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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-19

The interest on bonds was the same In both
,,oars Int rentals were S72 1914 in 1895. against
sa3 S35 in 1894 The item of other expenditures"
included In 1885, 81 4s3 for interest and discount
and land purchased and slS2633 Tor cars pur-
cbased and built in shops, while In 1894 interest
and discount was $15.443. the betterment account
was S33 1874 and $244 907 was used In settlement OF
suits with the Southern Pacific Company.
The condensed balance sheet as of December
81 1896 shows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-19
final quotations compared
coupon IS at 1131s. Fina
with yesterdays follow:
March IS. .
Bid. Asked
March IL.
RId.Asked.

tn State ISSUES there were sales OF Soooo VII IT.
ginia funded debt 2-3s Of 1891 at DIS anu S''0''
at 81. . ,o.s In railway
There was considerable weakness III Ia. .. ~
bonds but final changes. with Few eAe - ~
were only small fractions. There was less az :,
tvitv in the Northern Pacific issues. "hicI
we're dealt in at declining prices inuuceq ~
nroft taking sales Atchison southern Nani-
wav Wabash issues and Norfolk ana WtsteIN
bonds MARYLAND and Washington DlVlsion'
we're moderately active. elsewhere deanhss pc
ing small Norfolk and Western ponds were
strong In buying in anticipation OF tne sP.eu'
announcement Of the reorga animation pan, gam
ing over ! per cent. Northern Pacinc lrst COY
mons were down "a to 117A; the SECONDS = 10 ~
The thirds to TN the consol bs les 10 ~. inc
consoi "a receipts ~ to AN and the conaterdl
trust notes u TO 90 Some other weak features
were Atchison seconds. which declined y 10 20
Chicago and Northern Pacific first receipts. u
10 1915: Erie general lien 3-4s 10 o''t New
York Central frs. coupons. II 10 iLoi Cl.so'.
Short Lane g. y to liz; Rio Granae WeStet -, II
frsts u to 25H; Southern Railway nrst oS 70
9OA; Cleveland. Lorain and Wheenns n's So ~
N io6ih and Lehigh Valley Terminal os. ~ 10
10 Canada southern seconds were up Y to
1o4M cleveland and Canton frsts l1S 70 s1s,
I,ouisville and Nashville unified AZ z to IVA ana
Kansas and Texas first AZ. u to 1914
Todav's Washington Treasury statement. GOV,
ering actual results Of two days ago. compares
with the last previous statement. shows the 1oi-
lowing balances:
March H. March is Changes
W., col, q, hand sis $50 GA SIPS Inc. si5ii43
Ne, hsad JOG ss5 14o o50sso $50 Dec l!oI OK,
Ne, silver on nd. 2l734e7s 2l'4o%h Dec lNo.ii-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-19

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The following securities were sold at auction
at the New-York Real Estate Salesroom by
Adrian T. Muller & Son:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-19
STOCKS DULL AND SAGG1NG.
TRADE FAILURES DISCUSSED.
BONDS WEAK AND NACTIvE-HIGHER
MONEY RATES.
GALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE MARCH H.
DEALINGS In RONDS AND BANK STOCKS.

