Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-17
Grape Vines Infected With .ds''''
'lOXeria Seized by the
Customs Officers. >, ;'.' =
The Sandwiching Of Ohtl
Sugar Denied by Oon- sV
sui Daggett.
The Supreme court Favorably
Passes Upon Deals in
Futures"
The Bright Side OF Colored Life in
Warrington.
CAPITOL NOT So.
Special Dispatches 10 TIE BRn.

CAPITOL NOTss.
Special Dispatches 10 TIE Bnn.
INFECTED VINES.
WASHINGTON, April 16, The treas
ury department has been informed
that q quantity of vine cuttings have
been imported into the port of New
York from China which the custom
house fficers think are infested with
pbylloxeria. There 10 no law author.
izing the destruction Of such importa-
tions The treasury department rec
ognizes the fact that this Is matter
Of great Importance to the vine
interests of this country and
will confer with the agricultural de-
partment ON the subject.
I 1.-THE TWENTY FIRST EMANCIPATION
Is being celebrated with the usual en-.
thusiasm. All colored employees of
the executive departments and public
works have . holiday, and all private
buildings and Kindred enterprises
where colored labor IL employed have
suspended from necessity.
ef3 cHrNRsH SUGAR.
n. M. Daggart, United States min
lister, resident at Honolulu, has made
| i full report to the state department
With regard % tho alleged reshipment
from there 10 the United States of
Chinese sugars with . View to seour.
ing the advantages Of the reciprocity
treaty between the Sandwich Islands
and this country. He says that dur.
Ing the year 1882 only four vessels ar.
rived ct Honolulu from Chinese p orts
and none Of them brought or dis,
charged Chinese sugars; but even
granting that sugars could be i'm
ported and reshipped In this way the
necessary expenses incidental to this
works, viz: lghterage to ahore,
loading and transporting sugars
inland from one to five miles, mixing
and working In with Hawaiian sugars,
resaoking, reloadipg and retransport
Ing to shore and lighterage to vesSe
would be In excess of the evadet
duties. Under all circumstances
therefore, Mr.. DAgget 10 firmly of th'
belief that Chinese sugars have no
been In the past brought to thu
Hawaiian Islands and reshipped to tn
United States a. products of Hawaiian
plantations.
| GAMBLING IN pUTURE.
| A decision was rendered by the su
preme court In the brokerage case o
John H, T. ;lntree, plaintiff in error
agslnst Aiftiest r. NTH and M. 6
Llghtner, In error, from the clrcui
, court of the United States for th
western district Of Wisconsin. TIL
! was . suit growing out Of speculation
| In domestic produce in the city c
Chicago upon ''margins." 1t wa
brought BY the firm Of Smith & Light
ner, brokers. against their customer
. John q. Rountres, to recover
; balsncs alleged to be due thei
ON account OF purchase an
T sales Of pork, lard, wheat, etc., mud
by his order. Roundree set up d.
/; fense that the brokers had not o.
tually bought or delivered to him II
commodities specified, but had mer
speoulated ia "options" on his accouu
aud that these "options" were not
4. Ing but gambling contracts or bets G
} future prices Of various articles
4 produce to which they related; tn
i. they were not designed to be actual
q performed by delivery, but the diffe
d ences were to be adjusted and pa!
!. meuts made and accepted aocordil
to the d fl ,renoes between the ool
tract price and the mark
price at the day fixed for d
j. livery, and that, finally, the
Q contracts we're illegal and vol
u Plaintiff offered no proof that Il
;, particular contracts in controverI
q were really bets on future prices, b.
u he did Offer to show that q very lar,
= proportion nf oil contracts made
!: all members of the Chicago board
q trade for sale of produce were settl'
70 by payment Of differences; that not
lag else was expected and that thlepr
portion Of such betting contracts
which delivery Of merchandise "
!. neither expected nor desired was
- great In comparison with contrac
:. a to Justify the Inference that oo
40 tracts made for him by his broke
were of q gambling kind. This cou
10 holds that the evidence Of what 9th
70 people intended by other contracts
IN q similar character, however num'
ous, ID not sufficient, OF Itself,
IN prove that the parties to these oc
Ve tracts intended to violate the law or
Justify a Jury In making such p
sumption. "It is also to oe {
served" the court says, "tl
the plaintiffs in this care I
y. not suing on the contra
o' but for services performed and nor
u advanced or defendant at his reque
~ and though it is possible that th
or might, under some circumstances,
70. 80 connected with immortality of O.
no tract as 10 be affected by 1t, they
certainly not In the same position
the party suing { ,r the enforcement
an original agreement. The judgm
of the circuit court In favor CT
he broker is affirmed with inter'
ls. Opinion by Justice Miller.
Ut A RAILROAD TAX CASE.
D.. A decision was also rendered by
Oh court to-day In the railroad tax q
of the Little Mama and Columbus
Xsnia railroad company, plaintiff
srrox, against the United States,
error, from the circuit court OF
W. United States for the southern
nd triot of Ohio. This was brought
BY the United States to recover 4