The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1895, Page 1

VOLUME L XIX.—NO. o 7. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1895, PRICE FIVE CENTS. IT WILL RAISE THE REVENUES. Passage in the House of the Bill for Finan- cial Relief, DONE BY A PARTY VOTE. During the Debate There Was an Arraignment of Dem- ocratic Management. MATERIAL INCREASE IN TARIFF. One Important Step to Check the Chronic Deficit in the National Treasury. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 26.—The promised de on the revenue measure prepared by the Committee on Ways and Means attracted to the House to-day an attendance which filled the galleries to their utmost and filled the seats with many more than a quorum of members. Immediately after the reading of the journal Dingley (R.) of Maine reported from the committee a bill “‘to temporarily increase the revenue to meet the expenses of the Government and provide against a deficiency,” together with a statement of the reasons why the bill should be passed. Crisp (D.) of Georgia explained that the minority of the committee had no oppor- tanity to prepare their views in opposition to the bill. Henderson (R.) of Towa offered a resolu- tion from the Committee on Rules provid- ing for a vote on the revenue bill, just re- ported, at 5 o’clock this afternoon. He ated that he supposed the gentlemen understood that another biil from the Committee on Wavs and Means would be reported to-morrow. Ihe bill to be dis- cussed to-day, be said, was in no sense a general revision of tbe tariff, but one to provide revenue needed at once. The dent had aroused public sentiment by sending two messages to Congress, and the money centers were desirous that some- thing should be done to allay the excite- ment caused by the feverish declarations from the White House. The House differed from the President probably as to what was necessary to be done to relieve the count; the er discussion contained what the House, or a majority thereof, believed | to be necessary. Crisp (D.) of Georgia said members of the House should not blindly follow the dictates of the rule, but vote upon it as they deem to be best for the interests of the country. The bill reported was a gen- eral revision of the tariff, whatever might be said to the conirary, forit affected every schedule in the bill. The rule broushtin deprived the House of the right to con- sider the bill in committee of the whole, as well as of the right to discuss it under the general rules of debate under the five- minute rule, and aiso of offers to amend it. Every Republican member was ex- pected to vote blindly for the bill without knowing anything about it or its probable effects .upon the people represented by them. Dalzell (B.) of Pennsylvania, a member of the Committee on Rules, said there;was no man within the sound of his voice who did not know that ever since March 4, 1893, the revenues of the Government had piled up a steadily increasing deficiency. The President and the Secretary of the Treas- ury had been alarmed and the former turning to a party in Congress not his own, had asked it to act speedily for the relief of the public, even going so far as to re- quire it to forego the usual holiday recess. 1t was not, he asserted, 1 general tariff re- vision, butan emergency revenue measure. Did Mr. Crisp not remember that the pres- ent tariff bill with more than 600 amend- ments, none of which were considered in committee, was driven through the House in two hours by the terms of a rule pre- pared by the gentleman himself? [Ap- plause]. It was, he said, what the Repub- lican party always did, to rise above party prejudice or passion and in response to the President’s appeal to give the country the reliei he had asked. [Applause]. McMillin (D.) of Tennessee followed. He said he would give the answer to Dal- zell’s question, which that gentleman had failed to do. It was to pass a general tariff bill affeeting every one of the 4000 articles on the dutiable list, except sugar. The Republicans were in power again ana pro- ceeding as they had previously done. “Go ahead, gentlemen,” McMillin said, *‘the same power which deprived you of place and authority will do it again.” [Ap- plause.] Turner (D.) of Georgia pleaded for time in which a respectful discussion of the momentous issues involved could be had. Henderson (R.) of Iowa, concluding the argument forthe adoption of the rule, said this was a business pioposition for the re- lief ot & business people. When the Bayard resolution was under discussion in the House the other day, Henderson said the Republicans were taunted by Crisp with fear io take the responsibility. “We'll show him to-day,” he shouted «whether we are afraid to take the responsi- bility. [Applause.] Whether a Republi- can or a Democratic President sits in the executive chair; whether we are threat- ened with ballots or bullets; whether we are confronted with a deficiency or a sur- plus, Republicans are always ready to as- sume all rightful and necessary responsi- bility. When the Democratic ass falls into a pitof its own making, with thg burden of National responsibility upon