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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS. iiy ./or-: u. reuse. DEVOTED TO THE MAVNO, AGRICULTURAL AM1 EDUOA TIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH-EAST GEORGIA. TERMS: #1.00 I’cr Year VOL. V. CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY APRIL 3, 18%. NO. 14, THE 54TH CONGRESS. PIEDMONT AIR LINE. ROUTINE OK HOUSK AND SKNATlfi BRIEFLY CHRONICLED. CONDENSED SCHEDULE OF PASSENGER TRAIN®, Lv. A tlfluta C. T. " Atlanta E. T. " Norcross 44 Uuford 14 Gainesville... “ Lula “ Cornelia 14 Mt. Airy “ Toccoa “ Westminster. “ Seneca. “ Central *' Greenville.... 14 Spartanburg. 44 G u flueys 44 Blacksburg... 4< King’s Mt...... 44 Gastonia Ar. Charlotte Ar. Danville Ar. Richmond.. Ar. Washington. 44 Bftl'm’ePKR 44 Philadelphia 44 New York Southbound. Lv N. Y. P R R ... 44 Philadelphia 44 Baltimore “ Washington . Richmond... 44 Danville 44 Churlotte 44 Gastonia 44 King’s Mt 44 Blacksburg ... 44 Gaft‘ueyb 44 Spartanburg. 44 Greenville 44 Central 44 Seneca 44 Westminster 44 Toccoa 44 Mt. 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Nos. 87 and 38—Washington and Southwestern Vestibuled Limited, Through Pullman Sleeper* between New York and New Orleans, via Wash* lugton, Atlanta and Montgomery, and also lio- tween New York and Memphis, via Washington, Atlanta and Birmingham. Dining Cars. Nos. 35 and 30 United SlateB Fast Mall, Pullman Sleeping Cars between Atlanta, New Orleans and New York. Nos. SI and 82, Exposition Flyer, Through Pull man Sleepers between New York and Atlanta via Washington. On Tuesdays autl Thursdays con nection Will bo made from Richmond with No. 81, and on these dates Pullman Sleeping Car will be operated between Richmond and Atlanta, On Wednesdays and Saturdays connection from At lanta to Richmond with through sleeping car Will be to leave Atlanta by train No. 32. Nos. 11 and 12, Pullman Sleeping Car betweea Richmond, Danville and Creensboro. W. A. TURK, 8. II. HARDWICK, Qen’l Pass. Ag’t, Ass’t Gen’l Pass. Ag’t, Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Oa. W. B. RYDER, Superintendent, Charlotte, North Carolina. V. H. GREEN, flen’l Supt., Washington, D. C. ]. M. CULP, Traffic M’g'r, Washington, D. COM MO DORK REACHED CURA. Ill a Fit of Anger Fireman Owen Has Made a Full Confession. Edward Owen, ono of the crew of lho Commodore has made a startling statement to the Spanish consul at Charleston. Owen said that all the stories about flinging the cargo of am munition overboard wore false. “In the first place,” ho said, “tho Commodore went to Cuba.” Threo firemen, Edward Owen, John Johnson and Edward Olsen, were ‘‘shanghaied” to Cuba. “Shanghaied” fneaus that tlioy wore shipped lor Tam pa and not taken there, but to Cuba, or in other words, were taken under false pretenses. Pay was at the rate of $30 per month and tho men were paid off last Thursday. If tlioy had known that they wero going to Cuba they would lmvo asked much more. No sum smaller than $500 would have tempted them to go to Cuba. Owen says that it was an outrago; that his life was endangered ; that ho shipped for a coasting voyage and did. not expect to go anywhere but to Tampa. “Wo took General DeSoto,” said Owen. “He was in our boat. Tho arms were landed in the province of Santa Anna.” The firemen, ho says, were promised more money to keep their mouths shut when thoy should reuch port, but bad not been paid yet, and so ho made this statement to bring the managers of the Commodore to their senses, and if they don’t make arrangements to suit lie will tell more. Owen says they had arms and am munition on board and lauded them. It took six boatloads to take the cargo. Owen had made threo trips to Cuba, but for the firKt two he had been paid $1,000. Ho will libel the Commodore for his wages and the Spanish consul will no doubt, on the part of the na tion, prosecute tho Commodore for violation of the neutrility laws. Turner for the President. Senator Palmer, of Illinois, wants Mr. Turner, of Georgia, for president. Tho Illinois senator thinks that Mr. Turner’s advocacy of the gold standard places him in line for nomination. He prepared an interview on that line for the Washington Post. TITB HOUSK. Tho house spout most of Thursday’s session in discussing in committee of the whole the motion offered by Mr. 1 Hanley, member of the committee on naval affairs, to amend the naval ap propriation bill for the year ending Juno 30, 1897, by providing for tho construction of six battleships instead of four, ns recommended by tho com mittee. Tho motion was supported by Messrs. Hnnloy, Johnson, republican, of