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SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1888.
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Galveston, Tex., May 27, 18S7.
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business agents of the Texas Farmers' Al-
liance and Grange to furnish it for publica-
tion all notices of meetings, news notes of
matters of importance that come before the
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veston News and The Dallas News col-
umns, it will be unnecessary to forward to
both offices, as an interchange is provided
for between the two points.
It seems that the Women's club of New
Orleans took a very active part in the recent
election in that city, and now they are de-
manding their reward. It is pleasing to
know, though, that their request is not
for themselves, but looks to the abatement
o{ a revolting piece of barbarism and inhu-
manity in police practice. They do not seek
oCie*? for the sake of the office, b it that ( hay
may iSo away with an evil that iltagracesnot
only ,\'cvv Orleans, but nearly every eiiyand
town in the United States. The ladies ask j
•a a rewajtf for theii |$rvi?e», \vjiich the j
local papers say were great, that matrons be
appointed for each police station in the
city. It has been and still is the
custom of the police authorities to
thoroughly search each prisoner as soon as
arrested. Men and women are all subjected
to this search in the absence of any evidence
of guilt. To he suspected and arrested is
all sufficient. Several cases have been re-
ported where innocent persons, females,
have been stripped and searched and some-
times subjected to brutal indignities by the
policemen at the stations. This was out-
rageous, but the law made no exception, nor
was any provision made for the search of
females by others than the policemen. The
Women's club does not ask that the search
law be changed or repealed, but simply asks
that women be appointed to do the search-
ing of women. The request is a just one,
and in all humanity and decency should be
granted at once, whether the Women's club
"did noble work to put the present admin-
istration in power" or not.
AFTER ME. MILLS.
A Washington special to the St. Louis
Republican says that a plan is being put on
foot by the protectionists to defeat Mr.
Mills for re-election to congress. The same
game is contemplated in Texas that was
played successfully in Illinois in 1886, when
Mr. Morrison was defeated, and which came
so near succeeding in Mr. Carlisle's district.
The protectionists in this case, however, are
counting unhatched chickens, for which
there are neither eggs nor hens to lay them,
and will find that political speculations
which may materialize in some quarters
will prove utterly impracticable oil Texas
soil. They are very badly informed of
the real situation, or they would never
have entertained so wild an idea. It is
evident that they do not know the temper
of the Texas democrat in general, and par-
ticularly the kind of Texas democrat to
be found in Mr. Mills' own district where
they propose to try their airy scheme. They
must fiavc been misled by garbled and
distorted reports telegraphed all over the
country for political effect during tho last
month or two. The high sounding anti-
tariff reform resolutions, framed by a squad
of republicans and two or three prohibition-
ists in the name of the Central Texas Live
Stock association, were not wholly
without effect. These molders of an
apocryphal article of .public opinion
managed to create the impression among
illy informed circles in the east that
"Texas is displeased with the course of Con-
gressman Mills, and that he can he shelved
by the proper kind of work." The wool-
men are largely counted on in this ridicu-
lous scheme, but their political influence is
comparatively inconsiderable, and it is by no
means certain that it would bo used against
Mr. Mills were it really great enough to be
formidable. Then como tho republicans
and prohibitionists, and they are undoubt-*
edly the basis upon which the protection-
ists will build if possible. But here they
will find themselves as powerless as ever.
In Mr. Mills' district at the last congres-
sional election there were 31,382 votes cast,
22,333 of theiil being democratic and 9049
republican, leaving him a majority ofi3,-
2S4 votes. In tho same district last year on
the prohibition question the anti-prohibition
majority was 99(32 votes, or only 3322
votes less than the usual democratic ma-
jority. These three thousand and odd
votes are n liberal allowance for the demo-
crats who voted for prohibition as a non-
political question, but no sane man can
think that this number of votes can be
taken from the democratic party when the
lines are drawn between democracy and re-
publicanism on the issue of tax reduction
and tariff reform. It is true that all the
anti votes were not cast by the democrats
any more than were all the pro votes cast
by the republicans. But it is equally true
that the prohibition party polled its full
strength, and received a much larger vote
than it is likely ever to receive again. The
conditions were all favorable to it, and yet
it was snowed under by a majority of 9962
votes in the very district in which the pro-
tectionists propose to use it against Mr.
