The evening times., 1895-08-17
Sent from washington

A new edition of the consular reports for
August has been made necessary by the dis
covery, announced exclusively in the
Press, that the total exports from the
Province of Ontario to the United States
for the quarter ending March 81, 1895,
were falsified by more than 500 900.
The State Department officials lost no
time in destroying the evidence Of their
duplicity or incompetency. New footings,
in accordance with she totals as corrected,
have been inserted in the forms, and when
the official publication is ready for dis
tribution it will show that instead Of the
exports from Ontario for the three mouths
named having been $2 SEQ, ,3O1, they were
So, 5000.
When this showing is compared with the
corresponding quarter in 1894, the in
creased export of Ontario farm products
into the United States will be over $S7S 900.
instead of STAG ,539, as first stated. All
the sheets containing the error will be
destroyed and more care exercised here
after in giving to q watchful public informa-
ton bearing on the workings of the Wilson
German tariff bill,
As the returns from the Province Of
Quebec for the same quarter show an In
crease of $453 ,S99, the total increase in
favor of the Canadian producer is more
than 81 ,25O, 900 for the quarter II this
rate of increase is continued for the year,
the American farmers will experience an
overwhelming competition. the result Of
Democratic tariff legislation, which has
removed or iessened the duty on eggs, beam.
lumber, potatoes, wool and other farm
products.-R. j. wynne In New York Press.
Opposition 10 the principle OF taxation
without representation" constituted the nu-
cleus of sentiment around which the spirit
of freedom rallied from day to day andfrom
month to month until the Declaration of
IndepeDdencewas formulated and new re-
public was born. That obnoxious British
principle has been banished from every part
of the United States, excepting the circum-
scribed area known as the District OF CO.
Iimbia, and here, at the seat of Federal Gov
ernment. the people have been subjected to
taxation without representation" for
nearly a quarter Of n century.
While demanding the extension of the
elective franchise 10 the freemen of the
South, the Republican leaders In Congress
secured the passage of a law IN 1872 de-
priving the District of Columbia OF that
franchise, and from that day until this the
people here have been subjected TO practi-
cally monarchical form Of government. No
man here can vote nor exercise any right OF
citizenship. There is a national statute
permitting citizens of the several States to
maintain a voting residence in the Common
wealths from which they come, provided
they go TO the expense Of travelling from
here to the place Of their former residence
for the purpose Of casting their ballots, but
no voting is permitted here. The apparently
unconstitutional law was passed with the
undoubted purpose Of DISTINGUISHING the
negroes Of the District OF Columbia. An ef-
fort Is now being made In a systematic man
ner to secure Congressional legislation
which will restore to this city and District
the rights which have SO long been withheld
Smith d. Fry in Philadelphia Times.
American Vines In French Vineyards.
The bulletin OF the French agricultural de-
partmcnt, just published, shows that the
area In France under vineyard cultivation
has been gradually decreased during the
twenty years, 1875 to 1895. There has
been a remarkable falling off in the produc-
ton of wine during the period, 1879 to
1892 Inclusive hat fhe good effect of rp-