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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1897.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY. JANl'AliY 5, 1S'.7. Washington Oificc15'JJ Pennsylvania Avenas Telephone Call. Uuslno-s ..fT.e COS t K-litorUl rxms....A fG TERMS OF SUISCHIPTIO.X. IA1iY BY MAIL Daily oi.lv. on month $ "' Iill only, ihrw months iMiiyonly. nn1 yar Pally. irwludlnsr Sunday, one year lW fc-un.2y only, on ar 2-OJ WHKX n-HNIPHKD BY .JINTS. Daily. rr week, by carrier ..1 ct ril iy. i-lnsle 5 rtf I.Miiy and Sunday, ier week, by carrier... ..2" ct V.EKKLY. I'er year 1 1-00 Reduced Rates to Club. Subfrrihe with any of our numerous agents or enl rubfK-rtitlunj to th joih.nal newspaper company, Indianapolis. I ml. Person sending the Journal through the malls In the United st.'es should put on an elzht-iMge pajxrr a OXK-CfNT istaK' tamp: on a. twelve or vixte-ri-iaK papT a TV.'t - KN'l" aKe itamp. FortiRn iost8f:e 1 usually double these rates. All communications inteu'leil tr publication In this air must. In crdT t- reef Ive attention. be accompanied .y th name and auMreys of the writer. k . J TIIH INDIANAPOLIS JOl RNAL

Can oe foun.J at the following j.laeea: NKW YOllK Winder Hotel and AMor House. CIUC'Ano Palmer lioue and I. O. News Co.. 217 laroorn street. CINCINNATI J. R- Hawley & Co.. Y Vine tret. ' JLOCISVII.LK C. T. Pterin, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson utrtets, and Louiavllle Book Co., .S Fourth avenue. ST. LOUIS Union New Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C.-Rlpx House. Ehhitt lioucf, WIllard'B Hotel and the YVarhtnston News Exchange. FouiUenth ?treet. between Tenn. avenue and F street. The Legislatures of more 1han threefourths of the States will meet during the present week. The fact that Governor Altgeld pardoned seven murderers last Saturday indicates that he desire to have his friends leave the State's service with him. To the concoctcr of Culan news at Key West there is no inconsistency in a Spanish spy scuttling a ship when the chances were that he would be lost with her. A syndicate article in about twenty-five of the Journal's exchanges asks: "Was Washington murdered by his physicians?" Suppose he was; it is too late to bripg malpractice suits. Those who have been predicting an immense crowd of people ia town lecause of the organization of the Legislature are not sure prophets, as there are not so many here as two years ago. It 'is time that persons who are not invited to Canton should have the good sense to stay away. The President-elect needs the time to prepare for his arduous task, the least important part of which is selecting minor officers. There are gold miners who insist that "gold grows." This seems scarcely possible, but there can be no doubt, that the output of the yellow metal Is growing from year to year, as the increase of 7- ior cent, in the United States since 1V2 proves. If tho Standard Oil Company, which is the greatest monopoly in this country, did not generally sell the best oil cheaper than competing producers could put it on tho market. It would not bo able to maintain Its odious supremacy in the production of clL ' A paragraph floating through the Eastem papers states that the raising of cucumbers is becoming one of the greatest industries of northern Indiana. For the credit of the State it may be veil to explain that it is not the Debs variety of cucumber. The, bank troubles in St. Paul appear to bo due to a local panic on the part of depositors. The banks paid out as much money before closing their doors as such institutions usually carry. It may further be observed that the suspending banks are local organizations. The Atlanta. Constitution, the leading free-silver organ of that region, has a wail of woe and an array of reasons for gloomy apprehensions on its editorial page, while on another page it has a regular boom article with a string of exultant headlines. As the latter gives facts and tigures it. is fair to assume that the editorial was designed for political effect. The secretary of the Democratic national committee going to Idaho at the request of Chairman Jones to bring Democratic members of the legislature of that State to lite support of Senator Dubois, late Republican, is one of the Innovations cf the Popocratic Democracy. Evidently Chairman Jones is not such a stickler for State supremacy as he was in PUI. If there are millions in the sugar production it seems that they might he got out of it without asking anything more than the high duty imposed for the purioses of revenue. The sugar bounty was one of 'the features of the McKinley larlff which caused the most hostility to that measure. The Pn-plate Industry hits' made wonderful stride with only a moderate protective duty. In a speech to the traveling men of Lincoln. Neb., last r.vek. Mr. Bryan sneered at the Republican predictions made before the election and talked in a manner which Indicated that he wilt be delighted if there should be a scries of panics. The situation has improved since the election, and it will Improve generally as the winter passes. Mr. Bryan reminds one of tho Copperheads, who. until the surrender at Appomattox, declared "with glee that Uiuoln could not put down the rebellion. Experience has demonstrated that the advantage which was claimed for the manufacture of cotton in the South over New England is not real. The white and colored people In the cotton mills of the South are of an easy-going disposition. They will work more hours than the Northern workers In their shorter days, ami the machinery has to be run at a lower rate of speed. The difference in wages is offset by the necessity of hiring more help, so that the ;COst per loom L practically about the j. me. One of the obstacle in the way of legislation by Indiana, and. in fact, by all leg. illative bodies. is the large amount of local matter .and special statute-tinkering which is presented and pushed to the front. Many of th?se matters of local Interest and many of the bills presented ere proje ctions to amend existing statutes m vome manner, often to subserve personal inter- ! est. If such measures could be given po- ' mtioy relative to their lmjortance. there cctdd le no complaint, but such bjjls are t.":e ilrt to be pretenteJ, and oftcn those : y chith cninbcrs devote their personal

attention. Such bills are sure to,be printed and referred to committees. They are retorted back and put upon the , calendar. Thus they often come up tirst, to the exclusion of more Important matters, and are read and passed with tho constitutional roll calls. At best such comparatively unimportant matters take up a great deal of time and push the important topics to the last days of the session. It may not r possible to do so. but it scorn., when the sessions arc so short, that there might lie a rule adopted by which such bills as those apportioning the Legislature and the revision of the laws relative to building and Joan associations should have the right of way. Is the matter not worth considering? rAILl KK-S AM FIHHS

