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Pays Mr. Blaine: "The full text of Mr.
Adams' paragraph !s as follows:
'Tho United States can admit no part of these
claims. Their right of navigation aud of fish-
ing is perfect, and has been in constant exer-
cise from the eulie-t times, after the peace of
1783 throughout the whole extent of the bovt i-
crn ocean, subject only to tho ordinary ex-
ceptions and exclusions of the territorial juris-
dictions. which, so far as Russian rights are
concerned, are confined to certain islands
north of tho fifty-fifth degree latitude, and have
no existence on the continent of America.' "
Mr. Blaine puts iu capital letters the last
clause, beginning, "which so far," etc., and
declaims as follows:
The words in caps are those which are left
out of Mr. Adams' paragraph in tho dispatch
of Lord Salisbury. They are precisely the
words upon which the government of the
L nited States founds its arguments iu this
case. Conclusions or inferences resting upon
the paragraph with the material parts of Mr.
Adams1 text omitted, are of courso valueless.
Mr. Blaine can be amusing, it seems. The
added clause simply contains Mr. Adams'
positive asseition that Russia's jurisdiction
was confined to the islands. Tho present
administration must be ill supplied with
foundations for its arguments if it rests
them on nothing better than Mr. Adams'
denial that Russia could extend her rights
bsyond the isiands. This beggarly pretense
on the part of Mr. Blaina would be well nigh
inconceivable were it not for the facility of
sending out, as has been done, otatemeuts
that a dispatch by Quincy Adams was
"garbled" by Salisbury, and that Blaine re-
stored the text, and that in some manner
unexplained in the press dispatches Blaine
got the best of the argument! Out of a
hundred readers would five e?er read the
full correspondence, and would one ever
compare the allegation of Blaine with the
text?
of to make it known, but the adago that what
can not be cured must be endured carries with
it the lesson that it is useless to complain when
things can not be bettered or cry over spilt
milk. Some people seem to regard the news-
paper as the organ of chronic grumblers.
Evangelist Penn has a big horn to blow
and unsettle the sinners with. It is not the
same kind of a horn the politician blows. It
is the horn of an ox. The politician blows his
own horn of the most sonorous brass.
1890.
1 til
TUESDAY, JULY 29,
KEWS FAST TRAIN SERVICE.
Tli* special Galves-
ton News train, run-
ning over the Galves-
ton, Houston and Hen-
derson division of the
International and
Creat Northern rall-
»ay, leaves Galveston
for ilouaton it 4 a. iu.
each day. It make.%
t*he following connections at Houston: Gal-
veston. Harrlsburg and San Antonio rail-
way, leaving Houston at 7.40 ». m., arriv-
ing at San Antonio at 1.40 p.m. Texas and
New Orleans railway, leaving Houston at
6.0a a. na., arriving at New Orleans at 7.4ft
p. m. Houston East and West Texas rail-
way (Ilreinond*s), leaving Houston at 8.SO a.
bi., arriving at Shreveport at 10 p. in. 8an
Antonio and Aransas Pass railway, leaving
Houston at 7.45 a. m., arriving at San A n-
tonlo at 0.4ft p. m. Houston and Teias Cen-
tral railway, leaving Houston at 9.90 a. ra..
arriving at Denison at 10.45 p. m. The
prime object of The News train Is to place
the paper over a considerable portion of !
Texas before* breakfast, aud It does It. j
Beeogniclng Its great convenience to the
traveling public, a passenger coach Is at- >
tached for their accommodation, by «|»loh '
mean* those desiring nay spend the night
tnUalvaston and vet make connection with
all the early train* out of Houstou.
A POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE.
What a great many people have doubt-
less been thinking of, Colonel James B.
Simpson of Dallas took the trouble to ex-
press in speaking ts a News reporter on
Sunday, and that with a degree of earnest-
ness aud force of reason which would any-
where command respectful attention. Tho
only difference between the position of
Colonel Simpson and that of the leading
men who have the Galveston deep water
bill in hand, so far as The News
can discern, is one of order in tho
application of methods. The News
Itself has had some experience in trying
different roads to Rome. It has never
doubted getting: there. But just as The
News advocated concentrated effort on one
great project while that was the chosen
plan, it must think that there had best be
harmony now and loyalty to the method in
hand until its availability is decided. There
should be no swapping of horses in the mid-
dle of the stream. Not one of the workers
in thecause will dissent from the proposition
that fhe state should get deep water if it
had to come to that, but Mr. Simpson is
surely somewhat peculiar in prematurely
abnndoning all hopo of federal aid.
