VOLUME LXXIX.-NO. 27.
IT WILL RAISE
THE REVENUES.
Passage in the House of
the Bill for Finan
cial Relief.
DONE BY A PARTY VOTE.
During the Debate There Was
an Arraignment of Dem
ocratic Management.
MATERIAL INCREASE IN TARIFF.
One Important Step to Check the
Chronic Deficit in the National
Treasury.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 26.— The
promised debate on the revenue measure
prepared by the Committee on Ways and
Means attracted to the House to-day an
attendance which filled the galleries to
their utmost and filled the seats with many
more than a quorum of members.
Immediately after the reading of the
journal Dingley (R.) of Maine reported
from the committee a bill "to temporarily
increase the revenue to meet the expenses
of the Government and provide against a
deficiency," together with a statement of
the reasons why the bill should be passed.
Crisp (D.) of Georgia explained that the
minority of the committee had no oppor
tunity to prepare their views in opposition
to the bill.
Henderson (R.) of lowa offered a resolu
tion from the Committee on Rules provid
ing for a vote on the revenue bill, just re
ported, at 5 o'clock this afternoon. He
stated that he supposed the gentlemen
understood that another bill from the
Committee on Ways and Means would be
reported to-morrow. The bill to be dis
cussed to-day, he said, was in no sense a
general revision of the tariff, but one to
provide revenue needed at once. The
President had aroused pubiic sentiment by
sending two messages to Congress, and the
money centers were desirous that some
thing should be done to allay the excite
ment caused by the feverish declarations
from the White House. The House differed
from the President probably as to what
was necessary to be done to relieve the
country and the financial situation, but
the bill under discussion contained what
the House, or a majority thereof, believed
to be necessary.
Crisp (D.) of Georgia said members of
the House should not blindly follow the
dictates of the rule, but vote upon it as
they deem to be best for the interests of
the country. The bill reported was a gen
eral revision of the tariff, whatever might
be said to the contrary, for it affected every
schedule in the bill. The rule brought in
deprived the House of the right to con
sider the bill in committee of the whole,
as well as of the right to discuss it under
the general rules of debate under the five
minute rule, and aiso of offers to amend
it. Every Republican member was ex
pected to vote blindly for the bill without
knowing anything about it or its probable
effects upon the people represented by
them.
Dalzell (R.) of Pennsylvania, a member
of the Committee on Rules, said therejwas
no man wilnin the sound of his voice who
did not know that ever since March 4, 1893,
the revenues of the Government had piled
up a steadily increasing deficiency. The
President and the Secretary of the Treas
ury had been alarmed and the former
turning to a party in Congress not his own,
had asked it to act speedily for the relief
of the public, even going so far as to re
quire it to forego the usual holiday recess.
It was not, he asserted, a general tariff re
vision, but an emergency revenue measure.
Did Mr. Crisp not remember that the pres
ent tariff bill with more than 600 amend
ments, none of which were considered in
committee, was driven through the House
in two hours by the terms of a rule pre- •
pared by the gentleman himself ? [Ap
plause]. It was, he said, what the Repub
lican party always did, to rise above party
prejudice or passion and in response to
the President's appeal to give the country
the relief he had asked. [Applause].
McMillin (D.) of Tennessee followed.
He said he would give the answer to Dal
zell's question, which that gentleman had
failed to do. It was to pass a general tariff
bill affecting every one of the 4000 articles
on the dutiable list, except sugar. The
Republicans were in power again ana pro
ceeding as they had previously done. "Go
ahead, gentlemen," McMillin said, "the
same power which deprived you of place
and authority will do it again." [Ap
plause.]
Turner (D.) of Georgia pleaded for time
in which a respectful discussion of the
momentous issues involved could be had.
Henderson (R.) of lowa, concluding the
argument for the adoption of the rule, said
this was a business pioposition for the le
lief ot a business people. When the
Bayard resolution was under discussion in
the House the othar day, Henderson said ]
the Republicans were taunted by Crisp
with fear to take the responsibility.
