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4 gfre IHofttina gfotog. Morning Mews Building, Savannah, (is SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1901. Registered at Postoffice In Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS Is published every day in the year, and served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mail, one week, 18 cents; one month. 70 cents; three months, $2.00; six months, 14.00; one year, JB.OO. THE MOIiXING NEWS by mall, six time a week (without Sunday issue), one month, 50 cents; three months, $1.50; six months. $3.00; one year. $6.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mail, one year, SI.OO. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by money order, check or reg istered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of sender. Transient advertisements, other than local or reading notices, amusements and classified column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch in depth—is the standard of measurement. Classified column ad vertisements, 1 cent a word each inser tion. 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Suits and Cravenettes Sacrified —At Foye & Eckstein's. Special Daily Sale, No. 6—B. H. Levy, Bro. & Cos. Bargains for Saturday—Rowlinski, Druggist. For Saturday—The DrfmonicO Cos. $25,000 Worth of Men's Clothing—B. H. Levy, Bro. & Cos. Pretty Holiday Things Falk's, Around the Corner. Foods Royal Baking Powder; Grape-Nuts. Whisky—Lewis' 66 Rye. Amusements—Capt. Richmond P. Hobson, Savannah Lyceum Course. Everything In Perfumes—Rowlinski,' Druggist. Toilet Things—Shuptrine’s Two Drug Stores. Bicycles for the Little Ones—‘At Lat timores’. The Good Cigar—Le Panto. Headquarters Fireworks—Henry Sol omon & Son. To-day Is the Time—Edward Lovell’s Sons. Some Simple Suggestions—Living ston's Pharmacy. Simply Snaps—The Metropolitan Cos. Auction Sales—Contents of Residence, by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer. Savannah Theater—To-day, Matinee and Night, “Quincy Adams Sawyer.” Lunch Menu To-day—Jerry George. Dry Kilns—Lumbermen Supply and Equipment Company. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis cellaneous. Tlie Weather. The indications for Georgia and East ern Florida for to-day are for rain, with fresh south winds becoming west. Some surgeons In New York have just succeeded in flttiqg a man with anew stomach, made of rubber. They must have been preparing him for the Christmas dinner. A Connecticut man has become blind as a result of excessive laughter. He attended a banquet and figuratively "split his sides” at the Jokes told. With this evidence in hand. Senator Depew ought to be able to prove an alibi should he be wanted in Con necticut. There isn't the slightest possibility that Kuropatkin will eat his Christ mas dinner in Tokio, or that Oyama will dine that day in Mukden. It is the pitiable prospect that the vultures of the air that hover over Port Arthur and the Manchurian capital will have the most abundant feast spread out for them. A leading Virginia Democrat has discovered a plan by which the state could be so re-districted, in the event of the reduction of the state's rep resentation in Congress under the Platt bill, that the sole Virginia Re publican now sitting in Congress could be thrown out and the state's delegation would be solidly Demo cratic; thus Virginia would have as many Democrats in Congress as ahe now has. The vitality of the Russian battle ship Retvtsuii mutches that of the late Admiral Ting of the Chinese navy or the proverbial cat with nine lives. It will be remembered that the Retvl san was utterly destroyed by Admiral Togo off Port Arthur aortic als mouths ago, then she was accidentally blown up and sunk by a Russian mine, and now she has been fatally crippled by Jepaneae shells from W Meter hill. Wtial other dw tslve issuaitias she rosy suffer during tits progress of the war remains toi the faithful correspondents to report. THE Qt ESTIOt OF REBATES. The recommendation that the Inter state Commerce Commission be given power to make the rates of railroads on interstate commerce has caused a decided feeling of uneasiness in rail road* circles. While it isn't thought there will be any legislation in har mony with the recommendation at this session, the conviction is growing that there will be a strong effort in the di rection of such legislation in the near future. There are now three bills pending for conferring on the Interstate Com merce Commission power to fix rates. One is by Senator Quarles of Wiscon sin, one by Representative Cooper of that state and the third by Repre sentative Hearst of New York. The Quarles and Cooper bills are almost identical, and are along the lines of the President’s recommendation, namely, that when a rate Is challenged the commission shall adjust it, sub ject