Mills. It will no doubt be a good thing for
the Texas republicans to have the handling
of a little eastern cash, for their share of the
profits of politics has of late been very
meager. Beyond this noth ing can come out
of the anti-Mills movement except the
ignominious discomfiture of those who are
engineering it.
AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEATURE.
Tho Chace bill, in prohibiting the use of
photo-stereotyping for the reproduction of
copyrighted foreign books, clearly contra-
venes the spirit and purpose of the clause
for the promotion of "the progress of science
and useful arts" in tho enumeration of the
powers of congress by the federal constitu-
tion. The prohibitory provision is plainly
designed and adapted, as far as it goes, to
stay the progress of science and useful arts.
The clause referred to is found in section 8
of articlel, and reads that congress shall
have power "to promote the progress of
science and useful arts by securing,
for limited times, to authors and
inventors the exclusive right to
their respective writings and discoveries."
The reason for the grant of power is given.
But if a power is exercised contrary to tho
reason for which the power is granted, the
question will arise whether the constitution
has provided means for its vindication. It
would seem that on a suit involving the ap-
plication of the proposed law, a publisher
might show that photo-stereotyping is a
useful art applied to other printing, and
that his right of property and labor is in-
vaded if he may not use his machinery for
the production of any book which he has
a lawful right to print as well as for
the production of another such book. An-
other point against the Chace bill with ref-
erence to the same feature is the fact that
photo-stereotyping is an established branch
of business, and therefore that part of the
bill which prohibits its employment in cer-
tain work permitted to be done by a costlier
process would be not merely detrimental to
the progress of a new art, but would be the
turning out ol employment of American
artists and mechanics actually at work. If
thi3 can be done with photographers and
stereotypers for tho benefit of printers it
can be done with printers for the benefit of
copyists, and with copyists for the benefit of
reciters. Upon such a principle the most
arbitrary rules can be made invading
and setting aside the right to labor in any
honest calling, even in any of those already
established, in the acquisition of which men
have spent time and money, in the pursuit
of which they have gained connections and
regular custom, and for the carrying on of
which they have invested money in phirft
and machinery. The case is utterly unlike
that in which the trade may be deemed con-
trary to public policy. It is protectionism
of the ultra sort, no parallel to which has
perhaps been found in this highly protec-
t ionized, country. If (lie Chace trill passes
the feature here discussed will challenge the
attention of that tribunal specially charged
with interpreting and giving judicial effect
to tlie United States constitution.
GALVESTON AS A WOOL MARKET.
The San Antonio Express shows very bad
taste and much worse judgment in criti-
cising the infant wool market at this place.
Of all things that the Express should have
done, a comparison of the San Antonio
market with this one should have been tho
last, for such a comparison must inevitably
prove disastrous to San Antonio. However,
tlie Express lias seen fit to make the fight,
and very foolishly has chosen tho question
of receipts and stock to make it on. "In
The Galveston News of the 8th," it says,
"the stock of wool on hand up to that date,
Inclusive, is shown to be 405,763 pounds.
This amount cuts but a sorry figure when
compared with wool stored in San Antonio
warehouses, which up to the corresponding
period was 1,314,000 pounds." And again:
"The majority of the Galveston stock
represents wool that is not naturally
tributary to this city, and which
in any event would be shipped to
the Island city," In the first place the Ex-
press should have explained that a large
part of its stock was oldstockleft over from
last season, and that it had been accumulat-
ing for mouths, when the Galveston stock
has been accumulating for weeks. When it
is taken into consideration that all the Gal-
veston stock is new and that t.he' industry has
just been fairly placed on its feet in this city,
the justice of this explanation is apparent.
