
differences between us are not political dif
ferences but differences on important econ
omic and industrial questions aud we sub
mit that “it usual in either party,
nor right, to attempt to bind men by caucus
action on such questions and thereby not only
to take from them tneir right and duty to
act in accordan e with their own convic
tions, hut compel them to act contrary to
their obligations as faithful representatives
of the people who have sent them here.
These, too, are the very matters respecting
which we are ftLtdfnptiug to effect a compro
mise.
In lieu, therefore, of a caucus, we suggest
that a committee, composed oi members rep
resenting the different phases of the question
involved in the two measures under discus
sion, should be appointed to take up these
differences in a spirit of fairness, with a view
of coming together on a measure all can sup
port without either side being called upon to
surrender convictions or to prove derelict in
their duty to their constituents. We urge
the suggestion of conference more because
uiauv <>f the gentlemen acting with us in the
matter of internal taxes do not agree on ail
matter s pertaining to the tariff.
In accordance with your fourth suggestion,
that in case no other arrangement is arrived
at upon reasonable notice a motion be made
to go into committee of the whole on bill
9702 introduced by Mr. Randall at the last
sc* ion of Congress, we have to say tfiat due
notice will be given of the time when it is
proposed to make Midi motion so that it will
lie generally known. Wo cannot, however,
close Hus communication w ithout expressing
uzuiu Lite hope that an agreement on a meas
ure which our political rriends cau generally
support is not >et impossible.
RANDALL IN A CORNER.
Mr. Randall has been forced to accept
one of the lour propositions which Mr.
Carlisle made to him. His free tobacco
dodge having failed he lound himself
obliged to accept one of the propositions
or show them ail to be unreasonable. He
could not do the latter, ho he chose the
proposition to unite in going into commu
te •of the whole on a motion to consider
revenue bills. Of course nothing can cotue
Of this at this late day in the session. Mr.
Randall would uot otherwise agree to
whut he foucht ho bitterly when Mr.
Morrison proposed it early in the session,
it may give the revenue reformers a chance
to put tho protectionists on record,touch
ing Home particular taxes, but that will
bo ail.
Government C lerks on the List.
Washington, Fob. B.—Twenty-one
clerks of the War Department have been
reported to tU“ Secretary of War as In
competent, inefficient or irregular in the
performance of their duties and will
pro bit 1)1 ybe dismissed. I'he Secretary
nas directed the discharge of a clerk in
the Adjutant General’s iflioa who refused
to perform extra duty aiier hours as re
quested.
lteiatiil lor a CoiniiiisHioiierslilp.
Washington, Feb. B.—The Texas del
egation met this evening, agreed to recom
mend Gov. Ireland, of Texas, fora place
on tho interstate Commerce Commis
sion, ami, headed by Representative Rea
gan, went at once to the white House und
presented Gov. Ireland’s name to the
President,
Slone’s SucuoHHor Confirmed.
Washington, Fob. B.—The removal of
District Attorney Stone, of Pittsburg, for
offensive partisanship on the stump has
been quietly acqulesed iu by the Senate,
which has confirmed Georgo A. Allen,
nominated as hm successor, without a
murmur.
Hoke Extradited by Ounad i.
W r ahhkNGToN, Feb. B*—The State De
partment is informed of the extradition
by the Canadian authorities oj Hoke, the
i’eoria defaulter, who was arrested in Ot
tawa.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1887.
TILT OYER THE SMACKS.
ANOTHER HATCH OF FISHERIES
COlt RES I*i INDENCE.
The President. Sends to the House the
Communications Between the Two
Governments Interchanged Since Dec.
8— >*. inn*ter l’hl p* too Smart to Per
mit Lord Iddcsieigh to Shirk Facing
t he Muaic.
Washington, Feb. B.—The President
to dayseut to the House, in answer to tho
resolution introduced by Mr. Belmont,
copies of the correspondence which has
tauen place since Dec. 8 last and up to the
present time between tho Department of
State and the government of Great
Britain. It is voluminous, and \ipon the
same line as that published in December.
In a letter to Minister Phelps from the
Earl of ladesleiffb, dated Nov. 30 last, on
the question of the North American fish
eries. It. Is stated that her majesty’s gov
ernment earnestly desires some equitable
settlement of the controversy,
and that it is with feelings of disappoint
ment that there is not found in the previ
ous note from Minister Phelps anv indi
cation of a wish on the part of the United
States government to enter upon negotia
tions “based on the principle of mutual
concessions, but rather a suggestion that
the same ad interim construc
tion of tho terms of the ex
isting treaty should be reached which
might for the present remove the
chance ol disputes.” The coinmumca
tion submits the desire of the British gov
ernment to leave the points of technical
detail and construction iu the treaties
and fishery laws for the consideration ot
a commission properly constituted to ex
amine them.
