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Secretary Herbert Submits His Annual Report. Recommends Three Great Battleships Secretary Sees a Lesson in the Oriental War And Advises That Uncle Sam Be Prepared. Report of Director of the Mint Promton Touching the Operations of the Aasay Office Annan! Report of the Seeretnrie of AKrlcnlture and the Interior. WASHINGTON. Nov. 27. The most Important recommendation made by Secretary Herbert in hla annual report is that congress authorize the construction of three great battleships of about 10,000 tons displacement each, to cost exclusive of armament not exceeding $4.000.000 each, and twelve torpedo boats of from 100 to COO tons each, at the discretion of the secretary, to cost not exceeding an average of J 170,000. Since his last report five splendid ships have been added to the naval list, three of which are capable of speed in excess at twenty-one kn ots, while two of them are the fastest cruisers In the world. The five vessels are the Marblehead, 18.41 knots; Columbia, 22.C; Olympia, 21.6j; Montgomery, 1S.0Ö6, and Minneapolis, 23.07C. One important change of naval policy is noted in connection with the advertisements for three new torpedo boats, soon to be issued. The secretary says that no speed premiums will be allowed on these boats; that the premium system undoubtedly had its advantages when adopted, but the department Is now convinced that the time has come when, wirh the experience gained, it may with profit be abandoned. The report shows the number of torpedo boats now on hand in foreign countries is 1.2S2, and the number building 1S2. Great Britain has 173 on hand and sixtyfour building, while France is even better off, with 214 on hand and forty-one building. Of eighteen countries enumerated not one has less that twenty-two of these boats, while the United States, with more coasts and ports than any nation, has but six. counting those yet to be built. The secretary speaks in terms of deep regret of the loss of the Kearsarge, and to prevent the famous name from lapsing on the naval list he suggests that a battleship be built to perpetuate it. He also suggests that the renowned o'.d Constitution be put in repair and placed on exhibition at the Washington navy yard a3 an ob.iect of interest to patriotic Americans. The secretary has taken a cue from the battle of Yalu and says that he has given instructions that all but the most necessary woodwork must be removed from our ships. Attention is ca'.led to the fact that, although the government is annually expending a large subsidy for vessels such as the Paris and New York to secure their use. in time of war, it has not a gun to put on them. At present. In case of war, Great Britain cou.d speedily arm her merchant marine on the iat lakes and do us enormous damage, while if we had a reserve supply of gun3 we could dominate these waters. On this point of preparation for war in time of peace the secretary make3 this very significant comment: "The latest and one of the most impressive lessons In all history is now being taught by China and Japan. A nation, the most populous in the world, able to put millions of fighting men into the field, is now. after suffering many disasters, scouring Europe and America for munitions of war. It relied upon its numbers. Now it is buying discarded guns and discarded ammunition, whatever it can get. to aid in repelling the assaults of a people vastly inferior in numbers." The secretary causal experiments to be mide at Newport to determine the probable effect upon the crew of a submarine boat of the explosion of torpedo charges. Live animals were enclosed in an old torpedo case, which wis submerged in fifteen feet of water and charges of eighty pounds of gun cotton were exploded at various distances, from 431 feet to eighty feet. No d image was done to the inmates, and it has been demonstrated that the crew of a submarine boat will be safe so long as the hull i3 not ruptured. But is was made apparent by the denting of the torpedo case at eighty feet distance that tha danger to a submarine boat from th? detonation cf high explosives must be taken into consideration. Notice of Secretary Herbert's intention to create a new naval station the south Parifie is found in a paragraph, announcing his purpose, now that nearly all of our cruisers are ready for service, to put into operation a policy which will keep a number of cruising vessels sufficient for the ordinary needs of naval policing and the protection of our interests