The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. NINTH YEAR, No. 258, Ed. 1, Wednesday, December 20, 1893 Page: 1 of 12
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HtON AND UltAbS WOK1CS
HOUSTON TEXAS
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Boxer > Hangers Couplings 3Inch Uoller
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Prairie and Milam streets Houston
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Alliance Ohio December IS Six mask-
ed men with rail broke In tho door of Win
ThomaH house at Palmyra this morning
bound Thomas wife and son nnd left them
after securing f 175 The home ot W I
William net door wns ulso broken Into
by forcing tho door and one robber held
u tevolver to Williams head while the
other lansacked the house taking 300
and somo valuable papersT he thieves
milked to Newton Tails stole a hand car
on tho rlttsburg and Western ronil nnd
departed eastward abandoning the car-
at Lcavettsburg No clue
Henimccl Operation
Philadelphia Inf December 18 The
Ho ford Knitting company manufactur-
ers of underwear started their mllli In
this city on full time today employing 125
hands
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EJBITIOKT
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ON
THE TARIFF REPORT
A STROM DOODMEHT AGAINST
PBOTEOTION
Tho Ways and Moans Oommitteo Do
olaro tho Existing Tariff Ex-
treme Class of Taxation
A JUST AND KATIOKAt BT8TE1I MROI
DLY ADVOCATED
tomedltte TatltT Reform It Xecemrj for the
Protection of tho loople of tlo
Ualted SUtcs
Washington December 19 Tho follow-
ing Is tho majority report ot the ways
nnd means committee The American peo-
ple after a full and tho most thorough
debate ever given by any people to the
llscal policy have deliberately mid
rightly decided that tho existing tariff
Is wrong ln principle nnd grievously un-
just ln operation They have decided us
free men must always decide that the
power of taxation has not lawful or con-
stitutional exercise except for providing
revenue for the support ot the govern-
ment Every dopanuie from this prin-
ciple Is a departure from tho fundamentil
principles of free Institutions and Inevita-
bly vorks out gross Inequality In tho citi-
zenship of the country
For more than thirty years v > e have
levied the laigost part ot our redera
taxes ln volution of this vital truth until
we have reached In the existing tnriff
an extreme and olumlnous system of
class taxation to which histoiy may be
challenged to furnish any parallel So
many private enterprises have been taken
Into partnership with the government
eo many private Interests now share In
tho rich prerogative ot taxing TOOOOWO
of people that any attempt to dissolve
this Illegal union Is necessarily encount-
ered by the opposition that rallies behind
the Intolerance of monopolv the power
of concentrated wealth the Inertia of
fixed habits and honest errors of a gen-
eration of false teaching
The bill on which the committee has
expended much patient and anxious labor
Is not offered as a completu tesponse to
the mandate of the American people
It no more professc to be purged of all
protection than to be flee of all eiror In
Its complex and manifold details How-
ever we may deny tho existence ot any
legislative pledgo or ot the right or any
congress to make such pledge tor tho
continuance of duties that carry with
them more or less acknowledgement of
protection wc must recognize that great
interests do exist whose existence and
prosperity Is no > irt of our reform
cither to impeill or to curtail We be-
lieve and we have the warrant ot our
own past experience for believing a re-
duction of duties will not Injure but glvo
mote abundant life Io all irent manu-
facturing Industilos however much they
may dread the change
In dealing with the tariff ouetlon an
with every other long standing abuse that
has Interwoven lt elf with our social or
industrial nywtein the legislator must
always remember that in the beginning
temperate reform Is the safest having tn
itself the pi Inclple of grow th A ghinro
at tho tariff legislation of our own coun-
try ought to satisfy every Intelligent stu-
