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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS. TUESDAY. JUNE 29. 1897.
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LOQ-ROLLJXG A S A PA TIT OF OUR
LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM.
The impression seems to be general
among students that our legislative system
is breaking down as a useful or workable
method of popular government. Mr. S.churz
and Mr. Godkin have each written able
papers recently setting forth the gradual,
progressive failure of the American sys-
tem. Many of the best editors of the coun-
try have recently been writing in the same
strain, and no pen has come to the defense
of the lawmakers. Congress has been in
session more than three months, and state
legislatures remained in session from 00 to
1»30 days, but with rare exceptions there
have been momentous failures which even
partisan organs have not attempted seri-
ously to defend. Mr. Sehurz accounts for
this expansive record of failure by citing
the system of bosslsm which is now a fea-
ture of many legislatures, and no doubt in
states like New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Illinois bossism has been a curse. Mr.
Godkin treats the subject in a more general
sense, and discusses the technical and par-
liamentary methods of the American sys-
tem. He lays particular emphasis upon, the
absence of responsibility, the lack of au-
thority of cabinet ministers to originate
legislation and their lack of opportunity to
be directiy and at convenience heard in
support of government measures. He notes,
too, the questionable wisdom of commit-
tee powers and mentions the imperfect
methods of our present nominative system.
Both Mr. Sehurz and Mr. Godkin have ac-
counted partially for our legislative trou-
bles. So far as Mr. Godkin's criticisms are
concerned, however, we know that' con-
gresses and legislatures have been success-
ful in other periods of our history, and
therefore the conclusion is natural that tho
defects he complains of are fundamental
only in the sense that they have led to the
graver complications which have become
common to latter day legislative bodies.
Bossism, as pointed out by Mr. Sehurz, is
an immediate and patent influence of evil,
and where it prevails successful legislation
in the public Interest is out of the ques-
tion. Failure Is bound to follow in its
wake. But there are a number of states
in which bossism has yet made no head-
way, and yet their legislatures have utter-
ly failed to respond to the popular will in
matters of legislation. Investigation proves
that in such instances log-rolling has been
the cause of failure. Log-rolling is also a
comparatively new feature of the Ameri-
can legislative system, but it is scarcely
less despicable than bossism. Bossism is
more revolting, but not more effective in
defeating the popular will. Speaking of the
"ethics of log-rolling," the Chicago Record
makes some timely observations upon, this
unmitigated evil. "Some time ago," says
the Record, "it was announced that two or
three members of the state legislature vot-
ed for some infamous legislation riot be-
cause they approved of the bills pending,
but because in this way they were enabled
to effect a trade lor votes favoring pet
projects of their own. That similar deals
are made by which to secure the support
of certain schedules in tho tariff bills in
congress is not to be doubted. The prac-
tice. which is seen in its most vicious and
sweeping form when appropriation bills are
pending, has increased to the point wlnre
it becomes necessary to ask whether a law-
maker in any parliamentary body is moral-
ly justified in swapping his vote for any
consideration." This custom of vote-swap-
ping has now become so prevalent in con-
gress and legislatures that the public wel-
fare is unblushingly bartered away for the
benefit of private interests. As the Record
says: "Every member of congress or of a
state legislature acts officially in two ca-
pacities. He is an authorized agent of the
entire nation or state and bound to act for
its best interests. Ho is also, in particular,
the representative of his own district,
which he is constrained to serve as best
he can. Were the interests of the entire
nation always compatible with the require-
ments of each of its various districts, the
law-maker would have no occasion to
doubt his duty. But when a remote back-
woods district, for instance, demands an
appropriation for an improvement which
would be a highly profitable enterprise for
the district and an utterly worthless one
for the nation, where should the legislator
stand? Above all, what right has any legis-
lator, In consideration for a like favor to
his own district, to agree to vote for tho
appropriation? The question is one to which
tho conscience of law-makers in general
never seems to have been sufficiently awak-
ened. It seems obvious that every measure
brought before a legislature, should be con-
sidered upon its merits, and of necessity its
merits as affecting the whole mass of tho
people are of the first importance. Every
time a vote is swapped in the log-rolling
way tin swapping process involves a
tacit confession on both sides that the
legislator is not voting from conscience, but
for a consideration, the benefits of which
are to accrue to only a limited portion of
the entire public. He is purchasing a priv-
ilege for the few at the expense of the
many, incidentally enabling a colleague to
duplicate the operation on behalf of his
own constituents. If legislation favoring
particularly some one section is desirable
and commendable the law-maker should
support it without any such consideration.
If it is not legislation of that kind lie
sho'ld oppose it anyhow. Vote trading is
therefore essentially bad in principle, even
when performed on a small scale and for
ends legitimate in themselves." It is very
char that the log-rolling custom is one of
the prime caus's of h gislatlve failures. The
question is, How can the evil be eradicated?
i NOT A STEP I'IN G-STOX E CAN-
DIDACY.
Hon. R. U. Loekett, ex-assistant attorney
general, r.-itorates his intention to become
a candidate for attorney general next year,
and emphasizes a former announcement
that he is not seeking the office as a step-
ping stone to the governorship. Mr. Loek-
ett is a young man with at least his share
of qualifications for such official position
and presumably has sufficient ability and
industry to conduct the department of jus-
tice. it is assumed that no candidate for
the place will lack the reasonable measure
of education and capacity requisite for the
proper discharge of the duties incident to
the office. If this is so. Mr. Loekett's dec-
laration that he does not consider the at-
torney generalship as the essential step-
ping-stone to the governor's office is impor-
tant. In this connection it is fair to ob-
serve that recognized eminence, not to say
superiority In legal attainments, has not
been a really imperative test in selecting
attorney generals for Texas since 1884. It
is admitted the llogg, Culberson and
Crane are men of not inconsiderable legal
ability, but it can not be denied that in the
administration of the office by them the
department has be'jn worked to a stand-
still for gubernatorial campaign thunder.