"We'll show him to-day," he shouted,
"whether we are afraid to take the responsi
bility. [Applause.] Whether a Republi
can or a Democratic President sits in the
executive chair; whether we are threat
ened with ballots or bullets; whether we
are confronted with a deficiency or a sur
plus, Republicans are always ready to as
sume all rightful and necessary responsi
bility. When the Democratic ass falls into
a pit of its own making, with the burden
of National responsibility upon its back,
the Republicans will work on Sunday to
get it out and set the country on its feet
again." [Laughter.]
"The gentleman from Georgia" [Crisp],
said Henderson, "had said this was a bill
to tax the people. My God!" he ex
claimed, "the House of Representatives
hasn't the power to vote to pay back the
people the millions of which they have
been deprived since the Democratic party
came into power on the 4th of March,
1893. , .
Linney (It.) of North Carolina asked
The San Francisco Call.
Henderson if the rule could not be
amended so as to permit Democrats to
offer amendments.
Henderson replied that it was not prac
ticable; that differences were dangerous.
Crisp said the gentleman from North
Carolina was a new member that had not
yet learned the kernel of the situation.
The resolution providing for a vote on
the revenue bill at 5 o'clock was agreed to —
ayes 213, noes 89.
The following Republicans voted against
the rule — Connelly of Illinois. Heiner of
| Pennsylvania, Linney of North Carolina
i and AVilber of New York. Otherwise the
vote followed party lines.
The bill was then read in full and at
1:30 p. m. t c debate upon it commenced,
with three ana a half hours to run, the
time to be divided equally between the
two sides of the House.
Dingley (R.) of Maine opened the debate
on the side of the majority. He said that
w hen the President's special messaee was
read at the clerk's desk Jast Saturday, in
forming Congress that there existed a se
rious condition in the finances of the coun
try and in the Federal treasury, and
appealing to the Senate and House not to
take a recess until relief was afforded,
every member felt that there was imposed
upon the House not only a special respon
sibility, but an urgent demand for imme
diate action, and that it was the duty of
the House to remain in session until some
measure of legislation was passed that
would afford relief to the exigent state of
the treasury.
The Committee on Ways and Means had
taken the matter up and proceeded to con
sider what measures of relief should be
proposed. The first thing that had at
tracted the attention of the Committee on
Ways and Means was that for two years
and a half there had been a constant den- '
ciency of revenue until that want had be
come chronic. He knew that the gentle
men on the other side claimed that the
revenue was sufficient, but the fact was
that from the Ist of July, 1893, up to to
day there had been an insufficiency of rev
enue to cover tne current expenses of the
Government to the aggregate amount of
$123,000,000. The deficiency for the cur
rent year was over $18,500,000, and for the
current month of December the deficit ap
proximated $3,000,000. What, then, did the
gentlemen mean and what did the Sec
retary of the Treasury mean in saying
there was no need of additional revenue?
They meant that with the procei ds of the
sale of bonds and the use of ihe greenbacks
received for them the receipts exceeded the
expenditures. It seemed to him and to
the majority of the Committee on Ways
and Means that the first course to be taken
was to legislate so as to provide sufhcient
revenue to meet the expenditures of the
Government.
Dingley went on to discuss and to up
hold the bill in detail, and said that if it
became a law it would not only increase
the revenue by over $40,000,000 a year, but
would also give to the business interests of
the country the moral influence of a Gov
ernment which was solvent, which paid
its debts, and whose credit was second to
no Government on the face of the earth.
[Republican applause.]