to the approval of the court 'hav ing jurisdiction of such matters, but the rate fixed by the commission Is to stand until its action is reversed by the court of review. The Hearst bill provides that the rate fixed by the commission shall stand until the railroad affected shows that its con stitutional rights have been Infringed to an extent amounting to a confisca tion of property. It will be seen that the Quarles and Cooper bills are not so radical as the Hearst bill. The railroads say that it is practi cally impossible for the President to appoint a commission that could han dle the vast amount of business that would be thrust upon it as soon as a law giving it the power to fix rates was passed, and, at the same time, do justice to shippers and the rail roads. The making of rates Is full of prob lems, it Is claimed, that only expert railroad men cap solve, and that, if a commission were to be entrusted with such power, the railroads pf the country would be in danger of being wrecked. There is, of course, some force in what the railroad men say, but, at the same time, it is becoming more and more evident that the government will have to undertake the making and supervising of the rates of rail roads unless the roads themselves equalize them. At present the discrim inations are so great that small ship pers in all parts of the country are being ruined. The big shippers get such concessions in the way of rebates that the small shippers are driven out of business. It has been asserted, and doubtless with truth, that the chief soin-ce of income of some of the great corpora tions is the concessions they force from the railroads. The railroad rate problem Is one that will have to be settled very soon. The railroads ought to understand that and guide them selves accordingly. The fight isn’t so much against high rates as against unequal rates. MR. 8 HACKLE FORD'S CURIOSITY. Representative Shackleford of Mis souri seems determined to ask ques tions about the Panama Railroad’s af fairs that may prove to be embarrass ing to somebody. He is one of the members of the Committee on Inter state and Foreign Commerce of the House that visited the Isthmus of Panama recently for the purpose of getting a more intimate acquaintance with Panama canal matters. He has introduced into the House a resolution of Inquiry, calling on the committee of which he is a member, to find out all there is to be known about the Panama Railway, and also the steamships which are run in con nection with the railway and are prac tically owned by it. One thing he wants to know is, why the Panama Railway Company main tains an office in New York city at an expense of over $200,000 a year, when the United States own. 98 per cent, of its stock. Another thing he would like to have explained is, why the Panama Canal Commission re jected the proposition that was before it to transport the canal supplies from Colon and Panama to points along the canal at practically the cost of trans portation. As the United States own the railroad there would seem to be no good reason why the concession shouldn’t have been made. 'Mr. Shackleford says there is a report that Just before the railroad, which, by the way, is only about fifty miles long, was turned over to the United States, enormous dividends were paid to the stockholders, and that about all the United States got was the right-of way and two streaks of rust. If this report is correct our government ought to begin proceedings for the recovery of the money. Another statement that Mr. Shackle ford makes is, that since the Canal Commissioners became directors of the railroad the pay for each attendance at directors’ meetings has been raised from $lO to SSO. If there is a substantial foundation for the things Mr. Shackleford has given out as subjects for investiga tion his resolution for a committee of Inquiry ought to be adopted without delay. The impression prevails that there is lack of harmony In the commission, and that it was because of this that Col. Hecker resigned. If there are in dications of graft steps ought to be taken at once to make it clear that no graft will be permitted. The canal is going to cost a great deal more than the estimated amount, even if there is no misappropriation of the funds. If Kraft ia tolerated there is no telling what the cost will be. Before we purchased the canal prop erty we congratulated ourselves that under our management of the con struction of the canal there would be no graft. If there le anything In the things Mr. Hhackleford wants Investi gated we congrstulated ouiselves 100 soon. The greet moral t be drawn from the cases of both Mrs. Chadwick and Nan Patterson is that human nature Is pitiably a salt and liable to groea blundering. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1901. THE JAMESTOWN FAIR. Notwithstanding the fact that the purpose for which Representative Maynard of Virginia asks for $5,000,- 000, namely, the celebration of the founding of Jamestown, in that state, is a good one, it is doubtful if It will be an easy matter to get Congress to make the appropriation. The date of the exposition in 1908, and the aim is to make it worthy of the first settle ment of the English in this country. The Committee on Industrial Art and Expositions, which has the matter in charge, has decided not to recommend the fair or authorize an appropriation, and the House will hardly disregard the committee's action. It is probable, however, that the Jamestown settle ment will be commemorated in some minor way. Perhaps the suggestion may be made that the celebration be delayed a few years. The country seems to be tired of expositions. At least it doesn't seem to patronize them very liberally. The St. Louis fair has just closed, and al though it was larger and finer than the Chicago fair the attendance was very much smaller than at that fair. Indeed, there was almost a third more people at the Chicago fair, and, that too, notwithstanding the fact that there Was great financial depression at the time the Chicago fair was held while the country was exceptionally prosperous during the period of the St. Louis fair. Congress gave $5,000,000 to the Chi cago fair and also to the St. Louis fair, and now that amount Is asked for by those who have the Jamestown fair in hand. If the country were to be asked to vote on the proposition to make the appropriation the probability is the verdict would be to cut down the amount asked for and put off the date of the celebration at least ten years. There Is to be a great fair at Portland next year, which the whole country will be expected to patronize. The expectation will hardly be realiz ed, not because of any lack of inter est in that particular fair, but be cause the fair fad is worn to a fraz zle, as it were. The people are tired of fairs. The Jamestown fair ought to be put off until the Interests of the people In great fairs returns. Of course it would be more appro priate to have the fair in 1908, that being the anniversary year of a great historical event, but the people would have just about as much sentiment in respect to the fair if the celebration were delayed a few years. A delay would contribute greatly to the finan cial success of the celebration. IK IT A TRUST ALSO f The government has taken steps to find out whether or not the American Tobacco Company is violating the anti trust law. The claim is made that the company is one of the worst and most oppressive trusts in the country, the tobacco farmers being its victims. The Tobacco Growers' Association of Tennessee and Kentucky has laid its grievance before the Department of Justice, and an attorney of Springfield, Tenn., has been appointed to find out how much truth there is In the statements by the tobacco farmers. If their statements are supported by suf ficient evidence the government will undertake to bring the trust to justice. , It seems to take the government a long time to reach the offenders In these trust cases. For months now the government has been investigating the beef trust, and, as far as the public is aware, that trust is still doing busi ness at the old stand. It hasn’t changed Us methods in the loast. It may be that there isn’t any beef trust. But there seems to be something that makes the public pay more for meat than it ought to and forces the cat tlemen to sell their cattle for less than they are really worth. The people don’t care by what name this something is called. What they want is fair dealing. For their products they want a good price and they think they ought to pay only what is Just for the things they buy. Now that Mr. Roosevelt won’t be a candidate for re-election It may be he will insist upon a vigorous Investiga tion of all of the alleged trusts, and will see to It that they comply fully with the laws. There certainly has been talk enough about trusts to In sure vigorous action against them. If the statements are correct the to bacco farmers have good cause to com plain of the American Tobacco Com pany. The farmers say the company fixes the prices of their tobacco to suit itself —that It fixes the price it will pay for tobacco and the price at which it will sell the output of its many factories. If- it does this there isn’t any reason why It shouldn't make big dividends for its stockholders. But will the tobacco farmers get any dividends ? The Russian fleet at Port Arthur a month ago consisted of five battle ships, one armored cruiser, one pro tected cruiser, three gunboats, one coast-defense ship, two transports and eight destroyers. Recent dispatches are to the effect that the strongest gfing of the ships have been dis mounted and carried ashore, to de