Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-17
Grape Vines Infected With .ds'
'lOXeria Seized by the
Customs Officers. ., ;'a y
The ~Sandwiching Of Ohl
Sugar Denied by Con- sV
sui Daggett.
The Supreme court Favorably
Passes Upon Deals in
Futures"
The Bright Side of Colored Life in
Warrington.
CAPITOL q So.
Dispatcbts 10 The BRn.

CAPITOL NOTES.
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 tficers think are infested with
pbylloxeria. There 10 no law author.
izing the destruction Of such importa-
lions The treasury department rec
ognizes the fact that this Is n matter
Of great Importance to the vine
interests of this country and
will confer with the agricultural de-
partment ON the subject.
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.
IA cHrNRsH SUGAR.
h N. Daggart, United States min
lister, resident ut Honolulu, has made
) full report TO the state department
wishiregard 70 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 ports
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: l~ighterage to ahore,
loading and transporting sugars
inland from one to five miles, mixing
and working In with Ha waiian sugars,
resaoking, reloadipg and retransport
Ing to shore and lighterage to veaSe
would be In excess of the evadet
duties. Under all circumstances
therefore, Mr.. DAgget 10 firmly of TIM
belief that Chinese sugars have no
been In the past brought to thu
Hawaiian Islands and reshipped to TIT
United States IS products of Hawaiian
plantations.
GAMBLING IN FUTURE.
A decision was rendered by the su
preme court In the brokerage oase o
IJohS FL, E;lntree, plaintiff in error
against AfsEest r. Smith and M. G
Llghtner, In error, from the clrcui
court of the United States for tn
western district Of Wisconsin. TIL
was . suit growing out Of speculation
In domestic produce 10 the city c
Caicago upon ''margins." 1t wa
brought BY the firm Of Smith & Ligh'
/. ner, brokers. against their customer
John 81. Rountres, to recover
balsncs alleged to be due thei
ON account OF purchase an
sales Of pork, lard, wheat, etc., mud
, by his order. Roundree set up q d
tense that the brokers had not O.
tually bought or delivered to him ii
+, commodities specified, but had mere
~speoulated 10 "options" on his accouu
aud that these 'options" were not
: Ing but gambling contracts or bets G
future prices Of various articles
produce to which they related; tn
/. they were not designed to be actual
q performed by delivery, but the dife
. ences were to be adjusted and pa!
meuts made and accepted accordil
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 were illegal and vol
Plaintiff offered no proof that Il
particular contracts in %controverI
q were really bets on future prices, b.
u he did offsr to show that q very lar,
= proportion II all contracts made |
all members of the Chicago board
q trade for sale Of produce yer settl'
% by payment of differences; that not
lag else was expected and that th!epr
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
10 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
q similar character, however num'
Gus, ID not sufficient, OF Itself,
IN prove that the parties to these &C
70 tracts intended to violate the law or
Justify a Jury In making such p,
sumption. 1T is also to oe {
served" the court says, I'll
the plaintiffs in this care
not suing on the contra
u but for services performed and nor
u advanced Or defendant at his reque
and though it is possible that tn
might, under some circumstances,
70. 80 connected with immortality of O.
tract as 10 be affected by 1t, they
certainly not In the same position
the party suing Or the enforcement
an original agreement. The judgm
of the circuit court In favor CT
broker is affirmed with inter'
Is. Opinion by Justice Miller.
Ut A RAILROAD TAX CASE.
D.: A decision was also rendered by
OF court to-day In the railroad tax q
of the Little Mama and Columbus
Xsnia railroad company, plaintiff
error, 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