The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-04-30

fFrom u Regular Correspondents
WAsuISeros. April %. 1879

part un Monday ; ana i'm The intro
duction e an avalanche Of bills In
the House. Reversing their tactics
Of a week ago the Republicans made
ne opposition TO the introduction VI
bills aud nearly all the old bills Of
the previous session have been pre-
scented As many as fifty different
financial schemes are offered. II on
ly len per cent. Of the bills introduced
should be considered they will fur
1isb work for two sessions Of Con.
gress. Most Of those offered by Re-
pubIieans were for pensions. Very
few in the nature Of var claims were
offered aud from the rough treatment
that bills OF this character have re-
Gently received it is thought they
will all socn became extinct. MIR.
Joyce, of Vermont, offered q bill
looking 10 Ill additional amendment
to the Constitution forever prohibit
ing the payment to d~isloysl persons
of any money for property destroyed
III u ate WIT.
Representative De La Mstyr filed
ia the House d petnIon emoDdying a
bill u Issue ten huadred millions "a
French h%iiIiou) { gr-ennncks. and 10
authoiize tie oecie sry # tbe Treas
ur, 60 Ian 80 the James X yer ssid
ksos Nha Canal Company $50 000.
900; Alan he saa GreIt WIS era Ca
~ $50 000, ono, Fioslds c AS Canal
sl2 600 900; Fno s. Posip CsDsI
SiO 900 600; II ok l-is"d eod Hen-
nepHa c. n Sl3. 900 600, D veg c.
oai SIS 900 600, Lsxnssos and b.
Ssudy k.iicaad So 300 900 ; Niagara
Ship Caoai Sl4 900, 900 aud Tor a
eailr9ad o Connect Tue MisslRslppi
Nita t5e Pacific c9a- an amount got
YET detsrniued the losns are "a be
made on boads OF The several ON
paaies, payable Ia 6fty years, with
out in crest for five years, and ~ the
rate Of three per cent. per acnum
after wards
There is just now much political
presidential talk aud representation
az this seethiug centre. which, ia
beas, would give The impression that
the nomination Of Gen Grant rs the
Republican candidate was y foregone
CONCLUSION Secretary Sherman is
talked IT and written about, but his
following is without enthusiasm or
conference. Gen Grant is making a
summer line towards the Golden
Gate. The Department of State has
late intelligence from him in Siam
Mr. Sickles, L. s Consul at Baog-
kok, sends a dispatch describing the
gorgeous oriental style in which the
letter from the supreme King of Siam
TO the ex-President was presented.
IL contained an invitation from His
Majesty % Gen. Grant to visit the
Kingdom 90 q guest of the govern
ment The letter vas eneased in
Royal purple satin. The Consul fur
tber announces that The project of
sending an embassy from Siam to
the United States has been Gually
agreed upon. This will make the
number Of oriental legations at
Washington three. The Chinese,
Japanese, and Siamese. The Tur-
kish legation has been. or will soon
be, DISCONTINUED Why these coun-
tries should SEM legations to Wash
ingtoa. OF Why We should send lega-
tious to these or any other countries
cannot be explained from a practical
or economical standpoint Our re-
l%ations with foreign countries are
commercial, and notdipiomsuc We
need AZ s few fereigh capitals sad
large cities able eonDerclai agents,
but foreign embassys are d useless
End semi barbaric ~appendsge Our
Munster 70 Turkey, Is now 10 Ten
nessee; our Russisn Minister 10 ia
Italy and all Of U foreign repre-.
sentstion, as far 90 their utility is
concerned, might as we'll be u home
with their sisteFs, aad cousins, aunts,
and motbers-in-law General ipte!ll-
gence, the press aud the cable. have
taken the management OF iuterna
tional STAIRS out oil the bands Of a
few accomplished individuals, aud
modern diplomacy CONSISTS solely in
socisl civiilties and etiqqette 10 vbiSb
our provincial, rparc5mpIisbed, self
made representatives make . depio-
rable buugilng display. European
countries, as a rule, send TO Washing
toa their least attractive and leas,
accomplishing dipIoGstists They
know that they viii have no,nisg 10
%, spa TO be assigned TO the Z :
legation 10 regsrdef BY The average
European gentlemen as . kind oil
bslishment from toe centre OF civil.
zstion to the frontier of 6arbarism.
They make little DISTINCTION oct tween
the United States, soutb AWeries,
and Mexico. AID would rsiher have
"a year 10 Europe than a cycle in
Cathay.p Of course the average
European view Of the United States
is not the correct oas, end tbey are
gradually learning something ABOUT
us on the Other side Of the wafer, but
their education would be m4eh faaiIi- |
tated if instead of the useless enbas-
w stoa;G have only able com
merciai agents or e5nsnis:
MIR, Wilson, The United STATE. { nj
sui at Brussels, 10 a dispatch to lbel
Department Of State, reports the
meeting Of the Belgian society of
Political Eeon9mists, at which
the commercial policy oil the Dni.
ted States was freely discussed.
More or less des;fe was manifest
ed to return in Europe 10 the pro-
t%ective policy. The significant prob
lem that formed the staple Of discus
1io2 was how to overcome the almost
boundless rescsrsos, agricultural and
mineral, of the United States. It Is
pct deemed practicable to ais a high
iarir Oh American products. The
.arge increase of exports frsm tive
United States can hardly be checked
any restrictive measures. A re-
of wages seems TO be the last
.esorf.
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