And THE News would say this aid-
seeking is not mendicancy. It is
the fair right of the southwest, which con-
tributes many million dollars annually in
taxes. The work is of national importance
and use. It is partly executed and it must
remain under federal jurisdiction, so thor-
oughly that the state could not act in the
channel without a permit by act of con-
gress. The News will therefore treat the
valuable suggestion of Colonel Simpson as
the voice of a sagacious elder who per-
ceives what the state can not afford to leave
undone if the federal government were
really to be so very inconsistent as
to neglect to carry out its plans alt
ready substantially approved by both
legislative and executive departments.
In abort, well as are many of Colonel Simp-
son's ideas taken a3 an independent ex-
pression of the absolute logic of the situa-
tion for the development of Texan, courtesy
toward the federal government and loyalty
to the able representatives of the present
deep water movement as organized forbid
any swerving at this hour or until some evi-
dence is seen that the present delay Is more
than a congressional incident. More than
this; The News can not agree with Colonel
Simpson that there is any convincing rea-
son to despair of the success of tho present
"plan of campaign." His proposal pre-
sents au alternative both easy and brilliant,
one about which there will surely be no
hesitation snould it be needed. In that
event it will be for tho stnte's producers to
saye their own interests by a nominal tax
or rather a mere guarantee, as it may be. It
should be thought out by any who havonot
confidence in the influence of a national
demand. The News of course will not be
dogmatically certain as to the outcome of
present methods, but will merely say that
valuable as the plan of Colonel Simpson is,
considered in itself, it is not in order at
present. A bill is peuding to authorize a
contract for tho whole work. This bill is
keoi; back to hold a quorum in congress.
The situation reveals complexity of politi-
cal calculations rather than hostility tc the
deep water claim.
DENOUNCING MR. BLAINE.
A Canadian Official Use* Very Strong Lsn
guRge About the Secretary's Policy.
Ottawa, Ont., July 24.—Said a member
of the government to me to day:
"i4r. Blaine himself has published to the
world the mess o? rant and fustian that he
and his Camarilla aro pleased to term diplo-
matic correspondence, and ho is welcome to
all tho honors of it. I hope that our peo
pie, who now know how this political
mountebank has been talking about us,
will treat his allusions to Canada with
the silent contempt they deserye. So far as
the government is concerned we are in
debted to Mr. Blaine for a solidarity of im-
perial and Canadian feeling that nothing
less than his indecent floutings could per-
haps have produced. We are now, as we
have always been,very much In the hands of
the home government, but we have not for
years past had such an assurance as we
now have that the whole power of England
will be exerted, if necessary, for the defense
of our just rights.''
The foregoing verbatim roport fairly re^
fleets the official view of the Behring Sea
situation. If there is one regret felt at the
publication of Mr. Blaine's communications
to Sir Julian Pauncefote it is because of the
irritation that the press and people of
Canada will hardly succeed in keeping
voiceless. Our officials would prefer that
nothing should occur to make it
in the least difficult for Sir
Julian to continue his delicate task
of negotiation. Our authorities regard the
publication of the correspondence, which
they consider entirely unjustifiable at this
stage of the discussion, as a bluff on Mr.
Blaine's part, intended to influence Lord
Salisbury by stirring up popular feeling
against England in tho states. If such is
the purpose 1 am sure it will not succeed.
Mr. Blaine, by publishing what ho alleges
to be the grounds of his policy and action,
has invited the judgment of the civilized
world upon the position and conduct of the
United States. What that judgment will
be is a master of doubt with our publicists.
They are equilly confident that the influx
ence of the aggregated public opinion of
Europe will not be slow in making its way
with the press and people of the United
States, who may before long be counted
upon to restore the diplomatic procedure of
their government to something like its old
time prosperity.
Much interest is felt in the official circle
respecting Lord Salisbury's intentions in
regard to Behring sea papers that lie has
promised to lay before parliament within
tho next few days. His lordship Is not
noted for self-restraint, and the temptation
is seen to be strong upon him to keep
nothing back that will tend to counteract
the deceptive color given to the negotiation
by the merely formal papers submitted to
congress. On the other hand, there are cool
heads in the dominion cabinet that per-
ceivo wisdom in a little patience and re-
serve at the foreign office.