California, and Cummings, of New York, and opposed by Messrs. Hulick, of Ohio; Robinson, of Pennsylvania, and Boutolle, of Maine. Tho motion wns lost—82 to 134. Without further amendment tho bill was reported to tho house and passed, exactly as rooommouded by tho com mittee—tho first appropriation bill of the session to pass without amend ments. Among tho morning miscel laneous business transacted was tho passage of two or throe private bills, tho presentation of a concurrent reso lution by Mr. Heatwole, of Minnesota, authorizing the appointment by the president of a Dunking and cur rency commission to consist of nine citizens to act with tho comp troller of tho currency and to report their recommendations and conclus ions to congress which was referred to tho committee on banking and cur rency and the presentation of tho re port of the congressional committee on tho opening of tho Ohickamanga National park, by Mr. Grosvenor. Mr. Cannon reported tho sundry civil ap propriation hill for tho year ending Juno 30, 1877, and gavo notice that ho would ask tho houso to oousidor it Friday. At 5:10 o’clock tho house adjourned. Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, has submitted to tho house the report of tho joint committee representing congress that participated in tho threo days’ dedicatory oxerciso of thu Ghicka- mauga and Chattanooga national park in September last. Tho report says the evont proved to bo without prece dent in tho history of wars, and ono which would not be possiblo in any other nation but this, for hero wero found gathered in enthusiastic com radeship tho most distinguished sur viving loaders of both sides, and many thousands of tho rank and file of tho onoo contending forces. In tho house, Friday, Mr. Hitt, chairman of tho foreign affairs coin- roittoe, decided after consultation with Speaker Reed not to call up tho con ference report on the Cuban resolu tions until the sundry civil appropria tion bill, which Mr. Cannon gavo no tice ho would cull up during the day, had been passed. Mr. Hepburn (Rep., Ia.) antago nized tho consideration of tho sundry civil appropriation hill, by moving that tho house proceed to tho consid eration of private claims. Friday, under tho rules, belongs to tho com- rnitteo on claims, but this was the first time the question had been raised at this session. Mr. Cannon opposed the motion of Mr. Hepburn, but on a rising voto bo was defeated—88 to GO. Mr. Cannon then demanded the yeas and nays which wero ordered. Tho roll call resulted 142 to 77. Tho an nouncement of tho victory over tho appropriations committee was received with great jubilation by tho members interested in privuto bills. Tho house then Jwent into com mittee of tho whole for tho considera tion of bills on The private calendar. In the houso Monday tho Semite joint resolution was agreed to ap pointing Bernard R. Green as suc cessor to the late General Casey as superintendent of the new congres sional library. Tho sundry civil ap propriation bill was then taken up, in committee of the whole, after notice had been given by Mr. Hitt, republi can, of Illinois, chairman of the com mittee on foreign affairs, that when the appropriation bill had boon dis posed of ho would present a confer ence report on tho Cuban resolutions. General debate on the sundry civil bill was limited to one hour and Mr. Cannon, republican, of Illinois, ex plained the various items going to make up the $17,000,000 which were carried in last year’s bill and omitted in this. Tho appropriations made to this bill for rivers and harbors, public build ings and fortifications under the con tinuous contract was due to the fact that these appropriations wero imme diately available and tho next sundry appropriation bill would become a law before the expiration of those eight months. This reduction was about three millions. Then tho last bill contained tho su gar bounty refund, which this did not. Mr. Cannon gave the appropriations made by the past three congresses and stated that in his opinion those for the first session of this congress would not fall below $506,000,000. In the present condition of tho treasury with the rocoipts each quarter loss than the expenditures, he appealed to oaoh in dividual momber that no new work bo entered upon. » Mr. Sayers, democrat, 6f Texas, criti cised the policy of limiting the con tract appropriations to eight months, and intimated it was dono for politioal effect, to make n good showing in tho coming presidential election. Mr. Dockery, demoorat, of Mis souri, also nttaokod tho policy. He gave it as liis opinion that tho amount