abroad on each of six stations northAtlantlc, south Atlantic, north Pacific, south Pacific, Asiatic and European. The report states that Instruction have -en sent to the admiral commanding in Asiatic: waters which, it is believed, will secure the utmost possible protection to American interests and the collection of valuitle information relative to the naval battles fought there. After again calling attention to .the urgent needs of legislation for the relief of the parsonnel of the navy the secretary recommends that the enlisted force be increased by 2.000 men. In conclusion the secretary submits estimates for the next year, aggregating S27.SH5.914. exceeding the current appropriations by $5,435,133. caused miinly by the necessity of paying for vessels now undT contract. It is stated that after this year the appropriation on this sor- will rapidly diminish falling from 513.259,333 next year to $750,000 in the following year. director or tih: mists report. Odnnjere of CJll and Silver Daring the Year. :t. C. Preston, the director of the mint, ht submitted to the secretary of the treas-u-y his report on the mints and essay3 offlt-e for tho fiscal year 1S94. The value of tho gold deposited is stated at $140,942,545; $38.963.951 was of domestic production; J2s.000.525 foreign bullion and coin; $3.113421 old material; $2.Q93.61. worn and uncurrent United States gold coin deposited for reeoEnAge. Th deposits and purchase. of silver during the year was 22.74G.e51 fine ounres, tha. coining vaiua of the same in silver

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dollars being $20.409,823; $19.777.700 was of domestic production; $1.832,890 foivign bullion and coin: I6.4S1.404 worn and uncurrent United States coin, and th3 remainder . JCO.I.nso old material. The amount cf sJlver bullion purchased under the act of July 14, 180. wa3 11.917,6.")9 fine ounces, at a cost of $8.715.521. th& average cost per tine ounce being 0.7:513. The total amount of silver purchased und?r tha act of July 14. 1S10, from Aug. 13, 1S90 the da: the law went, into effect to Nov. 1, 1893 the date of the repeal of the purchasing clause of that act was 1CS.C74.GS2 fine ounces, citing $155.931.002. the averaga price per line ounce being $0.9211. Tho total coinago cf silver dollars under the acC of Julv 14. 1890. to July 1, 1894. was 36.087.943, consuming 27,911.708 fine, ounces, which cost r29,110.647. The seigniorage on silver coined under act of July 14. 1890, to Julv 1. 1894. was $6,977.2H6. From July 1. 1891. to Nov. 1, 1S91. $2.443,200 were? coined, the soigniorage- on am was $76.764.27. making the total amount of silver dollars- coined under tha act of July 14. lvo, 38.531,143, and the total seigniorage, $7.764.060. The total coinage during the year was: Gold $ 99,474.912 50 Silver dollars 75S 00 Subsidiary silver 6,024.110 CO Minor coins 716,919 26 Total $106.216,730 06 The gold coinage for the year was the largest ever executed at the mints of the United States in any one year. The highest price of silver during the year was $0.7045 and the lowest J0.591S, showing a fluctuation uf $0.1725 per fina ounce. The net gold exports for the fiscal year were $4,172.665, as against $8C,S97.275 f r the prior fiscal year. The net exports of silver for the fiscal year were $21,041.359. a3 against 57,653,813 for the fiscal year 1S93. The director estimates the value of the gold used in the industrial arts in the United States during the calendar year 1892. at $12.523.523 and silver at $9,634.277; of the gold $8,354.42 and of the silver $6.570,737 was m w bullion. The estimated m.ata'.lic stock of coin and bullion in the United States on July 1, 1894. was: Gold. $ 627.293.2'H : silver, $624,347.757, a total of $1,251.640.958. The production of gold and silver in the United States during the calendar year was: Gold. 1.739.323 fine ounces, of the value of $35.953.001; silver. 60.00O.0O0 fine ounces, the commercial value of the same being $46.800,000 and the coining value $77.576.000. Revised estimates of the world's production of the precious metals for the calendar year 1833 shows the same to have ben $157.22S,10O in gold and $209,165.000 in silver. The world's coinage for the calendar vear 1&93 is stated to have been $232,485.668 in gold and $135,286.75.5 in silver. The director estimates the stock of gold in the world at the end of 1893. for monetary purposes, to have been 53.965.900.fio0 and of silver $4.055,7oo.ooo, a total metallic stock in the world of $8.021,600,000. MORTON'S AWT XL REPORT.

