Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-12-08

The value of the imports ut the port
Philadelphia for the mouth of OCtO-
was =. SO, ,S4l, an increase OF $685.
over the corresponding month Of
;; year.
me coal tonnage Of the Huntingdon
] Broad Top Railroad last week was
- tons, an increase of 80 tons as
impaired with the corresponding week
ast year.
The total coal tonnage of the Phila-
phia and Reading Railroad for the
four days OfNOvember was 1894
IS, an increase OF sc, 40 tons over the
responding period of last year.
The Pittsburgh and COnnellsyille's
1ual repOr. shows the gross earnings
e >2,759, 1927, and the expenditures
10 ,654.29. The annual meeting re-
tted the old directors Robert Car
was chosen president, and j. b.
arlington secretary and treasurer.
lue tobacco manufacturers of Chi
30 held a meeting yesterday repre-
;ing 1000 operatives present, and
fw up petition to Congress asking
mediate action on the tax question,
he ground that the continued agita-
was running their business and de
t,iug operators of their subsistence.
lev favor the total abolition of the
on tobacco in the case, and want
same rebate as allowed all unbrOken
fkages Of manufactured tobacco as a
Utter of justice.
b London, business, as far as regards
and steel, has been quiet, but the
Re on the whole is in a healthy and
Isactory condition, and the dullness
Declared TO be the natural corollary Oi
successive buying that went on
weeks ago. The reports from the
kous manufacturing districts in pc
tied Kingdom are to the effect that,
ugh operations are fully carried on
producers are well supplied orders
some time TO come, they cannot
81 with fresh contracts, except they
ke considerable concessions in prices,
Nch, OF course, they will not do until
Lr order books are more nearly bare
Outracts. From the continent the
DrtS are somewhat similar, the eN-
rs.ve buying having given place to
rkcd stagnatiOn among purchasers
some quarters, and rather lower
b. are taken.
a,trrney General Brewster, in re-
E,e to the request of Comptroller OF
Currency Knox, has given an Opin-
rons,ruing the statutes relating to
ratification Of checks by national
ik>, including the stringent law pass
IA; the last session of Congress at the
>,ance of Senator Beck. The Attor-
n General holds that under the law
+latiuual bank cannot lawfully "ae-
' checks drawn upon it where the
lwtr has not a deposit there with the
ount stated in the check, and the
er who does this becomes lia-
10 five thousand dollars fine,
Imprisonment for four years or
.yL. Mr.. knOx's other question
vi iner, if such cerifieatiOn, under the
+ q accepting checks were legal
bow great an extent may a bank
ectice this becomes of small cOnse-
nee in view of the Attorney Gene
sRQSyer to the first question. Mr.
sx made the inquiry probably IN
; Of the fact that he found, on Oeto-
nd last, that nine banks of New
Z city had certified or accepted"
S eks to the amount Ofover nine times
aggregate capital, while the
onal banking law forblds any
AtO be indebted or in any way
e 10 an amount exceeding the
II INT Of its capital stock paid in. The
ney General says that II the &C
2nee Of checks in the sense spoken
'e'e lawful il could still not lawfully
aTied to an extent beyond the
mt ofthe banks paid in capital.
oanSS and bank officers which are
.YsG by this opinion Of the Attorney
"a will take notice that COmptrol-
aiGx proposes to do what the law
- hS clear duty-ascertain by fre-
examinations whether the law IS
n .Su and report viOlators OF il to the
'S authorities. Five thousand dol
T.e OF four years imprisonment, or
s- stafes bank officers in the lace
practice Oyer-eertifieatlon in any