The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-10-16
COMMERCIAL LINES.
SOUTH AMERICAN COMMISSION.
The Presidents selection 80 Personal
irisnds for - Juni "i,uF - p"diti"n
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Tho event OF the week has .heon the
session Of the commit -,.un appointed "a
stir up our commerce with South Amer
lea. As the performance ~ its duties
involved some n,co travelling aud
plenty 20 eat, President Arthur made IL
upfrom his own personal friends and po-
litical chums, Gen, Geo, sharpe, the
chairman, was for nino years tho sur
Y0yoT of mis- port, an has all the points
an the tariff he graduated in the diplo-
matte service in Stewards time and
speaks Spanish torcibly, the ysay, licy-
nOlds, the second member, has been In
raTnatod ~ lawyer, agilator, diplomatic
tSpain), Confederate general, congress-
man aud Governor, and ha was on Max
imillian's staff aud ailerward built u
railroad over the Andes. The other
member, Scion Thatcher, was ON the
bench in Kansas. The secretary Il
william T.. Curtis, Of the Inter Ocean.
Thatcher was Arthur's schOolmate;
Shape had charge of his interests in
tho Chicago convention, and Curtis
wreslled with journalists aud boxed the
telegraph wires on that same occasion.
having special charge of tn" private wire
running To the White House.
The commission met here IN Monday,
III Al W w w Nv AAtANNN
were delivered of crude notions concern
ing our southern neighhOrs. \ remark
able speech was made by the Brazilian
consul general, who said he thought
the entire of Brazil could be-
won To come here, whereas wo now get
only one-eighth of IL. A cable message
from New York to Brazil must now go
by way OF London, and the cable COM
pany between London and Rio paid II
II 1aAr .sanf ItNlIAnH nm hnuNllN "a uIArnH
stock. lie declared that the Brazilian
empire would subsidi2e any company
that would lay cable To New York, and
that II would pay rs well rs h u To Lon
don.
The consul general of Peru made n
similar statement, and said that II cost
u merchant of Lima as much To bring
goods from the United States as To bring
them from Liverpool SAound tho Horn.
Crhis because of the NStortions of tho
Pacific Mail company.)
Capt. Bedford Pym of the royal navy
and u member of the British Parliament,
made u significant speech, saying that
IL always has pCen a mystery u mig
ma To the English that the United States
did not 20 for this trade of South Amer
lea and get IL. at is naturally, logically
and lcgitimatoly yours he said; yet
IL goes to England and Germany. II
belongs TO YOU geographically. and You
onu got IL ii You want ii, and 1t is worth
hundreds OF millions every year. by
the way" he added, sOmew hat irrclc-
vanity, "since ! came to America | have
had my irec-tradc notions Knocked out
OF my head. lIcnceIorth ] am Il tariff
man"
The commission leaves here OF the
10th and goes TO Mexico to hold u
months session; thence back to Il
Francisco; thence Il Guatemala, and
the live republics of Central Americas;
thence to Venezuela and Colombia, then
down ON the west coast, across Pata-
gonia, and up ON the east side. 1t will
be gone, | suppose, all winter. one of
the members with whom ! talked antic-
ipates that, rs the result of causes which
they will put in motion in Congress and
elsewhere, M IN with South
America ought to quadruplc in the next
five years. Washington Letter to the
Kansas City journal.