The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-06-29
WASHINGTON NoTES
PROHIBITION OF AMERICAN IMpoR

race Onltou oIatcs DmisteI, mat tno COIL
mercial treaty between Turkey and Amer
ca would expire March Is, 1884. The Turk
ish tariff expired on the same date of the
| present year. After the termination of the
treaty the Importation Of all American
meats lard and similar produce will be pro-
hibited. The Porte has virtually increased
the duties on spirits by compelling the stor-
age at Smyrna. The Porte also maintains
the demand relative to the storage OF petrO-
leum. No American delegate has been APP
the new tariff. although the appointment OF
| one has twice been requested. General
Wallace has protested that American goods
under the treaty of 1880 are entitled to the
most favored nations treatment. The re-
latiOns between the Sultan and General
ordered the payment of all the private
claims of Americans on Turkey and claims
amounting to f3S000 have already been
paid.
INJUDIcIoUs SELECTIONS.
A. prominent post Office official whose
| business brings him in close relations with
all branches OF the postal service suggests
that possibly the Ciyil-Service Commission
| ers have made q mistake in the principle
| which seems to have controlled them in the
selection of Boards of Examiners in many
of the cities. 'They have" said this Of
fetal, ''chosen chiefs of the most important
divisions In several of the post-offices. BY
| these selections they unQuestionably have
| secured the best men that could be found
for the work, but the difficulty is that, I'M
der the existing system, man cannot be
spared to perform these duties. They are
paid to do certain work, and great deal
depends upon them, and they cannot prop
| erly attend 10 their regular duties and de-
vote as much time as ought to be necessary
| to be efficient as civil-seryice examiners
| Take, for instance, the Superintendent of
Mails at the Chicago Post-0ffice. He has
charge OF all the mails of the office, and has
200 men under him. He is generally over
worked now with the ordinary routine du-
ties Of Ills Office and finds it very difficult to
attend to any other business. How, then,
| can he devote perhaps week in month,
and. until the new system shall be put In
operation, more than that, to his duties as a
civil-service examiner
JUDGE wYLIE SUMS UP.
Judge Wylie, in delivering his charge to
| the star route jury, after cOmplimenting
counsel for the clearness of argument, said
| that it would be dangerous to go into the de-
tails, but that it would I've proper to call
their attention to some points. In the first
place, they were to ,ieri,la this case accord
ing TO the evidence, and not be swayed or
influenced other than by the law. They
should look at the case without regard to
newspal r appeals for conviction or acquit-
tai Popular clamOr has its sway in its
particular sphere, but it should have no
field here. Sympathies with the defend
ants on account of religion or relations i'm
life should have no weight in their minds.
No public officer had the right to set up his
policy against the policy of law. The mere
violation Of duty on the part of public Of
ticer is not criminal. He then read the stat
ute in regard to conspiracy. Two or more
persons must cOnspire. There must be some
intelligence between them-a union of mind
common purpose between them to accOmp-
lish a certain thing. A man might, By his
| own acts, do certain things to forward the
objects of conspiracy without having any
thing to do with conspiracy. There must
be united views, motives of criminal char
acter, and every man must be convicted
upon his own conduct, not on that of anoth-
er person. He referred to the fact that ex-
Senator Dorsey Miner and Peck secured
80 contracts, and, though bidding separ-
ately, all were interested, and there was
apparently union of purpose. Referring
to the expedition on the Tongue River and
Mineral Park routes. he maintained there
was no urgent necessity for granting expe-
ditions that required mail-carriers tn travel
night and day through regions unsettled
That kind OF administration shocked his
sense of justice. Still, men sometimes be-
come enthusiastic in office, and, prompted
by desire to gain reputation, went to great
lengths. Brady's action in paying more at
tentiOn to the recommendations Of Senators
and Congressman than to petitions his Hon
or thought worse than acting upon fraidu-
lent petitions.
CoRN-A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW.
LindSlom & CO. C of Chicago i was Com com.
pleted Saturday and was given to the
press Monday. The review comprises re-
ports from nearly one thousand points in
the leading corn states, and gives cOmpre-
quiries were sent by Lindblom & Co. dur
Ing the last days of May to l,lOO points in
the principal corn states, ten in number,
asking information concerning the present
condition of corn, acreage planted, damage
done by cold and wet etc. A compre-
| questions Is given in the subjoined. Briefly
| stated, the condition of corn Is generally
very good. There Is large increase in the
acreage planted this year, especially in win
of ruined wheat have been plowed up and
planted to corn. The damage done by cold
weather and rains in May and the latter
| part Of April appears to have amounted in
most cases to but little more than the de-
laying of planting and the retarding Of the
| weather which set in about June changed
the aspect of affairs very much. Warm,
bright weather came Just in stime to do its
work. Had it been delayed ten days long
| err, the result would have been disastrous.
| AS 1t Is there Is promise of a large yield,
and with go d weather the promise will
| not fail of fulfilment. In sections where,
because of the poor quality of the seed or
| bad condition or the SOIL corn did not come
up, full acreage has, in nearly all cases,
been replanted. The state of Kansas prom
ises the largest increase In yield. Kansas
produced in 1882 I57, OOO, 600 bushels of corn.
| This year it is estimated-the estimate be-
| ing based upon the known increase of the
acreage and general outlook-that the pro-
| ductiOn will fall but little below .00, 600, 900
bushels. Missouri will increase her pro-
duction in proportion and the per cent. of
increase in Illinois will not be much less.
! Ohio 1t Is estimated will produce nearly lOO,
900, 900 bushels. OF the forty-eight counties
| In Wisconsin heard from twenty-eight re-
port an increase In acreage Of from to 25
per cent, while but two report less acreage
than last year. Nearly every county now
sends favorable report Of the outlook. OF
thirty counties in Kansas, representing
fairly the different sections of the state,
twenty-three report an increase In acreage
| OF from 10 to 80 per cent. and three a slight
decrease. The reports are uniformly good
| as to the general outlook. OF thirty-one
counties in Illinois, covering well the diff
ferent portions Of the state, thirteen report
an Increase in acreage ranging from to 30
| per cent, and FIVE a decrease of from to
- per cent. OF fifteen Indiana counties,