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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-26
AN ABSURD EXHIBITION.

The exhibition made by the crew of the
freboat Snoqualmie on Monday afternoon
deserves the condemnation passed upon it
by the members of the City Council who
were invited by the Fire Commissioners to
witness it. The Council has been endeav-
oring for some months to reduce the ex-
penditures OF the city to point nearer its
income, and has sought advice from all
departments proposed TO be affected. Chief
Kellogg has stated that he could submit
plan by which some of the cost could be
reduced, but no step was taken until the
retrenchment ordinance had passed both
houses and after many vexatious delays.
No possible good could come of an ex-
hibition pre-arranged to be failure. The
men under Chief Kellogg knew it was in
tended not to be success, and they were
not likely to jeopardize their places in the
department by endeavoring to controvert
in practice his avowed theory. Those who
were left on the boat to make the test were
subjected to the ridicule and the jealous
watchfulness of bystanders, most of whom
were in sympathy with the men-them-
celNtS Dy-SAOsc ScItlCco AZ do
proposed to dispense with.
The exhibition proved nothing except
the stubborness Of those members of the
fire commission who defiantly refuse to
listen to any suggestion of limit to the
appalling expenditure in that department
for nearly two years. 1t is to the credit of
three commissioners that they abstained
from the exhibition" as it was called.
With a somewhat pardonable pride in
their department they desire to keep it up
to the highest degree Of efficiency, and it
must have been notifying to them to
have motive-not discreditable in itself
-discredited by an absurd attempt at IT.
relevant argument.
The intention of the Council has not
been to cripple the freboat, but to man it
with sufficient crew for navigation, and
supplement that force by men from the
land contingent where its hose is called
into requisition on shore. This may not
be practicable, but the council is fairly
intelligent body and can comprehend a
rational statement. 1t is the first time on
record that department has called wit
nesses to its incapability.
The fire department is the weak spot in
the municipal government. 1t has brave
men and capable men among its members,
but courage is not always accompanied by
administrative ability, or efficiency in de-
tail by sense of responsibility. The in
surance managers are often quoted as dis
approving of retrenchment, but that is
unjust to them. They have consistently
urged upon the city government to main
tain the efficiency of the department. but
they have never countenanced undue ex-
penditure. The city desires the best
possible fire department within its means.
but it will have to be satisfactorily demon
strated that it is not paying too much for
what it has before confidence in its man.
| agement is restored.
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less To French consumers. The effect of
this decree il shown by the fact that our
exports of bacon, ham and pork rose In
value from s435, sos the fiscal year IN 1876
to $4,9s7, s73 in 1881, TO fall under the pro-
hibition to s4ss SIS in 1882 and $40, 100 In
1883. In 1880 out of about $40, 600 hundred
weight of pork imported IN France, Ioo,-
600 hundred-weight came from this coun-
try, and the remaining import Of 5000
hundred-veight from other countries has
been continued ever since. Our meat
products are practically prohibited from
entry into France, while our lard exports
to France, admitted after inspection, were
only two-thirds in 1880 of those in 1881.
As a result. while the total foreign inn
ports per head in France were practically
stationary from 1880 to 1887, or from
s23 65 to s2IO5, the consumption of the
United States produce fell from $3.50 per
head in 1880 TO $50 in 1887.
For nine years past, or since the prohi-
bition, sixth of our exports in value, or
visions, and half of these were hog pro-
ducts. These exports have renamed
stationary in value since the prohibition
imposed by France and Germany; but for
ten years before they had been rapidly
increasing, and, in the three years before
the prohibition, averaged SAC. 10000. The
result of these large exports was that for
four years, 1878 to 1881, 50 per cent. of our
lard product went abroad-a production
never maintained since.
These figures, for which we are indebted
to the Philadelphia Press, show that the
United States has lost half its old trade
with France in consequence OF its decree
against American pork.
Germany is another country that feeis
the hot iron of the Mckinley tariff in her
commercial side, and she, too, deserves no
compassion, for, like Great Britain and
France, she has Disseminated against
American products, 1t is in the power of
President Harrison, under the Mckinley
tariff, to severely retaliate by imposing a
duty on French and German sugars, or by
the prohibitory powers on trade vested in
the executive to press the bitter cup Of
prohibition to their own lips. The Amer
lean hog, excluded from Europe, is yet
able, through the present tariff, to make
the economic hog of Europe squeal.
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Secretary Foster has announced that he will
be ready to pay the a. per cent bonds due Sep
TENDER 2 About SIS, 900 600 of these bonds have
been extended, and the secretary says that it
will be no hardship for the treasury to be called
upon to pay those not extended. Under his
power to protect his gold reserve Secretary
Foster can sell a new bond at q lower rate for
gold to pay the "A per cent bonds. Secretary
Foster says: "The secretary has ample power
to maintain or increase the present reserve of
gold. may add that Mr.. Sherman fully agrees
with me regarding the legal power of the secre-
tary, as above expressed. do not see any oc-
casion for the exercise of this power, but do
not hesitate to say, should the occasion arise, I
shall not fail to use IT,"
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CODE AND STATUTES.
Judge w. Lair Hill's Great Work In
Nearing Completion