In the next place a comparison of Galves-
ton's wool stock of four days ago with Gal-
veston's wool stock of yesterday is a better
argument against San Antonio receipts and
stock than could possibly be made in any
other way. On the 8th, as the Express says,
the stock on hand at Galveston was 465,762
pounds. That was the first day's opera-
tion of the Galveston Wool association.
On the lltli, the last day reported,
the stock was 670,935 pounds, while the re-
ceipts thus far have been 856,645 pounds and
the shipments 185,710 pounds, a very good
showing for three or four days' business
done by the Galveston Wool Factors' asso-
ciation. In regard to the source of supply
the. figures are equally as damaging to the
truth of tho Express' statements. During
the four days tills week, ending Friday
evening, the receipts of wool at Galveston
were 815 sacks, of which over one-half, or
510 sacks, came over the Galveston, Hous-
ton and San Antonio road. All west Texas
wool comes by that road", and therefore the
statement that Galveston's stock repre-
sents wool that is not naturally tributary to
San Antonio is absurd. All of it may not,
but over one-half certainly does. The in-
roads made by Galveston upon the wool
trade of San Antonio are so apparent that
the Express is not feeling well-over the mat-
ter, and that is the true animus of the Ex-
press' comparison. See wool quotations in
another column.
New York Times: One thing must be
noted with genuine satisfaction by all con-
servative and prudent business men, and
that is that the purchases of bonds by the
treasury, while they have not been large ill
amount, but on the contrary have been rela-
tively inconsiderable, have practically re-
duced the influence of the actual accumu-
lated surplus upon business transactions to
the very lowest point. Money is easy, and
there is no reason to expect that it can be
made otherwise by any fear, real or affected,
as to treasury hoarding. The policy of tlie
treasury has been such as to show that, so
far as is possible under our present vicious
system, the holdings of the government can
be got out whenever there is any real need
that they shall be. That is a great gain for
the country, and is the best that can be done
until congress cuts off the surplus at its
source.
Mr. Blaine's exponents are like himself.
There is Chairman B. F. Jones who is inter-
viewed, and who seems to say one thing one
day but the next day does not know, only
that he did not say it.
San Antonio men who constantly de-
dal m about Aransas pass as a landing place
for San Antonio are ludicrously short-
sighted. If Aransas pass had the deep water
of which they speak, it would not remain a
village as in their imagination, but would
become a city against the rivalry of which
Sau Antonio would be hopeless. It would
be better for San Antonio to have deep water
at Galveston than at Aransas pass, as a
greater distance intervenes between these
two cities, giving San Antonio more of a
sphere to herself. Aransas pass as a city
would wipe San Antonio out as a wholesale
place, but the idiots go on imagining that
the deep water place will be only a lauding
for goods for an interior city.
The speech which Carl Schrtrz made at
the Emperor Wilhelm ceremonial in New
York just before his departure for Germany
was his real visiting card to Bismarck. No
wonder he was so graciously received—not
as an American, but as a German,
The following paragraph was framed to
meet the conditions existing in another city,
but it is too true to permit of its having any
but a general application:
He whom the ward bummers of Chicago re-
jected as convention delegate has been called to
he chief among the justices of the land, The
ward bummer kills himself in the courso of
time by becoming the common enemy of respect-
ability.
In noting the departure for Europe of
Austin Corbin, the New York Journal of
Commerce says that he goes partly in con-
nection with affairs of the Reading railroad,
of which he is president. Alfred Sully,
who engineered the Reading deal by which
Mr. Corbin assumed the presidency, will
also leave for Europe soon, and it is said
that they will both act with Pierrepont
Morgan, who is now in London, and com-
plete the arrangements for placing the
S2(i,000,000 4 per cent bonds reserved for re-
tiring the present general mortgage bonds.
One of the members of the Reading syndi-
cate said recently that it is likely that a
loan will be effected iu London by which
the necessary cash to pay off the general
mortgage bonds at par will be realized.
This must be accomplished before July 1, or
the alternate plan of exchanging the gen-
eral mortgage for income bonds will have
to be put into effect.
This is the anniversary of George W.
