Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1893 — Page 4

She democrat JT. RLAOKniIRN, Proprietor. r RID AY, DEC. I~>. 189.3. V'' ' Ratuo/ Muhxerlption. Ono Year, In advance *' r,n 81 x Months Four Mont , All subscriptions not paid during the year will be charged at the rale of 82.00. Office in Democrat Building, oast aldo of Sec end Street—ground floor Fort Wayne has just closed a contract with S. G. Smith, of New Jersey, for a new garbage crematory. The cost will be about 000. While Decatur citizens can not hope for such a luxury built by the city, each family should have a temporary crematory of then' own and burn all garbage instead of throwing it in the alleys and allowing it to rot next spring to create sickness. “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” It is the State of Indiana against the Roby Scrappers,. Dominick O’Mally, George Siler -and others were called for trial before Judge Langton, at Crown Point, Ind., last Monday. The above - named persons were prominent ‘ sports” of the Roby prize fights. Indiana will see that the enlightened world will look upon her as being in the front ranks of civilization. The Roby prize ring is a thing of the past. On December Ith Henry D. Fuelling retired from the Commissioners Court after seven years of good and honest official life. He can look back upon his work with satisfaction. He is succeeded by Henry Holbrok, one of his near neighbors, who starts into office with the determination that the business of Adams county shall be 'as carefully managed as any county in ' the State. There can be no question as to the honor of such men as our Board of Commissioners are composed of, while they may err, it will not be intentionally, A visit to the factories in Decatur will begin to make the visitor think that money is getting easy in this city as well as the City of New York. When you view the immense logs, heading hoops and "■ other kinds of timber that.has been placed in their yards, by teams and railroad during the last two or three weeks, is sufficient to say that the veil of hard times has been raised, and business will be resumed in a few days and many, men will find employment in the factories and mills of Messrs. Talbot, Veil, P. W. Smith, Everett & Hite and Smith & Bell. Last week the postmaster of Garrett, Ind., was robbed of near $400.00. Robbery nowadays seems to be the go. «Not a few lay the fault of this crime to the “hard times.” We have the professional robber just the same as we have “professors” in other and higher walks of life. If punishment was more sure and severe the calling would not be so profitable. After a thief or highwayman is caught and convicted he appeals to a sympathetic and foolish people, who induce a political demagogue, who too often holds the title of Governor, to grant a pardon. This is encOurageing to the criminal. It induces him to stick closer to his profession. It is the certainty and not the severely of punishment that tends to prevent crime, but when justice is shorn of both, crime is on its highway to prosperity. No man is made a criminal in a day. Generally it takes years of misdoings to make a full-fledged criminal. Let our people be more swif to deal out justice according to law. GRAVEL ROADR The question of gravel toads is beginning to stir the minds of the people in various localitiesm the county. Adams county is beginning to view with a jealous eye the rapid growth in improvements in the surrounding counties, both in this State and Ohio, most of the adjoining • counties are now well accommodated with free pikes, and where that is the ease you can easijy see the difference in trade in all of the County towns and villages. Their manufacturing yards are well supplied with timber of all descriptions, and trade of all kinds is good, - all on account of gravel roads. Will the fanners of the central and northern part of this county wake up to their interests in preparing

the needed steps to be taken by petp tipning the Hoard of Commissioners for the authority to build a few, miles of gravel road the coming season. We honestly believe that when the good work is oirq> put tn motion it will not stop until all the main roads are graveled. You certainly cannot loose anything, but have all the chances through the advantages of reaching your markets with your farm products with so much less expense of wear and tear of horse, wagon and harness, and better than all, you can come and go with a clear conscience of having done your duty to yourself and aided greatly in a grand improvement so much needed.

Call for Annual Meeting of the Democratic Tariff Reform Association of the Eleventh Congrestional District of the State of Indiana, The members of the Tariff Reform Association of the Eleventh Congressional District, are requested to meet in the City of Peru, Ind., on the Bth day of January, 181)4, at 10:30 p. m., in annual session. Every member of the Association is earnestly requested to be present, also all Democrats of the District and State. Let every one who believes in relieving the people from unjust and unnecessary taxation levied for the benefit of favored classes, give one day for the cause of the people. When we first associated ourselves together in the cause of Tariff Reform, we had a great battle to fight against organized capital and fostered monopolies, but by educating the masses of the people the: right has prevailed, and on the paspage of the Wilson Bill, we can triumphantly shout Jlhat victory has perched on our banner. While we exult in victory we (gust also prepare for war for the Tariff Barons are not conquered but will again make a vigorous fight to regain their lost ground. . Eminent speakers will be present to address the masses on that day. Let every one who believes that laws should be made for the benefit of the whole people and not pnviledged classes alone, meet together on that day and giye their voices to the encouragement of the policy, “A Tariff For Revenue Only.” D. W. Keisher, President.

