The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-10-05

. The oiloci that the emperor aud empress o
2, Russia were secretly crowned during thei
. recent Visit 10 Moscow. N the empe
Y for survives till Tho public coronation, iht
. secret ceremony viii be considered void. IN
: the event Of bis death, u will be made pub.
: lio, 80 NJ toaYold any difficulty In proclaim
ing the czaroyitch Alexander ~ the lawful
successor OF n crowned monarch.
Mr.. GRAY RELEASED.
DUBLIN, September 30--Judge Lawson,
at the conclusion of the hearing for the re.
lease Of u. Dyer Gray, on the payment OF
the 1900 fine, RENTED Gray's bail.
Judge Lawson, defending his act in inn
prisoning Mr.. Gray, on legal grounds, said
he felt that justice had now been vindicated
q better state Of things being observable.
! ~ DISTRESS.
LONDON, September 30.-The bark Liver
pool, for Galveston, has taken refuge at
Falmouth leaking and with the crew mu-
| tinous.
FAILED.
Tamlaier q Son, shippers and merchants
at Manchester, Calcutta and Bagdad, have
failed. Liabilities, Gl50,000
FRANCE AND CONGO.
A dispatch to the Times, from Paris says:
"By treaties with King Batches, France is
expected to gain control of the Congo coun-
try. king Leopold in letter to NJ. De Les.
seps has recognized this as an accomplished
fact. The French papers represent Mr..
Stanley as having tried TO supplant the
French and demand the immediate ratif-
cation of treaty.
DISPOSED TO BE LENIENT.
MADRID September 30.-The government
in view of the protestations OF Great |
Britain, the United States and Sweden, is
disposed to reduce the MAXIMUM fines i'm
posed for Irregularities on vessels arriving
at Spanish ports.
The Tariff Commission
AT BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, September 20.-Eight of the
nine tariff commissioners arrived here this
morning. A brief morning session was
held, but no witnesses being present. recess
was taken until 2o'clock, at which time the
interests of manufacturers of chemicals and
fertilizers containing sulphuric or muriatic
acids were presented by Il. W, S. Raisin,
ofBaltimore He said that this interest
was one ofthe largest in the state, and was
equally large in southern and western
states. He read petitions asking the COM
mission to make such Recommendation as /
will give the manufacturers of sulphuric and |
muriatic acids and agricultural fertilizers
such protection as they are entitled. They /
say that it does not stand to reason that
American manufactures, with their expen- I
siye plant, large capital and COSTLY skilled
labor, can A
COMPETE WITH FOREIGN ARTICLE;
that the cost of the components of artificial
chemicals was nothing. 1t was common q
thing for heavy goods to be imported from C
England and Germany at mere nominal q
freight, and whole cargo had been known
to be imported as ballast, while such goods
could not be shipped from Norfolk TO Savan-
nah except at loss Of from 81 so to So per !
ton. The manufacture of these chemicals !
and fertilizers had grown to be business X
of great magnitude, from $0,oOO,OOO to
S10,000,000 being invested in it in Balti-
more Charleston, Atlanta, New Orleans, b
and other cities. One.third
Of these investments in Baltimore "
were now idle, while the imports of Euro
pean articles had increased in five years Y
rom few hundred tons to 5000 tons in e
1881, and consequently the price of sui a
Dhlric acid had fallen to an extent involy-
RUINoUs LOSS.
Some half dozen similar petitions, signed
BY the principal manufacturers of chemicals
and fertilizers were presented by Messrs
Raisin, of Baltimore, Jackson, of New York
and Allen, of Philadelphia; the general
being that duty of 30 per cent.
be imposed on foreign chemicals, and that
Spanish pyrites, or sulphur ore, to be adj
mitted
FREE OF DUTY.
II was stated, however, that as to the latter
point, there was no unanimity of sentiment
among chemical manufacturers.
Silas /. LOOMS, of Fernandina, Florida,
presented the claims of the manufac-
turers of palmetto fibre to protection
Under the tariff He said that it had been
ound by experiment that fibre made from
palmetto could be used in the making of
brushes, carpets, hats and cloth.
He asked that bamboo and rattan and
COCOA fibre, that are now on the free list, be
axed at from l cent per pound of raw ma
erial to cents when partially worked into
'ope or fibre. He used q machine by which
ton of palmetto fibre was produced daily.
L competed with iute, hemp. tampico and
almost all of those foreign flores coming
rom the palmetto family.