dent that protection has always shown Its
falsity as a ay tem of economy by Its
absolute failure to Insure healthy and
table prosperity to manufacturers It
teaches men to depend upon artificial help
on laws taxing their countrymen for pros-
perity In business rather than upon their
own skill nnd effort It throws bU8lnc
out of Its natural channel Into artlHclil
channos 1n which there must always bo
fluctuation and uncertainty ami It makes
the tariff sjstun the foot ball of pirty
engaged in sotailed protected Industiles
the stako of every popular election Nona
have recognized this ttuth moie fully than
wise nun who from time to time have
engaged in socalled protected Interests
Years ago Edward Everett stated In an
uiatlon nt Lowell that the sagacious men
who founded tho manufactures of New
England were never friends ot high tariff
lion Amassa Walker former member of
this house from Massachusetts and one
of our foremost wrlttrs on economic ques-
tions d < < clared It within his onn personal
knowledge that wlipn the propoBtl was
made to Impos the protective tariff of
181C leading manufacturers of llhode In-
land among whom were Mr Slater father
of cotton spinning In this country met
at tho counting room of one of their
number nnd after deliberate consultation
came unanimously to the conclusion they
had rather be let alone as their business
has grown up naturally nnd oucceeded
well nnd they felt confident of Its con-
tinued prosperity If let alone by the gov-
ernment They nrgiied that by laying pro-
tective tariff their buslnevw would be
thrown out of Its natural channels and
subjected to uncertainty But as usual
tho clamor ot selfish and loss fnrslghted
men nnd the nmblllon of lawmakers to
usurp tho place of providence prevailed
Tho country entered on a protective pol-
icy with the unralllug result thnt Ihn
government help begot a violent demand
for more government help Tho moderate
tariff of 1810 rapidly grew Into it tariff
of iibomlnailons
That tarried tho country to Iho verge of
civil discord and provd d a natural rev-
olution protection has run a like course
since IbGl whei congress began to repcul
mere burdens and to rellse manufacturers
of Intcrnnl tuxes which they hud uwd to
secure compensation duties on like foiolen
products There dro o a demand through-
out tho country without respact to pally
for a ieduction of the war tatlff Inatile lo
resist this demand the protected Indus-
tries baffled and thwartad nny reduction
by substituting the senate bill which car-
ried a cut of 10 per cent As soon how-
ever ns the election of 1871 reave the next
houso to the democratic party that bill
was repealed by the outgoing republican
and the rates restored to what they were
before 1M2 and although the demand for
Unlit reform and for reduction of taxes
has ever since be n burning and grow
In one In this country protected indus-
tries hate exacted and received from
every republican congress elected sltne
1871 an Increase of their prottittun oi
ccsionally permitting a repeal o lissm
Ing of a tux that was paid into the Inj-
ury In oitler t kiP tium or to In-
crease duties luil fr their bi u < lit li
ttution left tu In n aural monn mum mtr
stops shirt of prohll lltoti unci prohlbllor >
walls urualtti > nellngtol built hlgl < r-
and patched and straightened A prnts
Ilve tut iff never has und never can rle
sinblllt and satl fiHun to its own bene
lkliiS Evui l < H < l < tnu > at to W ik
mil too hi ti I tn iKlint for Its ib
rnuse ilios hen liihiris sun to ai
Whn tl
ite fr i i
Iff 11 JSiti wut bil r c br
r fnrni t tr
Ttn tr was
full of prophesies It would destroy our
manufacturing Industries throw labor out
of emplojment or compel It to work nt
pauper wages and dwarf and nrrvst tho
prosperous growth of tho country Hvcry
representative of the four great manufact-
uring States uf Now Knulnnd vdtrd against
irwith gloomy forebodings for Us blight-
ing effect Tho rate of ditty provided in
that tariff was much lower than those of
the bill we have here but what was tho
result Instead ot pmctlcallj killing the In-
dustries and paiiMirixlng the labor of New
