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\AFFAIJ18 IN XI1JS OF THE
PACIFIC.
Major General Mile * Makes His Aii-
xiual Report Ills Reference to Oar
Coant Defenses Indications That
Congress Will be Called Together In
Extra Session What Adams Says of
the Union Pacific Doycott.
Our Coast Defenses.
WASHINGTON , Oct. 30. Major Gen
eral Miles , in his annual report on
military affairs , division of the Pacific ,
while reporting the tone and charac
ter of the service most excellent , says
that any system is defective which
leaves with little advancement and
slight hope of recognition a class of
citizens who devote themselves entire
ly to military service. The artillery
branch should bo increased by at least
two regiments , and the same organiza
tion be given the infantry that exists
tin the best armies of the world
namely , three battalion organizations.
'General Miles says the various meth
ods resorted to to diminish desertion
rhavo not , to any considerable extent ,
'done so. He believes , however , that
iwo are approaching a solution of the
'problem ' and that the measures recent
ly adopted are a step in the right di-
\ , rection. The army has hailed with
'delight the adoption of his suggestions
touching the length of enlistment and
the improvement of army rations. He
believes that great benefit would re
sult from the adoption of other sug-
< Wt. . jjs heretofore made by him.
( ho holding of discontented Indian
Youths on the San Carlos reservation ,
jUially [ : along the Gila river , which
.suited to them and often un-
! hy , will always be a source of
: br and disturbance , as several
Tary posts and reservations in the
department of Arizona have beenaban-
doneu * . He recommends that they be
at once occupied by Indians or con
verted into industrial schoola and the
Mojave Tonto and Yuma Indians be
removed there at once from the sickly
Gila valley.
The general devotes much space to
the subject of coast defenses , speaking
of the mistaken belief that in case of
threatened hostilities ample time will
always be given to prepare for war.
History shows the reverse. At the
rate of progress we are now making it
would require from fifteen to twenty
.years to put our coasts in proper con
dition for defense , and in the mean
time much of the wealth of the country
is in jeopardy and at the mercy of any
fourth or fifth rate naval power. He
. recommends that sites for coast de-
0 enses be secured without delay , that a
fjin foundry be established on the Pa-
j.fic coast and that one-fourth of the
ier
appropriations required for coast de
fenses be made every year for the'next
.four years.
That Extra Session.
WASHINGTON , Oct 30. After all i
is quite probable that there will be an
extra session of congress. In fact there
.re a number of little things about the
departments to-day which indicate that
at the cabinet meeting yesterday it was
determined that congress shall be called
together immediately after election.
There was a sudden scurrying about of
the chiefs of the various divisions in
the departments this morning and a
great show of activity in every branch
of each of them whore the estimates
are usually prepared. In the postoffice
department Postmaster General Wana-
maker sent vord to the chiefs of every
division that he wonted the estimate
for the appropriations' for the coming
fiscal year by " 5 o'clock this evening ,
'but it was a physical impossibility to
get the figures together at that hour
and the consequence is that the depart
ment is lighted up to-night and nearly
half the force of clerks is busy at work
getting the estimates to submit to the
treasury department. The postoffice
department , having the greatest
amount of work of this character to do ,
is pushed closer than any of the others.
The interior department also shows
signs of greater activity than usual ,
and the various chiefs of bureaus in
the treasury are all at their posts to
night working upon their figures. It
is the evident intention of the secre
tary of the treasury to have these esti
mates ready by the end of next week ,
and unless the signs are misleading the
president intends to convene congress
one week from next Monday.
The Union Paclflc Boycott.