WHAT TIIE jingoes SAY.
The jingo element express exultation that
Lord Salisbury has shown so much back*
bone. The tone of this class may best be
interpreted by tho editorial in the Ottawa
Joui'ual on the subject. After summarize
ing the document the* Journal says:
"Hero is at last an honest version of tho
course of the United States in Behring sea—
namely, that their money making ou its
shores has been Interfered with by the pro-
ceedings in open son of the ships of a friend-
ly nation.
"The tone of Secretary Blaine's dofense
reminds one of some cowardly bully who
has been caught by a better man maltreat-
ing a helpless youngster without real provo-
cation, and who endeavors to justify him-
self by abusing the lad on general princi-
ples. Supposing all that Blaine says of
Canadian seal fishere were true, what right
had the United States revenue cutters to
interfere with them on the ocean? Who
made the United States the policeman of
the Pacific?"
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
be so badly stuck on
THE NEWS' TRAVELING AGENTS.
The following are the traveling represen-
tatives of The Galveston News and Thh
Dallas News, who are authorized to soli-
cit and receipt for subscriptions and adver-
tisements for either of the publications
E. P. Boyle, W. D. Carey, Joe Lee Jameson,
D. B. Thxoop and U. P. Simonds.
A. H. Belo & Co.. Publishers.
Galveston, Tex., May L lSCOi
PgorLE would not
roses without thorns.
This is a country in which the boycotter
will be boycotted every time.
The Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald
presents in the following ouo argument that
of itself settles the question against the boy
cotters
We could not, if we wonld. boycot northern
products, for the simple fact that Import dutft s
make foreign goods tlearet than those of domes-
tic manufacture The McKmley tariff bill,
which will become a law before the force bill
dot.'*, will make tho difference greater than at
present, and the, southern people nre not going
to pay the government a greater tax than that
already unjustly imposed in order to show their
hatred of this very obnoxious measure. Thev
can't afford to do so.
Tite rooster with only one gsflle stuck
into him goes off half cocked.
Colonel Eli.iott F. smfpahp ought to
be turned out of the church. He is too mean
to belong to it.
Congress has not adjourned, but has gone
home.
Eastern people are never satisfied until
they have seen a tarantula and a cowboy, and
have solved the negro question.
TllR cot'age at Cape May is not the honae
RLA1SZ AS AS "AMOOSIX* CCSS."
A fuller report of the correspondence be-
tween the Washington aud London govern
menta than that sent by telegraph some
days ago serves to show the email founda-
tion for Secretary Blaine's bo?d asstrrsnce
that Premier Salisbury had made a "most
defective, erroneous and misleading" quota
tion from a letter in which John Quincy
Adams protested against Russia's cleim to
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g waves of applause
ow that the speaker
Justin McCarthy has been ordered by his
physician to Royat, in the south of France, for
the benefit of his hoalth.
Miss Tenuaut sent invitations to atteud
her wedding to the children of the ragged
schools in which she is interested.
One of the pretty girls of California is
Miss Grace McDonough, and she is none the
less af«ractive to the young men becaube slie
inherits $r»,U00,00Q from her mother.
Bronsou Howard, the playwright, lives
at New Rochelle, where the greater part of his
literary work is done. It was there that ho
wrote Tho Henrietta and Shenandoah.
A neico of the great actress Rachel is
soon to go on the stage. She is the wife of an
Englishman aud having boon reared in Eng-
land she speaks English perfectly.
The first governor of Dakota territory,
Governor Samuel Albright, is living in Minne-
•sota. a hale aud hearty man, somewhat past
middle age. He was a St. Paul editor in the
early days of the northwest.
Justice Miller of the supreme court^of the
United States has been on the bench twenty-
eight years. His commission was signed by
President Lincoln, and dates back further than
any other member of the court.
Henry Bridgeman, the negro who gave
$10,000 toward tho purchase of Mrs. Cairns'
seminary at Kirk wood. Mo , is a saloon ke»|ier
and worth $-»oo,lQ) The seminary thu* becomes
the first manual training school for colored
boys ever established.
