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Show W TWELVE PAGES. OGDEN DAILY COMMERCIAL. VOLUME IV. NUMBER 92. HIS IMS 5 DEN, UTAH. SUNDAY MORXIXCi, JANUAKV 18, 1891. JUue. WIIKK DONE Jm. Waim. & went o ef 17. MM Ml The BERLIN'. Iii.trtrtufCoiuu.ua a Heath of (Jeorge Raueroft. the Eminent Historian. THE SUDDEN END A SHtM'k. he Klw!:iu ii Aside After a Thirty Work of i Laid Hoar Dr. Koch 17. in fr k Washington Jan. 17 The republican senators are making an effort to ha a cauc is Monday night to determine fur the or.lar of procedure. The purr of the caucus will be to make another effort to reconcile tlie republican teua tors who have Uvea in opposition to the election bill, and eve jU have ao shaped themselves during the last few hours as to warrant the li'pc that success would attend the efforts. Sidney Dillon, president of the I'cion Pacitic railroad company, made a state raeut to th senate couimittee on Fa- cilic road Uxiay m support or a plan lor the settlement of the debt of that company o the government proposed at a late meeting by Mr. Wilwin. SILTU POOL rtACOS. The Expose of the (ilobe Democrat Bcinj Investigated. Jan. 17. The house I iver pool investigation committee began ;uiry this morning. W. K. Stevens, the principal Washington correspondent tilobe Democrat, which p.'iri'T first printed the charges of congressional silver, was the first witness. Wi uess hail an interview with J. A. Onion by, in which tho statements given in the imper were made. He could not locate Owen by exactly, but he was managing the Silver Keef mine in Utah. Witness thought he could be reached without difficulty. Witness had no personal knowledge of any senator or repr. in sentative being engaged the silver pool and never heard any member say anything with regard to his own connection with silver. Owen by mentioned some name which the witness left out in his writing. His personal knowledge as to the conduct of senators and representatives went only to the extent of the interview. Stevens had had conversation with Col. Joseph L. Rickey, of Fulton, Mo. Rickey said he bought silver while legislation was pending of tho St. Louis : Senator Hearst Better. AND HAVE MADE SOME MONEY, Washington, Jan. 17. - Senator Hearst But not nearly so much as reported. is feeling better this evening. Witness could not say whether or not Rickey stated that he had bought silver Senate. Washington, Jan. 17. Little was done in the continuous session of the senate for the first few hours this morning. Vest demanded a yea and nay vote on Faulkner's amendment, which eliminates from the bill such features as color ju- lioial functions upon canvassing boards. matter went over for the present. est argued in ravor or the proposed amendment providing that the circuit court shall appoint two super visors of elections, for each judicial district in the circuit and not of the same political party. He said the democrats would exhaust every parliamentary method to defeat the bill. - The question recurring on Vest's amendment, Hoar moved to table it. Agreed to, yeas, 32; nays 35, On motion of Faulkner, an amendment was adopted seriking out the clause giving the supervisors of elections power to transfer any supervisor from service in one part of a congressional district to another part of the same district. Woloott moved to amend the bill by providing that any person falsely claiming to be a citizen of the United States or to be a resident or qualified voter, in any application shall BY CONFINEMENT ... Agreed , to.. . . ., tnovea to tame vests amendment. Agreed to; yeas 33; nays 25. Reagan offered as an amendment, to come in at the end of secton throw, a prisonment. mi ido cnair provision that the chief superviser shall keep petitions and names appended to them open for inspection and examination by citizens at all reasonable hours. Hoar moved that the resolution be laid on the table. A vote was taken and the result being a tie, yeas 30, nays 30. the voted aye, and Rsagans resolution was laid on the table. The republicans voting nay were Quay, Stewart, Toller and Wolcott. Tha" following paired : Chandler and B'odgett, Pettigrew and Call, Dolph and Colquitt. Blair and George, Pierce and Gib3on, Plumb and Vest.. Vest move! to add to seition 2 the words, "and shall be sworn to same." Hoar agreed that Vance's amondaent should be agreed to. Voorhees gave notice of an amendment providing that the application uud names signed thereto shall be published in at least TWO NEWSPAPERS OP OPPOSITE POLITICS, in connection with others or as private speculation. Rowell asked if Rickey was a lobbyist. Stevens He seems ti have a great deal of business about the capitol. I do not know exactly what it is. He is a banker. The names of David T. Littler and Tanner of Illinois, were brought out as having on hearsay testimony some connection with silver speculation. The witness had conversation with Senator Stewart, which, in witness' opinion, was confirmatory of some of the statements made to