BOSTON , Mass. , Oct. 30. The vice
president of the Union Pacific was seen
with regard to the stories with which
the "street" of late has teemed derog
atory to the Union Pacific , its manage
ment. , etc. In regard to the "boy-
cot" and effect thereof , Lane said :
"The west bound through business
is really all that is affected , and even
this can suffer but little. "
He also said that the Union" Pacific-
iNorthwestern alliance really concerns
nobody but the two roads in interest
-and what they do is their own busi
ness. The Union Pacific people are
jiot at all disturbed by the so-called
"boycotte , and they find in the causes
leading to it and in the ill feeling of
their competitors an inspiratipn for all
the recent wild reports concerning the
road.
road.The stories of accidents. Lane sajjs ,
have been greatly exaggerated. Their
system.is getting an enormous traffic
at the present time , more , indeed than
! it can comfortably handle , and its
equipment is necessarily getting severe
usage. A few accidents have natural
ly occurred tinder these circumstances ,
but none of these have involved any
serious damage. As regards the latest
story from Chicago published today to
the effect that the management was
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working tacitly to wreck the road' with
a view to ultimately turning it over to
the Vanderbilts , Lane says that yarn
is too absurd to deny , and its animus
is clearly apparent to any one who un
derstands the present condition of af
fairs.
Recalcitrant .Reds.
STANDING ROCK AGENCY , N D. ,
Oct. 29 , For the pasffour weeks Sit
ting Bull has been inciting the Sioux
Indians in this vicinity to itn uprising.
Ho has excited -sympathies of a
largo number of young bucks by tell
ing them the story of his great bravery
in the field of Custer , and several hun-
dren of them had agreed to go on the
war path at his bidding. The old
chiefs , however , several of whom were
in the famous campaign of the Little
Big Horn , offered strenuous objections
to the foolhardy propositions of Taurus
Recumbens , and one of them gave up
the plans of the recalitrant reds to
Major McLaughlin , the agent. Sitting
Bull has just recovered from a long
illness and is very ugly , but any move
on the part of the _ aged chief and his
300 or 400 followers would be quickly
checked. Companies G and A , Twelfth
infantry , and troops F and G , Eighth
cavalry , are at Fort Yates and could
probably quell a disturbance without
other assistance ; but if affairs should
assume a serious phase through a gen
eral uprising of the Sioux along the
Missouri , the regulars at Forts Tatten
and Sully could bo brought into service
in a few hours.
"Waked Up the Germans.
BERLIN , Oct. 28. Several official
movements point to the possibility of
the tariff questions engaging the at
tention of the reichstag , rendering
necessary a careful nursing of the min
isterial majority. A commission has
been appointed to inquire into the
Austro-German commercial * relations
with a view to a reciprocal diminu
tions of the tariffs. Communications
have been sent to leading firms in
Hamburg , Bremen and other trade
centers asking them to report on the
effects of the McKinley bill in their
lines of trade. They also asked what
the prospects are for finding new chan
nels for merchandise affected by the
McKinley bill. The commission on
foreign tariffs further has to consider
the new Russian protective measure.
A Russian commission will begin work
next week upon the details of the new
tariff , which , the Novoe Vre'mya de
clares , -will be the highest in Europe.
Official circles continue to doubt that
any important alteration will be made
in the existing treaty with Austria ,
and are equally skeptical as to any
German reprisals upon American trade.
Reports thus far received tend to dis
sipate the feeling of alarm created by
the augmented American tariff. Lead
ing export houses appear to be doing
a normal trade , and American orders
in leading commercial centers do not
appreciably diminish. However the
future may affect exports , the govern
ment wlfl not be driven into concerted
reprisals with Austria bv the sudden
Collapse in American trade ,
Extra Session Gossip.
WASHINGTON , Oct 29. Again it is
asserted with the utmost positivenesa
that the president intends to call con
gress together in extra session imme
diately after the election. In fact ,
those who profess to know all about it
assert that the president refrained from
taking his contemplated ducking trip
because of his desire to prepare a mes
sage having this object in view , but
absolutely nothing can be learned from
the white house or from any member
of the cabinet which gives any reason
to suppose that the statement is true.
The president is busy with his cabinet
officers day after day , and the natural
supposition is that he is preparing his
annual message to congress. Of course
there is the possibility that an extra
session may be held , but the probabil
ities for this are by no means apparent
on the surface , although the president
is exceedingly anxious to secure the
prompt passage of the federal elections
bill.
Their Relations Were Cordial.
