The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-04-17
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RELIEF AT LAST.
Judge Wilson, Of shallenberger 4 vii.
son, counsel for the hoop iron manufac-
turers, says to-day that he has positive as
surances from Secretary Sherman that he
will issue his hcca iron order tomorrow,
and that Collectors OF Customs will here
after collect specific duty Of one and half
cents per pound on cut hoops.
EXODUS INQUIRY.
Before the Exodus Investigating Com
mittee to-day, DR.. F. NJ. strangaeld, Of
Topeka, Ks, testified that the Kansas
Freedmen's Relief Association was man
aged and controlled from the very start by
Republican office holders and politicians,
and that Gov. St. John was the leading
spirit ofits inception. st. Johns interest
in 1t was owing to the fact that II the
white immigration to the State, which
was largely Republican, was not
checked or neutrallzed by negro emil
grants, his chances for reelection would
be very slight.
ALLEGED FRAUDULENT AWARDS.
The President transmitted to the Senate
the report Of the Secretary Of State in re-
sponse to the resolution calling for infor-
nation concerning the action Of the gov
eminent with respect to the investigation
OF fraudulent awards made to Benjamin
weiland, Of Louisiana, and the Alya
Mining Company, by the late United
States and Mexican Commission. Secre-
tary Evarts In his response says: Unless
Congress should not take action in the
matter and furnish definite instructions
to the Department to reserve further pay
ments on these awards, Il would appear to
be the duty Of the Executive to accept
these awards as no longer open to recon.
sideration, and proceed in the payment Of
the same pro rata with all other awards
under the Constitution.
THE lsraMus CANAL AND TIE MoSEoR
i- DOCTRINE.
Mr.. Cox reports from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs relative to the inter
oceanic canal and Monroe doctrine. He
quotes at length from the Presidents mes
sage on the subject Of March sth, 1880, aud
severely arraigns the policy Of Clayton in
seeking to induce Great Britain toabandon
her own unfounded claim upon the ter.
ritory Of an independent Spanish Ameri-
can State and inviting her to share with
the United States the duty and privilege
peculiarly our own, Of protecting an inter-
oceanic Communication Of infinite interest
and concern to this country, have blum
dered thus at the outset. The report
saws be went into the most complicated
and ill.arrauged series Of the Transactions,
tha final outcome OF which was treaty
with Great Britain April 10, 1850, known
as the Clayton.Bulwer treaty. The report
continues: "Fortunately for the country
the Clayton. .Bulwer treaty had scarce
" come into operation before It's tunda.
mental provisions were violated
by Great Britain by the firing
upon the American steamer Prometheus,
November q, 1850, while she was going
out ofthe port OF San Juan de Nicaragua,
by the English brig OF war Express. then
living in that port, to enforce British
dominion over that port OF Nicaragua.
Other similar iniringements followed, the
most conspicuous ot these being the de-
iiberate establishment by Great Britain
on me 18th Of July, 1859, OF new colony
in Central America, of the cost Of Hondu
raa nnder the name OF the colony OF the
IBay Islands" by andon accounted which
M Cass. in The Senate in July, 1858, de
clared the treaty to have been made VIZ
tuaIly nullifed by Great Britain"
The report then details the resolutions
and controversies between this govern
, lment and Great. Britain growing out Q
these occurrences and the tnetectna
efforts to negotiate a new treaty, coming
down to 1860, and continues:
+ The outbreak soon alter this ot our IN
, happy domestic troubles and agreat civi
!, war diverted public attention from Cen
tral American questions, and the ill-ad
/ yised Clayton .Bulwer treaty was gradu
/. alIy suffered on both sides 10 lapse into a.
oblivion, from which It has but recently
been evoked by persons disposed 10 eontro
D vert the policy and purposes ot the Unttet
a States with regard 10 any protectorat'
' Of life and property over any part Of th'
!. Central American States on the hthmus
The circumstances in which the treat.
Q was originally negotiated has been pro
. iandedly modified by the lapse Of thirt!
wears, aud it appears 70 your committee :
be entirely clear that II as an obst9cl
and possibly perilous way OF complel
Q and pacific assertion Of sound, neeessar
Q and vigorous American policy laid dow
q IN the Presidents message ot March stG
n lss0. This treaty should now be tinall
y and formally abrogated. II has bee
y shown 10 have led TO great misunderstant
70 invs and controversies with the powt
ia Win which we were unadyisedly LED
a make It. II has always been equally y
= \ operative either 70 guarantee the IND,
y y nendence OF the Central American stat
u ar 10 advance the general interests
commerce so long as Il has even q form
shadow al existence, and itcan,t but zen s1
to cloud and obscure the perfectly simpl
y. lust and equitable policy OF the pnlte
states in regard to the inter-ocean
40 Our Our committee, therefore, recommet
le- the passage Of the following joint rOsol
II H0ns