him. Senator Stewart said he was not personally connected with silver speculation, but, witness added, "I understock him to have personal knowledge of other people being connected with it." Owenby said in tho pending silver legislation agents of New York bankers and brokers and silver dealers were in the habit of coming to Washington and having conferences and directing the plans of the lobby. Owenby had given witness a numbor of names of persons, who. he said, had -- BEEN ASSISTING LEOISI.ATION. Witness could not recall nil, but would produce them if he could lind them. Among the names ment ioned were F. O. Newlauds. who bought Cleveland' oouatry place, and H. B. Parsons, of New York, cashier o Well6 Fargo & Co. The investigation was then directed with conversations toward tho InfNamo3 wsre omitted. Rickey. erence wai made by Rickey to the resolution introduced by a representative asking what he was after and adding that Smith, journal clerk of the house, said to him "Rickey, your friend (mentioning a Senator) is goin;r to got into trouble in connection with the silver pool." Rickey went on to say why he knew his friend was not in it. Owenby had complained to tho witness that those with whom ho was associated in Witness speculation had robbsd him. would not liko to give names. He understood from Owenby that thoro wns n number of different groups interested In silver speculation. Each comprised eight or ten men and worked together for tho purpose of electing the most favorable legislation posssble. The question of requiring witness to give namos wont over for tho present. George Apperson, tho other correstesti pondent of the fied much to the same effect, Owenby had told him there was a silver pool and witness understood it to bo still in existence. Adjourned. Globe-Domocra- t, the congressional district, every day for one week preceding the election. tdjoarned in Disgusd. Hoar moved that the first of the comOhicaoo, Jan. 17. The traffic manamittee amendments, to strike out of section 23 the words, "returning of house gers of the western roads, after another canvass." Agreed to. all day session, found themselves unable Morgan offered a resolution, whioh to satisfactorily adjust the territorial diwas agreed to, calling on the secretary visions of the westsrn traffic association. of the treasury for copies of the accounts The whole matter was referred to tho of John I. Davenport and tha circuit commissioner.! of tho association for adcourt commissioner from 1$3G to 1890. justment, and the traffic managers adAldrich gave notice that on Tn esday journed in disgust. Not a few of them next h? would ask the senate to procoed were frank enough to express the to the consideration of a resolution to opinion that the presidents and financial change the rules of tho senate. OLher bieker3 of the roads had visionary ideas amendments were offered by Hoar which which oould not b carried out. were agreed to without opposition, in in eluding one increasing from three to four SOI Will Accept. the number of supervisors of elections The bill was the:, laid Troy, Jan. 17. Chairman Murphy, of in a district. aside informally, and the senate, at 6 tli3 democratic state committee, said, o'clock, adjourned till Monday at 11 a. toniirht, that Uoy. Hill will be nominated of thirty for United States senator Monday and in., after a continuous will accept. hours. sea-jio- for th dsfnn of Orders hate be given to prepare torpedo boat for service, Th government of Chili ha issued adeer M"hingwnnrettu YalparaiMA Terrific of offering a reward of two years pav and amnesty to those who have been unwillingly led ua to revolt who will submit to the government. It w announced that Piagua and A let If a a and nuilnMl Aries will be blockaded on and after January U5th. It is reported that provision are becoming very scare in Iquique. im Wwuv The com ru unity grant ry shocked this evening by the uew that George Bancroft, the vener able historian, was dead. He had been in apparently better health this year, sine- - bis return from Xewport, t'r.i several season pact, so death was sud deu and unexpected to all save I few intimate frienda ho kno- - of the Hill that carried him 1T. Death occurred at :t:40oVlK-- this tif ternooa. The end was quiet and peacefi:! and came after a period of unuonscioueneaa lasting about 24 hour. Since his illnees two years ago he haw never bean as strong as before, but as mentioned above he has been feeling extremely well since Last vveei: to the city. he caught Mid, this, he continue ! to seek outdoor exercise every day unl.I Thartilaf when he took to bed as a matter of precaution. His whole illness was less than three days. He failed rapidly yesterday ar.d became unjonsrious in the afternoon in which state ho remained until his end. His son, John C. Bancroft, who with his wife, kept house for the historian, wan v.; th hitn in his lust moments. It decided this evening to hold the funeral services next Tuesday morning in St. Johns Epieeopal