appropriated by Ibis conuross would exceod a billion dollars. lie did no* soo, however, how a reduction oould bo made without repealing somo- laws authorizing contracts. This concluded the general debate and the bill was rend by paragraphs for amendment. After pnssiug ovor twelvo pages of tho bill tho oommitteo roso and on motion of Mr. Cannon at 5:05 p. m. the houso adjourned until Tuesday. Tnrc SENATE. None of the matters that como up before tho senate Thursday wore of much public interest and importance. One-third of tho time was consumed over a joint resolution appointing Ber nard R. Green successor to Gen. Casey in the matter of the construction of the new library building in Washington ; nearly as much time on an amendment to tho logislativo appropriation allow ing a third clerk to the sonato com mittee on pensions ; and ull tho rest of the time on a motion made by Mr. Sherman to strike out of tho legisla tive bill all the sections in relation to the compensation of United States dis trict attorneys, clerks and marshals. This latter subject was not disposed of when the seuato adjourned. Tho joint resolution reportod Wed nesday by Mr. Sherman, from the committee on foreign relations, author izing Benjamin Harrison to accept certain medals presented to him by tho governments of Brazil and Spain during his term of service ns president of tho United States was taken up and passed. Mr. Allen, populist, of Nebraska, offered a resolution as follows: “Resolved, That congress should, by appropriate legislation and without further delay, restore silver to the free and unlimited ooinngo at the ratio of 10 parts of standard silver to 1 part of gold, and should, by appropriation, withdraw from tho secretary of tho treasury any power ho may now have to issue tho bonds or other intorost- beariug obligations of tho United States until tho necessity thorofor shall bo declared by congress and that congress should not adjourn until those things have boen accomplished. Tho resolution was laid on tho tablo for tho present. At 5 :20 o’clock tho sonato adjournod until Friday. The legislative appropriation bill passed tho sonato Friday aftor occupy ing the attention of that body every day during the past week. It appro priates in round numbers $25,500,000. There was much debate upon it—first on Senator Sherman’s motion to strike out all tho soction relating to tho com pensation of United Statos district at torneys, clerks and marshals (putting thorn on a salary system of foes) and then on Senator Hill’s motion to strike out a provision changing tho time of lho meeting of tho legislative as sembly of Now Mexico. Mr. Sher man’s motion was defeated—yeas 18, nays 30, bo that tho bill remains (in that respect) hh it passed tho house. Mr. Hill’s motion developed a politi cal controversy nnd notice was given by Mr. Gorman, democrat of Mary land, that the discussion could not he cut off, but would assume pretty large dimensions. With tho object of avoid ing this threatened political debate Mr. Cullom, republican, of Illinois, who was in charge of the bill, moved to lay M^r. Hill’s motion on tho tablo, but Mr. Cnllom’s motion was disa greed to—yeas 21, nays 29. Tho democratic senators wero aided by the votes of tho populists and of two republicans, Senators Frye and Wolcott. Thereupon Mr. Cullom withdrew all opposition to Mr. Hill's motion and it was agreed to. That practically ended tho consideration of tho bill and it was passed without a division. Tho senate then, at 4:50 o’clock, adjourned until Monday. Tho bill to approve a compromise and settlement between the United States and the state of Arkansas, aris ing out of mutual claims for the prin cipal and interest duo on state bonds had by the United States, and for lands claimed by the state under tbo swamp lands act and other acts, was taken up in tho Heuate Monday and was passed af ter a debate lasting a couple of hours, No other business was transacted ex cept the passage of bills on tho calen dar that wero nnobjectud to, including one for public building at Indianapo lis to cost $2,000,000. When tho resolution providing for a select committeo to investigate the facts and circumstances of recent bond issues was reaehod, objection to its immediate consideration was made by Senators Hill, democrat, of New York, and Platt, republican, of Connecticut, but Mr. I’effer, populist, of Kansas, author of tho resolution, gave notice that he would ask for its further con sideration Tuesday. Two Color ado senators, Teller and Walcott, showed much earnestness tho resolution taken up. Aftor executive session the sonato, at p. m., adjourned until Tuesday. LUIS INATIONAL CAPITAL. 