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VOL. VII, NO. 2,152.
THE POPS ARE SORE
Because the Democrats Caucused and
Shut Them Out
OF HELPING TO ELECT THE JUDGES.
A Request for Leave of Ab
sence Was Tabled.
ALL QUIET IN SENATORSHIP CIRCLES.
All Sorts of Claims Made by the Candi
dates —There is Little Change
in the Situation.
Atlanta,October 29.—This was a quiet
day in the legislature.except for a popu
listic kick.
It was put in the form of a request
and read as follows:
“In behalf of over 100,090 voters of
Georgia, we respectfully protest against
being made parties to the enactment of
a partisan caucus edict into statuatory
law, by and through which the judicial
branch of the government jmay become
partisan.
‘‘We therefore respectully request
leave of absence during the joint session
of the general assembly to be convened
for the election of judges and solici
tors.”
This was signed by all the populists.
The request was tabled.
The judges and solicitors were all
elected without a hitch.
Some old issues were revived in the
house this morning.
Mr. Harrison, of Quitman, introduced
a bill to establish a reformatory prison
for juvenile offenders in Georgia.
The bill provides for the appointment
of commission and for the purchase of a
farm on which the youthful criminals of
the state can be reformed.
Mr. Bailey, of Spaulding, introduced
a bill to increase tbe number of supreme
court judges from three to five. It was
about the same bill recently sent to its
grave by the people.
Mr. Wilson, of Clay, introducd a bill
for summer sessions of the legislature
instead of winter sessions.
All the bills were referred to appro
priate committees.
Messrs. Middlebrooks, Jones, of
Dongehrty, and Boifueillet were ap
pointed by the speaker to act with a com
mittee from the senate to suggest rules
for the joint sessions of the two houses.
The two last committees agreed on
the rules of last year except that there
should be no seconds to any nomina
tions.
There were a number of other new
bills introduced this morning under a
call of the counties, most of them local.
The Senatorghlp Race.
There is little new in the race for
senator.
There has been considerable betting
on tne elections, and even money is
offered by Bacon men that he will be
nominated on the first ballot.
Yesterday was a quiat day with the
cadidates Major Bacon went home,
presumably to prepare his speech, and
Judge Turner was one of Dr. Haw
thorne’s most intent auditors at the
First Baptist church. The other two
candidates spent the day quietly.
One feature of the race which is at
tracting attention is tne number of
members who declare openly that they
will vote for Walsh as second choice,
and the claim of thelatters’ friends tnat
he is the legitimate legatee of Bacon’s
votes seems to be based on a- solid
foundation.
SEWANEE WON.
Athens Defeated at Foot Ball by the Ten-
nesseeans.
Athens, October 29.—The University
of the South boys from Sewanee were
here today to meet the boys of Georgia’s
University on the gridiron.”A tremend
ous crowd was present and the game
was the prettiest and most exciting ever
seen in Athens.
The Athens boys lost, but they put up
a splendid game and it would nave been
a tie but for Brown’s failure to kick
goals. Each team made two touch
downs. The Tennessee boys kicked both
of their goals,and Athens missed both of
theirs.
An Imp I*. <»i r*. Decision*
Indianapolis, Oct. 29. Judge
Brown, of the Marion county court, has
just decide ’ a case of wide interest to
Knights ot Pythias. When Koerner
lodge seceded, soon after the biennial
session at Washington, on the German
ritual question, it claimed all its prop
erty. The .-.'rand lodge brought suit to
recover. Tne court held for the grand
lodge, decitung that the property, under
such circumstances, falls to the grand
lodge in trn-t for one year, and then in
absolute ownership if the year elapses
without the reorganization of the
lodge.
She Killed the Intruder.
Perry, O. T„ Oct. Sam Bartell
took advantage of the absence of Miss
Agnes Jones, who lives several miles
north of Perry, to jump her claim and
occupy her house. Miss Jones returned
and ordered Bartell to move out. He
refused. Miss Jones lifted her gun.