General F. E. Spinner, ex-United States
treasurer, who is suffering from cancer, writes
from Pablo Reach. Fla.: "My case is constant-
ly growing worse. I can not see to read a single
word of this, my own writing. My eye is kept
open by a bit of adhesive plaster. I write with
pain and suffering."
The king of Sweden is reported recently
to have remarked: "I am truly sorry not to be
able tospen J a half day incognito with Prince
Bismarck at Friedrlchsruhe. Persons whom 1
esteem and honor so highly as I do Prince Bis-
marck become doubly dear to my heart when
they step aside from the greater part of man-
kind."
Senator Evarts owns a hun'ing lodge, a
comfortable log cabin, on the banks of the Poto
mac, in Maryland, furnished ready for instant
use. with a colore 1 man and his wlfa in readi-
neas to receive the senator and his friends, but
it has not beeu u*ed except by the colored man
and his wife d iring the several years Senator
Evarts has owned it.
Mr. Henry M. Stan'ey will be amused to
see the picture of the young lady who served for
the mo lei of Sir John MlUeis' Yes or No nsei
leading American papers as her
Tennant was not t
ZBU STATE PRESS.
What the Paperj Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
The Tribune prints a column of interviews
of leading citizens on the late census of
Orange. One says: "I think the figures
of 500 ehort," and the other "i would cer-
tainly judge the population to be at least
500#;" another, "in my opinion Beaumont
has 4000 inhabitants," and so on, and the fol
lowing official figures have been received by
the Journal from Supervisor J. F. Fells:
Beaumont S2T9. Orange 8209.
Laredo leads Galveston in electrical street
railways. The Gate City says:
On the- occasion of the reception of the
foundry on Tuesday a G. C. reporter strolled
into the snug little plank powerhouse of the
KlectricsStreet Car company, temporarily
occupying the site of the large brick struct-
ure destroyed by the storm, and there
found the big boiler, the clean engine, the
busydynamo, though cribbod up in so small
compartments, just running under the
splendid management of Engineer Boyd
like oiled lightning, which it is, by the by,
and with power after the fashion of the
roaming earthquake seeking vent from be-
neath, It is a pleasure to view such ma-
chinery. And with that steady, delicately
modulated, powerful pushing, the stress
cars flit to and fro on tbeir busy errand iiki
aerial messengers.
The FioresvilleJChronicle says:
The country papers almost unanimously
support Hogg for governor, while the city
dailies aro nearly all for Cook.
The Kerrville Paper adds:
The country editor knows who it is that
puts butter on bis bread. In other words,
the said c. e. is aware that most of his sub-
scribers are farmers, and is too cute to put
himself in opposition to this craze of the
farming o'oment, but will indorse it right or
wrong. We are at a loss to understand
in what way the election of General Hogg
as governor, and the instituting of ara "
way commission, will be of special benefit
to the "farming brotherhood." If the suc-
cess of the one aud the adoption of the
obher should redound to 'ho Interests of the
"man with the hoe," we shall rejoice; but
we regard the whole thing as ciup-trap.
The Jewett Messenger says:
Esch succeeding year has seen the Texas
state fair and Dallas exposition strengthen
and broaden until what was first au experi-
ment has finally developed iuto a state in
stitution, commensurate in its dignity and
importance with the majesty and the great
area of Texas. It is pre-eminently a state
fair and it merits recognition at tho hands
of the people of the state.
San Antonio boasts more of t'na number
than the character of the population. The
projector of a new town said when a super-
annuated old man was brought in, "be will
do to commence a graveyard." The Alamo
city seems to have been keeping its peonie
above ground to swell the census. The Ei
Paao Times says of the San Antonio census:
The list of people between the ages of 85
and 90 is a long one, aud there are three in-
dividaals who have lived over 100 years.
These aro Mine. Candelaria, who is 108
years old; Mrs. Lena Diekiuson, aged 109,
and Rube Carroll, colored, aged 105.
The Uvalde News says:
If tho San Antonio Times would cease its
bunkum" special racket and uot ruako
itself so ridiculous in its petty attacks on
Its city contemporaries it would be a pretty
good evening paper.
Xot very, but it would bo much im-
proved.
"lie Jacksonville Times is uot in fayor of
booms. It says:
Jacksonville will stand, grow and pros-
per while those of the "iiooni" variety will
decay. Placing fictitious values upon
building lots is ono of the greatest mistakes
citizens can make.
