Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-30

St.. Johns early in may for Disco and
will be accompanied by three men. 1t
is a private enterprise and entails nc
expense on the government.
Commodore Russell, commanding
the Mare Island navy-yard, California,
will probably be ordered at an early
day to command the South Atlantic
squadron, to succeed Rear Admiral
English, retired.
1t is thought that Commodore Belk-
nap, at present superintendent of the
naval observatory, will be ordered to
succeed Commodore Russell IN com
mand of the Mare Island hayward.
Secretary Whitney has gone to New
York for a few days, and Commodore
Walker is acting secretary of the navy
Secretary Manning continues to i'm
prove and it is thought will be able to
leave the city in a short time. Acting
Secretary Fairchild visited him today
for the first time since his illness and
found him bright and cheerful.
The acting secretary of the treasury
today appointed John Delaney to be
special inspector of foreign steam YES
sells at New Orleans vice William Col
der.
The senate committee on public
lands has today ordered a favorable
report of the Hoar bill to forfeit the
land grant to the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad Company. The senate COM
mittee has amended the bill so as to
exempt from forfeiture the right to
take material for construction from
the public lands and the right to the
grounds for company's machine shops
and other buildings.
The retiring Chinese minister will
take official leave Of the president next
Tuesday. and it is probable that his
successor will be presented at the same
time.
Senior Almoro, who has represented
the government of Peru at Washing
ton for the past five years, has been
recalled, and will take official leave OF
the president next week.
The indications now are that the
select committee charged with an in
v~estigation of the southwestern strikes
will not leave the city for st. Louis be-
fore Wednesday next, as several of the
members are interested in matters
likely to be acted upon in the house
during the early part of the coming
week.
The interior department has re-
ceived from Joseph d. Weeks, special
agent and expert of the census bureau
his report on trade societies of the
United States for the year ending May
3lst, 1885. Mr.. Weeks speaks O.
the great difficulty experienced il
obtaining information on thu
subject, and for this reason tn
report is not as complete or reliable a
was hoped. TIE report says: "Of the
2,440 trade societies of the United
States, of which the location wal
learned, go were in Pennsylvania, Is:
in Ohio, 1926 in Illinois, 2l8 in New
York, 149 in Missouri, 122 in New
Jersey, and III in Massachusetts. The
industrial distribution Of the societies
is given as follows: Professional ant
personal service, l6; trade rnd trans
portation, 279; manufacturing and me
chaDical industries, 2,0l4; mining
49," "The largest number of branches
under any one branch of industries,
says Mr.. Weeks, sis the mum
Der of local assemblies under thu
X lights of Labor, which numbered
866. with thirty.one district assemblies
But few of the unions have had a lont
existence. Some, however, date back
some years. This is especially true o
the national organization; The Inter
national Typographical Union date
back to 1850; the Hat Finishers' Trad
Association to 1854" A tabulatet
statement accompanying the repor
shows the number of the more i'm
portant subordinate unions and tota
membership to be as follows: olga
makers International Union in Sep
TENDER, 1881, 1890 lodges, with
membership of II, 900; Locomotive
Fireman for the United States anC
Canada, December, 1880, q
lodges with a membership o
$500; Locomotive Engineers
September, 1880, 1890 lodges, with
membership estimated at 1000; Inter
national Typographical Union, April
1880, 70 lodges, with a membership o
1865.
The house committee on commerce
in their report in favor of the bill
which provides that residents of eact
State and territory may, within tai
other States and territories and within
the District of Columbia, solicit from
dealers and merchants orders fol
goods and merchandise by sample
catalogue, card price list, description
or other representation, without pay
ment of any license or mercantile tax
state that certain laws in differen
States, territories and the District O.
Columbia. imposing license fee
on commercial travellers from otheI
States, seem to discriminate agains
citizens and products of other s tate
and that in the confusion of such laws
that free interstate commerce which
is designed under the constitution i
interGered with and restrained. Tn
committee recognize the right of
State to tax its citizens engaging ii