Huntsville gazette., 1886-10-09
CAPITAL NOTES.


Secretary Manning to Resume Work-The
Sorghum Sugar Experfments-Attorne
General Garland at Work Again-COm-i
missioner Colman Growing. Impatient
with the Illinois Authorities.
I WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-Secretary Man
ming now intends to resume his duties at
the Treasury Department next week.
His friends have very great misgivings as
to the wisdom of this decision, and Mr..
Manning himself is also inclined to doubt
his strength. 1t is given out that he will
enter upon his full duties, but the Treas
ury officials think that this can not be
possible, and that Mr.. Manning, in his
state of health, will certainly not under
take to affix his signature 1900 times day,
for instance, to mere rou tine documents,
which is labor that often has to be
done by the acting Secretary of the
Treasury, and which is regarded as
full days work itself for an ordinary
clerk. If Mr.. Manning will return to his
desk as Judge FOlger did, be construct
lively absent so as to avail himself OF the
authority conferred by law to have an
acting Secretary appointed who can sign
the routine papers, Mr.. Manning may
possibly be able to preserve his health
and act in a purely advisory capac-
ity as Secretary of the Treas.
ury and prepare the next annual report.
In doing this he will do all that the think
ing men in Congress believe that Sec
retary of the Treasury ought to do, al
though there has thus far been little dis
position to relieve the chief finance Off
Ger af the enormous burden of incOnse-
quential routine duties. At the best, it is
said that Mr.. Manning will return to his
duty only as an experiment. He much
desires himself to remain Secretary OF
the Treasury, and the President also
wishes him to continue in that office, but
the position is an extremely onerous one,
and Mr.. Manning's nearest friends
doubt whether he will be able to retain
the place much longer than the meeting
of Congress.
u SORGHUM SUGAR. Ie
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-Last year the
Department of Agriculture began to ex-
pertinent in small way at Ottawa, Kan,
with the diffusion sugar-making process
as applied to sorghum cane. Instead OF
crushing the cane, as in the sugar-cane
process, it was shaved off in minute
slices and the sucrose, or sugar-yield-
ing sap, extracted by streams of water.
The results obtained were so encourag-
ing that the field of operations was re-
moved to Fort Scott this year, and with
largely increased plant experiments
are now in progress on a scale of some
magnitude. To-day a telegram was re-
ceived from Prof. Wiley, the chemist OF
the department, who is in charge Of the
works, announcing the complete success
of the experiments. The telegram states
that syrup has been obtained from the
sorghum cane of light color, good favor
and crystalizing well. There was com
plete extraction of sucrose in six of the
cells of the battery. Commissioner Col
man is very much elated at the results OF
the experiments, and regards them OF
great value from an economical point OF
view. In the process now used In the
South there is a loss of nearly fifty per
cent. of the saccharine matter contained
in the cane, while the experiments al
Fort Scott show an absolute extraction.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL GARLAND RETURN
TO HIS DESK.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-Attorney-G en-.
eral Garland is back at his desk, and 10
apparently unconcerned at what he calls
the attacks of the newspapers and of the
politicians upon him. He has preserved
his peace of mind very well, for the rea.
son that he gave orders that neither
newspapers nor letters should be sent to
him at Hominy Hill, and he is therefore
practically unacquainted with the COM
ments which have been made upon his
course during the last two months. He
has all the qualifications of city juror.
He knows of no opposition. He fatty says
that he does not intend to resign,
and the President has not indicated
to him that he wishes to have him re-
sign. He probably would scoff at the
report that four members of the Cabinet,
two of whom possibly would be quite
willing that their names should be. used,
are of the opinion that he ought not to
remain in the Cabinet. IB
Pan Electric Rogers has also returned
to Washington from his country home,
bright but seedy. He is said to have
disposed of the large block of Pan
Electric stock for $1,000, leaving his
partners and the courts to wonder why,
and has relapsed into poetry. His latest
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Garland, IS s'Parthenon."
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN ON THE PLEURO-
PNEUMONIA IN CHICAGO.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-Some anxiety
is felt at the Agricultural Department
over the failure of State and local au-
thorities to fully cooperate with the de-
partment in it's efforts to stamp out
pleuro- pneumonia The fund at the dis.
posaI of the department for the suppress
sion Of contagious diseases among cattle
was limited to 100000, and the heavy
expenses of the lastfew weeks have made
serious inroads on the appropriation. The
quarantine at Chicago is maintained at a
daily cost OF $3.50. Commissioner Col
man, speaking of the operations at Chi
cago OF the department, yesterday, said
that there seems to be total failure on
the part of the State authorities to, de-
stroy infected animals. Unless some
action in that line is taken very large
sum of money will have been expended
simply in quarantining cattle, and the an
finals will still be on hand. It would
be better for all parties to have
the infected animals destroyed,
which could only be i done