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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-10-22, Page 7OUR OTTAWA ,LETTER MACHINATIONS OF .THE GOVERN-. MENT IN RESPECT OF THE SCHOOL QUESTION. Abbe Proulx's Mission—Martin and Sifton-- The Tarte.Grenier Suit—Who Next Session --Tim Premier Looks After His Priondif-. The Contract jobber in Ottawa. (From OUr Own Correspondent] Ottawa, Oot. 12.—Joseph Martin, wrathful, indigeant, full "of bitterness, has returned to Winnipeg. Clifford Sif- ton, jubilant and exult:nee is ready to be sworn in as Minister of the Interior. As leir, Tarte's friend would say, "Busi- ness is business." The Government, in 3pursuance of its policy of bribery, has given the Interior partfoliceto the man who could give most for it. Grit nOWS- papers etate with assurance that the Sohool question is virtually settled. But that annomicomeat has been made so mauy times by she Prime Minister, that people may be exoused for demanding some particulars. If success has attended the efforts of the members ot the A.d- nainistration, why do they not let their employers, the people of Canada, know soniething of their plans? Few doubt that there has been a very complete dis- cussion of the evhole subject. From the .evening of the tweoty-thirci of June, when the French-Canadians of Quebec, defeated the Conservative Administration, ebere never has been any doubb that Thomas Greenway and Clifford Sifton stood ready to barter their convictions In respeot of the &drools for a substantial -quid pro quo. Greenway feared Sifton. Be knew that his unscrupulous At- torney -General was neuch more adept than he at the game of polities. Green- way was MINI With fear that Sifton 'would supplant him as Premier of Mani- toba. It was with this cause for alarm in his mind that elreenway opened his negotiations with Mr. Laurier. Martin, he knew, was a political impossibility, Any man familiar with Grit methods saw that at first glance. Martin, de- feated and discredited io a partisan sense, was to be dropped. In the lexicon of Laurier there is no such word as "gratitude." Israel Tarte bad spoken. Be, the power behind tee throne, knew that lireenway would be glad to arrive at an accommodation in respect of the School (loonier) if Sifton could happily be removed trom the field of provitolal polities. Then It was that the Grit rulers anade up their reboil. Greenway was .disposed to ask for something else.. There aro in Manitoba many thnustind acres oe public lauds hold as a sort of en- dowment for the school system nf the province. These lands are held in trust ,‘ at Ottawa by the Federal Administra then. Like all Grit premiers, Greenway has been successful in vastly increasing the provincial debt. Well would he like to have these sichani lands under his con- trol, to barter away in the same mariner as the Ontario Government is bartering away the province's, timber wealth. Tarte, though, placed a veto on the pro- position to make the school hinds over to Greenevey. The potential leader of the ' Administration discerned in the Domin- ion's retention of the lands a chance of doing "business" in the foture. Sorne day in the near future it may be desira- ble for the Laurierittes to 000rOD Green- way again, Teen it will be that these lands 'will form the sugar coating of the pill which the Provincial Government 'will havo to swallow. Able) oroula's Mission. But, while we talk of tho settlement 'of the Sohool question do we not target the mission of a very important person - .age? That of Abbe Proulx, the Roman Catholic) clergyman and friend of Laurier 'who is now in Rome with a view to ob- taining tho Pope's approval of the pro - posted settlement? M. Proulx may not be .suocessful in his quest. The College of the Propaganda, during the lase cam- paign, heard with joy of Mr. Laurier's statements in Gespe and in other Por- tions of Quebec. In these speeches the :present Primo Minister told his fellow - countrymen that he would not be con- tent until he should have restored Separ- .ate schools as they existed before their abolition In 1800. It was during one of -these speeches that Laurier made Ids .famous declaration that he "Thanked ,God that there were no Orangemen ..among us, the Liberals." These speeches -were made for the habitant of Lower Canada. But news of them went east .and west. In Rome the Cardinals of the College of the Propaganda saw (envie for ,gratulation in•Laurier's announcement. They thought the re -erection of the Separate school system certain to follow Laurier's election. They will be content with nothing else. Though the first uhango in the present law may be unim- ,pottant let it not be taken for granted -that the Grit Government will be content to stop there. At present the idea is to allow the employment of a properly cert. tilioated Roman Cathelie teacher in schools in which there are fifty Roman Catholic children. This will go on for a time, until