Hogg and Culberson* succeeded in making
the combination work and Crane is about
to try his hand. Perhaps, a smaller experi-
ence in legal affairs would serve the state
better if the incumbent would confine the
work of the department to a singular and
substantial service of the state rather than
to the promotion of private ambitions. Tho
department of justice will never amount to
very much so long as it is a wayside rest-
ing place on the road to the governorship,
and it is to the real interest of the stale to
disconnect the two offices entirely. To be
sure, an attorney general should not be
ineligible to the governorship, but he should
not have a prior claim to the higher office
simply because he has held the lower. If
Judge Reagan. Colonel Wynne, Major
Sayers, Mr. Blake and other well known
public men should entertain gubernatorial
ambitions they ought not to be at a disad-
vantage because they have never held the
office of attorney general. It is to be hoped
that all of the candidates for the position
to which Mr. Lockett aspires will come out
as explicitly and announce that their am-
bitions have no connection with the gov-
ernorship beyond the degree which a prop-
er and diligent service and manifest fitness
may assure in the future. For the present
the precedents of twelve years should he
broken. Faithful public service in any field
coupled with moral and mental fitness
should furnish just as good a claim for
higher honors as any skyrocket, grand-
stand, buzzard-roost administration of tho
department of justice. Mr. Loekett an-
nounces also other considerations of im-
portance. "Whatever else I may advocate,"
he says, "I shall stand up for the tenets of
party faith and demand that these be ad-
ministered upon principles as broad as the
party itself. I am now and have always
been opposed to the conciliatory methods
adopted by many of our conventions and
legislative bodies in introducing and some-
times passing measures confessedly bad,
1;ut for the apparent and even expressed
purpose of securing votes from the opposi-
tion holding contrary views of government
upon the most vital points at interest."
This is a timely rebuke to those party lead-
ers who have embraced popullstlc doctrines
simply to catch populist votes. The News
is not a supporter of Mr. Loekett, nor does
it agree with him on some important poli-
cies of government, but it hopes that his
opponents for the nomination will be just
as candid in disclaiming any purpose in the
event of success to make the attorney gen-
eralship a gubernatorial campaign thunder
factory; and it hopes that all democratic
candidates will just as boldly announce
their adherence to party traditions and
doctrines, rather than pursue further the
vagaries of populism in the hope of catch-
ing votes.
A MODEliS METHOD OF KILLING
THE GOOSE.
Citizens of Baltimore have just succeeded
in a desperate struggle to keep the munici-
pal tax rate down to $2 on the $100. The
only feature of the levy submitted, as tho
Baltimore News sees It, that Is apt to cause
alarm Is the committee's estimate that 73
per cent of the total amount of taxes levied
will be collected. This, the News fears,
from past experience, will prove entirely too
optimistic. It says: "The amount usually
collected is but little over 70 per cent, but
with a prosperous year and the revival of
business the committee's estimate may, and
we hope will, prove accurate. 11* it falls
short, there will be p. fioatlng debt, and
after funding one it would be bad policy to
incur another." The committee's estimate
is almost sure to fall short. The proportion
of citizens unable to pay their taxes is sure
to grow greater and greater in any place
where the rate is as high as it is in Balti-
more. In close times property, taken
through and through, can not pay 2 per cent
to the city besides state and county exac-
tions, to say nothing of the continuous de-
mands of the federal government upon the
substance of the people. It may take twen-
ty, or even fifty, years to bankrupt a people
by thus digging into their pockets, but they
will fail, go on the delinquent list and lose
their property in time, and the government
which depends upon its own victims will go
down with them. Yet the people of Haiti-
more barely escaped an increase from $2 to
$2.50. Some of the councilmen clamored for
the increase. Baltimore is about like many
other cities in regard to its grievous mis-
take in raising the tax rate higher and
higher in order to secure more money for
the bosses to spend. There are few cities in
this country that are not killing the goose
that lays the golden egg. Instead of econo-
mizing in public expenditures and keeping
the rate reasonably low. so that nearly all
can pay, the practice is to run headlong into
all lines of extravagance and to raise rates
higher and higher, thus impoverishing those
who pay while rendering it Impossible for
many to meet the demands. In this way
the list of delinquents is run out lunger and
longer each year, titles are clouded, tho
value of property Is brought down. To meet
this condition valuations have been raised
in some instances above the sailing price of
the property. A few have been forced to do
all tho paying. How long will it be before
city fathers will learn that it does not pay
them to rob the citizens upon whom they
and their sort depend? How long will this
habit of taxing cities to death be persisted
in? When will the bosses learn that they
can really get In more money by confining
themselves to a moderate rate and to fair
valuations? How long will Baltimore and
other cities last on a tax rate which verges
upon the net Interest from average private
investments?
A PENNSYLVANIA FREAK OF THE
TAXATION MANIA.
