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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOB PBESIDENT:
GROVER CLEVELAND, of New York.
FOB VICB-PBEBIDENT:
ALLEN G. THURMAN, of Ohio.
To enforce frugality in public expenditures and
mkolish unnecessary taxation.
For Congress, Sixth District.
REEL B. TERRY, of Fresno.
Democratic State Electoral Ticket.
..T„.o (0. P. BERRY, of Sutter.
At Large... j B D jfUBFHY, of Santa Clara.
Ist District FRED BERINGER, of Sonoma.
Sd District A. CAMINETTI, of Amador.
3d District .C. A. JENKINS, of Sacramento.
4thDistrict P. J. MURPHY,of San Francisco.
sth District N. BOWDEN", of Santa Clara.
6thDistrict .BYRON WATERS, of San B'dino.
Democratic State Ticket.
Chief Justice NILES SEARLES, of Nevada
Associate Justice. JEREMIAH SULLIVAN, of
San Francisco
Democratic County Ticket.
STATE SENATORS.
3flth District VICTOR MONTGOMERY.
ASSEMBLYMEN
76th District 8. A. WALDRON.
77th District A. R. 81REKT
78th District W. M McFADDEN.
SUPERIOR JUDGES.
.H. K. S. O'MELVENY.
Long Term )A. W. HUTTON.
Short Term W. T. KENDRICK.
Sheriff T. E. ROWAN
County Treasurer E. E. HE* ITT.
County Clerk H. 8. PARCELS.
Couutv Auditor C.E.J. WHITE.
County Recorder GEORGE HERRMANN
Public Administrator 8. LEVY.
Tax Collector OMRI BULL'S.
District Attorney J R. DUPUY.
Connty Coroner JOHN L. McCOY.
County Surveyor S. H.FINLEY.
SUPERVISORS.
2d District A. OSTHOFF.
4th District J. W. VENABLE.
sth District GEOBGE BESSOXETT.
City and. Township.
City Justices jf?. LOCKWOOD,
Township Justice WM. CRAWFORD
„ .1, I CHAS. ROBERTS.
Constables R _ j, DO MINGUEZ.
A Thronging Tide.
Every now and then there is a great
blowing of trumpets and clashing of
cymbals over the going over to the Re
publican party of some pampered manu
facturer who has been putting in his
time luxuriating in swollen dividends
and grinding the faces of his employes.
In almost every instance these converts
to Harrison and Morton are interested
parties, who are not content with
the legitimate profits of business,
and who are the provokers of the
strikes and the authors of the lockouts
which are so disastrous to tbe working
man. The desertion of their' party by
these men is a thing very readily under
stood. Their pocket nerve is above
their political conscience, and they
put private gain , above the public
good. At the same time it
is a very significant circumstance
that in no case has a Democrat who oc
cupies a position in either house of Con
gress surrendered his affiliation with his
party. Not even one of the four Demo
crats who voted against the Mills bill
has found it obligatory upon him to step
ont of the Democratic ranks. His differ
ences with his Democratic brethren were
founded upon expediency and local exi
gencies, and not upon principle.
How different is it with the Republi
can party! The Hon. Ashbell P. Fitch,
a Republican member of the House of
Representatives from the State of New
York, has found it impossible longer to
continue his adherence to the Republi
can party. Mr. Fitch's defection is
founded ou principle, and he has given,
ia a letter to the Republican State Cen
tral Committee of the Empire State, the
following clear and luminous exposition
of the reasons which have influenced
htm in his striking new departure. He
says:
"The Republican party leaders have
determined to make a campaign in
which the expression of views shall be
described as 'free trade attacks upon
American industry,' and those who hold
them shall be credited with a burning
desire to aid the British workingmen
whom they have never seen as against
their own friends and countrymen. Mr.
Blame's keynote for the campaign, ap
plied to our district, is that we are from
now till November to accuse the Demo
cratic and Revenue Reform business
men in Harlem, who in private life are
in partnership with us in all commercial,
charitable, social and religious affairs, of
being engaged in a conspiracy, inspired
by England, to ruin their own country
and degrade their fellow citizens.