Until human judgment Fhall be infallible there will be business ' failures. No prosperity will ever be so general that the evidence of human miscalculation or recklessness will not be found in a long list of business mishaps. There are periods, however, when unforeseen disasters, incident very largely to legislation, engulf the most prudent and the most sagacious. One of these periods set in July, 1S93. but the full harvest of disaster was not apparent until the close of the following October, when the commercial failures in this country reached tho unprecedented ligure of $2X.167,SH. nearly equally divided between manufacturing and trading disasters. During the three years which have followed the list of commercial disasters has been long and the losses large. During 18SI the aggregate was 1174.392.400; during 1S03, I173.210.3W; during ISO'S, J2L'!.7uO.00O. The aggregate of the three years and three months was $S3G,SOO,000. In no three months during the whole period of disaster did the failures involve so large an amount as the three months of August. September and October preceding the late election, the aggregate being $72..7j0.000. During the months of August and September, when the result of the election was most in doubt, the failures involved $7,70,,000. These figures do not include the losses of capital represented by railroad properties which have gone into the hands of receivers. The causes which have led to these failures ia business are many, but the two leading causes arc the change of the tariff policy and the fears incident to the agitation of the money question. The first lost tho country the markets afforded by the full employment of labor and their partial loss to foreign competition. The lo-s in the department of trading has been due largely to a gradual shrinkage of values in stocks of merchandise, not because of the appreciation of money, but to the accumulation of stocks a-nd the inability of the masses to purchase because of the reduction of wages. In this connection it Is interesting to note that the aggregate losses of the country by fire last year were considerably more than half the amount involved by the business failures. In m the losses by fire amounted to J120.?v.000 and by failures to $17t.I-.4'X.. Thus it appears that In one of the years of largest business disaster the losses were only $.w.Oih),000 In excess of those incident to fires. In seasons of fair prosperity the losses by tires exceed those incident to disasters in business. IDLE TALK AIIOIT WAIL An exchange, after considering the reasons why Europe should not desire to continue to make war upon the United States, come-; to the conclusion that Mit is all in the air." but adds that should it materializeall America against all Europe except Russia "It would make a very pretty fight." No war can be a -pretty light," and that sort of talk is senseless. The United States has no cause to pursue a policy that would, in any event, unite KurojH; in war against us. It would not only he the height of folly, but an immeasurable crime against the people of this country to pursue such a policy in regard to Cuba as would array any part of Europe against us. The loss of property in a single year incident to such a war, to say nothing of the loss of life and the interruption of the industries of the country, would be sufficient to purchase the island of Cuba from Spain three times over. The greatest ,and most successful soldier in modern times. General Grant, was the most Insistent advocate of peace who has been President. If Charles Sumner could ; have had his way In 1S70 and 1S71 we might have had a war with Great Britain." The terms upon which he Insisted that our war claims against the British government should be settled would, in all probability, have resulted in war. Fortunately, General Grant was President. He was not for war, because he had seen its horrors. If lie had r.ot been the military man that he was at that time the hot heads would have denounced his spirit of concession as evidence of cowardice. General Grant's policy of concession wns carried out, Great Britain apologized and agreed to pay the damages inflicted by the Anglo-Confederate cruiser Alabama the terms quietly Insisted upon by General (Jrant. The adjustment furnished a precedent for the future, namely, that governments are responsible to those in which there are Insurrections for the injuries sustained by the escape of war ship3 from thtir ports to assist the rebels. There is not near so much cause for interfering in the Cuban affair as there was in 1S70 and in 1ST1 to feel like fighting Grtut Britain. If General Grant were President he would have the Chandlers, the Camerons. the Morgans against him. because he would insist that we have no right as a government to interfere in the Cuban trouble until it has been demonstrated that Spain cannot suppress the Insurrection. There is abroad in the country a great deal of that warlike spirit which has been described as invincible in peace an 1 invi.ib' in war. The sober sense of the country is against wair. ioiti: important than cimax HFSOLI TIONS. The n;ovt important subject which will come before the present Congress Is the Pacilic Railroad funding bill, which is assigned for Thursday and Friday of this week in the House. It is most important because it cannot be delayed without running the risk of -losing the entire amount which tho government has paid out for these roads $ll"t.00.C0O. The funding bill has been explained. It is a measure which will relieve the government of responsibility for the indebtedness which It has assumed for these corporations, or at least the larger part of it. The funding bill provides for the Issue of a two-per-ct nt. bond to take up the bonds for which the United States Is responsible, running fifty years. It Is not so favorable terms as might have been secured years ago, but It U the best possible now. .If the opposition haa any plan to present except that of letting the government foreclose Its second mortgage upon the roads and furnish the money to assume their maturing obligations. It has not been given to tho public. It has ln?en

asserted that these men In Congress who would have the government run the railroads would like to have the experiment begun with these Pacific roads. They seem to ignore the fact that a large amount of money will le required to get control of the first mortgages upon the railroads, that the government has no control over the branch roads and that the railway people claim that the mortgage does not cover the terminals and rolling stock. In the case of foreclosure, then, all that would be obtained might be the tracks of the lines, which the managers of the Pacific companies could better afford to parallel than to purchase. In California, and. perhaps, in other States along the Pacific lines, there is a determined hostility to the management of the roads. In California it has been made an issue by political parties. For this reason some of the representatives from the Pacilic States oppose the funding scheme. So long as they can embarrass the managers they seem not to take any note of whatever evils may come. Ostensibly the Pacific managers are supporting the funding bill, but in so half-hearted a manner as to arouse a suspicion in Washington that they prefer its defeat, because if the government should foreclose, as it must if tho funding bill should not be passed and the right of the government to take up the first mortgage sold to the highest bidder, they would bid in the property for a small part of the amount which the government has already paid out. It would not surprise those who have watched these matters if some of those who are opposing the funding bill and denouncing the Pacific managers are secretly promoting the interests of the men who own and control the roads. Stranger things have happened. The recent performances of some of those who are making themselves conspicuous in their opposition, like Senator Tettigrew, have been such as to afford ground to suspect their motives. Excepting Mr. Peffer, It is not probable that there is a Senator who would openly champion the policy of government control and management of the roads. Tho pending funding bill is vastly more important to tho people of the United States than resolutions acknowledging the independence of Cuba.

