Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-03-15

ne annual National woman SuhmEe
Convention " the United States met in Wash.
ington on the dih instant. Miss Susan y.
Anthony says: 1--WE shall identify ourselves
with neither party as they arc now, but which
ever inserts a womans suffrage plank in the
platform We shall work for
Advice, from TIaiphong say that French
gunboats, with 1000 men. have occupied the
extreme post n the rebels on the songkohoi
River, ten miles below Bacninh. Chinese
skirmishers were firing from the neighboring
heights and burning the surrounding villages,
the gunboats returning the fire.
The dispatches say lha, Pacific mail stock
Is booming. On the 2Sth ultimo President
Houston, talking about the condition Of traffic,
said " am to-day the largest individual
holder Of stock. bought ,omc yesterday at
the highest price 81 5.i6--and not a share Of
my holding shall be sold below 75."
In the British House Of Lords, February
2gh, Earl Canarvon and Marquis Salisbury
made a violent attack on the government,
based upon the slavery circular Of General
Gordon. Earl Sclborne, lord high chancellor,
and Earl Derby, colonial secretary of state,
spoke in depreciation OF the attack upon
General Gordon.
The bill to regulate interstate commerce be-
tween the various states u the union, as agreed
to provides that in the transportation of prop.
crty charges "shall be reasonable for such ser
vice." that there shall bc no discrimination in
transportation OF freight, that it shall be un.
lawful to allow any rebate, aud that pooling
under any circumstances be unlawful
The 25oth anniversary Of the landing Of the
Maryland pilgrims on ST. Clements Island in
the Potomac river will be held ON the 2sth
instant, and that Of the founding Of st. Mary 5
city, the carly capital Of the colony, two days
later aud Baltimore will celebrate both occa.
,ons. The Maryland legislature has bill
appropriaiing $1,000 for monument to
mark the landing place.
The recent interview between Dolgarouki,
Russian Minister Plenipotcntiary, and Bis.
marck resulted in the assent Of Bismarck To a
meeting in April or May between the Gar
and Emperor. The Emperor of Germany is
to mark the restoration Of friendly relations
with Russia by ordering special military cclc-
bra,ion OF the seventeenth anniversary Of his
entrance into the Russian Order Of s.. George
There has been introduced in congress a
proposed constitutional amendment making
the presidential term six years and rendering
the president ineligible to reelection 10 the
next succeeding term. It provides for direct
vote for president in each state, and abolishcs
the electoral college. Each state shall have n
number of votes equal to the number Of its
Representatives and senators in congress- to be
given each candidate in proportion TO the total
tives in congress is fixed at three years, and
congress suall meet each year on the first We'd
ncsday in January, the first session to convene
in the January succeeding the November cleo
ton
In the recent debate in the United States
Senate, on the creation Of an American navy,
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favor of making liberal appropriation for
building navy. He was in favor OF construct
ing American men-of-war from American
material, by American workmen to be man
aged by American seamen. The United States
should be prepared to meet the encroachment
of those who may become jealous Of her pro-
gress. The example Of free government and
free institutions is spreading tho contagion Of
free thought and freedom of action among all
the peoples Of the globe, and is engenderng
an instinct Of hatred, malice and unfriendli-
ness of imperialists and monarchists through
out the whole world. He wanted to see
America ready to resent any insults that might,
be heaped on her, come from what quarter they
may. The bill was being debated when the
last mail left San Francisco
The French are ambitious to obtain the
commerce Of Central Africa, and the announce
ment Of Count de Lesseps that he will soon
begin work on the $I3,ooo,ooo canal, by
which he hopes to pour water from the Medi-
teuanean to flood the Desert OF Sahara, indi-
y,
land should obtain supremacy in the trade
which ere long must flow from the heart OF
Africa to Mediterranean ports. Should Eng
land restore the tranquility OF the Soudan, a
railway will soon be built from Suakn on the
Red Sea, to the last cataract Of the Nile, a
distance Of only $40 miles, and thus England
will obtain the trade Of 100000 Soudanese.
BY converting the Desert of Sahara into sea,
France not only hopes to give Tunis and
| Algeria an insular position, but also To make it
possible for her ships to sail directly to Sou
danese ports, and the construction of a railway
from one of the projected ports OF the a,tihciaI
sea to the very heart OF Africa would not be
long postponed, should NJ. de Lesseps scheme
; prove successful.
The Pleuro-pneumonia bill, as passed by
the United States House of Representatives
provides that the commissioner of agriculture
shall organize bureau OF animal industry and
appoints chief thereof, whose duty il shall be
to investigate and report upon the number,
value and condition Of domestic animals Of the
. United States, and also the causes of con
, lagious and communicable diseases among
them, and means for prevention and cure oil
the same. He is authorized 10 appoint two
competent agents whose duty it shall he to re-
port upon the best methods Of treating, trans
porting and caring for animals. and means ie
be adopted for the suppression and eSiirpaiior
Of contagious pleuro-pneumonia. The bill
futher provides that the commissioner Of agri
culture may expend so much money appro
prialed by this act as may be necessary in pay
ing for animals it is deemed necessary tc
slaughter, and in such disinfeciion and Other