Child's birthday, and every union printer
east of the Mississippi river will contribute
to the Childs-Drexel fund the dSnount re-
ceived for setting 1000ems. In honor of the
occasion, and in order to show their appre-
ciation for Sir. Child's friendship for the
printers, the ox-delegates of tho Inter-
national union, who have formed an associ-
ation in Philadelphia, made elaborate prep-
arations for a banquet to be held this
evening. It has been sought to gather the
dis^inguislicij iH'imers of tlie couatry and
the representative men of the city together
to make the affair a success. Acceptances
have been received from six congressmen,
John M. Farquhar of Buffalo, Amos J.
Cummings of New York, J. II. Gallinger of
New Hampshire, John Nichols of North
Carolina, Thomas R. Hudd of Wisconsin
and Thomas L. Thompson of California.
John II. Oberly has accepted, as also has the
veteran printer, Simon Cameron.
By the circular letter of Treasurer F. R.
Lubbock, inclosing legislative reports On
the administration of the treasury, he is
presented formally as candidate for renom-
ination at the hands of the next democratic
state convention. The tenor of these reports,
construed in the light of notorious circum-
stances, is such as to impart a singular
degree of acceptability to this veteran
publio functionary's appeal for re-
newal of his tenure of a
trust which he has so long held,
and according to the attestation of six suc-
cessive legislative committees appointed to
investigate tho affairs of his office, so faith-
fully administered. If the civil service doc-
trine that such posts should be assigned for
proved competency and held for fidelity in
the public employ is recognized as sound
and salutary, it would seem to be pretty
conclusive in favor of Treasurer Lubbock's
nomination and re-election.
The supreme court has decided that the
Sunday law may be enforced against St.
Louis saloon keepers. Perhaps it would
work if the saloons, high-licensed as they
are, were not wanted as political ageng^es.
Campaign souvenirs are already being
prepared. The first announced is the Clove-
land button, made of metal and about the
size of a nickel. Tho background is black,
bearing ft gold colored horseshoe and inclos-
ing the initials G. C. The legend "Public
office is public trust" encircles the inner de-
sign, and at the foot of the piece appear the
nuinerals 84-S8.
One Yankee publisher who uses about
5,000,000 envelopes a year has gone to Ger-
many to purchase 20,(XX),000 envelopes, with
which he proposes to crush the envelope
monopoly.
TnE country from Dakota to Nebraska is
getting complimented on signal reports
intimating that cold weather had set in,
suspending seeding. It may be unthinking
for the east to joke about spring onions
planted July 4, because the east appears to
get its fodder pretty extensively from the
rearing west.
VIGIL.
Divinely sent thou art my love
From northern port beyond the sea.
Thy vigil keeping over mo.
.1 li j \ i.~j i » av.v.|'iiip cy i vi iuvji
Lest all thy teaching be in vain,
Lest I shall fail to reach above
Keyond the heights you laughing set.
And looking back with keen regret.
Forget my mission and my aim.
Divinely fair thou art my love,
Too fair, too true for such as I,
An angel fitted for the sky.
Divinely sent, I know not how,
patien
But patient as the cooing dovo;
I'll try once more With might and maiQ
To win for thee and me a name,
I had no thought of work till now.
Divinely mine thou avt my love,
A faith, a hope art thou to me,
My beacon light 'mid stormy sea.
I heed thy counsel and I ptay
God's benediction 1'i-orii above:
"From low desire to heights sublimo
A life hns risen, it is mine."
One day, my darling, you will say.
April 30. N. S. COX.
THE FUNNY FELLOWS.
Countryman (looking at undershirt)—
Will these goods shrink, mister?
Clerk—They may a little at first, sir, but
I guess they \Von't after they get used to
you. [Exchange.
"Haven't you anything at all to give me,
ma'am?" pleaded the tramp; "can't you see
that I'm in need?"
"I can indeed, my poor man," replied the
kind-hearted lady, moved almost to tears;
"here is a cake of soap." [Exchange.
