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the war tax
is INADEQUATE
Ml Not Produce as Much Reve*
iiae as Was Expected.
deficit a hundred million
Shortage, However, Is Considered
Small —Cost. of the Spanish
War Is Conjectured.
A Washington special says: It is re
ii.leil as a conservative estimate that
the treasury deficit for the fiscal year
which closes ten days lienee,
will be less than 8100,000,000. Already
the receipts for the year aggregate
over 8498,800,000, with the expendi
ture barely 8100,000,000 more, with
ten days, judging from past years, of
heavy receipts yet to be accounted for.
Up to this date the customs receipts
amount to over 8200,400,000; from in
ternal revenue 8263,550,000 was real
ized and from miscellaneous sources
there was received 835,500,000.
The totat receipts from all sources
last year amounted to 8405,321,335,
while the expenditures aggregated
§443,368,582, leaving a deficit of $38,-
047,247.
From the closest calculation that
can now be made, the war revenue
act, which, with the exception of a
few. items, went into effect July 1,
1898, will realize for the year a little
less than $100,000,000.' The receipt
from tobacco alone will probably show
an increase of 86,500,000; beer and
other fermented liquors an increase
of over $28,000,000, and oleomargarine
an increase of about $585,000. The
two items which have produced more
than ten times as much revenue as
any two others are those applying to
documentary and proprietary stamps.
On April 3d last these items had pro
duced over $36,500,000, and it is not
improbable that by July Ist the total
will exceed $44,000,000. The tax on
legacies will probably produce not
much in excess of $1,000,000, while
the special tax collected from bankers
will exceed $3,500,000.
At this time it is impossible to state
with any degree of certainty what the
war with Spain and the troubles in the
Philippines have cost during the year,
but an approximation of the cash pay
ment on these accounts which places
the amount at $230,000,000. A calcu
lation has been made at the treasury
winch shows that the leaving out of
the reckoning the $230,000,000 ex
pended this year an account of the
war; the 8100,000,000 produced by the
war revenue act and the $11,798,314
received from the Central Pacific, the
figures would show a surplus for the
year approximating $20,000,000.
MINERS fire on negroes.
• iist HlocilsUed Results From the Strike
In Indiana.
Ibe first bloodshed of the miners’
strike, that has been in progress at
Evansville, Ind., for two months, oc
curred shortly after midnight Tuesday
night. It had been decided by the
proprietors of the Sunny Side rnino
'bat foreign miners would be imported
to start the mines.
the decision was made known to the
union men when the Chicago scale had
been offered them. About thirty col
ored miners from Madisonville, Ky.,
can e in over the Louisville and Nash
v_hle and were met at the station by
nines H. Moore, kookkeeper and
tockholder in the Sunny Side com
pany. The wagonette was driven by
Edward Geiger.
Ihe company’s plant is located on
‘ Je oorthwestern edge of the city.
Mr. Moore and Mr. Geiger were in
he front of the wagonette. While the
'chicle was passing a vacant lot just
’■nore making a turn in the road to go
mines, parties on the sides of
t ' le roft d fired in the dark upon the men
,‘ !l 'he wagonette, wounding a num
-1 of them. The volley produced
Teat excitement among the occupants
‘ 'he wagonette and the driver, whip
plnß U P his horses, hurried to the
ne, while those who had done the
r 'ug escaped in the darkness.
r,<! who invests one dollar In husl
should invest one dollar in ad<
crtisijjy that business.—A. T. Stew*
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NEWS NOTES FROM HAVANA. |
A New List of Members of the
Cuban Army Is Now
Being Made.
A special from Havana states that
General Maximo Gomez has instructed
General Rafael Rodriguez, his chief of
staff’, to open au office at Quinta de los
Montionos and to begin the preparation
of the new lists of the Cuban army. The
work was begun Monday when General
Rodriguez mailed personal notices and
published in all the newspapers of the
land instructions to division, corps,
brigade, regimental and company com
manders to send so soon as possible
complete data—the names of all the
men of their commands with the dates
of enlistment and periods of service.
The preparation of the lists will be
pushed forward with all speed on
accouut of the pitiable condition of
the soldiery virtually mobilized miles
from home at the pay stations.
General George M. Randall has re
turned from paying the Cuban sol
diers. He says ho paid almost 2,800
men. The majority delivered up their
arms, which were turned over to the
civil authorities. A few men were ar
rested for issuing bogus certificates of
discharge and were turned over to the
alcaldes. The general expects to be
gin paying in Havana at once.
The additional pay rolls will proba
bly not be ready for six weeks.
The Cuban soldiers at Remedios are
becoming anxious to receive their
money, ns the proprietors of the hotels
and restaurants are unwilling to allow
them more credit, owing to the un
certainty of the men’s inclusion in the
revised lists.
General Brooke’s headquarters is
already on the move from El Yedado
to the palace formerly occupied by
Marshal Blanco in Havana province.
The removal will be complete, it is ex
pected, before the close of the first
week in July.
Frederick W. Krause, who is in
custody on suspicion of having bees
implicated in the murder of Minnie
Ross last Saturday night, will proba
bly be released, as the police investi
gation virtually clears him and all
other Americans involved as witnesses.
GEORGIAN GIVES TESTIMONY
Before Industrial Commission Regarding
Conditions In the South.