A CANADIAN APOLOGY.
On Dec. 16 Lord Iddeslelgh, in a com
munication to Minister Phelps, transmits
the apology of the Canadian government
for haviug hauled down the fiag of the
Marion Grimes.
Alluding to the seizure of the Everitt
Steel Lord Iddesleigh says:
Her majesty’s government greatly regret
that the incidents alluded to should occur,
and they can ouly renew the assurances con
veyed to you m my note f Jan. 30, that
whilst firmly resolved to uphold the undoubt
ed treaty rights of her majesty’s North
American subjects in regard to the fisheries,
they will alsoequally maintain the undoubteo
rights of United States fishermen to obtain
shelter In Canadian ports under such restric
tions as may be necessary to prevent their
abusing privileges reserved to them by the
treaty.
MR. FISH’S STAND.
The most interesting and most impor
tant document in the series is a letter
from Minister I’helps to Lord Salisbury,
dated Jan. 16, some extracts from which
are here given:
It seems now very important that before
tbe commencement of another fishing reason
a distinct understanding shouid be reached
between the United .States government and
that of her majesty, relative to the course to
be pursued by the Canadian authorities to
ward American vessels. It i3 nt without
surprise that 1 have read Lord Iddesleigh’s
it:mark in the note ;* >o* e mentioned,referring
to the treaty of 1818, that her majesty’s gov
ernment have uot as yet been informed iu
what re6pecl the construction placed upon
that instrument by the government of tin:
Uuited States differs from their own.
Had his lordship perused more attentively
my note to his predecessor in office, Lord
Rosebery under date of June 2, 1880, to
which reference was made in ray note to
Lord Iddesleigh of September, lsAfi, I think
lie could not nave failed to apprehend dis
tinctly the construction of that treaty for
which the government of the Uuited States
contended, and me reasons aud arguments
upon which it is fbunded. I have again to
respectfully refer your lordship to my note to
Lord Rosebery of June 2, 1888, for a very
full and, I hope, clear exposition of the ground
taken by the United States government on
thitL point. It is unnecessary to repeat it,
aud lam unable to add to it. In reply to the
observation in my note to Lord Iddesleigh of
Sept. 11, 1888, on the point w.ietner iuch
discussion should be sustained in these cases
until the result of the judicial proceedings in
respect to them should be made know n, a
proposition to which, as I stated in my note,
the United Mates government is unable to
accede. His lordship cites in support of it
some language of Mr. Fish, when Becretar\
of State of the United States, uadressed to trie
United States Consul General at Montreal in
Mav, 1870. From the view of Mr. Fisli the
United States government lias no disposition
nor occasion to dissent, but it cannot regard
it as in any way applicable to tho present
c&soa. It is true beyond question that when
a private vessel is seized lor an alleged in
fraction of the laws of the country in which
the seizure takes place, und the fact of in
fraction and the exact legal con
struction of the local statutes
claimed to bo transgressed is not
disputed, aud is in processor determination by
a proper tribunal, the government to which
the vessel belongs wi i not interfere in ad
vance of such determination and before ac
quiring the inf rmatiou on which it depends,
aud especially when it Is not yet informed
whether the act of the officers* making the
i seizure wii' not tie repudiated by ihe govern
ment under which lie acts, so that interfer
ence will not be necessary. This is all in fact
that was stated by Mr. Fish on that occasion,”
NOT PARALLEL CA.sKH.
Mr. Phelps quotes from Mr. Fish’s note
at some length and then proceeds as tol
lows:
But in the present case the facts constitut -
lng the alleged infraction by the vessel seized
are not in dispute except some circumstances
of alleged aggravation not material to the
validity of the seizure. The original ground
of seizure was the purchase by the mas
ter of a vessel of a small quantity r
bait from the inhabitants of Nova Scotia to
be used in fishing. This purchase is nt
denied' by the owners, of tho vessel.
Ana the united States government insist
1. That such an act is not in violation of the
treaty of 18)H; and
2. That no then existing statute in Great
Britain or Canada authorized anv proceed
ings against a vessel for such an act even If it
could be regarded as in violation of the term*
of the treaty and no such statute nan been a*
yet produced.