The Secretary Kienrm on. Export! nntl Import. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. The annual report of the secretary of agriculture is particularly interesting because of its references to current troubles with foreign governments over the importation of American products. Ho reviews the subject of foreign markets and gives figures of our agricultural exports, especially those of Great Britain. That countrypaid during the year 1S93, for American breadstuffs, provision?, cotton and tobacco, over $324.000,000. Including about $10,000,000 worth of mineral oils with agricultural exports, the United Kingdom took 54.31 per cent, of all exports of breadstuffs, provisions, mineral oils, cotton and tobacco. Of dressed beof. Great Britain took from us during the first six months of the year 1S94, $10,000,000 worth. Australia is our chief competitor for the trade. Mr. Morton deems it probable that the American farmer will find more advantage from the shipment of dressed beef than from the exportation of live cattle. Referring to the frequent allegations! on the part of the European governments that live animals from the United States are found diseased, the secretary expresses the opinion that these declarations are sometimes based on fear of infection, but are at other times made for economic reasons. The review of the foreign trade loads him to certain conclusions as to the future of our export trade in agricultural products, as follows: Competition of Russia, Argentine, Australia and other countries favored by conditions which enable them to grow wheat at a low cost, and especially by the proximity of their wheatgrowing regions to water communications, warns American farmers to no longer depend upon wheat as a staple export crop. On the other hand, a good market, at fair prices, is to be found in the United Kingdom for barley and corn, and owing to the great variety of uses to which It may be applied, promises to be In constant and increasing demand. The secretary reports the Inception of two import in t scientific investigations, the first relating to grasses and forage plants, the other to agricultural soils and crop production. The secretary believes that the importance of these Investigations justifies the erection of each into one independent division, and he has so provided in the appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year. AVith reference to the weather bureau the secretary shows that nearly $140,0u have been saved from the appropriation and covered back into the treasury. He shows that by heeding the admonitions of the bureau reative to the great tropical storm of September, 1894, vessels valued at over $17,000.000 were saved. So in October, when over 1,200 ve-seis. valued at $19,ti00,000, were kept in port owing to the bureau's warnings. Moreover, many human lives were preserved. The secretary concludes that the investment is a paying one, and may properly come within the functions of the government. The work of the bureau of animal industry during the year hi3 been greatly Increased, notwithstanding th reduction in the appropriation. The secretary concludes a review of the Inspection of export and Interstate meat, with the recommendation that the law providing for the same be so amended as to compel the owners or the meat inspected to pay the cost of inspection. If, he argues, the inspection widens the market, thun enhancing the price of their property, they, as the direct pecuniary beneficiaries, .should agree to pay for it. The report concludes with a statement showing that of the total exports of this country for 1894 (fiscal year) farm products aggregated $628.000,000. or 72.58 per cent, of the whole. The markets of the world, he says, demand from 1he American farmer the very best quality of breadstuffs and materials. The farmer exchanges his products, the results' of his labors, which have srx-cific purchasing power, for mony having a general purchasing ikowct. Under the heading, "For Prime Pork Give Us Prime Currency," the secretary asks: "Would the $60,H)0,000 worth of farm products from the United States sold last year to foreign nations have teen as remunerative to the American farmer If they had been paid for in silver as they have been when pal 1 for in gold or its equivalent? When t het standard coin of the republic shall be made of metal worth as much after it is melted as It purports to be worth In coin and the mint values and the commodity values of I au metamc money approximately eyuai u.

will not the American fanner and all other citizens become m ret permanently prosperous? "If the American farmer, laborer and manufacturer are compelled by law to submit to the measurement of the value of the products of their efforts by a silver standard, will not the foreigner In buying those products always use the same measure? With his beef, pork and cereals the American farmer buys money, and why should ho not demand as superlative quality in that which he buys as the domestic and foreign purchasers insist upon in that which he sells? If those buyers demand 'prime' beef and 'prime' pork, why shouldn't the farmer demand 'prime' currency, the best measure of value, the most fair ami facile medium of exchange, in the most unfluctuating money the world cf commerce has ever evolved?"

