The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-01

employers resist strikes will be ordered in
small districts, support being called for
from the remainder of the country.
Congressional.
On Monday, July %, in the senate Mr..
Dawes made a speech opposing the fisheries
treaty, stating that Sir Charles Upper in
the Canadian parliament had shown that
the concessions were made by the United
States, not by Great Britain. Mr.. Dawes
claimed that the treaty would engender
strife and endauger security and urged that
negotiations should progress no further
until redress of damages is made. - In
the house, business concerning the District
of Columbia was transacted and the con-
ference report on the bill requiring Pacific
railways to construct and operate separate
telegraph lines was agreed to. The con-
ferees agreed to the senate amendment
relieving the companies from the necessity
of building telegraph lines where others are
already built.
On Tuesday, in the Senate President
Cleveland's veto of the bill granting PEN
sion to Mrs. Mary A. Doherty was sharply
criticised as being in error in stating that
her husband is a pensioner. The naval ap-
preparation bill was considered and provision
made for the construction of two steel
cruisers of 5000 tons displacement, one of
about $500 tons and then not to exceed
1000 tons displacement. - In the house,
the senate bill increasing details OF officers
OF the army and navy to educational insti-
tutions from a maximum of forty to max
imum of fifty was considered. The bill
opening the Oklahama region of the Indian
Territory to settlement was considered in
committee of the whole.
On Wednesday, in the senate, resouti ons
were offered by Mr.. Cullom directing the
committee on interstate commerce to inves-
tgate the operations of the Canadian Pa
ciic railway in getting control of the rail-
ways along the upper peninsula of Michigan
so as to defeat the operation of the inter-
state law. The naval appropriation bill
was passed. after amendments providing for
navy yards on the Gulf and Pacific coasts.
The senate bill appropriating $4,000 for a
public building at Allentown, Penn, was
passed, former bill appropriating 100000
having been vetoed by the president. PEN
sion bills to the number of 1877 were passed.
- In the house, bill establishing
United States land court for New Mexico
and Colorado was passed. Several private
bills were passed. Bills from the committee
on war claims met with continued objec-
tons.
On Thursday, in the senate, the army ap-
preparation bill was passed, with an amend
ment appropriating S75000O for an armory
gun factory at Watervliet arsenal, n Y,
S5,O0O0 600 for steel gun metal, 100000 for
submarine mines and 100000 for submarine
torpedoes. Mr.. Wilson of Maryland spoke
in support of the fisheries treaty Mr.
Teller opposed and Mr.. Morgan supported
the treaty. - In the house, joint reso-
luton was passed providing temporarily for
the support of the army A bill to provide
for post-office buildings and the Oklahama
bill were considered. Among bills passed
was one extending the jurisdiction of the
United States circuit and district courts
over the great lakes and adjacent waters.
On Friday, in the senate, Mr.. Salisbury
spoke in favor of the fisheries treaty, The
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sidered. - In the house, private war
claims and private pension bills were
passed.
On Saturday, in the senate, the sundry
civil deficiency bill was considered Among
amendments adopted was one appropriating
100000 for geological park in the District
of Columbia, and another paying the widow
of Spencer F. Baird $4,000 for his services
and expenses as private commissioner from
1871 to 1887. - In the house, the omni-
bus bill for erection of post-oflice buildings
and the deficiency bill were considered.
Foreign.
A son was born to the emperor and en-
press of Germany Friday morning.
The first message over the Venezuelan
cable to the United States was sent Friday.
THE significance of the recent meeting of
the two emperors is declared to he this
both monarchs desire that universal peace
may lclSu'
THE president of the Irish National League
of America sent a cable dispatch to Mr..
Gladstone last week Wednesday congratu-
lating him on the occasion of his golden
wedding.
AT Lassomption, a summer resort near
Montreal on the St. Lawrence river four
sons of Mr.. Vaudeville from Boston while
playing on logs fell into the river and were
drowned.
A VOLCANIC eruption at Bandaisan, fifty
leagues from Yokohama, has destroyed sew
eral villages and killed 1000 persons, in
GLIDING 100 visitors at the Thermal Springs.
A fresh crater has formed and the eruption
is still active.
EIGHT thousand navvies, many of them
Italians, are on strike in Paris, and others
are expected to join the movement. The
police were attacked by 800 strikers at La
vilette Saturday night. Arrests were made
and foreigners engaged are to be expelled
from the country, after undergoing punish
ment for their offence.
THE Chinese question on the Pacific coast
of British America is causing the Canadian
government much apprehension. In spite
of the duty of $50 per head immigration is
assuming alarming proportions and is be-
ing investigated by the government, with a
view to adopting restriction measures. The
| Chinese also cross the border into the
United States in great numbers.
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