EnglRtid or the rest of the country the
tarllt of 1S1G sac lnmictuo vigor to manu-
factures with steady employment and
Increasing wages to labor
So after eleven j ears existence under
U the longest period of stability we
have over enjoyed under any tiuirf lep
rescntntlves of those same Stutcs with
ptuctical unanimity voted for it further
reduction of ai per cent nnd the twothirds
vote sustained the tnrirt of 1SSS which
made a reduction of S3 per cent nnd c
well contented and piosperous were ths
manufacturers ot that and oilier sections
of tho country under the Ion rate of
tarllt of 1SS7 that when the Morrill bill
ot 1K1 took tho first backward step
thero wns n general protest ugnlnst It
Hon Alexander nice of illsslsslppl nl < l
In tho houso
The manufacturer nskS no additional
protection He has learned among other
things that the greatest oU next to ruin-
ous competition from foreign sources Is
the excesblve protection which stimulates
like ruinous nnd Irresponsible competi-
tion at home Congressional Globe ot
l tt60 pagu 1857
Mr Sherman of Ohio sold When Stan-
ton says manufacturers are urging nnd
pressing the bill ho eajs what he must
certainly know Is not correct Manu-
facturer have asked over and over
again to be let alonel Ibid page S03J
Morrill hlmnelt lmslnqe said tho tariff
ot 1SCV was not asked for but coldly
welcomed by mnnuractiuor Congres-
sional Globe of 1W070 pairc S2C6
Senator Hunter of Virginia then chnlr
maa of the senate finance committee
said Iluve nny of the minufactureis
cotne here to complain or nsl < for now
duties It wo Were to leave It to them
tho mnnutactuiors ot New England to
tho manufacturers of hardware textile
fabrics etc there would be a latgo ma-
jority ngnlnst nny change Do we not
know that woolen manufactures dates
Its revival from ne trill of 1W7 which
altered tho dutlcs onT wool The history
of American Industry Bhows that durlus
no other period has there been more
healthy nnd riprd development of our
mnnufnctuiing Industry Ihnn during the
fifteen years of low tariff from 1S10 to 1S61
nor more hoalthy ntJ harmonious growth
of agriculture and all other industiles
of the countrv
No chapter In polltlenl experience car-
ries with It a more salutary lesson than
this nnd none rould fippeal more strongly
to our law maltcis to establish a Just nnd
itlonnl system of public revenues
neither exhausting agriculture by con-
stant bloodletting nor keeping manu-
facturers alternating between chills and
fevers by artificial pampering In this
direction alone lies stability concord of
sections and ot great Industries
We have already said tint public dis-
cussion mny disclose errors of minor de-
tail In the shcdules of the bill To es-
cape such error would require so thor
ourh and minute knowledge of all illvlr
sfons subdlvlrslone ajpiipjeC ond mnnl
fold ineaes and Involution1 of our chem-
ical textile metal and other InriuMHes
that no committee of congress no mnt
er how extended a range their knowl-
edge or how laborious and painstaking
their efforts could ever hope to possess
We have not forgotten we repiesent pro
ple who are many nnd as well a protect-
ed Interests who are few and whllo wn
have dealt with the latter In no splilt of
unfriendliness wo have felt It our duty
nnd not their privilege to make tarlrt
schedules These who concede the right
of benellclarles to fix bounties must neces-
sarily commit to the democratic framing
and wOdlng of laws by which these boun-
ties nre ocurtd to them The committee
of congress thus becomes merely an ama-
nuensis ot protected Interests
It has been shown o often In delmtes
of this house tint nearly every Important
schedule of existing law was made in
Its very words and figures by representa-
tives of Interests It was framed to pto
teet that It Is unnecessary In our report
to present the record proof of this fact
but It may not be umlsH to cite further
evidence to show this Is not only a neces-
sary rule but an open and avowed meth-
od of framing protective tariff When
senate substitutes for the bill passed by
this house ln the Fiftieth congress which
substitute Is the real basis of the ex
Istlng law vii being prepared Senator