fend the port, and that the crews of the vessels have been drawn upon to man the land butteries. That be ing true, the ships were left almost helpless hulks; and If four or five of them have been destroyed by the plunging Japanese fire from 203-Meter Hill, then there remains practically nothing effective of the gallant fleet that Makaroff commanded with so much pride at the beginning of the war. An odd circumstance l.i connection with the progress of the Russian Bal tic first towards the Far East Is that the Insurance people have ceased to pay any attention to It. When It first started the Insurant's rats# demanded In London on cosl-iaden ships for Ja pan were almost prohibitive But dur ing tha past week Insurance has been written for ships at about the normal charge. The underwriters evidently are under the tnipreosiwn that the Mai- Ik' Meet will never roach For JCaeiein waters and that lla move want it Mara* iy a bluff. It seems likely that a delectable scandal will grow out of the dispute over the six-days’ bicycle race in Mad ison Square Garden, New York, that resulted in Walthour and other riders quitting. The New York Tribune, re porting the Incident, said: "Walthour, one of the riders to quit the race, said, after leaving the race, that he was on a salary of $250 a day, and that last year, when Butler and Mac Lean gained a lap, the management paid them $1,500 not to claim it, In addition to paying him $1,500 for winning the contest, although he was really a lap behind. Walthour threatens to sue for the money that he says is due him.” That means, if it means any thing, that the races are not “square;” that they are prearranged, and that the results are practically if not actually dictated by the promoters. Neverthe less there are in New York thousands of sap-heads who are willing and anx ious to bet their money on the outcome of the races. It is a theory of alienists that the more or less constant association of a sane person with one or more in sane persons will result in the mental aberration of the former. During recent years there have been numerous instances of physicians in insane (asy lums, who have gone crazy for no ap parent reason except that they tyere constantly associated with peo ple. In New York recently a young lawyer of more than ordinary ability had occasion to often visit an asylum in which was confined a patient who was connected with a case that had been entrusted to him. The inter views of the lawyer and the insane patient, who, by the way, had lucid intervals, are believed to have been in a large measure responsible for the fact that the lawyer is now himself insane. Democratic congressmen assembled at Washington do not seem to be weighted down with emblems of mourning. They are about as chipper as they ever were, notwithstanding the recent landslide. And "Undo Joe” Cannon and John Sharp Williams are seen about the Cipitol daily with their arms around each other’s necks. The situation, therefore, may be re garded as not altogether hopeless. Senators Knox of Pennsylvania and Crane of Massachusetts were great and important men, before they entered the United States Senate. Now they are ascertaining how small great men may sometimes be made. They are being put at the “foot of the class” on all committees tt> which they are assigned, and in other manners made to realize that the Senate is the “most august deliberative bbdy in the world.” The Wilmington (N. C.) Star makes this telling point: ‘‘The South is not solid against the Ni>rth. It Is solid against destructive forces closer home.” The Platts, jC’rumpackers and Morrells In Congress bught to be broad and deep enough to wok at the matter in this light. 1 PERSONAL, i —The Bible 'class bver which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., presides now taum bers over 300 members and is constant ly growing. William J. Tyndajl, congressman elect from the Fourteenth Missouri district, has just visited a city for the first time and tajten his first ride in an elevator. —Lieut. Gen. Chaftfe appears at his desk in the War Department every day In full uniform, "although the or der issued during the Spanish War requiring officers on duty in the War Department to dress thus during office hours has been rescinded —in fact was rescinded while Gen. Chaffee was on an inspecting tour In the Far West last summer—and it is not known that the general is aware of the fact; but his subordinates hesitate to suggest the change. BRIGHT BITS. —Kadley—"Yes, I really would like to know what your age is.” Miss Pep prey_“Well, why don’t you ask me?” Kadley—”Oh, you wouldn’t tell me the truth.” Miss Pepprey—"Oh, yes, I would.” Kadley—“Well, what is It?” Miss Pepprey—"None of your busi ness!’’