a si;i:ki;u of war skws. The Journal is In receipt of a letter from an Indiana gentleman who offers to go to Cuba and "collect correct reports of the Cuban army" and forward thesame. to the people of this country if the people whom he thus seeks to benefit will contribute the funds necessary for the trip. He is "for Cuba," he says, and is willing to go there and charge nothing for his'time if the Journal will collect the , money to defray expenses. lie confesses that. In fact, he has always wanted to go to Cuba, and, with the benevolent purpose of getting accurate news from the seat of war added to his earlier interest, feels an anxiety to go immediately. "All that 1 want," he jays, "is four men to accompany me (these can be found that will not charge anything for their time), and a gun and sword apiece, so as to defend ourselves in case we should be attacked." This enterprising gentleman modestly requests that his name shall not bo printed, though why he should hesitate to take the public into his entire confidence in regard to so bold an undertaking is not quite comprehensible. But tho Journal regrets that it does not see its way clear to takin? up the desired collection. It is true that the news from the Cuban army is rather meager and of uncertain quality, but there is reason to believe that the army itself is meager, and that the Indiana agent of the American people would have difficulty in finding it, even if he should succeed in landing. There is a painful doubt, however, as to his getting there alive with his four bodyguards. Has he read how the redoubtable Stephen Crane, animated by just uch a purpose as his own, tried to go over and how a wicked traitor bored a hole in the vessel and drowned a lot of the passengers. Crane only getting back to the Florida coast after a great struggle? And if he should get over there, there is danger that the terrible Weyler would come out with his army to meet him and would eat him and his four attendants, skin and bones and note books, too; for Weyler, though his army be not large, has probably sufficient confidence in its power to march it valiantly against five men, however bristling they might be with guns and swords. Or, if they escaped this fate, they might run against the trocha the first thing they knew and hurt, themselves. Moreover, tho Island of Cuba Is of e-onsiderable size, and there is a likelihood that the Indiana gentleman in search of correct information concerning the Cuban army, which is not large, would have a long and hard journey to find it. The Journal does not wish to put itself In a position where it would suffer apprehension and remorse av the thought of its correspondent chasing up hill and down dale after the elusive army, with a growing probability that lie would never find it. or that, having found it, he would not know what to make of it. If Stephen Crane, who writes In srnall capitals and is apt at impossible war tales m Weyler himself, could not so much as get to Cuba, but had to swim back to Florida, what could a mere Hoosler amateur hope to accomplish, willing though he might be? No: the Journal recognizes the daring and j-elf-sacrlliclng spirit of its correspondent, but must decline to take up the proposed collection in his behalf. The picture of him and his four comrades with their five guns and live swords marching through Cuba would be too harrowing. Though It is giving up "true reports of the army," they will have to go; the Journal cannot be re-t-ponsible for the pursuit of news under such perilous conditions. Steve Crane, the novelist, did not drown off the coast of Florida after all. Your decadent writer, it seems, has floating qualities. nriiiiLKs in tiii: air. A Solemn Truth. "Oh. Lord, how you make my flesh creep!" exclaimed the serpent as soon as the curse had been put on him after the little trouble In the garden. Irregular Regularity. The Rev. Mr. Wilgus My good man, do you attend religious services every Sabbath? Dismal Dawson I alluz do when I'm in jail. The Only Wny. Watts Does your wife believe the stories you tell her to account for your being out so late? Lushforth She does. "How In thunder do you work It?'! "I tell her I was busy getting drunk." He Wauted Ice. "Fader," said little Isadore. "I vish the redder vould freeze." "But you couldn't ride your nice new bicycle den. Izzy." "Vrt fader: but I could go skadin'. And

I vas just learnin tC'f make der 'most peaudlful tollar marks tn the ice last vinter ven It thawed."