Hoar appeared before the fenato sub-
committee nnd used this language fn
aleiid of coming before your aubcommlt
teo for formal hearing on our Massachu-
setts industries I thought the best way
win to carefully prepare a table of nil
various Industries pcrhups some sixty or
seventy In al usk Hrother AUrlch to go
over them with me and ascertain what
the people wanted In each case nnd If
theio wire any eises which the commit
teo had not ulready none exactly what the
petitioners desired or had not Intlexlby
paased tiK > r the question I could have a
hjarlng before ou but In every Instance
the action of tho committee us Mr AM
rich thinks Is likely to lie Is entirely
sitlsfaetory to the Interests I represent
with the exception of one or two nnd
papers In regard to these cases I have
handed to Mr Aldrichi
No stronger Indictment of the whole
protective system could be made than
Hint which wus unconsciously carried In
thoso words or a United States senator
that laws which Impose tnxes on the great
mass of tho people must he written In
language so technical thnt tin most ln
ttlllgent cltlsen can not fully understand
them and thnt intes of taxation should bo
dlctuted by tho fcclflslinesx nnd greed of
those who are lo receive taxes We have
bolleved the first slip lovvmd refoin tarllt
should be the reluuso of taxes on the ma-
terials of Industry There can be no sub-
stantial and bunulclal roduction upon the
necessary clothing and other comforts
of American people nor nny substantial
and beneficial enlargement of the Held of
American labor long us we tnx ma-
terials und processes of production Every
tnx upon the pioducer falls wllh Increased
foice on tho consumer every tax on the
producer In this country Is a protection
tn his competitors in nil oilier countries
anil so narrows his market ns lo limit Uie
number und lessen the wages of those to
whom he can give employment Uvory
cheapening tn thf cost of enuigement or
supply of his law materlu11 while prl
nfcrlly Inuring to the buiU of the man-
ufacturer hlmsdf tHUiscx under free com-
petition lmmllutelv uiion larger nUes
Plate glass whore duti < were even higher
we hnv mud teductloii uf about one
third The Iron and iel srhelule btein
nlni with free ur ant dutv or Jv per nt
on pig Iron wo have repurtid n scale n
dutf s rnnidd r ibly below IhoM cxlsltlu
graduated according to the decree of man
ofacturr Mi i should biln r b uefH to
the eunsuimr without cnUlm fur in > Init
In the Imperial progress of thnt Industry
In our country The duty on en el rails has
been put ut 2j per < int which uieonllng
lo th reports nf our department of lal > or
nulle romp i sot s for nil difference In
tbe cost uf production in tills country nnd
ubroud
lie re Mms to be an auih atlc report
that the i ol of American rollmakers
which under tho shelter ot the present
duty ot 1341 per ton has kept np prices
to the American consumer far beyond
tho cost of production and legitimate
profits have been reorganised to continue
regulation of prices nbovo proper market
rates As nil shippers especially Amer-
ican shippers nre vitally Interested in
cheapening tho cost of transportation
the rates of duly upon Bttel mils should
be adjusted to a to protect them from
monopoly prices an I monopoly eomblna
tKsns Upon tin pluto the duty has been
gauged with rofcrence to tho revtnuo
It will brng Into tho treasury and the
difference between this duty nnd that upon
block plate has been esscned with n Mow
to dltcourage what may not unjustly bo
called the Industry of making American
tin plate by mere dipping In this country
of Importers of block pHle
In the sugnr schedulo we should have
prefetrej to wipe out with n Mingle leg-
islative stroke the existing bounty sys
tpm We believe It to l > e contrary to the
iqrirlt of our InMItutlons and can not
conceive of nny circumstances under
which we should have advocated or up
proved Its Introduction into our laws
Wo have found It existing there ni wc
Unit It exuwlng in oveiy other schedule
of turlft nnd deu lng with It in this more
open and offensive form ns wo havo
dealt with other schedules where large