Bartell pulled his, but before he could
shoot. Miss Jones had shot him down.
He will die.
Only Temporary Immunity.
Berlin, Oct. 29.—Drs. Erslach and
Wassermann, pupils of Dr. Behring,
delivered a lecture hero before the So
ciety of 1 ure Hygiene on the new diph
theria cur- They admitted that the
■drum only gives immunity tempora
rily, th longest period being two
months.
THE ROME TRIBUNE.
A VICIOUS YOUTH.
The Career of Young Alexander of Tenn**,
tee Hat Been Bloody.
Nashville, Oct. 29.—George R. Alex
ander, who shot and killed P. P. Gibson
at Fayetteville, has been brought here
and lodged in jail for safe keeping.
Alexander’s trial was set for Saturday,
but was continued until the next term ol
court. The murdered man’s friends did
not approve of the continuance, and
rumors of a probable lynching reaching
Judge Smallman’s ears, he ordered
Alexander brought to Nashville imme
diately.
Although Alexander only reached his
twenty-first birthday a few months
ago, he has already killed two men and
is suspected of being responsible for the
death of Celio Kimbrough, a negro girl.
In 1887 he shot and killed William
Payne. His first trial resulted in a
hung jury, but at the next he was con
victed and sentenced to seven years in
the penitentiary. An appeal was taken
to the supreme court and the case was
reversed. The case is still pending.
Since his last arrest, it is claimed,
Alexander has confessed to the murder
of the negro girl, Celia Kimbrough, in
1888. He was snspected at the time,
but was never called upon to answer for
the crime. Another chapter was added
to the list when Gibson was shot and
killed.
ALLEGED COMBINE.
Efforts Made in the Interest of Better
Prices for Cottonseed.
Memphis, Oct. 29.—The federal court
has been asked by Tate Bros., of Mem
phis, to enter upon an investigation of
charges that have been made against the
cottonseed oil mill owners of the south,
to the effect that they have nearly all
entered into a gigantic conspiracy to
control the market for cottonseed, and
this combine extends all over the south
ern cotton states.
The specifications made in public
prints here refer only to the Memphis
mills, of which there are eight, but
these are the largest in the world, and
the same owners control mills in Louis
iana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia and the Carolinas. Two years
ago cottonseed was worth $25 per ton,
last year sl9, while now the market
price is only $9 per ton. The mills
which are alleged to be in the combine
further decline to purchase at any price
except from the producer. The seed
sold at the Memphis market alone each
year is worth in the neighborhood of
$2,000,000.
KILLED HIS FATHER.
After Years of Abnenc*, the Murderer Is
Caught and Commits sulcJd:*.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 29.—Some
years ago, William Guilford, who re
sided in north Alabama, murdered his
father in cold blood and made his es
cape. He remained a fugitive from jus
tice until a few days ago, when he turn
ed up in the vicinity where ho had for-,
mally lived. He stopped one night at
the house of his sister, and during ■ the
night left unobserved after stealing a
horse which he rode away. Finding the
horse missing, his sister reported the
matter, and also that he was wanted
for the murder of his father. Officers
were put upon his trail and he was cap
tured in north Alabama. He asked
leave of the officers to step into the
room of the touse where he was caught
that he might change his clothes.
While in there he swallowed nearly an
ounce of strychnine, which produced
death in a short time. He took this ac
tion to avoid conviction.
A QUEER DOCUMENT.
How a Graceful Inval*>l I’epud the Kind,
n • ns f.f « Woman.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 29.—One of
the queer documents in the office of the
county judge is a will on a piece of un
painted plank, five feet long and one
foot wide. The plank was sawed out of
the house of Mrs. Arnold, living a short
distance iron the city. It wui a part
of a will.
On a bed by the wall a man named
John M. O’Brien, whom Mrs. Arnold
befriended, died, but before he died he
wrote on the plank, in pencil, these
words:
“Mrs. Arnold, God bless her ! shall
have all I leave.” He left SSOO.
