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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1896 been demonstrated, so greatly favors their growth. To that end, as stated, no out- sider is permitted to encroach here, and a very persistent applicant for space here from San Francisco was refused. Captain John Fields is the president of the association and W. T. Brush vice- vresident and treasurer. George B. Baer is secretary, and C. E. Humbert, F. W. Brush and M. Minehan are directors. Ground has been bought on Main street opposite the pavilion, where the preeent fair is being held, where a new brick pa- vilion will be built for the permanent use of the association. It was 8 o’clock when the opening exer- cises began. The pavilion was brilliantly lighted, and the general decoration of the ball, which has gone forward day and night during the week under the intelligent and energetic direction of T. B. Wilson and Sam Sample, was complete. The walls and pillars of the big hall were swathed in white and orange and olive'bunting, which accorded very prettily with the color tone of the exhibits. g A small forest of palms was arranged at the entrance, and other palms and vines were made to play an artistic part in the al decoration within. A part of the s 1 over to refreshment and candy booths, while two or three native wine exhibits and a big windmill made almost entirely of dried fruits add variety and give life to the scene. The big arms of the windmill are kept revolving by a water motor. The Cloverdale brass band had been dis-, coursing music for some time, while the e gradually filled the aisles in the big Fields and others of the offi- cers took their places on the platform, and them Professor E. W. Davis of Santa ipal of tne public schools of So- a County, who was to make the open- address, and was so introduced. He primed to the topic in hand, and n by congratulating the people of Sonoma County on the favors that nature bad o liberally bestowed upon them. He had the best of authority for saying that e, lemon, lime, citron and shad- dock felt more at home in this valley than in almost any place in the world. The on was the peculiar climatic and geo- tions that exist here. The ience of these peculiar conditions was shown not only in the fruit which they had grown but in the world-famed geysers a few miles removed from this build- together with other signs of internal beat. Within this belt were thousands of acres adapted to the culture of these fruits. These geologic cond ns gave to the fruit their quality of flavor and the acids that made them so palatable and refresh- ing. No other single fruit had the great medicinal value as had the lemon, for whick man everywherecraves. In 1892, ccording to Government reports, imported into this country 1,334 worth of citrus fruits, and in nearly as much more. Why not sup- ply this splendid value from the orchards athome? Thissame Government authority asserts that California was better adapted to the culture of these fruits than any other country in the world. The speaker then went on to say that in this v; there =re more favoring condi- tions at band than had yet been even brought into use. These fruits could be wn under the electric light than They developed more rapidly possessed finer qualities than was ible by the mere light of the sun by otherwise. and This valley by use of the electric light, which could be secured at trifling cost, might be brought to its very highest devel- ooments. The Russian River and the reservoirs of Lake and Lakeport could furnish water-power for a thousand dynamos, besides supplying the means of irrigation if need be. He had it from the lips of Luther Burbank, he said, that wizard of fruit and vegetable culture, who bad given to the world so many new varieties of beth, that Northern Sonoma, Southern Mendocino and Western Lake cour were the natural home of the best varieties of nuts—the place where they could be brought to their best—the almond in its soitest shell, the English walnut, the pecan and aiso the Smyrna fig. It is a part of the history of the world,” said the professor, ‘‘that where these things flourish there 1s also a healthful climate, a natural sanitarium. There men and women grow, like their fruits, to a physical perfection matched nowhere else, and with these to also morality, social and intellectual de- velopment — manhood and womanhood treading toward their highest planes. ‘“Now,” continued the speaker, *‘what is there that we lack? We have abundant water for every mneed, we have chmate, soil, the means for transportation and the people to produce and to exhaust our sup- plies. The market? San Francisco will aistribute your wares whithersoever they may be called for. It is the key to the whole world. I may say right here that I have in my pocket orders for more than this big valiey or the hills, too, for that matter, for what I have said applies in a large part to them, bave produced this year.” The speaker then went on to explain the value in the matter of health of the mere presence of trees, how