l.MEUXAI, ItEVKMB IlKCKITTS. Annual Report of Commissioner Miller Falling Oil for the Year. The annua! report of Joseph S. Miller, the commissioner of Internal revenue, shows the total receipts from all sources for the fiscal year ended June 20, 1894, to have been $147,168,449, a decrease for the year of $13,S36,.r)40. The following table shows the receipts from the several sources during the last fiscal year and the Increase or decrease as compared with the year next preceding: Spirits, $85,259,252, decrease, $9.461,s008; tobacco, $28,617,898, decrease, $3,271,813; fermented liquors, $31,414,788, decrease, $1,131.195. Oleomargarine, $1,723,479, increase, $52,SZ't. The quantities of spirits, etc., on which tax was paid during the last fiscal year, with the increase or decrease as compared with the fiscal year 1S93, are given as follows: Spirits distilled from apples, peaches and grapes, 1,430,553 gallons, decrease, 256,988; dis:illed from other materials, 87.346.834 gallons, decrease, 10,111,514; fermented liquors, 33,334,783 barrels, decrease, 1,219,Number of cigars, cheroots and cigarette?, weighing over three pounds per thousand. 4,066,917,433. decrease. 747,279,684; cigarettes weighing not over three pounds per thousand, 3,183,573,760, increase, 6.SS1.i(:0; cigarettes weighing over three pounds per thousand, 208,370. increase, 203,370; snuffs, 11,627,092 pounds, decrease. 25.802; chewing and smoking tobacco, 235.451.805 pounds, decrease, 16,947,944; oleomargarine, 66.4J7.90O pounds, increase, 1,366.125. Of the receipts by states Illinois Ls at the het.d of the list with $30.942.233; Kentucky next with 524.30S.630: New York next with $1S,922.111: Ohio with $12,454,898; Pennsylvania. $12.151,196. The cost of "collecting the internal revenue during tho last year was $3,973,004, or 2.70 per cent, of the collections. Th t"tal number of Chinese registration certificates applied for under the act of Nov. 3. 1893. was 106.811, at a cost up to June 30, 1N94, of $42,899. The estimated expense of the internal revenue service for the fiscal year ending Jim 30. 1896, are given as $4.859.870. The report shows the work on the bureau is in excellent condition, both in the office cf the commissioner and in the field. The annual number and class of special tax-payers in the. United States on June Ci. 1894. is given as follows: Retail liquor dealers, 215,419; rectifiers, 1,494; wholesale liquor dealers, 4,565; manufacturers of stills, 6; brewers. 1,S03; retail dealers in malt liquors, 12,618; wholesale dealers in mak liquor, 5,51S; manufacturers of oleomargarine, 21; retail dealers in oleomargarine, 7.400; wholesale dealers in oleomargarine, 271. Total, 249,137, which ls a decrease for the fiscal year of 1,456. The number of distilleries operated during the year was 3.148; of thus number 1,541 were for grain, 12 for molasses and 3,595 for fruit. The quantity of grain used for the production of spirits during the year was 19,716. si 8 bushels, a decrease for the year of 9.313,591 bushels. The yield of spirits from each bushel of grain was 4.02 gallons, as against 4.24 gallons for 1S92 and 4.35 for 1893. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894. 6,243 licenses were issued to domestic sugar producers intending to claim bounty on their product, and $12,100,203 net, after deducting refundments, were disbursed by this office in payment of approved bounty claims. During the fiscal years ended June 20. 1892. and June 20, 1393, $7,342,077 and 59.375.130 respectively were disbursed as bounty on sugar, making, with last year's bounty, a total disbursement of $2S,S17,417, exclusive of administrative expenses incurred in executing the bounty law. The following tabla shows the amount of the various kinds of sugar returned, bounty paid (cents emitted), etc., during the fiscal year 101: a S3 3 5 - o V. KIND OP SUGAR. 1 Pane sugar U-et sugar Sorghum sugar.. Maple sugar Totals 611,156,922 $ 11,114.599. 45,l1.2!;j 8.-.2.174I l.:;oj,o2-j 17,319! 7,633,608: 116,121 3,246 62 1) 4,623 665,26,151 $ 12.100.2ftS! 7,946 Otficial returns and bounty claims on hand show that the following amounts of bounty on sugars produced during the existence of the bounty law wrere unpaid at the time of the repeal of this law, on Aug. 28. 1894, (cents omitted): On maple sugar, $122.732: beet Fugar, $86,782; cane sugar, $31.232; sorghum sugar, $426; total. $241, 1S2. TUR IVrBKIOIt IJKPARTMEXT. Secretary Hoke Smith File Ills An. nuul Report. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The annual report of Secretary Hoke Smith of the interior department deals largely with Indian affairs, and he presents some practical suggestions for the development and civilization of the race. Resides giving a succinct history of the progress of the Indian bureau during the past twelve months, the secretary reviews the preblem of effective work for the advancement of tha Indians. He discusses the subject of education and of allotments of land In severalty and urges that the education of the Indian should be for the purpose of fitting them to perform the particular responsibilities most likely to fall to their after lot. He presents the possibilities of the reservation as land to be improved and developed, to which the Indians should be taught to apply those modes of agriculture recognized in civilized Mfe. Their education should fit them for this work and they should be led on with the assurance that the government dealing with this land will treat