The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-16
THE PASSING THRosG.

Rev I. McCowan, Of Morayshire, Scot
land. is tourist stopping az the RsinN.
He is = Presbyterian minister making his
frs; visit TO Amer1ca, and when seen By
reporter last night was fillisg memoran-
dunn book with his impressions .of all
the places have seen in this country Sc
cattle is the finest" said he. mot only IN
beauty Of location and surroundings, but
in apparent vigor, enterprise and activity.
/ shall spend about eleven weeks on nv
trip, which must therefore be rather hur-
ried. Otherwise I should like 10 remain
here longer. I had not heard that the
house of lords had thrown out the home
rule bill. but am glad to learn 1t now.
The bill vas TOO radical, and gave up too
much to the local government which
should have been retained by the i'm
periai government. / am in favor OF
home rule for Scotland and England. as
veil as tor Ireland, but I think that il
Gladstone were TO go before the people
now on the single question of Irish home
rule he would be defeated. As for the
lords, I have little respect for the person
mel of that body, and there should be some
means adopted whereby such body
might become elective. The great trouble
themselves incapable of self-government,
although the religious question has in
tensified feeling very much on both sides
A great deal of capital is made Of the fear
of Catholic domination in Ireland if 1t
should be granted the powers OF govern
ment, but think that is greatly exagger-
ated. Although / am Presbyterian.
think the Catholic church is far more
&~t~ a. hnVN AMI N A..
tons. 1t no doubt seems to you Ameri-
cans as if it would be an easy matter TO
change forms of government with US.
But you started anew from the beginning;
you are not oyerpopulated; you have q
high civilization here, and you simply ex-
pand in whichever direction you choose.
With Us it is quite different. In addition
to learning new system We must uniearn
an old one. An old tree cannot be bent SO
easily as young one"
]. B. Keeny, of Pendleton, Or, super
intendent of the California, Oregon and
Idaho Stage Company, is at the Grand.
Said he last night: ~ came up here to
sublet the mail route between Getcheli
and Silverton, on which our company has
contract with the government. | pre-
sumo, however, that as soon as the Monte
Cristo road gets to running regularly the
star route will be abandoned and the con-
tract given TO the railroad. In q very
short time now there will be general
letting of all the mail carrying contracts
for four years. and / presume that there
will be great many changes in the routes.
Up until few years ago there were no
public records kept of these contracts, but
now every contract is clearly designated.
the amount of the contract and the name
of the contractor, as well as of the sub
contractor, and all the circumstances con-
nected with the contract are kept for pub
lie inspection at the department. The
result is that number of SPECTATORS have
started TO bid on these contracts within
the last few years, with the result that the
mail service has been ruined. We call
these people systematic bidders, because
they bid, not according TO the merits of
the case or from acquaintance with the
route, but simply according TO system.
For instance, they inspect the record and
figure that if A could manage this con-
tract for 81, 600 last year they can do 1t for
$3.50. BY undertaking. they get the con-
tracts and then hunt around for sub-con-
tractors and give an inferior and unrelia-
bic service. These spectators never leave
their Office desks. and they figure that if
they can make 800 on each contract and
can get 1000 contracts they will make
profit of Sl00. 00O."
Thomas Maloney, of Port Angeles. is in
the CITY, He told Posr-ISrELLIGEScER
reporter last night that DIR. j. p. FrizeIl
and c. p. Dyer, of Port Angeles, have
made gold discovery at the head of
Frazer creek, about five miles from that
city. They have been prospecting in
that neighborhood fo- some time. !" said
he, ''and on Thursday they put in blast
on ledge they had found and good vein
of ore was opened up. The find has greatly
excited the people of Port Angeles, and
many of them have gone to the hills in
search of the yellow stuff"