The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-05-29
FOREIGN EWS.
UNITED STATES.


has been elevated to the Cardinalate
by the Pope.
A bill in retaliation for the recent
action of the Dominion of Canada
in excluding United States vessels
from certain privileges in Canadian
ports, was reported from the Com
mittee on Commerce, authorizing
the President to issue a proclamation,
whenever he may deem proper, deny
ing to vessels OF foreign countries
such privileges us are denied in such
foreign countries to vessels of the
United States. The bill was made
general, so as to apply to all foreign
countries.
After months of search, Professor
Jonathan Emery of William and
Mary College has discovered the
aerolite which fell in Washington
county on September IA, 1885. 1t
was found imbedded deep in the soil
on Frederick Miller's farm, two miles
north of Claysville, Penn. Professor
Emery says it is the largest aerolite
on record, and weighs fully 200 tons.
| Its composition is chromium, nickel,
| aluminium, copper, magnesium and
| tin.
The House Committee on Public
Lands will report favorably the bill
| prohibiting aliens from acquiring
| public lands in the Territories.
1t is rumored that the United
States despatch steamer Tallapoosa,
anchored off Staten Island, is detail
| ed to carry dispatches between the
Cabinet at Washington and the COM
manders of the war vessels that have
| been ordered home, should there be
trouble in Canadian fishing waters.
| General Master Workman Powderly
OF the Knights of Labor, acting UNI
der the authority vested in him by
the General Executive Board, has
issued call to the various assemblies
of the order for II special session of
the General Assembly, to be held in
| Cleveland, o., on Tuesday May 25th
The causes leading to the calling OF
the session are given as follows:
| First-'rhe rapidly increasing
membership of the order requires
changes in the laws which the Gen
eral Executive Board have no author
ity to make.
Second-The laws in relation tt
the government of boycotting arr
wholly inadequate to compel ODE
dience on the part of assemblies tina
believe in boycotting for every oflense
whether great or small.
Third-The laws in relation t.
strikes do not give the General Elk
ecutive Board power to interfere il
such matters until after the strike
have been inaugurated. The order ha
become involved in difficulties will
| trade societies, and an effort is bein,
made to create rupture between tn
societies and the Knights of Labor
The secret circular issued to tn
|
Knights takes occasion to rebuke tn
, tendency to drunkenness in som
; quarters, and adjures the member
to forswear the intemperate use c
intoxicants. He reads quite ten
perance lecture, pointing to the fac
that drunkenness is great incentiv
r to riotous methods of attempting
{ gain a given point. He deprecate
D all talk of the use OF violence an
I illustrates the many abuses to whic
the boycott is put. 81 hate the wor
boycott" he says, and he forbids il
q use, except AS last resort, apd the
q only upon the consent of the Gel
e eral Assembly. Powderly then al
T. nounces that hereafter he will receiy
1 no committees and answer no lettel
: addressed to him pending the hol'
= ing OF the meeting at CLEVELAND
- His mail, he says, contains 400 lettel
q daily, and he has 1000 on hand tn,
8 are not and never will be read. II
c must have time, he says, to perfe'
s his plans for the good of the order.
The Assembly will be in many r
g spects the most important meeting
y y the order that has been held, IT
~ expected that many radical chang
n will be made in the Constitution al
~ tha oaneral government of the Orde