NOT A VICTIM OF POISON. Cnpt. A. n. Anlernn Demi of Mnlnrlnl Fever at Hi Mcarngunn Home. l,OS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 4. A sensational story from New Orleans reporting the death of Sir William Anderson, an alleged English nobleman, by poisoning. In Nioaraugua. was a good "deal of a surprise to the friends of Major Horace Bell, a well-known attorney of thla city, to whoso daughter Anderson was married. Contrary to the telegraphic report, the dead man's name was Captain A. B. Anderson. While quite well-to-do at one time, he had lost, it is reported, large sums in foreign securities. He was Kiven no title of nobility while residing in this part of the country, nor did he lay claim to any. His wife. Major Bell's dauKhtr, left here about three months ago to rejoin her husband in Central America, and the news of his death has since been received, though no intimation was had that it was of such tragic character as stated in the New Organs dispatch. Major Bell says, concerning the reported poisoning: "There is absolutely no truth in such a story. Captain .Anderson died on his plantation surrounded by his friends and faithful servants, who nursed him day and night through an illness lasting several weeks. His de-ath was due to malarial fever. 1 have a copy of the doctor s certificate to that effect, sent me by the consul. Mr. O'Hara." ON TECHNICAL GROUNDS ANTI-LOTTERY LAW VIOLATORS SET Fit EE BY THE SUPREME COURT. Important Decision Rendered by Justice I'eeklinm on Hehnlf of Hin AHociute Other Opinions. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. The United States Supreme Court to-day rendered a decision, through Justice Peckham. in the case of Albert L. France and others, involving the anti-lottery law of 1K)5. France and his fellow-appellants were convicted in the district of Ohio on the charge of conspiring to violate this act, and the verdict of that court was reversed by the opinion rendered by this court. The opinion was handed down by Justice Peckham. It did r.ot construe the constitutionality of the lottery law at all, .bvl was based on the technical ground that he act for which France and' his associates were convicted was subsequent to the drawing of the lottery instead of precedent to it, as provided in the statute. It appears that the defendants were arrested with slips of paper showing the result of the drawing, known in the lottery world as "hit slips," on their persons while on the way, from Covington. Ky., where the lottery drawing took place, to Cincinnati, where the sale offices were located. In rendering the opinion Justice Packham said: "The; lottery had already been drawn; the papers carrried by the messenger were not those dependent on the event of any lottery. The language as used in the statute books Ipoks to the future. If the lottery had been drawn, the interest is no longer dependent ,on it. The condition upon which the bet 6r the interest was dependent had happened; the solution of the problem has already been arrived at; the bet has already been determined." Continuing, he says: "The statute does not cover the transaction, and. however, reprehensible the acts of the plaintiff in error may be thought to be. we cannot sustain a conviction on that ground. Although the objection is a. narrow one. yet the statute being highly penal, we are compelled to construe It strictly." Hence the judgment of the court below was reversed and the cause remanded, with instructions to set aside the judgment and discharge the prisoners. Justice Harlan, dissented. Justice White rendered a decision in the case of the United E&fXttt!and:.tiic Sioux. Indians vs. the Northwestern Express Company, holding that the term "citizen." in Indian depredation cases, applies to corporations. The State law of the State of Miss ;rt. holding railroad companies responsible fer damage by fire caused by railroad locomotives. va sustained; in two decisions I njustice Gray, appealed to this court by the Missouri Pacific Railrpad Company. Justice Gray said that the act was a due exercise cf legislative authority. . . - In the ease of John F. Bushnell vs. Cyrus A. Leland. .receiver of the State National Bank of Wichita. Kan., the court reaffirmed. In a decision by Justice White, the right of a national bank receiver appointed by the controller of tfie currency to enforce the individual liability of the bank's stockholders. The case ,was appealed from the decision of the Connecticut district court which was favorable to the receiver, and to-day's opinion affirmed this view. An opinion rendered by Justice Brewer in the case of WlHam G. Ford, jr., and Lewis P. Levey vs. -.The Delta Pine Land Company decided the ownership of 200 different tracts of land, including 112.1M acres in nine different counties of the State of Mississippi. The lands were acquired by the Pine Land Company on tax sales for levee improvement, -which the former owners resisted on the ground that the lands, which had been formerlv granted to the Memphis. Hcdly Spring & Mobile Railroad Company, were exempt. The case was appealed from the Circuit Court for the Southern district of .Mississippi by Ford & Levey, the decision there having been averse to them. This verdict was today affirmed. The court reversed several decisions of the late Judge Parker, of the Western district of Arkansas. .Among these was the case of Henry Starr, who appealed from a sentence of death for murder in the Indian Teritory. which was Starr's second conviction. Tho appeal in this case was based on the tochmcal ground that a warrant was admitted as testimony in the absence of the official seal. Justice White rendered the opinion in the case, ordering a third trial. Another case of considerable interest from the Indian Territory, decided in favor of the appellants, was that of Jess and John No tire, undr sentence for the murder of Fred Rutherford. Rutherford was a white man who had married a Cherokee squaw, and the question involved in his case was whether the act of marriage had been in proier form, which would make him a Cherokee citizen, and in this case the Federal Court would have no jurisdiction over his murderers. It appeared, however, that the marriage had -been conducted without a full observance of the Cherokee laws. Assistant Attorney General Whitney. In his argument in the case, showed that Rutherford had been especially remiss in falling to comply with the Cherokee law in his marriage, and an opinion from the attorney general of the Cherokees was filed in the case to the effect that a man who did not comply with these laws of tho Indians was not a citizen of the tribe. Justice Brewer delivered the crpinlon of the court, holding that Rutherford was a Cherokee citizen, and. therefore, reversing the decision of Judge Parker, holding the Notires guilty of murder under the laws of the United States. It is believer! that the effect of this opinion will be to admit many "squaw men" to citizenship in the Indian tribes and in case of a division of Indian property, as is proposed in Indian Territory by the Dawes commission, will have an Important bearing upon the distribution. The Supreme Court granted Elverton R. Chapman, the New York broker, convicted for refusing to answer questions put to him by the Senate sugar trust Investigating committee, leave to make an application for a writ of habeas corpus. The court will hear argument on March 22. The case is a test one. Chapman surrendered himtelf to-day to the district attorney, and was permitted to go to the. Supreme Court to make the application, a deputy marshal accompanying him. The hearing of the argument was postponed so long In order to permit 8enator Edmunds to spend the winter in the South. He asked the court to set the day at a time when the inauguration and the March winds would both be well out of the way. Our Own Suftar. American Economist. - The sooner we produce all our own sugar the better it will be , for American farms und factories.