property rnterevis are ivt stake wo hnvo
rjparto1 a provision for Its repeal by such
wtuges ns ichcll gradually obliterate It
from our laws while prcmlttlug those
who have Invested large means under Uie
oxpocUitlou of Its continuance a reason-
able time In which they may prepare to
take stand with other Industries ot tho
country
Duties on tobacco lent sultnble for clgnr
wrappers which were enormously ad-
vanced by the net of 1850 have been
placed at such figures ns ntter careful
Investigation were deemed likely to pro-
duce most revenues to the treasury but
this object nlone has not decided the
rates Their amount Is o very high Hint
no dumtstlr producer need claim tluro
Is not abundant protection nnd to spare
for his products In them
Of slnpleagrlculturul products Includ-
ing meats and provisions we nro such
large exporters and must continue to be
such lirge axpoiters that nny duties
upon them uie useless for protection and
fruitless for revonuo und generally can
only be Imposed for the purnofe 0f de-
luding farmers Into the belief that they
me receiving some consideration nnd
benefit under the tariff although prices
of their products are fixed in the worlds
markets ln competition with like prod
uctn produced by the cheapest labor In
ho vvoild Producers of our great ex-
port staples having fully supplied tho
home market must overflow nnd seek
larger purchasers elsevvhcne
The only effect or a protective tariff
In to tuke nwny onefourth lo onehalf
of tile product for which wo could
exchnnge Ihclr surplus in tho open
market should they buy In tho market
where they ate obliged to sell or to com-
pel them to give u like portion of Uie
avails of their labor wdicn turned Into
money by tho Inci easing cost ot wheat
thoy buy In the homo market recognizing
that the American farmer has been
through many yenrn a patient victim of
the protection system that ho had been
Induced to support it under the delusive
proinlbo that by Immense sacrifices lie
wua buying for hlmMlC a home market
und thut this jiramlsed home miirlt i Is
fuither from lilm today than ever before
We have aimed tw secure for him such
relaxation of the burdens ns well ns to
permit him to enjoy more of tho fruits of
his own hard nnd faithful labor
Tn the farmer of Iho country we
have given untaxed agricultural Imple-
ments and binding twine and untaxed
cotton tlos for the additional reason In
the 4altcr case that cotton Is the largest
oxport crop of Ihe county sold abroad
In competition With the clienp labor of
India and Egypt Believing It was suf-
ficient for the private tax gatherer to
follow the fanner In the markets ot his
own country and not to pursue him In
all the markets of the world
As cotton bagging can lie used but
once we have thought It best to extend
tho drawback system to such bagging
made of Jute but when used upon nur
export cotton a prlvlligo which the ex-
porter of wheat con already now enjoy
coupled with tho further ndvnntnge that
the name bags may bo used for tho suc-
cessive exportation of grain In schedule of
splrlls wines nnd other lievernges the
ehangps mude nre slight and with a view
to tho production of Increased revenue
from these very proper sources of icvenue
tuxnllon It may bo said thnt wo nre not
Justified ln making so laige ieduction In
revenue nt a time when tho government
receipts nnd expendllutofl can no longer
bo balanced nnd when some new sources
of temporary revenue must bo sought for
Wo have been compelled tu retain some
nrtlcles upon dutiable list and leave some
duties higher than we desired because of
the necessity of tho piesent of the treas-
ury but w have not felt nny temporary
shlnkuge of revenue should deter us from
carryIni out ns effectually ns wo could
the Instructions given us by the American
peoplo when this congress was put Into
povv er
Our own experience nnd thnt nf other
countries has shown that the decrensu of
tariff duties immediately operates filch nti
enlargement of commerce production unci
consumption ns rapidly ns to make up
nny apparent loss of revenue threatened
by thote reductions most Important
The change In the bill proposed from
