Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-03

tent office Saturday Was Miss Alice E, Meik-
leham, granddaughter of President Thomas
Jefferson.
The River and Harbor Bill.
The conference committee on the river and
harbor bill tonight reached a complete agree
ment on the points of dispute in that meas
ure.
Gone on Vacation.
ATTORNEY General Garland left the CITY to-
night for his farm on Hominy Hill in Arkan.
sas. He is the first to take a vacation. Hi.
leaving was hastened BY bronchial troubles.
More vetoes.
Four privaIe pension bills were vetoed by
President Cleveland today. In each case he
clearly sets forth his reason for doing so and
the material history of the case.
The President Signs the Oleomarsarine
Bill.
The President has signed the oleomargarine
bill and has sent a message to the House of
Representatives stating his reasons for ap-
proving it and suggesting some additional
legislation.
The Surplus Resolution.
The conferees of the surplus resolution
be Id meeting this evening and failed to
reach an agreement. There may be another
meeting tomorrow but the belief is that no
agreement will be reached this session.
Commercial Rights.
Representative Collins of Massachusetts,
today introduced in the House a bill author
izing the President TO deny all commercial
rights, including the right to transport vehi-
ces or cars in the United States to such
foreign countries rs may deny commercial
privileges to citizens OF the United States
Report on the Cutting Case Trans mitted
to the senate.
In response to resolution of the Senate
asking for information concerning the allege
illegal detention OF A. X. Cutting BY the
Mexican authorities, at Ell Paso Del Norte
the President transmitted to the Senate. to-
day, the report of the secretary OF state, to-
gether with voiuminous mass OF correspon-
dence relative to the case.
The Senate, in secret session. rejected the
nomination of r. l.. Dement, to be surveyor
general of Utah.
Internal revenue collector McGraw of
West Virginia district was confirmed. This
nomination has been pending more than a
year and half, being one of those left un-
confirmed at the end of the last session.
y. S. Marshals Miner of Cincinnati and
Freeman of Tennessee, and Collector of
Customs Smalley of Vermont, and Brady of
Fall River, Mass, were confirmed
An Investigation Ordered - Secretary
Bayard Determined to Protect Amer.
lean Citizens.
Representative Cain of Texas, today, had
an interview with Secretary Bayard in refer
ence to the Cutting and Rasure cases. Mr.
Cain says the secretary, in the course of the
conversation, referring to Rasure's case, said
he had forwarded to Minister jackson a state.
ment of the facts submitted to him by Mr.
Linn, American consul at Pied as Negras,
and would await the result of the investga-
ton which he had instructed Jackson to re-
quest the Mexican government to cause to be
made before taking any action in the matter
In regard to the Cutting case the secretary
said he was informed that Cutting was on
trial for an alleged violation of the statute
which provides for punishment of foreigners
who in the country commits offences against
a Mexican citizen. To this Bayard replied
that our government could not tolerate the
application of such law to American citI-
zens, and renewed the demand for Cuttings
release, which has not been complied with
Cain said that Secretary Bayard is aroused to
the Importance of the principles involved in
the Cutting case, and is determined to pro
tect American citizens to the full extent of
his power from the enforcement against them
of the Mexican law above mentioned.
A Message from the President.
In his message to the House announcing
his approval of the oleomar garine bill, the
President says, Though if the question was
presented to him as an original proposition
he might doubt the present need of the in
creased t. xation, he deems it his duty in
this instance to defer to the judgment of the
legislative branch of the government which
has been so emphatically from both houses of
Congress on the passage of this bill. More
over, he saws, those who desire to see re-
moved the weight of taxation now pressing
upon the people from other directions may
well be justified in the hope aud expectancy
that the selection of the additional subject of
internal taxation, so we'll able to bear it, will,
in consistency, be followed by legislation re-
lieving our citizens from other revenue bur
dens rendered by the passage of this bill even
more than heretofore unnecessary and need
less.
In the future justification of the measure
the President says: If this article has merit,
which is friends claim for it, and if the
people of the land, with a full ledge of
its real character, desire to purchase and use
it, the taxes exacted by this bill will permit
fair profit TO both the manufacturer and deal
er. If the existence of a commodity taxed
the profits of its manufacture and sale de-
pend on disposing of it to the people for
something else which it deceitfully initiates.
the entire enterprise is fraud and not
industry, and if it cannot endure the exhibit
ton of its real character, which will be effect
ed by inspection, supervision and stamping,
which this bill directs, the sooner it is de-
stoyed the better in the interest of tair dealing.
Such a result would furnish the first instance
in the history of legislation where revenue
bill produced benefit which was merely in
cidenral to its main purpose. There is GER
tainly no industry better entitled to the incl
dental advantages which may follow this leg
islation than our farming and dairying inter-
ests, and to none of our people they will be
less begrudged than our farmers and dairy
men. Not the least important incident re-
lated to this legislation is the defense afford
ed to the consumer against fraudulent sub
stitution and sale of an imitation for a gen.
uine article of food. Notwithstanding the
immense quantity of the article described in
this bill, which is cold to the people for their
consumption as food, and notwithstanding
the claim made that its manufacture supplies