The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-09

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in behalf of heavy cut on lumber, and
nators Henderson and Allison LED
the fight. They were oVerpowered
finally and had to give way, not to
superior logic. but to weight of num-
bers and to the powerful but not con-
yincing argument OF a majority vote.
There was also stubborn fiaht on the
wool clause, Senator C1llom combat
ting the proposition TO increase the
duty on that article For a time, at
least, he was beaten, but it is now said
that the committee has come around to
his views. and there will be no change
ia the bill so far as the wool is con-
earned.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN E. RUSSELL,
of Massachusetts,, is one cf those po-
liticai prophets who knows what he is
talking about. He has been stumpirg
through Maine for his party and IN
bosomed himself to THE HERALD cor
respondent last night. The condition
of affairs in Maine is very satisfactory
and encouraging to the Democrats, 4"
said he. 1.-The fishermen are disap-
pointed oyer the rejection Of The fisher
| les treaty by the Senate and openly say
| so. They are worried for fear the mo-
| dus vivendi will be suspended. Mr..
Putnam is making u splendid canvass
for governor and stands high in public
estimation. Mr.. Blaine is a tagged out
| pei tician. He seems to have lost his
grip. Ii is believed that if he had
stayed at home and kept in the
current of politics he would be
holding a different attitude from
L !
that he got his statistics about
working mems deposits in British saw
ings banks from the Encyclopedia
gaining ground in Maine. The people
are realizing that the poorest Of them
which they never knew before. One
thing l noticed-the tariff agitation is
making a great many free-traders; not
merely revenue reformers. There are
numeI Gus free.trade clubs forming il
Maine. There is heavy exchange of
voters going On in Maine, but we are
the gamers. We are exchanging the
riff raft of the party for sober, intelli-
gent. earnest, thinking men. The Re-
publican majority in Maine will be re-
duced SO per cent. from 1884"
And thus the news comes in from all
sections of the country. 1t looks now
as though a great wave of low-tariff
sentiment would sweep the Blaine-Har-
rison combination out Of existence.
PERSIA.
The course of our diplomatic rela-
tons with Persia doesn't seem % run
smooth. Everybody remembers how
unsatisfactory, from diplomatic
standpoint, was the mission of Mr..
Frederick H. Winston, of Chicago, who
went out to Persia two or three wears
ago as the minist fthe United States.
Everybody remembers how soon be
abandoned diplomacy for railroading,
and how soon he deserted the court and
dominions of the Shah and steered his
way back once more to dear Chicago,
Some time ago-a month or two-the
Shah appointed an ambassador to re-
present bis majesty at Washington.
The State Department here was duly
notified of the appointment and of the
new minister's departure from his own
loved land. He was due here by the
middle of August at latest, and the
State Department officials have been
looking out for him ever since. But up
to Gate the new minister has not put in
an appearance. In fact he is missing
and cannot be found anywhere. 4 few
days after he became o erdue the
State Department cabed to the United
States consul at Havre, where it is |
supposed the new minister from Persia |
woulk probably take ship for America, |
inquiring if anything was known there |
abouts concerning an Oriental gentle |
man answering TO the name Of Ha0ji |
Hassein Kouli Khan Mohamed-el- |
Yesare, but the consul has cabled back |
that nothing is known at aavre of any |
gentleman answering to that des Grip |
ton. Similar inquiries have been ad- |
dressed to !AmerIcan consuls at other |
Europeon ports, but no trace cen be |
found of the new minister from Persia.
1t is not the first instance of a minis
ter having been lost on the way from |
his own country to the court whAre his |
duties were to lie Henry |
without giving the
address, once got lost in some
what similar circumstances. The
English government sent him on
a diplomatic mission to Russia.
He got away from London all right,
but month after month passed, and his
arrival at st. Petersburg was not re-
ported. The Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs telegraphed all over Eu-
rope to find out what had happened TO
him After a lapse of about six
months the secretary at London re-
ceiYed one morning letter from some
place III North Germany. 1t had not
been pre- paid and the secretary had to
pay double postage on it. 1t was
etter from Mr.. Labouchere, stating
hat he had lost his money-presum-
ably at cards-and was therefore COM
oelled to walk. The season was not
av orable for tramping in that latitude,
out he hoped to reach st. Petersburg
Ill right in about another month. If |
aadji, ETC., get stranded ii Europe he
will find II difficult to tramp to Wash
ngton. But be has only to make him
elf known to the American consul,
wherever he is, aud he will be immedi-
ltely suppl ID with the necessary funds
md ticket.