Crisp said that the bill, in order to be re
sponsive to the request of the President,
ought to he in line with th.> suggestions
that come from that source. He insisted,
from Secretary Carlisle's report, that the
cash balance in the treasury on the Ist of
December, 1895, was $170,000,000, being
$98,000,000 in excess of the gold reserve
and $77,000,000 in excess of any sums nec
essary to build up the gold reserve. There
was, therefore (quoting Mr. Carlisle), "no
reason to doubt the ability of the Govern
ernment to discharge all its current obli
gations during the present fiscal year and
have a large cash balance at its close,
without imposing additional taxation in
any form on the people."
His friend from Maine, Dingley, knew —
no one better— that there was in the treas
ury to-day, over and beyond the gold re
serve, more free money — three times over —
than any deficiency which might occur
during the fiscal year. It was not a ques
tion of borrowing money to meet ex
penses. The money was already borrowed
and was in the treasury; and the question
was whether it should be used now or
whether the House should rush, post
haste, to impose additional burdens on
the people in order to pile up money in
the treasury.
Crisp went on to taunt the Committee
on Ways and Means with reporting a bill
for a horizontal rise of duties after all the
ridicule which had been cast on Morrison's
bill for a horizontal cut, and he said that
the effect of the pending measure was to
declare that the McKinley tariff act was
60 per cent right and 40 per cent wrong.
[Laughter.]
He quoted McKinley's criticism of the
Morrison bill as patchwork and a proof of
indolence, and said that on the issue of
pending measure the parties would go be
fore the people in the next Presidential
campaign and he had no dought that the
people would respond, as they had always
responded, in favor of themselves — that
was in favor of low taxes. [Democratic
applause.]
Wheeler (D.) of Alabama spoke against
the pending measure.
Payne (R.) of New York, a member of
Committee on Ways and Means, said that
the Republicans in the House, being ready
to meet the responsibility which was on
them to-day, had presented a bill to in
crease the aevenue. Two years from now,
however, they would meet the responsi
bility of that hour and would present to
the House and Senate and to a Republican
President a bill for the protection of Amer
ican labor and American agriculture and
would write it on the statute books. [Ap
plause.]
The irentleman from Georgia (Crisp) had
said that there had been a deficiency of
revenue under the tariff act of 1890. He
(Payne) asserted, however, that the act
had produced sufiicient revenue, not only
to meet all the expenditures of the Govern
ment down to the Ist of November, 1892,
but to put into the treasury a surplus of
over $38,000,000. He could not stop to
describe the other benefits of the tariff act
of 1890, which were "known and read of
all men." The gentleman from Georgia
spoke of a deficiency in November, 1892;
but he sepmed to have forgotten what
occurred in November, 1892, when the
Democracy was put in power in the White
House and at both ends of the cepitol, and
when its destructive hands were ca*t like
a shadow over every industry in the broad
land. [Republican applause.] It was that
shadow w ich had brought the deficiency
of revenue in November, 1892. That was
followed by the inauguration of a Demo
cratic President in March, 1893. and from
tiiat day and hour to this there had been a
deficiency of revenue to meet the expenses
of the Government.
It was true that for two months the
SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1895.
THE AMERICAN DAVID AND THE BRITISH LION.
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there
came a lion and took a lamb out of the flock.
And I went out after him and smote him, and delivered the lamb out of
his mouth. And when he arose against me I caught him by his beard, smote
him and slew him. — / Samuel xvii: 34-35.
Treasury Department figured out a sur
plus, but it is also true that in each of tne
months that followed there was an amount
of expenditure over the month preceding
of from ten to twelve millions, and that
deficit in the revenue bred further distrust
among the people. The Republicans had
predicted then that if tariff agitation was
begun the evils would be increased, and
the evils had come from that time as surely
a3 the night followo the day.
'•You have," Payne exclaimed, address
ing the Democratic side 6f the House,
"borrowed $181,000,000 since you came into
power, and if not the treasury would have
been bankrupt in a sum of over $6,000,000.
Do you want to continue that same thing?
Do you want to deal with a syndicate that
■will have a profit of $6,000,000 on a loan of
$60,000,000? Does not your cheek blush in
shame at even the newspaper suggestions
(whether true or not) that one of the Eu
ropean powers is offering gold to our Gov
ernment to help tis out of the difficulty ?