G. W- Whitelock, Secretary, Association. The following official circular has been issued by Commander-in-Chief Adams, of the Grand Army of- the Republic. Circular Ao. 2. . Headquarters Grand Army / Ol THE ReI’I’BLIC Lynn, Mass.', Dec. 9,1893. j Whereas, the President of the United States, in his message to Congress, hak stated that thousands of neighborhoods have thpir well known fraudulent pensioners, and as the. mission of the Grand Army of the Republic is to encourage, honor and purity in public (affairs, I therefore call the attention of all the comrades, posts and departments of our order to the statement of the President and urge, them to report to the honorable Commissioner of' Pensions, Washington. I). any person knbwn to be in receipt of a pension not justly entitled to the same under the law, and to forward a duplicate of said report to to these headquarters at once. To the cases of fraud b 0 proven, not implied. The information that comes to these headquarters daily of comrades totally disabled wliose pensions have been suspended. and o' widows whose husbands have been killed in battle, being suspended until they can prove that their husbands were naturalized citizens of the United States, leads the Comman-der-in-chief to believe that the statement is broader than can be substantiated by facts. If these wrongs actually exist, the (’’ommander-in-Cbief pledges the snmuirj. of the Grand Army of the Republic, to those who attempt, in the line of duty to rectify these wrongs, assuring them that, the i nion veterans are as anxious to guard the treasury, of the nation, in time of peace as they were to defend its (lag in trine of war. (Signed) J<HIN G. B, Adams, Comniander-in-Chief. Official, .lames F. Meech, AdjutantGeneral. ‘

The Commandeuin-Cliief of the G. A. R. either doubts the truthfulness ot the statement of the President of the United States or he attempts a little “bumcomb,” a neighborhojid broil such as tfie order may bring forth is very unpleasant, to say the least. For us to report a comrade and have aq examination in his case is one of the matters that we believe to be the duty of the officers who have been paid for the work, and who have been sworff to discharge their duty, if they have perjured themselves let the law be Applied to them through the proper channel, instead of asking comrades to pass upon a case and a gunning for another comrade. Five of Indiana’s physicians held a meeting Tuesday at Indianapolis. The object was- to oppose vacination. Kokomo, Muncie and Terre Haute were the cities represented.

The G. A. R. plan to help the poor of our city is* a good one. Many of our citizens with true charity and in a benevolent way cohtributed to the good cause. Decatur should feel proud of her generous citizens. Wo trust that our good people will continue to look after the wants of the poor and all that are in need will be reached by the sweet hand of charity. -A A Letter From Hon. A. N. Martin. Washington, D. C. Dec. 9, 1893. KniToit De< ati it Democrat,- 1 have received, during the last few days, a very large number of telegrams from the Indiana oil field, concerning the fact that the new Wilson Tariff Bill puts crude |>etroloum oil on the free list, and asking me to protest against that part of the Wilson Bill. The senders of these telegrams are all my constituents, and all worthy men. but as 1 have not the time to reply to each soperately. 1 venture to address all through the cohnns of your valuable paper, feeling sure that no one will be offended at not receiving a reply direct. First of all, then, 1 shall try to give each portion of the Wilson Bill uiy earnest attention,when it is taken up for consideration. for that is my duty. I shall give the matter of duties on crude oil careful attention, for the larger part of the Indiana oil Held is in the Congressional district !■ have the honor to repiesent. As to the telegrams, not one gave any reason why putting oil on the free- list would injure the producer. One telegram asks if the tariff on oil can not be put back to what it is in the McKinley bill. Crude petroleum is not mentioned in the McKinley as a separate article for the tariff taxation, but is included in a sort of sweeping clause. The rate of the tariff on curde oil lived in the McKinley bill ik the same as it was in the preceding tariff law. and is ten per cent, ad valorem, i. e. 10 per cent on the value of the crude oil. 1 was informed by some men from the Butler county. Pa., oil country, personally well known to me. to-day. that crude oil from Russia is worth only eight cents per barrel there, because it is so inferior in quality tliat only about 40 per cent of Russia oil is.fit for refining, whilst the Pennsylvania oil is worth 77 cents per barrel, because more than so per cent of the crude oil can be refined. Now if Russia crude oil is worth only 8 cents per barrel, the tariff at in per cent would be s only 4-5 of a cent a barrel. If this be true, how could 4-5 of a cent a barrel be a protection to Indiana oil producers? (>n page 12 of the Comparative Table prepared in 1890 by Charles 11. Evans of the Treasury Department, and used by Major McKinley to explain his bill in the 51st Congress, it is stated that the total value of crude petroleum imported in 1889 was 8272., on which the tariff duty was 10 per cent or only $27, all told. Would that protect Indiana oil producers? In the Statistical Abstract of 1891, pre’ pared under the direction of ,thc Secretary ot the Treasury, the following figures show the total value of all mineral oils, including crude petroleum, imported Into the United States from foreign countries from 1882 to 1891, to-wit: IXB2 $2, 336. 1883 208. 1884 10, 095. 1.885 23, 306. ( 1880 15, 581. 1887 11. 583. 1888..,.-. 14, 543. 1889 21, 0:19. 18!K> 40, 754. 1891. . 49, 098.

