Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-17
President Harrison Makes a
Speech to Them.
BLAINE ON RECIPROCITY.
Boiler Explosion, James Parton
Dead, National Guard at Worlds
Fair, A Live Trolley Wire, Dis
cOvery Of Gems, To Educate
Negroes, A Bean Train, State
and Foreign News, etc,
rHE METHODIST couNcIL.

II AA0AAoA A00ANNAAAt
, WASHINGTON, ID. C., Oct. IL
: Preside mt Harrison today attende
!, the eclmenical Methodist Counci
IN response to repeated calls, th
!, president made a short address, /
which he said: "I came here thi
murning tp make expression Of M
pspect and esteem for this grea
!, ludr Of delegates assembled from al
!. .mutrirs in the world, and mucl
usre to give manifestation Of m,
!, e-pect and love for that create
a,dyof christian men andwomen fo
yhumyou stand. Every ecumenica
! conference is distinct step in thai
lireciiom. Not only Of unifieation
( the church, but unification OF
humanity. You have today as a
hcme of discussion, the subject OF
International Arbitration and this
peiug a public and enlarged use OF
he word, perhaps makes my pres
nee here AS an officer of the United
states especially appropriate. Zap
! plause. The subject is one which
mas long attracted the adherence OF
he United States, as that of any
i,her christian power in the world"
BLAINE WRITES A LETTER.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-An Ohio
.diror having written to Mr.. Blaine
hat Democratic papers were parad-
ing him as an opponent Of the Nc
Kinley bill, he replies: Augusta,
Me-, Aug. IA, ls9l.-John Hopley,
Esq, Editor Of the Journal, Bucy. !
rus, Ohio-My Dear Sir:-You in
form me that a Democratic paper in
your town, and many Democratic
papers throughout Ohio, keep the
following paragraph standing in
type: But there is not a section or
line in the Mckinley bill that will
open a market for another bushel of
wheat or another barrel of pork. !
(Signed) james G. Blaine To Sen
ator Frye, July IL, 1890. This sem
tence is garbled aud taken from its
proper connection. What / did say |
is tha following: Il do not doubt
that in many respects the tariff bill /
pending in congress is a just meas
ure an that most of its provisions |
are in accordance with the wise poll
cy of protection, but there is not a
section or line in the entire bill that
will open market for another
bushe o. wheat or another pound of
pork The letter in which this
paragraph occurs was written to
Senator Frye, July IL, 80, and the
Mckinley bill did not become a law
until Oct. lst, nearly three months
thereafter. In my letter to Senator
Frye, | objected to the bill because
Ii did not contain a reciprocity
clause, which would provide mar
ket for wheat, pork, aud other prod
ucts Of the farm, and for various
fabrics. Before the bill was finally
passed reciprocity clause was In
serted and a large addition made to
the free list. 1t will therefore be
seen from what said in my letter
that the objection which | made to
Mex nley bill was entirely removed
before the bill became law. Let
me further say that the reciprocity
clause has given ample market for
many barrels Of -four and many
pounds of pork.
Brazil some months ago entered
INTO treaty by which many Ameri.
,an articles were admitted free.
iour is admit "a fires and pork ad-
mitted at nominal duty. Cuba
and Porto Rico have reduced the
duty on Hour from $3.50 a barrel to
sl.0O (which gives Us the market), |
besides putting nearly IA hundred
articl, of American production on
the free list. San Domingo has
made reciprocity treaty with flour
and pork on the free list, besides u
large number of other articles
Other treaties for reciprocity are in
progress. Germany, without nego
tiating formal treaty, has removed
the prohibition on pork, and eur
In consideration thereof,
has left her sugar on the free list.
This opens TO us entirely new
market, aud Sl5,0O0,OOO 10 $40, ,OOO,-
900 of American pork will be con
sumed per annum where not
pound has been taken for ten years.
The reeiproclty provision Is proving
very successful, especially In farm
products, and more particularly Ia
the case OF the two articles men
toned la the paragraph quoted
Hour aud pork. | am not, therefore,
an opponent OF the Mckinley bill as
Democratic papers In Ohio are con-
,tantly alleging; ON the contrary, |
have cordially supported II ever since
4 was perfected by the Insertion of
he reclprociIy clause. Very re-
ours. James q. Blaine.
nOIIFR FNPLOslON.
JACKSON, Miss, Oct. l7.-At
Harrisburg a saw mill boiler explod-
d killing sam Harold aud Ephram
iailey and morally wounding
Alien Lindsey.
JAMES PARTON DEAD.
NlwBUkYpuRE Mass, oct. IL.
Jane Parton the well known