James Barrett, vice president of the
Georgia State Agricultural Society,
was the only witness before the indus
trial commission at Washington, Mon
day. He spoke on the agricultural
conditions of the south, saying that
they were worse today than they had
ever been in the history of the coun
try. He said the cotton interest was
especially depressed, prices last year
amounting to a little over 4 cents a
pound. At this price a man could not
save himself if he paid wages amount
ing to more than $3 a month. Planters
generally pay about $6 for wages, and
at such rates they could not prevent
loss if they received less than 6 cents
per pound. i
Mr. Barrett said that nine-tent'es of
the cotton grown was mortgaged before
it matured. Bates of interest and
commission were bigh, and the mer
chants were gradually coming into
possession of the land. The banks
charge 10 per cent for money for three
months’ time. He advanced the idea
that the national bank has done vast
damage in outlawing real estate as
security for money loaned to these
banks and that all told this act was to
the south the most damaging legisla
tion that had ever been enacted.
The witness said that nearly all the
plantation labor was done by negroes
and that there was practically no im
migration because of the cheapness of
labor and the social conditions. The
railroad rates were such as to render
it impossible to longer make water
melon growing profitable and the same
was true of other garden products.
“The railroads are both the daddy
and the mammy of the trusts,” he as
serted.
Mr. Barrett said the census of 1890
had shown that Augusta, where he
lives, was the most illiterate place in
the United States and he thought the
fact was due to the presence of too
much politics in the schools.
ALL WILL GET MEDALS.
Officers and M<m of tlie McCulloch Not
Ignored.
It is stated at the navy department
that every man attached to the Olym
pia, Boston, Baltimore, Concord, Ra
leigh, Petrel and McCulloch during
the battle of Manila harbor, regardless
of rank or station, will receive a medal
of honor.
The McCulloch, which was a revenue
cutter at the outbreak of the war, was
transferred to the naval service and
added to Admiral Dewey’s fleet. She
rendered efficient support in the bril
liant engagement which culminated in
the annihilation of the Spanish fleet
and also carried the first official news
of Admiral Dewey’s victory to Hong
Kong. In view of these facts it was
deemed proper that the officers and
men of the McCulloch should share
equally with the others in the distri
bution of the congressional medals.
BIG FIGHT
ON TRUSTS
Being Arraigned For By Tam
many Leaders at New York.
WILL HOLD A MASS MEETING.
*
War Cry of Next Campaign Will
Be Launched at Fourth of
July Celebration.
The New York World says Tammany
is going to array itself against the
trusts. Its Fourth of July celebration
this year will be mainly devoted to
sounding the anti-trust war cry for the
campaign of next year.
The two principal apeakers*of the
celebration will devote their eloquence
to marking the line of battle in the
national fight. They are J. J. Will
ard, ex-chairman of the democratic
state committee of Alabama, and Con
gressman Carruth, of Kentucky. Both
men, who are famed in their respec
tive states as orators, will talk about
the evils of trusts.
W. J. Bryan has been invited to at
tend the celebration and make a
speech. He is not expected to come.
Neither is ex-President Cleveland nor
David B. Hill, both of whom have
been asked.
Admiral Schley says he will come if
he can, but he will not make a speech.
Arthur P. Gorman and Edward Mur
phy have been asked, too.
The short talkers will bo Herbert E.
Bissell, of Buffalo; Congressman Fitz
gerald, of Massachusetts; Congress
man Daly, of New Jersey; J. W.
Ridgew'ay, of Brooklyn, and perhaps
Congressman De Armond, of Mis
souri.
DEFENDS TRUSTS.
A special from Madison, Wis., says:
Two thousand students and town peo
ple heard the baccalaureate address
delivered Sunday afternoon by Presi
dent Charles Kendall Adams to the
graduating classes of the University of
Wisconsin. His subject was “Irre
sistible Tendencies,” and his remarks
on trusts and on the imperial policy
of the United States and the coloniz
ing European states were somewhat
unexpected and sensational. He said
regarding trusts:
“This great fact has b~en universal
ly recognized, that in every free coun
try combinations have been the dis
tinctive feature of modern industrial
life, and they have been a result in no
country but a free country. The ten
dency has been irresistible because it
has been the logical sequence and out
growth of individualism and invention.
For example, within a few years after
the invention of the telegraph there
were 100 companies, and a dispatch
from the seaboard to the Mississippi
had to pay tribute to a dozen different
corporations. A law to prevent their
combination would not only have done
violence to the principles of individual
liberty, but would also have continued
to levy and unwarranted tax upon the
community.”
SAYERS GETS ENCOURAGEMENT.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas, says:
Governor Sayers is much encouraged
with the prospects of a large attend
ance of governors and attorneys gen
eral at the anti-trust conference to be
held in St. Louis September 20th. Up
to this time seventeen governors have
responded to his invitation to attend
the proposed conference. Of that
number thirteen are outspoken in
favor of the anti-trust legislation.
Governor Sayers received a letter Sat
urday from Governor Robert B. Smith,
of Montana, as follows:
“I heartily indorse your action in
calling a meeting of the governors and
attorneys general of the several states
and territories for the purpose of dis
cussing the subject of trusts and of
state legislation that will tend to do
a*vay with the evil. God being willing,
I will be with you at the meeting in
September, and I will try to persuade
our attorneys general to attend.”
The replies so far received by Gov
ernor Sayers are about evenly divided
betweeif democratic and republican
governors.
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