The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-18
Bradstreet's Weekly Review Of
the Business Situation.
Little Enthusiasm in the East
Over the Tariff Bill.
A BETTER FEELING.
Southern, Central and North
western States Satisfied.

NEW YoRK- Aug. 8. -Bradstreets
says. Special teIegraphic and summer
summarizing interviews with more
than 500 leading wholesale dealers in
forty-seven cities throughout the
country as to the present effect of the
prospective tariff settlement and the
outlook as to the effect Of the senate
tariff bill. should it become a law, in
dicate relatively less enthusiasm at
larger Eastern cities. except at New
York and Baltimore, almost uniform
satisfaction throughout the Southern
states and similar adyices from the
Central ana Northwestern states, ex-
cept where serious crop damage
has taken place. IN the far West
little interest is manifested IN tariff
agitation. notably at Denver aud
Helena where silver attracts more
attention Portland fears the result
Of the reduction Of the tariff on lum-
Der, but at san Francisco an improved
demand is expected AM considerable
fire. ght is Offering for shipment to
China a feature is found IN declara-
tions from gla sware. pottery and
iron and steel manufacturers at vari-
ous centers of products that wages
will be promptly reduced
Importers Of wColens are said to
have the market this fall. and cloth
could do a fair business. but not try to
carry over 1ight-tve ights on January 1.
Cotton merchants declare settleme Mt
Of the tariff was too late TO help
them this fall, and lumber dealers
speak rerretfullv of the reduction Of
duty in their line. Aside from prob
able delay, Improvement due to I'M
certainty ia business neither Boston,
Providence. Buffalo. Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Newark or Rochester mer-
chants intervie wed express note
worthy enthusiasm as to the trade
prospect.
While no gain is reported IN trade
circles at Southern cities several thous-
and coal strikers have gone back to
work in the Birmin CHAM district. sew
eral southern railways are calling for
IN ore coal and Southern iron works
are shipping more iron than year
ago 1t is reported at Atlanta that
hardware iobbers based recent prices
on the Wilson bill ana the pros
pective passage Of the senate bill viii
make q difference in prices il conse-
quence. Little Rock expects Eastern
cotton manufacturers to buy more
freely now, and three Texas cities, in
view Of excellent crop prospects in
that state, and prospectively the
largest crop on record. regard the
business outlook very favorably. The
proposed change in the sugar schedule
exerts material depression in LOU
isiana-
The region west of Pennsylvania
and east OF the Mississippi river re-
ports almost uniformly favorable
trade conditions with gains in de-
Inands and in industrial activity, ex-
cept:ons being the Indiana and Illi-
nois pottery industries and among IN
diana clothing manufacturers. who
report they expect to reduce wages
Country merct ants in the two states
mentioned have been buying heavily
from Chicago jobbers. but that citv's
trade from regions west of the Mis-
sissippi has fallen of.
The serious damage to corn in Kan
sas has had an unfavorable effect at
Kansas City, crop damage in that
state, as well as in Nebraska and
Iowa. overshadowiny other cond tions
and characteriz ng trade reports from
Lincoln, Omaha and Burlington