New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-08
Canal will be located by Juno 10, including complete
and thorough surveys Of tho two possible locations on
the east end, known the lower route' surveyed
by Commander Lull In 1S7273. and TIE upper route
surveyed by Mr. Monocal In 1885.
TIE HOUSE UPROARIOUS.
BUSINESS TRANSACTED IN A TUMULT.
MR.. REED SCORES THE BREcKINRIDoE FREE yIsH
AMENDMENT.
fBr TELEGRAPH TO THE rnrBuNE.l


WASHINGTON, Junc7-The House to-day made
itself virtually branch of the ST. Louis Con-
vention There was constant succession OF
scenes and the transaction Of business was re-
pcatsdly interrupted by an upRoar worthy OF
the French Corps Legislatif--members shaking
their fists in each others faces and indulglng
in shouts and gcsticulations which were abso-
lutcly unintelligible 10 the reporters. Notwith-
standing all this and the reading Of the tele-
grams and the waving of Thurman wipes the
main feature Of the day, which was Mr.. Breckin-
ridges unpatrotic amendment to Mr.. Dingley's
motion so to amend the free lumber clauses as to
make their operation contingent upon Canada
giving to the United States the commercial priv
neges to which she is entitled, was not lost sight
of. 1t will be remembered that Mr. Dingley
proposed to insert after the proviso: " That IL
any export duty is laid upon the above mentioned
articles tall these articles being sawn and manu-
featured lumber by any country, oil said articles
shall be subject to duty as now provided by law
Mr.. Dingley proposed to add to that the fol-
lewing proviso
That said articles shall be subject to the duty
provided by law when imported from country
which denies in It's ports TO fishing or other vessels Of
United States authorized to touch and trade ct foreign
ports the commercial privileges, including the right
provisions bait and supplies, and to transshp any
portion cargo granted similar vessels OF such
country in ports of tho United States
To this Mr. Breckenridge proposed an amend
ment as follows:
That when tho said commercial privileges including
the right buy provisions, bait and supplies and to
transshp any portion OF cargo granted to the fishing
and other OF the United States BY the Dominion
of Canada, then mackerel. herring salmon and ether
nsh smoked dried saltod picked or preserved except
anchovies and sardnes other fsh preserved In OIL
shall be free OF duty.
And provided further that whenever the Dominion OF
Canada admits products, and merchandise grown
produced manufactured tn the United States ec OF
dutN then the products and merchandise grown
produced or manufactured in said Dominion OF Canaoa
shall be admitted free OF duty.
Mr. Dingley reiterated with force and marked
effect the points he made yesterday with regard
to the immense concessions which the Mills Dill
proposed to grant to Canada, and another speaker
intcrposed the remark that by the admission
of one of the leading Canadian authorities, those
concessions as already passed in the bill would
amount to over S9,000,000 per annum, and he
showed how the restrictions which the Canadians
now placed upon the fishery interests OF the
United States were directly contrary, not only TO
treaty rights. but to inherent rights which the
American colonies had inherited from the mother
country.
Mr. Hit, Of Illinois, following in the same line
said that no English or Canadian statesman had
in his amendment voluntarily conceded.
Mr.. Reed quoted the constitution Of the knights
of Labor that injury to one was the concern OF
alln and said that no matter how remote might
be the Eastern States and the region represented
by the gentleman from Kentucky, the injury which
the National honor had received in this fishery
dispute should be the patriotic concern Of all. BE
declared the privileges which the barbaric powers
in the days of piracy had given to the vessels OF
the United States had within the last few years
been denied by Canada to the fishing vessels OF
Massachusetts, in order to coerce some such pro
cceding as was now contemplated. Only the i'm
mediate object then sought was to open the
American markets to Canadian fish now it was to
omen American markets to Canadian lumber In
the early days of the Nations history, in its weak
ness and isolation, it had yielded some points on
this fishery question, but to-day. standing up as
the peer OF any nation, nothing but towards pre-
vented her asserting her rights. This declaration
was received with tumultuous cheers.
Mr. Reed added that even the doctrines laid
down by his own Democratic Secretary
of State put to shame the pusillani
mons proposition of the gentleman from Ken
tucky Mr. Breckinrdgel, and called for
the voting down of his resolution and the voting
up of that offered by the gentleman from Maine
Notwithstanding, however, this patriotic appeal
which was seconded in vigorous terms ny MT
Adams. of Chicago and others. the Breckenridge
amendment to the Dingley resolution was adopted;
and then the resolution as amended was voted