4s Cou l925.ll6s 1000 y n
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Totals . l0 4l 244 g. 303 s08 15o $2, 65l ,O75
 Will these 10, 900, GOO Shylocks sit idly by and see their dollar decline to 30 cents when they can, by depositing slips Of paper in a little box, prevent any decline whatever? But there are others who will help them. There are 970, ,524 pensioners on our government and 750, 951 of them are voters. If paid ill dollars worth only 50 cents, these would lose one.half of the $140, 959, 361 which they now receive annually. Free coinage would be an easy method of cutting down our pension account, but will it meet with the approval of our veterans? It means not only loss to them of SIC, eco, GOO, but this amount every year, or $700, 900, 900 in ten years.
 Then there are the 2, 1000, 900 life in- suFanee Shylccks who will vote to have their $4, 202, 957 ,323 in policies paid in the same kind of money as were their premiums. About 3 ,500, 900 more Shy locks are members of cooperative and mutual aid societies and are creditors to the extent of $5, 184, 670, 936. Nearly 1000, 900 more Shylocks have $816, 650,G to their credit in the numerous industrial companies of this country.
 In truth not only Wall street, but the woods and the prairies are full of these money sharks. If the most of them vote, as they are likely to do, in favor of hon est money there will be no help for the ''poor" debtors. They will have to re- turn all they borrowed or have their mortgages foreclosed.
 But worst of all there are only 1, 777,- 698 of these (mortgage) debtors. They cannot cast half as many votes as the Shylocks. These poor" debtors are mostly in our large cities and have mortgages of from $2, GOO to $1, GOO, GOO hanging over them. Just think of it A poor" debtor with $50, 900 mort gagel Itmay surprise the average Popu- list to learn that the debtors are the rich and enterprising, and that they are the owners of steam and street rail roads, gas, telephone and electric light companies, and manufacturing and mer- camille corporations and companies. These facts are likely to upset the best laid plans of politicians some fine day next Noyem ber The average silver politician may know much about the ratio of 16 to 1, but he knows but little about the ratio between the debtors and creditors of the country. He will have to learn it by experience. Byron W. Holt
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of them were good ones. The amounts range from s to $50 and $100 or over.
 Haynes duties were to go over the road and adjust the claims for stock killed by eompany's trains. He was supposed to effect as favor able settlements for the company as possible That was what he was snpposed to do. But it s,ems that he really made as favorable settle ments for Haynes as were possible. His system was to render claims for fictitious persons on account of fic- titious cattle, and swear to them before fictitious magistrates. These claims were paid and Hayes got the money. There were variations on this plan, Of course. For in- stance, on one occasion q sheep was really killed by t Cotton Belt engine A claim for $3 was put in by the owner. When it got into Haynes hands he changed the word sheep to 'steer" and the amount from $3 to $50. On another occasion he put the name of Powell Richadson, !. P., to all affidavit It now develops that Powell Richardson. who was q Poinsett County magistrate, died some two years before his alleged signature was affixed to the docu- ment.
 Haynes is about 45 years of age and has family. He had the conii- dence of his employers and it was merely an accident that his pecula- tion were discovered. An gent was under suspicion and q company anditor was examining hisacconnts. During the course efhis examination farmer remarked that the agent was not the only man in the employ of the company that needed investi- gation. He luther let drop enough to put the auditor on Haynes track, and in few weeks the stock claim agents system was Hnearthed. The agent who is investigating the short age has not completed his labors, and says he does not know how much the shortage will amount to. He has already, he says, discovered bogus paper to the amount of $23, ,00O.
 Haynes is not under arrest, but it is claimed that he is where he can be arrested whenever the officers deem his arrest necessary.
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How It Looks Abroad.

Hambleton 66 Go of Baltimore. in their weekly letter of May 80, offer the following explanation of why capital is being withdrawn from business enter prises:
 Let us put ourselves in the place of our European creditors and consider if we would not act as they have acted. Would we buy British securities or in- vest in British industries and enterprises if we thought there was danger of our being paid in currency worth only half as mneh as the money which we loaned? Suppose our financial journals and news papers generally should daily warn us against investing our money in Eng land and intimate that we run great risk of getting back only 50 cents for every dollar already so invested, would we not only not buy British securities, but would we not, before the threatened disaster came, draw home every dollar we could obtain2 This is what Europe has been doing in regard to the United States for i've years past.
 Ever since tho passage of the Sher- man silver act of 1890 Europe has fore seen the danger, sold our securities and withdrawn capital from this country. This has resulted in our paying off hun dreds of millions of dollars of what we owed Europe, and we are at least to this extent the ainer. But we cannot afford to be independent of the European mar kets and European capital, and we can not enjoy full prosperity until we satisfy other cOunffinS-xvbat 1vea ara f,1 Ilv com vinced of-that free silver coinage is . dead issue, and that every dollar of our currency and every other obligation will be maintained on a parity with gold ?
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CHOICE AT CHICAGO.
STEVENSON AND eolEs DISCUSSED
 AS PROBABLE NOMINEES.