the members of the religious ...orders, the Christian Brothers and the t Sisters of Charity, will protest against their being convened to pass qualifying ..,examinations. Already I hear from Mani- toba that the members of these orders are prepared to make strong objection to tho new law. • Tarte and Laurier will yield. The Ontario members of the Cabi- net will make halt -hearted protests; Blair, Fielding and Davies will side with Tee Weenohmen, and another step will have been made in the direction of the dare age sohnole whieh are the subject of Laurier's adirdretion. martin and Sifton. Joseph Martin, it has been said, is in .a state of indignation. For him 110 longer the festive poker game has any interest. His chief reasen for living—participation in politics—is gone. Without polities and poker the lachrymose .Joseph will be in• deed distraught. ,Leurier, in order that a' dangerous man might be rendered harm- less, offered Mertin a British Columbia judgeship. The urbane and (meetly Mar- tin declined It with a burst oe profanity -that was like to make Laurier fain te Mar- tin swears that he will be avenged. Ho'w. he will go aboot it no one knows. Even if he can secure the unseating of Hon. Hugh John Macdonald in Winellieg-he can have no hope of defeating the clever, .tted popular., eon of the Old Mau. 4In Jutie last Mr. Macdoneld defeated Mar - •.tin although at that time the disap- e pointed of towlaea had the whele strength of the Manitoba Government -Working for him. The provincial treasury was put untior regnisition. One of the largest Inanufacturers of agrioultural imple- ments ie the States sent ten one thous- and dollar bills into Winnipeg be be ex- peeded in "convincing" the people that they Should vote for Martin. As we all know, the election resulted in a signal trianaph for Hugh John Macdonald. Martin knows well that be has no chance In Winnipeg. Sifton is going to run in Brandon, for which riding D'Alton Mo- Carthy was elected, resigning the seat duriug the last session of parliament. Sifton, even with a delegation of Tarte's boodlers from Ottawa in the county, will have a hard time being sleeted. His evil reputation has preceded hina. The sturdy prairie -dwellers of Brandon know well that be hos bought his wily iota the Cabinet. They know, too, that Cliffold Sieben is liable at any time to play any friend false. He has a genius for low intrigue. Mentally, he does not °ampere with Joseph Martin, who, despite hie newels, is an able man. Sifton always has been a little man, a man great at platting little schemes whereby his ern little personality might be shoved up an- other peg. Never has he conceived any- thing large; hiemental equipment; Would nee allow him to do so. His xnannersand methods are those of the glorified ward politician. He will be a fitting mato for the bright and shining Israel Tarte. The Minister of Publio Works is an older hand than Sifton at his own particular sohool of polities. But he will fled in the ex -Attorney General of Manitoba a will- ing and promising pupil. The scene will be akin to that in Oliver Twist, where- in Charley Bate, the Artful Dodger and other promising youths, are engaged in readying their daily lesson in the gentle art of picking pockets. Doubtless Mr. Tarte will be able to give Mr. Sifton some valuable information as to the most desirable Inethotis of "influencing" the electors of Brandon. The Tarte-Grenier suit. Last week we saw Mr. Tarte in the witness box in his suit against Mr. Grinder, the editor of La Libre Parole. The case is yet before the courts, which makes it impossible to make any ex- tended comment as to the evidence. Tarte denied everything. Be swore that he had not tried to blackmail the Con- nollys in 1801. Gtenier made the charge, and says that be has documentary deuce to prove it. Tarte manifested nu great anxiety to have the case go on at the present aseizes, but Editor Grenier, who insists that he can prove every °barge, demantlea that tne case be pro- , ceeded with. Before the case is finished we are promised som0 spicy develop- mente. Already Tarte has aoknowledgeti that ween lie wee a Cnneervative he was In the habit of calling upon Government contractors to aid him in publishing his newspaper. Ho denies that this was blackmail, for in every case, he says, he gave the contributor to the "testimonial" a thuabill for printing. It was never ex- peeted that any of these due -bills sbordcl ever tie presented. Ono of them once was, Histroy relates that the Tarte fam- ily, father end sons, were xnuab die- gnsted at what they aonsidered the ra- pacity of the two raen who, a few rnonths ago, haa given them several hurl. dred dellare. The Next Session. When the guns of prorogation boomed forth there was joy in the minds of the Ministers. Tbey have cense(' it to be an- nounced that the next session nf 'rune. xnent will open early in Febrnary. It is almost certain that tne opening will be deferred