"WASHINGTON , Oct. 31. Secretary
Elaine desired the statementmade that
he did not request the recall of Senor
Muruaga as minister of Spain to the
United States. He says it is not true
that the relations between himself and
the late minister became strained. On
the contrary their relations were
friendly. The minister's recall , Blaine
says , was due solely to a change of ad
ministration in the Spanish govern
ment.
T7io Federal Building at Omaha.
WASHINGTON , Oct. 29. At the treas
ury department the supervising archi-
itect said that nothing will be done to
wards preparing plans for the proposed
new federal building in Omaha this
season owing to the fact that there is
a bill pending in each house to extend
the limit of the cost of the new struc
ture. The office does not feel war
ranted in going ahead and incurring
the expense of preparing a full set of
plans for a building which may never
be built. The whole matter will be
delayed until the close of the present
congress when , if no further expendi
ture is authorized , plans will be pre
pared with the idea of erecting a
building , to cost about $800,000 , which
is the amount available for this pur
pose at the preajjnt tune.
At the state meeting of the farmers'
alliance of Illlinois resolutions' were
adopted favoring a uniform series of
text-books for public schools , to be
adopted and furnished by the state at
cost ; the Australian ballot system elec
tion of railroad and warehouse com
missioners by a direct vote of the pee
ple.
ple.Fire
Fire in George Wiedman's brewery ,
Newport , Ky. , destroyed a large ware
house , causing § 100,000 loss.
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THE M'KINLEY BILL.
GLADSTONE DISCUSSES THE MATTER
OF TARIFF.
The Zmtvs of Other Countries Cannot
Seriously Interfere with the Pros
perity of Great Hrltaln Report of the
Governor of Idaho No Vote la the
Sioux Reservation A Non-Partisan
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union Convention.
A. Gladstonlan Opinion of the McKIn-
Jey Tariff BUI.
LONDON , Oct. 31. Gladstone ar
rived at Dundee and was presented with
the freedom of the city. He made an
address in which he referred to the
commerce of the city which , it was
said , was threatened by the adoption
of the new tariff bill by the American
congress. He would not , however , ho
eaid , bring railing accusation against
the people of the United States.
Protection , although it might inflict
Incidental collateral blows on other
countries , did far greater mischief to
the country which adopted such a pol
icy. Gladstone then proceeded to con
trast the decrease in the tariff in Eng
land with the increase in the tariff in
the United States , and said he found
comfort for England in the fact that it
was not true that any tariff adopted by
any government on earth could inter
fere seriously with the prosperity of
Great Britain. The first effect of the
McKinley bill would be to raise the
standard of prices in the United States.
This meant diminished power of expor
tation. This again meant that while
we were damaged in one of our twenty
markets , we derived benefit in the other
nineteen from diminished power of the
merchants of the United States to com
pete with British markets in any one
of them , this being due to augmenta
tion of prices in the United States , and
increased restraints under which mer
chants of the latter country have to
work. He advised manufacturers to
allow" America to find out for herself
the evil effects that will follow the
adoption of a high tariff.
Gladstone deprecated the idea of a
Eollverein of the whole British empire ,
including colonies and dependencies ,
against all foreign countries. He
doubted much whether the whole em
pire would consent. Furthermore ,
although it would to some extent en
large the commerce of the colonies , it
would contract it with the rest of the
world. The imperial commerce was
now 18 ? > 000,000 yearly and the for
eign commerce 55,654,000. One ef
fect of the McKinley tariff would be to
direct the attention of the British
manufacturer toward the production of
finer classes of goods because these
bore the least intolerable protective
duties. The result would be to elevate
and improve the trade of the British
manufacturers , spur them on and
stimulate their ingenuity. The probable -
able | gndency among democrats would
be towaf5 the manufacture of coarser
goods , thus degrading their produc
tions. In spite of protection the com
merce between America and Great
Britain had greatly increased. The
word protection was a misnomer. It
ought to be oppression. It is a delusion
and a fraud. America wjis a country
that could best afford to try this
strange and astonishing experiment.
Her natural wealth , soil , minerals and
immense territory made her a world
in herself. The possession of these
enormous advantages helped to dis
guise the truth from Americans , but
the McKinley law would involve a
fearful waste of resources by which
her people ought to be made strong
and happy.