"I have no desire to take part in such
a campaign. I fancy that England has
in this district about as many adherents
as China has, and that the voters who
will vote this fall in Harlem and York
ville for a revision of the tariff are as
sincere friends of American industry as
any of us are. And I very much prefer,
if necessary, to be in a minority for tbe
rest of my life rather than to make a
successful campaign on what seems to
.THE LOS ANGELES DAILY HEKALD: FRIDAt MORNING, AUGUST SI, 1688. ,
me to be a ridiculous and unfounded
misrepresentation of the efforts and
motives of my neighbors."
Probably there has not been at any
stage of the campaign a more scathing
arraignment of the foolish and untenable
Blame plan of campaign than is em
bodied in Mr. Fitch's clear cut utter
ances. They present a happy and con
clusive refutation of the arguments oi
Hon. Tom Fitch -he of the Silver Tongue
—in Hazard's Pavilion last night.
Mr. Fitch is only a type of the multi
tudes of Republicans who have been re
volted by the platform and programme
of the RepuVican party in this current
year of grace.
Among those who have come over to
Cleveland and tariff reform within tlie
last few weeks, are the following. Henry
S. Hotchkiss, of Brooklyn, late Republi
can member of the New York Legisla
ture ; Crawford D. Hening, winner of the
first literary prize of the Protective
League in 1887, whose further studies
made him a tariff reformer; Owen Love
joy, grandson of the abolitionist martyr;
A. R. Anderson, Representative from
lowa, who, although elected as an Inde
pendent, has heretofore always declared
his entire sympathy with the general
purposes of the Republican party; Calvin
Edgerton, Seth Low, late Republican
Mayor of Brooklyn, New York; Rev. Dr.
Theodore L. Cuyler; ex-Governor D. T.
Farnsworth, of West Virginia; Arthur T.
Lyman ,a prominent Republican manufac
turer of Boston; Major A. D. Pierce, late
Chairman of the Republican Congress
ional Committee of the Twentieth Illinois
district; Judge Frank T. Reid, Republi
can candidate for Governor of Tennessee
in 1884; F. S. Christenson, formerly
Assistant Secretary of State of Minnesota-
Mr. J. E. Stanley, a life-long Republi.
can of Lewiston, Me., is out for Cleveland
and the Mills bill. Mr. Stanley is an ex
tensive manufacturer of dry plates used
in photography, and is a tariff reformer
of a pronounced type.
Mr. A. L. Gobs, another Maine Repub
lican, believes in the Mills bill, and if,
only sorry that it does not go far enough.
Mr. Goss is also a resident of Lewiston.
In the course of a conversation the other
day, Mr. Goss said: "I am a life-long
Republican. I am a Republican now,
but I am tired of this everlasting twaddle
about protection. I was at Washington
when the war tariff was first adopted.
Senators Sumner, Henry Wilson, Harris,
of Maryland, and every leading Republi
can adopted it only as a matter of necessity,
to be abolished at once after the neces
sity had passed away. And now, twenty
five years after, those identical taxes are
in existence, only increased. Talk about
pauper labor! We have pauper labor in
theße mills here. If operatives receive
larger pay than in Canadian mills, they
have been trained to do more work.
Here they have the advantage of location,
unsurpassed mechanical facilities, labor
that is as cheap as any, and then to talk
of their needing to be 'protected' is non
sense."
James Dempsey, manager of the
Lewiston Bleachery and Dye Works, is
also in favor of the Mills bill.
One of the best known and most in
fluential Republicans of Loa Angeles—
formerly a Republican editor—day be
fore yesterday assured one of the editors
of the Herald that he was a convert on
the tariff issue as presented in this cam
paign, and he is simply a type of multi
tudes who think and will act as he does
and will.
Henry Wilson and Republican
Inconsistency.
The Herald some time ago quoted
from a speech delivered by James G.
Blame in tbe House of Representatives
in 1868, advocating free lumber. Blame
now pipes in a different key. As a
devotion to the existing tariff, just as it
stands, is supposed to be a sure sign of
friendship to American labor, it of course
follows that a lack of such devotion
means hostility to the toiling many.