In response to the charge brought against
the “Adams,” and upon winch many oilier
vessels have been seized, that of technical
violation of the customs act in omitting to re
port at the custom house, though having no
business at tuo port, (ami in some instance
•there the vessel seized was not
within several miles of the port;,
the United States government claim:
Whilst not admitting tha the omission
to report was even technical transgression of
i the act; that even if it were no harm having
been done or intended, proceeding* against a
vessel for an inadvertence of that sort were
hari i e aeon able and m*
friendly. Especially uh for many years no
such effect had noeu given to the act in re
spect to fish ng v-sola and no previous no
tice of the change in its construction lias been
promulgated. It seems apparent, therefore,
that the cases in question, a* they are m be
considered between the two governments,
preseut no points upon which t lie decisions of
the courts of Nova Scotia need to bo aw aitcd,
or would be niaicrl.il. Nor D it any longer
open lo tlie United states government to ex
poet that the ca-es complained of will <as
stated by Mr. Fi-h in the dispatch above
quoted; ne repudiated as * * pretentious of
over zealous officers of • * • •
colonial vessel- because they have been so
many times repeated as to constitute a regu
lar system of proce dire, have lieen directed
and approved by the Cana nan government,
and have been in no wise disapproved or re-
I strained bv her majesty's government,though
I repeated y an I earnestly protested against
on tho part of the I ruled sta’oM. It is. there
! fore, to her majesty’s government alone ihit
Hie United Stales government can
i look for consideration und redress,
jit cat.not Con—Pi i • bICOBII 1 iroc'y
i or indirectly a party to the proceeding-* coin
plained of, nor to aw ait their termination >o
for* the questions involved between the two
governments have been dealt with. Those
questions appear to i he United states gov em
inent to stand upon higher ground and to be
determined in larger part, at least upon v* ry
different construction, from those upon which
the courts of Nova Scotia must proceed in tho
pending litigation.
NOT DEALING WITH CANADA
Mr. Phelps then refers to Lord iddes
leigb’g comment upon his (Mr. Phelps’)
tailure to reply to the arguments anil
points in controversy contained in the
report of the Canadian Minister of Ma
rine and Fisheries. On dbis point Mr.
Phelps says in effect that the controversy
of ibe United States was with Great,
Britain and not with Canada, and inas
much as Great Britain had declined to
discuss the question, pending a trial in
Canada of cases against sundry seized
vessels, he couid have no discussion with
an officer of the Canadian government.
Mr. Phelps then proceeds to say:
The United States government is not able
to concur in tlie favorable vb w taken by Lord
iddesleigh of ihe efforts of the < anadian gov
ernment to “promote friendly negotiation.”
That the conduct of the government has been
directed to obtaining ft revision of the exist
ing treaty cannot be doubted, but its efforts
have been of such a character as to preclude
the prospect of successful negotiation so long
as they continue, and to seriously endanger
the friendly relations between the United
States aim Great Britain. Aside from the
question as to tho right of American vessels to
purchase bait in Canadian ports, rucli
construction has been given to the treaty
between the United States and Great Britain
as to amount almost to a declaration of com
plete non-intercouse. The usual comity be
tween nations has been refused in their cases,
and in one instance at lea**t ihe ordinary of
fices of humanity. The treaty of friendship
and amity which. In return for very Import
ant concessions by the United states to Great
Britain reserv ed to American vessels certain
specific privileges, has been construed to ex
clude them from all other Intercourse com
mon to civilized life and common to maritime
usages among nations not at war, ns well a*<
from tbe right to touch and trade accorded to
all other vessels, and, quite abide from any
question arising from the construction of the
treaty provisions of the customs house acts
ad regulations, have been systematically’en
forced against Amerie.au vessels for alleged
petty technical violations of the legal
requirements in a measure so unreasonable,
untrie and unjust as to rentier the privi
lege- conferred by the treaty practically mi
gratory. *** Since the receipt of Lprd Iddes
le gh’s note, the Uuited Stales government
has learned, with grave regret, that her
majesty’s Assent ha* lieon given to the act of
Parliament of ( anada, passed at Ms late ses
sion, entitled “au act furiher to amend ihe
act respecting fishing by foreign ves** h.”
Bv the provisions ot this act any foreign ship,
vessel or boat, whether engaged in fishing or
not, found within any hum r in Canada, or
within three marine miles of any of
the coasts, bays or creeks of Canada,
‘may bo brought into port by
any of the officers or persons mentioned in
the act, her cargo searched and her master
examined on oath touching ills cargo and
voyage. ***** It is in the act to which
the one referred to is an amendment that i.->
found in the provision to Whidh I drew atten
tion in my note to Lord Iddesleigh, of Dec.
