The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1897-05-07

been asked TO resign, and the same
course, with pos~ibly an exception here
and there for personal reasons, IL ey.
pected W be followed In all branches
Of the government service. The dr-
traction Of a number Of clerks In the
Pension bureau as acting chiefs" 10
taken to mean that those positions will
shortly he taken from under the civil
service rules. and men outsids Of tie
service appointed to fll them.
Mr. Lorin A. Thurston. who was
Hawaiian minister To the United States
until virtually compelled to resign by
Secretary Gresham and President
Cleyeland's treatment, md who IL now
In Washington a. a special commissioner
Tor the purpose Of helping along the an
neXation idea, has presented state
ment to the Senate committe on III
nance showing why Hawaii dosen't
approve Of the proposition to provide
for the abrogation Of the reciprocity
treaty, In the Dingley tariff bill. After
enumerating reasons why the United
States should not abrogatc the treaty,
Mr.. Thurston says: IN the treaty
IL abrogated, Hawaii will be free To
make such arrangement. with other
countries as circumstances may require.
Strong and steadiast as the American
feeling ia In Hawaii, II the island pro.
ducts are barred out Of the American
market bya practically prohibitiyeduty,
they will be- compelled, In order to pre-
vent ruin to their chief industry, to
seek a market Ia Australia, Canada aud
England, and will BE- free to offer the
compensation for special trade privileges
herctsiorc accorded TO the United States,
aud now exclusively held by IL under
The terms Of the existing treaty" Mr..
rhurston concludes his statement with
this pen picture Of what would follow
abrogation Of the treaty INSTEAD Of
the United States remaining the prac.
teal sufcrnir power over Hawaii. ~ IL
now H. by the voluntary act Of the
United States, Hawaii will he turned
loose 10 become the prey Of the first
great nation which chooses to gather II
in aud the United States will be placed
upon an equality with England, France
and Japan, 10 thereafter engage in q
scramble for the control Of Hawaii un.
der the disadvantage Of seli.inhicted
handicap"
Representative Hit Of Illinois has
been telling some tales out OF school
which he thinks account for the enor-
nous number Of applications for consul.
ships at the beginning OF every new adj.
ministration. lie said: at Is the
women. You know how II Is. Brown
or Jones or Smith, when no has means
aud leisure, likes to take his family
abroad. When they come back his wife
aud daughters are flled with their ex,
periences. The whole town Ia fired
with emulation Now, John Jonei
may not have the means 10 20 TO Eur
ope, but he has influence in politics
When the political wheel turns and hi
party is up, he looks around to see wha
the reward for his services shall be
Lett to himself, he would probably bs
content with the pOstoilice. But hi
wife and daughters have had to lister
TO what tho Brown women or the Smitl
women say Of lie abroad, and, womel
like, they have listened with envy an,
fixed purpose to some day enjoy III,
experiences themselves. So. instead o
letting Jones ask for the postoiiice, the
insist that he must be consul some
whore. Their ideas may be it'll
indennAte about the nature and dutie
Of councils Office, but they know
means to 20 abroad, and that Ia enousl
for them. SO John Jones makes on
his application to be Consul General I
Paris, and writes his Congressman tina
while Paris is his first choice, he wi
, take something equally as good, but
, must be abroad. And thus are the live
|, Of Congressman made burden for tn
, first six months after new administra
tion comes into power. by that tim
I the consulates are all disposed OF, an
. the disappointed applicants can retur
' to the postofiices," Mr.. Hit ought t
a know, as In addition to his extende
service in the House he has been Al
a sistant Secretary OF State and ais