Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-15
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Secretary Blaine DeVoting His Time to
the Reciprocity Question.
THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Fears of an Uprising Among the
Indians at the Pine Ridge
Agency.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD uN1oN.l
RECIPROCITY.
Secretary Blaine Devoting His Time to
the Subject.

Secretary Blaine Devoting HIS Time TO
the Subject.
WASHINGTON, November 14th.-Blaine
has not been distracted from his work on the
reciprocity plan by the excitement of the
election, and he may give his party some
things to consider before the next session
of Congress has ended, which will relieve
them somewhat from the depressing effect
of the election Just passed 1t is believed
that the reciprocity plant of B!aines, with
little hot house treatment at this time, is
going to bad and blossom and bear fruit.
1t is noted of Blaine that when he takes
hold of thing he does 1t in earnest. He
hss leeway from now until 1892 for nego-
tiations with the Spanish. American nations
for reciprocity, but he is at work on the
matter now as if they were things to be ac-
com plished at once. He is secluding him
self from the public to great extent, and
is devoting nearly all his time to work on
his plan, which it is said he believes will
be the salvation of the party, and which
will certainly make him the great man OF
the party if successful.
He would probably prefer the fame of
having developed our trade on the other
continent and giving new impulse to our
national prosperity, to that of being Presl-
dent.
Doubtless Blaine saw the cyclone COM
ing, and he devoted himself more earnestly
to his task of preparing the means of es-
cape from the lasting injury, and within
the past two weeks he has had the east
dining.room at his house fitted up as an
office and consulting room, and many times
day be has received visits there from
diplomatic representatives of the Spanish
American Republics He has denied him
self to other callers, and has devoted him.
self to conferences with these diplomats, and
il may be assumed that these conferences
have not been fruitless since all the parties
to them have had practically the same OBJ
ject in view.
The presence at Washington of Pitkin,
our Minister 10 the Argentine Republic,
and Conger, our Minister to Brazil, are not
without significance. There are reasons
| why negotiations with the Argentine
! might be conducted at Buenos Ayres, and
| this makes it important that our Minister
there should confer personally with the
Secretary of State after having been in
| conference with the Argentine Govern
| ment.
Negotiations with Brszil have probably
advanced further than any others. Senior
Salvador De Mendonca, Special Envoy Ex-
traordinery and Minister Plenipotentiary
to this country from Brazil, has gone home,
taking with him some important papers.
He will be gone just about as long as it
will take for him 10 get down there, have
the treaty signed and get back again. Be-
fore Congress has been in session month
| the Senate will probably have treaty with
Brazil to consider.
The progress OF friendship and associa-
ton with Peru and Colombiais satisfactory
also, but it is thought that we may not be
making as much progress with Chile
Chile is not as cordial in its love of the
| United States as some of the other Span
| ish-American nations. In Cuba there is q
| tremendous agitation of the question of
reciprocity with the United States. Just
| what is the disposition at Madrid is yet to
| be found out There has been change in
the Cabinet there, and the new Spanish
Minister here was presented to the Presi-
dent to-day Our Minister to Spain, Grubb,
| is on his way TO Spain, having full iDstruc-
| tions in his carpet bag.
! The Governor General of Cuba has called
| the Chairmen of the Chamber of Com
merce Economic Society Union of Cigar
Manufacturers, ard Board of Trade of
Havana to the Palace, and conveyed to
them a communication from the Govern
ment at Madrid, asking them to send to
| Madrid, in union with the Chamber of
! Commerce at Santiago de Cuba, delegates
representing each body, to give the Foreign
| Office their views on the subject. These
commercial bodies will act upon their re-
quest, and throughout Cuba there is great
enthusiasm in favor of reciprocity.
CUBA FAvoRs IT.
| WASHINGTON, November 14th-The De-
partment of State has received a dispatch
! from Consul General Williams at Havana,
stating that the Chairmen of the various
! business associations have been requested
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| to go to Spain and report their views upon
the negotiation of reciprocity treaty with
the United States.
He also incloses a translation from an
editorial of a leading Havana paper
strongly favoring reciprocity, and taking
to task the Spanish Government for pro-
nouncing the petitions from Cuba impru-
dent, and as tending 10 encourage the
! Yankees TO be more exscting." The edi-
| torial goes on to say that the United States
| Government is in possession of most exact
information concerning Cuban affairs. and
| that information in possession Of Secre-
tary Blaine is of so decisive a character as
! to enable him to say TO Spain: Agree, as
| is just, to my policy Of commercial reci-
! procity, or | will sink the sugar planta-
| tons of Cuba"
The editorial adds that the day this
! prime industry is lost, ali minor industries
will be lost with it. All other industries,
| it says, live and flourish because we plant
| cane to make sugar and sell il to the
| United States. Blaine knows this, and
acts accordingly. Our campaign had to be
/ undertaken.
SPAIN INTERESTED.
| WASHINGTON November 14th.-Some in
| teresting remarks bearing upon reciprocity
| were exchanged today on the occasion of
| the reception of Senior Guanes, the new
| Spanish Minister to the United States, by
| President Harrison.
Senior Guanes said "The international
exchange of products and manufactures of
the United States and Spain Is surely one
| of the necessary laws that are based upon
the instincts and universal needs of the
present day, and the greater the difference
between their customs, dispositions and
| the productions of their labor so much
more necessary is it for the nations to come
| closer together and increase their ex-
! changes. To maintain these interests and
10 contribute to their development, should
| be an object of most solicitous care"
( President Harrison, in replying, said :
| 1T is most gratifying that in thus entering
| upon your mission you express in the
name of your Sovereign and the Spanish
nation a warm desire for continual har-
mony of relations and intimacy of inter
| course between the United States and
/ Spain. Inspired by like sentiments,
count upon your promised aid in develop
J ing the large relations and close ties of
! amity and commerce which both nations
desire for their reciprocal advantage"