The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-21
Secretary of War Ayers Prepare
tiOns for Sending Provisions to
the Hungry ProspectOrs.
SECTION % OF TARIFF LAW
DECISION EXPECTED SOON FROM
THE BOARD OF APPRAISERS.
Commissioner of Pensions Evnns's
Reasons for Opposing Features of
the Civil-Service Law.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-A response has
been received to a recent letter from Sec
rotary Gage to the Canadian commissioner
of customs, requesting information as to
the bonding of miners outfits through
Canadian territory route from Juneau.
Alaska, by way of the Chikoot pass and
the Yukon river to Circle City Alaska. The
commissioner says the following regulations
have been prepared to meet the case:
Imported goods, as above described, shall
be reported to the Canadian custom house
Lake Tagish, and may be entered for ex-
portation there on the usual form in tran
stu in duplicate. The goods may then be
delivered without payment of duty, to be
carried to their destination out of Canada
by any transportation company which has
duly executed a bond in the form pre-
scribed by the minister of customs, for the
due and faithful delivery of all packages
carried by such company and for the gen.
eral compliance with the customs laws and
regulations governing such traffic. A dupli-
cate of the entry in transitu, duly signed
and marked with the proper customs stamp
shall accompany each shipment of goods
conveyed by bonded carrier so that the
same may be returned to the customs house
at Fort Cudahy, with a certificate thereon
as to the landing of the goods in the United
States or of their having passed outwards
from Canada within six months from date
of entry
'If the goods when entered in transtu for
expectation are not delivered to be for
warded by a bonded carrier. as provided
in the last preceding section. the duty
thereon is to be deposited with the customs
officer at Lake Tagish, subject to refund
,1ol,
the goods pass outwards thereat. or upon
the certificate of an officer of the United
States or Of the Canadian customs that the
said goods have been landed in the United
States within six months from the date of
the in transitu entry. The duty deposited in
such case is to be Endorsed on the entry
and certified by the customs officer in
charge, and the duplicate of the entry duly
certified and marked with the customs
stamp, is to be delivered to the person
making the deposit of duty. A report Of
each entry in transitu shall be forwarded by
mail without delay by the customs officer
at the sending port to the collector of Gus
toms at Fort Cudahy, for the collection of
duties on the goods entered in transitu and
not duly exported. The articles usually
classed as travellers baggage are to be
passed free, without entry"
Commissioner McDougall in a letter ac-
-
they are framed with the desire to afford
the utmost facilities for the traffic in QueS-
ton, compatible with security to the reve-
nue.. He further says: Responsible trans
portation companies will doubtless be soon
in operation for the conveyance of goods
over the Chilcat and other passes down the
Yukon river and its tributaries, in which
case United States goods may so forward
in bond to Alaska, without payment of
duty"
Secretary Alger to-day cabled to William
A. Kjellmann, the chief government rein
deer herdsman, who is now in Alien, Nor
way, to inform the War Department i'm
mediately how soon six hundred reindeer
can be shipped to this country. These are
wanted for use as draft animals in getting
supplies to the miners in the Klondike
region. 1t is expected that they must be
transferred at New York to the railroads
and in that manner carried across the con-
tnent and again by sea from the Pacific
coast up to Dyea or such other point as
may be selected as the base of operations
by the relief expeditions. Secretary Alger
has determined after advising with the
and persons who have had much expert
ence in Arctic regions, to make large use
of condensed food preparations. Not only
Will the meats taken be in the most con-
centrated form, but particular efforts are
making to secure condensed preparations
of vegetables, such as potatoes and onions
Secretary Alger has begun an inquiry to
ascertain the amount of such stores avail
able for purchase by the government and
the prices demanded for them The State
Department has already asked the British
government to request of the Canadian gov
eminent permission to pass these stores
through Canadian territory free of duty 1t
Is not anticipated that any objection will
be made to granting this request nor to
accompanying request that will be made
for permission for our soldiers to pass over
the Canadian territory as guards for the
expedition, although an order of the PriVy
Council will be required for the suspension
of duties