Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-31
ICE BOUND CRAFT.
Unable to Force Their Way Out Tnto
 Open Water.

| Unable to Force Their Way Gut Int Open Water.
 CHATHAM, Mass, Jan. 30.-Nearly all tn | ice bound schooners endeavored to day t. l force their way out to the Handkerchief witt the fresh southwest wind. but made littl headway and were all becalmed at sunset The tug Uncerwriter with schooner in tow could not get through and went westward. Tht
 tug Knickerbocker with the barge Sunrise fol New York passed Pollock. Rip at dark, bu
 will probably not get past Handkerchief to
 night, the ice is so heavy. No sailing vessels
 or tows are likely to get east over the shoali
 tomorrow. A southeast storm is threaten ing which will help open the channel fol sailing vessels.
 HYANNIs, Mass, Jan. 30.-The extreme cold weather for the last two weeks has mod erated some to-day, but not enough to affect the ice in the harbor or in the Sound. One oi the two sohooners reported last night as un. known was the schooner Ida L. Hull Stone, which was lowed in by the tug Underwater. Captain Stone reports having a very rough experience and at times feared that his vessel might be cut through by the ice. The ice became thick and being in dangerous position he sue ceeded in getting the Underwater to take him in tow. The other schooner that was lowed in by the cutter Galaton was the Grace P. Chambers. She has been in the ice off Bass river for ten days and is apparently all right. The schooners A. A. Shaw, Gardner c. Deering and one other schooner were lowed into safe positions today by the Gallatin while others anchored safely AhOn6 a mile and a half f. side the breakwater.
 VINEYARD HAVEN, Jan. 30-This harbor is full of ice with the fleet of three brigs, fifty schooners and four barges frozen in here. Vineyard Sound is full of drift iee as far as Gay Head. Six ocean tugs are here with tows for Boston and New York awaiting an opportunity to proceed. The tugs have all rendered valuable assistance to vessels in the ice on Nantucket shoals The tug Argus is at work on three-masted schooner ashore on Horseshoe shoal.
 A Thavv i'm the Northwest.
 ST. PAUL, Jan. 30.-A regular January thaw is prevailing all over the Northwest, high temperature and bright weather being re- ported from all parts of Montana, Dakota and Minnesota.
 RECIPROCITY WITH GERMANY. The President In Consideratlon for
 Like Favers Allows German Vessels
 to Enter Our Ports Free of Fax.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-The President is- sued the following proclamation to-day:
 Whereas, Satisfactory proof has been given to me by the government of the empire of Germany that no tonnage or lighthouse dues or any equivalent tax or taxes whatever are imposed upon American vessels entering the ports of the empire of Germany. either by the imperial government or by the governments of the German maritime States, ,and that ves- sells belonging to the United States of Ameri- ca and their cargoes are not required in Ger man ports to pay any fee or dues of any kind or nature of any import higher or other than is payable by German vessels or their car goes.
 Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, Pres- ident or the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by sec ton Il of the act of Congress entitled "An act to abolish certain fees for official services relating to shipping commissioners, seamen and owners of vessels and for other pur- poses," approved June, 19, 1886, do hereby declare and proclaim that from and after the date of this my proc lamation shall be suspended the collection of the whole of the duty of six cents per ton not to exceed thirty cents per ton per annum NHAICA ID HI HOSCO Dy ooAo oCOGAOn OL Sfslo SCU upon vessels entered in the ports of the United States from any of the ports of the empire of Germany.) Provided that there shall be excluded from the benefits of the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed the vessels of any foreign country Tn whose ports the fees or dues of any kind or nature imposed on vessels of the United States or the import or export duties on their cargoes are in excess of the fees, dues duties-im- posed on the vessels of such foreign country on their cargoes or of the fees, dues or duties imposed on the vessels of Germany or the cargoes of such vessels. And the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed shall con- tinue 50 long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be continued in said ports of the empire of Germany and no longer.
 In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
 Done at the city of Washington this 26th day of January in the year of our Lord 1888 and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twelfth.
 Signed, GROVER CLEVELAND.