Is it not time that the American people
ceased to be put in the position of a men
dicant and supplicant to the governments
and syndicates of Europe asking for gold
to replenish the treasury?
"Two remedies are proposed. The Presi
dent says it is necessary to negotiate a loan
of four hundred miliions to retire the
greenoacks. while there is not a business
man who does not see that such an ope
ration as that, in the present condition of
financial affairs, would ruin and destroy
the country. Are any of you in favor of
carrying out the President's scheme, or
the Secretary of the Treasury's, and retir
ing ereenbacks and treasury notes by issu
ing four or five hundred millions of bonds ?
Another remedy is proposed. The Repub
lican party has lived Jong enough and has
dealt with financial questions long enough
to know that a business man or a corpora
tion or even a free government cannot ex
ist unless there is an income sufficient to
meet his or its expenditures. It did not
take us two and a half years to find that
out. We told you that two years ago.
Now something must be done to relieve
the treasury. We propose this method:
We propose to have an income equal to
the outgo. You lack nearly fifty
millions a year for that to-day.
We offer it to you. We offer
it to you in the shape of your own tariff
bill with a horizontal increase of 15 per
cent. The gentleman from Georgia said
something about a horizontal bill being a
cross cut. Gentlemen, it is a cross cut. We
are getting there by the cross-road, the
very swiftest way we can, to relieve the
treasury and your administration. [Re
publican applause.] flow can any of your
Democratic friends from the Northern
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BATTLED THE WAVES
Two Hundred and Five
Souls Escaped Destruc
tion Island.
AIDED THE STRATHNEVIS
i
The Miowera Fought Bravely
for the Disabled Vessel, but
Could Not Hold Out.
TWO MONTHS IN A WILD SEA.
Success Finally Attained by the Min
eola, Which Towed the Vessel
Into Port.
PORT TOWN SEND, Wash., Dec. 26.-
The Northern Pacific line steamer Strath
nevis is now in this harbor, looking exter
nally little the worse for wear as a result
of her two mbnths 1 battle with the wind
and waves of the Paciiic Ocean.
The story told by the commander, Cap
tain James Pattie, sounds more like a ro
mance than reality, and is but another
illustration of the old adage that "truth is
stranger than fiction." As for the 205
souls on board it is safe to guess that no
company of men in the world ever experi
enced a merrier Christmas than they did
yesterday, for only three short days aco
they were fully prepared to meet death on
the rocky and desolate shore of Destruc
tion Island, and the island seemed to them
to have been rightly named. The very
seas seemed inviting them to death as
they piled up against the rocky banks.
The Strathnevis broke down on the
morning of October 20 at 9 o'clock in about
164 west and 49 14 north. Without a mo
ment's warning the big shaft broke off as
smooth as though it had been cut with a
knife, and the big steamer was at once at
the mercy of the wind. Northerly gales
were blowing at the time, and the limited
amount of canvas aboard was quickly
spread, the vessel then heading for the
south and west. Slow progress was made,
however, and in two days' sailing only
THE UNLUCKY STEAMER MIOWJERA.
[Reproduced from a photograph.]
I 115 miles were covered. Then on the third
day the wind shifted and the vessel tacked
and stood to the eastward. Calms and
gales alternated from the time the ship re
fused to obey the helm, and knocking
about in the trough of the sea whenever
the breeze stiffened up advantage of it
was taken and the vessel was steered in an
easterly direction, the captain heading for
the American coast.
When out at sea little or no apprehen
sion was felt as to the safety of the vessel,
and there was perfect order and discipline
on board among both crew and passengers,
all hands keeping a sharp lookout for
passing vessels. It was not until Novem
ber 19 thai another vessel was sighted, that
being the John Gambles already reported.