church. The interment will take place at Worcester, Mass. where Bancroft's wife is buried. Mr. Bancroft regarded his life work as tinished two years ago and of late has itone no literary work. During the last decade he revised his great work, the history of the United States: going over it in a severely critical style and eliminating the flowers of rhetoric in his earlier work. His last production as history was the formation of the constitution. He undertook to write u history of President Polk's administration, in whoso cabinet he served as secretary of the navy, but was compelled to abandon it. BEPUNISKED are tripled, and th fvd Am arwae artist m earning 1.000 a a ght in Me nf.tn Received eery rf ihe Kuasun. The Lm i not more than two years or by tine not more than 81.000, or both tine and im- trud to Admiral Viel and main loval to the I'.MITV. CRIME AMI - (hi lpbeav.l up a cumber of clipping frutu Ohm Hissatisfactioi. With in reporting outrage upon rago Han Hole. k Earap. gross in Ohio. Grosveeor said the out!" fan rage o, urrd in strongly democratic a K.r-- i distri ts. The debate oontin jed at utie LVMI'H IN DOUBT. VIRTUE and the prevail eathr through A MOTHER'S AWFUL HEED. length wu i jading disposition u! th ctMMiy eusi la Malaga dm-- a bill, the (.a.miltee rose and the house d jackal are nhtnaw Ah Einort Boantj on ngnr Toted ay adjourned. ith nocks and appearing in such num- Death by Starvation The Horrible ber that they are terrify ing the pa the Rrirbstag Gossip Hi the Xeies. D;rusiou. .Jan. statement ' PRICE, FIVE CENTS. ant. NJX Jan. maMaoad dermaa Capital. BkBux. Jan. 17 anov atom which yesterday lusted all night. HCopynghlad by the York There is a distinct New 17. A entirely 1SW1 - d ij Drowned while Coasting. Jan. 17. While a party of nine young people were coasting at Jan. 17. With a crash heard Appleton this evening, a sled mo into tor a mile, and tiie smashing of plat the river undJay Driggs, Emma Asid snd May Cary were drowned. They ar glass windows for a radius of three children of prominent rsmdenU and blocks a sewer manhole blew up this g axciteme.it prevail. evening at the intersection of v street and Wuaii hveuue, when Ready to Step In. thoroughfares were most crowded with QaUNHUt Kdceas, Jan.17. - In expecshoppers and wirk people. Dozen of tation of the paesage of Mansur's I g persona wore thrown to the ground by open up the Cherokee atrip, an effort ia the terrific force of the exploskm and a being madetocoooentiatetheOVonnor-Dili wild panic ensued. colony, numhoiing about t! re Several passers by were injurtxl by the fallim: glass. One tbouwmd persons, at this point for imwoman, Mrs. C. IL Boss, (colored) was mediate invasion of the strip. lulled outright. She v;.s nearly over the mail hole THK CHIEF? I'LKINiF.. WHEN THK COVn HLEW I P, ber Hat T1k Solemnly Declare They Ai backwards In Slamming against the curbing, smashing her Favor of Peace. skull and her brains scattering Pise Ridoe Aoencv. Jan. 17 t about the stone. F. II. Mack, receivod a serious scalp wound from noon today General Mile' sent a ines-- ; having the stone shot upwards, and had sage to the liostde fur a a painful gash in the wrist from a flying conference with thecamp asking chiefs, principal window-glassC. M. Stout, T. Sieceof T. There was an immediate response. The Karpl. rs and & W. Waddell were also injured, but not dangerously. council lasted half an hour. The chiefs The oflioe of the Singer sewing ma- were Brides, and when the of re- subject chine vero badly damaged. turning to Rosebud was broached, thev Out of sixty windows in the premises, said they wore in favor of returning if a not one escaped. At the Wellington military man should be placed over them hotel and the ( 'bickering piano building as agent and hope that Captain Lee, of eighty windows ere broken. It is sup the Ninth infantry will be appointed, as posed that illuminating gas leaked into Captain Pierce was here. a manhole and was ignited in some man After a little moro parleying. Big ner by the electric light wire. Road stood up and solemnly and dra matically proclaimed himself as in favor A Mother's Awful Deed. of peaoe. At the same time he asked St. Louis, Jan. 17. -- Mrs. Mollie Barry those who wished to join him in restorpeace, and working for the prosperoid daughter, ing of gave her eight-year- s their people, to raise their right ity Mflrhie. a dose of poison this afternoon hand toward heaven. Immediately and took a large quantity herself. The every right hand in the gathering was mother died tonight and the child can raised and with a general baking of not live. hands the conference came to a close. There are no lights in the hostile STARVING TO DKATH. camp tonight. Everything is quiet, and the Indians seem to bo in favor of reThe Fate Awaiting the Inhabitants deeming the pledges they gave to General Miles. of au Algerian Town. Jan. 17. A special to Auheks. Jan. 17. Unless a miracle theMinneapoljs, Tribune from Craig. Mont, says: happensor the weather changes radically Three Hundred Creek Indians are enmp-e- d in the neighborhood of Bog and Rock within a very short time, the inhabitants ninAaarlxytn. About twentv- of Sebron. a small town in Tlemgen, will creeKs five are hel ave bought all the stnrve to death. ammunition !e here. NoIxkIv About a week ago the information knows whel me from and the I came that thip inhabitants of Sobron people are were snowed 'up beyond dei'tb. slowly starving-,!'