The will is probably the most unhan
dy document to file hi all Duval county.
A French Secretary Recalled.
Washington, Oct. 29.—Mr. De Com
mines de Marsilli, first secretary of the
French embassy here, has been recalled.
His future post is not known, but is
likely to be London. Mr. De Commines
stands high in the French diplomatic
service, and his advance to the rank of
minister to some country of lesser im
portance, >is a result of this change,
would not be a surprise. His successor
here has not yet been named.
Teller a Shv r Man, but a Republican.
Pueblo, Colo., Oct. 29.—Senator Tel
ler, in a speech here, denied that he was
was about to follow Senator Jones in
becoming a Populist. He said he was a
silver man, but expects to remain a Re
publican all his life. The senator said
the declaration of the Ohio Democracy
for free coinage had done more for the
cause of bir.etalism than the combined
efforts of the Populists.
DrcMed to Die Together.
Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 29.—James
Pierce, of Bristol, England, was mar
ried three weeks ago at Kingston, Can
ada, and brought his wife to the Harris
house here a few days ago. Because of
financial troubles the young couple de
cided to die together. Mr. Pierce gave
his wife chloroform and then took some
hit elf. He is dead, but Mrs. Pierce
will recover
ROME, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1894.
BILL DOES M’KINLEY.
The Ohio Statesman Dodged Every Ques
tion That Hill Put.
HIS DEFENSE OF THE NEW TARIFF.
New York’s Next Governor
Speaks at Oswego.
“THREE CHEERS FOR SENATOR HILL!"
“Through Providence He Will Be Our
Next Governor and all
Can’t Stop It.”
Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 29.—Sena
tor Hill was furnished here a very inad
equate report of Governor McKinley’s
reply to his challenge. He said this
about it:
“Last night, in Oswego, I challenged
Mr. McKinley to point out where there
was one manufactured article in the
Wilson bill on which the tariff was re
duced where there was not left a suffi
cient tariff to represent the difference
of wages entering into the manufacture
of the article here and in other coun
tries.
“He knows that I referred to manu
factured articles upon which the duty
has been reduced and not to articles
which for good and sufficient reasons
have been placed upon the free list.
“He says I Aado objection to his com
ing into tiie state to stump. I recollect
that in my very first campaign for gov
ernor my Republican friends brought
into the state ‘Fire Alarm’ Foraker, of
Ohio. He came here to discuss the is
sues of the ‘bloody shirt. ’ The people
took care of him.
“I welcome Mr. McKinley here. It
may be possible that he came in the
state to pay off an old grudge against
me. I recollect that after he passed his
tariff bill and started for re-election to
congress from his Ohio district I took a
little journey to Ohio to help the
Democracy of his district to express
their opinion of him.
“You probably all recollect that Mr.
McKinley was not returned to congress.
Turn about is fair play. He need not
imagine that I have any feeling on ac
count of his presence here.
“I say that Mr. McKinley knew that
in my challenge I was not referring to
articles placed upon the free list. He
mentioned wool as one of the articles in
answer to my challenge. Think of it!
Mentions wool as a manufactured ar
ticle !
“Wool does and should come into the
country free, because it is one of the
necessaries of life.
“Then Mr. McKinley mentions agri
cultural products. What have they to
do with manufactured articles? I say
to Mr. McKinley that there was not a
single agricultural product upon which
the McKinley bill placed a tariff where
that tariff was of any substantial benefit
to the farmers of the country.
“He mentions glassware in his an
swer to my challenge. I have had many
interviews with glass manufacturers,
and I know positively that there was a
sufficient duty left on glassware to more
than represent the difference in wages
between this and other countries.
“The real difficulty with Mr. McKin
ley is that he wants this country to go
to ruin, but this country insists on be
coming prosperous. It might help Mr.
McKinley’s tariff hobby if you turned
this state, over to the Republicans, but
I tell you that he is opposed to the best
interests of every manufacturer and
citizen of the country.”