It is an easy way to increase the value of
one's possessions, like the merchant who
made 20 per cent in a day by marking up
the prices of his goods. People uever grew
rich so fast as at the beginning of the war,
when prices rose as rapidly as the currency
fell. Where there is » boom citizens make
a great deal by exchanging property with
each other at fictitious priceB.
The Willis Index says:
It certainly begins to look like there was
something rotten in Denmark a^out this
ccnsus business when a city the size of Gal-
veston is given less than 29,000 inhabitants
aud Houston about 1500 less.
The Yoakum Graphic says:
The admirers of Hon. \\ alter Gresham
from all parts of tho state regret that he
has declined to serve the people of the Gal-
veston district in the next legislature. If
we mistake not the next legislature will
need the services of such men as Mr.
Gresham.
Scbulenburg takes the count for high.
The Scbulenburg News says:
The thermometer ranged at 109degroes In
the shade Monday, being the highest point
ever reached '.n Scbulenburg.
Yet there was some compensation. Once
this writer beard Sam Houston say he had
the joke on the mosquitoes where a smudge
had been started to protect him against
them. Ho said Ite could stand the smoke
but they couldn't. The News says:
The lutense heat has had the good effect
of demolishing tho flies, putting the fleas
hors de combat and a quietns ou the mos-
quitoes.
The Richmond Register has gone to
join its numerous predecessors ou that un-
profitable field of journalism. It an-
nounces that the plant will be moved to the
growing little town of Alvin, where in a
few days the owner will issue the first num-
ber of the Alvin News.
The new Seld is much narrower than the
old, but there is a chance for its extension.
The Register says:
The proprietor being a man of limited
means, can not afford to run a paper at a
loss, and such being the condition of affairs
here, leads him to give up the enterprise
and to seek auotiier locality, where the
people want and will sustain a local paper.
Tboy will have to contribute liberally.
Alvin is a small towa for a newspaper.
The San Antonio Light wants an indus-
trial school in that city. The Light say«:
In this practical age the education of hand
and foot and e.tr and eye is as necessary as
tne education of the memory, and snch in-
dustrial education will be foand fully as
efficient in developing the facnlties of com-
parison and reflection and judgment as the
work now pursued In the school room.
This industrial education is to be the edu-
cational system of the future. It is meet-
ing with marked success wherever intro-
duced.
THE SITUATION SERIOUS.
EX-SECRETARY BAYARD TALKS
THE BEHRING SEA TROUBLE.
ON
Thinks Mr. Blaine Managed the Affair
Adroitly, bat tlie President Spoiled
the Secretary's Efforts by His
Interference.
Wilmikgton, Del., July 24.—[Special to
the New York World]—ExsSecretary Bay
ard was seen at his home in this city this
afternoon by a representative of the World,
who asked him to review the published cor-
respondence of the department of state in
the Behring sea controversy. He declined
to do so at this time, for the reason lhat the
published correspondence was of too frag-
mentary a character to form tlie basis of u
jnst criticism.
"I am pleased," said he, "to see that the
matter has reverted to the condition in
which 1 left it on my retirement from the
state department Mr. Blaine is entirely
right when he sava that Lord Salisbury ac-
cepted and agreed to the conditions pro-
posed by the United States. I am not dis-
posed to criticise my own government in a
controversy with a foreign power. Even
though I may hold opinions differing from
those of the administration, the fact that I
was severely criticised does not
furnish me with a rule of action in such
matters." in concluding tho conversation
the ex-secretarv said: "I heartily wish my
countrymen well out of the serious dif-
ficulty in which the matter is involved."
how washington views it.
Washington, July 24.— The gravi y of
the situation in the Behring sea contro-
versy disclosed by the publication of the
correspondence, and already accurately in-
dicated in the World's Washington dis-
patches, is the chief tbeme of discussion
hero. Senators afd representatives aud
departmental officials, whose positions give
the slightest weight to their utterances, are
extremely reluctaul to express views either
as to the course which has been pursued
by the United States in the past
or ns to tho outlook for the fu-
ture. But little praise is heard even
among the most enthusiastic republi-
cans for Secretary Blaine's management of
the contention of the United States, but no
blame is laid at his door for tbe present un-
promising situation aud the failure to add
to the strength of our diplomatic position.