Alter she had passed on there was a weary
time of it, riding the billows till Wednes
day morning, December 18, when the
Canadian-Australian liner Miowera hove
in sight on her way westward and at once
approached the disabled vessel, connecting
her line with little difficulty.
This was in latitude 43 deg. north, longi
tude 132 degrees, and the steamer headed
for Cape Flattery. After twelve hoars the
hawser parted, and on account of the gale
and heavy seas running at the time it was
thirty-six hours before another hawser
was connected. This one lasted just thirty
minutes before it parted. But within a
short time two hawsers were connected
with the steamer, and once more the two
vessels headed for the cape. At 1 o'clock last
Monday morning, when just fifteen miles
off Cape Flattery, the Miowera's two haw
sers parted, and in the terrible sea that
was running it seemed that it would be
impossible to again get hold of the dis
abled steamer.
Accordingly it was arranged that the
Miowera was to stand by and save life
■when the Strathnevis went ashore, as it
seemed certain she would do in a very
short time. A heavy swell then came on,
the weather being so thick that even the
Miowera's electric lights were invisible to
those on onboard the other steamer. When
the squall had passed, at 4 o'clock in the
morning, the Miowera was nowhere to be
seen, and there was consequent consterna
tion board the Strathnevis. The captain
did not think so seriously of the disap
pearance of the other vessel, because Cap
tain Stott had told him that his steamer
would be able to tow him only three days
with her limited coal supply, and even
made arrangements to take part of the
Strathnevis coal cargo when they arrived
in Victoria in case there would be delay
in waiting for coal at the bunker there.
This morning Captain Pattie was very
much surprised to learn that the Miowera
has not yet reported and said that he
feared for her safety, being unable to ac
count for her failure to return to Victoria
for coal. He refuses to criticise Captain
Rtott in any manner, for, he said, the Mio
wera did everything possible for him when
alongside. By noon on Monday the Strath
nevis was thirty miles off Destruction
Island, making slowly but surely for the
rocky shore, and it seemed to all on board
the steamer that their doom was sealed.
As they approached nearer and nearer
the shore with the wind behind them, all
hands began making final preparations for
the expected dashing of the steamer to
pieces on the rocks, but when within seven
miles of the island the wind s: ifted to the
north and, to the delight of all, the anchor
which was heaved over held fast. The
chain soon parted, however, and the second
and only anchor on board was sent down.
That proved successful, for it held fast.
About 9 o'clock Tuesday morning Purser
McDonald and Second Officer Barnes and
tliree Japanese sailors were sent off to the
island in a boat with the hope that they
might reach a telegraph station and wire
for assistance. The men are still on the
island.
At noon the same day the collier Min
eola, Captain Pilsbury, hove in sight and
bore down on the Strathnevis, soon get
ting a hawser on board and heading for
land. It was slow work getting around the
cape, and when in the straits off Race
Rocks the hawser parted, and in getting
another connected an able seaman fell
fell overboard from the Mineola, but, be
ing an expert swimmer, was saved from
drowning.
When the Strathnevis arrived here last
evening the wires were down and there
seemed no way of sending ihe news out.
Captain J. B. Libby, manager of the Puget
Sound Tugboat Company, volunteered to
send United Press dispatches to Seattle by
the tug Tyee, and by this means the news
was given to the world twelve hours earlier
than it could otherwise have been.
There are thirty-seven members of the
crew of the Strathnevis and she has 168
Chinese and Japanese passengers on board.
Among the Chinese are several wealthy
merchants who had started home to pur
chase Christmas goods for the Pacific Coast
trade. There are also five Japanese Yale
College students on board who started
home to spend Christmas. Captain Pattie
said that to the Chinese merchants and
Japanese students on board he was in
debted for general discipline and order on
the steamer, one merchant in particular
taking charge and exercising wonderful
control over all his fellow-countrymen.
There was plenty of food on board and at
no time was there any danger of going dry.