the Indians with perfect honesty and make no further effort to trade them out of it for the benefit of those who wish to settle upon it Lot Indians keep their lands. Upon the subject of allotments, he sayu: "I do not question the advisability of alloting land to Indiana in severalty, but I do mast seriously question the propriety of this course before the Indians have progressed sufficiently to utilize the land when taken. The allotments should be made to the Indians in pevemlty for the good of the Indians, for the advancement of the Indians, not for the purpose of obtaining land connected with the Indian reservation to satisfy the insatiable desire of border men, who obtain it frequently, not for home3, but for speculation. "I urge a treatment of Indian land based solely upon the purpose of realizing from It for its owners the highest possible value, what Is best for the Indians to keep their land or to sell it. If the members of a tribe havereaehed a stata sufficiently civil-

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i i Princess Alis ized to be able to progress still further by selling a portion of their land, then s.a'.es should be made, but the land should not be purchased from the Indians at the best bargain the United State.s can make. It should be sold for the Indians by the United States, the department acting as a faithful trustee, and obtaining for the Indians every dollar the land will bring." In connection with education of the Indians, the secretary says. "In the manjgemi-nt of the Indian schools a definite plan f .or the Indians when school is finished mus ' always be in view, if practical results are expected from his education." "Education should be practically directed with a view ko the probable future of the Indian. ' he is to remain away from his former home and to enter the struggle of life in cur cities and towns, as any other citizen, then his education should be as broad a..d as liberal as possible. But If he is to return to the reserva tion, to the place of hi.i birth, and to com lice ui iii.'i uii in, h:iu iu v;liiitive life i'n the development "ces of tie reservation, then should I; directed and espevievr to Ihe life he will lead mence his active life i'n the development of the resources his education cially with a upon the reservation, and to the possibili ties of the reservation itself. An appendix to the f-eports publishes in full the report of tl.1 commissioners to the five civilized trfoes. The secretary calls attention to this duly which rests upon the United StJies to preserve liw and order throughout the Indian territory and insists if the right to do so cannot be obtained by agreement with the tribes. It must be enforced as a nutter of duty without regard to the wishes of those who control tha tribes. He does not specifically recommend the organization of a new territory, but does urge that the courts in Arkansas and Texas be abandoned and that the jurisdiction of the United States courts be extended over the territory without regard to citizenship. This would give an opportunity for the members of the various tribes who feel that they are deprived of their just quota of lands to petition the United States courts for allotments in severalty of the portions to which they are respectively entitled. 13y a resort to such means those Indians who wish their lands in severalty could obtain them and thus gradually, at least, the holding of lands in common would pass away and they would be held by individuals. Referring to the sale of liquor to the Indians the secretary condemns in strong terms the establishment of sahoons upon the line, of Indian, reservations, and calls attention to the decision of Judge Elfinger of the district of Oregon, to the effect that the sale of liquor to an Indian who has received his land in severalty is not In violation of law, because, by allotment, he has become a ci:izen. If this decL-ion is right it presents another argument against the speedy allotment of lands in severalty to Indians. The General Land Office. Secretary Smith next takes up the general land office at the bureau, only second in importance to the Indian office. He recommends a change in the system of surveying and the establishment of a land court in the interior department. The present system of surveying the public lands Ls criticised as a slow and defective mode of procedure. Reference is made to the amendment to the sundry civil bill proposed at the last session, asking authority for the geological bureau to survey such land as might be recommended by the commissioner of the general land office, as a substitute for the present 'system. It was believed that the plan would prove economical and satisfactory, and that it could be enlarged until it included the entire work of public surveys and dispensed with the office of surveyor-general. It 13 urged that if this surveying could be done by the government employes it would save much time now consumed in making contracts with deputy surveyors, in re-examining their work, and in handling the returns in the offices of the surveyors-general. The great Importance of the special service division of the general land office Is urged. It is shown that the money which it recommends from cash forfeited on entries, which have been cancelled through the action of the special agents and from the prosecution of timber trespassers, has been, in years past, very much larger than the cost of the service. The small amounts of