Report of Idaho's Governor.
WASHINGTON , Oct. 31. The annual
report of Governor Shoup of Idaho esti-
mantes the value of the taxable proper
ty in the territory at § 25,581,805 , while
fhree-fifths of the agricultural la nds of
Idaho are arid and must be irrigated
to be productive. Owing to the sever
ity of last winter heavy losses were in
flicted on the live stock industry. A
satisfactory increase is shown in the
production of mines , the output last
year being nearly double that of any
former season. As to the Mormons ,
the governor says that to all appear
ances they have resolved to abandon
polygamous practices.
No Vote In the Reservation.
PIERRE , S. D. , Oct. 31. The su
preme court of South Dakota handed
down an important decision in the
noted certiorari case instituted by Hu
ron. The court set aside the act of
the Hughes county commissioners in
establishing voting precincts on the re
cently ceded Sioux reservation. The
commissioners proceeded under advice
from the governor and attorney gener
al of the state , but the decision prac
tically nulrfles it , though still accord
ing to the settlers the right to vote
when instituted in a different manner.
Had not Pierre and Huron been rivals
for the state capital and these votes fa
vorable to Pierre , the case would not
have been instituted and no wholesale
disfranchisement like this would have
occurred.
Non-Partisan "W. C. T. D.
CLEVELAND , O. , Oct. 80. A call has
been issued for a national convention
of the Non-Partisan National Women's
Christian Temperance union to be held
in Allegheny City. Pa. , November 19 ,
20 and 21. The basis of representa
tion is one delegate for every one hun
dred paying members of auxiliary state
unions , and in unorganized states or
territories one delegate for one hun
dred members or fraction over fifty.
The call is a sti-ong one and invites
all women in earnest sympathy with
us if they cannot nonstitutionally be
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members of the convention because
lacking1 the required constituency. "
The call further says : "The reasons
which led to this separate organization
still exist , although this movement has
led the parent society and many of its
auxiliaries tb repudiate partisanship
by official utterances , but otherwise the
facts remain the same and the necessi
ty of a new rallying center for nonpartisan -
partisan temperance women of the na
tion has been farther emphasized in the
experiences of the year. " Reference
is made "to the triumphant vindi
cation of the movement in Iowa
by the state union serving
its auxiliarship to the partisan
national ; to the remarkable growth
of the movement in other states , " and
the documents add : "The principles
no partisanship in temperance work ,
but the fullest liberty outside of the
organization for the exercise of indi
vidual political preferences and
rights commends itself to fair-minded
men and women in the country at
large. "
Delegates and visitors should send
their names as soon as possible to Mrs.
H. C. Campbell , No. 187 Sandusky
street , Allegheny City , Pa.
General Grlcrson's Zteport.
ASHINGTON , Oct. 80. In his an
nual report upon the operations of the
army in the department of Arizona ,
Brigadier General Grierson command
ing , says : "Now that , as forts Mc
Dowell and Verde have been aban
doned with a view to their early trans
fer to the interior department for In
dian school purposes , the authorities
should consider the advisability of re
ducing , .with the least possible delay ,
the number of Indians in the vicinity
of the San Carlos agency by the re
moval of the Yuma and Majava Indi
ans , numbering about 1,000 , to those
reservations. The keeping of so many
Indians at'San Carlos is detrimental
to their advancement and tends to re
newals of old feuds with white men ,
and that trouble is likely to arise at
any time. "
He said the proposition made by In
dian inspectors to organize a regiment
of Indians would prove a very danger
ous experiment. To place the worst
elements to be found among savage
Indians in regular army organizations
under white officers , would be unsafe
and would be placing too much faith
in such Indians.
Posts at Torts owell , Grant and
Bayard , says the general , can be aban
doned without detriment to the service
and tne post at Fort Union could be
abandoned at once. General Grierson
renews his recommendation that pres
ent military reservation at San Pedro ,
Cala. , be enlarged , as it is the most
available place for harbor adjacent to'
Los Angeles. The small fort situated
near the place of San Diego , Cal. ,
should be disposed of and a more suit
able place obtained without delay.
