Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-25

dent Bell of the foreign mails said tonight
the provisions Of this convention are in
overv respect the same as the provision OF
tho marcel post convention 10 in force
between the United States and Mexico.
THE rHoEBE-CARLIsLE CASE.
The action of the Honse in adjourning
without disposing Of the Thoebe-Carlisle
case rendered it impossible that the vote
hv which the resolution for reporting the
case WAS defeated yesterday can be recon-
s;dered except by unanimous consent, the
t;,,o within which such a motion could
ha We been entered as one OF privilege hav-
mo expired with tO-day's session. Although
10 rnnor that Carlisle will on Monday adj
dress letters to the House asking that the
case be reopened is declared by that gentle
mans friends to be without foundation,
even should such communication be re-
ceiyed, it's suggestions could only De acted
upon by unanimous consent unless an
order for the previous question under which
the House ia now operating shoulu oe CON
sidered as withdrawn.
A PEACE MEMORIAL PRESENTED.
A memorial from the Massachusetts com
mittee of fifty recently formed to cooper
ate with the British deputation OF peace
and arbitration, representing 233 members
of the House of Commons which visited
Washington in November, was presented to
the President to-day by Edwin u. Mead ui
Boston, representing the committee. The
memorial is signed by the Governor Of
Massachusetts,, the Mayor OF Boston,
President Eliot of Harvard University,
President Seelye of Amherst College, Ed
ward Everett Hale, Rev. Philip Brooks,
Joseph Cook, Andrew Peabody,
Leverett Saltonat Alexander Rich,
Charles Theodore Russell and many leading
scholars and business men OF Massachu-
sets. Mead, in behalf of the committee,
urged the Importance OF the opportunity
offered by the proposition OF the British
memorialists for a definite step, inaugural
ing a solid policy of arbitration with Great
Bril-, ain, which could not be without signal
influence upon the world at large. The
President, while conscious Of certain prac-
tical difficulties, expressed warm sympathy
with the general cause, and hi beliefthat the
time could not be distant when the ma.
tons would look back with amazement
their present system OF wars. A
similar memorial from the Massachusetts
will be presented by Mr.. Hoar
in the Senate Monday.
CARLISLE WON'T INTERFERE.
An Associated Press reporter tonight in.
quired OF Speaker Carlisle what truth there
was in the report that he would on MondaF
send a letter to the House requesting that
the Thoebe-Carlisle case be reopened and
that the committee be sent into the Sixth
Kentucky District. The Speaker author
lied the following denial of the report to be
made public: Il have not contemplated
such a step. The House must take its own
in the case without dictatlOn or
dictation from me-
PROMPT ACTION NECESSARY.
General Greedy, Chief Signal Officer, was
before the House Appropriations Commit
tee to-day to urge that an immediate
appropriation be made to maintain the
signal service stations in various places,
at the West, many OF which
have already been discontinued, and other
at important points would like
be forced to discontinue unless imme.
action was taken to provide means
to pay the necessary expense. General
stated the usefulness OF the signal
service is greatly crippled because the last
cut down the appropriations
to the narrowest limit. He promiseG the
mmittee that if this matter were given
prompt attention the Western States
would be preferred in the establishment
and maintenance.