This affords a very simple and easy ap
plied test, and we now propose to apply
it to a few men whom the Republican
party has always reverenced as leaders.
In 1857, Henry Wilson of Massa
chusetts, afterwards Republican Vice-
President, said:
"The manufacturers make no war
"upon the wool growers. They assume
"that the reduction of the duty on wool,
"or repeal of the duty altogether, will in
"fuse vigor into that drooping interest,
"stimulate home production, and dimin
"ish the importation of foreign woolen
"manufactures, and afford a steady and
"increasing demand for American wool.
"Since the reduction of duties on raw
"materials in England, since wool was
"admitted free, her woolen manufactures
"have so increased, so prospered,
"that the production of native wool
"has increased more than 100 per cent.
"The experience of England, France and
"Belgium demonstrates the wisdom of
"that policy which makes the raw ma
"terial duty free. Let us profit by their
"example." And again: "If our manu
"factures are to increase, to keep pace
"with the population and with the grow
ing wants of our people; if we are to
"have the control of the markets of our
"own country; if we are to meet with and
"compete with the manufacturers of Eng
land and other nations of Western Europe
"in the markets of the world, we must
"have our raw materials.duty free or at
"a mere nominal rate."
"They," the merchants of Massa
chusetts, "are for the reduction of the
"revenue to the actual wants of
"an economical administration of
"the Government; for the depletion
"of the Treasury, now full with mil
"lions of hoarded gold; for a free list
"embracing articles of prime necessity
"we do not produce; for mere nominal
"duties on articles which make up a
"large portion of our domestic industry,
"and for such an adjustment of the
"duties on the productions of other na
"tions that come in direct competition
"with the product of American capital,
"labor and skill, as shall impose the
"least burdens upon that capital, labor
"and skill." Clearly he was a foe to
American labor. It is painful to record
Mr. Morrill of Vermont as being opposed
to the interests of the workingman, for
in the same debate he used the following
language:
"On Sheffield hardware, such as cut
"lery, edged tools, files and saws, some
"protection is needed a tittle longer, but
"for this 20 per cent, is ample, and upon
"all other kinds 10 per cent., I feel quite
"sure, is sufficient." The "little while"
has stretched out to thirty-one years;
the duty to-day on cutlery ia 50 per cent.:
on flies, from 52 to Co per cent.; and on
hardware, 30 per cent.
Mr. Garfield, Mr. Arthur, Mr. McCul
loch, Mr. Sherman and Mr. Allison have
all at various times expressed themselves
in similar fashion, and we shall at a
future day make some very instructive
quotations from the speeches of these
gentlemen. Even Mr. Blame and Mr.
Hale have advocated free coal, free salt
and free lumber.
What wonder in view of the utterances
on the part of such Republican leaders as
Henry Wilson, James (i. Blame and
James A. Garfield, hordes of Republi
cans are disgusted with their party and
are converts to that tariff reform a de
sire for which was so loudly proclaimed
by the Republican party in 1883 and in
their National platform in 1884? What
wonder that they should revolt in hun
dreds of thousands against the Republi
can National platform of 1888, which pro
claimed in favor of free whisky rather
than see the war tariff reduced one
tittle?
The Republican press of Los Angeles,
after having demandod the instant de
capitation of Chief of Police Cuddy with
out the presentation of any evidence
whatsoever, and purely upon a lot of
windy e.tparte statements of his ]>ersonal
and political enemies, haw at last been
forced by the pressuro of public senti
ment to admit that tl c evidence upon
which it is proposed to lepose the Chief
should be presented, liy next Monday
the same force of an h nest sentiment of
fair play which the people entertain and
loudly express may lead them to think
that the Democratic Chief of Police ought
to have a fair trial. The "bounce" pro
gramme is so universally repudiated by
an intelligent public opinion that this
question has a good show ol being decided
upon its merits.
