Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-06-13
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the Republican. aud ,ne Army BIZ

bune Washington special says:
There has been considerable quiet
discussion among Republicans of
the Senate in regard to time of
action upon the Army bill. A
proposition has been discussed to
try the Democrats with an amend
ment providing that "Nothing
herein contained shall be construed
to deny or limit the right of the
President, as now conferred by law,
to use the military force whenever
In his Judgment 1t is deemed neces-
sary for the enforcement of the
laws" Should such an amend
ment be proposed it will receive the
united support of the Republicans.
New York's MIN supply.
NEW YORK. June 12.-The PresI-
dent Of the Farmers Club, at its
last monthly meeting, declared the
milk supply of New York to be
about one-fourth water, and the re.
ceipts for the same aggregating
about $4. 600. 900 per year.
wessern Crop Prosp~cts.
NEW York. June 12th.--The Bull
letin expresses the utmost conf
dence in the reports concerning the
Western crops, frequently quoted
In these dispai ches, and says recent
Associated Press reports agree with
them. The yield of wheat iu South
ern Minnesota will be greatly af-
| fected by the dry weather Of April,
| souihsr0 Labor Praspecis-Bui Lit
sie Emigration.
NEW YORK, June 12.-Concern-
ing Southern labor prospects, the
Bulletin Is equally confident that
| the extent of the negro emigration
to Kansas from Mississippi and
Northern Louisiana has from the
beginning been greatly exaggerat-
| ed for various reasons not difficult
| to divine. We have conclusive
proof of this from q source the cor
rectness of which we are bound to
accept.
The New Orleans Cotton Er.
change, in its report of June 9th,
says: Seventy.seven correspond
ents report labor good aud efficient,
and thirteen report 1t unsettled.
But few hands have left Louisiana
for Kansas, and the exodus fever
seems to have subsided for thu pres
ent.
| From Mississippi we have re-
ports of q similar tenor. We may
add that, il Mississippi and LOUISE
ana exchanges are to be relied
upon, the movement is at an end,
and that many of the negroes who
went off on the impulse of the mo.
ment are anxious to be back on the
plantations.
What P~ris Correspondent
| ThIsks.
NEW YORK, June 12th.-The
Worlds Paris correspondent con.
tinues to ridicule the Paris Confer
ence on the Canal, saying: hope
you will make haste in the United
States and house all the ca pital you
can in your new four per cents. be.
fore that eminent financier, who
had taken your interests under his
charge in the new Inter. Oceanic
Canal Company (Nathan Apple
; tony, goes over to scoopyour hoard.
ings all up and pour them into the
new enterprise. told you that
Lesseps and his friends meant to
com NIT Congress to the plans of
Bonaperte Wyse, and that they
were cooperating to that end with
a very clever and certainly very
charming countrywoman of yours,
who, after electrifyipg New York,
delighting Imperial Paris and civ
llizing Mohammedan Tunis, now
makes train and fair weather" in
the set of the Prince of Wales 1T
London. The Princess calls her
Fanny" Everybody goes into
raptures when she sings; and the
Premier, who manages Euglish in
terests in the SueZ Canal, naturally
"pretty Fanny's ways" than the
royal tenants of Sandringham and
Marlborough House. II l am not in
error, 1t was to influences
excited on your side of the
water by this accomplished lady
that Bonaparte Wyse was mainly
indebted for the success of his
mission to Washington. What is
the situation now? Lesseps AMI
the people of the Suez Canal have
captured control OF the Isthmus of
Panama. Their command of capt.
tai is practically unlimited, but 1t
is not sure that they care about
that. They will send out Apple
ton, doubtless, to open list of SUBJ
! scriptions in New York, and when,
at the end of certain time, Apple.
ton reports that he can get no SUBJ
scriptions in New York, they will
call him very good boy and con.
sole him with an agency some-
where. Why should they want
American capital In the scheme?
American capital would mean
American interference in the man
agement Of the scheme. and that
they do not, by any means, want.
Already Lesseps has secured more
than half the amount which he
has said he will require, and with
that he can go comfortably about
with the great business of "How
not to open u canal which may in
terfere with the business and pro-
| fits Of the Suez Canal" In other
words, the Darien Canal has been
pre-empted by the Suez Canal. II
| will be cut or not cut, opened or not
opened, as may suit the interests of
the Suez Canal of England. Mean.
while, 1t is not likely that anybody
will 60 into competition with the
Lesseps Company, 1 presume, or
hurry up furiously a rival cut
through Nicaragua.
california Preighss.
NEW YORK, June 12th.-Califor-
mia freights via Cape Horn remain
very quiet indeed. The bottom ap.
pears to have fallen out of the
market. This, no doubt, is owing