It is accepted on all sides that tbe presi-
dent is solely responsible for the somewhat
strained relations now existing between the
two governments, and that had ho con
sented to be guided by his secretary of state
the negotiations would to-day be proceed*
ing rapidly toward a conclusion entirely
satisfactory to the three grett powers of
Great Britain, Iiussia and the United .States.
The unfortunate epiSode embracing the
renewal of the instructions of 1S89 to the
commander.'of tbe United States revenue
cutlers about to sail for Behring sea is re-
garded as a stupendous blunder in view of
the fact that the negotiations which were
resumed with Sir Julian Pauncefote Janu
ary 22, 1890, were still pending, and had
then reached a crisis in which the seizures
of British Healers in 1889 and previous years
constituted the chief cause of contention
It is argued that President Harrison was
fully acquainted with tbe situation, and
with tho most meager knowledge of diplo-
macy he could have steered clear of the
rock on which ho had run.
salisbury requests a halt.
The attempt t" renew tbe peuding nogo-
tiations was begun in August lust, and the
earliest communication from the BritiRh
government was a dispatch from Mr. Ed-
wardos, first secretary of legation at Wash
:ngton and charge d'affairs after Lord Sack
ville's recall. In his note of August 24, ad-
dressed to Mr. Blaine, Mr. Edwardes says:
Repeated rumors have of late reached her
majesty's government that United States
cruisers have stopped, searched and oven
seized British vessels in Behring sea out-
side the three-mile limit from tbe nearest
land. Althouga no official confirmation of
these rumors has reached her majesty's
government there appears to be no reason
to doubt their authenticity. I am desired
by tho marquis of Salisbury to inquire
whether the United States government is
in possession of simitar information, and
further to ask that stringent instructions
may be sent by the United States govern-
ment to their officers with the view to
prevent the possibility of such occurs
rences taking placs. In continuation
of my instructions I have the honor to re-
mind you that her majesty's government
received very clear assurances last year
from Mr. Bayard, at that time secretary of
state, that pending the discussion of the
general questions at issnc no furthor inter-
ference should take place with British ves-
sels in Behring sea. Iu conclusion the
marquis of Salisbury desires me to say that
Sir Julian t'auueefote, her majesty's minis-
ter, will be prepared on bis return to Wash-
ington in the autumn to discuss the whole
question, and her majesty's government
wish to point out to the United States gov-
ernment that a settlement can not be
hindered by any measures of force which
may be resorted to by tbe United States
government.
Here, then, was a distinct request upon
the United States not to interfere with
British sealers in Behring sea peudlnt: ne-
gotiations if the U uited States should de-
sire to reopen tbe discussion of the general
questions at issue. It is genorally regarded
admitted to be the ablest presentation of
the somewhat Illogical position of the
United States that has yet been made.
SALISBURY'S BACKBONE STRENGTHENING.
The two governments are a long ways
apart, as any ono who gives the correspond-
ence any attention may be convinced of.
A discouraging foature of the outlook is the
fact patent to all that Lord Salisbury is not
so much concerned for a speedy and satis-
factory settlement of tbe controversy as be
is to bolster a tottering ministry by a "vig-
orous foreign policy" which shall commenii
his administration to tbe dissatisfied ele-
ment at home, aud more particularly to
British subjects in Canada.
As pointed out in the World, th<fattitude
of the British secretary of state for foreign
affairs is that of constantly pandering to -
Canada. Of this fact Secretary Blaine v/as
early aware, and his appreciation of it un-
doubtedly served to sharpen the diplomatic
phrases of bis dispatch. On June 2. 1890,
secretary writes Sir Julian that tba
the
presldeut believes that an arbitration can
not be concluded in time for this season,
and suggests that Lord Salisbury make foi-
» season the regulation which in
loss he offered to make permanent, as a
step which would certainly lead to a friendly
agreement. To this the minister replies ou
June 3 that further examination of the
questioji which has taken place has satisfied
his lorcisliip that such an extrouie measure
as that proposed in 1888 goes far beyond
the requirements of the case. He adds that
while willing to adopt preservative meas-
ures there would be no iegal power to ens
force tho observance of such an agreement
on British vessels. Secretary Blaine, reply-
ing on June 4, says that tbe most "extreme
raeauure" proposed came from Lord Salis-
bury himself, and that he abrubtly closed
tbe negotiations because, in his own phrastv
"tho Canadian government objected."
