Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-07
guam government, to incorporate the

guam government, to incorporate the
canal company.
| Belmont Of New York opposed the
motion. He said the bill without the
clause was not Objectionable, as first "a
ported, but there were, still. iusu,erafIe
political objections to granting charters
under it. The passage of the bill would
commit tins Government to the proyi.
sions OF the Ci.ytonB ulwer treaty.
Mclean said he hoped the House
would not sanction any proposition for
istnmian transit under the present con-
oifion OF things, which rendered il i'm
possible Tor this Government 70 give a
guarantee OF preservation OF neutrality
OF the canal. In giving such q guarantee
this Government would make itself
ridiculous in the eyes of the world. hay-
ing no means OF making that guarantees
effective. He said this country ia nov
compelled to bow its head and take no
notice OF usurpations of its rights and
the defiance OF its authority to control
the Panama route.
biount made speech in opposition
TO the bill. which he claimed was a sub
sldiary interest of foreign capitalists.
he overlooked the statement Of Rose
Grams, that no guarantee Of the shares or
Interest was asked, preferring to make
speech against the bill If it contained
that provision.
Mr. Kasson spoke strongly in favor of
consideration for the bill. 1t was, he
SAID, one of the most important subjects
brought before Congress. A company
OF western men had obtained conces-
sions from ths Government Of Nicara-
4 u. bFrvl hi e \ \
| a certain time. They came to Congress
and asked to be made a corporate com
panv. The Foreign Affairs Committee
| now ask from the House a hearing.
Great commercial bodies in the West,
he said, urged Congress to do this, and
| do work which the nations of Europe
would willingly pay to have done had |
they opportunity. He warned Congress
II they lost this opportunity to give the
United States control of the canal, he !
feared it would be the last they would |
have.
A vote was taken ON Rosecrans's mo-
ton, and it was lost by vote of 1877 to |
81. This vote shows, II it could be got |
before the House in the regular way, it !
would be passed by handsome ma |
jority.
sunday Law Breaker.
NEW HAVEN, Feb. CLARK Peck, |
manager of the Opera House, has been |
arrested. :. He rented the house to the |
Jubilee Singers on Sunday, was fined |
$50 and costs, and appealed. Four of |
the singers were released ON payment |
of costs.
Taeaier and ship Fires.
NEW YORK, Feb. Ga fire in the dress |
ing rooms of the Mt. Morris Theater |
prevented the performance tonight, but |
the audience had not assembled.
The ship Cornelius Grannel was
burned at the dock 10 South Brooklyn |
today.
Opposition PoslOiI1ce squelched.
CHICAGO, Feb. 6.-The proprietor of
local parcel delivery business was ar
rested by the Federal authorities on a |
charge of violating the postal laws in is
suing and selling stamps to customers,
10 be used on letters for local delivery
by his own employees.
Fierce Keniuckiaus.
CINCINNATI. Feb. 6.-The Times-Star's
Grayson (Ky.) special says much oppO-
sition IL expressed to the coming of the |
great crowd is gathered at tho depot. |
Many threats to fire on the military are |
heard, and the saloons are all closed |
and an extra police force put on. Citi-
zens say the military will be beaten if a |
conflict happens.
Train Accident.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. Ga freight train on |
| the Vandalia Road encountered brOk- |
on rail near Mulberry Grove, H., early |
this morning. Seven cars were de- |
| taehed. A few minutes later second |
section train, following behind, rushed |
into the first section, smashing the Ca
boose into pieces and wrecking - cars. |
| One of the engines was thrown across |
the track and down a steep bank. Fore |
man McQuado and a brakeman were |
severely, If not seriously, injured. A /
section was burned.
A Mastery Effort.
New YORK, Feb. 6.-The World says |
| Belmout's minority report from the |
House Committee on Foreign Affairs |
relative to the Wholesale and fraudulent |
importation of high grade Sandwich |
Island sugar, under the recipl ocity |
treaty with the Hawaiian Kingdom is |
regarded by the revenue officers in this |
city a. mastery review of the situa- |
ton. 1t is thought none Of the officials |
are 30 unmindful of their positions as to |
arraign, at least in public, the acts of |
their superiors. Still, as one Of them |
said yesterday, "the head officials of the |
| Treasury Department Can't expect to |
| control our opinions or our conscienoes. |
The appraisers. however, felt somewhat |
aQgrieved that Belmont in his review of |
the customs service did not discrimin- |
ate 80 as 20 except the New York Office, |
where in the only case in which it has |
been called upon to appraise Hawaiian |
sugar, it was d cided that high grades |
above No. Is Dutch standard were duti- |
able, and were not free under the clause |
of the treaty providing that sugar COM |
monty imported Mt San Francisco and |
Portland from the Sandwich Islands, |
and OF the same grade and quality, |
should DO entered free at any port of |
the United States. Belmont's oversight |
was not, however, regarded as i1ten- |
tional.
Farther Tieod Reports.
PrrrsBuRa. Feb. 6.-Dispatches from !
Rochester, Bridoewater, and Newcastle. |
Pa, report the Ohio rising rapidly and |
threatening the towns with inundation |
before morning. At Steubenville. Ohio, |
the water is over the Cleveland q Pitts |
burg railroad track. and travel Is sus- |
pended. East Liverpool, Ohio, is par
TALLY submerged.
Alarmed Indians.
LITTLE Rock. Feb. 6.-Advices from |
Indian Territory are to the effect that
the Indians are greatly excited and
stirred up in regard to the threatened
invasion of Oklahsma by Payne and |
his followers. whey fear Payne's per-
sistence will ultimately force the Gov |
avuruapx ts, a co,u nrpsnisa mr. the settle