The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-03


in trust. He was released on $780,
900 bail
The loss of property on western
rivers during the past year is set
down at $5,339,00O. This included
ice and coal boat disasters on the
Ohio river, amounting to "a, 100000.
Number of lives lost during same
time 70, more than two-thirds by ex-
blossoms and burning of steamers.
The port Of Bangor, Maine, was
closed by ice on the 3Oth ult.
In anticipation of the passage of
the silver bill, bankers in our eastern
cities are refusing loans upon specific
contract to pay in gold. The feeling
in England on this question is very
intense, and American securities are
reported rapidly declining.
Some opponents of the silver meas
ure now assert that it will prove much
weaker in the House than it was be-
fore, and that there is even less prob
ability that the House could pass it
by two-thirds vote than the Senate.
Hence the evident fear of the veto,
the strenuous efforts to convince the
President that he don't mean to veto
it if he gets an opportunity and in
duce him to let it become law with
out his signature. If anything is
more certain than another it is that
Hayes won't sneak or shirk the re-
sponsibllity. He will either sign the
bill or veto it, and his past pledges
leave no doubt which he will choose.
Secretary Sherman finds that fund
ing the national debt in the face of
the silver swindle is difficult bust
ness. Evidences accumulate hourly
that capitalists are alarmed and that un-
limited reconciliation of the cheap
silver dollar will inevitably make
dear money for all those who have
occasion to borrow, and thus restrict
employment of labor.
Gen. Banning and Gen Bragg. of
the house committee on military af-
fairs, are at work on the army appro-
priation bill, and it will be ready for
presentation to the committee on APP
preparations at the reassembling of
congress.
Some of the Republicans who are
opposing the President, confess that
he appears unmoved and immovable in
the presence of the threatened storm
He continues aimable, ready to discuss
politics and purposes, but answering
in maintaining his convictions. In re-
ply to complaints of the southern policy
he claims that the peace and order of
the south are its results, and urges the
Importance of eXtinguishing sectional
differences and harmonizing the whole
country, He answers objections to his
civil service policy by reading the fifth
section of the Cincinnati platform.
His calmness irritates his assalants all
the more. lie appears satisfied with
his cabinet, and indicates no wavering
in the presence of the clamor against
them. He asks 10 personal favors of
congress, and so congress has not the
basis for any trade with him. If they
attempt resolutions of censure and de
mand IA change of the cabinet, he will
remind the senate that it approved the
cabinet when he sent in its members
names He is master of the party sit
uation, and insists that nothing is
wanting to complete harmony except
that Republicans shall be unanimous
in sustaining the platform and redeem
ing the pledges of the last national
campaign.
Packard will be nominated as Col
lector of Customs at New Orleans
soon after the reassembling of Con-
gress.
One hundred failures and assign
ments were reported in New York city
in December, with aggregate liabilities
of nearly SS,000,000.
The legislatures of New York and
Pennsylvania are in session.
The newly discovered coal oil well
in Wyoming, yields two barrels per
day.
New York City merchants propose
to do away with the system of com