5:15 GEORGIA ROAD LOST. lie Famous “Long and Short Haul” Case Decided. A Washington special says : An opin ion was rendered in tho case known ns tho long and Bhort haul case, involving tho validity of tho provision of tho in terstate commerce act prohibiting a higher chargo for short than for a long haul appealed from tho decision of the circuit court of appeal for tho fifth circuit. The appeal was taken by tho railroads. Its title witH tho Interstate Commerce Commission vs. tho Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad company, tho Western and Atlautio Railroad company nnd the Georgia Railroad company. Tho decision of the court below was affirmed in the main, the opinion holding that in cases of shipments from ono state to another on through hills of lading railroad companies could not exempt parties and give them special rates. Justice Shims delivered tho opinion of tho court. The case involved the construction of tho fourth soction of tho interstate commerce act known as tho long and short haul section. The dispute con cerning this mattor is one that has Leon continually arising in various parts of tho country and it is of grout publio importance, as woll to tbo in terests of commerce as tp tho railways of overy part of tho country, that the question be put at root, f There was also drawn in question in tho case tho very important question of the interstate commerce commission to fix maximum ratos in cases properly brought before it as distinguished from a moro decision that a particular rato is oxoossive. Tho threo railroad companies are tho connecting roads running from Cincinnati, O., to Augusta, Ga. This litigation began through tho com plaint of a seller of buggeis at Cincin nati, to tho interstate commerce com mission, that the rates to Augusta, at tho end of tho Goorgia railroad, and to Sooial Circle, which was a point on tho Georgia railroad 60 miles below At lanta, wero such as to unfairly dis criminate ugainst 1 Sooial Circle. “ Th'o Texas Pacific and the Western tiffd Atlantic railroads claimed in their answer that tho rate to Social Oirole could only bo made by tho consont of tho Georgia road, on which it is loca ted. The Georgia company admitted that the ratos to Social Circlo wero tho rules to Atlanta plus the rates from At lanta to' Sooial Circle, and contended that thoy wero not unreasonable, the rato to Atlanta boing less than it should bo because of tho competition with lines from that city to Baltimore. GOSS 11* OF WASHINGTON IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS. COMPETITION DOWNED} THEM. creases this almost $100,000 and makes a lump appropriation under the gen eral bead of free delivery sorvioe. TRADE TOPICS. Now England Mills Will Cease Mak ing Coarse Clotli. A special from Boston, Mass., states that New England' cotton mills are giving up tho fight against competition in Georgia and tho Carolines and will soon cease to manufacture coarso cloths. Monday tho Lawrence Manufactur ing Company, of Lowell, one of tho biggest plants in New England stop ped making cloth eutiroly. Tho di rectors decidod to refund to the stock holders half of the capital stock, shut down half of the mill and make noth ing but hosiery. This is only the first of a serios. Other New England mills will very soon have to shut down. Treasurer Baker, of tho Lawrenoo company, says that this iB a crisiH which lias been ponding for three years. He says that tho low wages paid for southern mill labor is tho causo of tho trouble here. The coat of labor there is 30 per cent lower than it is here. Consequently tho southern manufacturers have an advantage over those of tho north of from 1$ to 2 cents a pound. Most of thoso mills aro located in tho Carolines and Georgia, although all tho southern states aro manufactur ing cotton, Mr. Bakor says that tho Lawrence Manufacturing Company nover expocts to return to tho manu facture of coarse cottons, as there is such a surplus of labor in the south fts to last for a generation at least, mak ing it impossible for many years to manufacture hero at a profit. Ho says that the southern mills do not manu facture onough to supply the Ameri can trade, but they make enough to oontrol the price, and that the north ern mills have to meet it and that manufacturing in tho south is increas ing fast enough to discourage it hero for good. WRECKED IIY WINDS. Southwest Virginia Visited by Cy clones—Two Women Drowned. Great destruction of property from tho cyclone and heavy ruin in south west Virginia Sunday afternoon is re ported. Near Rural Rotreat tho wind swept whole