The Republican press of Los Augeles
is forming itself into a brass baud. The
brass has all along been in stock. The
Times has dubbed its morning yokefellow
"The Trombone," on the idea, we pre
sume, that it considers that paper a base
instrument. New York night scavengers
are called "Hautboys"—a name well
suited to the Times, a paper that manu
factures sensations and dragnets the
slums for newspaper filth. The evening
"Penny Whistle" modestly toots to
the discordances of its morning leaders.
O, 'tis a nice band; but awfully "jangled,
out of tune and harsh" in its execution.
Oi r esteemed contemporary, the Times,
showed in its issue of yesterday that it
still believes in the good old Republican
doctrine that a lie well stuck to is as good
as the truth. Having quoted Hon. J.
Marion Brooks as authority for one of its
lies, and being repudiated by Brooks, it
stiii returns like a dog to his vomit. We!!,
there is nothing out of the way in this.
To have done otherwise would have been
equivalent to forfeiting that paper's un
questioned pre-eminence as the cham
pion liar of Southern California.
Mr. Fitch's speech, at the Academy
of Music, last night is very fully reported
in the Herald. It has not made a vote
for Harrison. It is given so much space
in these columns in order to show ,our
readers how extremely flimsy an argu
ment the most brilliant orator on tbe
Coast is able to make on behalf of that
bad cause, of keeping up war taxes in
times of peace, and in trying to pi ove
to rational beings that taxation is the
road to riches.
Ik spite of the summer solstice and the
fact that we are in the white-heat of a
Presidential campaign, business is pick
ing up in IjOS Angeles, and quite briskly,
at that. All the indications point to a
lively fall, and to a quite phenomenally
active winter and spring. All the indi
cations point to a resumption of real es
tate operations at an early day.
THE COUNTY FUNDS.
General Hewitt Yells What He
will do With Them,
When the Republican County Conven
tion met in this city, one of the delegates
introduced a resolution to the effect that
should the nominee of that party be
elected Treasurer, the county funds would
be distributed among the several banks
of the city. It was an unwise bid for
cheap popularity, and seems to have
been so regarded by the Convention, for
it was not reported back by the Commit
tee on Resolutions, and therefore, of
course, was not passed. At the
same time it is notable that
this resolution was read aloud in the
Convention, in this respect not following
the course of other resolutions. By vote
of the body in question, all resolutions
were ordered to be handed to the com
mittee, to be reported back or squelched,
as should seem best. Why was the reg
ular order of business not followed in the
case of this resolution touching the
county funds? Was the violation of or
der for the purpose of getting this matter
before the ejeß of stockholders
in banks and tbe public gener
ally? And was it rejected by
the committee, in order that if the lack
of wisdom in such a course as was con
templated were brought out, there would
be the ready retort, "Well, it did not
pass?" That the proposition was unwise
is patent, for there are banks and banks.
Some are safe and some are not. No
general rule would be safe to follow. The
county funds should not be entrusted to
any but stable banks.
Then after the Democratic County Con
vention had made the nominations of
that party the cry was raised in certain
quarters that tbe gentleman who
was named for Treasurer belonged
to Mr. I. W. Hellman, and would
have the backing of the Farm
ers and Merchants' Bank with the
understanding that all the county funds
should be placed in the vaults of that in
stitution. One of the Herald reporters
has known General Hewitt for a score of
years. He has conceived the idea that
Mr. Hewitt is an exceedingly indepen
dent man, a very straightforward and
honest man. He did not believe that
he was the man to enter into
any compact with any one, and pledge
himself in such a manner beforehand.
He knew that the most friendly relations
exist between Mr. Hewitt and Mr. Hell
man, but he did not believe that even
the consideration of friendship would be
allowed to influence Mr. Hewitt in this
matter. With these reflections in mind,
the reporter sought Mr. Hewitt and asked
him if he had heard of the rumors that
were afloat.