The general says railroads obviate the
necessity for keeping so many troops
in territories where hardships and pri
vations have to be endured , and they
should be concentrated on the sea coast
where they can be made comfortable ,
instructed and disciplined. In view of
the recent unwarranted attempt to
grasp Lower California from Mexico ,
; he time is auspicious for the estab-
ishment of these permanent posts.
Lost In the "Woods.
ESCANABA , Mich. , Oct 29. A hunt
ing party composed of A Rogy of
Princeton , 111. , and Martin Myers and
Thomas McKinney of this city have
aad a tragical experience in the wilds
of the northwest near the little Ham
let known as Metropolitan. The trio
enjoyed themselves hugely in the picturesque - >
turesque intricacies of the region until
Friday , when Myers and Rogy left Mc
Kinney alone in camp , where he waste
to prepare a quantity of game for the
next meal. McKinney became lonety
before his comrades returned , and to
while away the time started , as he
supposed , on a short exploring expe
dition into the brush. He neglected
to keep his bearings , and on attempt
ing to return found himself bewildered
and at a loss to proceed. The lost hunt
er was was without weapons or food ,
and the bitter cold night added to
his wretchedness. Meyers and Kogy
in the meantime reached the de
serted camp , and in an effectual search
for their missing companion set out for
Metropolitan. The two hunters prompt
ly joined with the village authorities
in offering a large reward for the dis
covery of the lost man. The villagers
turned out almost to a man , but for a
time their combined efforts were fruit
less. Last evening , however , the party
was almost ready to abandon the quest ,
when they stumbled upon McKinney ,
who exhausted and dazed by exposure
and hunger , was still feebly keeping
up the struggle for existence , pulling
weeds and brush with the dim hope of
being able to build a signal fire , or
failing in that to preserve for a time
the slight remaining warmth in his
body. The unfortunate man was con
veyed to Metropolitan , where today he
was in an unconscious condition the
greater part of the time. It is hardly
possible that he will survive until
morning.
Claim itho Tariff Bill 1 * Illegal.
NEW YORK , Oct. 29. Upon the ap
plication of Messrs. Ballin , Joseph &
Co. , importers , Judge Lacey to-day
granted an order requiring the customs
appraisers of a certain consign
ment of cloths on which the firm
claims that too high duties were
assessed. The firm alleges that
the goods in question were man
ufactured of worsted. An interesting
point of the suit is that the firm con ,
tends that the act of May 9 , providing
for the classification of worsted clothg
as woolens , does not apply because the
act was not passed according to law.
They assert that there was no quorum
in the house when the bill was certi-J
fied to having been passed , and that i6
was not legally enacted , though de
clared passed by the speaker.
THE NEBRASKA LINE.
IT IS EXTEXTtED 31Y FltESIDEXTIAZ
Tiie Ponca Reservation Thrown Open
to Settlement The Nauco County
Murderer Not Found Indian Trou
bles at Standing Rode Agency Di
rector I eecU of the Mint Makes lilts
Annual Report What ho Says of
Treasury Purchases of Silver.
The Ponca Indian
ASHINGTON , Oct. 29. On the 24th
fust , the president signed the procla
mation throwing the Ponca Indian re
servation open to settlement. This
proclamation extends the northern
limit of the state of Nebraska for a
short distance so as to pmbrace all that
portion of the Sioux Indian reservation
which really belongs to the state of
Nebraska , but which has heretofore
been included within the state of South
Dakota. The proclamation will add a
great many thousand acres to Nebraska
territory and besides serves to bring
within the state as residents thereof a
number of old soldiers who have been
living in that country and who have
not been regarded as citizens of the
state. As soon as the proclamation
was prepared by the interior depart
ment and signed by the president it
was sent to the state department , where
all such proclamations are usually
given out , but for some unexplained
reason the state department is not yet
ready to issue it , nor would they fur
nish a copy of the proclamation for
publication.
It Is Not Furnlval.