tracts of tirabor laud clean, blew down barns and scattered fences. Tho depot at Gate City, Scott county, was Btruck by lightning and burned down and in that vicinity two women were drowned. Several railroad bridges have been swept uwn.y. Doings of the Chiefs and Heads of tho Various Departments. Judge John I. Hall formally ten dered his resignation Thursday. Col onel Little, of Columbus, will nssumo tho duties of tho office as Judgo Hall’s successor on tlio 15th of next mouth. General Whoeler, of Alabama, lias offered in tho houso a bill providing that so long as the gold standard is maintained in this country the salaries of all officials, including congressmen, but excepting tho United States judges, shall bo reduced to throo-fourths tho salaries as now providod by law. Tho committoo on ways and means liavo ordered a favorable report on tbo bill of Mr. EvnuB, of Kentucky, to allow tho bottling of distilled spirits in bond. Tho bottling is to bo dono in tho bonded warehouses undor the supervision of tho government officers and without intermingling spirits of different kinds, ago or proof. Appropriation Bill Completed. Tho naval appropriation bill for tho fiscal year which begins on July 1 next has been completed by tho house committeo on naval affairs. Tho total amount carried bv tlio bill is $31,Gil,- 034, of which $12,779,133 iH for tho increase of tho navy. Tho appropria tion is an increaso ovor tho amount of the last bill, which was about twenty- nine nnd one-third millions. Undor tho increaso of tho navy the chief items aro tho four new battleships and fifteen torpedo boats. An Important Bill. A bill was favorably roportod to tbo senate Thursday from tho committee on education and labor, agriculture and capital for tbo purpose of investi gating thoso quoBtions and recommend ing such legislation to congress ns may bo necessary. Thoso representing la bor are to bo solected by the president upon tho recommendation of labor or ganizations; those representing agri culture, three from the farmers’ alli ance and two from tho national grange; those representing capital from various manufacturing industries. Cuban Resolutions Accepted. The conference committeo on the Cuban resolutions bus nrrangod to re port it in favor of tho original senate bill. It is not expressed exactly in the terms tho conferees wonld prefer, but it is tho best that can be dono at thiB time in viow of tho opposition which has been manifested in tho sonato. That will end tho matter so far as eon- gross is concerned, for tho senate lias alroady adopted them. In tho form an agreed to, tho resolutions are us follows: Rosolved by tho senate (tho houso of representatives concurring thoroiu), That, in tho opinion of congress, a condition of public war exists between the government of Spain and tho gov ernment proclaimed, and for some time maintained by force of arms by •the pooplo of Cuba, and that tho United Statos of America should muintain a strict neutrality between tho contending powers, according to each all tho rights of belligerents in the ports and territory of tho Unitod States. “Resolved furthor, That tho friend ly offices of the United States should be oflorod by the president to the Spanish government for tho recogni tion of tho independence of Cuba.” They express the sentiment of con gress, but are not binding upon the president, ns would bo joint resold tions. What tho president will do no one seoms to know. Tlio PostoHlce Bill Reported. The president has nominated B. J. Franklin, of Arizona, to bo governor of Arizona. The senate committoo on appropriations reported tho postoffice bill Monday. A net increaso of $1,352,- 00G is mndo to tlio houso bill, tho total as reported to the sonato, being $93, 171,564. The estimates for 1897 wore $94, 817,900 and ns passed by tho houso $91,818,557. Tho estimated postal revenues for 1897 aro placed at $: 793,120. Tho chief items of increase mndo by tho sonato aro: Clerks in postofliees, $150,000; inland mail transportation by railroad routes, $1,000,000; rail way postoffice car service, $100,000; transportation of foreign mails, $80,000. A reduction of $10,000 is made in the item' for rewards for de tection of postoffico burglars, etc. Among tho now provisions iuoorpo rated in tho bill is: “Provided that no postoffico estab lished at any county seat shall bo abol ished or discontinued by reason of any consolidation of postofflces mado by tho postmaster general undor oxisting law, and any such postoffico at a county seat heretofore consolidated shall bo established as a soparato post- ofiioo at such county seat.” Tho house bill under the