Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16
At WASHINGTON.
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Addison Porter, will be a candidate for
the United States Senate at next years
election in Connecticut. Secretary
Porter declines to be interviewed on
the subject but is emphatical in the
assertion that under no circumstances
shall the use Of his name be allowed in
this connection. Secretary Porter was
strong candidate for the nomination
for Governor in last years campaign
in Connecticut. Many Of his former adj
herents have urged him to enter the
race again but this, he says. he would
not consent to do If 1t should involve a
contest.
The attitude of the administration
toward the subject OF reciprocity with
Canada is probably disclosed i'm the
following statement of a government
| official: 1.-THE task of the government
would be made easier If the statesmen
in Congress would be controlled by the
interest of the country at large. Some
of them, unfortunately. confine their
views to particular concession to be
obtained from a foreign country for a
local interest and then desire our COM
pensatOry concession to be made not
by their own, but by some other local
ity. They make of reciprocity series
Of questions to he settled in the in
terest of particular districts.
I'VE may be able to secure arrange
ments which will add millions to our
national export trade and yet it might
be defeated by combination of few
minor local interests, not amounting to
a million. Yet reciprocity means
mutual concession; without this moth
ing can be accomplished. We must give
market If we acquire one-not neces-
sarily free market, but an accessible
one. Take coal for an illustration. BY
giving access to the New England coast
we might gain access (perhaps controD
in the coal market of all the central
Canada with mutual advantages by
reason of geographical and transport
conditions. Would it be Mise for coal
producers to antagonize these natural
cities? II is the same with other arti-
cles of commerce where the long water
transportation is balanced against
short railway. carriage.
In some things we can acquire an
almost exclusive market. greatly in
cre1sing our exports in exchange for z
market open only 10 the competition of
the other party. SO IL is with some
phases Of the transportation of logs
and coarse lumber against manufac-
turers of wood. Whenever we enlarge
the market of our manufac .urers we
inevitably enlarge the 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.
In the major portion of commercial
exchange this course is in the excep-
t.onal condition of producing a SUR
plus both of raw material and Of the
manufactured products. Our policy
must take into view the situation al
though increases our difficulty in nego-
tiations which shall satisfy every in
terest. All that can be hoped for is
result which in the aggregate shall be
clearly advantageous to the nation as
unit All producers are also con-
sumers and they often gain en- one side
as much as they lose on the other"
Secretary Gage has requested the secre-
tory of the interior to instruct the Alas
kan officials to gather about 800 head of
reindeer from the government herds for |
the use of the expedition for the relief of |
TIE iceDOuHQ WildlefS In the Arctic. 1t is |
expected that the Bear. which is now at |
Seattle. will be ready to sail in about 10 |
days, and within 20 days thereafter it is |
expected that she will have reached some |
point On NortOns sound. where large
party will be engaged for the 6OO-miles
overland trip to Point Barrow.
The herd of reindeer. which will be
killed for food. if necessary. will be driven
overland. and it is the expectation of Cap
tain Shoemaker. chief of the revenue cut
ter service. and Captain Hooper, who is
in command of the Beglring sea patrol
feet. that the herd will reac:I the imprs-
oEed whalers before the middle of Febru-
airy. The eight now icebound vessels have
a combined complement of 265 men.
On motion Of Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Anderson. the supreme court, today
decided to issue Immediately it's mandate
in the Durrant murder case. No repre-
sentative of Durrart was found in court
when the motion was made, and the court
after a hurried consultation on the bench
through Chief Justice Fuller
that the mandate should issue forthwith
Mr.. Anderson thinks this will settle the
matter and hasten Durrant's execution
He said he would have made the motion
sooner but for the necessity of giving
notice to Durrant's counsel