On a big rock at Say brook, N. Y., is
painted in large green letters, "Repent or
you will go to helll" and on another rock
three or four feet olf is painted, "'Use
Blank's extract for burns." [New York
Star.
First Burglar—Bill, the jig is up. No
cracking that bank to-night.
Second burglar—Wot's the matter; de-
tectives onto us?
First burglar—No; I saw tho president
an' cashier buyin' tickets for Montreal this
niornin'. [Chicago Herald.
"Mycanary is dead," sobbed a young wife
to the boarder who had the room across the
hall.
"You don't say sol"
"Yes; the poor little thing has uttered its
last joyous note. How we will m-miss tho
1-little cheery v -voice in the early m-morn-
ing,"
"fes, we will. If it wasn't for your baby
now we could sieep plum up to the ringing
of the breakfast bell. [Merchant Traveller.
A well-known Wall street broker was
giving liis son a lecture tho other day.
"Above all, my son, be honest. Let noth-
ing drive you from the path. Only the
other day, for instance, a customer of ours
made a mistake in paying me an account.
Instead of giving me -J4U00 lie owed my part-
ner and myself, he gave me $5000."
"Well?"
"I gave ?500 of it to my partner." [Truth.
Uncouth Young Man—May 1 kiss you,
Miss Jones?
Mis3 Jones (indignantly)—What do you
mean, sir?
U. Y. M. (surprised)—Don't yon know
what a kiss is yet? Well, you are the fun-
niest girl I ever saw. Guess you'd better
study the dictionary a while. Good evening.
[Washington Critic.
The Charm of a Secret.
Memphis Ledger: As men grow older they
sometimes grow garrulous and imaginative.
A survivor of the terrible Sultana disaster
which occurred a few miles above Memphis
tells the marvelous tale that one Robert
Lowden, otherwise Charles Dale, a blockade
runner, told him after the war that he
caused the disaster by putting a torpedo in
a lump of coal while the boat was at the
Memphis wharf. Why did Mr. Streeter,the
veteran survivor, keep the secret so long?
This is a most improbable and unnatural
story. The war was over; these men, worn
out by imprisonment at Andersonville and
other places, were going home, and there
could be no possible object, not even the in-
centive of plunder, in destroying so many
lives. This thing comes too late, but there
are people who will believe anything.
Used Tobacco 99 Years.
At Griffithsville, in West Virginia, a man
died on Saturday last who was a monument
to tho inveracity of the late Mr. Trask's
anti-tobacco theories. Mr. Thomas Eggies-
ton was the monument to which we have
reference, and Mr. Trask would have sat
down upon him like Patience scowling at a
dudheen or a package of mixed cut Caven-
dish and perique, and wishing that she had
never been horn. For th& full tale of 111
years, 10 months and 20 days had Mr. Eggles-
ton lived, and as he began to erect himself
into a mpatyeeat tilS early age oi 13.
PUBLIC REGISTER.
Ex-Empress Eugenie will spend the
summer at Osborne Cottage, placed at her dis-
posal by Queen Victoria.
According to a London newspaper the
czar is at times so insane as to requiro the con-
stant services of a guardian.
Mme. Judith Gautie lives in a fifth-
story flat, which is furnished throughout in
purely oriental style. It is said that she spoke
Chinese fluently when she was nine years old.
The prince of Wales will, for the one
occasion only, waive his rule never to take the
chair twice for tho same objoct, by presiding
on June TJit the Centennial festival of the Royal
Masonic institution for girls.
While the body of the late Emperor
William was lying in state, his daughter, the
grand duchess of Baden, placed an ivory
crucifix in hi3 hand. Some vandal stole the
crucifix, but no clew to the thief has ever been
found.
Josef Hofmann, the musical prodigy,
will spend the summer at Eisenbach, Germany,
with Eugene d'Albert, tho pianist. Casimer
Hofman refuses to sign any .more contracts
binding his son to a given amount of public
work. Herr Ilofman made about 815,000 in
in this country and $3300 in England.