they absorbed and gave out moisture. He encouraged the young to plant trees as being an excellent monument to themselves. The entire address was timely and in- structive and was well received. It formed the only ceremonial of the opening. The veople applauded, the band played and the business of the fair began. Much of this immediately centered about the re- freshment booth, keeping Mrs. F. W. Brush, Mrs. J. N. Atherton and Mrs. C. A. Thilo, who are in charge, busy for the bal- ance of the evening. The candy booth, in charge of Misses Lizzie Hall and Maud Graham, shared these honors, Prizes will be awarded to-morrow, and on Friday eveming the fair will close with a grand ball. On account of the mis- understanding about the opening day it is possible that the fair may continue through Saturday. e PRIVILEGES TO VETERANS. One Railroad Will Ignore the Passenger Association’s Action. CHICAGO, ILL., Jan. 29.—As expected the Chicago and Great Western Railroad to-day appezaled to Chairman Caldwell for relief from the action of the Western Pas- senger Association in refusing to extend the limits of the Grand Army Encamp- ‘ment tickets to thirty days. The chairman must render a decision within five days and under the circumstances it will be against the appeliant. The Great Western will then give the re- auired ten days’ notice to the association Jines tuat it will take individual action by extending the limits to thirty days, Sk Johg L. Sullivan’s Fall. CHICAGO, Irv., Jan. 29.—A dispatéh from Galva, IH., says that John L. Sulli- van fell from the rear end of a Rock Island and Peoria train going thirty milesan hour between Galva and Lafayette, IlL, this morning while on his way from Rock Island to Springfield, I1l., where he was to appear at the opera-house to-night. Itis thought he was not seriously hurt. TILLMAN UTTERS - BITTER WORDS, Denunciation of Cleveland and Carlisle in the Senate. RULED BY WALL STREET. The One Styled a Hireling and the Other “That Judas From Kentucky.” “WHY IS HE NOT IMPEACHKED ? President and Secretary Accused of Prostituting Their Offices to Monopoly. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.—The speech of Senator Tillman to-day, ostensi- bly in favor of the free’ coinage substitute to the bond bull, but really in denunciation of the President ana the Secretary of the Treasury, was one of the most bitter! v worded orations ever delivered on the floor of the upper chamber. Tillman was on this occasion a splendid combination of actor and orator, giving the Senators and spectators two hours of entertainment. The way in which he spoke of the President might have exposed him to interruption and censure, but seemed to be rather enjoyed than found fault with. He described him as bull- headed and self-idolatrous. “Never,” said he, “‘had the high office of President been so prostituted and never had the appointing power been so abused. With relentless purpose he had ignored his oath of office and given no heed to the interests of any but his moneyed friends— his owners or partners.” He spoke of Secretary Carlisle as *‘that Judas from Kentucky, who had in his old age come to a pitiful pass,”’ and referred to the other Southern members of the Cabinet, the Secretaries of the Navy and Interior, as ‘“apostates from the prin- ciples.” “Mr. President,” the Senator bagan, “it is not saying oo much, and I feel war- ranted in charging, that the derangement 1 our finances and all this cry about sound money and maintaining the honor and credit of the United States are all part and parcel of a damnable scheme of robbery, which had for its object, first, the utter destruction of silver as a money metal; second, the increase of the public debt by the issue of bonds payable in gold, and third, the surrender to corporations of the power to issue all paper money and give them a monopoly of that function.” Senator Tiliman referred Yo the Sher- man siiver law of 1890, and in this connez- tion said: “The silyer Republicans of the West, who had deserted the silver Democrats of the South and accepted the compromise offered by Senator Sherman, may take warning as to what faith ana trust they can put in any utterances or actions of the Senator of Obio as to legislation in re- gard to our finances. The time for an- other Presidential election approaches. They must understand that the election of any man to the Presidency who would veto a free coinage bill means defeat. It means more; it means continued disaster to our industries and increased poverty 1o the masses of our people. “Under the Sherman law,”” he con- tinued, “‘there was a diminution of the amount of free gold jn a gradually decreasing scale, but not enough to cause any alarm. During the entire year of 1891 and and the entire year of 1892, there was approximately as much gold as there was during 1884 and 1885.” Discussing the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law he said: *‘Democrats and Republicans vied with each other in the furtherance of the policy which had been formulated and steadily pursued by the Senator from Ohio. When