Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-06
Especial Telegram to the Globe !

1st of September. On the latter date the
whole scheme which was announced bv
PRESIDENT Arthur on June 25 will be in &C.
tive operation. Some difficulty has been
experienced in relation to the filing of
bonds and number have been returned
on account of Irregularities. It is an ia
terestlng fact to note in this connection
that the treasury department does not GER
NIT any bondsmen to limit their liability.
They are all bound severally and jointly
for the full amount of their bonds, and in
some cases where figures have been placed
opposite their signatures the treasury de-
partment has at once rejected 1.-THE entire
bond as worthless. The postofice depart
ment, however, allows bondsmen to
limit their liability, as has been the custom
for many years.
BIT OFF MORE THAN he CAN CHEW.
Commissioner Evans seems to have bit
ten OF more than he can chew in his rul-
ing that the Hostetter Bitters company's
manufactures shall hereafter be governed
by laws regulating the sale of alcoholic
beverages. 1t is the opinion of some of
the Oldest and ablest officials in the inter.
nal revenue bureau that the government
cannot successfully prosecute the suit
which is now being prepared by the United
States district attorney at Pittsburg, Pa.
If this case is brought to jury trial, as it
looks as though 1t would, the government
will lose the fight which Evans brought.
The manufacturers claim, and this claim
is allowed by the internal revenue bureau.
that under the present ruling their bust
ness will be completely wrecked. Fully
three-fourths of their customers would
rather give up the sale of bitters than take
out licenses as vendors of alcoholic LIQUORS.
This the bitters men say means ruin for
them, and their fight will simply be a
struggle for existence.
WANT TO sEcEDE.
The story telegraphed from this city
purporting to disclose a scheme for the
acquisition of the Mexican state of Chi
huahua by the United States through the
connivance of the Americans in Chihua-
hua, who are to dissolve the state from
Mexico and apply for admission to the
United States, is very generally and unan-
imously discredited in official circles here.
BREWERS RETURNS.
The revised form upon which after the
10th inst. brewers are to make their re-
turns will give the public more knowledge
in regard to the ingredients of beer than
it has been possible heretofore to obtain.
Under the law regulating brewers they
have been required to keep two books, one
continuing the record of the amount
manufactured and sales, and
the ether the kind and amount
of materials used. They have
not been required to forward
transcripts of their material back to the
collectors, though the law provides that
these books shall always be open to the
collector or any authorized agent. In
practice these books have been very i'm
perfectly kept, and many brewers have not
kept them at all. The use of glucose,
corn, rice, and various decootions is be-
lieved TO be so general that several months
since new revision of form 10, the one
upon which brewers make out their month
~ returns, was approved and sent out, and
the first returns under it must be made to
collectors Friday of next week. This form
not only calls for a statement, ind er oath,
of the more usual ingredients other than
malt and hops, such as corn, cerealine,
rice, grapes, sugar, sucase, maltese and
syrup, but it requires a sworn statement
of every other kind of adulteration,
and the amount and use of
each article. This return is to be made
monthly to collectors, in duplicate, and
one copy is to be forwarded by collectors
to the Office of the internal revenue Each
brewer is required to make oath that the
statement of Ingredients used in the man
ufacture of his beer is true and correct in
every particular. 1t will thus
be seen that hereafter the com
position of beer Will be known.
except where 1t is concealed by perjury.
TEE CADET TROUBLE.
The action Of the secretary of war in
dismissing from the military academy Ca
Diet Hartigan, OF the first class, will not
only not be reversed, but if the superin-
tendeLt should ascertain the names of
those associated with Hartigan, they too,
it is said at the war department will be
summarily dismissed. AS it is, number
of cadets of the first class have been given
extra hours Of duty, and restricted in their
privileges, white those of the third class,
some seven or eight in number, are in
formed that there will be no cadet fur
Tough for them next year. Immediately
after Cadet Hartigan was dismissed he
came to Washington and addressed let
ter to the secretary of war, complaining
that the greatest injustice had been done
him, and asking that he be re- instated. In
his letter he alleged many reasons why he
should not be adjudged guilty, and withal
made an apparently reasonable appeal in
his own behalf. The secretary of war had
the letter referred tie Superintendent
Merritt, and his report has been received
at the war department. It says: "To be-
lieve for a moment that the new cadet, A.
Cuff, states other than the truth is simply
impossible. There is now no question IN
my mind but that there was deliberate
plan formed and entered into to throw the