Professsor Charles Gross of Troy,
N. Y., who has accepted the chair of history at
Harvard university, received the degree of
Ph. D. in Germany. Ho is a graduate of
Williams college, Massachusetts. He has
lived in London of late years, where he has
been engaged in historical researches which
have gained a high place among contemporary
antiquarians. Dr. Gross is still a very young
man.
Matthew Arnold's grave is close by
those of his two oldest sons, and also of his
youngest child, and near to those of a small
circle of relatives and connections, amongst
whose tombstonos are to bo read the names of
some eight or ten members of the Buckland
family, and that of Mrs. Delafield, sister of Dr.
Arnold, and aunt of the late poet and scholar.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
"Where's Shortsby?" asked a traveling
man at a small town in Kentucky. "Shorts-
by? Oh, he's gone to Washington, member
of congress." "Is it possible! I did not
expect to heffr any such news as that."
"Well, ye see he wasn't much use around
here, and ho were tarnally in the way every
time there was any sort of a public doin's,
so we jest sent him on to congress to get rid
of him. I reckon he's good for as many
terms as he'll take." ]Merchant Traveler.
Holman, the objeotor, has been renomi-
nated in the Fourth district of Indiana. To
the acts of this man more than any other
American's the present surplus is due. Had
he been ubsent from the house there would
he no surplus, and there would be no chance
to reduce war taxation without first doing
what the third termers called "cheese par-
ing," and held their noses as though they
smelled burning cheese whila they said the
word. [Chicago Herald.
Goverxor Robert L. Taylor of Tennes-
see has stood the criticisms of his enemies
with heroic fortitude, but it is likely that
ho would succumb were he to learn that an
Atlanta paperhas dubbed him "Bobtailer."
[Birmingham Ileraid.
There is one exceedingly important fact
which it is most desirable—essential, even,
if the hope of success is notto be abandoned
in November—that the responsible managers
of the republican party should pay prompt
and serious attention to; it is that during
the last three years not only has the senti-
ment in favor of tariff revision increased to
an extraordinary degree, but matly of those
who only a little while ago advocated simply
a slight reduction of liigh duties are now
strongly contending for a tariff for revenue
only. [Philadelphia Telegraph.
Thanks to protection and to the Pinker-
ertons, Mr. Andrew Carnegie can now go
on rejoicing with liis steel making, and the
strikers can strike out for other fields of
labor. They have all the world before them
where to choose, a high tariff wall to pro-
tect them from the outside barbarian, and
watchful representatives iii congress,chosen
by themselves, t6 see that the wall be not
broken down. What more do they want?
[Philadelphia Record.
Sunday closing may do for New York or
Philadelphia or Boston or Washington, but
Hoboken will show that she is made of
sterner stuff than those law-ridden munici-
palities. [Commercial Advertiser.
There was never a better opportunity
than now to establish party lines and re-
create that healthy party sentiment which
hns been so greatly impaired of late years.
The public good demands especially that
the party in power shtfuld be a party of
principle, and not a gift enterprise. [Balti-
more Suu.
The house passed ,tlie river and harbor
bill by a vote of 161 to 69, after tho $19,494,-
783 called for by the bill as first reported had
been increased by about $25,000. The amount
is explained in part by the fact that there
was no appropriation for rivers and harbors
at the last session of congress, tho bill then
passed having failed to become a law. The
amount appropriated at the first session of
the Forty-seventh congress of 1883 was $18-
988,875, which was considered extravagant
in view of the fact that there had been ap-
propriations of $11,457,300 for 1882. Of the
$19,519,783 for 1S89 about $10,840,(XX) is to be
expended in northern states, $8,580,000 in
southern states, and the rest is for the gen-
eral advantage.
TnE GALVESTON NEWS.
What Contemporaries Have to Say About
The News' New Clothes.
Colorado Citizen: The Galveston News
comes out in a new and beautiful dress of
clear-cut type, and, as usual, The News
keeps at the head of the procession. It is a
great paper.
Weimar Gimlet: The Galveston News
has a new dress, as the printers call it, and
it is the prettiest type that ever gave ex-
pression to the many things in that paper.