Lord Salisbury was doubtless somewhat
irritated at tills reply, and the irritation
could hardly have been allayed by this clos-
ing paragraph of the note of June 2:
"The president does not conceal his disap-
pointment that, even for the sake of secur-
ing an impartial arbitration of the ques-
tion at issue, ber majesty's government are
net willing to suspend for a single season
the practice which Lord Salisbury da-
scribed iu 18^8 as 'the wanton destruction
of a valuable industry,' and which tliis
government has uniformly regarded us an
unprovoked invasion of its established
rights."
Juuo 9 Sir Julian presented a copy of a
telegram from Lord Salisbury, in which he
regrets that the president should think him
wanting iu conciliation, but that it is be-
yond tbe power of his government to ex-
clude British or Canadian ships from any
portion of the high seas, even for au hour,
without legislative enactment. He adds,
in language hardly diplomatic, that he dues
not think he could have used tho expres-
sions attributed to him.
thr situation considered GRAVE.
Sir Julian next, on June 27, replies to the
president's proposition, looking to a procla-
mation by her majesty's government that
British vessels shell uot enter Behring Sea
the coming season. The minister writes tliat
Lord Salisbu-y says that the president's re-
quest presents constitutional difficulties
which would preclude her majesty's gov-
ernment from acceding to it, except us part
of a general scheme for tho settlement of
tho Behring sou controversy, and oil certain
conditions which would justify the assump-
tion of her majesty's government of the
grave responsibility involved in the pro-
posal. The "grave responsibility" to be as-
sumed by tbe Salisbury government is cou*
stantly before the prime minister, and evi»
dence is everywhere to bo found that he dis-
trusts the strength of his hold on tho British
public. That his bombastic courso has
pleased tho Canadiaus and effected one of
the objects be had in view may be gathered
from this brief editorial paragraph com-
menting on tho Bohriug Sea correspond-
ence, which appears in the Toronto Empire
to (lay:
"That Lord Salisbury stancbly maintained
tbe rights of British subjects, including
Unnadiaas, is proved beyond question.
Secretary Blaine s course is not surprising.
His contentions craftily avoid the main
point that tbe seizures were contrary to in-
ternational law, as being outside territorial
waters and United States jurisdiction. All
his legends about Russiuu rights acquired,
his complaints of injury done to United
States interests, and his claim co insist upon
tho preservation of seals, even if as well
founded as thev aro inaccurate, would be
quite beside tbe mark, for no amouut of
wrong doing or loss would justify Inter-
ference outside the jurisdiction. He might
as well assume to Bend his police to Toronto
to make arrests and seizures because some
citizens of the United States had been rob-
bed. But all this has been tho United
States' policy. The cessation of these high-
handed outrages Is not due to any neighbor-
ly feeling of fair play or any respect for law
and tbe rights of others, but to the recogni-
tion of tho fact that the end of British ~pa~
tience and forbearauce has been reached."
It is an open question whether the publi-
cation of the Behring sea correspondence
will tend to improve matters or not. Thai
tho situation is as grave as bad been feared
there is no longer any doubt. The dis-
patches exchanged by the two governments
since tbe transmittal of Great Britain's
ultimatum means little or nothing.
Though it Is to be regretted it Ib neverthe-
less true fhat the feeling hero is fairly rep-
resented by an editorial In tho Critic this
afternoon, which says that England has
shaken ber fist in the face of the United
States.
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A Perplexing' Question.
Miss Flutter (who has been admitted to
Mias Hititity's dressing room): Oh. Bess, I
haven't seen yqu for so long, and I got so
many things to talk about. News of your
engagement never reached me, do yon know,
till 1 get to Be.lin. and—oh, what a lovely
switch that is, Bess:—and—oh, by the iray,
when la it going t > come off?
Miss Hitititv (bewildered): What, the
wedding or the switch? [Burlington Free
Press.
OS THE BEACH.
Band in hand they walked alons
Beside the sunlit sea:
They beard the wavelet's sommer song—
A wondrous melody.
-Oh: bow I love ycu. lore." he said,
"How dear >oa are to mel"
The maiden drooped her pretty head,
tut not a word said she.
"Wilt thou be mine, my lore?" said he.
