The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-22
Record of Saturdays DOings
at Washington.
COMBINATION OF MONOPOLY
Explosion at Annoy Parcel Post Con
ventlon-CoDfidenti whisper
=, House Proceedings, .
Capital News.

81 q. WARRINGTON, January ZU.-Ihe &C
ton of the House in adjourning to day,
without disposing of the Tt oebe- Carlisle
case, rendered it impossible that the
vote by which the resolution for the lie
opening of the case was defeated yester--
day, can be reconsidered, except by
unanimous consent, the time within
which such motion could have been
entered as one of privileges, having. ex
PRED with to-day's session. Although
thsrumor is that Carlisle will onMonday
address letters 10 the House, asking
that the case be re-opened, ills declaI ed
uy that gentleman 8 friends to be with
out foundation. Even should such com :
muzication be received, its suggestions
could ouly be acted upon by unanimous
consent, unless an order for the preyi-
Gus question, under which the House is
now operating, should be considered as
Withdrawn, H5D-T a9vi7197 u.s. q,
MoNoPoLrsTIC COMBINATIONS.
In the House, to-day, Bacon, New
York, chairman of the committee
on manufactures, reported pre-
6nOl6 dIu IOSOlub1On, ICCiGinS 1hC
allegation that certain individuals
and corporations, engaged In manu-
featuring or mining or dealing in
sofne necessities OF life, have combined
for the purpose of controlling or ouI taii-
ing the production or supply of the
same, thereby increasing their price to
the preple, affecting injuriOusly COM
marce between States, and impairiDg
the revenues OF the government. 1t
directs the committee on manufactures
to inquire into the names, number, and
extent of such alleged combinations,
and all other matters relating to the
same, which may call for legislation by
Congress. @
LEAVE no PRINT. Ia'
Representative Dunn, of Arkansas, to-
day obtained leave to have printed in the
Record several amendments which he
proposes to offer to the Wilkins bank
ing bill at the first opportunity.
EXPLOSION AT AMoY,
The Secretary of State has received
reports from Consul Crows.l. at Annoy,
in regard to the explosion, November
10th, in Annoy, of magazine contain
ing about 400 tons of powder, and other
explosives, by which over 200 lives were
list, and several hundred dwellings
destroyed. The magazine was located
in the Eaidst ola very popuaeus suburb,
and the foreign settlement on the
Island Of Kulahgsoo, in Annoy Harbor,
was badly shaken up. No lives were
lost, nor were any injuries sustained
by the few American res dents of Annoy.
They contributed $3.50 TO the relief of
the sufferers, for which Che govern
ment made suitable Acknowledge t.
PARCEL POST coNvENTIoN.
The parcel post convention between
the United States and Canada, men,
toned in a dispatch received by the
Associated Press, from Ottawa, to -day.
was signed by Postmaster General
Villas few days before he left the de-
partment It was then GENT to Canada
for PastmaEer-General McLeIlan's
signature, and it is expected to be re-
turned to Washington Monday, when
the present Postmaster-Gener will
present it to the President for his
signature.
Superintendent Bell, of the foreign
mails, said tonight, the provisions of
this convention are in every respect
the same as the provision of the
parcel post convention now in force
between the United States and Mexico.
BRITISH MEMoRIAL1sTs.
The memorial, from the Massachu-
sets committee of fifty, recently formed
to cooperate with the British deputa-
ton of peace and arbitration, repre-
senting 23S members of the House of
Commons, which visited Washington,
in November, was presented to the
President to-day, by Edwin D. Mead
represen ting the committee. The me-
mortal is signed by the Governor OF
Massachusetts. Mayer of Boston,
President Elliott, of the Harvard Uni
versity, President Seely, of Amherst
College, Edward Everett Hale, Rev.
Phillip Brooks, Joseph Cook, Andrew
Peabody, Everett Salistonstali, Alex
ander Rich, Charles Theodore RUSSELL
and many of the leading scholars and
business men of Massachusetts.
Mead in behalf Of the committee,
urged the Importance, Of the oppor-
tnnity offered by the proposition Of t. Q
British memorialists for definite
step in the inauguration of a solid
policy of arbitration with Great Britain
which couid not be without signal in
! fluence upon the world at large.
The President, while confd Mt OF GER
tain practical difficulties, expressed
warm sympathy with the general cause.
His belief, was that the time could not
be distant, when nations would look
back with amazement upon their press
ent system of war;, ira IA.
| "A similar memorial from the Massa-
CHI sets committee, will be presented
by Hoar, in the Senate, on Monday. 81.
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FIFTIETH CONGRESS-. ~