its back, the Republicans will work on Sunday to get itout and set the countryon its feet again.”” [Laugiter.] “The gentleman from Georgia’ [Crisp], <aid Henderson, “had said this was a bill to tax the people, My God!” he ex- claimed, *‘the House of Representalives hasn’t the power to vote to pay back the seople the millions of which they have {)Pen deprnived since the Democratic party came 1nto power on the 4th of March, Linney (R.) of North Carolina asked and the financial situation, but | Henderson if the rule could mnot be amended so as to permit Democrats to offer amendments. Henderson replied that it was not prac- ticable: that differences were dangerous. Crisp said the gentleman from North Carolina was a new member that had not yet learned the kernel of the situaiion. The resolution providing for a vote on ‘! the revenue bill at 50’clock wasagreed to— | ayes 213, noes 89. | | The following Republicans voted against the rule—Conuelly of Illinois, Heiner of Pennsylvania, Linney of North Carolina { and Wilber of New York. Otherwise the vote followed party lines. The bill was then read in full and at } 1:30 P. 3. t e debate upon it commenced, | with three ana a half hours to run, the time to be divided equally between the | two sides of the House. Dingley (R.) of Maine opened the debate | on the side of the majority. He said that | when the President’s special message was ; read at the clerk’s desk last Saturday, in- | forming Congress that there existed a se- | rious condition in the finances of the coun- | try and in the Kederal treasury, and appealing to the Senate and House not to take a recess until relief was afforded, | every member felt that there was imposed | upon the House not only a special respon- | sibility, but an urgent demand for imme- | diate action, and that it was the duty of the House to remain in session until some measure of legislation was passed that would afford relief to the exigent state of the treasury. The Committee on Ways and Means had taken the matter up and proceeaed to con- | sider what measures of relief should be | proposed. The first thing that had at- | tracted the attention of the Committee on { Ways and Means was that for two years | and a half there had been a constant defi- | ciency of revenue until that want had be- | come chronic. He knew that the gentle- men on the other side claimed that the | revenue was sufficient, but the fact was that from the 1st of July, 1893, up to to- day there had been an insufficiency of rev- enue to cover tne current expenses of the Government to the ageregate amount of $123,000,000. The deficiency for the cur- rent year was over $18,500,000, and for the current month of December the deficit ap- proximatea $3,000,000. What, then, did the | gentlemen mean and what did the Sec- | retary of the Treasury mean in saying there was no need of additional revenue? They meant that with the procecds of the sale of bonds and the use of the greenbacks received for them the receipts exceeded the expenditures. It seemed to him and to the majority of the Committee on Ways and Means that the first course to be taken was to legislate so as to provide sufhcient revenue to meet the expenditures of the Government. Dingley went on to discuss and to up- | bold the bill in detail, and said that if it became a law it would not only increase the revenue by over $40,000,000 a year, but would also give to the business interests of the country the moral influence of a Gov- ernment which was solvent, which paid its debts, and whose credit was second to no Government on the face of the earth, [Republican applause.] Crisp said that the bill, in order to be re- sponsive to the request of the President, ought to be in line with tho suggestions that come from that source. He insisted, from Secretary Carlisle’s report, that the cash balance in the treasury on the 1st of December, 1895, was $170,000,000, being $98,000,000 in excess of the gold reserve and $77,000,000 in excess of any sums nec- essary to build up the gold reserve. There was, therefore (quoting Mr. Carlisle), “no reason to doubt the ability of the Govern. ernment to discharge all its current obli- gations during the present fiscal year and have a large cash balance at its close, without imposing additional taxation in any form on the people.” His friend from Maine, Dingley, knew— no one better—that there was in the treas- ury to-day, over and beyond the gold re- serve, more free money—three times over— than any deficiency which might occur during the fiscal year. It was nota ques- tion of borrowing money to meet ex- penses. The money was already borrowed and was in the treasury; and the question was whether it should be used now or whether the House should rush, post haste, to impose additional burdens on the people in order to pile up money in the treasury. Crisp went on to taunt the Committee on Ways and Means with reporting a bill for a horizontal rise of duties after all the ridicule which had been cast on Morrison’s bill for a horizontal cut, and he said that the effect of the pending measure was to declare that the McKinley tariff act was 60 per cent