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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-03
,omarsermaster Generals Report.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The quarter
master general. in his annual report, says
the necessity for assembling troops at the
larger and more prominent posts near In
dian reservations, and in proximity to the
great strategic points of the country ada
cent to its public reservations. harbors and
ports, becomes daily more apparent. He
urges that troops garrisoned in casemated
forts be kept in garrisons outside easements
in time of peace for sanitary reasons, and
says barracks should be built at once. The
report proceeds to give financial showing.
At the beginning of the fiscal year there
remained in the treasury balances applicable
to the expenses of prior years 81, 1913, ,962;
appropriated for year, S9,911. o56; balance
undrawn June 80, 1885, was 1856, 076, re-
quired to meet outstanding Indebtedness.
Then follows statements of building and
barracks erected needs for future ex-
penses, transportation, the purchase of
horses, claims settled, etc.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-03
Wards Co-Conspirator, Warner.


New YORK, Nov 2.-The examination
of William S. Warner, charged with hay
ing swindled the Marine bank, was contin-
ued to-day before United States Commis-
sioner Shields. George E. Spencer, the
cashier for Grant & Ward, identified a
bundle of obligations Of that firm. repre-
senting their operations with various par
ties. A number of checks drawn by Grant
s. Ward and Ferdinand Ward, payable to
Warner and indorsed by him, were also
offered in evidence. The defense objected
to all these papers. The commissioner,
however, admitted them. On cross eXami-
nation, the witness stated that the papers
produced had been used in Wards trial,
and were subsequently returned to the
receivers Office. He said that the stubs
of this check book were secure in
the receivers Office. U. S. Grant,
TsnJ era lasRedd @aed repressating the aoats OF 0I
a flour contract. Several other docurne,at-
were identified by the witness, who said he
was led to believe by Ward that the con-
tracts were perfectly legitimate. At the
time of the failure witness had contracts
representing 5000, 900 in his hands, which
he believed to be valid. The witness did
not take out as much money at any time as
he put in the firm. He did not know many
of the people who had dealings with the
firm of Grant & Ward. In regard to
Warmers dealings with the firm he said he
supposed that the latter was advancing
money on flour notes and contracts. Col.
Bliss of the defense said he understood
that the district attorney intends to
put Warmers case before the grand jury
some time this week. He desired to pro-
test against such procedure as the case
should be allowed to proceed to finish be-
fore the commissioner. The case was then
adjourned.
New YORK, Nov At was rumored
here to-day that Mayor Grace and several
other prominent individuals are to be ar
rested for alleged completely in the Marine
bank fraud. United States District Attor-
ney Dorsheimer when questioned about the
matter said: ''It is true that several prom
inent individuals were implicated in those
frauds in the Marine bank, but they have
not been arrested as yet. 1t is reported
that warrants have been issued but nothing
definite has been aScertained.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-03

Unavailable for reduction of debt
Fractional silver coin. .. S22, ,965, ,535 20
Minor coin. Observation-Disclosures. 719,S31 24
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Total. S23, ,6s5, ,S66 81
Certificates held as cash. 900. 63,432, 1854 90
Net cash balance on hand.... 66,SIS, ,292 3S
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-03
Cash in the treasury av

OF the public debt
Gold held for gold certificates
actually outstanding.
United States notes held for
certificates Of deposit ac-
tually outstanding. .........
Cash held for matured debt
and interest unpaid. ......
Total available for reduction
of the debt. .................
Held for redemption Of
United States notes, acts
Jan. II, 1915, and July Il,
1882.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-03

Total cash in the treasury as
shown by treasurer'S gen.
eral account. t............... .s4S7, 500, ,t9s SO
Net increase in cash. ......... 3,S64,S1 81
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-03
Public Debt Ntatement.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The following is a
recapitulation of the debt statement as issued
to-day:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-03

Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.! :!
Less cash items available for
reduction of the debt. $50.
Less reserve held for redemp-
ton of United States notes
(S100, 900, ,000)..
Total debt, less available cash
ltCllS.
Net cash in the treasury.
Debt, less cash in the treasury
on Nov. /, 1885.
Debt, less cash in the treasury
on Oct. l. 1885.
Decrease of debt during the
month as shown by this
statement.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-14

was, Can the Island planters not
make it an object for the American
Refinery to enlarge its scope, by
ensuring them their crop and, if
necessary, taking stock in the estab-
lishment?" This was not directly
answered, but the proposition was,
noticcably, not objected to. II has
proved that negotiations were al
ready opened for that identical
scheme. BY the S. S. Zealandia's
mail of Saturday came the intelli-
gence that the American Refinery
Company had contracted to take the
portion of the Hawaiian crop offered,
increased its capital to million
dollars and begun measures for the
enlargement of its works. II is as
certained, further, that some Hawaii
an planters have taken stock in the
reorganized company. The name
of M. S. Grinbaum & Co. appears
in the Incorporation list, which in
itself is guarantee of financial stabi-
lity. A very important phase of the
new arrangement is the matter of
sugar freights. Hawaiian planters
have the privilege of selecting bottoms
for the transportation of their crop
upon the most advantageous terms
available. 1t is claimed that con-
siderable saving may be made on
this score.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-14
the CHINESE ELEMENT IN BUSINESS.

Buy in the cheapest and sell in
the dearest Market" is an old, and
generally, II correct rule of business.
If John Chinaman sells cotton for
nine cents and "Mellican man
sells the same goods for ten cents,
then, on business principles Johns
cottons ought to be patronized and
the Mellican mans left with the
moths. A great deal has been said
and written ON the relations of the
Chinese population in this country
to the country interests and destiny.
Many views are expressed, and much
diversity of opinion exists on the
question whether the Chinese ele-
ment enlarges the volume of the
country's trade or only stands in the
way of its greater development by
other people. If it is really a ques-
tion of Chinese occupation versus
unpeopled solitude and desolation;
some answer, better be occupied by
the Mongolian than left uninhabited;
Others say, no, better have unoccu-
pied lands and houses open to immi-
grants of better class who, under
present conditions, are prevented
from coming in and taking posses
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-14
the PASSPORT SYSTEM.

A visitor who had just bought
permission to escape from the GUS
tody of the Hawaiian Government,
remarked, with gesture more elo-
quent than words, cit costs two
dollars to enter this country, but
only dollar to leave it." People
of foreign countries who are aware
of this anomalous system of fining
incoming and outgoing passengers,
and the former more heavily than
the latter, must view with degree
of contempt any anxiety manifested
here for obtaining desirable settlers
from abroad. 1t would be hard,
moreover, for this nation to defend
itself from the charge of being a
gross cheat, in exacting from stran-
gers money to support a hospital
that is shut against them. except for
more money, when they may need
its shelter and treatment. Regard
ing the passport system, it is not
without certain advantages to the
community, apart from its value as
source of revenue. Yet cases may
be imagined where the enforcement
of the law might become the eXcit-
ing cause of international trouble.
We do not believe in the ancient
custom of taxing strangers and let
ing the children fee. Let those
living under a Government be taxed
for the privileges and protection it
affords them. Strangers Temporal
rily sojourning, and having no mate
rial stake in country, these days,
are wards of their own national
Governments and, we hold, owe
nothing to any Government at peace
with their own for protection.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-14
THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.

An elaborate article on the state
of the sugar business the world
over, appears in the Melbourne Age
of the 10th inst. The writer is evil
IDENTIFY well stocked with facts and
figures from various sources. Notice
is taken, at the outset, of the adj
vance in prices which is said to have
taken marvellous strides" " of late.
Twenty-four pounds, ten shillings per
ton, is the quotation from London,
or an advance of GO per cent. This
great change in the market is des-
cribed as a phenomenal return to
prosperity" The writer then goes
on to investigate the causes of this
extraordinary change. The leading,
if not the only cause, is found to be
the general failure, in European
countries, of beet culture. Beets
can be raised by good cultivation in
soils of average fertility in unlimited
quantities in almost any climate,
while the cultivation of the cane is
limited to the tropics. But there
seems to be, in the raising of beets,
larger element of uncertainty than
in the raising of sugar cane. That
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-14
PARTY SPIRIT.