the Senate met there was an acknowledged majority of men open and outspoken in their determination to stand by the white metal, and who were elected on that issue. But the process of debauchery pegan and slowly the Senate yielded. In ninety days the deed was done and the chains were riveted on the wrists of the toiling millions, Did the raid on the treasury stop?” Discussing then the tariff bill, which passed in the regular session following, he said: *dt is true he ({he President)did not sign and allow it to become a law with his approval; but here, again, we have a spec- tacle of charlatanry and hypocritical as- sumption of superiority to his party, which has always marked his career. The tariff law which he repudiated as unworthy, in- volving ‘party perfidy and party dishonor,’ is the sheet-anchor to which he clings.” And, again, referring to the President: “If he was honest at the start (and I am willing to grant that much), his associa- tion with Wall street and his connection with wealthy men had debauched his con- science and destroyed all sympathy with the masses.” ' Further on, in discussing the gold ques- tion, he said: “Rothschild and his American agents graciously condescend to come to the help of the Urited States treasury in maintain- ing the gold standard which has wrought this ruin, and only charges a small com- mission of $10,000,000 or so. Great God! that this proud Government, the richest, most powerful on the globe, should have been wrought to so low a pass that a Lon- don Jew should have been appointed its receiver and presnmes to patronize us! “The responsibility of providing reve- nue and looking after the solvency of the treasury, which rests with Congress, has been usurped by the President. Why ishe not impeached ? “‘The encroachments of the Federal ju- diciary and the supineness and venality— corruption. I may say—of the representa- tive branchesof the Governmentare causes of deep concera to all thinking and patri- otic men. We are fast drifting into gov- ernment by injunction, in the interest of monopolies and corporations, and the Su- vreme Court, by one corrupt vote, annuls an act of Congress looking to the taxation of the rich. B “The struggle from 1861 to 1865, which drenched this fair land with blood, was to emancipate 4,000,000 black slaves. We are fast approaching a condition which will place the collar of industrial bondage around the neck of ten times that many white slaves. A day of reckoning will come unless there is no longer a just God in heaven; and when it does come woe be to those who have been among the oppres- sors of the people. “The present struggle is unfortunalely too much like that which preceded the late Civil War, inasmuch as it is sectional. The creditor and the manufacturing States of the North and East bhave grown inordinately wealthy at the expense of the producing classes of the South and are urging this policy with the be- sotted blindness of Belshazzar.” It was easy to see, the Senator said in conclusion, that the struggle for the new emancipation had been begun. There were millions now on the march and they tramp, tramp, tramp—tramp sidewalks hunting work and the highways begging bread—and unless relief comes they will some day take a notion to come to Wash- ington with rifles in their hands to regain the liberties stolen from them or which their representatives have sold. Mr. Tillman spoke for exactly two hours, delivering with great dramatic power and effect the last sentence in whidh he pre- dicted a National cataclysm unless ‘‘you take your hands off the people’s throat and give them an opportunity to breathe, to work, to live.” As soon as he resumed his seat the session practically broke up, nearly every Senator rose and left the chamber and the crowds flocked out of the galleries. THES UP THE CUBAN CALSE Continued from First Page. recognizing the belligerency of the in- surgents after conclusive proof of the fact the reason doubtless is that in the absence of any legal complications the question becomes wholly political and its true solu- tion must lie not in a recognition of belligerency, but in a recognition of in- dependence. *“In 1875, when the situation was far from being as serious as it is now, Presi- dent Grant, after long consideration, de- cided against the recognition of belliger- ency as an act which might be delusive to the insurgents and would certainly be re- garded as uniriendly to Spain. He de- cided upon a middie course. He proposed to the Spanish Government a sort of inter- vention which would establish the inde- pendence of Cuba by a friendly agreement. In doing co be not only necessarily recog- nized both parties to the conflict ason an equal plane, but he also assured Spain thatif such mediation should not be ac- cepted, direct intervention would probably be deemed a necessity on the part of the United States. Spain proffered a promise to the insurgents’ terms so favorable as to cause for a time the cessation of hostilities. “Siuce then twenty years have passed. The insurrection, far from having ceased, has taken