Marlin Bael: Tiie Galveston News
made her appearance in a brand new dress
the other day. The old lady is putting on
style, and looks as pretty as a miss of six-
teen.
Giddings Advocate: The Galveston
News came out in a brand new suit of
clothes last week and looks as fresh as a
daisy.
La Grange Journal: The Galveston
N ews in its new dress is decidedly handsome.
Its subscribers will welcome the change
with joy.
Women Imitate Men.
The progress made by women in securing
emancipation from antique social and polit-
ical restrictions goes steadily on, but oc-
casionally some of them make moves in di-
rections far out of the plans on which the
sex appears to be so earnestly working.
In this connection may be mentioned
duels and prize fights. Within a few days
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
1UV«V1\>V) ' v 4 f V *
thario of a cowboy, who was probably faith-
less to both. Now conies from New York a
story of two socicty ladies who engaged in a
fist iight, in regular prize ring style, over a
young gentleman who was in dispute.
The Cipher.
The cover of Mr. Donnelly's book bears
the following mysterious numbers and
words: 53x6—318—Francis; 53x7—371—Bacon;
54x12—048—Nicholas. It should have borne
also, OQsO—OQp—^ojiiieliy. [Chicago Herald.
INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS HAVE NO
TERRORS IN NO MAN'S LAND.
Illicit Distillers Feeding Klee<lii»<j Kansas
With Vile Products of the Still—Dis-
tribution of Publications In Texas-
Bankrupt L.aw—Claims Refused.
Washington, May 11.—[Special]—Judge
Hare has asked the committee on Indian
depredation claims to report a'bill to pay I
Matthe w Clark $550 for damages caused to his
property in Collin county in 1868 by Osage [
Indians. The payment of this claim i.s
recommended by the secretary of the in- ]
terior.
no man's land.
The internal revenue laws have no terrors I
for the residents in No Man's Land, as cau
be seen from the statement of the collector
for the Kansas district that there are four
illicit distilleries in that territory, the "vile I
product of which is openly sold there" and I
smuggled into prohibition Kansas. Under I
the law the public land strip is attached to |
the Kansas collection district, which affords
a way for those so inclined to voluntarily I
pay their taxes; but that country is nob I
within the jurisdiction of any United States I
court,and hence no compulsory process can bo |
brought to bear upon those not over anxious
to contribute to the treasury surplus. Some
of the parties doing business in the "strip"
who have heretofore paid such taxes have
now found this out, and have had the cheek
to demand the return of tlie back taxes, and
in the event of a refusal threaten a suit to
recover. Tho treasury officials, however,
have informed congress that the people of
No Man's Land hold them in peculiar es-
teem and that their reverence for the law is
particularly striking, and in oriTer to in-
crease their respect it is asked that the ter-
ritory be placed under the jurisdiction of
the United States courts in Kansas. This
will probably be done at this session, and
then the Violators of the stringent provis-
ions of the internal revenue laws will wish
that they had paid their taxes even before
they became due.
- distribution of publications.
A measure is under consideration in the
committee on education of the senate pro-
viding for a more general distribution of
the official publications of tlie government
among the people. Many applications are
received for these documents from libraries
and colleges. At present the following in-
stitutions iu the state are supplied with the
latest editions of this class of literature:
State library, Austin; Pablic library and
reading room, Dallas; Agricultural and Me-
chanical college of Texas, College Station;
Public Library association, Palestine; Ly-
ceum library, Houston; Platonian Literary
society, Savoy: Library association, Gaines-i
ville; Maria college, Waxahacliie; Free Pub-
lic library, Galveston: the Grange library,
Prairie Lea; Baylor Waco university, Waco;
State university, Austin; Public School li*
brary, Weatherford.
a bankrupt law.
The committee on the judiciary have done
nothing as yet with the measure introduced
by Mr.Culberson, providing a bankrupt law.
It should be stated that our Texas represen-
tative is not committed to the support of
the bill, as he only presented it to tho house
at the request of other parties, and hence itl
does not necessarily reflect his views iu thdl
premises. As the measure was rocentlyl
noticed in the general press dispatches a|
repetition thereof is not necessary.
claims refused.