ELLISVILLE , Miss. , Oct. 2'j. Fred
Davage , the Englishman who was ar
rested at this place bv Detective
O'Flynn as George F. Furnival ,
charged with the murder of five per
sons in Nance county , Nebraska , in
September , 1884 , was tried before
Chancellor Evans on a writ of habeas
corpus this afternoon , and , it being
clearly proven by some of the oldest
citizens of the town that Davage was
living here in September , 1884 , the
prisoner was discharged. This is one
of the most remarkable cases of mis
taken identity which has ever been
tried in the courts of southeast Mis
sissippi. Nationality , personalities ,
peculiarities , scars and tattooing were
almost identically the same as de
scribed as being on the man wanted.
Messrs. Goddard and Mawhiney of Ne
braska , who came for the prisoner ,
will leave Ellisville on their way homo
to-night. Davage and his many
friends are rejoicing over the result of
the trial
The Mint Director's Report.
WASHINGTON , Oct. 29. Director
Leech of the mint makes a lengthy
statement * in regar'd to the treasury
purchases of silver bullion and the
recent decline in the market price of
silver. He says :
The treasury method of purchasing
silver has been criticised in these par
ticulars :
First That the Targe purchases by
the department do not include all the
silver bought.
Second That the London price is
used as a basis of the government pur
chase.
Third That bids to the goverment
are on the decimal system and tend to
favoritism.
In regard to the first criticism , he
says the government purchases silver
as it does bonds and indeed any article
required in considerable quantities , by
public competition , the lowest offers
being always accepted provided they
do not exceed the highest market
prices. For the benefit of small pro
ducers , however , the superintendents
of the mints are authorized to purchase
small lots at the price fixed from day
to day by the director , corresponding
to the market price. These purchases
average possibly half a million each
month.
Second It is not true that London
prices are used as a basis of the silver
purchases under the new law. During
the last administration not only was
the London price the only price used ,
but the department did not pay an
equivalent of the London price , but
made counter offers to bidders on the
day that silver was worth less in New
York than in London by the cost of
transportation and insurance across
the water. The present administra
tion has been governed in its purchase
by the New York price. At no time
since the passage of the new silver law ,
or indeed for some months before , has
the treasury felt itself limited in its
acceptance of London prices.
Third In regard to the government
qnotations being on the decimal basis ,
one of the critics says :
"The suspicious and significant fac $
in regard to the government's purchase
of late is that houses offering large lots
have been underbid by the hundredth
part of a cent. The government
quotations are on a decimal basis ,
which is a great advantage to these
who may have advanced information
in regard to the price the government
is willing to pay on a given date. "
The government has no scale of ifci
own , and bidders use whatever scalq
suits them best. If one house happens
to bid a decimal lower than another , L
the government to decline the lower bid
because of the decimal ?
The idea of any seller having "ad ,
vanced information" ' as to the price thq
government will pay , is ridiculous am ]
impossible. If there can be any fairer
method devised for purchasing silvei
than by public competition , it woulij
be difficult to conceive or such : j
method. It is the method which ha
been pursued by the treasury under aU
administrations since 1S78.
O'ltrlen ami Dillon Arrive.
New Yoiuc , Nov. 3. Mr. William
O'Brion , M. P. , and his wife , Mr. John
Dillon , M. P. , T. D. Sullivan and hla
wife and Timothy Harrington arrived
yesterday morning on the steamer La
Champagne.- reception committee
representing the united Irish societies
of Now York , accompanied by several
hundred members of the national league
and the various Irish societies , mot
them at quarantine. Upon the arrival
of the steamer at her dock a reception
was hold on her deck , and at 11:80 the
visitors were driven to the Hoffman
house. The party had scarcely reached
the hotel when Gov. Hill called upon
them. The governor warmly welcomed
them to the city and state , expressed
his hearty sympathy with the cause
they represented and signed his miino
to the address of welcome that had
been prepared by the Irish societies.
Mayor Grant also called and expressed
sentiments similar to these of the gov
ernor and also appended his name to
the address of welcome. To the rep
resentatives of the press Mr. O'Brien
related the details of his escape from
Ireland as follows :
"We delayed our trip as long as
there was any chance of our being able
to visit America in the interval be
tween the sentence and appeal. We
saw that the government was deliber
ately eating away that interval and aa
soon as that became evident wo came
away. The plan was simplicity itself.