the proportions of a war almost as destructive to our own citizens as to the contending parties. The independence of Cuba was then regarded by the President of the United States as the subject of his intervention, and has now become far more inevitable than it then was. Evi- dently the Government of the United States can do mno less than to take up the subject precisely where President Grant Jeft it, and to resume the friendly media- tion which he actually began, with all the consequences that would necessarily fol- low its rejection. ‘‘Confident that no other nation than this accords with our friendly relations with Spain, our just sympathy with Spain, our just sympathy with the people of Cuba and with our own dignity and consistency, Irecommend the following resolution to the consideration of the Senate: Resolved, That the President is hereby re- quested to interpose his friendly offices with the Spanish Government for the recognition of the iadependence of Cuba. A resolution heretofore offered by Call (D.) of Florida, requesting the President to report to the Senate in regard to the arrest at Havana of three American citi- zens, Mark E. Rodriguez and Louis Sou- mellan and son, and to demand their im- mediate release, was reported back from the Committee on Foreign Relations with the last clause struck out,and was also placed on the calendar. STILL FIST I8 THE SMD, Wreckers Unable to Move the St. Paul More Than a Few Feet. Will Make a Supreme Effort to Float the Steamer With This Morn- ing’s High Tide. LONG BRANCH, N. J., Jan. 29.—The silvery January full moon beamed brightly on the steamer St. Paul to-night, but con- trary to expectations the event of the oib of the night was not attended by the presaged full tide, consequently the ship remains on the beach. Neither was the longed-for easterly wind forthcoming. At the morning-flood tide, which was full at 8 o’clock, an attempt was made to float the ship. Three monster tugs pulled themselves almost out of the water in their efforts to move the vessel. The kedge anchor and capstans were utilized, but with this combined power the ship moved only fifty feet and then refused to budge an- other inch. No attempt was made to move the St. Paul this afternoon. During tne morning the crew set to work lightening the ship. The lifeboats, davits tackle and in fact every piece of detach- able deck fixture was removed and piled on a lighter. The two topmasts were also lowered to centralize the weight. The last piece of cargo was taken out this morning, conse- quently the ship is many tons lighter than yesterday. President Clement A. Griscom of Phila- delphia, with his son Clement Jr., arrived to-day by special train over the Pennsyl- vania road. They boarded the steamer at 4 0'clock with the intention of remaining on ker till she floats, providing it is not later than to-morrow evening. Mr. Gris- com is satisfied that everything possible is being done to save the vessel. The wrecking masters have everything ready for the supreme effort which is to be made to-morrow to float the steamer. The trial will take place after 8 o'clock, and if this is unsuccessful they will not renew their efforts untii there is a storm tide. The railroads carried thousands to this place to-day. Some of the visitors came from a distance of 300 miles to view the ship. s Condition of the Treasury. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.—The treasury gold reserve to-day stood at $150,268.339. The withdrawais forjthe day were $110,600, CHOATE PLEADS FOR HIS CLIENT, Eloquence in Behalf of Mrs. Stanford and the University. END OF THE ARGUMENT. Decision in the Famous Case May Not Be Rendered Before March 1. SUPREME COURT'S ATTITUDE Significant Remarks in a Colloguy at the Close of Conrad’s Efforts. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.—The argument in the Stanford case wus con- cluded to-day in the Supreme Court, J. H. Choate speaking for Mrs. Stanford ana Solicitor-General Conrad for the United States. A colloquy at the close of Mr. Conrad’s efforts was believed by those who heard it to have a significant bearing upon the attitude of the court. The Solicitor- General was urging upon the court his contention that under the constitution and laws of the State of California the stockholders of the Central Pacific Com- pany were individually liable to the United States for its debts to the Govern- ment, when Mr, Justice Gray remarked : “Mr. Solicitor-General, [ did not know that it haa any bearing on it, but in 127th United States Statutes this court held that the Central Pacific had a franchise from the United States.” Solicitor-General Conrad—Yes, sir; they did, but that was where there was an at- tempt on the part of California to tax the franchise of that company, and this court did hold beyond question, Judge Bradley, 1 believe, delivering the decision, that the California company iiad a franchise of its own. Justice Gray—The difficulty, in my mind, was this: That the court there, as I re- member it, in reference to the taxation of franchises within the State of