The Pennsylvania legislature has just
given another brilliant example of taxation
mania. They have passed through both
houses a resolution taxing all employers 3
cents a day for every unnaturalized foreign i
male person working under them. Why not
go the whole figure and let the labor unions,
or bosses, or walking delegates, set a rate
of wages and then tax employes such an
amount as to make all wages alike? For
instance, let $5 a day be the rat.1 decided
upon; a man agrees to work for $4 a day;
the employer should be taxed $1 a day;
otherwise, taxes or no taxes, lie, the em-
ployer, will take the cheap man. The above
workman at $4 and 3 cents a day will prove
a better investment to the employer than
the regular one at $5. Instead of having the
effect of driving the foreigners out, it will
simply force them to live on still smaller
"starvation" wages than before. It is, in
the second place, manifestly unjust to make
the act apply to those who have not been
here long enough to be naturalized, and
nothing is said in the act on this point. It
virtually comes, of course, to deducting the
tax from the daily wages, and taxing a
man for what he can't help is not an honor
to our legislation. In the third place. It is
one more blow to individual rights. A man
should have, and In most places does have
under the law, the right to work for whom
and for what he pleases, and the employer
should have, and generally has, the right to
choose his workmen as he will. The act
makes a discrimination against a certain
class of laborers, aside from their ability to
perform the work, and is therefore wrong.
A restricted immigration is one thing, and
might be a very great improvement on Im-
porting riff-raff, as at present, but it Is an-
other thing to throw open our doors wide
and invite people In and then treat them
badly when they come. A little more jus-
tice, gentlemen of Pennsylvania, please.
The act is simply passed in favor of the
unions. It might be pertinently asked how
all the members arrived at their present
condition of comparative opulence; did not
some of them come from over seas and work
for l.Utle pay until they demonstrated their
fitness to earn more? Now they suddenly
become enthused with the spirit of patriot-
ism, or jingoism, and will close the doors
through which they themselves came. There
was once a man who reached a high place
by means of a ladder, and when there very
ungratefully kicked the ladder down; the
present act is one of a species in the same
category of performances.
President Dole's government is in full
control in Hawaii, and the queen has quit
the islands. Why do he and others clamor
for annexation? Is it solely because the In-
vestment is not paying them? If this is
true, why should we cash their claims and
take the burden off their hands?
Governor Dan Jones of Arkansas has
signed the blM passed by the legislature
entitled: "An act to create a state board
authorized to locate, establish, survey,
build, equip and operate state railroads and
telegraphs; to provide the manner for rais-
ing revenue for such purpose; to provide a
penalty for misappropriating money, and
for other purposes."
"There is a growth of industrial enter-
prise in the south which must not be over-
looked, and the eagerness of the southern
ports to compete with the great northern
ports is an unmistakable sign of more ac-
tive enterprise," says the London Statist.
The New York Sun pays the following
tribute to the esteemed legislature of Tex-
as: "The Oklahoma legislature was a very
good legislature, but the Texas legislature
is still better. When any little discussion
arises in this interesting body, all the
members stand up and yell, sometimes at
each other, sometimes at the chair. 'Hurl-
ing defiance at the chair* Is one of the most
popular amusements of the Texas house,
and the account of the proceedings of that
council of thinkers seldom fails to record
that 'then the usual bedlam reigned for
fifteen minutes' or more, as the case may
be. The Texas lawgivers may be a trifle
queer in their laws, but their bodily activ-
ity and command of voice are beyond com-
parison,"
A correspondent of the Chicago Times-
Herald writes the story of a poker game in
which Henry Clay lost $100,000, but fails to
state what percentage of it was cash.
So far the 3,300,GOO people of Texas have
enjoyed only three watermelons per capita,
but there are nine more per capita coming.
Just to think, grand old Texas produces
only about 40,000,000 watermelons, weighing
in the aggregate only 800,000,000 pounds.
Why, they could be. packed in 30,000 cars
and would make only about 2000 tralnloads.
Our 30.U0U,000 cantaloupes will make up the
deficit, however.
A dispatch from Erath county says:
The recent paragraphs in The News as
to the products of Texas this year have
elicited much comment here, and investi-
gating citizens submit the following esti-
mates for Erath county; Population, 30,000,
and the products for each man, woman and
chihl this year, they place at 1 1-3 bushels
of wheat, 33',» bushels of oats, (it; 2-3 bushels
of corn. 2 bales of cotton. 1 calf. 1 colt, 2
head of hogs, 2 tons of hay, 2 years' supply
of fruit and vegetables, 10 tons of coal, 1
dozen chickens and half a dozen turkeys.
Brick and building stone not counted. At
a low price those products wild bring
$165.53 1-3 per capita, or a total of $1,DM,000
gross value, dug out of the ground in IMtT.
Counting one-half needed for a living, this
leaves a net per capita gain of $82.76^>, or a
net gain to the county for the year of
$2,983,000.
Thus it appears that Erath is contribut-
ing her share to the omniglamsniferosity
of grand old Texas.
Referring to the faults and errors of
modern legislatures, Mr. E. L. Godkin, In
an article in the Atlantic Monthly, says:
"One. of the faults most frequently found
in the legislatures Is the fault of doing too
much. 1 do not think I exaggerate in say-
ing that all the busier states in America,
in which most capital is concentrated and
most Industry carried on, witness every
meeting of the legislature with anxiety and
alarm. I have never heard such a meeting
wished for or called for by a serious man
outside the political class. It creates undis-
j guised fear of some sort of interference
with industry, some sort of legislation for
the benefit of one class, or the trial of
some hazardous experiment in judicial or
administrative procedure, or In public edu-
cation or taxation. There Is no legislature
to-day, which is controlled by scientific
methods, or by the opinions of experts In
1 jurisprudence or political economy. Meas-
ures devised by such men are apt to be
passed with exceeding difficulty, while the
law is rendered more and more uncertain
by the enormous number of acts passed on
all sorts of projects. Nearly every state
has taken a step toward meeting this dan-
ger by confining the meeting of its legisla-
ture to every second year. It has said, in
other words, that it must have less legis-
lation. In no case that 1 have heard of has
the opposition to this change come from
any class except that engaged in the work-
ing of political machinery; that is, in the
nomination and election of candidates and
the filling of places. The rest of tho com-
munity, as a rule, halls it with delight."