The recent session of the British
Imperial Parliament has been
credited with considerable success
in the work of legislation. That a
session of legislative body in
which two great parties confront
each other with well-organized and
sometimes fierce, opposition, should
be very fruitful of idle words and
barren of practical results, would be
quite consistent with the natural
tendencies of human depravity.
Obstruction and opposition may
often be used as synonymous terms
in party tactics. 1t seems that the
usefulness of the later portion of
last session of the Commons at
Westminster was owing to the
peculiar attitude of the opposite
parties. The parliament was,
curiously enough, led by ministry
supported by minority of the mem-
bers. Before accepting office, the
present administration were obliged
to throw themselves, as it were, on
the mercy of their opponents. The
opposition magnanimously aided the
crown ministers in carrying measures
of public utility. And in this lies
the explanation of the legislative
activity of the last few weeks of the
session. Hence it may reasonably
be inferred that truce in party
politics is one of the most desirable
reforms that can be effected in the
conduct of public affairs in Eng
land. And what is needful there is
not less wanted here, as well as in
other countries possessing represent
ative governments. AS politics
generally run, the most judicious
statesman is discounted by all, ex-
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-14
DULL TIMES.

Business in this city, at the pres
ent time, is under the ban of what
commercial men are accustomed to
designate rs dull times. And dull
times are generally but conven-
tional phrase for short sales, few
buyers and IL universal weakening of
the purchasing power of customers.
Dull times is not, as some people
broadly assert, mere ghost of the
commercial imagination. 1t is to
business men veritable entity
whose existence meets them in what
ever enterprise they are engaged.
Wares and statesmen are as abundant
and accommodating as in good
times, but they won't draw custom
ers because the latter are held back
by contrary and more potent forces.
Under the good times regime, buy
ers multiply in number and develop
much weight in orders, and the
trade, catering to these flush de-
mands, lays in heavy stocks, stimu-
lates production, and reaps the first
fruits of what seems to be but the
beginning of golden harvest. The
buyers exhaust their resources, the
harvest is blighted, and the next
announcement on the boards is
"dull times" Lying like an incu-
bus upon enterprise and industry
and seemingly an unmixed evil,
"dull times" nevertheless constitute
very curious and interesting pro-
blem in social economy.
In times when society existed
under more primitive conditions than
nowadays, the people fioated on the
crest of the topmost wave of pros
perity when the products of land
and sea supplied them plenty food and
clothing. Their wants were few, and
when moderately supplied, they re-
joiced in ''good times" Nothing
short of famine or pestilence was
pronounced "hard times" In the
conditions of modern society, it
would be very difficult to measure
the quantity of prosperity necessary
to produce good times. The "wants"
of mankind are as a general rule in
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-14
A REFUGE FROM BOREAS.

Mankind is peculiar medley of
contradictions. OF all men and
women in the world, probably the
North American man and his
better half are the most par
adoxical of the species. The ex-
ceptions to this rule are the Indian
aborigines and the later transplants
south of about the thirtieth parallel.
North of that line, or thereabout,
lies the region of winter, and snow
and ice. Winter is peculiar sea-
son. 1t is not easy to describe. In
fact description of it would be un-
intelligible, except to people who
know all about it from experience.
And for them, no description is me-
cessary. There is no portion of the
year that the denizens of northern
climes are so much delighted-to
see at an end. 1t is delightful
body to get away from. 1t is the
constant desire expressed most en-
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-14
IMPORTANT SUGAR TRANSACTION.
MOST OF THE HAWAIIAN CROP GOES
INTO NEW HANDS.