TOBACCO INTERESTS

GIVEX AX IXXIXfi II V T1IK HOUSE WAYS AXII MEANS COMMITTEE. Tliree-Cornered Fifclit IIpIhtoh Mnitu fncturern of C'lgnr. Importer and Leaf Ciroivcri. PLANTERS ALMOST RUINED II V THE LOW TARIFF HATES COXTAI.XED IX THE WILSOX ACT. Cigar Makers Fearful that Mclvlnley II 1 1 1 DntleH on Raw .Material Would Destroy Their llulne. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. The tobacco schedule of the tariff was threshed over by the representatives of various tobacco Interests to-day before the ways and means committee with great minuteness. Several branches of the business were represented, the native growers, importers, manufacturers using the native goods, using Havana and those handling the Sumatra product. Between these classes there was much discord, no two of them being agreed on any schedule of rates, and contradicting one another on questions relating to the effects of the present law as to rates of labor and cost of production and manufacture. The National Association of Tobacco Manufacturers was representeel by a large delegation, with its president, Moses Krahn, of Cincinnati, for spokesman. The association asked for duties of 55' cents a pound on all imported leaf tobacco, of not more than 55 cents on all unstemmed tobacco, and $3 a pound, with 23 per cent, ad valorem on imported cigars. Under any higher rates they declared their business would be ruined. The principal representatives of the growers were Michael Tobin, of Baldwinsville, N. Y.. and J. P. Van Duzen, of Horseheads, N. Y. They asserted that the native growers had made no money under tho WilsOn bill and asked for rates higher than those of the McKinley act. George. J. Smith, of -Kingston, N. Y., spoke for the users of Sumatra tobacco, and E. P. Gumby, formerly collector of the port of Tampa, for the Florida manufacturers of Cuban products. It was represented that only 5 per cent, of the Havana tobacco used as wrappers had paid duty as such under the Wilson law. Others who spoke were: Ex-Mayor Frederick S. Schrocder, of Brooklyn; II. S. Frye. of Windsor, Conn.; I j. H. Neudecker, of Baltimore; J. I. Ellison, of New York, and George MIchelson, of St. Paul. MR. TOBIN'S ARGUMENT. Michael Tobin, of Baldwinsvllle, N. Y.. representing the New York State Tobacco Growers Association, said the tobacco growers were badly in need of relief. They had expended vast sums in warehouses, etc., and until the importation of Sumatra began had been fairly prosperous. Tobaco farms were then worth $123 an acre. Such farms were now generally mortgaged and would not to-day liquidate their Incumbrances. He did not think it fair that the Holland syndicate, which employed coolie labor at 12 cents a day. should be allowed to annihilate the great leaf-tobacco industry in this country. He denied that American leaf was not suitable for wrappers. Sumatra, he said, had "no merit, exempt its appearance. He complained of the elastic language in the act of 181)4, and said the schedule in the act of 1S30 would be satisfactory. The consumer, he said, would not be injured by an adequate duty., but would get his cigars at the same price at retail. He said the quality of the American wrapper leaf had not Improved of recent years, because there had been no inducement to growers to care for their leaves. Cuban tobacco ranked first in quality and Sumatra was decidedly the worst. He had no doubt, he said, that any importe. of Sumatra would rather have Sumatra excluded than smoke a cigar made wholly of Sumatra. "Why?" he was asked. "Because if he smoked it he would lose his breakfast." was the reply. Mr. Tobin said the growers cared nothing about fillers. They were interested primarily in w rappers. Chairman Dingley called attention to the fact that under the reduction of duty of 30 cents per pound on wrappers in the act of 1S!4 the increase of imports of Sumatra had been over 40 per cent. Moreover, said Mr. Dingley. it was a remarkable fact that the price of Sumatra tobacco increased 50 cents a pound as soon as the duty was re duced. Mr. Tobin confirmed this, but had no explanation to offer. J. S. Van Dusen. of Horseheads. N. Y., representing the growers of the Chemung valley, also asked for protection for wrapper tobacco. He admitted that $2 seemed an adequate rate, but said it was not a question of rates, but of protecting our citizens from ruinously cheap labor abroad and saving a great Industry from extinction. He eaid 20.000.000 pounds of foreign tobacco were Imported annually, of which 4,000.000 were wrappers. Mr. Schroeder argued that it was impossible to discriminate by ocular Inspection between wrapper and filler grades, except in Sumatra. He said the. act of 1SW had proved disappointing to the domestic growers, who had made a dismal failure of an attempt to introduce American wrappers. The reduction of duty in 1S"!4 had not caused the demoralization of the tobacco growers' trade. It was duo to increased demand for the finer Imported grades and the enormous increase in the cigarette manufacture. The price of Cuban tobacco, he said, had been doubled, owing to the demoralization produced by the war. He proposed a uniform rate of 30 cents on wrappers and fillers per pound. That rate, Mr. Russell, one of the committeeman, figured would reduce the revenue on tobacco about $2,000,000 below 1S II. S. Frye. of Windsor. Conn., opposed the fifty-cents-a-pound rate proposed by Mr. Schroeder and said that all the American growers desired was a duty which would allow them to wrap the cheap livecent cigars. DEMANDS OF MANUFACTURERS. At the afternoon session a delegation appeared representing the National Association of Cigar Manufacturers. Moses Kahn, of Cincinnati, spoke first for the manufacturers. The interests of the many, he said, demanded a uniform duty on tobacco, and he asserted that only a small faction of the tobacco-growing farmers were represented by those who bad spoken at the morning session. A uniform specific duty of r2i cents a pound on all imported leaf tobacco, the manufacturers urged, would put all branches of the trade on a parity, save the ,government expense. loss and annoyance, in the collection of dutv. and yield a revenue etiual to the average of any year of the last seven. They combated the probable complaint of the growers that this rate would not give sufficient protection by urging that the high duty of 12 a pound on wrappers did not lessen the use of imported wrappers er increase the consumption or permanently increase the market value of domestic cigars, while en the other hand the remainder of domestic cigar leaf tobacco between -V) per cent, of the total was injuriously affected in price by the