The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March II, 80.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., March II, 90
War with Great Britain would not
necessarily follow if this Government
should decide, AS it probably will, unless
Lord Salisbury shall change his mind
about that modus vivendi, To send ma.
val force To Behring Sea strong enough To
seize all the poaching seaers, but it
would certainly be expected, and, truth
to tell, welcomed bv lots of people in
this ecu TRY. President Harrison has
s'nt the arbitration treaty and all the
correspondence not before made public
To Congress, and nothing more will prob
ably be done until Lord Salisbury an
swers the communication protesting
against his declining To renew the modus
vivendi which, although signed by Mr..
Wharton, who is acting Secretary of
State during Secretary Baine's illness,
was written by President Harrison and
unanimously approved by Cabinet
meeting. 1t is written in the smooth
language of diplomacy, but Lord Sails
bury will have no difficulty in reading
between the lines the expressed determi-
nation to maintain at all hazards the po-
sition taken from the first.
I'm the Senate there is very decided
disposition to retaliate upon Canada
should Lord Salisbury adhere to his re-
fusal To renew the modus vivendi, in fact
there would be little or no difficulty in
getting the sanction of Il majority of the
Senate To an open declaration of war
against Graf Britain, so intense is the
feeling against the government of that
country.
\ large number of petitions from the
Farmers Alliance in various sections of
the country asking for legislation in nc
cordance with the principles of that or
ganilation, wep presented Ia Congress
this week The Pure Fool bill, which
has been advocated 10y Representatives
IF that organization, was passed 10y the
Senate
Commodore Folger, Chief of the Ord
nance Bure III of the Navy, who is in
charge of the gun shops at the Washing
ton navy yard, testified before the sub
committee of the House Committee on
Labor this week, on the advantages of
the eight hour law, as did also Col Ernst
and Gen. Casey, of the Engineer Corps
of the Army; but Commodore Folger's
statements were much the strongest - i'm
fact no stronger argument was ever made
in favor of the eight.hour system than
his statement of how il works on his de-
partment He said that he believed it
would he great blessing If the system
were universally adopted, that the labor
and work would he improved that at
the Washington navy yard he was turn
ing out better aud cheaper guns under
eight hours work per dav than the con-
tractors were doing under the ten hour
system.
The River and Harbor Committee will
grant no more hearings, rs its members
are already committed To appropriations
that will make the bill carry about 500,
0OO. 600, and they fear Ia run il any
higher. The river aud harb0r bill j., to
speak paradoXically, both popular and
unpopular Ii is popular in those see
tions which get or expect tn get appro-
prlatiOnS for the Improvement OF rivers
and harhorS, and unpopular in the sec
tons which have neither rivers nor har-
bors to be improved. You tickle me
and I'll tickle you " is the principle upon
which it is made up and passed.
The United States Patent Office is the
one branch of Uncle Sans business eS-
adjustment carried on at profit, il
having earnings To its credit in the treas,
ury of about Sl,000,O0O, portion of
which one patent commissioner after an
other has begged Congress Ia spend in
giving the office room enough to transact
It's business properly, Congress has
turned deaf ear to these Appeals, and
now the manufacturers, inventors, own
ers of patents aud Others who find IL
helpful TO get copies of patents are to
suffer for the negligence OF Congress, as