Tho postmaster-general has informed con«|
grcss that ho had refused to allow thaj
claims of the following postmasters in thq
state for losses of postal funds:
J. B. Ilanes, Canton, $807 52, burglary:!
disallowed because loss resulted from uegJl
ligence of assistant postmaster. L. 13. Far.i
isli, Farmersville, $20 found lost in transit.!
resulting from carelessness. W. C. Bailey,I
Flint Hill, ?(i; claim not presented in time,!
irand View, f""
by party losin„
Millan, Joshua, £17 04, fire; no 6atisfactoTs|
T. P. Torian, Grand
loss made good b;
_ , S14, in transit:!
■ losing. I). B. Mc"|
failed to comply with instructions govern I
ing remittances. Alonzo L. D'Spain,!
Thorp's Springs, $5 25, burglary; negligencc|
of postmaster.
FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND GRANGE.
resolutions at lockhart.
lockhart, Tex., May 11.—At a massl
meeting of the farmers and stock raisers, ill
answer to the call for tho convention all
Waco, to seo what action they should tak< I
in tho coming campaign, the following reso |
lutions were unanimously adopted? I
That wo think it inadvisable to send dele I
gates to the Waoo convention; but that w< I
as farmers and laborers think it best til
work in our own districts ill our primarieif
and select men to represent us in both state!
and national government that are identities I
with our interest as farmers find laborers, f
That we recommend that the chairman o I
each precinct be requested to -Jbold primary I
elections in each of their predicts to nomi I
nate candidates for county on&ers, and th.f
time of such election shall beimblished a 1
least three weeks before the time of holding I
the sam% [
A resolution indorsing thfy 'action of Tt I
Q. Mills and other congressmen in their ef I
forts for a reduction of the tariff was cnthu I
siastically passed, with but one dissenting |
voice, and that a sheepman.
'i!
HIGHER COURTS.
supreme court.
Austin, Tex., May 11.—The following dis I
position was made of cases to-day in th-"
supreme court:
Affirmed: S. W. Fordice VS. Mary A. Dixj
on, from McLennan.
Reversed and remanded: W, H. \\Too];|
dridge et al. vs. Eastland Count}', fron I
Eastland; J. P. Lopes vs. Western Unioijf
Telegraph company, from Eastland.
Reversed and rendered for appellants: J
W. Garret vs. E. N. and B. Job, from John
m.
Certificate dismissed: W. B. Nevers vs
Lasemann, from Montague; L. Koeninge.
vs. Win. Miielia, from Comal. .
Deep Water for Texas
A subject which is greatly interesting
many people hi Texas, and particularly G'd
veston, is a deep water port for shipping
The coast of Texas, extending for man;';
hundreds of miles along the waters of th 'j
gulf of Mexico, does not furnish a singl
bay, creek or other indentation capable o
floating ships of any considerable capacity
The water is everywhere shallow, the citi
of Galveston, with all the money spent oj
the improvement of its harbor, not bavin
been able to secure a greater depth of shi
channel than 12 to 14 feet. The citizens o
Galveston believe that if they only could sc
euro an appropriation of funds sufficient t
carry on tlie work of harbor improvemen
until a definite conclusion can be readier
vater capable of floating large shipfl
would be attained in a reus tillable time. Bu I
deep w£
would 1
in default of such an appropriation, whic I
is not to be hoped for when a score of river I
and harbors in Texas are clamoring for fti J
eral bounty, the prop„.~ttioff is made that alii
other such claims bo waived and |
which might be available for Texas'
centrated on the improvement of oneYvn,
bor, that of Galveston, for instance. Tin
dimulty of getting other ambitious local!
ties with possible harbors to agree to this iil
obvious and hence there is squabbling. un< "
tiling is certain, Texas needs a deep watei
port, and the claini3 of Galveston wov^.w
seem to be of paramount, importance in tir1
premises. [New Orleans Picayune.
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