The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-20
The Sugar Planters, Follv.

Inc sugar Planters Folly.
Ex-senator Kellogg of Louisiana is
quoted as saying that one of the earliest
acts of the new republican House viii be
to send a committee to Louisiana to inves-
tgate the alleged frauds in the First. Sec
ond ana Third congressional districts. in
which the sugar planters put up and sup
ported republican candidates The repub-
lcan managers in these districts. it is
said. were advised to be careful to sup
ply themselves with evidence TO be used
in contests" and they are reported TO be
loaded up with afdavits in support of
their claim that their candidates were de-
feated by fraud
The ex-senator is probably talking with
out authority. The republicans have not
shown much attention to the sugar plan
ters. The planters wish for republican
paternalism has been the father Of the
thought that the republicans would give
them a bounty in the event of the Republi-
can partys return to power But not
even Mckinley promised them any such
thing. The Republican party is, or should
be, very well satisfied that the bounty is a
loaded bomb. The republican House.
therefore, viii hardly make any extraor-
binary efforts to assist into congress a
! delegation that would be continually beg
! ging for a restoration of the sugar bounty.
1t might be a great aid to the democrats
in the next campaign if three or four
! bounty beggars were let into the House by
the republicans.
! Meanwhile it appears that the Louisiana
/ sugar planters have engaged in a gigantic
piece Of folly. They have alienated their
real friends from them without getting
into the good graces of their old-time
! enemies.
The New York Financial Chronicles
commenting on the governments report
on cotton for November. says IF the data
Of the report be accepted as
correct, and the yield per acre
as given this week also be adopted.
We are brought to the conclusion that
the crop Of 189i-95 will weigh 3.S04 21S. 467
pounds, being the equivalent Of 1853. SIG
bales, Of an average net weight Of as
! pounds. This aggregate production. &"
| continues the Chronicle. would on the
basis Of SIS pounds net per bale "a low
average for this crop make the Indicated
yield on the basis Of the agricultural de
partment's figures 1855. GIG bales. or about
465, ooo bales greater than the crop OF 1S99-gl
as made up by the same authority. Dis
claiming any responsibility for the re-
suits herein disclosed and disavowing
/ any intention TO make an estimate of
our own, we cannot get away from the
fact that there is a startling discrepancy
between this indicated yield OF barely
soooOoo bales. and the estimates by pri-
waite parties running as high as 10. $50 ooo
bales"
rho Lehigh Valley railroad has issued
"A notice Of salary reduction that is a lit
Ne out of the ordinary. The cut begins M
tho top instead Of at the bottom as is FREE
quently tie case. and runs down through
the salaries Of the officers and the hign
priced men. No salary Of 81 900 or less per
year is touched. a decline in coal frelehts
$50 thc company says. mad, o. reduction
necessary. and IL was thought best "a
mako the cut in the falarics OF the en-.
ploYes who could best afford o.
Grand Lecturer walter Sims OF a..
American Protective Astoelation o,aIus
thai boz th, House of the next corFrr.-
There viii be forty representative who
arr members Of tbs association nud
pl'-isri 200 Dol principle. o. would b. Boo.
t.fesunR to know hoa many of tf. forts
Hre rpp.Asls ani h1a mant republican.
/ 1i' 'haH.rs are fhat Han. of fnsm ar.
f'no raf. h.Hus. bIFair anH aHuu..
rart Hrs In.suIafibI.