increase In duty. The propose! duty would give complete protection to domestic fillers, which constitute M per cent, of the domestic product. The manufacturers asked also a uniform duty of not exceeding 33 cents a pound en all unstemmed tobacco, contending that this would, at the present average price of domestic leaf tobacco. Increase the revenue about 3 per cent, above the average of the past seven years. The manufacturers claimed to employ ten times as many people as are employed In raising cigar leaf tobacco in the United States, therefore, they submitted that they were deserving of foremost consideration. They urged that they should not be sacrificed In carrying the scheme of protection too far and that they could not continue In business under higher rates than these they suggested. These duties would be satisfactory to all manufacturers. Importers of and dealers in leaf tobacco. The output of cigars tn the United States during the pu,-t fiscal year was 4.0W.1S7.S33. which was a decrease of 64.500.000 from the preceding year. The output of cigarettes had lncrea.ed by Jod.liOS.233. Tho difference

in the duty on wrapper and filler tobaccos, it was claimed, had begotten an unfair competition because at many ports of entry S3 per cent, of unstemmed tobacco imported from Cuba had been entered under the thirty-rive-cents-per-pcund filler duty. In regard to Imported cigars the manufacturers suggested that they were entitled to a duty oi at least $5 a pound and 23 per rent, ad va orem. The small quantity of cigars imported during the past fiscal year was not to le taken as a standard, because these importations had greatly increased during the past few months and were likely to continue to increase. This plan would Increase revenues. In conclusion the manufacturers stated that they would be unable to continue in business with a higher tariff than the present one. and that they would prefer to submit to the present unsatisfactory and discriminating rates rather than face the inevitable havoc which a specific rate exceeding 53 cents a pound would accomplish. Mr. Payne endeavored to elicit an admission that the McKinley law had not Iven in force long enough to demonstrate the effects on the business of a t wo-dollar-a-pound rate, but this the President of the manufacturers would not concede. Mr. Tawney. of Minnesota, asked If a very high duty on Sumatra would not drive the small manufacturers out of the business, to which Mr. Krahn answered that he could not definitely predict. "Don't you think the duty on cigars under the law of either 1H or 1S4 is pretty stiff protection?" asked Mr. Payne. "Yes." was the answer. MAKERS OF HAVANA CIGARS. The manufacturers of clear Havana cigars were represented by E. R. Gumby. of Tampa, Fla. He expressed surprise at the statements made by previous speakers. From these statements, he said, it appeared that the manufacturers of New York and Cincinnati knew what the growers of native tobacco wanted better than did the growers themselves. From these same statements it was to be inferred that Havana tobacco reaped all the benefits from the present scheme. This was far from the truth. Describing the conditions of the Havana tobacco business, he declared that the growing and packing of It was entirely beyond the control of the American buyer. Having been collector of the port of Tampa. Mr. Gumby said he was acquainted with the conditions of the importations. It was true, he said, that only about 3 per cent, of the Havana tobacco imported into the United States and used as wrappers paid duty as such because the manufacturers used much tobacco commercially appraised as "filler" for wrappers. It was impossible to tell in importing such stock how much of It would be fit for wrappers. It might be 5. 10 or 13 per cent. To tax It as wrappers would stop its Importation entirely and would drive the manufacturers of New Y'ork and Florida to Cuba. It was probably true that a specified duty of 32V2 or 55 cents a pound would produce as much revenue as the present law, but It was also true that Sumatra would be imported to an extent which would drive the growers of New York and Connecticut out of business. The tobacco schedule of the McKinley law had increased the business of Florida manufacturers by decreasing that of Havana manufacturers. For the manufacturers using Sumatra wrappers George J. Smith, or New Y'ork. protested against the advantages to the Havana tobacco users under the present law. In answer to a question Mr. Smith said he did not believe any cigars were made of American fillers and Havana wrappers. Li. 11. Neudecker. of Baltimore, contended that a duty of 50 cents a pound would produce more revenue than the present rates. . J. I. Ellison, of New York, editor of the United States Tobacco Journal, stated that the cost of producing a pound of Sumatra tobacco was 24i cents. The stories that coolie labor cost but 7 or 8 cents a day in Sumatra were erroneous. George MIchelson. of St. Paul, who owns tobacco lands in Connecticut, stated that there had been no money in tobacco for New England farmers since the crop of 1892. With a five-dollar-a-pound rate on Sumatra tobacco he tould cultivate two hundred acres In Connecticut. Chairman Dingley said, before the committee aeljournod. that tobacco, bei luxury, was a proper subject for revet vith Incidental regards to the Interest o nufacturers and growers. Opposed to Higher Duties. NEW YORK. Jan. 4. The board of trustees of the Fruit Buyers' Union has resolved to prepare a memorial asking the committee on ways and means In Washington not to advance the duties on foreign fruit. and this. "in view of the large - and increasing production of fruit in this country, making it necessary for the trade to look to other nations for the export of our production, as we cannot expect that other countries will receive our fruit on favorable conditions if we pass any prohibitory duties on their fruit. The president of the Fruit Buyers Union. F. R. Franke. will go to Washington to present the memorial to the committee on ways and means and to give further explanations if necessary. Cnnndiitnt May Retaliate. OTTAWA. Ont.. Jan.j 4. At the tariff commission here to-day Robert Redford. of Montreal, wanted a duty placed on logs exported to the United States to meet the proposed duty on sawed lumber by the United States. Mr. Fielding, the finance minister, thought this was a matter which should be left over until the United States had dealt with it. Canada should proceed on the assumption that the t nited States was to treat her favorably until such a time as she acted otherwise. The Ottawa lumbermen agreed to leave the matter over.