recent appropriations have very greatly crippled the work in the bureau in this direction. Forent Renerve. Referring to the protection of forest reserves, the secretary says: "On account of the smill appropriations for special agents it has ihus far been Impossible to detail any of them for the protection of the forest reserves, which have from time to time been created. Practically, this great extent of reserved lands is no more protected by the government than are the unreserved lands of the United States, the sfole difference being that they are not subject to entry or other disposal under the public land laws." Congress is urged to make sufficient appropriations to employ at least one superintendent on each reserve and upon the laiger resvrves to provide a sufficient force of assistants to prevent public property from being wantcnly destroyed. The present Organization of the department Is under the system by which con-

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vJUPG t?ted land cases are first heard before ' the registers and receivers and then be- j tore me commissioner or me general i.ina onice ami finally appealed to the decision of the secretary. The importance of giving to the register and receiver the power to compel the attendance cf witnesses, in-as-much as the testimony taken by these officers furnishes the basis for the final adjudication of fact3 is mentioned, and legislation to that end is recommended. Pension. The report fchows that the entire number of pensioners upon the rolls June 30, 1S94, was D69.544. The estimate for the fiscal year, 1S96, is $140,000,000. Pensioners added to tha roll during the year was 39,085; number dropped, 37,951. The greater part of the case3 now pending. in the bureau are old cases. M?.ny of them have been pending for years and have been examined one or more times prior to the present administration. Upon examination dt has been foundr in many Instances, that proof wa3 not sufficient to sustain a pension. The attention of the applicants having been called to the defect and in some cases efforts have been made to supply the needed testimony. The great discrepancy between the number of cases now toeing a 'lowed and the number allowed two or more years ago, grows out of the fact that the pending eases constitute a remnant of an immense number of claims of which those well established have already been adjudicated. The secretary says the work accomplished Ln eighteen and a half months is unprecedented in the history of the department, being more than twice the number of cases disposed of in a like period by the prior administration. Secretary Smith calls attention to the saving of $44,770 on the patent office gazette, the result of contracts by competitive bids. The report shows that the total disbursements to date fur the eleventh census amount to $10,365,675. In the last annual report it was stated that something less than $500,000 would be ample to finish the census. It is now apparent that $275,000 will complete the work. The report then deals with the different territories and gives much interesting Information regarding their progress during the past year. The secretary ends his report w-ith an earnest recommendation for an additional building for the interior department. SECRETARY LAMOXT'S REPORT. He Recommends the Inorenne of the Army to 0,000. The annual report of Secretary Lamont shows a saving of half a million dollars in salaries and contingent expenses in the administration of the war department at Washington, b2side economies ln the recruiting sendee, rents, etc. Expenditures for the last fiscal year were $56,029,009; appropriations for the current year are $52,429,112; estimates for the next year are $52,31S,629. , On Oct. 1 the army numbered: Officers, 2,136; enlisted men, 23,772; of the latter, for various causes only 20,114 are effective. Secretary Lament earnestly recommends legislation to establish the battalion formation, now accepted by the armies of every other civilized nation. To effect that change he recommends a return to the law of 1S70, fixing at 30,000 the limit of the army. By the changes proposed tha army will be increased 20 per cent, in efficiency, löVi In numbers, and only 6 per cent, in cost of maintenance. The actual combative strength will thu3 become about twentyfive thousand, the number now contemplated by law, but which is reduced by detachments and otherwise to about twenty thousand. Seven regiments have been armed with the new magazine rifle and by May 1 the Infantry will be completely equipped with the new arm. The manufactory will continue to equip the militia. The manufacture of modern field and siege artillery ht3 been continued. Secretary Lamont observed that no statue to Gen. Grant ha3 been erected at Washington, and recommends that such a statue le erected between the capitol and the congressional library, south of Greenough's statue of Washington. JOSEPH E. BROWN DEAD. A niatlKnlshert Political CareerIUrlicnt Man In the Snath. ATLANTA. Ga., Nov. 30. Ex-Senator Joseph E. Brown died at his home here today at 2:30 p. m. He ha3 been in feeble health for many months, but his death was not looked for so soon. He was governor of Georgia for four terms, serving during the late war. He was senator for two terms. At the time of his death he was seventy-three years old. Senator Brown was at one time chief Justice of Georgia. He leaves an estate valued at millions. He was perhaps the richest man in the South.

