The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-02

acton OF MI. blalO6 III tcIuiludtiHS LIS |
relations with the President so abruptly,
The final cause, however, was not dis
closed until to-day.
The Canadian officials who came to
Washington to talk over the questions
pending between the State Department
and the Dominion had had one confer
ence the day preceding the resignation,
and met on Saturday, June 4th, to con-
tinue the discussion. Mr.. Blaine attend
ed the Cabinet meeting on June 81, but
remained only half an hour, excuslng
himself because of his desire to proceed
with the business of the Canadians.
AN INTERRUPTED EXPRESSION.
At the Saturday conference he was
making statement OF his views OF the
points in dispute and what in his ludg-
ment was the question at issue and the
remedy for the differences between the
two countries. There was also present
| John w. Foster, who has been attending
| to much State Department work during
Mr.. Blaine's absence and illness, and in
| the midst OF the remarks OF Mr.. Blaine
he is said to have interrupte him with
| the suggestion that the views just
expressed would hardly have the Presi-
| dents approval.
REBUKE TO FOSTER.
Mr.. Blaine proceeded with his re-
marks and reiterated what had already
been stated, and adding with emphasis
that the State Department was able to
take care of all the business belonging to
it without advice or interference from
any one occupying subordinate position
in it. Thereupon Mr.. Foster said he
| knew Mr.. Blaine was not presenting the
views of the President, and proceeded to
state them by his direction and in his
name.
Gentlemen" said the Secretary,
"this conference is adjourned" and he
quickly left the room, penning his reslg-
nation while his Indignation was at its
height
This statement now explains the con-
Guiding sentence of Mr.. Blaine's resigna-
ton: 1.-THE condition of public business
in the Department OF State justifies me
in requesting that my resignation be ac-
copied Immediately"
In other words, Mr. Blaine construed
| Mr.. Fosters statement as an announce
ment that he. and not Mr.. Blaine, was
the Presidents representative in the
State Department and that his official
rights and faculties as the Presidents
mouthpiece had been suspended.
Death of Emmons Blaine.
XEmmons Blaine, the eldest son
of James G. Blaine, died at Chi
eago on the 18th of blood poison
ing following an attack of inham-
nation of the bowels. He was
vice-president and manager of the
Chicago branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. Mr.. Blaine
was a conspicuous figure at the
Minneapolis Convention when he
+ warmly pushed his fathers candi.
( dacy and took his defeat very
much to heart. He was 35 years
of age and left a widow and one
son. His death was so sudden
that it was great shock to Mr.
Blaine. The National Democratic
Convention was in session at Chi
, cago shortly afterward and amid
great cheering message of condo.
lence was sent to Mr.. Blaine.
American News.
DIR. III. nj. Scudder of Chicago
who killed his mother-in-law, Mrs
T. H. Dunton, committed suicide
by morphine in the Chicago jai
on the Goth. He was we'll con
nected in San Francisco. A pos
mortem showed that his brain wa
badly affected and he was un
> doubtedly insane.
The police of Oakland have a
yet secured no clue to the robber
who robbed the manager of tn
J, Judson Manufacturing Compan,
on the Berkeley train of $4,000.
The levees of the Mississippi il
/. Louisiana have given away il
many places during the past fort
: night, and at one time the devasta
ton extended over nearly one
n third of the parishes of the State
Lake Pontchartram rose at on
time to such a height that the cit
was threatened.
A fearful cyclone swept owe
Minnesota on the 18th. It is est
mated that in all fifty people wer
killed and 900 injured. The prop
erty loss mounts into the millions
Reciprocity negotiations wit
China have been suspended.
- Foreign News.
i Ravashal, the infamous anarcf
:, list, has been convicted of murde
:, and will be guillotined. His tw
a accomplices were acquitted. Th
). condemned man has the reputatio
of being one of the worst wretche
~ in the history of France.
, Liverpool has been visited by
= great confagration which destroye
large portion of the warehouse
!, on the cotton docks. The fir
= burned for many hours and di
) enormous damage, but the figure
4 of the loss are not yet at hand.
% Sir William Gordon Cumming
q the hero of the baccarat scanda
e proposes to stand for Parliament a
q Unfonist candidate for Elgin.
q There is promise of anothe
- great contest of the anti-Pal
II nellites against the Parnellite
# in the coming Parliament
airy elections. A deputatio
from both parties in the Unite
States will visit England and tr