It will be thus i seen, that the highest amount of tariff would be on 1891 importations of oil, and that would be, if it were all crude, only $4, 909, so. DidAbat protect Indiana oil producers?: 1 have not the Treasury Reports showing all of the fiscal year of 1892, nor any of that of 1893, but I have such tables showing the values of the oil importations for the last six months of tha.fiscal year of 1892, which ends June 30, 1893, and they are as follows, to-wit: sl2, 953., the tariff on which, if all crude oil, would be *2. 295, 30. Would that protect Indiana oil producers? Now, then, let us look at the values of the mineral oils exported from the United States to foreign countries, in competition with Russia crued oil. Tile same public documents show the values of our crude oils exported abroad to be. 1882«3. 129 511 1883 3, 914 941 1884 5. 302 974 1885(5, 903 833 188(5 5, 859 577 1887'. 4. 8(50 382 1888.. 5, 782 008 1889 5. 083 132 189(1 (5, 744 235 1891 5, 87(5 452 l-’or the last six months of the fiscal year 1892, ending June-:’>o, 1893,-the value was 31. 8159, 102. Now, then compare the amount of imports and exports thus given for these tea and a half years, as follows. Imports *217, 907. <>r less than a quarter of a million, while our exports of crude mineral oil alone were 855, 325, 147. In other words, for each one dollar’s worth of foreign oil brought intd*fhe United States during that period, we sent abroad to foreigners, about $225 worth of crude oil. ” Putting the tariff on oil to protect Indiana ■oil producers reminds me of the tariff of 10 cents a bushel put on rye hi 1889, in which year just I»’> bushels of foreign rye wereiniIKirted while we sent 287.25*2 bushels of American rye abroad, and the next year nearly ten times that amount. Remember, too. that in the ten and one half years given above-, the United States also exported abroad, of refined or manufactured American oil and products thereof nearly four hundred and sixty millions of dollars worth. Therefore, while we imported in these ten and one Half years of crudoaud refined oil less than a quarter of a-inilion of dollars in value, yielding a tariff of Jess Ilian 325, (X>9 we exported abroad of crude and refined Americanniineraloils, over five hundred and fifteen millions of dollars in value, that is, we exported more than two thousand times as much oil as we imported.- . -xA’ow. srf. Editor, if I am correct in the ■figures I thus give from official sources, does it not seam plain that the proposed 10 percent protective tariff on crude oil will not benefit the Indiana oil producers one penny? The whole eausc of these telegrams is, 1 am told by I’ensylvauliifis from that oil field, looked on as originating in the fertile brain of the iron and steel barons, who do

not want their protection rates interfered with. These same gentlemen also Informed me Unit the great companies that pipe oil to the ocean for export, to foreign countries. simply laugh at the effort to frighten oil producers.. One thing more, though it may prove nothing. On the day before theolectlon of 1892, Pennsylvania crude oil nas worth 51 cents a barrel, while to-day It is worth 77 cents per barrel. In conclusion, 1 will examine the whole subject before wo pass the new tariff law and help make It eaay on the people and then votMor it, ns I think that my duty. It will be seen that the tariff on crude oil brings but little money into the Treasury and affords no protection worth mentioning, and whether It isinoifout of the Wilson bill is of no eosequenco to any one. In order to protect American oil producers against foreign competition the tariff on crude oil would have to be raised to at least 390 per eent. With this 1 leave the subject. Yours truly. A.N. Maiitin. Two Bills By HON. A. W. Martin,