beyond the tiros mentioned. The tariff bas to be revised. From out of its multiplicity of polloies the Administra. tion at last must evelve some definite conalusion. The Grit business MCC to whom pledges have been made that they win receive favorable treatment at the hands of the Government,begin to clamor for their reward. They remind the Ad• ministration that they contributed their good hard cash to tho campaign funds They want payment, If they knew the English classics they inighb remark with fine irony:— For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds Aaid thought a late, a sure reward suc• ceeds. The Grit manufacturers want tint re- ward. They insist that, in place of the "Free Trade as it is in England," that was one of Mr. Laurier's campaign cam, phrases, the country shell submit to tht payment of a bonus in theic aid The meet lamentable feature of the owe ir that lelateleautier's finaucial adviserwill have to yield. Fielding, the smell-talentee Nova Scotian who usurped the Viviano portfolio, has promised the country th. largest deficie in its history. The shortag. will be nearly ten million dollars; beefy, the hills are all paid. Fielding has ne dread of deny -its. In twelve years he in' (swaged the debt of Nova Scotia from ore million to three million dollars, without adding one hundred thousand dollars t the assets of the province. When tio people hogau to protest he drew a herrine aortae the trek by his ery of "Better terms," that is, he . promised that hi would cninpel the Dominion to pay Nave Scotia an annual subsidy larger than tit, eighty cents per bead of the popnlatinn whieh the Dominion pus tn every.prov Onee. Of course, Fielding's promise wa. valueless, but it tided him over the pm viecial elections. He has come to Ottawa heralded as an astute , politician and 4, oiever finaucier. Ile has shown no indi cation of .any great ability. Nis 11108 *nOtatift statement was that he weld . not go to Sir Charles Tripper fee instruntion in gentlemanly department Almost any man in the House coule give Fielding much-needed coaching 1. this department of the education of 1, gentlenattn. Down in Halifax he hia heen used to play the aubooliat, Nee: anesion, when the work of this palette went will aetually begin, be will fin' how different the conditions are at Ottawr from those at Halifax: 're t, :senior Looks After His Friends, , . Premier Laurier's impaired memoir; most be a cause of 'grief to his admirers, Daring the last few years Mr. Laurier was reuey to promise, and did promise, anything that seemed likely to aid hill - in his fight, for office. It was his castors to denounce the Conservatives for payins etninent counsel to conduct the Govera. ment bfltdness. ''When we attain power,' said this eloquent opportunist, "we shall eve to, it that the system of Paying pub. lie money to lawyersis stopped. The Minieter of Justice and the Solicitor General will he expected to attend to tin Dominion's legal interests." It bas taker :Inge four months for Mr. Laurier to for. got this pledge. He coiled not make room for, PrOilli01! Peters, of Prince Edward 'eland, in els Cabinet. Be has done the next best tbing in ale of Mr. Peters, The 'eland Premier has been retained as the Dominion couneel in the Sealing ar, hitratio,n, the costs of which will amount to more than $20,000, Mr. Peters rill Pt paid about sevess-thonsancl dollars for hip, share of the work. , Truly, the incomine of. Laurier has been a godeend to neely Csrit politicians all over the land, Mr. Peters is a lawyer" of no remarkable 'eminence. Be never before has been en- gaged in a leading eapticity in any great wise. The ordinary private citizen would, think seVeral times before entrnsting weighty ease in his comparatively.inex, ,perieneed hands. But Laurier must look after his friends, even thong].) the smell- tey have to pay the piper. As We know, Clifford Sifton has bean bought already. 3. E. P. Prendergast, the French Liberal leader in Manitoba, has been "sepiared" by the gift of a county judgeship. No vacauey existed in the provincial Judi - 'Diary, The provinee had no lack of judges. Whet did the Government do? It passed a bill creating a new judgeship, and then appointed the dangerous Mr, Prendergast so the post. This is the /nest disgraceful of all Laarier's transaction. Aseat on the judicial bench is bartered for a ear - rapt purpose. The public clo not know, the inside history of the Prendergast case. By law the Local Legislature must firet create all now judgeships by legis- lation, The Federal Administration, which Pstes the salaries, of judges, can then decide whether or 130 the new post le necessary. If the new jtulge is needed, the salary is provided by the passing of a special Act of painistment. But Laurier was in a great hurry to get tne public Inoney for his new judge. He could not wait until the meeting of the Manitoba Legislature for the passage 'of a provin- cial Act Insteed, he