California, said that must bave included the fran- chise from the United States, and because it included a franchise from the United States, therefore the taxation was void. The reason I suggested it was to see how you reconciled that decision or what you thought should be done with it in order to carry out your view in this case. The Chief Justice—It seems to me that Judge Bradley’s language is that the fran- chise of the United States is independent, though collateral to the State franchise. Mr. Conrad—Hedoes say so; and Justice Davis says that this company was invested with every important franchise. Justice Bradley, in another place, says that this company wa$ invested by the United States ‘with a fundzmental franchise. I do not know the meaning of those terms. I supvose a fundamental franchise is the franchise of being a corporation. It isa creative act, and 1 had supposed that those terms were just as my learned com- vetitor here has referred to as terms that were used by the Judges arguendo—not in- volved in the decision at all. At this point the Solicitor-General be- gan arranging his papers, as if to leave, although he had spoken only about an hour, when the Chief Justice said: “You may have more time, Mr. Conrad.” Mr. Conrad—I am tired. And the presentation of argument in the great case was ended. In concluding his plea for Mrs. Stanford Mr. Choate said that he rested the cese upon these propositions: *'First, that Congress, for its own ends and purposes, intended in the whole busi- ness covered by the Pacific Railroad Com- pany to make itself and did make itseli absolute master of the situation, not io rely upon the aid of any State, or the laws of any State, nor to permit the interference of any State, or the laws of any State, but to be self-sovereign, supreme, absolute and sufficient for the whole business, and by its own laws to cover its whole scope and to regulate the entire relations of par- ties in 1espect to all that each party was to do or receive; that all companies were to be on a footing of absolute equality, and the Central Pacific was not singled out alone among them all to furnish to the Government substantial indemuity in the shape of stockholders’ liability to the amount of §60,000,000, while no other com- pany was to furnish a dollar of such in- demnity. Second—That by the law of Congress, as construed by its own courts, which this court will follow, there was no such thing as an individual liability of stockholders existing in the California corporation at the time the contract was made between the Central Pacific Company and the Gov- ernment, and hence the defendant cannot be liable. Third—That by the law of California, as construed by its own courts, which this court will follow, if there was such liability it was ouly qualified liability, limited to the condition that it should mature and be enforceable within three years from the date when the liability was created, and when the United States made their bonds for thirty years they necessarily excluded the possibility of any stockholder's lia- bility being predicated upon them or at- tached to them. Fourth—That by the true construction of the actof Congress, illustrated and guided by the Thurman actand by the de- cisions of this court, the companies them- selves are not absolutely unconditionally liable for the repayment of bonds, but they are only to be paid upon the condi- tions and in the manner provided in the act, and therefore defendant is not liuble. “I wish w call the attention of the court,” said he, “to some matter contained in a brief of special counsel in California which I think the learned Attorney-Gen- eral must have inadvertently adopted, wherein certain gross personalities against the memory of Senator Stanford are in- dulged in as arguments to the court. It is suggested that somenow or other those projectors, as he calls them, have made profits which they ouzht not to have made. If the estate of Senator Stanford is liable to the Government on any such ground let them come boldly forth ‘and say so. Let them come out into the open and not skulk behind this artificial, fictious, pretended, unfounded claim of] stockholders’ liabifity. *‘And now, if the court please, I earn- estly ask for as speedy a decision of this case as is consistent with thé other duties of this court, and I think I may properly in this connection refer to the terrible ex- igencies pressing upon this defendant, whom I represent. Her time is very short, necessarily short. The great university to which she and her husband have dedicated this property is in daily danger of being compelled to closeits doors. Will not the court give her an opportunity in her own lifetime, either to reinstate it so that it may recover from the shock that this liti- gation has put upon it, or, if there must be such an end, then to bury it with honor and decency ?” *“Perhaps I have gone too far in making that suggestion or speaking of this uni- versity at all, but if I have there is great precedent for it in the history of this court. I have read that when