EMBALMED IN WHISKY. Body of a Kentucky Planter Durled in a Tank of Bourbon. CYNTHIANA, Ky.. Jan. 4.-Charles Bramlett, aged eighty years, died Jan. 2. Jfle owned several plantations in Harrison county and had been a yery prosperous man all his life. At a low estimate he was worth $100,000. He was peculiar in nothing but his ideas of his own burial. He was a great reader and perhaps drew his notions of his own interment from the histories of ancient Egypt. About fifteen years ago he hired a skillful stonemason to make him a sarcophagus of jventucky blue limestone, which is much more durable than the hardest marble. At the same time the bought a barrel of the best old bourbon the State could produce and ordered that at his death the whisky should be poured upon his body after it was placed in the stone coffin. The sarcophagus was then to bo hermetically sealed and placed in a grave near his residence. Ail his directions were followed to the letter and he was buried to-day. It took a number rf strong horses to carry his body in Its heavy receptacle to the grave already awaiting for It. Bramlett was a constant , Imbiber of apple brandy and never left his house without a flask full in his pocket. His body was almost .ready for spontaneous combustion before' his death, and yet none ever saw him too much intoxicated to attend to business and to talk sensibly on any and all subjects. . HetirinKN Before Committee. Washington Special. The pub!lcwill probably never get over the idea that they snouid have a hearing before anything In which they are interesteel is decided. It gives them a feeling that they are taking some part in the matter, and that their case may stand better. If all those who appear before congressional committees really knew how little they influence legislation they would save their transportation and their time. The hearings before the ways and means committee have been in progress now for several daw. and great crowds have been in attendance with very earnest arguments In favor of what they want. Memlrs ot the committee sit there and listen to them very much as justices of the Supieme Court listen to pleaders expound tnf law with an idea that it would he much better to nroduce a few facts. The majority of the committee who are going to frame the tariff bill are already convinced that protection is a good thing, and are going to proceed on that assumption. It Is therefore amusing to them, though at times somewhat tiresome to have delegation aftr delegation appear to argue the point. One of the leading members of the committee said yesterday that thus far a very large majority of the speakers had neglected to furnish the committee the sort of Information they wanted, and that when the hearings were all over the committee would have to go to the government reports for their facts. Mr. EckeU'N Effort. New Y'ork Financier. With reference to the recent epidemic of bank failure und the present strained state of affairs financially. "The Financier" can state positively that the controller of the currency has been writing to a number of banks within his jurisdiction, urging them to reduce eertain loans now outstanding, in order to put their business In cleaner condition. In common with all who have the best interests of th banks at heart, we trust that the requests will be met by prompt compliance. We want no more bank failures.