took action on the recommendation of Clifford Sifton, to implement whose schemes edr. Prender- gast is to be given the appointment. Thus. Laurier set the law of the land at defiance. He gelloped ttas item through els estimates. And Prendergast bas been paia his price. All that now rerneins is for Sifton to enter the opera bouffe Min- istry at Ottawa, and for Joe Martin to compose himself decently for interment na the political graveyard. Tito Con trattt jobber in Ottawa. Thnugh the great doors of the parlia- ment buildings have had the bolts drawn amass them, the influx of Grit office seekers has not ceased. Tee Government's new plan of operations has broughe joy- ful anticipation to many a good Grit. r.ffirey knew that if they oan obtain the all ana nountenance of a Grit member or a defeated Grit candidate they will have little diflinulty in having Conserva- tive civil servants dismissed in order to make room for them. The centruet job- ber is in Ottawa in hordes. Grit heelers who are above taking minor posts in the civil service see nn reason why they should not be permitted to act as mid- dlemen in allotting Governmenn con- tracts. They have a friend in Israel Tarte, who Wt1C tee inventor oi: the job- bing system. In 11301, the Conservative Government prosecuted or dismissed civil servants for accepting gifts from cnntractors, The slew Grit Government allows the civil servants no hand In the distribution of spoils. The active work- ers are being paid by being allowed to farm out; contracts. In Torte's satrapy the system is in full operation. The old Romans had not the farming out of taxes elaboratee to a higher degree. The minor light is allowed simile small con- tract—the furnishing of firewood, per- haps, for the post-ofelce and custom house at his own little town. The larger nper- ator is given a more lucrative slit:era pa- tronage. And, depend upon it, the head of the department at Ottawa sees to It that he himself is not forgotten. Alex- ander Mackenzie said that he had to "sleep on his arum" in order to protect the treasury from his friends. This Ad- ministration is troubled by no insomnia on the putalic account. If the members of the Government do lie awake,it is to de- vise plans by wffich their insistent friends may be rewarded. The Govern- ment's inethods are clear. In the by- election in North Grey we had public works promised in exchange for votes; we heel Hon. A. S. Hardy announcing that unless the constituency went Grit It would get nothing but cold justice from the Government; we saw epoils placed at the disposal of the Government to give or sell; we have seen the corrupt dispositinn of a portfolio; the use of a judgeship as a means of bribery. Moral- ity bolds no part in the plan of tbe new Government. "Business is business" as Mr. Tarte's friend says. The Tupper Anniversary. Last week-, from Canso to Vancouver, came congratulations to Sir Charles Tup- per and his estimable consort on the an- niversary of their golden wedding. Mem- bers of the Conservative party, from far and near, assembled to pay their respects to the venerable statesman and his wife. Sir Charles' desceudants were psesent to the number of twenty-seven. The occa- sion was a most notable one, The Prime Minister and many members of the Cabi- net were in attendance to express their felicitations to one who for forty years has been one of Canada's foremost OM- zens. The old leader was in tho best of health anti spirits. His seven decades sit lightly on his sturdy shoulders. His eye IS as clear as that of a lad In his teens; his voice rings round and true, and, as Dryden says:— His hair just grizzled As in a green old age. The Conservative members of parlia- ment presented him and Lady Tupper with a maguifloent piece cif gold plate. Canadians one tied all, despite their political predilections, may well 'feel pride in this old man, who has taken his place at the high table of the coun- cillors of bhe Empire, who always has proved hlinself able and ready to cripe with the brightest nainds that our Em- pire can produce, and who never has let escape from his mind the fact that Can- ada has the first call on his services. en leaving the High Commissionership he abandoned work that was congenial and comparatively light for the fierce war- fare of a bitterly fought session that was followed by the most.arduous cam- paign that Canada over has seen. The old baronet gave up his pleasant post to aid his party. He Caine to Canada and found a certain policy left for him as a legacy of evil. He did the most any man could do to bring his parts victoriously out of the fight. In English Canada lie held his owe, for the parties were evenly divided. In Quebec., as we all know, the cry of Jean Baptiste, the cry for a French Canadian Premier, swept the province. The English sneaking people of the country already he,edo to see what Quebec domination means. It may suib the Grit press to ridicule the charge. Will the Grit press tell us whether any conservative Primo Minister ever sent a priest to legene to obtain the Pope's sanction to any Canadian law? Had the Liberads come into Power with an Eng- lish leader, would Abbe Pronlx bay° been despatched on his secret mission? Neveil Alexatelee Mackenzie was too honest; Edward Blake too thorough a Britisher to allow anysuch extraordin- ary Proceeding, to take place: But Laur- . ier, the creature of Tarte and of the hierarchy, must obey his masters. The people of Ceeebee made biro Treader; the people of Quebec must have tbeir pewee of flesh. 