The rest of Senator Hill’s speech was
devoted to state issues. There were
2,000 persons in the hall, as many as
could crowd in, and there was a big
crowd outside, which local speakers ad
dressed. Nearly all the prominent Dem
ocrats of the city and section occupied
seats on the stage.
Just as the cheering that followed
Senator Hill’s introduction had suicid
ed, a leather-lunged man in the gallery
shouted: “Three cheers for Senator Hill 1
Through Providence he will be our Gov
ernor, and all can’t stop it.”
There was a laugh, which was renew
ed when Senator Hill said: “I am too
much of a gentleman to dispute that
assertion.”
THE BLYTHE MILLIONS.
Florence, the Illegitimate Daughter, Has
Come into Possession at Last.
San Francisco, Oct. 29. —Florence
Blythe Hinckley will come into posses
sion of the $4,000,000 or $5,000,000 es
tate left by Thomas H. Blythe. This
has just been decided in the noted case
that has lasted so many years.
Blythe was a California pioneer, and
amassed a fortune in this state and in
Mexico. He was an Englishman and a
bachelor, and died 10 years ago, leaving
no will.
Florence’s mother succeeded in es
tablishing the fact that her daughter
was Blythe’s offspring, and after years
of contest by innumerable claimants
and many decisions hy the courts, Flor
ence, who has been married in the
meantime, comes into possession of the
estate.
rtiuuiu-r »»• niasy vouimne.
New York, Oct. 29.—Papers have
been filed in the secretary of state’s
office at Trenton which indicate the
formation of a new whisky trust. The
papers comprise the articles of incorpo
ration of a concern to be known as the
Groat White Spirit company, with a
capital of $5,000,900 to $7,000,000, the
total authorized capital being limited by
the charter to $50,000,000. The prin
! cipal office and place of business of the
; company outside of the state of New
Jersey will be Boston, Mass., but k
will carry on business in various o' h
states and territories of the United
States.
STOLE THE THUNDER
The Democratic Headquarters Burglarized
at Wheeling.
THE CHAIRMAN WAS WITH WILSON.
The Rooms Were Raided While
No One Was in Charge.
MUCH CAMPAIGN MATTER PURLOINED
Some Campaign Secrets Obtained and Pub
lished in the Wheeling Papers
Several Days Ago.
Grafton, Oct. 29.—1 t has been dis
covered that, during the past week,
while Chairman McGraw, in charge of
Congressman Wilson’s canvass, was ab
sent in Wheeling, the Democratic head
quarters here were broken into and a
number of letters from political corre
spondents were stolen. One of these
letters, from J. J. Joy of Elk Garden,
containing campaign secrets as to work
done among the miners, was published
in Wheeling Thursday morning and,
until the arrival of Mr. McGraw here,
the manner in which it became public
was unknown.
THE CZAR’S CONDITION.
Hope Is Expressed That the Crisis in His
Case Hus Been Passed.
Washington, Oct. 29.—The condition
of the Russian emperor continues to ex
cite hopes that the crisis of his disease
has passed, and that his recovery may
be possible. The fallowing bulletin has
been received by Prince Cantaeuzene,
Russian minister to the United States
from the minister of foreign affairs:
St. Petersburg, Oct. 29.—The emperor
has slept well on Saturday night. Yester
day (Sunday) there has been no change in
the condition of his majesty.
(Signed) Giers.
The Doctor’s Regular Report.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 29.—The follow
ing bulletin, signed by the physicians
in attendance upon the czar, wus issued
at 11 o’clock a. m.:
The czar slept last night. His appetite
is unchanged. The oedema does net de
crease.
outlaws wanted.
Rewards Will Be Paid for Their Delivery,
• \ Detr* or Alive.
Fort Smith, ,Ark., Oct. 29.—United
States Marshal Crump, of the western
district of Arkansas, has had scattered
over 5,900 posters throughout this sec
tion announcing a reward of $250 each
for the bodies of the members of the
Cook gang of outlaws.