"Oh," replied General Hewitt, "I
have never been in the habit of paying
much attention to public rumors. They
do not go for much. But as to the truth
of these particular rumors I may say
this: Before my nomination I Dever
had a word of conversation with any
banker as to these matters. I made
no promises of any sort and was not
broached on such a subject. When I was
nominated I was perfectly free to do
a% I pleased with the county funds. My
party left me bo. They passed no reso
lutions of instruction to me as to what I
should do. No Democrat in the
Convention or out of it has developed
any anxiety as to what I shall do in these
premises. I am still a perfectly free
agent, free from any sort of entangling
allianceß, and my party seems to have
confidence in my doing the right thing."
"Well, then," said the reporter, "am
I to understand that you have had no
conversation with any one yet as to
what you shall do with the county funds ?"
"No," said General Hewitt, "you are
not to so understand me. But w
til I was nominated no man knew
what my intentions were with regard to
the county funds. After my nomination
I formed a notion as to what ought to be
dove with them. Until recently tho
taxes of Los Angeleß county have not
amounted to a very large sum. For the
past two years they have been consider
able money. This year they will repre
sent a very large sum, and they are
likely to be large lor all future time. My
opinion is that an official'after his elec
tion represents the whole community no
matter what party elects him, and that
while a good citizen can always be true
to his party in all political fealty, yet he
should administer his office with direct
reference to the best interests of all. Now
in this matter of banks, I do not see how
one is to make political capital out of it.
Tlie president of the bank does not con
stitute the whole list of stockholders. Mr.
Hellman is a Democrat, but many of
the stockholders are Republicans. Mr.
Spence and Major Bonebrake are Repub
licans, but many of their stockholders
are Democrats. So what is t'le use of
trying to make political capital in this
way ? Mr. Hellman is no more concerned
in the politics of his party than the
other gentlemen are in theirs. But this
is not what I set out to say. It is this:
You ask me if 1 have had any under
standing with any one. I say I
have now. I came to it a few days "ago.
My idea was that the county taxes,
amounting to nearly $1,000,000, would be
better distributed in several banks than
if all deposited in one. My idea is to
select several banks—of course they must
all be substantial concerns. I think the
county funds will do more good if dis
tributed among these. I went to Mr.
Hellman and other bankers and told
them what I thought. They at once
acquiesced in the plan and endorsed it
fully. Now that is all there is about any
understanding between me and Mr.
Hellman; and I hope these statements
will relieve the minds of those who wish
to know what I will do with the county
funds. I have found in this matter, as
I have in all others, Mr. Hellman to be
an exceedingly safe adviser in all finan
cial questions. Moreover," said the
General, "this proposition includes banks
outside this city."
LOW-DOWN JOURNALISM.
The "Tlmes's" method of Coercion.
In yesterday's Times there is a wanton
attack upon Mrs. A. H. Watson. It says
that since that lady was appointed ma
tron of the police station she has never
darkened tbe door of that place in her
official capacity. It goes without saying
that this assertion is wilfully and mali
ciously false. Of course malignant and
mendacious attacks like this on a lady
who is exhausting herself in the service
of the public have a motive. In this case
it is one of the meanest.
A few days ago one of the reporters of
the Times nosed out something in the
case of a Mrs. Hempstead, who had been
arrested for vagrancy and was afterwards
booked as being held as a witness. The
standing order of tbe Times to its re
porters is to get everything they can of
a sensational character, and so eager are
they for matter of this mere
tricious kind that they are ready
to build a sensational story up
on the slightest or no provocation.
The reporter, in this very article, with
job-type display head-lines, gives away
the true policy of the Times. On discov
ering the change in the charge on the
record book he says: "As it was be
lieved that there might be some sensa
tional features connected with the case,
watch was kept," etc. Finding out that
Mrs. Watson knew something about the
case, the enterprising reporter speeded
to that lady's house and insisted on
knowing all about it. Mrs. Watson told
the reporter that there was nothing
for publication in connection with
the incarceration of Mrs. Hemp
stead; that she was resting in
the county jail before going out
to work, and flatly refused to give the
reporter permission to torment the poor
woman, who was trying to get a rest.
This so exasperated the pencil-pusher
that he told Mrs. Watson he would make
it hot for her in the Times— that he
would burn her, and all that sort of
thing. Well, yesterday he got even by
maligning her in the character of police
matron.
WILLOW'S CAPTURE.
