The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-08-29
THE INSTRUMENTATION CON-
SsRESS.


lean nations have begun to arrive, the depu-
tation from Brazil having reached New York
last week. The Congress will meet at the
beginning of October, and continue indefn-
itely. The first thing on the program will be
q grand tour of the country, which will last
about six weeks, an appropriate preliminary
to the deliberations of the body. Before do
ing anything else tits highly important that
the delegates, most of whom have never be-
fore been in the United States, should make
an inspection of its chief industries and &C
quire some knowledge of its extent and
resources. A special train will leave Wash
ington on the Sd of October, carrying the
foreign delegates, with the North American
Commissioners and representatives from the
State Department. The first trip will be
through New England, where Fall River,
New Haven, Hartford, Meriden, and other
points in Connecticut will be visited, in
order to inspect the great mills where
textiles, firearms, screws, and various other
products are manufactured. Yale College
will also be looked at, and the first Sunday
will be spent at West Point
The party will then proceed to Bos-
ton, and also visit the shoe factories aud
cotton mills ut Lynn, Lowell, and other
towns, going on to Portland, Me. The dele
gates will cross over to Troy, N. Y, and after
passing through the leading manufacturing
towns in the Hudson Valley, will spend their
second Sunday resting ut Niagara Falls.
An inspection of the petroleum and natural
gas regions of the ohiovalley will follow, and
the travellers will proceed TO Chicago, thence
to Minneapolis and ST Paul Then the Corn
Palace at Sioux City will be presented TO
their admiring gaze, and they will pass
south through Kentucky and Tennessee,
viewing the wonders of the Mammoth Cave
and the farms where race-horses are bred.
The tour will also include visit to some of
the immense stock-farms and agricultural
implement manufacturing towns of the Mis-
sissipi Valley. The journey will wind up at
Cincinnati November S, where our friends
viii be initiated into the modus operandi of
losing or carrying an American election.
1t is TO be borne in mind that this Con-
gress is simply an advisory body, and has no
authority TO conclude anything which will
affect the relations of their Governments
with the United States or each other. Each
delegation will, however, make report TO
its own Government as to the result of their
observations and consideration of many very
important matters.
One of the prime objects Of the Congress
is to attempt an arrangement for the main
tenance Of peace in future between all the
nations OF this hemisphere. The plan so far
as indicated, and which win probably be
favored, is TO establish an international
court Of arbitration, 10 which all difficulties
shall be referred, and whose decisions shall
be accepted as absolutely final, without re-
sort to arms. The statesmen of South and
Central America fully realize that their re-
sources for many years have been practically
consumed in warning upon each other, and
all seem in mood 10 resor. to some means
for the maintenance Of a permanent peace
Another question which is very important,
and which viii be taken up in erteHso, is the
standard Of monetary values for the conye-
nience of commercial transactions between
the United States and the South American
countries and between each other. Silver In
the money standard in all these countries,
but, strange 10 say, in no two of them il the
silver dollar of the United States received
at the same value. So embarrassing is this
condition OF affairs that the merchants Of
the United States in the South American
trade reduce ali their financial transactions
to pounds, shillings and pence, English
money having n uniform value throughout
these countries.
Another point to be taken up will be the
establishment, If possible of some uniform
system of customs regulations, by means of
which the fines and penalitles row 40 dam
aging TO our commerce mas DO avoided and
some common form of manifests adopted.
Naturally the question Of reciprocity
treaties and customs duties will also be con-
sidered, although the fate of our treaty with
Mexico does not give much encouragement
to hope for progress in this direction.
In spite OF the energetic opposition of
English and German influence, the Con-
gress promises to be the most important
in its results of any international meeting
which has ever convened on this continent.
and it is viewed with alarm at London and
Berlin.
PULL TOGETHER.
Nothing is 30 important 10 the interests of
the veterans, in view Of the early assembling
of Congress, AZ unanimity ofaction An army
of sfraoglera never WON a hattie A.,