'I'. Two Pictures. The Mioisters bave spent so mach of their time in their private equabblinge that they have not been able to give ally intlicetion of their course 111 resent ot the tariff, In the days of Mackenzie -- and the Mackenzie Government WaS im- measerably strnnger than the Adminis- tration of to-clay—the same thing oc- curred.. Let us look at the result: - 1874 -79. Exports; fell, $18,000,000, imports fell, $18,000,000. Per cent. of duty rose 4 per cent. Debt inareased, $4.0,000,000. Net interest on public debt Increased, $1, 500,000. 1878-05. Expores rose, 328, 000,000. Imports rose, $28,U00,000. Duty oollected oecrensed, $4,500,000. Debt increased, $10,000,000. Net interest 013 public debt inoreased, $100,000. Thee is a statement that should be of some interest to mar. people. It shows in a nutshell that the lama's are most at home in opposition. When they went into office in 1873 they did 50 Ilialer much more favorable auspices than they do now. They were not under suspicion of trickery. They had nos hasi half a &zee policies. They had not been pos- sesseci of opinions adjustable to the localities in weileh their leaders might be. Alexander Mackeozie was a man ee great clarity of political vision, a man of decision of oharaoter. Anybody Who would say the same of WIlirid Laurier would be p02 down even by the Pre- mier's friends, as being a fool or worse. One thing, and one thing only, can Laurier do well. lie is a past master of the art of talking much without 0013111311 - ting himself. But that is not oven a neueesary part of the outfit of a Prime Minister. Canada wants at the head of her affairs a capable statesman, not a verbal prestidigitator, a player upon words, a man who esteems it clever and statesmanlike never to have an out- spoken opinion on any subject. DREAMS AND OMLNS. Stories of Special Providence in Visions of the Ni..(Itt. In the history and in the common walk of life you come =use individuals of every cleee Who believe that a special provitence presides over their affairs. There is never an aceident happens sloven a large scale that remarkable ins:salines of escape are not mezetioned more or lese in prom'. of the truth of this belief. In re- ligious books of the day you many cases where ministers arias Cosset have been prevented by what is calied divine interposition from selling on ves- sels evidently dernatel to destruction. A, young friend of urine narrowly escaped coming home from a very sad mission In the Drummond Castle. An occasional corresponSmt favors me with O letter over a column in lereeth to show that there is an omen fur England and Germany to the sad accident oft Cowes in Whice the Kaiser's yaeht and the Iseitte came into fetal collision. His theory is serious trouble between the two countries in whiah the eventual injury shall tall upon Germany. !Ibis is the kind of way in which prophets and would-be seers strain events in support of their theories. Recently the papers have been graving a Welsh paper's inter- esting account of two dreams Dino halms time in connection with the Henarefor gan colliery accident. One man saw visionof the wreck of the pit, and re- frained from going to work 021 DIIP day of the ealainity. A woman had quite oebn- liar dream and saw her son among Close WOO wore in peril of immediate death. Unlike the male dreamer, she threw off her nocturnal impression of disaster. Der on went to work and was among those who were seriotzsly injured. These seem to be very striking pre- monitions of disaster intended for the laheet of two particular individuals, the rest being doomed without warning. Professed spiritualists and others are natni.se these instituters as examples cif supernatural in in wbrldly affairs; but Criminal aud other liestorie records contain far more puzzling cases to show that "there is snore in heaven and earth than is dreamt o1:1n our phil- osophy." Who among us has not had wintt at the time seemed to be warning ureaine touching the Safety of those wo levee In the exercise of a dangerous vzi11- ing each ar coal getting, there is nothing swange in the anxiety of a mother being suliSeiently keon to raise phantoms of troufsle for her in dreams. A man of any iaiagination engaged in a pit suppozed to in eery or otherwiee might well haee a Virion of the kind of eceide.nt tbiet is not at all unusual in a mining distriet. Men