the greatest of American lawyers was pleading here for Dartmouth College at the close of the greatest argument, perhaps, ever delivered in this' court he appealed to his personal love and the love of many others for that little college in the hiils where he was nurtared, and you could hear his great heart beat, they said, in tbe silence that followed tbat appeal. And may not this defendent appeal, not only to her own love for this great institution which she is founding, but to the love ot all the people of this country--for the steps of its youth are trending there from every State in the Union—may she not appeal at least fora speedy decision of the cause?’” The Supreme Court will take a recess in few days and the decision cannot be hand- ed down in the Stanford case before March at the earliest. KRUGER FEARS TREACHERY Warns Possible Disturbers That They Will Be Severely Dealt With. Consul Manion Denounced to Secretary Olney by a Johannesburg Citizen. PRETORIA, Sourn AFrrica, Jan. 20.—In view of the fact that several of the mining companies operating in the South African Republic are considering the project of closing their mines, President Kruger has issued a proclamation asserting that he has reasons for suspecting that this action is prompted by the same spirit that pro- voked the recent disoraers in the Trans- vaal, and he therefore, while promising in every way possible to promote the supply of native labor and otherwise to protect and develop the mining industry. warns any persons who may create a disturbance in the republic that the most severe penalties will be enforced. OLNEY¥’S Al1D INVOKED. Consul Manion’s Incompetency Made Plain to the Secretary. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.—Henry Butters of San Francisco arrived at the Shoreham Hotel to-day in company with Mr. Trusto of New York. The latter is an intimate friend of John Hays Hammond and Mr. Butters’ brother, who was im- prisoned at Pretoria, but was released on bail. The gentlemen consulted Senator Per- kins this morning about the character of Manion, consular agent at Johannesburg. Mr. Butters resided for four years, at Johannesburg and is well informed as \to the situation there. Trusto also livea in the Transvaal. They both alleged that consular Agent Manion was altogether unfitted to act as American agent at Johannesburg. Acting upon Senator Per- kins’ advice, they saw Secretary Olney this morning and represented to him that Manion was an ignorant man and not able to write a grammatical or respectable com- munication to President Krueger. They told Olney that Manion was sent there by William R. Grace of New York as a mechanic to introduce a drill, and that through Grace’s influence he was made American consular agent. Butters declares that Manion, although ignerant, was egotistical and ambitious to shine in society ; that he was practically ostracised by the best Americans of the Transvaal country, being blackballed from several clubs, and consequently Manion had no love for Americans there. ‘‘He hates the American colony as much as they despise him,” declared Mr. Butters in a conversation with Secretary Olney, “and will do as little as he is able to do to protect their interests.” They asked that a special diplomatic agent be sent to Johannesburg. Mr. Olney did not promise to do this, but suggested that it might be as well to appoint a con- sul at Cape Town. American Consul Bene- dict died some time ago, and since that time Mr. Knight, a British subject and also consular representative of France and Germany, had acted as American vice- consul. The salary of the American Consul, held by Benedict, is only $2000 per annum. Mr. Olney can appoint his successor at that salary, but if it seems desirable to raise the grade of this office he will recommend to Congress that the salary of this office be increased so that a first-class man may represent American interests in Africa. The diplomatic and consular appropria- tion bill passed the House yesterday, but it could be amended in the Senate through the efforts of Senators White and Perkins if Secretary Olney should make this recom- mendation. H The Idaho Senators have received a cablegram from V. H. Clement, one of the Americans arrested, stating that every- thing is quiet at Pretoria and Johannes- burg, and that there is no imminent danger to any Americans, but urging that Shoup and Dubois co-operate with other Senators to secure fair treatment and trial for all Americans. Mr. Butters declares that the Boers have no use for Americans. He says Krueger is the real power and there is no Richelien behind the throne and that Krueger is the man to communi- cate with. SRR DUCK-HUNTING AGAIN. The President Goes Upon a Jaunt to the Virginia Marshes. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.