The Mineola will put in a claim for
salvage of $100,000 probably, although this
will not be definitely determined until
her charterer, the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company, is heard from. The Strath
nevis may be taken on to Tacoma to-night.
SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 26.— 0f 125 or
more Chinese aboard the Strathnevis,
bound for China, about thirty were from
this city, the others hailing principally
from Boston, New York and Chicago.
Local Chinese merchants received advices
this afternoon to the effect that the sup
ply of rice ran out during the sixty-six
days' wandering and disability of v the
Strathnevis, and that the Mongolian pas
sengers suffered much in consequence.
XEARB FOR THE MIOWERA.
Experienced Seamen and the Agents Still
Have Hope for Her Safety.
SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 26.— Private dis
patches received in this city this afternoon
say that the steamship Miowera has in all
probability been lost off Cape Flattery.
John H. Carter, accountant of the Boston
National Bank, and several other Seattle
people were passengers.
Captain Harry Struve, a seaman of
many years' experience, scouted the idea
that a ship so seaworthy as the Miowera
could be lost off the straits in such
weather as prevailed recently. The Mio
wera he said is one of the stanchest
vessels afloat and that she left Vancouver
well coaled, well loaded and prepared for
perilous voyages so common at this sea
son of the year. Five days tusseling with
the Strathnevis Captain Struve alleged
could not have materially depleted the
Miowera's coal supply.
John H. Carter, one of Seattle's pas
sengers on the Miowera, is a near relative
of the late Hawaiian Consul Carter of this
city. He is accompanied by his sister,
Miss Edith Carter, whose home is in Hon
olulu. They left here to visit their mother,
who resides in Honolulu.
VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. 26.— The
Canadian-Australian steamship officials
are not willing to confirm the view taken
by Captain Pattie of the Strathnevis that
the Miowera has foundered. During the
night following the parting of the Strath
nevis and the Miowera a living gale was
blowing. The officials here think that the
Miowera had to stand off in the opposite
direction to which the Strathnevis was
drifting, on account of the dangerous
proximity to land, and that, by daylight
next morning, the supposition is but rea
sonable that they would be, lost to each
other's view, particularly as the weather
was net very clear.
The Miowera, no doubt thinking the
Strathnevis was beyond all human aid,
turned her nose in the direction of Hono
lulu and continued her journey. As to
the report that the Miowera would have to
return to British Columbia for coal,
Steamship Superintendent Fullerton says
1300 tons of coal were put aboard before
leaving, sufficient to carry the Miowera to
Sueva, and for five days' lost time.
The worst phase of the case to the minds
of the officials here is the anxiety that is
consequent upon the uncertainty and the
length of time that must elapse before it is
relieved. Seven or eight days from last
Tuesday will take the Miowera to Hono
lulu, and after that nothing can be known
until word reaches San Francisco or Van
couver of the vessel's fate. The agents of
the company, in order to allay the fears
and anxiety of those having friends on
board, will ask the Government to dis
patch a boat to the waters where the
Strathnevis and Miowera narted company
and see if any trace of a wreck of the latter
is to be found.
mt; JUiofr&KA's history.
A. Sine Teasel Accustomed to Disastrous
-■■XVC-^'"--'- '. ' Voyages.
The Miowera ' is a steel screw boat of
3345 tons ; gross, 'measuring 340 feet in
length between perpendiculars, or 360 feet
over all, 42 ■ feet .in breadth and 25 leet in
depth, fitted with engines of 4700 horse
power. She is built on what is known as
the three-deck grade and has a long poop
deck, which extends over her engines and
boilers, with a long topgallant fore
castle and ; complete system- of water
ballast i, on the ;; cellular double-bottom
principle. All the arrangements " for
the discharge }of 5 cargo are -on "X the
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Continued on Third Page.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
NOW SEEKING
AN ALLIANCE.
Salisbury Is Negotiating
With Holland and
France.
SPAIN ALREADY AGREES.