the present law will be found In general
a HUbsflliitlon of ndvulorem for speclne
dull This must always be ii charac-
teristic of revenue tariff levied upon largo
rnngo articles cwpeclnlly when thoy In-
clude plain neeensltlos of life
It Is the purpose of tho present bill
to repeal Jn toto section 3 of the tariff
act nf October 1 IfcW commonly but nioct
erroneously called reciprocity provisions
Thnt ect placed sugar molasses eott < e
ten nnd hides on the free list but au
thoilzed that the president should he he
sotliflod that the government or nny other
country producing such articles Imposed
duties uron agricultural cr other products
of the United States which he inherit deem
reciprocity unequal nnd unreasonable to
suspend the provision under which these
articles wore admitted Into the country
Tree This section has brought no appre-
ciable advantages to the American ex
iinrlern not In Intention nor effect provis-
ion for reciprocity but for retaliation
Onllirrsoii on Hno Ilniilrs
Washington Deeemlier IfIlepresenta
tlve Culberson of Texas member of the
house eommlttee on hanking nnd cur-
rency Is In favor of tile Mil to repeal un-
conditional the 10 per cent tax on Stale
banks It has been intimated that such
a bill woud be reported wltiiout any rec-
ommendation by the committee and with-
out nny report us to the udvlKabtllty of
the house passing upon it In this cuse
then would probably b Heveral minority
repris one fuilnst the Ii II another for
Its repcol wpfi restrictions for govern
rmnt cnlrol and another for rcpeil un-
conditionally Mr Culberson favors the
luttrr plan
If the bill is reiiorted In any form
he said It Is my Judgment that It will
lie for the unconditional tvipeul The
proposition to have the Nrrtlimul romp
tiokr or the eurrt nc > oip rvto Iink 1
> u > h k onl > unnicvr meihod of eu urgn
iNntoi al biinki There 18 no jianlcular
w r T w sW
TWELVE PAGES
NINTH YEAH NO 25S HOUSTON TEXAS WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 20 1893 PKIGE 5 CENTS
difference whether notes are Issued on one
kind of security or nnuther Of by Institu-
tions chartered by the Slates It the same
governmental control and regulation Is
exercised over them as over Natoiml
banks if Iho Btntea Bte lo havo the
power to chnrtcr banks they should have
the pow er to control them
TODAYto EVENTS
The Posts nnllftln With What Will
Transpire TIiIh liny ThrouriU
out tliu Country
INDIANAPOLlHJiidge Winters ot tho
the ntturncys on
court called
superior
either side of the Iron Hall lit gat on be-
fore him on December l > am told them
thnt he had determined to order it distri-
bution of the funds In the hands of the re-
ceiver on this date Jlo said In siiImIh ico
that all who had acknowledged the rtccv
ers authority nnd matin rtPorts to 1 lm
share in tho dlstrj
would bo allow est to
hutlon ns he principles of ffuitMemaud
to the fun 1 ho M
ed that tho contributors
share equally wltli each other H thei nts
which tho
Uiawlcdged the obligations
court had placed upon them nnd had corns
piled with Its orders The court then en
It Is provided that
tered an order In
nil persons Imvin claims < > lIn l IK1
nature lm 1m
Hull of a commercial tf
same at once tint the court bclnrj ail
> 1
vlsed thnt a imrttnl tllvjjlotiil can J
Without prejudice tn the rights of nm
one ordern the receiver to pay to each
certlilcile In tne
holier ot ad unmatured
benetu fund whoso local branch hnn no
TWELVE PAGES TODAY
counted for and paid over to the receiver
the funds ot the defendant a dividend ot
Hi per cent upon the umount of money
paid by assessment by said curtltlcate
holders provided tliit they have not re-
ceived anything upon their certificates
und lu Unit event the sum so received
nhnll bo deducted Tim receiver is otdeied
to rend out blanks to such ccrtlllcato hold
era for reports and lo make the dtuttibu
Hon after this date About WOO ot the
HM members nre Included in the order
It does not include holders of vvnrunts
for paidup or sick benefit claims The re-
ceiver enys tho onler will distribute ubout
MiWK
ATLANTAGcorgias capital the busy
unit prosperous city or Atlanta wun today
to have celebrated the lirtluth anniver
