The Portland daily press., 1889-12-28
American Historical Society Meets
Today.

WAsHINeTo N. December 27.-The Ameri-
can Historical Society will hold its sixth an
nual meeting in this city beginning tomor-
row and continuing through Monday and
Tuesday of next week. A number of inter
esting papers will be read and discussed.
Twenty minutes will be allowed for the
reading of each paper and five minutes to
each individual participating in the discus
sion. At the morning session ON Saturday
four papers will be read on European his
tory, the first by Prof. George L. Burr of
Cornell University on "The Literature of
Wltchcraft." Ex-Presdent Andrew L.
of the French Revolution" )" Herbert E. Mills
paper on 'The French Revolution in San
Domingo" and DIR. Clarence Winthrop
Bowen will present newly diseov-
cred manuscript giving "Remin-
Of Independence .by Ludwig, Baron
Won Chosen, aide to Count de Rochambeau."
At the Saturday evening session DR.. Charles
Kendall Adams, president of the association,
will deliver an address on the "Recent His
torical Work of the Universities" and Mr..
will read q paper on Historical Survivors in
Morocco" On Monday morning the session
will be devoted to national history. "The
Origin and Early History of our National
Scientific Institutions" will be discussed by
DR.. G. Brown Goode of the Smithsonian In
stitute; The Development of International
Law as to New, Discovered Territory" by
DR.. w. B. Scaife of Vienna; "The Impeach-
ment and Trial of Andrew Johnson" by DR..
William A. Dunning of Columbia College
1.-The Trial and Execution of John Brown" I"
By the General Tar msgSSs 4sso4as c,s Wright sh
Defence Of Congressional Government"
by DR.. Freeman Snow of Harvard Univer-
sity. At the evening session, "New England
and the West" will be discussed in four pa
pers, which will be read as follows:
"The Economic and Social History of New
England, 162o-i7S9," by William b. Weeden.
president Of the Brown University Historical and
Economic Association; Correspondence OF the
British,' by William Henry Smith, general man
ager OF the Associated Press; Early History of
the Ballot in Connectlcut," by Professor Simeon
sity; Certain Phases of the Westward Movement
During the Revolutionary War;" by Theodore
Roosevelt, United States Civil Service Commits
sioner.
On Tuesday morning Southern history will
be discussed as follows:
"Baeon's Rebellion" by Edward Eggleston ;
"The Constitutional Aspects of Kentucky's Strug,
gle for Autonomy, 1882" by Ethelbert b.
Oxford OHIO; sFacts from ' the 0nRsessisay Resoras
of William and Mary College, by
President Lyon G. Tyler of Williamsburg, Va
Confederate Sta'es, by John Osborne Sumner,
ABB. of Harvard University; "Notes on the Out,
look for historical Studies in the South" by Prof.
VIM. P. Trent of the University OF the South,
Sewanee, Tenn.
-, The concluding session will be held on
Tuesday evening.
An Earlier Session.
WASHINGTON, December 27.-The House
ways and means committee this morning
listened to statement by G. S. Landers, of
New Britain, Conn, on the necessity of pro-
tecting table cutlery.
Hon. j. Logan Chapman of Michigan read
kilograms from various stove firms in Michi-
gan protesting against mica being removed
from the free list.
Charles Brice, representing the Gold
Dealers Association, argued in favor Of an
increased duty ON gold leaf and. bronze
powder.
Clark Fisher, Of Trenton, n, j., advocated
an increase of duty on anvi]S. Forty years
ago there were 25 anvil firms in this country.
Now they had become extinct with three ex-
cepti0ns To lower the duty would have
the effect of wiping out these three estab-
lishments.
William G. Crommeyer, of Pittsburg, de.
scribed the unsuccessful efforts of American
manufacturers to produce tin plates at
profit In response to queries by Mr.. Bur
rows, Mr. Crommeyer SAID that to manufac-
ture a box of tin plate in this country it
would cost about 50 30 while in England it
could be produced at 81 25 less. the differ
ence being attributable to the difference in
the cost Of labor. The present duty was not
protective one, but that proposed by the
Senate bin, while not as it ought to be, had
the merit of being protective. Ii the tin
plate industry could be built up in this
country it would support a number of people
nearly equal to the population of New York
city.
William Metcalf, of Pittsburg, interested
IN the product of crucible steel, impressed
tariff bad been placed on steel and iron the
cost to the consumer Of articles manufac
tnred OF those materials had been reduced.
He stated that he sold steel to Mr.. Fisher TO
be used In the manufacture of anvils and