r,nNßv)l.iDA V: riurr i i . . s- X. ir . I H 1. I it XT f . - u - Tii, ... ! r.l i . j-'ryv .-Ca ' Or THE WEEK U - e RicksREFINERIES TO SHUT DOWN SUGAR TRUST SAYS IT MUST II AVE MORE niOTECTIOX. President Havemeyer Drrlarr Thnt the Depression In Triule Consequent I'pon the Adlon of lie I.nnt C'onKrens Compels the Action Fifty Thotmnntl Idle. NEW YORK, Nov. 2S. An evening paper says: Orders were issued today from the headquarters of the American sugar refinery in Wall-st to shut down completely all the refineries of the company in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Fifty thousand operatives will be affected by the closing of the sugar works. President H. O. Havemeyer Of the American sugar refining company said this morning: "The sugar business has been bad for some months past. We have been hoping against hope all along and tried to weather through the period of depression, trusting that business might improve and that we would soon be able to run our works to their fullest capacity, but everything was against us. "The reaction that followed the passage of the tariff bill brought about a dull season and the war among the wholesale grocers in several sections of the country still further tended to demoralize trade. When to this was added the excitement of an election canvass and the general report that congress would pass a free sugar bill, making all sugars free, you can readily see that there was enough cause to compel us to shut down completely. But we ran our works up to the present time with a reduced force In the hope, Mieawber-like, that something would turn up. Our faith in the future has failed us. and, beginning tomorrow, we shall shut down all our works in Boston. New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. This will affect 50,000 operatives. "We cannot do anything else. We are sorry for our men and have been trying to ward it off all along. But. the truth is, we have been running our works at a loss for several months past. And it's tin to call quits now. The last congress is responsible for the present situation and if they pass the free sugar bill at Washington, as it is reported that they will, they will kill the sugar industry completely. Things could not be much worse than they are now. There is very little difference between the prices of raw and refined sugar and there is no reason or Justice in continuing a business at a heavy loss. "We must either have enough profit to cover the bald expenses of carrying on sugar refining or else go out of the business completely. We cannot compete with the wages paid in Europe and our men could not begin to support themselves and their families at such figures. And yet we are asked to run our establishments with only the margin in refining that is to be found between the cost of raw and refined sugars, which is now a trifle less than a half a cent per pound. No, the only thing for us to do is to shut down completely until there is a market for our goods and until we can see our way to pay expenses. And I can see nothing cheering or reassuring in the outlook at the present moment." John E. Searles, treasurer of the American sugar refining company, was seen this evening. Concerning the report that the refineries of the company in Boston, New York und Philadelphia were to be completely closed down, he said: "They are closed down at present and they will remain closed over Thansgiving day." "Will they remain closed long?" Mr. Searles was asked. "Well, I don't think lhey will reopen this week." he replied, "but we will resume business next week. So far as I am aware there is no intention of permanently closing the refineries." Mr. Searles added that he had seen an account of an interview with H. O. Havemeyer. but knew nothing about it. NEW YORK. Nov. 30. The Evening Post says: "The statement of H. O. Havemeyer, president of the American sugar refining company (the sugar trust), that the refineries of the company must be shut down for awhile, owing to depression in the trade during the legislature was discussed today in business and labor circles. The modified announcement made by Mr. Havemeyer this morning that only half the force would be laid off, was regarded as an indication of a less fixed purpose than was indicated in tin declaration of the company's intentions on Wednesday night. At the refineries in Brooklyn hundreds of workmen and women and members of their families were gathered this morning. From their statements it appears that about 3.0001 of the 4,000 men usually kept busy there were idle today. They did not know how long