The man Turns Out to Have Keen
an Old Hand.
Officers Willow and Hoff arrested a
negro by the name of Jones last Monday
morning before daylight, having in his
possession a bag of hams. It turns out
to have been quite a capture. Detectives
Mackenzie and Lynch have been looking
up the man's record, and have probably
accumulated evidence enough to send
him to San Quentin. He has not been
out of the County Jail any great length
of time. Besides the hams, it
appears that he also took from
H. C. Hall, the Spring street grocer,
a number of articles of wearing
apparel and a bracelet. He disposed of
most of his plunder to Mrs. Sojomon, on
Upper Main street. His case came up
before Justice Austin yesterday, and he
was sentenced to six months in the
County Jail for the hams. A separate
information will be filed on the other ar
ticles. It is said that Jones has served
eight years in the penitentiary of one of
the northern territories and broke jail
several years ago at Albuquerque.
WASHINGTON.
Some Remarks on the Late
Message.
THE NEW RETALIATION BILL.
Figures Concerning the Public
Domain—Congressional and
Other News.
iAssoctated Press Dispatches to tbe Hkrald. I
Washington, August 30. —Iv the Sen
ate to-day Blair offered a resolution,
which was referred to the Committee on
Contingent Expenses, instructing the
Committee on Interstate commerce to ex
amine fully the system of mechanical
telegraph now on exhibition at the Capi
tol, and to secure tbe aid of competent
and disinterested experts. He explained
that the object of his resolution is to
have this system of telegraphy examined
and if found to be as represented, to se
cure it for the benefit of the people. He
had been told by Craig, the owner of the
patents, that 2,000 words could be sent
on the wires at the cost of a single letter
postage.
The Senate then resumed considera
tion of the President's retaliation mes
sage, and George proceeded with his
speech which he begun yesterday. He
denied the correctness of the assertion
by Edmunds last week that the Presi
dent had the right to suspend the opera
tion of the section of the revised statutes,
which allows the transit of goods between
the United States and Canada without
the payment of duty. To do so would be
to exercise autocratic power.
Cullom addressed the Senate on the
same subject. In his remarks he spoke
of the United States as being destined to
dominate tlie American continent, and
expressed the opinion that in tlie not far
distant future the Canadian Provinces
would become part of tbe United
States. The rejection of the Fish
eries Treaty had met the ap
proval of a very large majority of
the people of the country. The retalia
tion message might be taken as an evi
dence that even the President had be
come satisfied that the treaty was a mis
take. To return what he had lost by
that mistake, the President had launched
out into the broader sea, and would tind
himself in deeper water than ever, and
with greater dangers threatening him.
Collum then addressed himself to the
details of the subject, going extensively
into the question as to whether the Sec
retary of the Treasury had not the power
to prohibit shipments from Canada to
United States ports for exportation. He
argued that the Secretary of the Treasury
had tho power, practically, to prohibit
such transit by establishing such rules
and regulations as would make it incon
venient. As to discrimination against
American vessels on Canadian canals,
that difficulty, if it existed, might have
been removed by a remonstiance ad
dressed to the British Government. It
would be time enough when such a re
monstrance proved unavailing for
the President to apply to Congress
for additional legislation. When he
(Cullom) applied the message to the ex
isting situation and saw how little excuse
there was for it, the fact became more
and more apparent that it had been in
spired by political necessity. It might
be regarded as Cleveland's long delayed
letter of acceptance of the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency, because
it betrayed clearly his anxiety for an
other term in office and his fear that he
would not be elected. His complete
change of front on the Fishery question
shows that Cleveland and the Irish party
were in desperate straits politically, that
they saw defeat staring them in the face,
and that they were seeking to divert
attention from the one issue on which
they had deliberately staked all their
chances of success at the approaching
election.
Speaking of the transfer of millions
from the Treasury to some favored na
tional banks, Cullom said that it would
not be surprising if a liberal slice of swag
found its way into the coffers of the Na
tional Democratic Committee. At the
close of Cullom's speech the subject went
over without action.
