Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — MORA CLAIM IS PAID. [ARTICLE]

MORA CLAIM IS PAID.

STATE DEPARTMENT RECEIVES DRAFT IN FULL -V 1 : Government Crop Estimates Are Discredited—No Alarm for the Treasury, Reserve—War in Germany on American Meatß—Sumner Is Suspended. Spain Settles at Last. Senor de Lome, the Spanish minister, at Washington, Saturday delivered to Mr. Adee, acting Secretary of State, a draft for the equivalent of $1,440,000, drawn on Spanish financial agent in London in settlement of the Mora claim. This marked the close of an international question that'has dragged along for twentysix years, giving rise tofiery debate sin she Spanish rertes and protracted committee inquiries in both branches of our own congress. Having settled the international feature of the ease the State Department is now likely to encounter some difficulty at home In disbursing the money. Much litigation is threatened, as was evidenced by the taking out of an injunction by one of the assignees Saturday to restrain the State Department from paying over all the money to tSe‘claimant, Mora. During the years of the pendency of this great Claim Mora has been obliged to make of part of if, the larger items being on account of legal expenses. Some of these assignments have been recorded in the State Department, Sumner Is Punished. The Navy Department has made public its action in the case of Capt. George W. Summer, late in command of the United States cruiser Columbia, who was' tried recently by court martial at the Brooklyn navy yard on charges growing out of the injury sustained by his vessel in docking at Southampton in July last. On the first charge, culpable inefficiency in the performance of duty, the court found him guilty In a less degree than charged. The captain was found guilty of the second charge of suffering a vessel of the navy to be hazarded in violation of the naval regulations. He Was also found guilty of the third charge, neglect of duty, and the specification under that charge was proved—namely: that he paid the charge of docking without protest. The sentence of the court is as follows: “To be suspended from duty only for a period of six months on waiting orders pay, and to be reprimanded by the Honorable Secretary of the Navy.” Commerce and Crops. R. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly review of trade say: A slight setback, which may mean much or nothing, according to the final outcome of the crops, is not unexpected at this season. If the government crop reports were correct the situation would not bo encouraging. But not much confidence is placed in the reduced estimate of corn, none at all in the estimate of wheat, and even the most enthusiastic bulls do not think it worth while to quote the government report as to cotton. The fact is that We are beginning to market not far from 2,200,000,000 bushels of (though only about 500,000,000 bushels will be moved from the counties where it is groyvn); about 450,000,000 bushels of wheat, of whieli the farmers are unwisely holding back a large proportion; and about 7,200,000 bales of cotton, if the later indications are -not erroneous, as they very easily utity be, to add to the stocks carried over. FlgThfttiu American Meats. An agent in Southern Germany for n Chicago packing firm complained to the Consul that restrictive measures enforced by local authorities nt Freiburg had practically destroyed a formerly prosperous trade in that city. Similar restrictions were threatened at Carisruhe. The matter was at once sent from the United States Consulate to the embassy at Berlin with the expectation of preventing the objectionable proceedings threatened at Carisruhe. It is found thnt the official hostility to American meats is due to an agrarian spirit which would from self-in-terest seek to exclude all foreign food products which compete seriously with the domestic supply. Syndicate to the Rescue. The attack of the gold reserve assumed formidable proportions Friday, and the probability of another bond issue appeared in the eyes of many almost a certainty, But apprehension was allnyed when the bond syndicate authorized the following statement: "The bond syndicate fulfilled all its obligations to the gov* eminent in June last and has not since been bound in any way to the treasury. So far as Oct. 1 is concerned, it has no relation to the action of the syndicate, and it will continue to deposit gold until Nov. 1, and Dec. 1, and Jan. 1, if uecessary.”