Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-31
A BLOW AT CANADA.
Harrison and His Advisers Will De-
liver 1t, and 1t Is Going to Be
A HARDER ONE THAN THE LAST.
The Long Threatened Proclamation Against
Dominion Railroads
EXPECTED TO BE ISSUED VERY SOON

rsPEc1AL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPATcH.l
WASHINGTON, Dec 30.-It is stated to-
day, on trustworthy authority, that Presi-
dent Harrison, the Secretary of the Treas
ury and the Secretary of State have prac-
tically determined to make the outgoing OF
| the Harrison administration notable by a
blow at Canada much more vital than the
recent order imposing tolls on Canadian
vessels passing through the st. Marie Ship
Canal at the entrance of Lake Superior.
The blow will come in the shape of the
long-threatened Presidential proclamation
curtailing or abolishing the privilege now
enjoyed by Canadian railroads of transport
ing merchandise in bond through the
United States free of duty under system
very advantageous to the foreign roads at
the expense of the American companies.
There have been promises of such retaIia-
tion as this for several years, and they all
were broken, but there is every indication
now that the step SO long contemplated by
the United States Government is about to
be taken. The attorney of the Canadian
Pacific road is here in consultation with the
Congressional friends of the Canadian
roads, and there is evidence of genuine
alarm in the minds of the friends OF Cana
dian interests.
Senators Frye and Cullom. both of whom
are known to be anti-Canadian in their sem
timents on this question, are said to be ad-
Yising the President to take some radical
step in this direction to bring Canadian
roads to terms not only on the canal ques-
tion, but to force them to do what it is
claimed thev are not now doing, viz: OBJ
serve the requirements of the Interstate
commerce law.
An Old Cullom Plan Once More.
Senator Cullom's well-known aud often
expressed opinion that the Canadian roads
were able to evade, and are constantly evad-
ing, the Interstate commerce law, TO the
uni ust disadvantage of American lines
coming into competition with them, leads
him to join hands with the President in an
effort to bring that within the jurisdiction
of the United States, that this discrimina-
tion may be put stop to.
The Secretaries of the State and Treasury,
it is understood. are fully looking into the
whole matter, with view to carrying out
the line of policy indicated by the refer
ence to the subject in the Presidents mes
sage, and the uncertainty as to just how
much the President is in earnest In the
matter is what is troubling those interested
on behalf of Canadian roads to have the
present, to them, very beneficial policy
continued.
Quietly Encouraging Help.
The representatives of the great Amer
lean lines injuriously affected by the policy
now in force are quietly but energetically
encouraging the move, and are confident
that some definite result greatly cartailing
the transportation privileges of Canadian
roads will soon result. They say that
there is just one way to bring
Canada to terms on the unjust
and irritating Determinations made by her
against many American interests, and that
is by cutting off the transportation favors
granted her railroads by our Government,
as their claim is that Canada's commercial
life and vitality is largely centered in the
be nefts derived by her through her two
gr eat trunk lines out of these very priv
ileges, and that some decisive move on the
part of the administration will result not only
in bringing Canada down from her unjust at
titude toward American interests, but will