The morning call., 1891-09-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

According TO a Treasury Department official,
the Chinese smuggling operations are rapidly H.
creaslng, III. difficulties thrown in the way OF
tile snugslers by the Government officials hav-
ing only served 10 raise the price per head 10
get coolies 10 this country and thus 10 stimulate
the smugglers TO greater Efforts Seven months
ago the tariff was $40 TO S15 per man safely
brought across the border. There WERE" says
this Official, "a number OF we-recoguiz-d routes
by which they were brought over the border, and
a dozen Cinnamon in a skin from SaInia to Port
Huron, for instance. was very profitable fare
for the skiff. The American officers fell upon
the routes at about that time. j; was the open
Ing of he season Oh the Northern border, and we
made extra efforts, with success. BY the 1st Of
May $50 was The price, and there no falling
of Of unlawful emigrants. The month OF July
saw The price at from $50 10 $50, and now the
men who have made regulations AS successful
smuggiers have no difficulty in obtaining from
SIS to 500 per head, according to the physical
difficulties Of the route. Moreover a very large
number of new routes have been opened"
Consul-General New, when asked recently
what were the effects OF the Mckinley tariff on
the export tade in London and Great Britain
said: II can only give The facts that have come
under my observation in my own Office and those
that have been reported to me by the Consuls IN
der Ely jurisdiction. For the six months ending
June 30th OF this year there was a falling of Of
10 per cent in the number OF invoices at my Con-
sulate-GeneTal and decrease of from 10 TO 15
PEI cent in The value Of the exports ascompaTed
with the corresponding months Of 1890. During
the same period the reports from all the Consul
Iates in Great Britain show marked decrease In
exports of such articles as silks fine wOrsted
dress goods. fine unions, which are cotton and
linen mixed goods, WOOL camel ana goat hair
goods and manufactures Of steel, amounting APP
prOximatcly to so per cent, while the decrease In
the value OF cutlery exported amounted to about
co per cent"
The deliberations of the Irrigation Congress
at Salt Lake city Will be watched with con-
Siderable interest. The call for the congress de-
clares that It's sole purpose Is TO induce the
National aud State Governments to enact laws
whereby the arid lands can be best and quickest
brought Into the market, settled and developed.
1t further says: Without Offering any sugges
ton whatever as TO the plan 10 be pursued or the
legislation to be suggested each delegate Is re-
uuested to form his own ideas as to the most
beneficial and feasible legislation calculated &c
bring about the development and upbuIlding Of
the agricultural lands Of the Western States and
Territories" II Is expected that there viii be
delegations In attendance from California
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, IDAHO Montana
Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah.
New Mexico and possibly The Dakotas.
The Court OF Private Land Claims has organ
lied and adopted certain rules of preliminary
procedure, but so far it is said that not single
petition has been filed at lis Office In Washing
ton. They must, however, be filed within twC
years or be forever barred. A plausible reason
given for the delay OF claimants in getting theil
cases before the new court is the stringent pro
vision OF the rules Insisting full pressnta
tion OF a claimants title IN his petition. Tit
settlement OF these Mexican land grant contro
verses would result in vast tracts OF land being
brought under cultivation.
Berlin has novel Tapld-transit proposition
under consideratlon-the construction OF ele-
waited railroads with electricity for the motive
power The system Is to Include eight lines, the
estimated cost OF which Is nearly S17,0o0,000.