- , and camel "B oCml! feftfcd for CincinnaI A quantity d provisions nmler the escort of a dochment of troops from dergast, a health otlcer of this! the garrison of Hemgen started to the influenced the authorities to refuse a relief. Unhappily tho convoy, a day or license to i lecturer on hypnotism, and so later, his entertdnments have been stopped. WAS SNOWED OP Prendergast takes the ground hat hypIn the Talterney pass and it was some notism, when applied promiscuously, iR time bofore the authorities at Tlemgen injurious, as it affects the mental health became nware of the danger of the subjects. Upon his recommendato which the convoy was exposed tion, the council passed an ordinance to An additional force of troops was sent make it a misdemeanor to give hypaotio out and January 15, it was announced exhibitions. that tho convoy had been extricated from Gone to Spokane. their perilous position. Today, however, word was received here that the attempt Evankton, Wyo., Jan 17. -- Specir.l to to provision Sebron had failed. The The girl who worked district is hopelessly snowed up and the TheCommerciau) troops are continuing their efforts to Evanston last week, an account of which open up a Hue of communication. Grave appeared in yesterday's Com.mek ial. und apprehensions is felt as to the eventful who went from here to Ogden, is supfato of the inhabitants of the snowed up to be headed for Spokane Fal'F, as town. Tho troops posedcalled to see the Catholic priest here acustomed to the burning heat of the she American summer and utterly unaccus- and secured the address of the local tomed to such severely cold winters as priest at Spokane. the one they are now experiencing, are The Westinarhonse Trustees. themselves suffering terribly from the cold. Pittsburg, Jan. 17. At a meeting of tho Weetinghouse Electric company this Bejofciaff in Boise. afternoon tho committee reported that Boisr. Crrv, Idaho, Jan. 17. Special they found 8175,000 due Pittsburg credito The Commercial.) The Boise City tors and S100.000 to outside creditors. Banister told the com- Rapid Transit company today awarded mittee that the was doing well the Edison General Electric coa.omy and would sooncompany Ibodii better paying tho contract to fnrnish the entire plant basis. A proposition was offered' the for two and a half miles of electric road creditors in tho shape of preferred stock to cover a certain percentage of indebtd-nesin this city, to be completed by June Some accepted it, others want to first. Property has been doubled today consult lawyers. Tt is believed the comin the East End addition as a result of pany will pull through. the fact. Sidney Dillon, president of the Trouble Near Home. Union Pacific railway, is expected in Minneapolis, Jan. 17. -- A special to Boise at an early day to advance tho inthe Tribune from Helena, Mont, says terest of his company in Boi.se. tho big mining reduction company are in financial trouble. It has not paid its News from Samoa. men for the past two months. Yestermen quit, and today Ai'iA. Samoa, via San Francisco, Jan. day, twenty-ninclaims to their assigned IT. The long expected chief jt.stico of who employed an attorney to take legal SamoO) Mr. Cedarrontz, arrived on the nction. steamship Alameda, Dec. 30, much to the satisfaction of the foreign resiDividing the Receipts. dents, who hope that the establishment New York, Jun. 17. - The American of tho supreme court provided for in the decided the question treaty will inaugurate an era of stable association today government. One of the crew of the of division of receipts among the clubs United States steamer Iroquois is under on a 50 per cent basis, leaving out the arrest on suspicion of having murdered graud stand receipts. On Decoration Seaman Paw-ellcoxswain of the captain's Day, tho Fourth of July, and Labor gig. The men played cards ashore one Day, the total receipts will 0 divided night and Barron returned alone in the among tho eight clubs. morning. Two days latter tho mutilated body of Powell was found in the bay. After the Teacher. KiNfiFjsitEi:. Jan. 17. A week ag The Chilian Tronhh Friday, the principal of tho Kiowa InLima, Jan. 18. Papers from Inuique dian school at Abadorkn punished a wero received here announcing that the Kiowa pupil for misconduct. The boy Chilian army remains loyal to the govern- ran away, taking two others with him. ment. Several prominent members of A heavy snow sform prevailed at tho congress nre said to be w ith the revolu- time, and three of the b;ys lest their tionists. Jorge Mott has beeu appointed way und wero frozen to death. The commander-in-chie- f of the forces, and principal has tied and 500 angry Indians the commander of tho old iron clad are searching for him and threatening HnmoST has been replaced by the former to burn tho school. Troops hare been commander of the cruiser Emeralda. called for. OwtOhH, Wia.. Cnit-Auo- The Death Boll. the defei m rhamciar of Koch's stateLo .W.eijx, Oal, Jan. 17. A. P. ment regarding th oucnpokitMO of bis Lbs, th well known type fonnder of ymph. etpecialij a to t!..