The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-01-17

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National Notes,
WASHINGTON, Jan. l2.-The war depart.
ment is informed that the condition OF
General Mckenzie is considerably I'm
Drayed The report is made by the staff
officers who recently visited him that the
BinOmlnedgle asylum medical officers re-
Trained from the expression Of an opinion
as TO the chances Of hs recovery, lJl5 gen.
orally believed that the present improve
meut il n temporary one, ana that reaC-
ton will follow. Ills restoration to his
command is regarded "a impossible, and q
vacancy will soon occur IN lac grade Of
brigadier-general. General Wesley Ner.
rltt, SUPERINTENDENT at N555 Point, and
Colonel y. s, Stanley. vi the twenty-sec1Ad
infantry, arc prominently mentioned as
likely TO reCeiVe.promonon.
| The house committee on expenditures IN
The department OF justice met with closed
doors, and commenced the examination OF
Brewster Cameron.
The secretary OF The treasury gives notice
that the principal aud accrued interest on
$4,000 coo IN three per cents issued under
the act approved July II, 1882, Will be paid
on the l5Ih OF March, 1854. Inc lnleres'
will cease on that day.
The secretary OF the treasury has written
A letter to the collector OF customs at New
/ York ia regard 10 tho correctness OF the
former decis on relative to the provision OF
the Law Of March 3, 1888, placing duty OH
leaf tobacco ht for wrapper. Ihat provls-
ion held that In order 10 be duuable ut fit-
ty-seven cents per pound when uus'emmed
aud one dollar when 3temmed, the package
containing the tobacco must coatnlC 50 per
cent ft for wrappers, winch Is
more than the one hundred leaves
required 10 weigh G pound. The
| decision thus made was that package was
theunit OF quantity by which 70 determine
whether the merchandise ContormCd WITH
The statutory standard, II has been con.
tended by persons interested thar there are
two descriptions OF tobacco known in the
| trade: one, wrapper tObEeCO, and the other
filler tobacco; further, fh;s. a!l OF the class
| known rs wrapper tobacco may not be ht
for wrappers. On saii't9at iish bngdr %
leaves to weigh possd, SO mat
when tobacco belonging to the wrap
per class is found not to conform
| to the statutory standard In thee two res
F., Gets it falls into the provision for tobacco
''uot otherwise provided for dutiaole at 90
cents per pound" The secretary says TINS
reassuring will make the class of tobacco
the test and not the quantity contained in
the package, and thinks these views ea-
titled to serious consideration. NO evi.
dence has been presented on the part oil
| importer. since the case was originally de-
cided. AS preliminary to any further
decision in the matter, the collector IS d.
rected to suspend action under the aeoislon
above referred to and classify the wrapper
tobacco found il packages according to the
standard before indicated, leaving the I'M
porters, il dissatisfied, TO protest and ap-
peal.
The senate committee on foreign rela.
tions, at the meeting to-day, took up the
bill prepared by the Pacific coast de'esa,
| nv Spnnipr NJ lllnr. of
California, amending the Chinese immigra-
tiou act OF the last congress-. The discus
sion was long one, and not confined TO
tina merits OF the bill in hand, but involved
the original questions developed when the
anti Chinese bill was under discussion.
This was due to the fact that come mem
| hers OF The committee never dealt WIN Inc
subject before in committee. The bill was
finally referred TO subcommittee, con-
sistipr of Messrs. Miller, Wilson and Nor
ran. The tone OF the debate gave warrant
Tor the opinion that measure having TOR
its purpose the correcting OF the delecis OF
the present law and the prohibition OF the
importation OF Chinese laborers Will be re-
ported by the committee,
The pOstmaster.general has gone to New
York to remain until Monday.
An influential committee Of lawyers
waited upon the president to-day to urge
the reappointment Of District Attorney
Corkhill. ..
through its president, o. G. Marsh, to-day
made a report on glucose TO the commits.
sion of internal revenue. After stating
| what starch sugar is, how it is manutact.
ured and chiefly used, the report says That
the starch sugar industry IN the Unneo
States gives employment TO twenty.hine
factories having an busbeIs Of
corn per day and producing grape, sugar
and glucose of an annual value OF nearly
$40 OOO. 900, In Germany in 1881 and 1857
thsre were thirty nine factories OF this sort,
produing 10000. tons Of starch sugar.
4 thorough Investigation OF .he whole n9I
subject ns5i of wa ibs % academy, 0y and e as
a result the following facts appear: The
manufacturer of sugar from starch Is
long established industry scientifically
valuable and commercially important.
The processes it employs at the present
time, are unobjectionable in character ano
leave the produce urcontamlnaCeui 1ne
starch sugar thus made and sent into COM
rnerce is Of excetional purity and uniformi-
ty of composition and contains no injurious
substances and though having at best only.
about two-thirds of the sweetness power OF
cane sugar, starch sugar Is IN no way inie-
rior to cane sugar in healthiulness, there
being no evidence before the coniinlttee
NAL condition or fermented has any oeie-
FERROUS effect upon the system even when
taken in large quantities. -,
The sub-cop,mittee OF cattle men ap-
pointed to prepare bill for the suppress
ssion aud extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia
and other contagious diseases among
dom este animals, have. completed
their proposed measure and 1t was sub
lifted to the entire commi tee
nj cattlemen appointed at the recent Chi
ago convention for the purpose OF securing
iaeislation and was accepted. The bill
viii be given to the house committees on
agriculture on Monday. 1t is as follows:
bill to establish q bureau of animal industry
and for the suppression and exhrpauon OF
pleuro- pneumonia and other con tagious dis
eases among domestic animals. =.
Seetion 1.-The commissioner OF Rgricult-
ure shall organize In his department q bu-
raau on animal industry end appoint as
chief,a competent veterinary surgeon. whose
duty shall be to investigate and report the
number, value and condition Of
domestic animals in the United
States, their protection and use; also to in
ouire into and report the causes OF con
. tagious and com muuicable diseases among
them and means Of prevention and cure
such information on these subjects
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