Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1892-12-09

General Miller, means that 'no foreign
power has the right to interfere with
the autonomy of any government upon
the Western Hemisphere, nor to inter
fere with the safe conduc, of these gov
ernments. Foreign powers have not
the right, nor will they be allowed,
to assume possession of territory or to
invoke the aid of arms" in interfering
with the management Panama
railroad, which was built by American
capitalists; but this government has a
minister in Central America for the
special purpose Of looking after our ia
terests and until his report is made no
official notice will be taken of these al
legations. By virtne of treaty be
tween the Republic Of New Grenada
and the United States, which is still en-
forced and which cannot be affected by
any changed of owne, ship in the trans
Isthmus railroad, our citizens are given
certain rights of traffic on that railroad
and those rights will be maintained by
this administration by force if ncces.
sarv. That's all there is to it.
Senator Chandler will head Il crusade
against immigration at the coming ses-
sion of congress, which has for its pur
pose the shutting out of all immigrants
for a period of at least five years. The
fight III congress will be opened when
the Joint senate and house Immigration
committee shall make its report upon
which it is now working, after SPEND
many months investigating immigra-
ton. The national platform upon
which Mr.. Cleveland was elected is
pledged against further restriction of
immigration in these woIds: eve
condemn and denounce any and all at
tempts to restrict the immigration of
the industrious and worthy of foreign
lands," but that does not prevent many
prominent democrats agreeing with
Senator Chandler that there is need for
Il temporary if not permanent stop.
page of immigration.
Death is again lowering over the
White House. This time it is DR.. Scott,
the aged father of the late Mrs. Harri-
son, who is waiting the summons to
join his beloved daughter who has SO
recently ''gcne before" The physicians
have informed the president that owing
to DR. Scott's age-he is past ninety.
three-there IS little or no hope of his
recovery from his present illness,
which dates from his trip to 1ndianapo.
listo see Mrs. Harrison buried. He may
go off any hour or he may linger for
several weeks.
Who ought to know best the condi-
ton of Mr.. Blaine's health, his family
and his physician, or the newspaper
men, who, in obedience to orrers from
their editors. are filing their papers
with alarming and absurd steries about
it? His family and his physician say
that he is not seriously i'll, and has not
been seriously i'll since his return to
Washington, and / believe them. It is
expectedthat Mr.. Blame will 60 to Cal
ifornia in few days to remain until
spring.
General Rosecrans, who, although a
democrat, has remained register Of the
treasury ever since he was appointed
to that position by Mr.. Cleveland, has
made himself very solid with the
clamorous horde of democratic Office
seekers, which has already made its APP
pearance in Washington, by in his an
nual report a TRADE against the work
ing of the civil services examination.
The democratic feeling against this law
which they regard as the only barrier
between them and the offices, is 80
strong that it will not be surprising il
the democratic congress makes the law
a dead letter by Intentionally failing to
make an appropriation to carry it out
If they dared they would repeal it out
right, but Mr.. Cleveland has SO often
pledged himself in favor of the law
that he could hardly afford to approve
its repeal, although there is reason to
believe that he would not ba excessive.
ly grieyed to see congress neglect to
make an appropriation for it.
Present indications are that there will
be as bitter q fight among the deme-
Gratis as to whether an extra sessions
of congress shall be called to smash the
tariff as there will be over the tariff it
self when the democratic congress does
get together, whether in extra or regu-
lar session., Feeling on the subject is
already running high among democrat
ic senators and representatives, but 1t
safe to predict that Mr.. Cleveland's
opinion will be backed by great ma
jority of the party, the loaves and fishes
which he has. to distribute make him
tempo, arily powerful in his party.
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