Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-12
AFFAIRS ABROAD.
O jmmeroe M,ving with 0lOggod Whee's
In Mexico Pending the Financial
Crisis.
The Pail Mall Gazette solioits Additions
to It's Revelations Of tbs Sins Of
Great Oily,
siKNIUo.


In the Midst o. "a Financial Crisis.
CRY or MEXICO, July 1.-THE
Mexican Financier this afternoon
says; "rhe banks continue 10 dis
count commercial paper with caution,
and confine their transactions 10 GUS
tomers Of whom they are sure.
In commercial circles credit IL
given with circumspection, and the
disposition OF the business men Ia TO
curtail operations til the crisis Ia
past. That Il "a impossible speedily
TO resume the psymsnt OF subsidies
TO the subvent toned corporations IL
apparent on the most superficial study
OF the financial situation. The govern-
inent must frat OF all maintain itself
Public order must be sustained if any
investments here are TO be OF any
value, and In this light the railroad and
other subventioned interests must
look at the matter IL would seem TO
20 be good opnoTtunity for railway
companies TO effect n compromise with
the government, thereby obtaining an
extension OF the period for the COM
pletion OF their lines still under
construction and an adjustment OF the
points which me yet under discussion.
By meeting the government In u splr.
Il OF frIendliness the representatives
OF the railroads might do much
toward mitigating the aspirates
of the somewhat strained situation.
II IL important for Mexico that the
railroad system already planned aud
under survey or construction
should be butt VA soon
as possible. With tGs net
work OF railroads touching every Inn
portant point In the county the nu-
merlcal strength OF the army could
easily be reduced and the treasury
correspondingly relleved.n
Hallway Concessions Forfeited.
CRY or MEXICO, July 1.-THE gov
eminent has declared two railway con-
cessions forfeited, The concessions
were granted In May, 1883, to the rep
resentatlves Of the Central a South.
western Railway company Of
New Mexico, Represented by
w. q. Franklin and Edward
y. Meaney for the construction Of "A
railroad from HacAtocRs 10 Frontora
! del Norta, with "A branch 10 Vopolu-
bampo. The company VIVA TO build
300 kilometers every two years,
and also 10 deposit $2j, 900 forfeit
money. Neither eoniitlon having
been complied with, the concession IL
declared void.
The other forfeit adj concession WIS
that OF CJuptlT fel "a tJr the Tamau-
lipss international railway. The count
WAS to build 20J kilomsters every
| two years, and, not having done NO, e
losea his concession and $40 900 Ct foI-
felt money deposited ia this city.
The Imprisoned editors and
students will be tried by the
federal Judge, IA the oflense 70 ageintt
the national government The pris.
oners are In the Berlin penlientiRry,
on the outskirts OF the city and have
been Visited by many fFieDds
The government hat refused
To llbten to- the friends
OF the accused. The trials will excite
great interest and the result will be
looked for anxiously. The govern.
meDt will not hack down but IL deter.
mined to punish the offenders on the
ground that they tried TO excite u rev.
olution.
The financial hituatlon remains un.
changed, aud the general feeling In
business circles IL that the crisis has
PISSED without disorder.