head of free delivery service divides tho aggre gate of $12,748,250 specifically into appropriations for the letter curriers, horso hire, street letter boxes, inci dental expenses, otc. Tho senate in Dun & Co’s. Business Review for tho Past Week. R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly review of trade Bays: The returns of failures aro somewhat disappointing. Soveral of magnitude wero mentioned a woek ago, and thoy have swollod tho aggregate of defaulted labilities for threo weoks of March to $12,383,614, against $11,271,121 last year. A heavy failure in Texas will also swell the aggregate of failures for the past week, which includes 295 in tlio United States against 234 last year, and 39 in Canada, against 42 last woek. No important clinngo has oocured in tho goneral condition of trade during tho woek, and if trades in somo re spects look worse, in other rospeots thoy look better. Somo failures of mag nitude havojoccnrretl, which have caused much apprehension and willingness to lend nrnong bankers, and thero have been somewhat less favorable features iu the dry goods market, but in iron nud steal conditions aro slightly, and in boots and shoes considerably moro hopeful. Foreign trado is a littlo moro satisfactory, exports from Now York for throo weeks showing an in crease ovor last year of 6 per cent, while imports have shown nearly tho same rate of docreaso. In genoral, the oourso of domestio pricos tends to favor tho marketing of staples abroad. Cotton bad a lively riso with the covering of short-sellors; but began to decliuo again a week ago and has been lagging ovor sinco. Tho rocoipts from plantations continue quite as largo as in the samo weeks of tho last short crop year, and the stocks in sight, with tho quantities known to bo hold by European and American mills,mado up an ample supply for tho ro3t of tho crop year. EX-GOV. SEAY DEAD. Tho Distinguished Alabamian Passed Away. Ex-Governor Thomas Seay, who has been ill at his homo in Greensboro, Ala., for two webks with la grippe, died at 1:35 o’clock Monday after noon. Few mon in Alabama wore more loved than Governor Seay. Ho was prominent in publio life for ovor a quarter of a century and wns always a movor in anything looking to the wel fare or advancement of his state or oonntry. It was thought, on Saturday that tho attack of lagrippe, which has been severe from tho first, would pass off without a fatal result, but at a late hour Sunday ho changed for tho worse, and when the end came Monday after noon ho was surrounded by the mem bers of his family, who had been by his sido for ton hours watching him as he quietly passed into eternity. MAY PROSECUTE COMMODORE. Report that She Landed Soldiers and Guns In Cuba. Tho collector of customs at Charles ton, S. C., has informed the treasury department at Washington that an en gineer on tho steamer Commodore has mado a statement to himthut tho Com modore recoutly landed on her last trip from Charleston a lot of arms and a body of men on Cuban soil. Tho ves sel’s papers on tho trip were taken out for the coastwise service as far as Tam pa, Eia., and did not permit her to touch on foreign soil. The collector ijays ho hns turned over the informa tion to tho United States district at torney nnd if tho engineer’s state ment is corroborated by other testi mony tho vessel will be proceeded against for violation of tho Unitod States navigation laws. In case of conviction tho Commodore is liable to forfeiture under section 4337 of the rovisod statues. KLINE HAS RESIGNED. Ho Will Accept a Railroad Position in Mexico. A spocial from Savannah, Ga., is to the effect that President Comer, of tho Central of Goorgia Railway company, confirms tho report that General Su perintendent Tlieo D. Kline, of tho Central, has resigned for the purpose of going with the Intoroceauio Rail way of Mexico. He has had numbers of opplications for tho position, but nothing whatever has beon dono with regard to filling it. Mr. Kline will not leave tho Central until May 1st. Tho officials of the Cen tral all say he has been an able man- uger, nnd they dislike very much to soo him go. His salary boro has baon$10,- 000, and tho cause of his going is that a better proposition has been mude him iu Mexico. Must Show Tax Receipts. The Tennossee supreme court has delivered an opinion in whioh they sustained tho validity of the law com pelling a man to show his poll tax re ceipt. In view of the fact that the committee of governor’s elootion in tho last legislature throw out thousands of votes where voters wero not compelled to show receipts, this decision is of great importance.