a.1,.1 wnmen have scores of dreams eta never oome true; it wonld be odd 10 tlie doctrine of chences that now and then an impressive coincidence should not ocenr. What may be called the literature of dreame has many oases that are eer lees easy to dispose of than tho two dreame just now beleg discussed here and there, mai which will travel round the World ot the press and be collected into the note books of the eurious, the scientffic and the charlatan. For example, the story of the Princess Nagotsky of War- saw, who shortty before she traveled to Paris drdamed that ehe found herself in O strange apartment where a roan pre- sented a cup to her and desired ber to drink. She declined, and the strange per- son replied, "You Would not refuse; this is the last cup you will ever drink in your life." She was taken ili. The King's physician was sent to her. Mum he entered the room the Princess was mueli agitated, because he resembled the Person she bed seen in tier deem "litit I -shall ,not• die thiS time," she said, "for thip is not the Mine apart. merit !" She recovered, forgot her dream, but finding her apartments not to her obtained rooms a year afterwerd in e etzaverit near Paris. Being shown Usher chatriber, she looked around her ' and o- 110102011, ''It "It is all over With Mel 1 shell not leave this room alive; it is the 0110 saw in nay dream et Warsaw." She died Aeon afterward. A man In Ireland who had a brother living in AID esb ury, in Wiltshire, drea m ea that he saw him riding on the Ddwas end that two thieves robbed and mur- dered him. The vivid inoident awakened him. He fell asleep and dreamed it again, whereupon he wrote to his rela- tive, describing the thieves'etheir com- plexions, stature and olothig. Not lone after the brother had receivel this vet ruenitory letter, he rode toward Salisbury and was robbed and murdered: Th, criminals were discovered through his brother's letter that was found in his possession, the description of the thin ee leading to their discovery ana execution. THE AMERICAN POLICY. moat Hopei, of Interference on Peliaif of the Suffering Armenians—Frank Lenz Indemnity. London, Oct. 10. -.Yesterday's slight hopes that Amorioa would lead an mitt - Turkish crusade aro lessening as the situation is calmly reviewed. The report of the American intention to "finale" the Dardanelles is everywhere discred- ited, yet those who were most moved be' Ilia Torkish infamies and who •know little of America's traditional policy tine; referee to see the grave peril of isolated anthill, still oling to the vague idea that ao energetic movement of some kind may be initiated from Washingtnn, Yes- terday's Washington telegrams were ao- cepted by Orem as a gleam of hope that Americo would sound the first Mita of a holower, It is noe yet too late, they sail, if a purer like America with no selfish purposes to serve leads the 'way it defense of outraged Christians. Even to -day they do nob abandon the bope. The Cerenicle expresses their mind 'when it says "America has a great human reiportunity. She has a trick of acting and speaking when European diplomats; sit eyeballing events which they dare not attempt to control. If she now offered to do for Europe wbat Europe &tree not do for herself, her lead might solve tho situation from which our tangled and timid diplomatists can find leo way out." The Chronicle further declares that positive orders given to the American Admiral last year to take active and forcible steps were only withdrawn when the Venezuelan troubles °enured Anglo- American relations. Washington, Oct. 16. --The despatch vessel Banoroft reached Smythe this morning Impeding to a cable message received at the Navy Department from Adiniral Selfridge. Conetantinaple, Oct. 16.—United States Minister Terrell has lodged with the Torkish Government a claim for 340,000 indemnity on behalf of Mrs. Lenz, mother of Frank Lenz, the Pitts - Miro bicyalist, who was murdered by Novae well° travelling through Asiatic Turkey In 105. •• Government organs like The Times and Iles Stanfield, think so little of tile poseibility of American action, that they make no comnient on the Washington reports. The Tinaex' correspondent in New York argues that President CleVe, land's obvious interest ie not to divert Amerlean attention from home affairs when Mr. Bryan's dallgerOUS agitation is &emit to suffer a cemplete overthrow. Air. -George Curzon's speech Itiet following that of -Sir Michael Hicks - Wattle shows the conviction of the Brit- ish Government that any power seeking alone to force the Dardanelles would find the force of one or more poems awaielag to repulse it. England refuses to fece the risk, It would create a great, though not unweleome, surprise if America should decide otherwise. In any case its sensa- tion 13 a striking trihute to America's pf.ssible influence in European affairs, an influence which the acceptance by the correspondent of a leading New York journal and his wife of decoratious from the Sultan is not likely to enhance. Drutal spianit at the wane. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Oat, 1U.—Mrs. Agnes Powell, or Rochester, had a ter- rible experience here last night, and as a consequence Daniel McCarthy, a New York Central switchman, lies in gaol on O very serious charge. Mrs. Powell came here from Buffalo on Tuesday looking for her bushand, wee had left her in Rochester to go to Buffalo and the Falls for wnrk. She failed to locate him in Buffalo, hence her visit here. She en- quired among railroad men, and it was when asking lleCerthy, who works in the New York Central yards, that he told ber he knew her husband, and would take het to the plate where he was working. MoCarthy, so Mrs. Powell olahns, conducted ber a long distance on the tracks to the cattle elutes, where he asseulted her. She screamed and fought until finally her cries were heard by an Erie railroad engineer, who blew tho whistle of hie engine, and attracted a crowd, who went to the woman's rescue, The woman, whn is but 22 years old, was a pitiful eight. She was covered with bruises, and her clothes were torn In the struggle to protect her honor. Officer Patterson arrested McCarthy. Mrs, Powell was too ill to make a charge'so the prisoner was locked up until she recovers sufficiently to appear against him. Mrs. Powell states that she first inet McCarthy at a boarding-house at the north end of the city, andbe vol- unteered to help her find her husband. The assault took place at 11 o'clock at night. Refused :entrance to the TJ. S. Windsor, Oct. 17.—Mr. Robert Mo. Arthur, n farmer from Glencoe, wine to Windsor on a late train this evening, and at once crossed over to Detroit on the ferry. Se carried a small satehel in Which was a suit of elothes such as work- ingmen wear. As he stepped off the boat at Detroit he was stopped by the Custnm officials, who examined the con- tents of his valise, and asked him as to his destination. Mr. McArthur said he WOS going to Ohio to work. This being of course a direct violation of the alien lahor law, he was immediately ordered to return to Canada, which he did. Mr. McArthur, later denied that ,ho had admitted be was going to work In the United States, het as he had no money and his appearance did not bear out his later statement that he was merely going on a. visit, It is probable that the contention of the American Customs officers is reasonable. Mr. :McArthur was still in Windsor at midnight, but declared that he Would manage to cross the line before morning. . Suspension of a Buffalo .13anie. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 16.—Withdraveals from the Bank Of Commerce of this city have been recently quite large, and at a Ineeting of the Board of Directors It was deemed expedient to place the hank in tee betide of the banking department for examination which will be made at once. Pending this examination, the directors have decided to suspend In:mi- ners. The directors expect that the bank may be able to resume in a short time. Juneal Vis, Oat 16.--W. J. Ram - /meth. a banker, hos diseePeared, leaving liabilities estimated at 3200,000. British Steamer Wroch-ed. St. .Tohn's, Nfld, Oct. 16.—The Brit- ish steamer Palestrina, Captain Harder, from Rotterdam, for Baltimore, in bal- last, ran ashore at Bay of Bulls, teu miles from this city, at daylight this morning during a thick fog, anti it is feared she will prove a total wreck, leer crew are safe. The Paiestrina is a steel vessel of e,187 tons. She is owned be Sunderland. LATEST MAERET REI3ORTS. • LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, Oct. 19.—At the Western, cattle yards this morning we must 0000 had on sale close pn one hundred loads, 75 of which were eaceived here this morning. There was little obange of consequence to report in the trade all round, Export cattle were in compara- tively small supply, and there was noth- ing very good among the receipts: in oonsequeoce the range of prices was be- tween:I $3.13e% and $3.80 per 100 pounde, with general sales ruling at from $8.50 to 33.65. Choice loads would have fetched $4 per 100 pounds, and there was a gement], for better stuff. We had a better demand for butchers' cattle, and it was in small supply, as the offerings consisted largely to -day of stackers. A few choice picked lots sold yesterday arid tonlay at 3 to 3%e, and 8 3-80 was oc- casionally paid, but the supply of cattle fetching these outside figures was so email as to be scarcely worth snention- ing; ordinary good tattle sold at from 2% to 2 7-8o per poiancl,usediuna altax, to 23eo, and common stuff at 2c, but the ligtiter supply had stiffened prices of the poorest stuff. though not sufficriently to cause an advance of the most trifling kind. There was a fair clearance of all serviceetile stuff. •'Export bulls sell at from 23es' to 334o, perhaps 3 ere ci for extras. Stockers are worth from 