sary if hur Incorporation u a town Prep
aratlorw tor the celflunlkm were lniiunu
rated several months ugu by the Pioneers
association of the city the membership
of which now comprises most of tho old
settlers who are still alive Including a fW
voiienihle men who were rc dents nt the
tlmo ot tho lncoropiatlon Mr W L Cal-
houn u prominent citizen Is picsldcnt of
the association and dlrectn the rtminRo
ments Tor the celebration Dm after care-
ful thought It won detei mined to postpone
the celebration until next spring when
nil the clllos of tho country will bo Invltod
to participate In the celebration
NEW HAVBN Tho Yale University
Glee and JKinJo club will visit the follow-
ing cities on iholr Western tour Phila-
delphia today llltshuig Duccnibcr 11
Cincinnati Deeemlier UV Bt Louis De
cember lid Minneapolis December id St
111111 Jnnuury 1 Xlllwnukte January U
Ihlccigo Januuiy n Ddtrolt January
Cleveland January 5
DEH M01NFS Final nrrniigemrnts
were made iccontly for tho publication in
IVs Moines of a hglielass magazine
Johnson Uilchuui fwincrly rdlor the
fednr ItupIdH Ilepiilillcnii lend lute United
fitntos eoiuiiil to AlxlRChnppolle is the
editor The tlrst number It was announc-
ed would nppeur today und will contain
a Btory by AIss Alice French Octave
Thiinet of Davenport und a poem by
Hamlin Garland
WASHINGTON Chlcr Clerk Michael A
Jacobs of the general land office mcently
tenileied his resignation to the secretory
of Iho interior to tnke effect today Mr
Jarobs will return to Denver Dam Wis
to resume his old posllon ns cashier In
the National bank of that place
NEW YOHIC On account nf the lllnesn
of President Crury the Investigation by
the New York Htnte Iwaid of charities of
Dr David llobertson for ullcgod queutlon
nble financial doul ngs whllo prc ldMit nf
the New Voik Juvenile Guardian society
was postponed to this dato
Wenlber liiforMillion
Th1 high pitmure urea which was over
the ceulinl iiorllon of the eaatern Itocky
mountain slope lust night has moved
east and its crest rests tonight ovet the
Mlkftcurl valley nnd it dominates ihe
weather generally throughout the conn
try tonight
The temperature him fallen over the cen-
tral portion of the country nnd hns re
milned nearly mutlonaiy over other pot
lions of the country
The weather Is generally cloudy oxcepl
over Texas It Is partly cloudy to cloudy
Iinill roreeiiHt
Local forecast for Tmauh for tvvcnly
four hourB ending nt 1 midnight De
cember M
For North Toxns Central Texas mid
East Texus Geneially fair nnd wanner
For Hotithwest Texas and the Ooist ills
trlct Fair except probably light sonllercd
showers In the nfteruocn ntatlonary tern
perutuie
I i
A Juror Una ri Ill
N6w Yoik December 18 In Iho Meysr
trial tfday one ot tho Jurors was seized
with on epileptic ilt > It wan developed
after luisty mHournment of lliu court
that he was once un Inmate of tho insane
asylum Tills fact inuy result In a mis
trial
W MjSKY pANIG
1X0 barrel fine twostamp Kentuckj
Whisky for CsJo ln bond at
from So to 05c
UtBKlNGCO
Wholesale IJquor and Cigar Dealers
Houston TEXAS
SITUATION IN BRAZIL
OAPTAIN MUNEZ ASSUMES 00M
MAND OF THE NIOTHEROT
Gieat Ditappointmontto tho American
Portion of the OrowNot Will-
ing to Tight Undor Muneu
THE AMEEIOA HAS ARRIVED SAFELY AT
MAEANBO
Trootlo Reported Among too lUcMeroraCriw
Borne Bnooeuei of sn Important Kutore
RepottedA Battle Going On
Pcrnnmbuco Brazil December ID
Copyrighted IfcM hy Associated Press
There hos been considerable change In the
situation here today Captain Daker who
left New York In command ot the Nlcthe
roy Is no longer in clmrge ot the nvv
rrnzlllaiv cruiser Tho officer In charge
now Is Captain Alvaro Nunez formerly
In command ot tho Brazilian warship He
publlca and who is one ot tho few naval
officers who remained loyal to fctxotu
This chango Is a great disappointmentto
tho American portion of tho crew of tho
Nlcthcroy nnd ling had a bail Influence
upon those who were Inclined to continue
the strike for nn Increaoo ot wngvn uptiri
regularly entering the Itratillan navy lho
fact thnt Captain Nuucsj has assumed
command of tho Nlcthcroy has unused