Views of ofRepresentatIvc Democrats Camp
 bell and Matthews Considered What
 Senator Brice says-yiews of Senator
 PeTer as a Silver Spokesman.
 There has been no such specialization of sentiment among Democratic poli- tieians as to make it possible to predict with any degree of certainty who will be the nominee of that party at the Chi cago convention.
 Upto the present time the contest has been waged over the platform, and as it was not until their victory in Kentucky that the silver men felt sure of being able to control the convention they have not yet had time to form any plans in regard to the man to place at the head of the ticket. l have talked with q large number of Democrats to- day from all sections of the country and representing every shade of convic- ton on the financial issue I find that the two men most talked of by the sil- yer men are Vice President Stevenson and former Governor Boies of Iowa Among the southern men the vice pres ident seems to be regarded with most favor, while some of the western men are inclined to prefer Mir. Boies.
 It is becoming apparent, especially since the defeat of the administration in Kentucky, that President Cleveland is being deserted by some of the men who have heretofore been regarded as friends of the administration, and that even if the administration should at- tempt tG influence the sound money men to bolt the nominee it would be deserted by many men who have been regarded as its warmest supporters.
 Beyond the mere statement that will continue the fight against unsouno financial policies inside the party
 T have no selected preference, said Representative Mcguire of California .Either Stevenson, Boies or Matthews would be entirely satisfactory to me. '
 I am for former Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania, said Representative Erdmann of that state. s'As our party seems determined to be led off by absurd financial ideas, however, there is little chance of the nomination of such a man. 5
 - think the silver men will have a good working majority i'll the Chicago convention, said Senator Peffer, land that unless the two-third rule applies they will name silver candidates "-- Washington Cor. New York World
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CLAIM AGENT SHORT. WORKED THE COTTON BELT FOR OVER TWENTY THOUSAND. Reported Fictitious Stocks Killed on the Tracks Discovery of
 Ills Peculations Came
 by Accident.
From Little Rock pacss.

X gentleman in attendance on the State Convention brings to Little Rock the first information of an im- portant shortage. in which Dan Haynes, for il number of years n trusted stock claim agent, and the Cotton Belt road are the principal parties.
 The story goes that Haynes has been stock claim agent of the Cotton Belt road fer he section between Madden, Mo, and Pine Bluff. Ark for a number of years. He has had the settlement of numerous claims against the road for stock killed by the company's trains. If reports are true, he has also had the settlement of numerous claims. for stock not killed by the eompany's trains. Haynes alleged peculations are said to amount, s,; ssiii. ssiii. as diseasered, te over 5000. The special agent. vino was seen hy tine Press inforIn- ant, states that ile isas inves tig q | ea I20 accounts and that only three
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WALL STREET
 SHYLOCKS.
WHO THEY ARE-ENoUGH OF THEM TO DEFEAT ALL CHEAP
 MONEY SCHEMES.

Estimate of What Free Coinage Would
 Cost Some of Our shsIool<s-Bil Billions of
 Dollars of Savings Would Be Sacrificed
 on the Sixteen to One Altar-The .sPoor'
 Debtors Who own Our Railroads and
 Corporations.
 One of the many delusions back Of the free coinage sophistry is that there arc a few wealthy creditors and millions of poor debtors in this country Upon this assumption it is argued that cheap money will make it easy for the mass of debtors to clear their farms and homes from mortgages held by the Shylocks of Wall street. Let us see now who arc these Shylocks and who are the creditors of this country.
 Every one who has deposit in say ings or other bank, every holder of a life insurance policy, every pensioner, every member of building and loan association, every member of aid and benefit associations, every owner of Q government bond, every one whose sal ary or wages are paid only after services or labor is performed-these are some of the creditor classes. These are the Shyloelss who have mortgage on this country and who arc to be done out of half of their savings by the slick l6 to 1 scheme In truth these Shylocks not only own the country. but they have votes enough to compel the poor debtors to pay in honest money. Let us enumerate some of them who hoard their wealth in banks and loan it eut at luxurious rates of interest, and sec how much they would lose under free coinage and with 50 cent dollars:
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ooInr Back to rl...c cranstather..