Florida lynchers have spent a week in a
prolonged attempt to lynch a would-be
lyncher.
Tennessee is still borrowing money. Poor
old Tennessee.
"Our esteemed correspondent, Mr. Walt
Whitman, we suppose, will hardly regard
with so much favor the support of colleges
solely by the bounty of millionaires when
ho learns, from the narrative of the expe-
rience of the president of a New England
university, that such beneficence carries
with it the condition of subservience to the
millionaires' political prejudices on the part
of the teachers in such colleges," says the
Charleston News and Courier. "It is better
that schools and colleges should be sup-
ported by the state and serve the state
than that they should be supported by a
class and serve the interests of a class."
Provided, always, that the state is not dom-
inated and such educational institutions
us*cd by political elans to disseminate their
prejudices and promote their campaign In-
terests. An Institution of teaming controlled
for party purposes is at least as dangerous
as one endowed and controlled by million-
aires.
"This singular leaderiess structure of our
government," says Prof. Woodrow Wilson
in the July Atlantic, "never stood fully re-
vealed until the present generation, and
even now awaits general "recognition, and
fraaners of tho constitution no doubt ex-
pected the president and his advisers to ex-
ercise a real leadership in affairs, and for
more than a generation their expectation
was fulfilled. Washington was accepted aa
a leader no less by congress than by the
people. Hamilton, from the treasury, really
gave the government both it.sr policy and Its
administrative structure. If John Adams
had less authority than Washington, it was
because the party he represented was los-
ing its hold upon the country. Jefferson
was the most consummate party chief, the
most unchecked master of legislative policy
we have had in America, and his dynasty
was continued in Madison and Monroe. But
Madison's term saw Clay and Calhoun
come to the front in the house, ready to
guide and coach the president rather than
be too absolutely controlled by him; Mon-
roe was not of the caliber of his prede-
cessors; and no party could rally about so
stiff a man, so cool a partisan as John
Quincy Adams-; and so the old political
function of the presidency came to an end
and it was left for Jackson to give it a new
one—Instead of a leadership of council a
leadership and discipline by rewards and
punishments. Then the slavery issue began
to dominate politics, and a long season of
concentrated passion brought individual
men of force into power in congress natural
leaders of men like Clay, eloquent advo-
cates like Webster, keen debaters like Cal-
houn. The war made the executive of ne-
cessity the nation's leader once more, with
the great Lincoln at Its head, who seemed
to embody, with a touch of genius, the very
character of the race itself. Then recon-
struction came and we were left to wonder
what, henceforth, in the days of ordinary
peace and industry, we were to make of a
government which could In humdrum times
yield us no leadership at all. The tasks
which confront lis now are not like those
which centered in the war, in which pas-
sion made men run together in a common
work. We shall need, not the mere com-
promises of Clay, but a constructive lead-
ership of which Clay hardly showed him-
self capable."
Houston Post: "The verdict of the major-
ity of Harris county officials anent the fee
bill is: 'It never touched me.' " This will
be the verdict the state over if officials in
some centers are not too sharp to tell 'the
truth about it. The present fee bill Is a
shrewdly contrived subterfuge. Administra-
tion candidates will find it easy under its
provisions to prove that it has saved thou-
sands of dollars to the people, whether It
saves to them anything or not. It was con-
structed chiefly in the Interest of officials
and candidates. The News believes that this
fact will come out in due time In spite of a
very shrewd effort to conceal it.
GUP AND INTERSTATE SECURES A
MAIL SERVICE WHICH WILL
BEGIN ABOUT JULY IB.
SNAP SHO'lS.
Remember, young man, that you can not
lay your stretches of Imagination off into
town lots and sell them.
Women were formerly stolen like horses.
Look out for oversights.
Some sharp people make mistakes to or-
der.
One sometimes pays two prices for the
presents he receives.
Sporting goods—suckers.
As a rule, you can tell whether a man
thinks well of himself by looking at the
back of his head.
There are some things which the most
credulous mortal can not believe.
The state makes for tall timber when it
sees a squad of men coming up with a rope.
Cupid preaches co-operation all the time.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal remarks
editorially: "Memphis has been as hot as
hell tills week." There is an editor who
must have been a member of the Arkansas
legislature at some time in his life. He is
up in comparisons,
Court at Franklin.
Franklin, Tex., June 27.—The grand jury
adjourned, after two weeks' labor, having
returned twenty-one felony and twenty-
nine misdemeanor indictments. The felony
Indictments are: Nine for assault with in-
tent to murder, four for theft of cattle, one
for receiving stolen cattle, three for burg-
lary. three for perjury and one for criminal
outrage. The grand jury convenes again
on July 12. The criminal docket will be
taken up July 5.
Held at Caldwell.
Caldwell, Burleson Co., Tex., June 28.—
Last night Deputy Sheriff John Thornton
arrested and brought up from Somerville a
party with the liotso and buggy recently
stolen at Waco. His appearance tallies with
tho description given in the sheriff's col-
umn of The News and there is no doubt
about the horse and buggy.
The 'Frimeo t utu llic Siift-nr Rate Out
of New Orleans to Kansas
Centers.
Secretary L. P. Feath erst one of the Gulf
and Interstate railroad arrived home yester-
day after an absence of a couple of weeks
in the north and east. The equipment for
his road, he said, will all be delivered within
a short time, and the line will then be in
good shape for business.