The Senate then proceeded to the
Fortification bill, with the amendments
recommended by the Committee on Ap
propriations. The fir3t amendment was
the insertion of a new section providing
for a supervising board. After some dis
cussion it was modified and agreed to.
Other amendments were agreed to as
follows: Increasing from fi'oo,ooo to
$500,000 for torpedoes for harbor
defense. Reducing the appropriation
for the erection or purchase of a gun fac
tory and machinery at Watervielt ar
senal, West Troy, N. V., from $750,000
to $550,000. Increasing the appropria
tion for steel forgings from $1,000,000 to
$2,500,000, and inserting the word
"American" before the word "forgings."
After a long discussion the bill went
over until to-morrow.
(Jullorn offered a resolution (which
was laid over), directing the Secretary of
the Treasury to inform the Senate
whether transit in bond over or across
the territory of the United States (with
out paymentof duty) of goods, wares and
merchandise, coming from Canada, had
been permitted since July Ist, 1885,
when Article 29 of the treaty of Wash
ington, and the section of the act of
March Ist, 1873, are said to have ceased
to be in force; if so, to what extent and
by what authority of law ? Adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
Action on the Oklahoma Bill Re
tarded by Absentee!.
Washington, August 30. —After routine
business the House went into Committee
of the Whole on the Oklahoma bill. The
pending amendment was that offered by
Anderson, of lowa, providing that hon
orably discharged soldiers and sailors of
the war shall be permitted to enter
lands in the proposed Territory without
the payment of the purchase price pro
vided for by the bill. The amendment
was rejected.
Hohuan, of Indiana, offered an amend
ment providing that no person shall ba
authorized to enter lands who at the
time of applying to make such entry is
the owner of eighty acres of land in any
State or Territory, or who shall have
sold eighty acres or more within ninety
days before applying to make entry.
Defeated.
Holman made the point of no quorum,
but withdrew it on the assurance that
he would be permitted to offer his
amendment in the House and have an
aye and nay vote upon it.
The Committee rose informally to al
low MoCreary, of Kentucky, to report
from the Committee on Foreign Affairs
the substitute for the Wilson Retaliation
bill, and he gave notice that he would ca 1
it up for consideration on Saturday next.
The bill was ordered printed and recom
mitted.
Holman submitted the conference re
port on the bill for the sale of the Fort
Wallace military reservation in Kansas.
Agreed to.
The Committee on the Oklahoma bill
then resumed its sitting. The entire af
ternoon was consumed in an unsuccess
ful effort to secure a quorum to vote upon
the amendments offered, and without ac
tion the Committee rose.
McCreary asked consent to have the
Retaliation bill made a special order for
Monday instead of Saturday, but O'Neil
objected on the ground that Monday was
suspension day. Adjourned.
WASHINGTON WAIFS.
ITllecellaiieoHS Items From the
tlonnl Capital.
Washington, August 30. —Word has
been received from Eagle Rock, Va., to
the effect that President Cleveland will
not return to Washington until Saturday.
Secretary Whitney has granted the
request of the Union Iron Works of San
Francisco for an extension of four months'
time from that in which the cruiser
Charleston was to have been completed.
FOR DUTY AT LOS ANGELES.
Washington, August 30. —By direction
of the Secretary of War, Captain Wm.
Elderkin, Commissary of Subsistence, is
relieved as Purchasing and Depot Com
missary at Newport Barracks, Ky., and
will report October Ist at Los Angeles
for duty as Chief Commissary of Sub
sistence of the Department of Arizona, to
relieve Captain John P. Weßton, who
will proceed to Santa Fe, N. M., and as
sume the duties of Chief Commissary of
that department.
COST OF FOREIGN MAILS.