Tiie reward is amliorized by the at
torney general of the United States,
and is payable on approval of the court.
Deputy United States marshals are de
barred from participating in the reward,
and tiiis fact has stimulated large par
ties of settlers to join in tne pursuit.
A Big f osse in Pursuit.
Wagoner, I. T., Oct. 29.—The pur
suit of the Cook gang by the deputy
marshals and Indian police is being
continued. There are now 180 mar
shals and Indian police on the track of
the gang. A portion of the gang has
been sighted. They were moving in
the direction of the Osage country.
WINTER SETS IN.
Colorado and Nebraska Visited by Heavy
Snows—Cattle Will buffer.
Hay Springs, Neb., Oct. 29.—A heavy
snow began falling here Sunday morn
ing and continued with little interrup
tion during the day. The weather is
much colder. Stock on the range, es
pecially on that part devastated Igst
week by prairie fires, will suffer to some
extent.
Two and a Half Feet of Snow.
Red Cliff,Colo.,Oct. 29.—1 t has been
snowing steadily for 24 hours .at Gold
Park mining camp. Two and a half
feet of snow has fallen.
A Riot in New Orleans.
New Orleans, Oct. 29. —The trouble
between the white and colored screw
men culminated in a riot on the levee,
between Second and Sixth streets, and
the casualties so far reported are: Ran
dolph Blackwell, negro, shot in the arm,
leg and tliigu, now in hospital; Andrew
Kohues, shot in the back of the head;
unknown negro, shot in the hand; Ja
cob Heller, white screwman, shot in the
leg; unknown white screwman, shot in
the hand; white screwman known as
“Dutch George,” also as “George the
Little Log,” fell down the hold, and
sustained a serious gash on the head.
Monument to Bismarck.
Berlin, Oct. 29.—The preliminaries
for the erection of a colossal monument
to Prince Bismarck at Hamburg have
been concluded. The monument will
cost 2,999,909 marks, to be raised by lo
pal voluntary subscription. It will be
erected on the shores of the lower Elbe,
near Blakcnsee.
I
Chinese Must Mind How They Swear.
San Francisco,Oct. 29.—The Chinese
six companies in this city have issued a
notice warning Chinamen throughout
the state not to give evidence for the
government in cases involving the ex
clusion or deportation of Celestials;
otherwise they will be boycotted.
DEPARTMENT TOPICS.
Herbert and Lament Prohibit Footfall
Under Certain Condition.—Other Notes.
Washington, Oct. 29. —The secretar
ies of war and the navy are deaf to all
appeals that have recently been made to
secure a football game between the
naval and military academy teams on
Thanksgiving day, and it is understood
the policy adopted as a result of last
year’s game to prevent two branches of
the service from meeting again on the
gridiron will be rigidly enforced. On
that occasion bitter animosities were
aroused, almost culminating in a duel,
between an old retired rear admiral and
a brigadier general, who were among
the spectators. Bad blood was engend
ered to such an extent that in artpy and
navy club circles rival factions were
formed.
Secretaries Lamont and Herbert
therefore determined that they would
not take the responsibility of reviving
the rivalry.
A Flagship Change.
Washington, Oct. 29.—Secretary Her
bert has ordered the cruiser San Fran
cisco to relieve the Chicago as flagship
of the European squadron, and instruc
tions have been sent to the New York
navy yard, where the ship is receiving
some changes, to expedite the work
and prepare the ship for a three years’
cruise in foreign waters. The orders
were a great surprise to the navy, as it
was expected the Chicago would remain
abroad another year, but the secretary
decided that she had better be put out
of commission pending the construction
of her new machinery.
Are the Cook Gang Intruders?
Washington, Oct. 29. Secretary
Smith has been consulting with the In
dian office regarding the use of troops
in the Indian territory to suppress the
outlaws. It is said that the only ques
tion as to authority to use troops is
whether the marauders are intruders.