Wo went out of the front door of a
conspicuous house in Dublin without
any disguise at all. Wo drove in a
friend's carriage to Dalkoy , supped at
the house of Mr. Ilcaley and that night
at midnight we wore rowed aboard the
yacht St. Patrick , which set sail in a
gale from Kingstown at once. While
we were being provisioned , just before
the start , the coast guard came along1
side and questioned Captain Murphy.
Sheriff Clancy of Dublin was with us.
We escaped and sailed for the Welch
coast , where wo lay three days be
calmed within a pistol shot of the shore
and in full view of the coast guards.
Then we were becalmed three days
more right in the course of the Eng
lish shipping in the channel and if half
the scrutiny had been given to us that
is exercised in searching outbound ves- I j
sels we would have been delayed sure.
We reached the French coast on the
evening of the seventh day and went
to Paris. "
Mr. O'Brien then read a statement
of the objects of the visit of himself
and Mr , Dillon , which is made at the
desire and upon the authority of Mr.
Parnell , and predicted that a general
election would occur in Great Britain
MI less than two years.
After remaining here until after the
election the visitors will hold meetings
in Philadelphia , Boston , Newark and
Jersey City. They will then hold a
series of meetings here , and afterward
divide into two or three parties and
make a tour of the country.
In the prepared statement given to
the press by Messrs. O'Brien and Dil
lon , as to their objects in visiting this
country they say :
We are coming to America at the
desire and with the authority of Mr.
Parnell and the Irish parliamentary
party. I had a most cordial interview
with Mr. Paruell before our departure ,
at which we were commissioned to pro
ceed to America as the representatives.
There is the most absolute unity in the
counsels of the party. We are more
firmly united than ever , both as to our
confidence in Mr. Parnell and as to our
programme for the future. All ru
mors to the contrary are the inven
tions of disappointed inquiries. I
doubt whether any equal number of
men in any country ever acted together
so long , so heartily or with so little
personal friction of any kind. As it is
with the representatives , so it is with
the Irish people. They believe in Mr.
Parnell's policy and they are prepared
to undergo any sacrifice in pursuing
that policy steadfastly. The old reproach
preach of instability and quarrelsomeness -
ness is completely exploded as an argu-
inent against the capacity of the Irish
people for self government. Men's
differences of opionion are inseparable
from all human affairs , but no nation
in the world could better stand the test
of unanimity as to all broad patriotic
issues than the Irish during the last
ten years. It is not necessary to say
that we did not quit Tipperary to evade
the sentence of removal. We should
be only permanently banishing ourselves -
selves from the country and disgracing1
our cnn e before the English people ,
who lo the cowardice of all things. It
is a dtightful proof of the straits to
which our escape drove the enemy that
even the'most frantic of them should
grasp at so ludicrous a story. IfBalfour
dreamed we were going for such a purpose -
pose he would have joyfully placed a
royal yacht at our disposal. Instead
of that he had us shadowed night and
day in a manner that would have been \
intolerable if it were not comical. V
They kept a police car ready horsed
all through the night outside our hotel
in Tipperary every night. Police spies
were also stationed in the rear to prevent - '
vent our escape in that way. Whenever -
ever myself and wife went out to walk
our steps were dogged by policemen in
plain clothes. Sometimes they pursued -
sued us on bicycles. On the day of
the meeting of our party in Dublin , we
had a special train waiting at Limerick *
junction to bring us up in time to
the meeting after the adjournment -
ment of the court. Will it be believed -
lieved that the government actually
had another train waiting beside ours
all day at the Limerick station for the / >
purpose of shadowing our train ? The '
thing seems too ludicrous for anything
but burlesque , but it was not too ludicrous -
crous for Mr. Balfour in his wild anxiety - [
iety to keep us from reaching Amer- , '
ica. I confess it added considerably [
to the satisfaction of coming away to
show how ineffectual all these idiotic
precautions were the moment we desired -
sired to evade them. Our strength in
these matters , of course , is that we (
have the whole population on our side. ,
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