The annual report of N. M. Bell, Su
perintendent of Foreign Mails, shows that
the total cost of the service for the last
fiscal year was $400,076, of which amount
$26,649 was for the transportation of
mails of foreign origin. The total number
of pieces sent to foreign countries was
80,220,954. The total number received
was 76,030,068. During the year $353,202
was paid to tbe Trans-Atlantic Steam
ship Company for the transportation of
mails, an increase over last year of $38,
--862. The Pacific steamship companies re
ceived $37,302, or $1,163 less than last
year. The Central and South American
service cost $58,553, or $7,137 more than
last year. The total number of sailings
during the year from the three principal
ports was 861, as follows: New York 540,
New Orleans 278, San Francisco 43; a
total increase of 30. The estimated cost
of the service for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1890, aggregates $760,000.
THAT NEW TARIFF BILL.
The Republican Senators held a con
ference at Senator Edmund's residence
this evening from half-past seven to near
ly midnight. It was well attended and
Tariff was the only subject considered.
Senator Allison said to a 'group of re
porters at midnight that the details of
the bill had been discussed, and a har
monious conclusion had been reached in
regard to every issuo.
"You can say, gentlemen," he con
tinued, "that we shall report the bill on
Monday or Tuesday a week."
"Will you give us a few important de
tails?"
"Well, not this evening. We shall
continue hearing diligently for the next
ten dayß, and then, if possible, report
the bill at once. That is all lam at
liberty to say."
"What about the President's mes
sage?"
"The message was not referred to once
during the evening."
From other Senators it was learned
that lumber and salt remain unchanged;
that sugar is cut about one-half, and that
there is a strong disposition to slightly
increase the duties ou wool to correct
the inequalities of the duties on woolen
manufactures.
THE NEW Dlfjli.
Favorable Report on the House
Retaliation measure.
Washington, August 30. —The Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs to-day received
the report of the Sub-Committee on the
Retaliation bill. The Chairman said
that in these questions the Committee
had always acted without regard to
partisanship, and he hoped it would con
tinue to do. He referred to the fact that
the bill introduced by himself two years
ago, containing a restrictive railroad pro
vision, had been adopted by the House
almost unanimously, though the railroad
section was subsequently stricken out in
the Senate.
The Committee unanimously adopted
the amended bill reported by the Sub-
Committee. It is understood the bill
will be called up for action Saturday.
TEXT OF THE BILL.
Following is the text of the substitute
fisheries or retaliation bill:
Be it enacted, etc.:
That whenever the President shall
deem it his duty to exercise any of the
powers given him by the act entitled
"An act authorizing the President of the
United States to protect and defend the
rights of American fishing vessels,
American fishermen, American trading
and other vessels in certain cases, and
for other purposes," approved March 3,
1887, it shall be lawful for the President,
in his discretion, by proclamation to that
effect, to suspend, in whole or in part,
transportation across the territory of the
United States, in bond and without the
payment of duty, of goods, wares and
merchandise, imported or exported from
any foreign country from or to the Brit
ish Dominions in North America.
Section 2. Whenever the President
shall be satisfied that there is any dis
crimination whatever in the use of the
Welland Canal, St. Lawrence River,
in Canada, the Chambly Canal, or either
of them, whether by tolls, drawbacks,
refund of tolls or otherwise, which is or
may be detrimental to the interests of
the United States or any of its citizens,
it shall be lawful for the President in his
discretion to issue a proclamation to that
effect; whereupon there shall be col
lected a toll of 20 cents per ton upon
every foreign vessel and her cargo pass
ing through either Sault Ste. Marie Canal
or St. Clair Flats Canal; and the; Secret
ary of the Treasury may authorize, and
direct any of the custom officers to collect
the tolls levied under this act, or the
President may in his discretion, when
satisfied there is any such discrimination,
prohibit the use of said canals to any
such foreign vessel. The President,
when satisfied that such discrimination
has ceased, may issue his proclamation
to that effect in his discretion, whereupon
the toll authorized by this act shall no
longer be collected, and said prohibition,
if ordered, shall cease.
Section 3 provides that the Secretary
of the Treasury be authorized to make
any regulations needful to carry this act
into effect.
TUB ONLY POINT OF DISAGREEMENT.
At only one point was there anything
like a difference between the Demo
cratic and Hepbulican members; this was
upon a proposition coming from the Re
publican side, to tbe effect that courtesy
to Great Britain required that it should
be notified that Article 29 of the treaty of