Apropos of the lawyers convention which is
TO De held at Tacoma tomorrow, W. Lair Hill
said, yesterday, in reply TO inquiries BY repre-
sentative of the PosT-ISTELLIeEScER. concern.
Ing the condition of the code AM statutes:
The volume containing the code proper. that
Is, the statutes of procedure and of crimes and
Their punishments, is already printed as finally
arranged, incorporating all the statutes of those
c. asses down 70 the close of the last session
ms OF course, embraces such amendstory and
modiiying statutes presented by me Is were en-
acted, and drops out such as were not enacted
thus making the volume different in MANY re-
sp@ets from that which handed the legislature
as an advance copy. ! am advised the work
viii De in the hands OF the public in q few DAYS
nave received few hundred pages of it and
consiaef II splendid job OF printing, whatever
may be said of ii in other respects. The task of
gong through and resrranging what was left in
oy the legislature and dropping out what had
esea embodied in the hrst dSsugnt. bus not
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PERSONAL MENTION.

-Drs. Darrin submit the following list
of names as reference of their cures:
b. +. Stout, Independence, Wash. deaf
ness, catarrh and lung trouble, cured.
Nels Ellison, 1927 E street, Tacoma,
cured OF discharging ears of twenty-five
years standing.
A. Jackson, Seattle, Wash.-Pain in his
back for four years, cured.
X. Griffith's son, Boisford, Wash.-Rheu-
matism and skin disease, cured.
I. l.. Mills, 80 Columbia street, Portland
Soreness through the kidney, liver and
stomach, Inflammation of the PROSTATE
gland and catarrh of the bladder, restored
to health.
A. A. Durham, Tualatin, Washington
Co., writes that Drs. Darrin are working
wonders on his kidney and bladder trou..
bies; also rheumatism of thirty years
standing.
Mrs. +. E. Dewey, 361 Seventeenth street,
East Portland, nervous and general de-
putty, heart disease, dyspepsia, liver COM
plant and female troubles in all its various
complications, permanently cured.
DIR. DARRIN's PLACE OF BUSINESS.
Drs. Darrin can be consulted free at THE
Normandy" corner Third and James
streets, Seattle. Wash, and will under no
circumstances take case they cannot cure
or oeneht. Charges reasonable. The poor
treated Tree from 10 TO Ii a. m. daily. Omce
hours. from 10 to O'Clock daily; evenings,
Z to s; Sundays, 10 to II. All durable
chronic and private diseases, as loss of
manhood, blood taints, syphilis. gleet,
gonorrhea, structure, spermatorrhoea, semi
nal weakness or loss of desire OF sexual
power In man or woman, catarrh and deaf
ness, are confidentially and successfully
treated. Cures of private diseases guaran-
teed and never published in the papers.
Most cases can receive home treatment
after visit to the doctors office. Circu-
lars and question blanks sent free. In
quiries answered.
n. b. The doctors have also an office in
Portland, where they can be consulted.
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enacted correcting errors, Typographical, CLERICAL
and editorial. and the like, was half as laborious
as lhat OF preparing TIE bills and arranging the
statutes in the first instance, besides being lar
less Pleasant The volume containing the mis-
cellaneous statutes required 70 be almost entire
ly remAde after the adjournment. Not only had
the failure TO record many suggested amend
nents made il necessary TO drop them out OF the
final publication, but many radical changes
were made in the laws passed BY the preceding
session OF the state Legislature In some instan-
ces page after page of stereotype was swept
away with the legislative broom, and IN one in
stance an tnadyertence OF my own IN marking
for use statute Of ls7s. carried away number
OF pages You see there was general impress
sion at the bar, and frequently voiced from the
bench, that the collection of statutes common
ly called the code of 1851, was simply revision
by the commissioner, and not legislative revis-
ion. This impression had under It the fact that
the session laws OF 1ssI contained no sucn acts
as those embraced in the code OF 1881. that the
territorial supreme court, or at least one Oh It's
judges In the famous woman suffrage case,
announced that there was in the legal view no
code OF 1851, and that in some other cases the
supreme court treated that code as mere COM
piiation. That impression has introduced Q
good deal OF confusion into the minus OF pEacti-
TONERS, and even into the courts, ana II leo me
into some errors in the first making OF the stat
utes tor comparisons, one or TWO OF Wnien
We're overlooked and went uneorrected into the
advance sheets which had printed for the leg
islature. OF course all these had TO be gotten
out and the plates corrected, which, though
not much of labor, consumed time. But now
that the work is about done, | feel sure that
when it shall all be published in regular form.
it will be found that the body of the statutes 10
not nearly so badly out OF balance as is gener-
ally supposed. In fact, the work OF the COM
mi ~
skill, and, saving the order of arrangement,
upon which each will leave his own ideas, the
code of procedure OF 1891 is quite up to the aver
age in the code states, and altogether best
when it has been least affected by subsequent
tinkeriug"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-26