right and 40 per cent wrong. [Laughter.] He quoted McKinley’s criticism of the Morrison bill as patchwork and a proof of indolence, and said that on the issue of pending measure the parties would go be- fore the people in the next Presidential campaign and he had no dought that the people would respond, as they had always responded, in favor of themselves—that was in favor of low taxes. [Democratic applause.] ‘Wheeler (D.) of Alabama spoke against the pending measure. Payne (R.) of New York, a member of Committee on Ways and Means, said that the Republicans in the House, being ready to meet the responsibility which was on them to-day, had presented a bill to in- crease the aevenue. Two years from now, however, they would meet the responsi- bility of that hour and would present to the House and Senate and toa Republican President a bill for the protection of Amer- ican labor and American agriculture and would write it on the statute books. [Ap- plause.] The gentleman from Georgia (Crisp) had said that there had been a deficiency of revenue under the tariff act of 1890. He (Payne) asserted, however, that the act had produced sufficient revenue, not only tomeet all the expenditures of the Govern- ment down to the 1st of November, 1832, but to put into the treasury a surplus of over $38,000,000. He could not stop to describe the other benefits of the tariff act of 1890, which were “known and read of all men.” The gentleman from Georgia spoke of a deficiency in November, 1892; but he seemed to have forgzotten what occurred in November, 1892, when the Democracy was put in power in the White House and at both ends of the cepitol, and when its destructive hands were cast like a shadow over every industry in the broad land. [Republican applause.] It was that shadow w ich had brought the deficiency of revenue in November, 1892, That was followed by the inauguration of a Demo- cratie President in March, 1893, and from that day and hour to this there had been a deficiency of revenue to meet the expenses of the Government. It was true that for two months the THE AMERICAN DAVID AND THE BRITISH LION. And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion and took a lamb out of the flock. And I went out after him and smote him, and delivered the lamb out of his mouth. And when he arose against me I canght him by his beard, smote him and slew him. —1I Samuel xvii: 34-35. Treasury Department figured out a sur- plus, but it is also true that in each of the months thatfollowed there was an amount of expenditure over the month precedin of from ten to twelve millions, and that deficit in the revenue bred further distrust among the people. The Republicans had predicted then that if tariff agitation was begun the evils would be increased, and the evils had come from that time as surely as the night follows the day. “You have,” Payne exclaimed, address- ing the Democratic side 6f the House, “borrowed $181,000,000 since you came into power, and if not the treasury would have been bankrupt in a sum of over $6,000,000. Do you want to continue that same thing? Do vou want to deal with a syndicate that will havea profit of $6,000,000 on a loan of $60.000,000? Does not your cheek blush in shame at even the newspaper suggestions (whether true or not) that one of the Eu- ropean powers is offering gold to our Gov- ernment to help us out of the difficulty? Isit not time that the American people ceased to be put in the position of a men- dicant and supplicant to the governments and syndicates of Europe asking for gold to replenish the treasury? “Two remedies are proposed. The Presi- dent says it is necessary to negotiatea loan of four hundred millions to retire the greenpbacks, while there is not a business man who does not see that such an ope- ration as that, 1n the present condition of financial affairs, would ruin and destroy the country. Are any of you in favor of carrying out the President’s scheme, or the Secretary of the Treasury’s, and retir- ing greenbacks and treasury notes by issu- ing four or five hundred millions of bonds? Another remedy is proposed. The Repub- lican party has lived long enough and has dealt with financial questions long enough to know that a business man or a corpora- tion or even a free government cannot ex- ist unless there is an income sufficient to meet his or its expenditures. It did not take us two and a half years to find that out. We told you that two years ago. Now something must bé done to relieve the treasury. We propose this method: We propose to have an income equal to the outgo. You lack nearly fifty millions a year for that to-day. We offer it to you. We offer it to you in the shape of your own tariff bill with a horizontal increase of 15 per cent. The gentleman from Georgia said something about a horizontal bill being a cross cut. Gentlemen, it isa cross cut. We are getting there by the cross-road, the very swiftest way we can, to relieve the treasury and your administration. [Re- publican applause.] How can any of your Democratic friends from the Northern Continued on Second Page. : BATTLED THE WAVES, Two Hundred and Five Souls Escaped Destruc- tion Island. AIDED THE STRATHNEVIS The Miowera Fought Bravely for the Disabled Vessel, but Could Not Hold Out. TWO0 MONTHS IN A WILD SEA. Success Finally Attained by the Min- eola, Which aned the Vessel Into Port, PORT TOWNSEND, Wasg., Dec. 26.