-- Studied feti- CMaago,did l.eretodi.y of Bright di cecc coacerning some parts of th process of the production. The discoaaioa Died Among Stranger. proceed with renewed activity as to the PjWlWs. Ohio, Jan. 17. Ex Minister value of the diceowy. The weight of C. San too. for seven yeess minister U the German. A ustrian and English toed-:- France from Lisbon, Portugal, died suddenly here today. He was was on t!.,( ii.,. hrihf hi Un- hi MM west where he intended to in Pew rs vestway healing virtues of the lymph. Dr. in mines, and toppod her. reports that in tweuty-oopnet mortem I examinations he found that lvniph. in WORLD'S FAIR MATTERS. stead of being beneficial had led to an extensive increase of tuberculous deThe "ongreioual Committee Make posits. Th evidence from every quarits Report. ter, however, when compared, demon-frates that though the remedy has WaaiiixiiTON. Jan. 17. Representative failed in many ruses it has been undoubtedly effective in ameliorating tha Chandler of Massachusetts, chairman of effect in early phthisic, tubercles of the the select committee on the World's fair, larynx and lupus. The loading Russian today to the house the report doctors have evperimented with lvmph of thepresented that went In in leprosy anu repop characteristic reChicago to examine into the condition action. The committee of the reichstag on the of matters there in relation to the sugar bill, afur rejecting the proposal to World's fair. raise the consumption tax to sixteen Th report says in the expenditure of marks per hundred kilograms, instead of twenty, as proper nt the govern- public money the powers assumed by ment, today voted on an open export th World's Columbian commission probounty of one mark fifty pfennigs for an duced confusion as well as caused an ununlimited time. The government has declared it will not accept the changes. necessary expenditure of public money Yesterday's majority against the aboli which has been intended by congress to tion of grain duties does not alter the pay the expenses of a government exgovernment's resolution to modify the hibit and not to pay excessive salaries to extreme protection policv which it baa officers of the commission. The proChancellor Von vision, the report says, has been made to hitherto followed. Capri has the assurance of the center Say the president, secretary and anminl uilariee general party that although continuing conserv utive as regards the abolition of duties, of 115,000, elO.OUO and UVWO also and to 4,000 they will support the treaty with Austria reducing the tejiff on corn to three the vioe chairman of the executive Those salaries, in the opinion marks, fifty pfennig. of the committee, are excessive and Germany's stand oh coin. The official dinner given by Herr should not be continued. An excessive has also been in the appointMiguel, minister of finance, was rendered expense ment of the largo number of 115 women free utterances notable by the of the on t he board of lady managers, and the Geremperor concerning of the board when the many, he said, could not accept the callinf together double standard currency. The question dutiea which will develop upon it were has beetiiennitely act tie. in favor of the not ready for its attention. THE Dl'AX. MAXA;r..ttKNT. Told standard. The trading nations of the world, he declared, would ere long Thcrenort suvs: "Your eommirtnn nre agree upon the universal adoption of of a decided opinion that the fair can U be conducted to a successful gold. The cc' imittoe of Deutscher Verein ittoi. leader 'ie dual nianagt :nent KisennuiUnieiito vloch refcentiy iwpi operation fn consequem'e. tended the engineer's conference in Wet ion placet; uiiou the law Am erica, wailed upon American Minister bv ; ;.m rltl's Columbian commission. Phelps today and said, desirous to give The M fission has exceeded its powers some tangiblo sign of their gratitude for ointment oc omcers and corn- the pleasant time they had in the United ew conduct the manni'ement of States, thev wished the. minister to pre- the fadVi its executive details which, in sent for them three silver goblets to our infl'pretation of tho law, belongs Messrs. KirciiofT, Raymond and Shimm, solelv to the World's Columbian exposi upon whom chiefly developed the hospi- tion and its officers." The commission whs given quasi veto tality accorded the German delegates. Phelps expressed thanks on behalf of the power, und not that of taking charge of American institute and afterwards