Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-01-07

man from San Francisco, much affected,
asked permission to cut some blades Of
grass near the tomb. A lady offered
$Io for flower from the wreath and
was refused. 1t is common thing for
the guard to be tempted in this way by
offers Of money The rule forbidding
visitors to pass between the sentineps
beat and the tomb is strictly enforced
The soldiers at Riverside are very
proud of their duty. Said one of them
last night; 81 have been on guard
most of the day over theremains Of the
General 1t has been the happiest
Christmas of my life"
Vessel Ordered to Seek the Ame methyst.
WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-In response
to urgent kilograms from Senator Fair,
the Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided to send search party after the
missing whaler Amethyst, supposed to
have been cast away in Behring Sea.
kilograms were sent to Commander
Hooper, of the revenue steamer Rush,
and to Commander Healy of the
Corwin, at San Fransisco, directing
them to confer together with view to
the selection of one of these vessels to
undertake the search. 1t is believed
that the steamer will be ready to sail
in four days after the selection is made.
The Rush is new vessel, comparative
ly speaking, but the Corwin is in good
repair, and only last summer returned
from cruise through the waters where
it is supposed the Amethyst was cast
away From advices received from
San Francisco, it is believed that it will
be possible to force passage further
north than the Seal Islands, between
$50 and $50 miles north of the Aleu-
tian Islands, and well up into the
Behring Sea. The relief steamer will
put in at Ounalaska for coal and such
stores as may be needed.
Clevelands New Rule.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The Presi-
dent has been long enough in office to
realize that the position that he has
assumed heretofore of investigating the
character and capacity of every person
recommended for office has been mis-
taken one, besides involving more time
than he could spare for such matters
He now proposes to hold Senators and
Members of Congress strictly response
BILE for their recommendations, and
whatever charges are preferred against
applicants SO recommended he will
leave to the Senate to determine. He
believes that this division of response
bility with the Senate is ptoper, and is
what the Constitution intended. He
has also resolved to take no interest
whatever in the confirmation of those
whom he is not personally satisfied
with, leaving the Senate to confirm or
reject. This change Of policy has
staggered great many Senators and
members who have been in the habit
of recommending to him applicants for
office merely to get rid of them, and
thus throw on him the responsibility of
deciding upon their character and eff
cheney. OF course, the policy is only
to apply to nominations made at the
instance of Senators, Members and
others, and of whom he has no knowl-
edge of his own to guide him. So, if
any such nominations turn out wrong
and unwise, the country will know that
the fault will not rest with the Presi-
dent, but with those that impose upon
him by such recommendations.
Advance of Prohibition.
New YORK, Dec. 28.-The Woyld
says: The recent bitter elelction con-
test in Georgia over the local option
issue of Prohibition, which promised
to leave Atlanta the most progressive
of the Southern cities, and as free from
liquor saloons as any town in Maine,
has attracted attention to the almost
phenominal spread of the temperance
movement in the South. Georgia,
South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama,
Florida and even Kentucky are NOV
ing rapidly in the direction of absolute
prohibition. Kentucky, whose very
name has come to be synonymous
with whisky, is only second to Georgia
in the movement. Whole tiers of coun-
ties are painfully temperance as
Neal Dow himself could wish. The
names of twenty-eight counties are print
ed in which the Prohibition law is rig
idly enforced. The sentiment through
out Kentucky is rapidly becoming more
radical, and from being merely for
temperance, has taken firm stand for
prohibition. The movement has al
ready asserted itself in party politics,
and the friends of the cause expect en-
couraging results in 1886.
A ZylbNne's editorial, on the latest
phase of the Prohibition contest in
Atlanta, says: THE Prohibitionists
have gained a decisive advantage in
the formal signing of the order declar-
ing the result of the election. Probably
the business of most of the liquor
dealers will now be broken up, so that
the ultimate decision will be of less
interest to them. 1t is not impossible
that in this way resistance to the prohib-
itory ordinance may gradually fade
away. Nevertheless, the result will be
watched with great interest throughout
the country If the effort in Atlanta
prove successful, it will have great in
huence not only throughout the South