After the arrival of the S. S.
Mariposa in Honolulu on August
8th, it was bruited around that
Messrs. Atherton, Glade and Jones,
who had come home from the Coast
by that vessel, had not succeeded
in coming to an understanding with
Mr.. Spreckels regarding next years
crop of sugar. On the face of it
this looked decidedly blue for the
Hawaiian planters other than those
of Mr.. Spreckels' own company,
"The Hawaiian Commercial and
Sugar Company" 1t was more than
doubtful if our sugar could be dis
posed of farther away than San
francisco, to advantage. The ques-
ton naturally occurred, "Why
cannot the planters out in the cold
treat with the American Refinery of
San FranciscO?" But the answer
was that the sugar seeking disposal
amounted to probably over $4,000
tons, while the American Refinery
can only work up 10000 tons in a
year. The next question, which was
put to two of the returned delegates,
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-14

phatically by the head of every
household who is obliged to rise and
kindle the morning fire from day to
day that cold grim winter would
hasten its exit. And here is where
the paradoxical part of the people
shows itself. 1t is the very season
in which they are sure to stay at
home. There are few tourists abroad
on vacation. At the opening of
winter, there is q general hurrying
home from the mountains, the sea-
shores, and from Europe. Once
winter is past again, thousands of
people are up and away. Summer,
with its beauties of sunshine and
bloom, is the time when homes are
deserted. Its many points of admi-
ration engage the finest effusions of
the poet, and the sentimentalist.
And yet every one who can afford
the expense goes for q foreign tour
or to seaside resort.
1t would seem to be more in ac-
cordance with "the eternal fitness
of things" If the wealthy pleasure
seekers of the north and east sought
surcease of sorrow by cheating the
wintry winds of part of their prey
by getting up and away for the
Paradise of the Pacific Summer
travel rolling eastward and winter
travel rolling westward will bear
comparison only to the advantage
of the latter. The Islands of Hawaii,
if their exccllencies were better
known in the northern and eastern
parts of America, ought to command
an influx of tourists and visitors,
especially during the winter months.
A trip to these islands can be made
at less expense than the trip to
Europe. What is the expense of
trip to the Hawaiian Volcanoes COM
pared with a trip to Mount Vesuvius
or the Alps? And what is Vesuvius
in comparison with kilauea? The
fact that tourists of the cold lati-
tudes in America are not found
luxuriating under the palm trees of
Honolulu in midwinter, instead of
shivering in ice and snow, or revel-
ling in the felicity of tropical breezes
instead of enduring the deadly chills
of Boreas, must surely be due to
innocent ignorance of the rich and
rare possibilities of comfortable ex-
istence so very near to them. What
finer ideal of reprieve from climatic
adversely can be imagined than to
fancy the chilled citizen of Chicago,
Boston or Montreal escaped from
thermometers registering 25 degrees
below zero, and, latter twelve days
trip, reclining under the palm trees
of Emma Square?
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-14