While grasping her soft haad:
"Ob! don't aaake love just now," said she,
"My shoes are foil of saad."
IBoatoa Courier.
here by members of the foreign affairs com-
mittees of both houses aud of both parties
tbat tbe note of Mr. Edwardes made It clear
that the non-interference of tbe United
Skates with British vessels peuding a set-
tlement of tho controversy was a condition
precedent to the resumption of negotia-
tions so far as the British goverumeut was
concerned.
mr. harrison interferes.
When some three weeks later Secretary
Blaine, in reply to Mr. Edwardes' note,
stated that "it was the judgment of the
president that the whole subject could more
wisely be remanded to the formal discus-
sion so near at band which her majesty's
government has proposed and to which the
government of the United States has cor-
dially assented," be virtually acquiesced in
Lord Salisbury's view that pending nego-
tiations neither side should resort to meas-
ures of force. In the same communication
Secretary Blaine added in explanation of
the fact tbat the instructions to United
States revenue cutters desired by tbe British
government hat! not been sent.
Any Instruction sent to Bnhring sea at
the time * * * would have failed to
reach those waters before the departure of
the vessels of the United States.
Whatever view the president may have
taken of the matter, it is known here that
Mr. Blaine strenuously opposed tbe reis-
suing of tbe proclamation of 1889. and
labored earnestly with the president to in-
dace him to reconsider his determination.
He failed, however, but at a later date,
with Great Britain's angry protests
clouding the horrizen, ba experienced
little difficulty in securing a modifi-
cation of the orders issued to the United
States revenue Cutters. Great Britain's
ultimatum can hardly have caused Mr.
Blaine any regrets. It was Issued in pro-
teat, against a course w hich be had wisely
counselled against, and it served to cbeck
tbe president and bring tbe United States
back once more upon diplomatic ground.
Mr. Blaine bandied tbe situation very
adroitly. He filed a perfunctory depreca-
tion or tbe coarse Lord Salisbury had
cbssen to pnrsue in authorizing the pro-
test, and then, after orally assuring Sir
Julian of the modification of tie instruc-
tions to the United States revenue cutters,
be set to work upon a review of the con-
tentions of tbe two government* which is
THE RIFLE SEIZURE.
IIuw Guatemala Forcibly Hoarded an Amer-
ican Steamer.
The contradictory statements from Guate-
mala and Salvador, a dispatch from the
City of Mexico says, Indicates that some
tail prevaricating is being done by one ot
the two countries. The opinion in Mexico
is that tbe alleged alliance of all tbe coun-
tries of Central America against Salvador
is for tbe purpose of crushing out of exist-
ence that small republic amler the plea that
anarchy prevails and that General Ezeta's
government is not desired by tha people of
Salvador.
Tbe seizure of rifles aboard the steamer
Colima by the Guatemalan government has
been a constant theme of conversation iu
Mexico. Many believe tbat owing to the
fact that the aeizure was made before hos-
tilities had occurred and before tbe Central
American compact was signed, tbe United
States will ask Guatemala for an explana-
tion of her conduct.
Later advices give the further details of
the seizure that the number of rifles seized
was 200, and tbat they had boen ordered
from San Francisco before any revolution-
ary movement had broken out in Salvador.
These arms were destined for the use of the
newly formed mounted police in Salvador.
It is further known that the captain of
the Colima strenuously objected to tbe
forcible and arbitrary methods of Guate-
mala in taking possession of arms consign-
ed to Salvador.
A launch containing a number of armed
men steamed up alougslde tbe Colima and
made a demand upon the captain for tbw
rifles, which he refused to give no. Tho
Colima was then boarded and tbe arms
seired and transferred to the launch, which
took tbem ashore.
A Difficult Artistic Feat.
"Didn't you tell me once, Mr. Skimgol-
let." asked that individual's wife, "tbat
you used to be something of an artist?"
"Yesh. ci'dear," replied Skimgullet,
thickly: "is there anything you'd like ahee
me draw?"'
"Yes: I'd like to see you draw a sober
breath.'' [Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Oratitude and Ktiquette.
"Mercy, but you've had a narrow escape.
If it baan't been for that man you would
have been drowned Did you tbsnk him?"
"Why. Ethel I Offonraenot. He was an
utter stranger to me. Do yon think I
would talk to a ttrargs man?" IMunsey'a
Weekly.
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