The commercial public of the Pacific
coast have never beenfriendly to any full
legal tender coinage save that of gold.
The people of this Coast used gold only as
money during the war for the Union. and
on the passage of the legal tender act
California, Oregon and Washington at
once passed law making contracts pays-
bic in gold, and it was a severe term of re-
proach to say of any man that he had
''greenbacked" his creditor in payment
of gold debt. For this reason
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, and
all the Senator'S and Representatives on the
Pacific coast from 1870 to 1873 voted for
and favored the coinage act of 1873.
Whatever ''free silver" buncombe NAV be
found in the resolutions of local conyen-
tons of the Democratic or Farmers ALI
ance party on the Coast. our people of all
parties have always been opposed in prac-
tice TO anything but the gold standard on
which they stood during the war. and
they are opposed to il now.
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CALLED JADEs THAT DESERVE
TO VINCE.

Great Britain complains that the Nc
Kinley tariff severely pinches her trade.
She is entitled TO no sympathy, for she I'M
fairly Disseminated against American
cattle long before the enactment of the
present tariff. American cattle have to be
isolated and slaughtered Immediately on
their arrival in Great Britain, but no such
restrictions are imposed on cattle from
other countries. In consequence our
former large and profitable cattle trade
with Great Britain has been DESTROYED and
is now controlled by the Canadians.
who boast that it gave the Canadian
traders last year a clear gain of $1.125,OoO.
The excuse of Great Britain is her pre-
tended fear of pleuro-pneumonia, but there
has not been an authentic case of pleuro-
pneumonia among cattle shipped from
this country since the restrictions were
put in force. The Canadian railroads and
steamships are practically excluded from
shipping live cattle from this side for i'm
mediate slaughter in Grest Britain. and
the Canadian transportation COMPANIES
want these restrictions modified.
The United States need feel no sympathy
for either France or Germany when they
complain of the Mckinley tariff. for both
these countries discriminate against Amer
lean pork. Our laws treat the products of
all nations alike, and when we do not get
similar treatment of other products by
other nations, the President ought to ex-
ercise the powers he is clothed with and
retaliste upon countries that discriminate
against Us. The French decree excluding
American pork was issued in February.
1851, in the face Of the declaration of the
French Academy OF Mel cine that the
hos products u this county wsEs harm,
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The charter is to be revised by commit
tee completed yesterday. Its work is
strictly one of revision, and should not go
to the extent of altering its fundamental
principles. If that ever becomes necessary
the task should be delegated to specially
elected body, such as that which originally
designed it.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-26