Mr. Featherstone spent some time in
Washington for the purpose of getting a
mail contract for his road, and he did not
leave tho national capital without getting
what, he wanted. The service will com-
mence about July 15, and for a lime the
route will be between Beaumont ami Gal-
veston only, but later on. It is quite prob-
able that il will be extended.
The affairs of the newly projected line,
tho Galveston, Brazos and Southwestern,
Mr. Featherstone said, are in good shape,
and work will no doubt commence upon it
at an early date.
♦
The new schedule of the International and
Great Northern is still In process of Incu-
bation. As previously stated, the time on
the St. Louis-San Antonio run will be
shortened. It Is also stated that the south-
bound run between St. Louis and Galveston
will be shortened by several hours, while
the north-bound train leaving here in the
afternoon will be scheduled for supper at
Grapelund.
Major W. L. Stout, formerly chief clerk
to General Manager Williams of the "Pee
Gee." has been appointed joint ticket agent
at the union depot in Texarkana.
♦ ♦
General Freight Agent Goodwyn of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe returned home
yesterday morning after a trip of several
days through north and central Texas. He
brought back verification of previous ieport«
of bountiful crops and prospect of a big
freight movement. It is impossible, how-
ever. to say when the export -movement of
grain will commence.
Generai Manager Polk of the Santa Fe
Is expected to return from Nashville to-
morrow.
General Freight and Passenger Agent C.
W. Nelson of tho "Bay Shore line" was in
town yesterday.
Tlic Circulation Boomer.
There's a man in every office along News-
pa ner row
Whose business is with figures, for his duty
is to .show
That the people spend their pennies and the
merchants purchase space
To uphold the greatest paper in the place.
He is quite an artful dodger, up to all the
latest fakes,
And there's nothing under heaven that can
beat the bluff he makes;
When he tells you so convincingly you think
it is the ease
That his is the greatest paper in the place.
He'll produce you facts and figures for each
month and every day;
Ho can talk of circulation In a "true-as-
gospel" way.
Till you feel there isn't any other sheet
that's in the 'race
With the great and only paper in the place.
And his toil is never ceasing; he is always
on the move;
All the claims he makes so blindly he can
mostly always prove;
He's the circulation boomer and 'tis he who
makes the pace
For the great and only paper In the place.
ly paper in tne place.
—Pittsburg News.
'FRISCO SLASHES SUGAR RATES.
A Fifteen-Cent Cat From New Orleans
to Kansas Creates a Stir.
New Orleans, La., June 28.—(Special.)—
The recent action of the St. Louis and San
Francisco road, known as the " 'Frisco
line," in giving a rate of 35 cents per 100
pounds on sugar from New Orleans to Kan-
sas jobbing centers has created considerable
excitement among the lines out of this city.
While matters are practically settled for
the first ten days of July, It is likely that
at the expiration of that period the reduc-
tion will be declared off. The reduction
amounts to 15 cents upon the basis of the
50-eent rate to the points in question, and
was made to meet a cut on the part of tho
Pacific coast lines, which absorbed a maxi-
mum of 14 cents from the differential in
vogue from Kansas City to Kansas jobbing
centers in conjunctlln with the through
rate from San Francisco. The effect of the
cut will be to give Kansas jobbing points a
rate from this city of 35 cents straight. The
rate was made by the 'Frisco line without
consulting the local lines here, and these
lines claim the cut is unnecessary. Not-
withstanding this objection, however, the
initial lines here have agreed to stand by
the 35-cent rate for the first ten days of
July. The roads have given notice to the
'Frisco line that upon the expiration of the
period mentioned, if the rate is not taken
off, the local lines will cease the division
of sugar rates with that line. The fear is
on the part of the initial lines here that, if
permitted to continue, the sugar rate may
spread to other points in the west and se-
riously injure their business. The cut on
sugar will amount to over 50 cents per bar-
rel and will go into effect July 1.
Southwestern Traffic Affairs.
The following notices of intention to take
individual action have been filed with the
conference committee of the Southwestern
freight bureau by the individual lines mem-
bers of that organization:
Effective June 28, the authorized rates on
peaches, carloads, may be applied on plums
In straight carloads or when mixed with
peaches, from Texas points to northern
markets.
Effective July 10, the exceptions to the
western classification, applicable on Texas
traffic, have been amended to provide for
application of wheat rates to points in
Texas, on millet and sorghum seed, in
straight, or mixed carloads, and to provide
for the application of one-half tariff rates
each way on Hour mill rolls, from points in
Texas to northern points, for sharpening or
other repairs, and return to original point
of shlpmert.
Effective July 15, the exceptions to the
western classification, applicable on Texas
traffic, have been amended to provide that
rates on household goods and emigrant out-
fit. from points in Central freight associa-
tion territory to Texas points, will be made
on lowest combination of locals through any
association gateway.
Effective June 30, a rate of 40 cents per 100
pounds has been published on sheet iron,
carloads, from Pittsburg, Pa., to Houston
and Galveston, Tex., same being based on
combination of locals through New York.
Effective July 1, a rate of 25c per 100
pounds has been published on salt, curloads,
from Colorado, Tex., to Shreveport, La.
Mr. L. F. Day. formerly chairman of the
Southwestern traffic association, and pow
general manager of the Minneapolis and St.
Louis railway, was In the city yesterday
and made a social call upon the members of
the conference committee at the Union
trust building.
Mr. Itelu's Trip.