4400. Declaring a pension a tested right, regulating suspensions of pensions, granting appeals to Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the I ’nited States of America in Congress assembled. That any pension heretofore, or that may hereafter be, granted to any applicant therefore under any law of the United States authorizing the granting and payment of pensions, on application made and adjudicated upon, shall be deemed and held by all officers of the United States to be a vested right in the grantee, to that extent that payment thereof shall not be withheld or suspended until after due notice to the grantee of not less than thirty days: the Commissioner of Pensions, after hearing all the evidence, shall decide to annul, vacate, modify, or set aside the decision upon which such ]>ension was granted. Sucli notice to the grantee must contain a full and true statement of any charges ami allegations upon which such decision granting such pension shall l>e sought to be in any manner disturbed or modified. Sec, 2. That it is hereby declared to be the unquestioned right of any person to whom a pension lias been granted, or who has applied for the granting or increase of a pension, under any law of the I’nited States, to have inspection, either in person or by attorney, of every writing, paper, report, statement, or other matter filed in the course of t he adjudication of such claim for pension or increase, and to be informed, in person or by attorney, of the name of each person or officer who may have given or furnished or who may hereafter give or furnish, anv statement or evidence in relation to such claim. Sec. 3. That when any appeal is taken from any decision by the Commissioner of Pensions on any question affecting the right of any applicant for the relief under the pension laws of the United States, it shall be the duty of the officer to whom such appeal is takenJo decide upon such appeal, after fair consideration of the merits involved, within ninety days after such appeal has been taken. And it is further declared by this act that in all appeals in pension cases now pending under existting law before the officer whose duty it is to decide the same, such appeals must be all fairly heard and decided within the space of one year from the approval of this act, and that without delaying the hearing of appeals taken after this act goes into effect. Sec. 4. That when any decision or final opinion has been or shall be rendered by the Secretary of the Interior or Assistant Secretary.of the Interior on any question of law arising under the administration of pension laws of the United States an ap-. peal shall lie from such decision of opinion to the supreme court of the District of Columbia. Un such appeal being taken it sliall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to certify to such supreme court a full statement of the facts upon which such decision or opinion was rendered, and it shall be the duty of such supreme court to entertain such appeal and to render a decision thereon at the earliest moment possible, considering the state of business of such court, which decision shall be final, without further appeal. When sifeh decision covers a elfcss or number of cases *t>reseuting like questions, the Secretary of the Interior sliall certify but one of such class to said supreme court, and the decision thereof shall govern in all of the cases standing in such class.

4407. A Bill defining sundry crimes against the United States in the administration of the pension laws thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That it shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully communicate or cause to be co.mmunie.ated, either verbally or otherwise, to any officer or any other employee of the United States having any duty or act to perform in connection with the administration of any law of the United States authorizing the granting, increase, or payment of pension to any persons, any false statement with intent to thereby defeat or suspend the granting or payment to any pensioner or applicant for a pension under any such law. Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawiul for any person to communicate or cause to be communicated, in any manner, to any person who has been granted a pension under any law of the United States, a false statement that such pension has been withdrawn or payment thereof suspended by theactiori or decision of any officer of the United . States who, by any law, has any duty to perform in connection with the administration of any law of the United States authorizing the granting, increase, or payment of pensions. Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person to communicate or caufie to be communicated to any one who shall then have jieuding, under any lay of the United States authorizing tin- granting, increase, or payment of pensions, an application for the granting, increase, reissue, or payment of a pension, any false statement that such application has been cither granted or denied by any office? of the United States having a duty to perform in the connection with the adjudlcjiticn of such application. Sue. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any person to circulate or report any false statement that any application for the granting, increase, reissue, restoration, or payment of any pension under any law of the United,Btates concerning the granting of pensions, has been either granted or denied by any officer of the Unied Stateshaving any duty to perform in connection with theadjuducatipn of any such application.

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