The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-11-19
FOR THE RELIEF
az Ice Bound Whalers Reindeer VIII Be
Used-The Bear Will BE Ready to Sail
in About Twenty Days.

interior to instruct the Alaskan Off
Gals to gather about 600 head of rein
deer from the government herds for
the use of the expedition for the relief
of the ice bound whalers in the Arctic.
1t is expected that the Bear, which ID
now at Seattle, will be ready to sail in
about ten days and within twenty days
thereafter it is expected that she will
reach some point on Norton's sound,
where large party will be engaged
for the 600-mile overland trip to Point
Barrow. The herd of reindeer, which
will be killed for food if needed, will
fdent expectation OF Capt Shoemaker,
chief of the revenue cutter service, and
Capt. Hooper, who is in command of
the Boring sea patrol feet, that the
party will reach Point Barrow and
the imprisoned whalers before the
middle of February. The route over
which the herd will be driven is said
to abound in moss upon which the
reindeer feed, and both agree that the
scheme for the relief of the whalers is
perfectly feasible, and will be attended
"AoAA 1AOCAC SdpU. uCG10, WHO
will command the Bear is regarded as
one of the most capable and trust
worthy men in the service, and no ap-
prehension is felt regarding the out
come of the enterprise.
Secretary Alger has directed the
award of the contract for the four
locks on the Ohio river to the lowest
bidders, the Evansville, Ind, firm of
Eigemann & Hollerbach, Eichel &
Arnold. There are many protests
against this award, but the secretary,
after looking up the law in the case,
found that he had no discretion but to
accept the lowest bid, as stated by
Maj Bixby, the proper bonds being
furnished.
Surgeon General Sternberg, of the
army; DIR. Horebeck, of Charleston;
DIR. Josiah Hartzell, of Canton, O.; DR..
Samuel 81. Durgan, of Boston; DR.. A.
II. Doty, of New York. and DR.. S. r.
Olliphant, of New Orleans, the latter
president of the Louisiana state board
of health, members of the American
Public Health association, called at
the white house Monday. They
saw the president and urged him to
incorporate in his message a recon-
mendation that a commission be APP
pointed to go to Havana to study the
subject of yellow fever and the manner
in which it is brought to the United
States. They claimed that good regu-
prevent yellow fever in the United
States than the best quarantine regu-
lations that can be adapted and en-
forced. The president said he would
give their suggestions due considera-
ton.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-The attitude
of the administration towards the sub
ject of reciprocity with Canada is prob
ably disclosed in the following state
ment of a government official:
1.-THE task of the government would
be made easier it the statesmen in
congress would be controlled by the
interests of the country at large Some
of them unfortunately confine their
views to particular conce ssion to be
obtained from foreign country for a
local interest; and then desire
our compensatory concession to be
made not by their own, but by some
other locality. They make ofreciproc-
ity series of questions to be settled
in the interest of particular districts.
We may be able to secure arrange
ments which will add millions to our
national expert trade, and yet it
might be defeated by combination
of a few minor local interests
not amounting to million. Yet
reciprocity means mutual concession.
without this nothing can be accom-
plished. We must give a market if we
acquire one-not necessarily a free
market, but an accessible market.
Take coal for illustration. By giving
access to the New England coast we
might gain access (perhaps controD in
the coal market of ali central Canada,
with mutual advantages by reason of
geographical and transport conditions.
Would it be wise for coal producers to
antagonize these national conditions?
1t ~ the same with other articles of
commerce where long water transport
alton is balanced against short rail.
way carriage. In some things we can
~"NHoAAC Oil o1uAOSO SAc1uS1fc market,
greatly increasing cur exports, in ex-
change for market open only to the
competition of the other party. So it
is with some phases of the question OF
logs and coarse lumber. against manu-.
facturers of wood. Whenever we en-.
large the market of manufactures we
inevitably enlarge demand for our raw
material from which they are made:
and this tends to increase the price
paid to the original producer. The
advantages of increased trade are
widely distributed.
The major portion of commercialex.
change in this country is in the excep.
tional condition of producing a sur.
plus, both Of raw material and of the
manufacture products. Our policy
must take into view this situation. al
though it increases our difficulty in
negotiations which shall satisfy every
interest. All that can be hoped is a
result, which, in the aggregate, shall
be clearly advantageous to the nation
as unit. All producers are also con