Houston, Tex., June 28.—Tn conversation
to-day with Traffic Manager C. W. Bein
of the Southern Pacific and Houston and
Texas Central regarding the recent In-
spection trip of the traffic and operating
departments of the latter road over the
entire line. Mr. Bein said to a News man:
"Stops were made at all of the principal
stations on the entire road, agents inter-
viewed on all matters pertaining to proper
and careful handling of the business of
the road and conditions inspected and dis-
cussed. On Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock
the special train left Houston, went over
the Austin branch to Austin and over the
Austin and Northwestern to Marble Falls
and I/.ano. It returned Tuesday night to
Hempstead and continued north over tlie
main line to Ennis. Thursday was spent
north of Ennis, Friday from Dallas to
Kaufman over the Texas trunk and from
Ennis to Fort Worth and return. Satur-
day was consumed in making several stops
between Ennis and Houston and the entire
party returned to Houston Saturday even-
ing at 6 o'clock.
"A general statement of conditions which
surround crops may be contained in the
following: Prospects for a cotton crop are
excellent. Corn. It may be said, in some
sections of the road Is made and in others
its making is insured. The rains of the
last few days seem to have settled the
question that this crop will be a very
large one.
"in oats and wheat the field work of
harvesting is complete and threshing has
begun. The yield of oats will be very
large and the estimated output is placed
at between 3000 and 4000 cars.
"We are in every way satisfied with our
trip and believe that good results, both to
ourselves and our friends, will come from
th.fi s being brought In contact."
The \>w Kansas City Line.
Houston, Tex,, June 28.—Solid trains, con-
sisting of vestibuled coaches and Pullmans,
are now run dally between Kansas City
and Port Arthur over the Kansas City,
Pittsburg and Gulf. The tracks of the
Southern Pacific are used between Beau-
mont and Lake Charles pending the com-
pletion of the main line of the former road
between the Sabine and Neches rivers.
Mr. Stilwell, president of the company,
promised several months since to run trains
through from Kansas City to Port Arthur
by July 1. fully expecting to have the Sa- I
bine river bridge completed in time, but j
not to disappoint the public he put a large i
force at work on the Lake Charles branch ,
and completed that portion of the road, so I
that he could keep his promise, even if he J
had to use the track of another line in or- J
der to reach Port Arthur—and he will have. •
one day to spare, as the first train should .
reach Port Arthur June 80.
This new line is putting new life into the
west and northwest, as it means more j
profit to the producers. It is creating a |
boom for southeastern Texas and the conn- j
try through which the road runs south of i
Kansas City—and for Port Arthur it means
a great deal.
General Manager W. G. Van Vleek of the
Atlantic system of the Southern Pacific
left last ni.sht for Beaumont to look after
the arrangements for the new schedule,
which goes into effect over his road in con-
sequence of the above mentioned change.
A I'anliaiidle Hand.
Rosweli, N. M., June 27.—The people here
are pleased to heat- the news from Sunta Fe
that the Pecos Valley and Northwestern
railway company has filed articles of incor-
poration with the territorial secretary, set-
ting forth the fact tha' J. J. Hagerman and
others of Colorado Springs have organized
to eonslP'.ct a railroad from Roswcll, N.
M.. to the Texas Panhandle, to connect
with other lines at Amnrillo, Washburn and
Panhandle City. The distance is 220 miles.
The capital stock is $0,000,000, and the
amount* actually subscribed and paid over
to Percy Hagerman, treasurer, Is $220,000.
Tho new company proposes to purchase the
Pecos Valley railway, running ftorn Pecos
City to Rosweli. and for this purpose the
new company will issut- 31,020 shares of Its
preferred stock. The directors are: J. J.
Jksg' irnan. W'. A. Otis and R. J. Holies of
Colorado Springs, hi. O. Kaulkuer of Kiddy,
N. M., 111. W. Kenna of Chicago, D. MeCool
of St. Louis, J. W. Poe of Rosweli, N. M.,
and Charles A. Otis of New York. The of-
ces are at Eddy and Colorado Springs.
Excursion Rates.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe an-
nounces the following special rates:
Account of Elks' meeting, tickets will be
sold on July 3 and 4 to Minneapolis and re-
turn at one fare for the round trip, plus 50
cents; return limit July 10, or an extension
until July 31 may be obtained by depositing
ticket with the joint agent at Minneapolis ;
before July 10.
• Account of international convention, B. Y.
P. V., tickets will be sold July 11, 12, and 13
to Chattanooga, Tenn., at one fare for tho
round trip; return limit July 21, or an exten-
sion may be had until August 15 by deposit-
ing ticket with joint agent at Chattanooga
on or before July 19.
Cheap Hates to 'Frisco.
Chicago. III., July 28.—Beginning this
morning city passenger agents will sell
tickets from Chicago to San Francisco for
$25 for the west-bound trip. This bargain
wale will continue until the close of business
Saturday night. The tickets are issued on
account of the sixteenth annual convention
of the Young People's Society of Christian
Endeavor, which will be held in San Fran-
cisco July T to 12 inclusive, and it is esti-
mated that from 15,000 to 25,000 excursionists
will be carried west by railroads running
out of Chicago
A Report Lacking Colli!rmattoii.
New York, June 28.—A report was current
in local circles to-day to the effect that
Edwin Winter, who recently resigned from
the presidency of the Northern Pacific, is
to be placed at the head of the northwest-
ern lines out of Chicago. The line referred
to was said to be the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul, and It was alleged that Presi-
dent Miller, whose health has been im-
paired, would shortly resign. The report
has not been confirmed.
H. A T. C. Time Card.
Houston, Tex,, June 28.—Officials of the
operative department of the Houston and
Texas Central ore at work on a new time
card, which will become effective on Sun-
day, July 3. The only change to be made
at this point will be in the leaving time of
No. 3, the north bound night train, which
will leave here at 10.45 instead of 10.50, as at
present. The other changes will be an-
nounced later.