— The Northern Pacific line steamer Strath- nevis is now in this harbor, looking exter- nally little the worse for wear as a result of her two nths’ battle with the wind and waves of the Pacitic Ocean. The story told by the commander, Cap- tain James Pattie, sounds more like a ro- mance than reality, and is but another illustration of the old adage that “truth is stranger than fiction.” As for the 205 souls on board it is safe to guess that no company of men in the world ever experi- enced a merrier Christmas than they did yesterday, for only three short days ago they were fully prepared to meet death on the rocky and desolate shore of Destruc- tion Island, and the island seemed to them to have been rightly named. The very seas seemed inviting them to death as they piled up against the rocky banks. The Strathnevis broke down on the morning of October 20 at9 o’clock in about 164 west and 49 14 north. Without a mo- ment’s warning the big shaft broke off as smooth as though it hac. been cut with a knife, and the big steamer was at once-at the mercy of the wind. Northerly gales were blowing at the time, and the limited amount of canvas aboard was quickly spread, the vessel then heading for the south and west. Slow progress was made, however, and in two days’ sailing only 115 miles were covered. Then on the third day the wind shifted and the vessel tacked and stood to the eastward. Calms and gales alternated from the time the ship re- fused to obey the helm, and knocking about in the trough of the sea whenever the breeze stiffened up advantage of it was taken and the vessel was steered in an easterly direction, the captain heading for the American coast. ‘When out at sea little or no apprehen- sion was felt as to the safety of the vessel, and there was perfect order and discipline on board among both crew and passengers, all hands keeping a sharp lookout for passing vessels. It was not until Novem- ber 19 thav another vessel was sighted, that being the John Gambles already reported. Aditer she had passed on there was a weary time of it, riding the billows till Wednes- day morning, December 18, when the Canadian-Australian liner Miowera hove in sight on her way westward and at once approached the disabled vessel, connecting her line with little difficulty. This was in latitude 43 deg. north, longi- tude 132 degrees, and the steamer headed for Cape Flattery. After twelve hours the hawser parted, and on account of the gale and heavy seas running at the time it was thirty-six hours before another hawser was connected. This one lasted just thirty minutes before it parted. But within a short time two hawsers were connected with the steamer, and once more the two vessels headed for the cape. At1o’'clocklast Monday morning, when just fifteen miles off Cape Flattery, the Miowera’s two haw- sers parted,and in the terrible sea that was running it seemed that it would be impossible to again get hold of the dis- abled steamer. Accordingly it was arranged that the Miowera was to stand by and save life when the Strathnevis went ashore, as it seemed certain she would do in a very short time. A heavy swell then came on, the weather being so thick that even the Miowera’s electric lights were invisible to those on onboard the other steamer. When the squall bad passed, at 4 o’clock in the morning, the Miowera was nowhere to be seen, and there was consequent consterna- tion board the Strathnevis. The captain did not think so seriously of the disap- pearance of the other vessel, because Cap- tain Stott had told him that his steamer would be able to tow him only three days with her limited coal supply, and even made arrangements to take part of the Strathnevis coal cargo when they arrived in Victoria in case there would be delay in waiting for coal at the bunker there. This morning Captain Pattie was very much surprised to learn that the Miowera has not yet reported and said that he feared for her safety, being unable to ac- count for her failure to return to Victoria for coal. He refuses to criticise Captain 7 L Bl THE UNLUCKY [Reproduced from a photograph.] STEAMER MIOWERA. Stott in any manner, for, ke said, the Mio- wera did everything possible for him when alongside. By noon on Monday the Strath- nevis was thirty miles off Destruction Island, making slowly but surely for the rocky shore, and it seemed to all on board the steamer that their doom was sealed. As they approached nearer and nearer the shore with the wind behind them, all hands began making final preparations for the expected dashing of the steamer to pieces on the rocks, but when within seven miles of the island the wind st ifted to the north and, to thedelight of all, the anchor which was heaved over held fast. The chain soon parted, however, and the second and only anchor on board was sent down. That proved successful, for it held fast. About 9 o’clock Tuesday morning Purser McDonald