2 to 240 per pound. Milkers are steady and un- changed. There were close on fifteen. Inuadred sheep and lambs; iambs were In ample supply, at from 3 to 33(1e per pound, but choice lambs arestillwanted. Export sheep are worth 23to per pound, aod bucks 2e. Calves are selling at front $4 to 87 each, really choice yeals being wanted, but X10 others. The only ohange, In hogs was an advance of 1-8o in thick fat hogs, which now sell at 3 8-8c per pound; choice singers; fetch 8 7-8c; other grades onchenged, eud all Waxited but Stores, About e,000 bogs were received, to BREADSTUFFS, ETC. Wheat—To-day's outside markets were strong and excited. An advanoe aquae to Be per bushel in London on California. wheat, and in Liverpool on No. 1 Nor- thern was reported by cable. Chicago opened 10 Weber, and closed at a further advance, at 723ea for December. Locally business was light, owing to buyers hie- ing out at line. For Ontario wheat 73o sons bid for red and 73o for white, west. Holders asked 74c and 750. Manitoba No. 1 bard, atione, Fort William, eves nanted at 74o, and holders asked 75e. No. 1 Northern was queted at 72c bid, and No. 2 hard at 71c bid. No. 1 hard, Toronto and west, was held firm at 83e. Flour—Round lots of straight roller, In wood, middle freights west, 'were in demand at Z1362 to -day for shipment east, hut none could be got. Odd cars of choice straights sold at 23.70, middle freights west. Oats—Russian oats sharply higher. F,xport demand here good. Good heavy mixe)1 oats'middle freights west, sold to -day at lOje to 20c. and white at 21c; from 22 to 23e is paid for choice white,. east, arcording to location. Barley—Demand good. Old No. 3 ex - prime are unaltered, Dealers here are market is steady, vvith values unchanged. active. In farmers' loads select weights 31.75. Car lots on track are quoted at $4.75 to 85, delivered here. The provision mess, $0; heavy mess, 311.60; short cute estarlarb,.15woyote,s5tise; quoted et 23 to 24r, and prints, le tte 14c; creamery, tubs, 17 to seem to be easingeaff a little, bet so far 1seol3letintgoeltyce.nakes at 83.ec, and late et DRESSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS. on the street to -day, and the buying Quotations; Barrelled. pork, shoulder new at 27c, No. 2 is courted at e0 to 31e, and No. 1 at 36 to 370, outside. qunted at elc, and east at 33 to 33a. other linee are dull, !minding creamery. to 9c; large roll, 12 to 13o; pound brought $5 to $5.15, and heavy about 12 to 13c; do., law grades to medium, 7 180; pounds, 18 to 20e. Unties quiet, with 'values Inclined to be easier. Choice dairy is moving well, but Quotations are: Dairy tub,strietlyelzoicie, Cheese—larket not active and values The deliveries of dressed hogs were fair Butter—Unohanged. The market con- Buckwheat—Steady, Car lots west are staoltt12.1neats—Long clear bacon, DAIRY PRODUCE. ton lots, 5,11o; case lots, 6c; hacks, 7o. Smoked meats—Hams, heavy, 10o; medium, 11o: light, 11 to 1114e; break- fast bacon, 10 to 10.14c; rolls, 7o; backs, .9 to 10c; picnic hams, 64 to 70. A.11 meats out of pickle lc less than prices quoted for smoked meats. Lard—Tierces, (Wee; tubs, 69ea; ancl pails, 7o; compound, 5 to 5e4e. PRODUCE, Eggs—Very few strictly new laid eggs are on the market, but small lots would, bring about 16ee:c. To -day case lots of No. 1 woes sold at 15e, and 10 -case lots at 14eeo. cCole stored aro quoted at 13 to 13eee, and lined at le to 13o. Potatoes—Slow. Gar lots on track are quoted at 35c, farmers' loads on the street at 40c, and dealers sell OUD of store "P4o5utlo5y0-0D tremand is light. Live chick- ens are quoted at 30 to 35o per pair, and dressed stook at 4.0 to 45z: turkeys are quoted at 7 to Oe per lb.; geese at 5 to do per lb.; and ducks at 40 to 60o per pair. Hops—New hops are still being offered In a small way at 10 to 12o. Apples—Dtied are quoted delivered here in small lots at 24 to 3c, and deal- ers resell at 3eeee, evaporated aro quoted at 4 to So. Bitteit hay—Rather quiet. Car lots of Na. 1 timothy are being sold on track at $11, anti No. 13 is quoted at about $10, and is not wanted. Dealers quote two - ton lots No. 1, delivered, at $11.75 to $113. IstvtSilittrztatsw,a\—iii,stiViotener,ytniliNtetvkl.e.a.int..ao.vb..oitugt, 30.25.e ei7a8 t 77C Wheat, red, per bmb. 00 77 Wheat, goose, per bush.... 55 51$ Peas, common, per bush... 43 44 Oats, per bush ... . . 25 20i 10-e, 01 bush. .. . ......... 00 .33 Barley, per bush . . ... 83 83 n c lc Wheat 22 48 Clicks, spring. per pair.... 40 50 Chickens, per pah'.. ..... 80 50 Geese, per lb 05 07 13utier, 111 1-112. rolls 13 Ngg's, new . . . . ... , 15 Potatoes, new, per biog. ,„ 35 Beans, per bush. ...... 75 Beets, oer doz. 00 Parsn ips, per doz Apple -4, per 1,121 40 Hay, tiinoth3 y St ra sh C. .... 110 0090 Beef, hinds Beef, fores, spring lambs, carcase, .. Veal, per lb. Mutton, per lb..... -- Dressed , • „ „ „. 31 45 85 10 10 75 14 50 11 00 05 08 03 04e 300 000 05 7 04 05 476 510