First Through Train.
Beaumont, Tex., June 28.—The first
through train from Kansas City to Port Ar-
thur passed through this morning slightly
behind its schedule time,, and returned to-
night on its north bound trip on time. The
train consisted of a baggage and express
car. a day coach, a reclining chair car and
a Pullman solid vestibule.
Houston Notes.
Houston, Tex.. June 28.—Fred D. Miller,
traveling passenger agent of the Illinois
Central, headquarters at New Orleans,
looked after passenger business hero to-
day.
W. R. Hockaday. whose appointment as
traveling freight agent of the lvaty. with
headquarters at' Kansas City, was noted in
yesterday's News, left to-night to assume
the duties of the new position. Mrs. Hock-
aday left this morning.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
and board of directors of the Galveston.
Harrlsburg and San Antonio will occur hero
on July II. The meeting of the Houston
direct navigation company directors will be
held cn the same date.
L. J. Parks, assistant general passenger
agent o^the Southern Pacific, returned this
morning from Nashville, where he took in
the exposition. He made the trip in a spe-
cial car and was accompanied by a party of
friends.
Wm. J. Bleaknev, one of the operators in
the Houston and Texas Central dispatchers'
office, will be married this week to Miss
Maggie Grlnsell, a popular young lady of
the Fifth ward.
L. C. Noble, formerly superintendent of
the motive power department of the Hous-
ton and Texas Central, now a traveling
representative of a manufacturing house,
is in the city.
Stock claim Agent Frank Matthews of
the International and Great Northern, came
down from headquarters In Palestine this
morning and transacted business here dur-
ing the day.
A meeting of the railroad commission, at
which the advisability of reducing freight
rates on certain commodities, will be con-
sidered, will be held at Austin on July 1.
Hon. Tom M. Campbell, ex-general man-
ager of the International and Great North-
ern, passed through here this morning en
route to Galveston.
The regular tri-weekly excursion to La
Porte will take place to-morrow night. A
special train will leave the Grand Central
depot at 7.30.
W. B. Groseclose, assistant general
freight agent of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, has returned from a trip to Galves-
ton.
F. Huf smith, master mechanic of the In-
ternational and Great Northern, headquar-
ters at Palestine, was in the city to-day.
J. Eggleston Johnston, relief agent on the
Houston and Texas Central, was here to-
day looking after some special work.
General Manager W. G. Van Vleck of the
Atlantic system of the Southern Pacific left
last night for points east on the line.
H. Booth, general agent of the Interna-
tional and Great Northern, returned this
morning from a brief visit to Tyler.
J. W. Tate, commercial agent of the Cot-
ton Belt, left this afternoon for Huntsville
in the interest of his department*.
Henry B. Kane, general claim agent of
the international and Great Northern, was
here to-day from Palestine.
J. A. McMillan, ticket agent of the Inter-
national and Great Northern at San An-
tonio. spent the day here.
Colonel L. L. Foster, general manager of
the Velasco Terminal, went down to Velas-
co to-day.
E. H. Coombs returned to-night from a
visiii to Bowling Green, Ky.
across the Rio Grande at Elephant Butte,
It Is regarded as the most Important ever
issued in the territory, involving the rlgh*
to construct dams across the Kio Grande,
vitally affecting large areas of arid coun«
t ry.
ECHO ANSWERS, WHEN?
Houston. Tex.,' June 2G.—To The News:
To my mind there is an end of controversy,
in the domain of economic and political
reform in our country, which can be fruit-
ful of any results looking to a return of
first principles of democracy. The demands
of humanity are drowned in a din of sole-
cisms, directly enunciated by class Inter-
ests, or from the many dupes inoculated
with the ideas of traitors to liberty. There-
fore the country has to face a situation
from which there can be no retreat. Where
ante-election prospects emit a faint glim-
mer of hope, suggesting the triumph of
some measure of reform, the watchful
genius of political evils defeat it with the
count of ballots. With every avenue closed
by which reason and right may influence
patriotic thought or secure honest results
from patriotic efforts, the lover of liberty,
the citizen who has nurtured In his heart
a love for the ideal republic, pictured by
our fathers as the outcome of their sacri-
fices, must admit that the prospect is dark
indeed. The octopus of wrong has Its ten-
tacles too securely fastened upon the peo-
ple to be made to loose Its hold through
argument or by acts of legislatures, whoso
members have carte blanche to do as they
please.
The free coinage of silver was intended to
act as a delirium upon the masses, to de-
tract attention from monopolies which were
fleecing the peoph. Like the protective
tariff, which has see-sawed between the
ins and the outs for a third of a century,
it served to hide the real trouble. Hut the
student of the money question must finally
si i that demonetization of silver is not as
bad as the denial to the people's govern-
ment the right to Issue and guarantee their
own money in any form, with the demor-
alizing attribute of commodity value. The
troub.e with money is the monopoly of the
material from which to coin, and the giv-
ing to banks of the power to control the
papor circulation. There is little hope
that the masses will ever fully comprehend
this. The politicians will see that they do
not. The satisfied classes, with none of the
love for humanity, with no Impulse of
patriotism, will see that they are stuffed
with false issues, or are bought outright.
()fliers, who have not tasted the bitter,
but who realize tho presence of abnormal
poverty, the existing hunger among honest
workmen with tools in their hands and
who sympathize with the sufferers, should
ask with Carlyle: "Why will, why do wo
pray to heaven, without setting our own
shoulder to the wheel? The present, If it
will have the future accomplish, shall itself
commence."
