Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31
The National Board Of Trade.

REPORTS IN FAVOR OF RECIPROCITY WITH
CANADA AND AGAINST THE BANKRUPT
LAW.
The committc, to whom the subject was
referred last year. reported at the meeting
of the National Board Of Trade in Mil
waukee, on Thursday, urging the enact
ment OF reciprocity treaty with Canada,
the report concluding with :he following
resolutions:
Resolrtd, That the President Of the United states
lie, and hereby is, respectfully requested To con
slider the eNpedency OF recommending 10 congress
in his first annual message To authorize AMI pro
vide by appropriate Legislation Tor the appOlnt-
ment ui a commission to cooperate on the part OF
the United States with n commission TO he appoint
ed by tho government of Great Britain IN the ne
collation. OF a treaty ui reciprocate trade between
the United States aud the Province OF Canada
Rsso.r'd. That, in the judgment oi the National
Board ui Trade. it is both unnecessary ami lmpoli-
tic cumplicate and emharrass til" pressing and I'M
portant issue of reciprocal trade between the nlted
States and the Dominion OF Canada with any con
-deratons specu lations hearing upon the poltl-
cal relations at the present time subsistlng or re-
moteiy possible between the two countries.
R,soh.d, That a committee o. nine, OF whom the
president Of the hoard OF trade shal he chairman.
be appointed to take charge OF this suhirct until
the next meeting OF the board and To adopt such
continued action in reference 10 1t as may seem eN
pedent.
Adam Brown, of the Dominion Board OF
Trade, and Mr. White, OF Montreal. address
cd the meeting in favor of reciprocity, and
the debate was participated in by Dorr, OF
Buffalo, Hayes, of Detroit, and Others
The resolutions were adopted with only SIX
votes in the negative.
ND .Iy ~, oil rasnlutInps n
favor of the repeal Of the bankrupt law.
Tue newly discovered satellites of Mars
are remarkable as the smallest heavenly
bodies known, and also Tor their short pc
RODS OF revolution. Professor NewcOmb.
of the Washington Observatory, says that
the diameter of the outer ono cannot much
exceed ten miles. and may be less. The dI-
ameter OF the inner satellite is probably
smaller than the other. The distance OF the
inner satellite from the planet is less than
4. 900 miles hich is less than one -sixtieth ot
| that OF the moon from ours. The outer satel-
| lite revolyes around Mars IN thirty hours
| and fourteen minutes, the inner one Is seven
| hours and thirty minutes. These
satellites have not been discovered before,
because Mars has not been so favorably sit
uated for observation since lSl5, when these
| great 26 inch telescopes were hardly known.
| A favorable period, but less 80 than the pres
ent, occurred in lS62, and another IN 1873.
but attention was probably not then spc-
cially directed to this planet. Mars is still
approaching the earth, and the satellites
will be visible for about two months yet 80
that ample opportunity will be given for
astronomers to learn all that can he known
Of them These new friends will not he
IN SIGHT again until 1879, and after that,
will be totally invisible for ten years, unless
more powerful telescopes than any now in
use can bo provided.