The Cook gang, it is asserted, are half
breeds, belonging to the different tribes
and cannot Le classed as intruders.
A REMARKABLE SCENE.
Henry J. Fonda Attempted to Kidnap His
Child at a Grave.
Chattanooga, Oct. 29.—A remarka
ble scene was created Sun lay afternoon
by Henry J. Fonda, a well known
painter, during the funeral services
over his sister’s grave. A large num
ber, including many prominent citi
zens, where present, while Fonda’s lit
tle 10-year-old girl stood weeping be
tween two of his own sisters, both high
ly respected ladies.
The child had' heea brought up by her
deceased aunt, Miss Nervia Fonda. The
father approached the group at the
grave and struck one of the women,
knocking her down, and then caught
hold of the child, who struggled and
screamed. His sisters cried loudly upon
gentlemen present to take the child
away from him, as he meant to kidnap
her.
Fonda was caught and held with diffi
culty by a dozen men, while several
women fainted. A warrant was sworn
out for his arrest by the superintendent
of the cemetery and was served late at
night.
Three years ago Miss Fonda was
granted the custody of her brother’s
child, which had lived with his family
since his wife’s death. This action was
the outcome of habeas corpus proceed
ings brought by Fonda to regain posses
sion of the child, it being shown that
he failed to properly care for it. Much
family bitterness was engendered and
the affair has caused no end of scandal.
usviipea u iicning*
Baltimore, Oct. 29.—Henry Leonard,
the negro charged with attempting to
assault a young white woman in Anne
Arundle county last week, was captured
Saturday night and lodged in the Brook
lyn jail. An angry crowd began to col
lect in front of the jail and Marshal
Frey was telephoned to send assistance.
Ten policemen were quickly dispatched
to the scene. The crowd finally dispers
ed and no further trouble is anticipated.
Returned Home to Die.
Clarksville, Tenn., Oct. 29.—The
body of Bud Graves was found a short
distance from the home of his father,
near Await, his throat being cut and a
bloody razor by his side. The reason
which prompted him to take his life is
not known. He had returned home from
Texas only a few hours before he was
last seen alive. He wus unmarried and
aged 26.
Convicted, After Ten Years.
Isabella, Ga., Oct. 29. —Chas Thomp
son has been convicted of being accesso
ry to the murder of Thomas Watts,
which occurred 10 years ago. By a
clever system of continuances he kept
the case from coming to trial through p
whole decade, in the meantime having
his liberty on bond. Imprisonment was
his sentence.
E.ltieu ror a num.
Lockport, N. Y., Oct. 29.—William
Cumero.who made a fortune in peaches,
built him a pretty villa and courted Miss
Anna Pohl, belle of the village, and an
other girl at the same time. He put the
other girl in the pretty villa and Miss
Anna sued for $10,090 for breach of
promise, also pushing a prosecution on a
serious charge. Cumere has settled for
$5,000.
Resigned Under a Charge of Bribery.
Newcastle, Pa., Oct. 29.—Mayor Al
exander Richardson has resigned. Lew
is Tardolli, an Italian, recently charged
that he gave the Mayor $l5O to secure a.
stay of proceedings in a liquor case.
An investigation brought out. facts up
on which ap.aehment proceedings
re. about to bo began.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
GERMANY BAS BEGUN
They Refuse to Receive Shipments of
American Beef.
SHE IS AFRAID OF TEXAS FEVER.
t is Believed That That is Not
the Real Reason.
A VIGOROUS PROTEST WILL BE MADE.
Texas Fever Cannot bo Communicated by
Diseased Cattle—The Government
Inspects all Meat Exported.
Washington, Oct. 29.—The following
cable dispatch has been received from
Hamburg:
“The senate today published a decree
prohibiting the importation of Ameri
can live cattle and fresh beef, on the
ground that two cargoes which have
just arrived contained several animals
suffering with Texas fever. Consign
ments which are proved to have left
America by Oct., 28 are exempted
from this .prohibition, but the animals
must be killed at the abattoir here im
mediately after they are landed.”
