Ask For Retaliation

Seattle, "Wash., Aug. 2. - At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the merchants and shippers of this city, resolutions were adopted memoralizing the secretary of the treasury to abolish the privilege heretofore extended to Canadians of bonding goods in shipment through American territory and also to rescind the action establishing sub-ports of entry at Dyea, Skaguay and Circle City. This action is taken in retaliatlon for what is deemed the harsh and unjustifiable measure proposed by the Canadiangovernment to levy an import duty on personal outfits of miners and prospectors going from the United States lnto the new Klondyke district.