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SJZRTS. To -J7 a r.AlNS I this would last. "When th.-y were dis-charg-, d on Wednes lay iiiyht they understood that they would report again on Sunday night. Others said that so far aä the eastern district re:in ri s were concerned they were not overstocked witlj siig;ir, as there w.rv l-ss than 4".0rt bar reis on hand; not nvre than enough for four days' supply of the market. At tha offices of the rcfin-ris information was received by the subordinates an.l officers in charge, that they de, -lined to be interviewed. Clerks maintained that everything was going in a- u.--.ial, despite the crowds of idle nwn in the streets. The Molenhauer refinery, at the foot of S. Eleventh-s:., whi.-h is nt in the trust, was running at i's full capacity today. Extra hands were put on this morning. Spreckels Crlen for Protection. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 20. In reference to the Associated Press interview with H. O Havemeyer, president of tho sugar refining company, Claus Spreckels sail: "I have real the Havemeyer interview and I understand the situation in the eastern states. Havemeyer and hia people control the sucar trade of all the country east of the .Missouri river and the California refinery controls pretty much all west of the river. I think Havemeyer is right when he says That closing his refineries will throw r.'.o.M.i people out ot work. The reason they are to close i this: They cannot "compete with foreign sugars. The admiristration has effectually shut out the sugar refining business in this countrv. German granulated sugar laid down at New York at $3.50 the hundred pounds and raw or crude ugar costa laid down there 3.6 the hundred pounds. That leaves a margin of six-one-hur.dredths of a cent a p mn l on which to pay refining expenses and mike profits. The thing is simplv absurd. In the East they pay refinerv hands $1.50 per day. In Germany the wages are but $1.13. The trade cannot stand the difference. The German sugar is beet sugar !vf.:ud ahroid. This market is now bringing a great deal of Chinese sugar that Ls refined by two English-firms in Hong Kong. Th- y use raw sugar from Batavia and the Phillipine islands. Those refineries employ c- olie labor at 10 cents per clay. There is only one remedy and that is protection." LICK MONUMENT UNVEILED. One of the Finest in the United States A IMiilanthriilst. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 20. The James Lick monument was unveiled today with appropriate ceremonies. When the lata James Lick died he left an estate of several million dollirs, which by his wifa was to be expended in various public Improvements and institutions. Among tha institutions bearing his name are. tha great observatory or. Mt. Hamilton; tha Lick free bath and the Lick school of mechanical arts, which is s-on to too opened; the Academy of Sciences building and the Piom-er building that is soon to le opened. The monument both in design and workmanship is one of the tim-st in the United States. It cost $10o,i'"ü and its construction ha.s takr-n three and a half years. The main material is granite, supporting massive bronze figures of heroic proportions, anl also bronze panels of historical design, illustrating the growth of California from its early history to the present day. The main column is forty-six feet high, on its four sides granite wings lead out, at the end cf which are massive pedestal? surmounted by bronze statues. The top figure represents Eureka, typical of California. This is tha statue unveiled today It twelve feet high and weighs 7.0 0 pounds. Beneath! are four panels portraying Crossing tha Sierra. Vaquems Lassonlng a Bull, Trappers Trading Skins with Indians and California's Progress I'nder American Rule. There are bronze irtraits) of men of prominence in California's history, including Sir Fran -Is Drake. Father Junipo Serra, Fremont and Sutter. On the fhaft is a large bronze portrait of James Lick r.nd on the ba:-k are draped the Bear and American flags. The figures surmounting the pedestals on four wings are Early Days, with striking figures of a Spanlard, friar and Indians. In '49, showing the mining period; Commerce and Agriculture. The year IMS, when gold was first discovered, and the year 1850. when California wa admitted to the union, are properly commemorated. GOLD FOR BONDS. Over Forty million Received at the ev York Suh-Trensnry. NEW YORK. Nov. 2S. The sub-treasury had received up to noon today a little over $40.000,0J gold in payment for bond subscriptions. Nt-w York City banks lose by sub-treasury operations today $29.917.03. against a loss ef $10.263.f4 yesterday. The loss ln the banks' surplus will appear In. the weekly statement as an Increase In the Item, of loans, as the banks draw Interest at 5 per cent, from the time the gold is deposited at the sub-treasury.

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