That the purpose of Germany in pro
hibiting further imports of American
cattle is a retaliation against the United
States for the discriminating duty placed
on the beet sugar productions of the
empire is a fact generally accepted in
diplomatic circles.
The greatest reticence is manifested
at the German embassy in discussing
the order of the imperial government.
The officials of the embassy do not
know whether their government has
any purpose, ulterior or otherwise. The
embassy has merely acted as a medium
of communication between the Berlin
foreign office and the American depart
ment of the state. Beyond this the
officials profess ignorance.
It is well known, however, that the
agrarian population of Germany, which
is both large and influential, is much
angered against this government for the
discriminating duty placed upon their
beet sugar. This country has afforded
a profitable market for the German pro
duct, and since the enactment of the
tariff bill they have been practically
shut out from competition with other
sugar producing countries because , f
the 1-10 per cent discrimination wich
applies only to countries granting a
bounty to sugar producers, and Ger
many is now the only country that de s
so, since the United States repudiated
the bounty provision of the McKinley
law.
The newspaper representing the
agrarian interests have been filled for
several months with complaints against
the action of the American congress
and it is not doubted that the entire
agrarian influence has been exerted
upon the government to bring this coun
try to terms by a systematic course of
retaliation. Under these circumstances
it is argued that the cattle which are
shipped from America would offer the
best subject for attack.
It is not true as reported that the Ger
man ambassador has been recently urg
ing the department of state to secure
some modification of the tariff law af
fecting German sugar. The ambassa
dor has not seen Secretary Gresham
since August last when the bill became
a law. The German government, it is
said, believe that the discrimination
against the sugar of their country would
have been stricken out of the bill, had
the measure been fully considered in
conference and a conference report made
upon it. The fact is known to them
that Secretary Gresham strongly dis
countenanced the discrimination and
used all the influence of his official po
sition against it, and that the conferee?
had agreed to strike it out. The Ger
man government is inclined to believe
that at Ihe next session of congress the
law will be so amended as to put their
sugar on an equality with the product
of other countries.
Assistant Secretary Dabney, acting as
secretary of agrieu tnre during the ab
sence of Mr. Morton, lias lost no time in
entering a vigorous protest against the
action of G many in prohibiting the
entrance in tnat country of America i
fresh beef and cattle under the pretext
that it was infected with Texas fever.
He sent the following telegram to the
secretary of state:
Referring to your telegram in regard to
the prohibition of American cattle and
fresh beef by Germany, please represent,
to the German ambassador that Texas fe
ver is not communicaud by diseased cat
tle and that even if the reported discovery
of this disease is correct, there is no dan
ger to German cattle, also, that the meat
of cnttle affected with this disease has
never been known to be dangerous to the
consumer. This government inspects all
meat exported, and certifies that tne cattle
were free from disease when slaughtered.
A vigorous protest should therefore be
entered against the proposed action.
Speaking of the subject, Mr. Dabney
said the department would maintain its
position, and he believed that the Ger
man people, usually reasonable in all
things, would see that they were mis
taken in this mat ter and remove their
objections to our meat. He said he
hoped that the department would be
able to show them that there was abso
lutely no cause for alarm.
"Texas fever," said Mr. Dabney, “is
not a contagious fever and cannot be
communicated. It depends upon cli
matic conditions, and I doubt very
much if any of the German doctors
would know it. It is very difficult to
diagnose. Texas fever cannot be propa
gated in the north, where the weather
is colder, and I fail to see how it can bo
propagated >n Germany. a much colder
country tha t < nr ti-»: thorn states, oven
if it were I'o-.n-. it io b- :ransmit
t.-il there.’’
“General” J. S. Coxey’s handsome
residence at CoXana, neat MaSslllon,
0., has been burned, it is supposed, by
litcimdi twins