The hope is to arouse the unthinking and
unoorrupted who have been too much oc-
cupied with the drudgery of business, too
prone to a "laissez faire" indifference, and
convince them that there is need for more
shoulders to the wheel. Show to them that
unless they become aroused and act the
political mill will grind on as before—that
legislation will be bought, the ballot con-
tinue to be debauched, monopoly become
more defiant. The parties which have been
trusted are responsible for the situation-
have alternated in power and should bo
held to account. There can be but one is-
sue for the honest and enlightened voter,
and that is how to wrest the machinery
of government from the hands of the
thieves and robbers—peaceably If they can,
forcibly if they must, it may be that force
alone will accomplish it. for the political
traitors have brought their party dupes to
the verge ot starvation or depravity, and
well know how tempting to them is the
offer to purchase their votes. To these vic-
tims of misgovernment an appeal to pa-
triotism would bo as fruitful of results as
the singing of psalms to a dead horse.
Propaganda is too slow. It is too late. The
thieves are in power, and are able to even
muzzle the press, or avenge its exposure
of their rottenness by damage suits for
To sum up: There is clearly no relief to
be obtained through the parties which have
been alternating ii# possession of the gov-
ernment, for they have perverted the "bal-
lot, elected incompetent or corrupt legis-
latures, indorsed dishonest officials by re-
electing them, converted the higher courts
into partisan machines and the senate into
a stock gambling club. The Influence of
boodle has made congress the tool of mo-
nopolies and trusts, until in all its make-
up there Is not a vestige left of the sublime
and lofty patriotism which once character-
ized its membership and electrified the
country. When the people will have re-
tired or exterminated their tyrants they
will doubtless establish a true republic,
mindful of the rights and welfare of its
simplest citizen, its officials will be true
servants, whose acts can not become law
or precedent until referred to the people
for final approval. A representative will
merely record the popular decree, and not
legislate, as now, according to his own
sweet will. The courts will be out of poli-
tics. The right of taxation will be con-
lined to the government, which will be the
concrete form of 'he popular will, ami
taxes wib be so imposed that the payer
can not shift them to the tenant, the con-
sumer or the user. There will be no mo-
nopoly of national opportunities. The pub-
lic highways will belong to the people, as
of yore, and the Institution of rapid trans-
portation will then be a blessing, and not
the means of wringing taxes from them.
'Tis needless to add that all this consum-
mated will be the reflex of a fair ballot and
an honest count; no blue pencils or dis-
franchisement for illiterates; no dispatches
from a Harrison county to know how many
votes are required; no Mexican vote im-
portations, but a fair and honest return
of votes actually oast. E. P. ALSBURY.
Injunction Hearing.
El Paso, Tex., June 28.—Hearing was re-
sumed to-day before Judge Bantz in the
matter of the permanent injunction re-
straining the Rio Grande Irrigation and
land company from constructing a dam
1EXAS NEWSPAPER tftuIMSSV.
The Gonzales Drag Net: The first bale ia
billed to appear at Beeville this week.
The Cisco Roundup: The green corn and
the cucumber are now working on full
time.
The (Cameron) Texas Broncho: Peaches
are rather scarce this year in and about
this section.
The Yoakum Weekly Times: Watermelons
are now getting In reach of the country
editor. People are giving them away.
Cuero Sunday Record: South Texas has
been visited by a good rain, which insured
a fair cotton crop to a dead moral cer-
tainty.
The San Angelo Standard: The republican
newspaper men are the pie eaters in west
Texas this year, as evidenced by the re-
cent Sonora and San Angelo postofilce ap-
pointments.
The Buffalo Banner: Texas—our own
grand Texas—Is fairly groaning under tho
largest crop ever produced within her bor-
ders. while Leon county, as a component,
comes to the front with her creditable pro
rata of corn, cotton and vegetables.
Menard County Enterprise: The crop re-
ports of the week Indicate that very little
is yet known of cotton. The corn crop is
good throughout the state. Wheat and
oats are harvested and the yield fine where
hail did not injure the crop. That 12,000,000
bushels of wheat will not pan out, how-
ever. The area was not sown to make it,
no matter how heavy the yield.
The Goliad Guard: Goliad county is well
adapted to an Industry which should at-
tract the attention of farmers. The hog
raising business can be profitably engaged
in here, for the reason that green feed can
be had very early, and thus save much
corn. Two crops or pumpkins, pie melons,
watermelons, potatoes, sorghum and many
other good feeds can be raised in the same
year.
Aransas Pass Beason: Orsan N. Jaynes,
a farmer living in Calhoun county, last
week dug up $4000 in gold on Ills land. He
claims to have followed the instructions of
the spirit of a murdered woman, which
appeared to him in a dream. The gold
was of the San Francisco mintage of tho
fifties. A man that can lie down and
dream himself into a fortune is strictly up
to date.
Cleburne Chronicle: Ever since the vege-
tables and fruits have been ready for mar-
ket the farmers in the timber have been
feeling more comfortable. Instead of re-
turning home from town with an empty
pocket he has been going home with money
or something for his family. Now since tho
small grain crop is being marketed the
farmer on the prairie begins to feel lika
himself again with some money to jingle.
The Sliver X-Ray: The editorial leaders
of some of the "only democratic news-
papers" in south Texas would make an In-
teresting scrap book merely to show tho
recklessness of assertion ti e assumed wis-
dom and the fawning to the powers that be.
One paper avers that "Chollie" is well nigh
Immortal and must be senator; another that!
I Hogg is the only statesman; while another
is lauding Bailey to the skies. If there is
any truth whatever in what they all say
about the "other two," and no democratic
editor would lie. perish the thought, neith-*
er of these three worthies are lit for jusi
tics of the peace.
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