European Nations Asked to Take
Action Against Cleve
land's Policy.
PROTECT THEIR POSSESSIONS.
Countries That Appear Not at All
Willing for Enforcement of the
Monroe Doctrine.
LONDON, Exo., Dec. 26. — The Daily
News will to-morrow publish a dispatch
from Vienna stating that Lord Salisbury,
the British Prime Minister, is negotiating
with France and Holland with a view to
adopting common action against the policy
of President Clevelaud.
Spain, the dispatch adds, has already
assured Great Britain of her agreement
with the latter on the question. It is be
lieved that Great Britain, France, Holland
and Spain will form an alliance to protect
their American possessions against the
United States.
The Daily News to-morrow, commenting
upon the report that Secretary Olney has
forwarded a private dispatch to Lord Salis
bury, will say :
"There is nothinc incredible or surpris
ing in such an announcement. On the
contrary, it would be highly honorable to
him. There is no reason to believe that in
pushing the Monroe doctrine Secretary
Olney has any design of insulting or an
noying England."
The paper discredits the various far
fetched explanations of President Cleve
land's policy and says he meant no harm
by bis message to Congress. Whatever
mischief he did he has since conscien
tiously and laboriously endeavored to
undo.
PEACE IS DESIRED.
Cable Sent by the Edinburgh Cham
ber of Commerce.
NEW YORK, N. Y. Dec. 26— The follow
ing cable dispatch was received to-day by
the Chamber of Commerce:
Edinburgh, Dec. 26, 1895.
Chamber of Commerce, New York: The Edin
burgh Chamber of Commerce expresses earnest
desire that the present difficulty may end in
continuance of peaceful relations between both
countries so closely allied by kindred language
and mutual interests.
Thomas Clarke, Baronet, President.
CONGRATULATION IN PERU.
Minister McKenzie Replies to the
Resolutions.
NEW YORK, N. Y M Dec. 26.—The Her
ald's special telegram from Lima says:
James A. McKenzie, the United States
Minister, formally replied yesterday to res
olutions of congratulations which were
offered by the deputation of the National
Society of Peru in connection with the at
titude of the President of the United States
on the Venezuelan question.
Minister McKenzie told the delegates of
the society that they deserved strong com
mendation for their expression of patriotio
ideas and their quick recognition of the
spirit of justice which inspired the Presi
dent of the United States to assume the
position outlined in his message to the
Congress.
It was impossible, added Minister Mc-
Kenzie, fhat the great republic of the
North should forget the fact that she was
the bulwark of the liberty of America, or
that she should lose sight of her noble
traditions and abandon her post of honor.
The National Society has organized a
grand reception in honor of the United
States and Venezuela, to which all Ameri
can diplomats in South America will be
invited.
REGARDED AS GOSSIP.
Mr. Lincoln and the Venezuelan
Commission.
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 26.— At the offices
of lsham, Lincoln & Beale this morning
considerable doubt was expressed as to the
appointment of Lincoln on the Venezuelan
commission— in fact it was stated that
there was probably no truth in the rumor,
which was regarded as newspaper gossip.
VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY.
Where Some Information May Be
Obtained.
DENVER, Colo., Dec. 26.— Ex-Senator
S. W. Dorsey of this city is responsible for
the statement that when General Robert
C. Schenck was Minister to England
under Grant, he made a thorough inves
tigation of the Venezuela boundary
question under instructions from Secretary
of State Hamilton Fish, which covered a
period of twelve months.
General Schenck went to the Hague and
to Madrid to search through the archives
for facts bearing upon the question, and
in many conversations subsequently with
Dorsey, General Schenck stated that the
English claim to all lands up to the Schom
burgh line were well founded, and that se
rious doubts existed as to tracts westward
as far as the Orinoco delta.
Later, in Washington, General Schencfc
confided to Dorsev that "Venezuela's pre
tensions had finally been disposed of."
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