The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-27
IN GENERAL.
The Ways ana Means stand
ard OH Compapy-Notcs.


WASHINGTON, April 26.-The committee
on ways and means agreed to the Breckin-
ridge resolution, calling on the Secretary
Of the Treasury the following information:
(l) What number OF persons in each Of
the ganiul occupations professional and
personal service, trade and transportation,
manufacturers, mechanics, mining and
agriculture), were engaged in branches Of
which product Of like kind could be inn
ported from a foreign country in any meas.
urc or quantity sufficient 10 call Tor the at.
tcntion OF Legislators and what addition
could be, in part or wholly submitted TO
competition from Canada; ~ what num-
Der in each category might be considered
wholly free from foreign competition; ~
what number Of persons might be consid-
cred in some small measure subject TO
foreign competition; (4) the number OF
persons represented by the export OF The
products Of agriculture, manufacturers and
mining 10 bc estimated upon the relation
OF the value OF the quantities OF such eX-
ports 10 the value Of the total products in
other words, the number occupied in pro-
duction for export.
PROTESTING AGAINST THE INEVITABLE.
The Republican members OF the ways
and means committee today met IN the
room of the committee on banking and
currency for the purpose 81 hearing about
dozen persons representing manuiactur-
ing inicrcslsand labor organizations. The
statements OF these persons in bnel were
10 the effect that they desired 10 take cX.
ception 10 the remarks made on the floor
of the House by the friends OF the Mills
bill. that laborcrs and manufacturers de-
rive no benefit from the present tariff law.
They also entered an energetic protest
against the action OF the ways and means
committee in refusing 90 hear from the
REPRESENTATIVES OF the interests which
would be affected by the passage Of the
pending bill.
FINANCIAL.
The offer OF bonds 10 the government
today aggregated 500, csc, and the accept
unccs sljG, $50. All the accepted bonds
were iours, and the price ranged from l2i
10 1875.
The collections from internal revenue
during the ilrst nine months Of the fiscal
year ended June 20, 1883, aggregated SSg,'
b33, o5s, an increase OF $3.50, 753 over the
corresponding period OF the last fiscal year.
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
The committee on transportation iol
New jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
MARYLAND and the District OF Columbia
appointed by the National Educational
association for the purpose Of selecting Q
line Of travel for the teachers and thcil
friends who will attend the next mcctipG
OF the association at San Francisco. july
III next. have decided upon the Chicago 4
Northwestern and Union x Central Pa
rifle routes
THE sriNDARD OIL COMPANY.
State Senator Lewis Emery, Of Bradford
Pa. corroborated the statement made yes
terday by Mr.. Campbell 10 the effect that
practically all the independent rchnerl
had been wiped out between 1872 and
1870 by reason OF the rebates giyor
the Standard and lis predecessor, th,
South Improvement company, 10y The
railroads and By other means, they wcr,
simply "doviled 20 death" A compuia
ton made by witness showed that The
Standard had received over $40, 100000 h
rebates in seventeen and half month";
rom the four principle railroads LEADING
rom the oil fields. The amount OF rebate
given the Standard he certainly though
amounted In the aggregate 20 over SlOO,
OO0, 900, and had the railroads treated nj
shippers alike, Il IL his belief that thel
would now be in receipt OF nm annual In
come OF from $4,000, 900 10 so, on
greater than they received at present.
spccial Dispatch 10 The Appeal