Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-17
CAPITAL NOTES.
HEsING's FAVORABLE CHANCES.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. I

VASdlNGION, O0pG. lO.-S6cr6Cdry Fol
ger sets apart Saturday for consideration
of cases which require continuous atten-
tIon, and is not that day accessible to Wis
itors. Yesterday he took up the PROPOSE
ton to compromise the Hesing (Chicago)
| Judgment. 1t is not known what conclu-
| sion he has reached, if any, but it is the
impression of those who have given the
subject most attention that he will decide
to accept the compromise. He said to a
gentleman within two days that the only
embarrassment he has in the case is the
proposition of Michaeps and it was on ac-
count of this that in answer to the argu-
ment of Mr.. Reed the other day Secretary
| Folger, possibly in jest, suggested it might
be advisable for him to put up the judg-
ment of the government against Hesing
for sale at the north door of the court
house. Secretary Folger has found three
precedents in favor of selling the judg-
ment, but it is denied that these prece-
dents were themselves in accordance with
the law. 1t is known, moreover, that the
president has expressed himself emphat-
ment, and has stated with reference to the
Hesing case that it would be undignifed
for the government to sell the Judgment.
As that seems to be the only point in the
case, and as the administration is opposed
to selling the Judgment, the conclusion is
that the compromise will be accepted.
GOVERNMENT ADvERTIs EMENT.
The public printer has just issued vol
ume % of the revised statutes at large,
boundin sheep and uniform with the other
volumes of the series. The publication is
in accordance with an act of con ,ress and
under direction of the secretary of state
Volume % contains the acts just passed
at the first and second sessions of the
Forty-seventh congress, and the recent
treaties, postal conventions and executive
proclamations. 1t is kept for sale at the
department. of state as directed by con-
gresa. Price $3.50.
GREELY ABANDONED.
Especial Dispatch to the Globel
Dispatches were received to-day at the
tain Wilde Of the Yantic and Lieutenant
Darlington of the Greedy relief expedition
respecting the advisability of sending an
other expedition to the relief of Greedy
and his party this season. Captain Wilde
says to send another expedition now
would simply be to invite fresh disaster.
Lieutenant Darlington thinks the result
of another expedition extremely problem
atical, with bare chance of success,
but offers to assist IN the effort if made at
once. With these dispatches before them
Secretary Lincoln and Acting Secretary
of the Navy English this afternoon con-
cluded it would be impossible to reach
Greeley this season and therefore useless
to make the attempt. This decision
leaves Greely and his comrades to their
fate until late next summer SO far as gov
ernmental assistance is concerned.
Ito the ( sociated Press
DR.. Emil Bessel, Of this city, who was
chief of the scientific staff of the Arctic
exploring steamer Polar1s in 1918, and
who has also had extended Arctic expert
ence on the coast of east Greenland and
Navaja Zsmbla, was asked by represent
what he thought means from Smiths
Sound, and the chances of escape of Lieut.
Greedy. He replied: 81 was afraid there
might be difficulty in communicating
with Greely at Franklin Bay station, and
in bringing the party from there at the
conclusion of its work. 1t isn't very often
that a vessel can sail upon Smiths
Sound and Kennedy's Channel
as the Polaris did with
Greely's party on board in 'S1. I have a
letter from Commander Marks, of the
| British Arctic exhibition of rs, written a
year and a half ago or more, in which he too
! expresses fears that the United States gov
ernment will have trouble IN relieving and
bringing home this party. 1t has been
suggested that the party might still reach
the Danish settlement of Upernavik this
| fall, and sledge party might be dis
| patched northward from there up the
| Greenland coast to meet Lieutenant
, Greedy at the mouth of Smiths sound, but
! this would not be practicable. The Green
! land coast north of Upernavik and around
Melville bay is intersected by extensive
glaciers, which it is practically lmpos-
| sible to CROSS. If sledge
| journeys could be made along this coast
the Etah Esquimaux, who live near the
mouth of Smiths sound. would commu-
nicate with the Esquimaux of the Danish
settlements, of whose existence 9hey are
we'll aware. Especially would they be
likely to do this in time of famine, when if
they could reach the Danish settlements
they could get food, but they never have
done it, simply because it is not practica-
BILE even for them, and still less for white
men. I think it is too late to do anything
| for the relief of Greely's party this fall.
If Lieut.. Greedy and his men are now at
| the mouth of Smiths sound, they can,
without doubt, find the Etah Esquimeux.
Some natives of that tribe are
| almost sure to be living either at
Etah or Sorfalik, near the mouth of the
Sound. Whether the Esquimaux could oe
would help SO large 10 party as that of
Lieut.. Greedy through the winter or not, l
do not know-it will depend upon circun-
stances. The winter we spent at Polaris
House, the Etah Esquimau1 would not
have been able to help any body, for the
reason that they were at the point of star
vation most of the time themselves. There
are only few of them. The
whole tribe consisted of about
one hundred souls when We