many of the Americans still hesitating as
to whether they would or would not en-
ter tho Hrnzlllnn navy al name rotes
as agreed upon at Now Votlt lo decide
upon returning to tho United States Thoy
were perfectly willing to tight undoi
Hukcr but not so wllllnc under Nunez
It 1b understood that strong Inducements
are being held out lo linker to servo M
second In command but the result Is not
known an this dispatch bj sent It seems
certain liowever thut the majority of
gun creivn which have been so miecesifiillyi
trained since leaving New Yoik vvjll bo
prevailed upon to remain with the Nlcthu
roy as It eimn admitted on all sides it
would be utleily hnposslblo to secura llra
zlllura who would work the rapid lite
rums to nay nothing ot the dynamite gun
with anything llko tho erflckncy displayed
ly tho American crows Hut no things
lcok now It appears likely tho firemen and
stokers ns well as u number of able sen
men and ordinary seamen frcm New Yoilir
will be replaced by DrazlllanM or others
ulio can bo picked up at this or other
ports
A second piece of important news which
the Associated Press oorrei pondent on-
board the Nlctheroy Inn Just rerelved Is
to the effect thut htr couaji I the America
hms arrived safely nt Maronbo the largest
town and senpewt of the State of Maranha
in the northern portion ot Brazil Wo
hear briefly nil Is well on board tho Amer-
ica but wo hnvo no particulars regard-
ing the accident which happened to her
The general opinion expressed here is thut
the Incident In the englno room of the
Ameilca was simply tho ordinary dis-
abling nt one of the air pumpi nnd It is
not believed here that there is any truth
In tho orie < about the Brazilian lnsur
tlint ugents being on board her or that
anybody wilfully did nny damage to tho
machinery However everybody Is anx-
iously awaiting tho arrivalof the Amer-
ica which Is expected tomorrow and It Is
announced tluit tiie two vessels will al
moHt Immediately afterwards sail for I3a
hin or some other pjrt south where
tho two cruisers expect to receive ordeis
ns to their future movement It is cur-
rently reported here that Admiral
Mello Is as well Informed concerning rite
movements of the Nlcthcroy and tho
America ns Polxoto himself
lust as I close this dispatch I hear
a rumor that thero Is trouble among tho
crew of tho Nlcthcroy Should this bo
tho case there may bo some further de-
lay In tho departure of Uio two cruisers
southward but we still expect to see tho
America hero tomorrow or the day after
at least ami wo shall feel very much
more confident of success when the con-
sort Is nt anchor near U3 Throughout
yenterdny we were taking on board pro-
visions wuter and coal of a character
apparently very much Inferior lo that
shipped In N vv York In any case wo
expect to be ready to ll southward us
soon n our consort America I ready to
proceed wllh us As nlrttidy cabled all-
Is quiet hero nnd much In known concern
lug the situation of affairs at Illo do Ja-
neiro
I have hocn unofficially Informed it
would bo advisable for mo to abstain
from touching upon tho political affairs
of lirazil but do not think I um Incurring
danger of having the dUpateh suppressed
when I say that what little news that
has reached here seems to Indicate that
Peixoto had somo successes of an Import-
ant nature and expects Jits causa eventu-
ally to triumph Tho people hcrcaboutH
eem somewhat unconcerned ns to tho
result
Tim Hut tie Is Wnrxlnir
Icrnambuco December 19 News was
received late today that a general en-
gagement between tho rebel ships and
government forces was bgun Monday
morning In Illo da Janeiro harbor Tho
light on both sides Is said to havo been
Mvcre Jlcvult not known yet
Dispatches al o s y Commander Pick-
ing ns notified merchant und ship
captains that ho declines to suitnintco
the safety of anchorage used by mer-
chant vessels for discharging und loading
cUrgu and into lighters
A report has gained circulation hero
that Plexoto and tho government are
nearly bankrupt and iho financial strain
can not bo endured much longer All cjibls
mui l > agc < a to and from fho south have
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