require unlimited resources. And
with respect to the buyer, ''hard
times" prevail to greater or less
extent in proportion as the Unsuitable
remains unsatisfed. The trader feels
the pressure of hard times in bur-
densome accumulations of unsal-
able wares, but at what point the
purchaser draws the line between
good and hard times is the most diff
ficult part of the problem to solve.
We read of period in the history
of an ancient country when silver
was plenty as the pebbles in the
streets, and the Kings treasures
had gold enough to redeem all the
silver certificates, and yet enough
left to finish the rooms of public
buildings with golden lumber, but
that era of good times eliminated in
a bloody political revolution, fol-
lowed by centuries of bloodshed.
Periods of great prosperity are not
times of the greatest happiness,
either to the individual, the family
or the nation. 1t is when the ship
has every inch of canvas spread that
she may be in most imminent dan
ger. Fair weather and smooth seas
make careless seamen. And in the
same manner, booming prosperity
has, in the history of communities,
been co-eXtensive with the widest
recklessncss, both in business and
in morals.
Dull times are not an unmiXed
evil. They are often useful if only
to show what our real needs are.
People are compelled to discriminate
between the real necessaries of life
and the Unsuitable demand for luxu-
ries. Submitting to the discipline
of straitened circumstances, they
develop moral qualities, which with
unlimited resources would have re-
NAMED dormant. Merchants, in dull
times, ascertain the true value of
reliable customers. The pernicious
results of unlimited credit appear,
and business is conducted on a
sounder basis. The real and the
visionary are separated by bold clear
lines, and solid enterprise takes the
place of gilded speculation. Thus
it is that the era of dull times, irk-
some though it is, may be turned to
profitable account. Such times COM
pei attention to principles of wisdom
and prudence that otherwise would
be in light estimation. If eXpendi-
lures and purchases were regulated
in flush times by little of the judi
cious forethought of that born states
man who laid up the surplus of the
years of plenty to provide for the
years of famine, dull times would
never be heard of in the marts of
commerce. "Wants' would be
regulated, not by the resources on
hand to crafty them, but by the
extent to which they might be graft
fed consistently with a wise dis
examination between those that are
real and those that are imaginary.
There is no good reason why there
should be felt so much of the op-
pressive restraints of hard times.
Land and sea, through the opera
tions of agriculture and commerce,
yield no meagre returns. The re-
sources of nature show no symptoms
of exhaustion, but yield responsive
to the demands of increasing popu-
lations. And just in so far as these
demands exist under reasonable
limitations, by so much will the
period of dull times be shortened,
and the interval of it's return be
prolonged.
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guarantee that those interested in
cane growing have that they will not
be brought into such close, keen
competition in the sugar markets of
the world, as to leave them out in
the cold, any day. While the profits
of cane growing are contingent upon
the failure of some other crop in
other parts of the world, capitalists
will be more cautious than formerly
in investing their money in it.
Bounties have been offered on q
liberal scale by France and Ger
many for the encouragement of the
sugar beet industry. The indica-
tions are that England, too, will
adopt similar measures. EXPERT
ments recently made by English
farmers have given, on the whole,
satisfactory results. A distinguished
agricultural chemist of that country
has given his opinion to the effect
that the raising of sugar beet, in
England, will pay better than raising
wheat. The Australian Colonies and
New Zealand are also starting in the
competitive race against the sugar
cane. The Government of New
Zealand had bill passed short
time ago authorizing payment of
one-half penny per pound rs a pre-
MUM on the first thousand tons of
beet root grown in the colony. Vic
toria farmers, too, have also mani
tested considerable interest in the
new enterprise. Government having
obtained quantity of seeds, for
free distribution, a great many ap-
plications were made. All that has
been done, however, is of an expert
mental character. The farmers will
go into this branch Of agriculture
whenever they obtain reasonable
assurances of market for the root.
But, should machinery for extract
ing sugar from the beet be erected
on any extensive scale, Australian
agriculturalists will be in the field to
compete with West India, American
and Hawaiian planters. OF course,
if failures in beet root crops con-
tinue, and thus frighten the culti-
vators of European lands out of the
business, no danger need be appre-
hended from their competition in the
European markets. And although
the probable shortage for the present
season in European beet root is
quoted at $4,000 tons, it is not
reasonable to infer therefrom that a
like deficiency will occur in all parts
of the world where the beet is rs
likely to flourish as in Europe.
When beet root can be cultivated,
as stated, in England more profita-
bly, than wheat crops, the time may
not be far distant when the Northern
and Western States as also the
western provinces of Canada will
turn some of their millions of acres
of wheat growing lands into beet
root sugar plantations. Then, with
Australia, New Zealand, America
and Europe against the West Indies,
the Southern States and the Hawaiian
Islands, it will be bad for the cane
industry. The effect of such a
worldwide competition cannot be
otherwise than disastrous to the
great staple industry of Hawaii.
Before such combination of adverse
circumstances comes to maturity,
forewarned is forearmed," and the
great investments in sugar planta-
tions on these islands will probably
have time enough to be diverted to
colonization, diversified agriculture
and other enterprises.