The San Francisco call., 1899-07-23
Says There May Be a Fight
About the Alaska
Boundary.
HOPES FOR PEACE
Does Not Believe the United States
Has Gone Military
Mad.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

OTTAWA, Ont, July 22.-In the Com
mons to-day Sir Charles Tupper
brought up the question of the Alaskan
boundary. He said the United States,
in refusing to submit to arbitration
we'll justified the decision Great Britain
and Canada had reached in declining
TO allow the question to go before the
Joint High Commission. He believed
the Government and the Commission
ers of the United States had lost con-
fidence in their claims to the strip Of
disputed territory.
Sir Charles suggested that the Gov
ernment introduce into this Parliament
two bills-one providing for railway
arm by Teslin Lake TO Dawson, and the
other providing for protection of Brit
ish and Canadian interests by enacting
that no license to mine in the Yukon
district shall be granted to any other
than a British subject.
Premier Laurier, in reply, sympathtz-
ed with much that Sir Charles Tupper
had said He stated he had little hope
now of a compromise, and was very
sorry 10 say negotiations had not ad-
YanCed the position one iOta from that
Of January last. The alternatives. he
graveiy stated, were arbitration or war,
but nobody for one moment could Seri-
ter would ever by any possibility arise.
unless the people of the United States,
by their recent victories on the field of
battle, had become military mad and
bent upon departure from well-estab-
lished principles of republiCanism
Arbitration, he emphatically declar-
ed, must come, and, although an agree
ment upon the terms OF arbitration had
not yet been reached. ne held that Can
ada s Wisest course was to exercise fur
Iher patience and forbearance.
The propositions advanced by Sir
Charles Tupper, however would be Sc
Tiously considered by the Government.
WASHINGTON, July %. - Senator
Fairbanks to-day announced that the
conference Of the Joint High COmmis-
sion, which had been called for August
. had been declared off. The Senator
IS in correspondence with Sir Wilfred
Laurier, and it is hoped a meeting can
be arranged for the early fall.
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avenue line tonight everything was run
ming smoothly and without interruption.
The strikers are returning 70 work on this
line. which practically was the only one
affected in New York.
The most important incident in Brook
lyn to-day was an attempt to cause an
explosion under a Seventh avenue car. A
package containing two sticks of dyna-
mite. with fuse attached, was found, but
ii was a bunging effort and no damage
was done
Tonight the authorities were on the
Gui vive for trouble and policemen were
posted TO the number of three to the block
on Seventh avenue, the scene of nearly
all the late disturbances. It was expected
that a meeting would be held tonight at
Clermont Rink. a squad of policemen
was posted at the hall to prevent gath
ering, but none of the strikers put in an
appearance.
Late tonight Chief Devery sent a large
body of mounted policemen to Brooklyn,
augmenting the mounted force there. He
also sent a large number of the bicycle
squad and detectives. Brooklyn is pa
trOlled tonight by mounted men, and the
detectives and police have been detailed
10 watch the lines closely for dynamite.
It was rumored that oUtrages would take
place. The police are taking every pre-
caution to preserve order.
Judging from the manner in which the
traffic was handled to-day, the officials of
the various lines, both in Manhattan and
Brooklyn, are confident Of ending the
strike tomorrow.