2,1888. ***** Hla quite unnecessary
to point out what grave eini>arrast>nients may
arise in the relations between the United
Males and Great Britain under such an ad
ministration as is reasonably to be expected
of ihe extraordinary p-ovisons of that act
and its amendment, which it is not necessary
at this time further to comment upon. It
will be for her majesty’s government to de
termine how far its sanction and support
will he given to furtner proceedings such as
me United Mates government have now re
peatedly complained of and have just ground
to apprehend may ne continued by the Cana
dian authorities, it was with an earnest de
sire of obviating the impending difficulty and
of preventing collision* and disputes until
such times as a permanent unders anun.g be
tween the two governments could e reached,
that I suggested on ttie part or the United
States in my note to Lord Iddesleigh of sept.
11,1.888, that, an ad interim construction of
the terms of the treaty might be agreed on, lo
lie carried out by instructions to be
given on both f-ldes, without pre
judice to the ultimate < lairas of
either and terminable at the pleasure
oi eiihor. In au interview 1 had the bouoi
to huve with his lordship in which this sug
gestion was discussed. I derived the impie -
-ion that he regarded it with favor. An out
line of such an arrangement was, therefore,
su sequently prepared by the Uuited States
government which, at tho request of Lord
Iddesleigh, was submitted t> lum. But loi> -
nerved, with some surprise, that in his note of
Nov. 30 last his lordship refers
to this proposal made in mv note of
Sept. 11 as a proposition that In r ma
jesty’s government “would temporarily
abandon the exercise of the treaty rights
which they claim, and winch they conceive to
be Indiaputable. In view of the very grave
questions winch exist as to the exlentof more
rights, m respect to winch the views of the
Uuited Mates government differ bo widely
irom those insisted upon by tier majesty’s
government, it doea|noi seem to mo au un
reasonable proposal t Hut the two
governments by temporary and mu
tual concession without prejudice
should endeavor to reach some mutual
ground of ad interim cons ruction, by which
the existing Iriendiy relations may be pre
served until some permanent ire.tty arrange
ment may be made. 1 hese rcaions wiiy the
revision <ff the treaty of Ish could not now,
in the opinion of the United States govern
ment, be hopefully undertaken, and which
are set forth in my note to Lord Jddeshgli of
Sept. 22, have increased in force since that
nqte wa* written. I again respectfufly com
mend tho proposal above mentioned to the
consideration of her majesty’s government.
FIRE ON TOE C HEROKEE.
Tho Discovery Mx tic While: Leaving
Chua leaton— I rilling Damage.
Charleston, S. C., Feb. B.—The
steamer Cherokee, of the Clyde line,
bound for New York, caught fire alter
leaving her dock hero this morning at 0
o’clock. The lire broke out in the after
hold in cotton. The steamer signaled
tug* and wa* redocked at 10:15 o’clock.
The Are department responded promptly
to a Himimons, and at 10:30 o’clock the
tiro was under control. There was no
panic on board,althou n there were about
forty passengers, including a number of
ladies.
The damage h slight. The passengers
and baggage will be forwarded by the
steamship City of Columbia, or by rail.
COMPLETELY KXTINGUSI!KD.
The fire on the Cherokee was complete
ly extinguished this afternoon, it oc
curred in the water-tight compartment of
the alter hold, and was confined to the
tpot where it • ter ted. After the bold
has been flooded it will be pumped out,
when trio cargo In tho after
hold will be taken out anti
tne ship made ready tor
Hailing In a day or two. The cause of tbe
fire is unknown. The damage to tbe cargo
is slight and to the ship trifling. While
flooding the hold to-day James Warren,
the ship's quartermaster, from Norfolk,
was struck by a box and seriously in
jured. Tne passengers of the < herokse,
with their baggage, were sent North this
afternoon.
TIIK FLORIDA CARGO.
.i v ksonvillb, Fla., F< b. s ibt
Cherokee left here Saturday noon, but
owing to a heavy fOf and bid weather
did not cross the bar until ttunday morn
ing. She shipped about fifty passengers
and a cargo ot miscellaneous freight,
chiefly oranges and lumber. None of the
freight shipped from here wa* placed in
the after hold, so tbs fire must have
originated in theCharltSton cargo. Con
siderable uneasiness was felt here this
afternoon among frFnds of the passeu
i gets when the nows of the fire was made
l üblic, and the office ot the was
I crowded with anxious inquirers.
BALM FOR THE PIGTAILS.
TIIK HOUSK 1* YKS A BIUi FOR
INDEMNIFICATION.
A Vote of 101 ti> 68 Bub,fJtrt*e. th
House mil fr Tli.tof rlio Bt-u>te—An
Appropriation of 1814?,748 >1 ode by
the ntoM.uve—Mr. Il.ltuoiit Make, a
Strou|£ Fie. In Itelialf of the Hill.
