Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1895-06-01

. inasmuch as she had been deposed b,
the action of the officers Of the Unlte'
States. When congress finally mad
known it's views the secretary accept
ed them for his government, but it cal
not be discovered that he ever changed
his views as originally announced a
to the justice oi the action he pro
posed
While he was deep In the Hawaiian
negotiations Secretary Gresham wa:
obliged TO suddenly give immediate at
tentlon to the Behring sea seal fisheries
The arbitration arranged by his pred
ecessOr was in full swing. He did no
doubt but that the arbitration WoulC
be successful in the object aimed at BY
the United ateS, namely, the protec
ton OF the seals; but, regardless of the
| outcome, he was forced to bring the
| British government to a renewal OF the
modus FiEendi in order to guard against
the annihflation Of the seals. BY q
clause IN the Wilson tariff act. congress
had swept away ia line all the care
/ tully constructed reciprocity treaties
negotiated by the preceding administra-
| ton. This caused great anger among
! the nations with which the United
| states had such treaties, and the storm
! fell upon Secretary Gresham's head.
| Mr. Gresham's task to please the Euro
| pean powers, and how he did SO, the
/ printed correspondence tells. He fairly
amazed the Germans and Austrians by
! frankly admitting that they were right
| in claiming a remission Of differential
| duties upon beet sugars. that justice
| seemed to require this remission, and
| he would do all that could be done to
! make reparation-a promise which he
Faithfully endeavOred to redeem to the
last and thereby strengthened his own
hands in the veXatiOuS negotiations
looking to the removal of unjust and
oneruus restrictions placed upon the i'm
portation of American cattle and meats
Another legacy from his predecessor
which Mr.. Gresham found little to his
liking was the necessity for caring for
the Samoan king. held imprisoned on
the Sunday island by the Germans. He
wanted to repudiate the whole arrange
ment by which the United States as
sunled d part of tripartite protectora te
over Samoa. and he worked hard to
this end and finally succeeded in induc-
ing the president to recommend to con-
gress that the United States withdraw
from all further particira tion in the Sa-
moan affair.
He did all that a foreign officer could
do properly to prevent the atrocities o.
the Chinese-Japanese war, lost no op-
portunity at any stage to bring it to
an end, and ultimately, when peace was
restored, it was through the good offices
Of American ministers in China and ia
h irc
tions. And while he was doing this.
Secretary Gresham was also using his
good offices to prevent a war between
Mexico and uatemala, and in this he
succeeded completely, although he was
obliged to use very strong representa-
tons to do SO.
he fell mortally i'll was to open
to secure Justice for ex-United States
Consul Waller, whom he believed to
have been ill-treated by the summary
French court martial in Madagascar
His life is thus told in the congress
sonal directory:
Walter Quinton Gresham Of Chicago,
secretary Of state, was born near Lanes
vile, Harrison county, Indiana, March
the common schools, and the state uni
versity at Bloomington, Indiana He
studied law at Corydon, Indiana, and
was admitted to the bar in 1853 He was
elected to the state Legislature in 1860
but resigned in August. 1861, to accept
the lieutenant-colonelcy Of the Thirty
eighth Indiana regiment. He was pro-
noted to colonel Of the Fifty third Indi-
-, -,
brigadier-ge general in the August follow .
ing.
After the fall Of yicksburg he COM
manded the Fourth division of General
Blair's corps before Atlanta, in which .
fighting he was severely wounded. He .
was brevetted major-general of volun- /
teers March 13, 1865, for gallantry before
Atlanta.
AT the close Of the war he resumed the
practice Of his profession In New Al
bany. Indiana; was an unsuccessful .
candidate for congress in 1866; was
financial agent for Indiana in New
York, 1867-'68; was appointed United
States judge for the district Of Indiana
in 1859; resigned in April, 1882, to accept
the position Of postmaster-general, was
transferred to the treasury portfolio in
July, 1884, upon the death Of Secretary
Folger; in October, 1884, was appointed
United States Judge for the Seventh
judicial circuit; was prominently before
the national republican convention in
1888 as a candidate for president: was
rendered the nomina tion for president
by the populist party in 1892, which he
declined; was appointed TO his present
position by President Cleveland, and !
was confirmed March 9. 1893.