Pennsylvania Republicans respect Harri.
son." says the Philadelphia Inquirer tRep.),
'but Blaine is their first love. The affection
and admiration which they feel for Blaine
Pennsylvania Republicans could not hide If they
would. The attempt to put out the enthusiasm
which his name inspires is as selfish as it is
hopeless"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-26

The United States was formerly dependent on
England for salt, but under the protective
tariff the manufacture of salt is now carried on
in nearly half the states of the Union. As ls,s
as 1874 We were heavy buyers of English salt,
paying 81 a ton for it at Liverpool. Better salt
is made and sold in the United States TO-DAY for
half the sum
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The Minneapolis Journal Rep) is strongly for
Blaine, and declares that 'the Republican
people of this country, by a good-sized
majority would like General Harrison to
understand that, while they think he has
given the country pretty good administration,
it will save him some disappointment if he
keeps out OF the race for the nomination"
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Jacob Furth i'm CaIiforpia.

The Colusa, Cal, Daily Sun of August Is, has
this to say of prominent Seattle citizen:
Jacob Furth, of Seattle, came in on the train
today. He went to MAXWELL yesterday, and to
his farm near Norman this morning. We al
ways hate to write ''of Seattle" after Mr. Furth's
name. He ought to have been "of Colusa' yet,
and would have been If the town had grown as
fast as Furth did. II there had been other men
who made money here, who had been willing TO
do something, Mr.. Furth would never have left
US. He was frst-class business man, not in
comparison with those of small places, but of
any place.
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First the thistles were barred by ordi-
nance, then the cows, and now the chick
ems. One by one the last traces of rural
life are wiped out of growing city. The
grass is still growing in some of the streets
of Chicago; but Seattle is going forward
with more rapid strides.
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The bonds have arrived, and as soon
as they are signed by the comptroller
and city clerk. viii be sent to New York.
The mayor will accompany them and sign
them there, in order to avoid the risk of
loss after they have become negotiable. 10
which they would be subject if signed by
him here.
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PROMINENT SAN FRANCISCAN.
Builder Of Cable Railways in That City
Visiting in Seattle.

Willing In seattle.
Mr.. Ira Bishop, manager Of the San Francisco
Tool Company, 10 at the Rainier hotel with his
wife. He 10 interested in q number of enter
prises, being superintendent of the Pacific
Power Company, president of the Piedmont
Cable Company, and director in the Piedmont
Bath and Power Company. Mr.. Bishop, who Is
DOW making pleasure tour through the North
west, came to San Francisco twenty years ago,
and he has taken prominent part in the build
ing of the cable roads of that city. He admires
eeattle's street railway system and its roads,
which far surpass his expectation.
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Already movement is on foot, headed by the
venerable Canon Farrsr. TO place bust OF
Lowell in the poets corner of Westminster
Abbey, and this viii doubtless be effected
shortly
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We take special pride in displaying our stock
street.
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NALl-A WALLA ADDITION
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Heavy Mess Pork, per brl. 81
New Seasons Pork, per hrl 81 log
snoar Crystals, per Ii. 81 GIG
f. to q. r. per Id 81
English Islands Molasses nol quoted.
Exchange New York and London Ash
London December Sth.
{ Uemerara Crystals >r cwt 18s Sd
Sugar Muscovalo pr cwt14s 81.
:. v1 German Beet eU 14s l01i
Demerara Rum rr gal. % lid. TO Is 21G.
Trinidad Cofna pr cwt E3 6s. Oh.
Conaols, e~x-inlerest 954
Bank ct England rate of Discount 4 pr ct.
liverpool Cotton, Mildlins upland u AZ
Three pr c. Rentesi in Paris 90 20
Sugar unchanged and firm.