Washington, Fob. s.—The House to
day went into oommitteo of the whole on
the Senate bill to Indemnity certain eub
jeots of tbe Chinese empire lor losaes sus
tained by the violence ol a mob at Hock
Springs, \Vy. T.,.011 Sept. 2, ISSo.
Air. Morrow, ol California, inquired
whether it was the purpose of the For
eign Relations Committee, in case this
bill wag passed, to oall up to-day the bill
regtrictihk Chinese immigration.
Mr. Belmont replied in the negative.
The Chinese government did uot. desire to
embarrass tho relatione between the two
nations hy a continuance of immigration,
and there was a disposition to modify
the treaty so as to bring about results
very much more effective than could be
secured by legislation. With this assur
ance the oommitlee did not iutend to
bring up the matter to-day.
CHINA’S GOOD HEPUTATION.
In the course of his speeoh in lavor of
the pending hill Mr. Phelps, of New Jer
sey, said the archives of the State Depart
ment showed that the Chinese govern
ment had bean always prompt anil gener
ous in making payment for losses incurred
by Americans in China. Some weeks ago,
he added, news reached Shanghai that the
city of ('liArleston had been shaken, not
destroyed, by an earthquake, and last
week the Consul General resident at
Sbanghi transmitted sl,‘Jtio, contributed
by poor Chinamen of Shanghai for tho re
lief of the Charleston sufferers. He
could not recall that, while miscreants,
and not au act ol Uod, did not simply in
jure, but entirely destroyed and obliter
ated the village of Rock Springs, there
hud been any contributions from any ot
the neighboring villages or towns in order
to compensate the Chinese for the losses
which they had cruelly suffered. If the
United States government were not bound
in view of the past history of the two
coumries to indemnify Chinese subjects,
it would bo bound to do so under all
treaty obligations.
Mil. CLKMKNTS’ STAND*
Mr. Clements, of Georgia, while ap
proving the bill, did so on account of the
past friendly relations between the two
countries and as au act of generosity and
humanity, and contended that there was
no legal international obligations under
the treaty requiring the government to
provide lor indemnity.
The respective merits of the Senate bill,
which provides lor the ascertainment of
the losses incurred, and the bouse bill,
which makes a direct appropriation ot
$147,7-18, were briefly discussed.
Ihe advocates ot the .Senate bill placed
their advocaey upon tho ground that it
would soon become a law and that the
amount of the losses Anuld be more cor
rectly ascertained. The ailvooates of tho
House measure contended that to pass
the Senate hill would be touolay payment
tor twelve months, and, as Mr. Worth
ington, of Illinois, expressed it, present
a Christian country in a sad light as com
pared with the prompt action of tho Chi
nese government in indemnifying Ameri
cans who have been wronged.
Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, favored tbo
House bill, being opposed to making two
bites of a cherry. The claim was a small
one and a righteous one, and it did not
become this country to procrastinate
longer in making payment. Tbo claim
should have been pain long ago, and it
was with no pride as an American citizen
that ho contemplated tbe fact that tbe
Chinese govei nrnent bad always acted in
a Bpirit of grace and oourtesy and gen
erosity and ol good neighborhood. The
House bill was substituted for the Senate
bill by a vote of 101 to 68, and as so
amended tbe bill was reported to the
House and passed.
HOUSE BIIjIiS in the senate.
Twenty-Two of tlie Measures on tlie
Calendar Massed.
Washington, Feb. B.—ln the Senate
to-day House bills were reported back
from the Committee on Militury Affairs
and placed on the calendar as follows:
To authorize tlie construction of a grav
eled road to tho Richmond, Va., National
Cemetery.
Authorizing tho Secretary of the Treas
ury to deliver to the rightful owners the
contents ol a certain box deposited in the
Treasury Department hy the Secretary of
W ar.
The Senate took up the calendur of
House hills and passed twenty.two.
Among them were the hills lor giading
and paving tbe approaches to the national
cemetery near Danville, Va„ and lor the
settlement of the accounts with the Mo
bile and Ohio Railroad Company.
At i o’clock the Tehuantepec ship rail
way hill came up as the un tin I* lied busi
ness, hut it went over until Thursday.
Mr. Vest, who is In charge, gave notice
that, after it has been taken up. he should
ask the Senate to remain Iu session until
it shall he disposed Of. He said he bail
been notllied hy bve Senators that they
desired to speak on the Fads hill, hut
they were not prepared to speak to-dav.
The Home bill to prevent the Importa
tion and sale ot fresh mackerel during
tbe spawning season was taken up ami
debated until 5:15 o’clock, Au amend
ment was adopted postponing the period
when the bill Is to tske effect from March
1, ISB7, to March 1, 1888. Witliout dispos
ing of the bill tho Senate at 5:15 o’clock
went into secret session aud ten minutes
later adjourned.
