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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«.-
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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
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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.
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