Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-26
NEW HAVEN,

ing. There are now 400 creameries or cheese ! factories in that State, and their patrons find the industry much more profitable than rais- ing wheat at 60 to 70 cents bushel on land that is worth from $15 to $10Oper acre. The St. Louis Republican reports that the farm CTS in northern Missouri have begun to turn their attention in the same direction, and says that if one-half the money and labor pended last year in raising dissouri's crop of 35, ,OO0, 900 bushels of wheat had been given dairying, the net result would have been to double. It argues that ''the markets of the world are glutted with wheat, but the more
 butter and cheese produced, the more there
 is consumed, the demand keeping pace with
 and even outstripping the supply"
 Representative Lowering of Massachusetts is in receipt of many petitions urging the
 passage of his bill introduced at the last ses-
 sion of Congress, providing for the payment
 of a pension of eight dollars month to
 every officer, soldier and sailor who served in
 the army, navy or marine corps for a period
 of not less than sixty days during the late
 war, and who was honorably discharged
 therefrom. The bill is now pending before
 the house committee on invalid pensions.
 Mir. lowering has prepared a report in its
 favor which he has submitted to the com
 mittse. He estimates that 605, ,000 persons
 will be provided for by this bill, involving
 an expenditure of $59, ,OS0, 900 per annum
 upon the claims. ''This bil1," he says, twill
 benefit another class of persons, all persons now on the pension rolls and hereafter to be
 placed upon the pension rolls under claims now pending before the pension office and drawing less than eight dollars per month, or those entitled to receive undei present laws less sum upon the adjudica tion of their claims, and also those whose applications are now or will hereafter be re- jected. Upon consulting the last annual re port of the commissioner of pensions, the conclusion is reached that about $S, 100000 additional would be required for these class es, making grand total of $66,00O, 900 per annum.
 There has been good deal of talk against ing the Railroad and Warehouse commissioners have decided not to publish any reduction of rates the railroads of that State. They find that the railroads Lear their fair share of the burden of hard times and low prices by the decreased tonnage and loss of passenger traffic necessarily incident thereto, and that this burden rests so heavily upon them that they cannot stand a further reduction in rates, until the business of transportation re- wives, without it's being reflected at once up on the employment of labor; that the larger nortiop of ni1eape in the State though most essential to the prosperity and convenience of the farmers generally, is at the present time absolutely non productive, and that it has not been shown that any general reviss ion or reduction would be beneficial to the business interests of the State at present. The commissioners further report that of the ffty-two roads within the State only nine paid dividends the past year, and excepting two or three coal roads, none of these could be self-st1staining on the Illinois business alone. They find further that the rates, of transportation in Illinois are lower than in any State in the Union, and have been rapidly reduced; the Chicago and Alton from 24 to 1.06 cents within two years, on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul from 16O to 1.36 cents, on the Chicago and North western from 47 to 1.29 cents, and on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific from .2S to 1. 10 cents.