IN THK HOUSK.
In the House to-day, on motion ol Mr.
Wheeler, the Senuto bill was pasod with
amendments appropriating $50,000 for the
erection of a public building at Hunts
ville, the ultimate cost ol which shall not
exceed SIOO,OOO.
Mr. Cox, of North Carolina, called up
and the House passed the Senate hill
prohibiting the importation of opium into
the United States by any subjeot ot the
Kmperor ot China.
Mi. Daniel,of Virginia, oalled up and
the House passed tbe bill to carry into
effect tne international Convention of
March 4, 1884, for the protection oi sub
marine cables. It makes the breaking of
a cable lllfully or through culpable neg
ligence a misdemeanor, and punishable by
tine or Imprisonment.
Tbe House at 6 o’clock took a recess
until 7dIO o’clock, tbe evening session to
he for tbe delivery or eulogies upon tbo
late Representatives, Beach, Dowdney
aud Aruott, of New York.
Death Follows un Assault.
Ci.kvki.ani), 0., Feh. B.—Detective
Mulligan, one of the police officers as
saulted hy desperadoes at Ravenna, died
this morning. He leaves a widow and
four children.
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.
Official Dispotclies ltd ween the Two
Count l ies Made I’ublic.
London,Feb,B. —The official dispatches
which have passed between the Russian
and llrUish governments regarding the
Bulgarian question are published. They
show that the Czar approved of tho course
of Gou. Kaulbars in Bulgaria and de
clared lhat efforts to restore the inde
pendence of that oountry would he con
tinued. The late Lord iddesleigh (then
Foreign Secretary), In reply, said that
though the Russian government’s Impres
sions of events in Bulgarin differed widely
with those ot the British government,
England was equally desirous of main
taining the treaties relative to Bulgaita
and obtaining a pacitio solution ol tlie
difficulty.
Reports received from various direo
tlons reassert that troops are being coiv
centrated in Southern Russia.
PDFS LHO AND THK AKMY BILL,
Brkhlao, Feb. 8.-—lt is stated here that
Mgr. Kopo, the Catholic Bishop of Fulda,
who mediated between Prussia and the
Vatican in tbe negotiations for n revision
of the Slay laws, has been deputed by the
Pope to make a statement declaring ihe
Pope’s intentions In advising the Cathnlie
electors to support the government on the
septennato bill and explaining the papal
interest from a Catholic standpoint, in
having the Catholic electors assist in so
curing the success of Prince Bismarck’s
bill in tho new Reichstag. Tbe ncoasion
tor making this Important statement
will he the Introduction in tha
upper house of the Prussian Diet
of a now eeclestlasicul hill. It is slso an
nounced here that the Pope, desiring to
meet Prussia’s views even In matters of
ecclesiastical discipline and appointment,
will favor the nomination oi Dr. Kojio
to the Bishopric ol Breslau.
FRANCK UOKB INTO IlKIt POCKET.
Paris, Feb. B.—The Chamber of Dep
uties passed, without debate or scrutiny,
to-day the extra budgets asked for the
war aud naval departments.
JACOBINI BLAMKD.
Romk, Fsb. B,—Several Cardinals blame
Cardinal Jacoblnl for thereoent dispatch
to the Nuncio at Muuloh relative to the
septennato bill.
MORLEY HACKS PAKNEIiL.
Tho Policy of Emigration Declared
Wholly VV long.
London, Feb. B.—ln the House of Com
mons to-day .John Morley resumed the
debate on Mr. Parnell’s amendment to the
address In reply to the Queen’s speech.
Mr. Morley said he agreed wltn that part
of the amendment which affirmed that the
remedy for the existing crisis iu Irish
affairs was to be found In such
reform of the law and system of govern
ment as would satisfy the needs and
secure the confidence oi tho Irish people,
t here was. In (act, Mr. Merely declare 1,
no remedy short of granting the Irish
self-government. Mr. Morlev said that
the amendment offered hy Mr. Parnell
pointed out the ouly possible policy for
the proper government ot Ireland.
HARTINOTON’S BRROR.
The remedy advocated by Lord Hart
ington in his recent address at Newcastle
amounted simply to migration and emi
gration. It would be impossible to effect
either of these without regard to the
wishes of the people. No government could
achieve anything by a policy based on
emigration, for suocesslul emigration de
pended largely on the oonditlon of tho
labor market. Concerning tbe question
of laud purchase, Mr. Morley asked what,
better terms there were for a tenant than
those proposed in the Ashbourne act,
which though good In itselt was utterly
insufficient for the just demands of tlis
home rulers.