and Second Ofticer Barnes and three Japanese sailors were sent off to the island in a boat with the hope that they might reach a telegraph station and wire for assistance. The men are still on the island. At noon the same day the collier Min- eola, Captain Pilsbury, hove in sight and bore down cn the Strathnevis, soon get- ting a hawser on board and heading for land. It was slow work getting around the cape, and when in the straits off Race Rocks the hawser parted, and in getting another connected an able seaman fell fell overboard from the Mineola, but, be- ing an expert swimmer, was saved from drowning. When the Strathnevis arrived here last evening the wires were down and there seemed no way of sending the news out. Captain J. B. Libby, manager of the Puget Sound Tugboat Company, volunteered to send United Press dispatches to Seattle by the tug Tyee, and by this means the news was given to the world twelve hours earlier than it could otherwise have been. There are thirty-seven members of the crew of the Strathnevis and she has 168 Chinese and Japanese passengers on board. Among the Chinese are several wealthy merchants who had started home to pur- chase Cnristmas goods for the Pacitic Coast trade. There are also five Japanese Yale College students on board who started home to spend Christmas. Captain Pattie said that to the Chinese merchants and Japanese students on board he was in- debted for general discipline and order on the steamer, one merchant 1n particular taking charge and exercising wonderful control ouer all his fellow-countrymen. There was plenty of food on board and at no time was there any danger of going dry. The Mineola will put in a claim for salvage of $100,000 probably, although this will not be definitely determined until her charterer, the Southern Pacific Rail- road Company, is heard from. The Strath- nevis may be taken on to Tacoma to-night. SEATTLE, WasH., Dec. 26.—Of 125 or more Chinese aboard the Strathnevis, bound for China, about thirty were from this city, the others hailing principally from Boston, New York and Chicago. Local Chinese merchants received advices this afternoon to the effect that the sup- ply of rice ran out during the sixty-six days’ wandering and disability of 'the Strathnevis, and that the Mongolian pas- sengers suffered much in consequence. ST SR, FEARS FOR THE MIOWERA. Experienced Seamen and the Agents Still Have Hope for Her Safety. SEATTLE, WasH., Dec. 26.—Private dis- patches received in this city this afternoon say that the steamship Miowera has in all probability been lost off Cape Flattery. John H. Carter, accountant of the Boston National Bank, and several other Seattle people were passengers. P Captain Harry Struve, a seaman of many years' experience, scouted the idea that a ship so seaworthy as the Miowera could be lost off the straits in such weather as prevailed recently. The Mio- wera he said is one of the stanchest vessels afloat and vhat she left Vancouver well coaled, well loaded and prepared for perilous voyages so common at this sea- son of the year. Five days tusseling with the Strathnevis Captain Struve alleged could not have materially depleted the Miowera’s coal supply. John M. Carter, one of Seattle's pas- sengers on the Miowera, is a near relative of the late Hawaiian Consul Carter of this city. He is accompanied by his sister, Miss Edith Carter, whose home is in Hon- olulu. They left here to visit their mother, who resides in Honolulu. VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 26.—The Canadian-Australian steamship officials are not willing to confirm the view taken by Captain Pattie of the Strathnevis that the Miowera has foundered. During the night following the parting of the Strath- nevis and the Miowera a living gale was blowing. The officials here think that the Miowera had to stand off in the opposite direction to which the Strathnevis was drifting, on account of the dangerous proximity to land, and that, by daylight next morning, the supposition is but rea- sonable that they would be lost to each other’s view, particularly as the weather ‘was nct very clear. The Miowera, no doubt thinking the Strathnevis was beyond all human aid, turned her nose in the direction of Hono- lulu and continued her journey. As to the report that the Miowera would have to return to British Columbia for coal, Steamship Superintendent Fullerton says 1300 tons of coal were put aboard before leavin g, sufficient to carry the Miowera to Sueva, and for five days’ lost time. The worst phase of the case to the minds of the officials here is the anxiety that is consequent upon the uncertainty and the length of time that must elapse before it is relieved. Seven or eight days from last Tuesday will take the Miowera to Hono- lulu, and after that nothing can be khown until word reaches San Francisco or Van- couver of the vessel’s fate. The agents of the company, in order to allay the fears and anxiety of those having friends on board, will ask the Government to dis- patch a boat to the waters where the Strathnevis and Miowera parted company and see if any trace of a wreck of the latter is to be found. R