—Philadelphia Press. —“McJigger,” remarked the man in the mackintosh, “is the most corrupt politician I ever knew. I don’t be lieve he h‘as ever had one honest con viction.” "Of course, not,” observed the man who had his feet on the ta ble. “If he had he would be serving a ten-year term in the penitentiary.” —Chicago Tribune. CURRENT COMMENT. The Columbia State (Dem.) says: "When it comes to figuring on the South's representation we will show that while we can permit the. negro to register we cannot 'force him to vote and Congress will have to,, credit us with those darkeys who aret quali fied.” . i The Charleston Post (Dem.) says: "The Platt measure opens a. very un inviting prospect to the people of the United States in the promise of a bit ter sectional wrangle, which good men of all parts of the nation wish most heartily to avoid. It will wither and die in Congress, unless partisanship and sectional prejudice have run mad in the North and that we do not be lieve." The Wilmington Messenger (Dem.) says: "It seems that Mr. Roosevelt has already sent to the Senate the nomination of Crum for collector of customs of the port of Charleston. Wo are sorry to see this, but then Charles ton Is no worse off than the city of Wilmington and many other Southern cities have been. The Charlestonians have our sympathy. We know from past experience what this means, but we assure them It can be survived." The New York American says: "In her financial career Mrs. Chadwick's trsnaactlons reach millions. Because of her one bank is In the hands of a receiver and the president Is under ar rest. Names of financial kings have been flaunted hack and forth as if they counted tor nothing. It is a strange story, and the Chadwick mys tery is just beginning Whether the • omen Is finally to triumph or go down In defeat and dlsgra>e remains to be seen. We think she late made one tactical blun4et khe had dealings with a federal bank Cm le Ham Is very jealous of any Infra' Hon of Ills banking rules, and his officers moved and arrested, when other* stood off end wondered.” Testing the Telephone. A West Philadelphia bride was made uneasy the other night by a harmless practical joke played by a friend of her husband, says the Phil adelphia Record. In response to the ringing of the telephone she placed the receiver to her ear, when a mas culine voice said; “This is the inspec tor. We want to see how the ’phone is working.” “It seems all right," re sponded the bride. "Well,’’ said the joker, at whose side stood the hus band, "breathe hard into the ’phone.” After a few seconds he repealed; “Breathe into the ’phone." ”1 did.” came the feminine voice in aggrieved tones. "I breathed as ioud as I could.” ’’H'm! Too bad. I didn't hear you. Please whistle.” "I can’t whistle.” was the reply. "But you must. It’s the company's rule.” A faint chirrup came over the wire. "I can hardly hear you,” said the self-styled inspec tor. "If you can’t whistle, clap your hands together three times.” "How* can I?” asked the poor girl. “I am holding the receiver w*ith one hand.” The pitiless taskmaster replied, stern ly; “Put the receiver down and then clap.” The bride did as she was told. "Now,” said the inspector, "knock your heels together.” ”1 think.” replied the bride, warmly, “you’re a nasty, mean, hateful thing, and I won’t do it. Anyway, I don’t thing you are an inspector at all. There now*.” The husband leaned over the shoulder of his friend, and in a voice that was recognized at the oth er end of the wire, said, laughingly: “The joke's on you dear; but I’ll make amends with anew bonnet.” Elephantine D. T. Tody Hamilton tell this story of the late P. T. Barnum, with whom he was associated for many years, says the New York Times. The great show man in his declining years was advis ed by his physicians to abstain from all spirituous liquors. He became a crank upon the subject of total absti nence, lecturing to many audiences upon this subject. A woman who heard him lecture afterward met him one day at his home in Bridgeport. “Why do you preach total absti nence to humanity,” she asked, “when it is well known that you allow your trainers to feed Jumbo four gallons of whisky a day and ten pounds of to bacco?” “Never thought of that,” said Mr. Barnum, and he almost ran to the telephone, calling up the winter quar ters of the show, and in his squeaky voice gave the order, “Give Jumbo no more tobacco or whisky.” Next day he got the following mes sage from the trainer: "Please build a padded cell for Jumbo, and send down at once 5,000 grains of bromide. He’s got D. T.’s on account of P. TANARUS., and has got the delusion that he is performing in Kentucky.” Jumbo got his regular four gallons after that. Too Muclv Talk. One day as a magpie had taken a seat on a limb near the highway two travelers came along and halted under the tree to rest, says the Chicago News. They soon observed the bird, and, never having seen one of its species