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LAMvV HOIIKItT Ai.Hl'US TO FICiHT JAMES UHtDETT .MARCH 17. Articles Call for a Purse of M and Stunrt In Certain He Can "I'll I r (lie Mill" Off. PUGILIST JIM MURPHY DEAD .NEVER REG AIN ED CONSCIOI SNESS AFTER THE KXOCIiOlT SATURDAY. Georee JiiMtUN. 1 1 1 m Opponent, and Other Under Arrest Another Bruiser in n Critical Condltlun. NEW YORK. Jan. 4. - The only hitch which now seems possible to prevent the meeting f Corbett and Fitzsimmon in the ring will le the failure or Dan Stuart, of Texas, to secure a place where the two heavy weights will settle the long-looked-for contest. On Deo. 17 James J. Corbett affixed his signature to the articles of agreement drawn up by Dan A. Stuart, aii.l the signing of the articles was witnessed by "Parson" Davies, of Chicago. This after-' noon Bob Fitz?immons. accompanied by his manager, met Dan A. Stuart at a Jersey City hotel, and. in the presence of a number of well-known sporting men and representatives of the press. Fitzsdmmons affixed his signature immediately underneath Corbet Cs on the articles. There was a parley letween Stuart and Manager Julian as to the terms of the agreement. Fltzslmmons said that everything was satisfactory to him except the question of a side bet and the last clause in the agreement, which gave Stuart the right to reserve all privileges. Stuart, throughout the meeting, assured those In the room that he was confident that he could bring off the fight on the date mentioned, March 17. without any Interference, and lie further, stated that the question of privileges, especially the photographing of the contest by any person, would be considered later on when an offer had been made by any company wishing1 to enter into an agreement with him. In case an offer was made, he said, be was willing to meet either of the contestants or their representatives and make, an arrangement as lo the division of the money derived from this source of revenue. As ioon as this assurance was given Fitzsimmons handed over the articles, signed by him, to Stuart, although he really hael fixed the signature a few minutes previously. As to the side bet, Fitzsimmons said that he would put up from $3,000 to JlO.OOo. There was very little quibbling and It looked as if all parties concerned are In earnest atout deciding who Is to he the recognized heavyweight champion of the world. The articles call for a purse of JIS.OOO, to be given to the winner, and each of the principals to post $2.oixj In the hands of a stakeholder to guarantee an appearance In the ring, the one falling to live up to this agreement to forfeit to the other and Dan A. Stuart. As a guarantee or good faith. Stuart agrees to post $3.0oo with a stakeholder, to be divided equally between Corbett and Fitzsimmons if he (Stuart) falls to carry' out the provisions incorporated in the agreement. Stuart further igrees to post the remainder of the purse iHO.Ooni u the hands of a stakeholder thirty days prior to the date of the contest, and that the ail H0.0OO be forfeited by him to Corbett and Fitzsimmons if Stuart falls to bring off the contest on March 17. Five-ounce Kiovea are to be used. George Slier, of Chicago, Is agreed on as referee, and Fitzsimmons decided that Al Smith, of N-w York city, was a satisfactory stakeholder as far as he was concerned. Stuart refused to say where he expected to bring the mill off. but the articles called for him to notify the pugilists of the plao? one month prior to the date of the proposed contest, ntzsimmons's right hand was bandaged from the effects of his fight with Sharkey, when he received an Injury to one of his knuckles In delivering a blow. Julian, his manager, would not say where or when Fitzsimmons would go Into training, as he had not as yet made arrangements. . Corbett I" PI en wed. DETROIT. Mich.. Jan. 4. James J. Corbett, when shown the dispatch announcing the signing of articles for the big fight by Fitzsimmons to-night, said: "That's the best news I've had in a long time. I only hope Stuart will not be troubled in locating the battK ground. I will be on hand and ready to fight." Regarding the complaint made oy 1-Jtz-slmmons in relation to outside privileges, such as photographing the "mill.' Corlx-it said he did not blame Fitzsimmons, as bo himself had made similar objections. Stuart's statement that he would do tho ripht thing in case he let any privileges of the sort seemed satisfactory to Corbett. As to the amount of the stake. Corbett said: "I put up $3,000 for my share of the stake when 1 signed the articles, and also J2.300 to guarantee my appearance. Fitzsimmons now says he is willing to make It SHVM a side. There is no question with me alout the stake, but 1 want to sec their J5,o.o up first." . Fought to n Draw. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 4.-Jack Everhardt, of New Orleans, and Owen Zeigler, of this city, fought six rounds at the Quaker City Athletic Club to-night. EverJip had the best of the fight from start to r-' ih and In the fourth round marly finish-, Zeigler The refereo announced a imw, but the audience made loud calls for Everhard t. PI GILIST Dl FI'V DEAD. Received a Fatal Blow Saturday Nlaht in tx Fight with Jiifctn. NEW YORK. Jan. 4. James Duffy, the Boston pugilist who collapsed at the conclusion of a ten-round lxxlng match with George Justus, at the Broadway Athletic Club. Saturday night, died to-d.iy without having regained consciousness. George Justus. Dick Roche, who acted as referee, and Thomas O'Rourkr. manager of tho club, are under arrest. The physicians who attended 'Duffy lound no fracture or indentation of the skull, but trephining disclosed meningeal he-morrhaae. which may have been O''c;s5oned Hie jtrring of the head by a blow of the fist or a fall. The deputv coroner who p.-rformed the autopsy on the body of Duffy reMrt-d that death was the result of cerebral lit morrhage. caused by a blow M;inier o'Rourke. Boxer Justus and ! Referee Roche were held on a charge of J assault in J2.01) bail, and further hearing of the case was set lor to-morrow. Another Fluhter'w Condition Critical. NEWBUBO. N. Y.. Jan. 4. Daniel Flanagan, who was knocked senseless In a prize fight with William Catkill. at new 1aw Point. N. Y.. on Saturday, is In a critical condition. They foucht nine round for a prize of S40-J and in the final round Catkill delivered his knockout blow. William Allen White. P.oston Transcript. 4 Perhaps the newspaper man making the largest individual reputation In the recent campaign was William Allen 3ViiIte,' editor of the Emporia Gazette,. .Jansas, who will be one of the attraction at the Ohio liepublican League dinner Feb. 12. His latent is the following: "Every county ia Kansas where the cattla business predominates go Pop. Thar means that the jeople aren't doing well. Every county in. Kansas where the creamery business is well established Is safely Republican. The.e are strange facts, but they indicate that the cow is worth a lot more to the farmer than the eteer." . Benevolent BoNtonlun. Boston Transcript. , Some mute but glorious Santa C'aus Is reported as paying anonymously all the postage on packages detained In the postoffice for lack of postage. A man who can do such a ded anonymously deserves all the plaudits he vill have from his own scrtt tool. 'lv