gave the execution of plans for the fair. a dinner to the committee. The goblets From the fact thfit the commission is arc of curious design, shaped like Besse- honorary and without salary the con- mer distributors. elusion is reusonaole that their duties An American named Noctor. hailing were not intended to bo exacting or confrom St. Louis, has been urrested in tinuous, so they would seriously interMunich charged under the name of fere with their private business The Drew: with swindling a Vienna bank out duties of the commission may be classed of nearly five thousand florins with a as affirmative, negative, national and Inforged bill of exchange. ternational, preliminary and continuous. Dr. Windtborst today celebrated his The report says the progress in the preTho Catholics paration of the government exhibit is as eightieth birthday. poured addresses upon him and a n tim- gnat as could be expected, and the ber of dinners were given in his honor. work of f he government board of control The severity of the winter and'wtdo-nesf- l has taken tangible and satisfactory of area affected is greater than ever shape. Mention is made of the allotbefore known. The railroad traffics is ments of tho government appropriation, Over a thousand and tho committor believes the exhibit gre.:t!y employes are clearing tiie streets of of the go eminent an prepared by the The tramway compimies in board, will not suffer by comparison Berlin, Vienna have four thousand men nt with that of any other nation, The Austrian railways are work. r.EDCcnoN of ufUHH blocked: large stores of provisions are In order to carry out tho instructions snowbound and prices of food have advanced. Several German ports have of the report to place the whole enter prise on a more solid footing and carry again been closed by ice. out the evident intention of congress the committee submits a joint resolution AFFAIRS IN FRANCE. directing the secretary of the treasury not to approve the payment of any exOur Weekly Letter From the French pense attendant upon the meeting of the national commission or board of lady Capital. managers, except such meetings as may Paris, Jan. 17, American pork has be called at the time of the dedication been the subject of much discussion in and opening of the fair, nor approve air. upon the meeting of the' .riff umnr.ttee. It seems generally payment attendant commission or understood that the committee will rec- tho executive committee lady managers except such meetings as ommend an abrogation decree prohibit- may be held, not of tener than once in ing the importation of American pork six month, providing for the reduction If this is adopted, American p ?rk will be of the salary of tho president of the na, to n it exceed 155,000, placed on tho 3anie footing a3 the pro- tional commis-siouof the executive commitduct of other countries. Monchicourt, liquidator of thoPanama tee 14,009, find secretary 83,000; president Canal company, in an interview in regard of the board of lady managers uot to exto the proposal that the United States ceed $5,000, secretary K,0C. government guarantee the interest on the Also, that the secretary of the treasury Nicaraugua Canal company's bonds, said shall not approve the payment of any that the Panama canal would be finished exinmses of the national commission or before the Nicaraugua canal wai com- lady managers other than those above pleted. He added: "I once hoped that mentioned, which shall amount to more the United States government would than $10,000 per annum in aggregate. aseist in the work of completing the The resolution appropriates $300,000 for Panama canal, but, am sorry to say, tho fiscal year ending June ,'W, 1892, for without effect. There is no possible the selection, preparation, arrangement, doubt that the government of the United etc., employment of proper persons, etc.. States and the of for the various governments. The COM government France ought promptly to assume mittee renews the opinion that the di Pun.-inf- t of tho canal rector general and his employes should charge and make tho necessary arrangements to lie paid from the exposition funds and complete the work. I am certain if the not from the government appropriation. French government felt it would not Tho report says it is not the intention suffer a humiliating rebuff from the gov- to recommend an increase in the amount ernment of the United States, the for- of coney pledget! by the government mer government would bo only too wil- for a government exhibit, but it does ling to make propositions to t ho United feel that later proportion than was origStates which might lead to a natural inally contemplated should be made and satisfactory understanding by which available immediately. The time of the Panama canal could bo completed. preparation is limited and funds needed Advices from St. Petersburg state that at once. I Fate Awaiting the Inhabitant' of an Airmen Town. - e t i I com-mitt- o . j 1 French-America- n s. e fellow-workme- , n |