STAND OF TUB SCOTCH.
ifiDiNBURUH, Feb. B.—At a conference
of tbe Sootoh Liberal Association here to
day, resolutions were adopted declaring
in favor ol a reform in the land laws, in
tavor of local self-government, disestab
lishment of the church, aod state control
of the liquor traffic. The conference voted
oontideuoe In Mr. Gladstone.
MOHS MAR: H IN LONDON.
Many Windows .Smashed and a
llnli In r Kliop Looted.
London, Feb. B.—Ten thousand So
cialists assembled at Clerkenwell this
evening to celebrate tbe riots of Feh. 8,
18-D. There were hundreds of police
present, on horseback aud on foot. Some
incendiary speeches were made aud the
Socialists attempted to light larches, hut
were prevented from doing so hy tbe
police. 'lhe mob theu dispersed in
three different directions. One cou
tlßg nt, armed with granite paving
stones, went toward tho city smashing
bouse and shop windows on tho way. A
butcher’s shop was looted aud the owner
wag tired at with a revolver, but be was
not hurt. A detachment ol police met the
rioters at Newgate und dispersed them.
Several ot the rioters were arrested. Two
other sections of the (Jlerkeuweli mob
went westward hut melted awnv without
doing serious damage (hunks to the frost
aud the absence ot leaders.
!ilily’s Uublunt Resigns.
Romk, Feb. B,e-I’rime Minister Depre
ss announced to the Chamber of Depu
tics this afternoon lhat tueeutlre Cabinet
had resigned.
Signor Dcpretis accompanied his an
nouncement with a statement that King
Humbert had accepted the resignations,
hut that pending tbe appointment
ot their successors, all the
Ministers would continue to perform the
duties ot their respective departments,
'f lic Ministers resigned, Signor Dcpretis
explained, because ot their doubtful posi
tion in Parliament. Ho requested tbe
Deputies to proceed with tbe discussion
of the budget, as the necessities ot the
country required its prompt considera
tion.
Au official dispatch from Massowah an
nounces that in the recent encounter with
tbo Ahysslnlans the Italians bsd 23 of
ficers and 407 men killed and 1 officer aud
81 meu wounded.
War on tlie Socialists.
Bkrlin, Feb. 8 —Police attempted to
disperse a socialist meeting which was
being held In a brewery at Stettin last
evening but failed. A force of military
was then summoned, aud with fixed bay
onets drove tne people from the hall. Sev
eral of tbe peoplo were wounded by bay
onet thrusts, and eno inan la reported
killed. The ball wae completely wreaked.
At Madgcburg yesterday twenty-four
Sociahete were arrested on a charge of
belonging to Illegal soaletlee.
Han .Innas was s capital fellow.
But he was so confoundedly sallow!
That bis friends ail forsook him.
K’nn his sweetheart, she shook him.
Which ma le poor Hen loudly hollow.
Now Ueu had a friend immed Molpiecns.
Who told h m to lake Smith’s Bilk Hkaks,
And now lie’s as rosy as any pink poscy,
And lias married n woman of mesnH.
Bile Beans will cle tr the eximplexiou and
awseton the breath. S4c. ner bottle
IPKIOE *lO A YFAU.*
I 5 out li A LOl-Y. j
! BULLETS FLY IN TEXAS.
JFOUII MKN DKAI) OUT OF SEVLft
IN THE FIGHT.
A Flfteen-Y -ar-Old ISoy Stand* Shou’-
der to Shoulder With Hl* Father ar.tl
Another Man, and Doe* Deadly Wotl*
With Hl* Truitjt Winchester.
DkKalu, Tex., Feb. B.—A deadly bat
tle was (ought four miles north of Do.
Kalb yesterday. Four male mem bora ot
a family named White were pitted againtS
Col. John F. R.issor, bis sou Willie, ag.ii
15 years, and a hired man named Mullens,
The affray resulted in the killing of thr a
of the Whites and Col. Rosser, and tha
wounding of Rosser's boy. The affray
occurred at the home of the Whites.
Col. Rosser, after being shot through tha
neek, and having, as he supposed, seen
all ot his enemies killed, mounted tha
horse and rode half a mile to his home,
dying its he entered his own door, ilia
son Willie was left with the dead men aC
the house of White. Col. Rosser had!
sold to White and his sons a tract of laiuh
for which they had not paid.
Til* BATTLE.
A suit for ejectment was brought ami.
decided in Col. Rosser’s favor. Col. KosJ
ser thought the writ had not been enlorcJ
cd promptly enough, and he started with
his son and hired mau to enforce it him-*
self informally. Col. Rosser and his par.
ty were invited in when they reaohod that
house of White, and after a low word*
tiring began. J. C. White and his two
eons, Walter aud Dawson, were killed.