before, one of them called out; “Behold the dagle! What a noble bird!” “Haw beautiful! How grand!” add ed the other. Filled with conceit, the magpie be gan to chatter her satisfaction at the words, but she had scarcely opened her mouth when one of the travelers exclaimed: “What fools we 'are! I know from what I have read that this bird is only a common magpie.” >a “And let her begqne,” added his friend as he picked up a stone and sent it whizzing at her head. A crow which had seen and heard all without being noticed himself now scratched his ear and murmur ed: . . “If some folks would only keep their mouths shut, what credit they would get for what they don’t know!” A Feat of Intelligence. A prominent missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church, according to the Washington Star, was in the habit of introducing among the Esquimaus, who were his special charges, many things to amuse or interest them. In order thfat he might gain their attention to his preaching. It happened, however, that in spite of the various ingenious Inventions which he placed before there these sons of the Arctic regions con tinued to be impressed by the white man’s canned food more than by any thing else he brought with him. Be-: ing unwilling to eat the blubber and drink the oil of the Esquimaus, the white man always came with many cans of meat and vegetables. One day the bishop above referred to decided to spring a genuine surprise on the natives. He had with him on this trip a talking machine, with records in the Esquimau tongue. He gathered his charges all around him in the lit tle meeting house, and started the ma chine going. Everybody was certainly puzzled. At last a smile broke in upon the face of one. "Canned white man,” he said, In glee. The Secretary's Duty. Several young men think they would like to be secretary to Senator Fair banks after he is sworn in as Vice President, says the Washington corre spondence of the New York World. There was a question to-day as to wHat are the duties of a secretary to a Vice President. "I’ll tell you.” said a man who has been in the (iapitol for many years. “The secretary of the Vice Presidenet is required to sit in the Vice President's gorgeous room, and when a party of 'Rube' sightseers stick their heads in the door say to them: ‘Come right in and I’ll show you the mir ror John Quincy Adams bought for s3o.' ” _ The Season's Query. From the Baltimore American. “Whatchy goin' t' gimmie?” says the youngest boy to pa; "Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?” says the youngest girl to ma; "Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?” says the maiden to her beau; Everywhere the answer is “O, sumpin, I dunno.” "Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?" asks the' little boy at school— His Juat-fore-Christmas goodness Makes him mindful of each rule; "Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?” sings the gamin on the street; "Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?" on our every hand we meet. "Whatchy goin’ t' glintne?” asks our town of Uncle Sam; “Bigger, better waterways, or leave me as I am?” "Whatchy goin’ t’ gimme?’" asks the world of Baltimore; "OrdUrr town, or Just the kind you used to be before?” "Whatchy goin' t’ gimme TANARUS" asks the yawning money-box; Meant to catch the coin to feed the hungry folks In flocks; "Whatchy goin’ F gimme?” asks the wretched and the poor Living In their penury a stone's-lhrow from your "Whauhy goin’ t* gimme?" asks the great hlg world, of you; "Lifetime full of usefulness, heart ain < ess and true?” “bbbat<hy goin' t' glnnnv '” |frr It everywhere you go- Always cotnes the answer, "o, Just eumpm 1 ffutaho.” WAS A FARCE AS IT WORKED INVESTIGATION OF TRUSTS AMOINTED TO NOTHING AT AI.L, DECLARED BAKER. New York CongrenHiunn In Discuss ing A|>|>ri>ration Bills the House Passed, Said He Didn't Object to Giting Money for Investigation ot Trusts If Those Employed Would Only* Investigate—They Had Ac complished Nothing. Washington, Dec. 9. —The House to day passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, practi cally as it came from the committee, and adjourned until Monday. With the disposal of the provisions relating to the Civil Service Commis sion, which yesterday caused so much discussion and criticism, there was no lengthy debate on any item to-day. Throughout the session the policy of retrenchment held full sway, and all attempts to Increase salaries failed. By the terms of a concurrent resolu tion, which was adopted, the House agreed to adjourn on Dec. 21 until Jan. 4, 1905, for the usual Christmas holiday. When adjournment was taken yes terday the discussion was on the amendment of Mr. Hepburn of lowa, cutting off appropriations for the Civil Service Commission. By a viva voce vote the amendment was lost. Mr. Olmsted