TR THBE MIOWERA’S HISTORY. A Fine Vessel Accustomed to Disastrous Voyages. The Miowera is a steel screw boat of 8345 tons gross, measuring 340 feet 1n length between perpendiculars, or 360 feet overall, 42 fect in breadth and 25 feet in depth, fitted with engines of 4700 horse- power. She is built on what is known as the three-deck grade and has a long poop- deck, which extends over her engines and boilers, with a long topgallant fore- castle and complete system. of water bailast on the cellalar double-bottom principle. All the ‘arrangements for the discharge of cargo are on the Continued on Third Page. JOW SEECNG MY ALLINCE Salishury Is Negotiating With Holland and France. SPAIN ALREADY AGREES. European Nations Asked to Take Action Against Cleve- land’s Policy. PROTECT THEIR POSSESSIONS. Countries That Appear Not at All Willing for Enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine. LONDON, Exe., Dec. 26. —The Daily News will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Vienna stating that Lord Salisbury, the British Prime Minister, 1s negotiating with France and Holland with a view to adopting common action against the policy of President Cleveland. % Spain, the dispatch adds, has already assured Great Britain of her agreement with the latter on the question. It is be- lieved that Great Britain, France, Hollaud and Spain will form an alliance to protect their American possessions against the United States. The Daily News to-morrow, commenting upon the report that Secretary Olney has forwarded a private dispatch to Lord Salis- bury, will say: “There is nothing incredible or surpris- ing in such an announcement. On the contrary, it would be highly honorable to him. There is no reason to believe that in pushing the Monroe doctrine Secretary Olney has any design of insulting or an- noying England.” The paper discredits the various far- fetched explanations of President Cleve- land’s policy and says he meant no harm by bis message to Congress. Whatever mischief he did he has since conscien- tiously and laboriously endeavored to undo. e PEACE 1S5 DESIRED. Cable Sent by the Edinburgh Chams« ber of Comumerce. NEW YORK, N. Y. Dec. 26—The follow- ing cable dispatch was received to-day by the Chamber of Commerce: EDINBURGH, Dec. 26, 1895. Chamber of Commerce, New York: The Edin- burgh Chamber of Commerce expresses earnest desire that the present difficulty may end in continuance of peaceful relations between both countries so closely allied by kindred language and mutual interests. THOMAS CLARKE, Baronet, President. Aonioe e CONGRATULATION IN PERU.- Minister McKenzie Replies to the Resolutions. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 26.—The Her- ald’s special telegram from Lima says: James A. McKenzie, the United States Minister, formally replied yesterday to res- olutions of congratulations which were offered by the deputation of the National Society of Peru in connection with the at- titude of the President of the United States on the Venezuelan question. Minister McKenzie told the delegates of the society that they deserved strong com- mendation for their expression of patriotic ideas and their quick recognition of the spirit of justice which inspired the Presi- dent of the United States to assume the position outlined in his message to the Congress. It was impossible, added Minister Mec- Kenzie, that the great republic of the North sirould forget the fact that she was the bulwark of the liberty of America, or that she should lose sight of her noble traditions and abandon her post of honor. The National Society has organized a' grand reception in honor of the United States and Venezuela, to which all Ameri- can diplomats in South America will be invited. e REGARDED AS GOSSIP. Lincoln and the Venezuelan Commission. CHICACO, IrL., Dec. 26.—At the offices of 1sham, Lincoin & Beale this morming considerable doubt was expressed as to the appointment of Lincoln on the Venezuelan commission—in fact it was stated that there was probably no truth in the rumor, which was regarded as newspaper gossip. VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY. Where Some Information May Be Obtained. DENVER, Coro., Dec. 26.—Ex-Senator S. W. Dorsey of this city is responsible for the statement that when General Robert C. Schenck was Minister to England under Grant, he made a thorough inves- tigation of the Venezuela boundary question under instructions frota Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, which covered a period of twelve months. General Schenck went to the Hagueand to Madrid to search through the archives for facts bearing upon thequestion, and in many conversations subsequently with Dorsey, General Schenck stated that the English claim to all lands up to the Schom- burgh line were well founded, and that se- rious doubts existed as to tracts westward as far as the Orinoco delta. Later, in Washington, General Schenck contided to Dorsey that “*Venezuela’s pre- tensions had finally been disposed of.”” e e ———— Mr. Not everybody knows every- thing. That’s why Crockers’ haven’t all the fine engraving to do. 227 Post street 215 Bush street