Young Rosser w as inside, and his version
ol the affair is as follows: The elder Wnit
shot him and his father, and ho shot tho
oldman White once and then turned hi hi
Winchester on the White boys to keep
them from shooting his lather. About;
Ilftcen shots were bred and with deadly
etfeot. Tile hired man, Mullens, has not,
yet tieen found, and It is not known what
purt he took m the awtul tragedy.
MUTINOUS CONVICTS.
Forty of the Number Peppered Witife
llird Shot to Subjiigate Them.
Akhiivili.e, N. C., Feb. B.—A mutiny
took place yesterday at the convict camp,
four miles from this city. Fur several
weeks these men have been restive, com*
plaining ol the hard work Imposed on
ihem and alleged lack of food. During
last week several hardened cilmiuala
were added to the gang, and on Saturday
night there were evidences of coming
trouble. All day Suuday the men hud
died close together and refused to
talk to the guards. When dark came on
and the men were ordered to retire lor tbn
ntgut forty men refused to do so. Several
offiuers entered the stockade and tried t<>
reason with the men, when they were;
met with lusilade of stones which the
convicts hud quietly laid in aud stored
away in a barrel. The officers retired,
closed the gules quickly and put on a
double wuloh lor the night. The forty
rebels sat up all night making the night*'
hideous with their curses. Yesterday
morning when the gang was ordered out
to work sixty answered, but tho
forty still refused. Tho guards,
who only numbered ten, Ured
over the heads of the men, but cries ol
detiance were the only reply, the rneaj
saving they were not afraid of blank
cartridges. Then the guards discharged
several volleys directly into the luminous
group, peppering them profusely with
bird shot. This brought them to their
souses, but secured for them a place in
the hospital instead of on the road. They
still declare that, they will not work. Tho
guard was greatly enlarged last night.
MULCTING A DRUMMER.
Montgomery Authorities Make it
Hot for a Victim.
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. B.—C. A
Heller, a commercial traveler represent'*
ing Hartley A Oraham, of New York, was
arrested here Monday night on a warrant
charging him with violating the law ima
posing a license tax of $lO for tho Bta'a
and $5 for the county, lie was found
guilty this morning in the County
Court and paid the tine and
costs amounting to $55. Immediately
on bis release he was rearrested on m
warrant sworn out by the officer who ar*
rested him charging bun with bribery im
offering the officer $5 not to execute tba
lirst warrant of arrest. On the last chart a'
he was bound over to await the action of
tin grand jury, Jving bond for S3OO. Thai
drummers lax in Alabama is being vigor*
ously COllecied.
MORMON ISM’A liOUUY.
Home fof the Church’s Shrewdest.
Schemers Start for Washington.
Balt Lake City, Utah., Feb. B.—A
strong Mormon lobby leit here yesterday
for Washington 'o work against tbs Ed*
munds-'l ucker bill. Among its mem*
hers are K. A. Smith, President of tbs
Council, W. W. Riley, Speaker of tht
House in tno last Legislature, Mayor
Armstrong and otner officials. Tha
talk here Is that they g
as nionagumouH Mormons, prepared to
give up polygamy, provided the Mormons
be not pressed and that Utah be admitted
as a Slate, alter widen they would do as
they pleased. The Gentiles here are much
discouraged at the delay aud begin to
dread another failure of Congress to as
sert itself against what they denomlnata
as Mormon treason.
France arid the Church.
Rome. Fob. B.— Paris advices received
at the Vatican say that the French gov
ernment intends to adopt a more decided
policy toward the Holy Wee.
Fruitless Joint Halida.
Washington, Feb. B.—Joint ballots
were taken tor United States Senator by
the Legislatures ol New Jersey and Weal
Virginia to-day, but without result.
'iwoltillN signed.
WASHINGTON, Fob. B.—The President
to-day signed the Indian land severalty
bill and the “backbone" land grant for
feiture bill.
Dakota's Governor.
Washington, Feb. B. —The Senate has
confirmed the nomination of L. K. Church
as Governor of Dakota.
Never Open Yon- Mouth
except to put something to eat Into It, is
an excellent motto fur the gossip and the
sufferer from catarrh. But while the gns.
■ip is practically Incurable, there I* no
excuse lor any one’s suffering longer from
oatarrn. Dr. Sage’s Catarrn Remedy is
an unfailing cure for that offensive dis
ease. It heal* the diseased membrane,
and removes the dull ami depressed sen
sations which always attend ca’arrh. A
short trial ol this valuable preparation
will make the sufferer feol liku anew
being.