of Pennsylvania de clared the provision for a rural carrier examining board, to be new legisla tion and not properly in the bill. The chair sustained Mr. Olmsted’s conten tion. Didn't Do Their Work. In criticising the paragraph relating to the Bureau of Corporations, Mr. Baker of New York said that his com plaint was not that too much money bad been appropriated for the pay of special attorneys, special examiners and special agents, but that no use had been made of the money. There had been, he said, a demand to inves tigate what had come to be known t's "the trusts.” “What is the result?” he inquired. “Absolutely nothing,” he said, answering his own question. He had been assured by a friend in the department that an investigation had tjeen made of one corporation, whose books were so kept that it could not be ascertained whether that cor poration had made $100,000,000 or sl,- 000,000. From this he drew the de duction that either there was a lack of competency on the part of men de tailed by the Bureau of Corporations to make investigations, or else a lack of intent on the part of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to get at the facts. It was, he said, a notorious fact that a steel rail association exists, and yet, he said, he had been informed that the House Judiciary Committee would ,re port adversely on his resolution to in vestigate that association on the ground that it was a rumor. In sten torian tones he declared, amid Demo cratic applause, that it was a “rumor so strenuous, so terrible that it can take the American people by the throat and exact an undue tribute of $30,000,- 000.” He ridiculed the idea that any one did hot know of such an associa tion. On a point of order by Mr. Maddox of Georgia, the salary for the position of chief of the Bureau of Manufactures of the Department of Commerce and Labor was abolished. As amended, the bill then passed. The House adjourned until Monday. CLAIMS ARE EXORBITANT Thinks the Commissioner tn the Sul ly A Cos. Case. New York, Dec. 9.—That the charges tor services rendered by Henry W. Taft and David H. iMiller, the receiv ers, and several others who have been engaged in untangling the affairs of the bankrupt firm of D. J. Sully & Cos., are excessive, is the opinion of MacGrane Coxe, the special United States commissioner, appointed by the United States District Court, to take testimony on the report and accounts of the receivers. The commissioner's report, filed to day, says that the receivers ask for an allowance of $25,000 for their services, and that Boothby & Baldwin ask for an allowance of $30,000 for their serv ices as attorneys for the receivers. The report adds; “I find that all that should be allow ed out of the estates of the bankrupts as compensation to the two receivers and counsel is $40,000. Of this I think there should be allowed to the two re ceivers $16,000, and to their counsel $20,250. "It follows, then, that upon the pay ment of these amounts by the receiv ers, and of the expenses of this pro ceeding, and upon the payment and delivery over to the trustee of all the money and property of the several bankrupt estates remaining in their hands, they should be discharged and their undertaking and the bond of their suretv cancelled.” RE-APPOINTED CABINET. The Ofllrlal Family of Preatilent Ula* of Mexico. Mexico City. Dec. 9.—President Diaz has reappointed the entire cabi net and to-day asked congressional sanction thereto. The re-appointed members with their offices are as fol lows: Foreign affairs, Ignacio Maris cal; interior, Ramon Corral; justice and public instruction, Justino Fer nandez; agriculture, Gen. Manuel Gon zalez Cosio; communications and pub lic works, Leandro Fernandez; treas ury, Jose y Llmantour; army and navy, general of division. Francisco Z. Mena. LATIMER ABANDONS HOPE. Can't Get Hi* Goml Hoads Mrsunre Through Thl* Session. Washington, Dec. 9. —Senator Latimer has given up hope of the passage of his good roads bill at the present es slon of Congress. It has been an nounced that economy is to be the slo gan of the session, and in every quar ter where effort has been made to ob tain support for the measure the ques tion of legislative extravagance has been raised. The bill will die at the end of the session. TANARUS llnlltl lain the Delta. Vicksburg, Miss., Dec. Htuyvesant Fish, president, and 3. T. Hnrshsn, second vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad, were In conference to-day here with m committee from the Vicksburg Hoard of Trade rela tive to ihe building of branch line from Redwood on the Yux<m and Mle aleaippl Valley Railroad to connect with tha Yasoo Cttr-BelaoiiU road This line, If built, will penal rata one of the richest sections of the Della. As * roeult of tha • ofifaisin * the road. 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