Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1899 — ALASKAN DISPUTE HOPELESS. [ARTICLE]

ALASKAN DISPUTE HOPELESS.

Indefinite Postponement of High Joint Commission Likely. A Washington dispatch asserts that the administration has practically abandoned hope of a settlement of the Alaskan boundary question, and the indications are that the meeting of the joint high commission will be indefinitely postponed. Definite action on this point, however, will not be taken until after the arrival of Senator Fairbanks. A conference will then be held by Senator Fairbanks, Secretary Hay, John Foster and John A. Kasson, and the boundary question discussed at length. The best the authorities hope for now is that there will be no clash in the remaining few w-eeks of the mining season. The situation is grave, with the American miners on one side in a state of irritation and the Canadian constabulary on the other in a very aggressive mood; Should the clash come it will not be through the fault of this Government. Everything has been done to prevent action which will- cause bloodshed.