—Presi- dent Cleveland returned to Washington at 8:45 this evening from his Quantico duck- hunting expedition. His only companions on the voyage were Dr. O'Reilly and Cap- tain Lamberton, lighthouse inspector,with Captain French in charge of the Maple. The party reached Quantico at 2 o'clock this morning and at 6 o’clock began their sport, which continued, excepting an in- terval for dinner, until late in the after- noon. The Maple did not leave the hunt- ing grounds until 6 o’clock in the evening. Captain Lamberton was the President’s companion on the hunt. No unusual incident characterized the President’s reception at the wharf. His carriage was there in waifing, but with no attendant beside the coachman. No van was necessary to convey the game that fell victims to the President’s gun. The total number of ducks was thirty-two. | Hood’s Pills ENGLAND'S GRAB IN THE NORTH. Preparing to Reopen the Alaskan Boundary Dispute. VAST TRACT CLAIMED. This Government Alleged to Have Usurped Three Million Acres. STRATEGIC POINTS (NCLUDED. Clarence Strait to Be Declared the Dividing Line Between the Two Countries. MONTREAL, Quesec, Jan. 29.— The Star’s London special says: Lord Salis- bury and Right Hon. Mr. Chamberlain have'been considering the result of inqui- ries into the records here made on behalf of British Columbia, which shows that the United States has no right under the Anglo-Russia treaty of 1825 to three mil- iion acres of land opposite Prince of Wales Island, on the Pacific Coast, which is of high strategic value and which the United States has usurped since buying Alaska. The records of the dispatches of Bagot to Lord Canning show that Clarence Strait, and not Portland Inlet, is the correct boundary. 1t is suggested that the Canadian mem- bers of the Alaskan Boundary Commission have been misled into assuming the cor- rectness of the United States’ assumption. PINAR DEL RID OVERRUN, Continued from First Page. be no public investigation, but a private one will be instituted. The Hawkins had on board 117 souls all told, of which 101 were volunteers and a crew of 16. Fifty more were expected, but in the hurry of leaving port these men were left behind. There was plenty of room for them on board. A large number of sympathizing callers at the residence of General Garcia, 256 West One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, were informed this morning that the General and his son Charles were both ill and could not be seen. It wasrumored to-day that Senor Palma, president of the junta, had tendered his resignation. This is not true and Senor Palma to-night said: T will not resign or abandon my post until Cuba is free. The resolution of the Committee on Foreign Affairs is the first step toward our recognition of belligerent rights, which will come later on. The re- port that we have been the victim of a traitor is false.” Notwithstanding Senor Palma’s denial many Cubans believe the filibusters were belayed. — o WILL TAEE TWO XEARS. General Weyler Realizes That He Has a War on His Hands. ® [Copyright, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. ] HAVANA, Cusa, Jan. 29.—A Cadiz dis- patch to La Discusion reports that be- fore embarking for Cuba yesterday Cap- tain-General Weyler said that he would be quite satisfied if he should succeed in sup- pressing the rebellion within two years. A Madnd dispatch to the Diario de la Marina quotes General Weyler as express- ing no surprise that such large numbers of the people as reported should emigrate from the island since his appointment was gazetted, and as having intimated that many more would leave before he reached Hayana. A party of 600 rebels on Sunday after- noon were within a league of Matanzas City, at a point known as Encrucijada de San Pedro. On Monday the same party raided the village of Cidra, seized the Mayor’s seal and destroyed the archives. The transport Cosme Herrera leit Havana at a late hour last night with 450 regular troops, destined to re-enforce Matanzas and Cardena: INTERESTS THE COAST. Report of the Reinstatement of Night In- spector of Customs Harbinson Is Confirmed. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.—In- formation reaches Washington to the effect that Collector Wise denies the cor- rectness of the report in Tue Cary this morning that the night inspector of cus- toms has been reinstated. The report is correct. THE CALL correspondent saw the following letter to-day : TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Januery 28. Hon. S. G. Hilborn, M. C.: I have the honor to inform you that the department has this day ordered Mr. Harbinson to be reinsteted as in- spector of customs at San Francisco. Yours respectfully, 8corr WIKE, Acting Secretary of Treasury. Senator Stewart to-day reported favor- ably from the Committee on Claims the bill' refunding to California, Oregon and Nevaua moneys expended by them in aid of the suppression of the rebellion. ‘Stewart also introduced a bill for the relfef of P, % %)rfieth A. P. Williams was to-day a inted stmaster at Naples, Santa pg‘;rbara unty, vice J. H. Wiiliams, resigned. A ostoffice was to-day established at Clover, lko County, Nev., with Charles F. Row- hlll,d as postmnster.c ensions for Californians — Original: John Lane, Mare Island; Charles Whal- len, Monticelio. 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