Going Back to Tl,o;r CranGfathers.
 The silverites who want the American people to give up the stable money standard under which they have pros. pcred, in order to go back to the silver dollars of their ancestors, are the kind of men who are afraid of everything that is new. They are like the boy who went to the mill with big bag across his horSe's back. In one end of the bag was two nshels of corn and in the other end big stone When the miller asked the boy why he did not divide the corn and put half of it on each side Of the horse the bright youth replied: Father and grandfather allus took their corn 10 mill this-a-way. l ain t no better than them. What was good enough for grandfather is good enough for me. 2
 The idea that because the men who lived i'll this country 100 years ago adopted free coinage l@w we should be satisfied with the same system, IS not suited to progressive, go ahead Ameri- cans. The latter want the very best of everything and just as soon as better way of doing things is discovered, the old way is dropped and the new taken up The question as to what was the best money system 100 years ago has nothing on earth to Go with the practi- cal affairs of today. To talk of going back to free silver merely because it was an old system Is on q level with trying to establish q monarchy in this country because we were once ruled by the Brit ish kings. When the people got tired of kings they kicked them out and estab- lished the republic. When they got tired of trying to use the double standard they made gold the unit of value, and they intend to keep it. Out of date sys- tems don't count for much with live Americans
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EQUAL RleaTs AND PRIVILEGES.
Free Coinage Would vnjastiy Favor Silver
 For the Benefit of a Few.

For inc Benefit of Few.
 The Democratic state convention of South Carolina adopted platform drawn by Senator Pilohfork Tillman which declared that A sound and just system of finance is the most potent fac tor in nations prosperity, and we de- mand the restoration of the money of the constitution by giving silver the same rights and privileges given to gold. We demand the free and unlimited coinage Of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1"
 It is true that the nations prosperity depends en I sound and just system of finance. It k also true that silver should receive the same rights and privileges given to gold But it is not true that these desirable ends would be attained by free silver at 1G 10 l. On the con trary, that scheme violates every prin- ciple Of sound and just finance, and is directly opposed to tine great Jeffersonian doctrine of equal right to all and special privileges to none.
 It would be a waste of time to show that the free and unlimited coinage of silver dollars, the commercial value of which is only 51 cents, would be to give the country a most unsound currency. Nor is 1t needful 10 discuss the justice of a scheme for robbing creditors of one half of the property they have loaned. These things are self evident. But for the benefit of those persons who believe that our currency laws favor gold by giving it privileges denied to silver, 1t is necessary to state just what the gov elnmont does for the two metals
 In stamping 25. grains of gold, O 900 fine, tone dollar the United States simply certifies to the weight and fine ness of the coin. The mint stamp does not fix the value of the gold nor does it add to 1t in any way. Gold Is coined at its market or bullion value.
 With silver the government is more liberal. Over 422, 900, coo silver dollars have been coined, in none of which is the metal of which they are composed worth their face value The United States takes silver bullion now worth 6S cents per ounce and coins it into dollars at a ratio which implies that it is worth gA-s-" pNi aOuuEt- ILskl SUCH COiIlS CtICu- late at par is due to the governments declared policy of maintaining the par ity of the two metals, nearly one-half of the yalHe of the silver being thus fiat, or depending on the country's $ credit.
 The silverites do not want equal rights fer the white and yellow metals, but special privileges for silver. They want free coinage at 16 to l, so that, instead of coining silver at its com mereial value which is all that is done for gold the government would declare that 37ll4 grains of pure silver is worth IS much as 2322 grains of pure gold Since the market ratio of the two metals is about TAO grains of silver to g. 22 of gold it can easily oe seen that free coinage would be the rankest klnd of savoritism to silver Instead of asking for equal privileges the silver r}ine owners and their agents arc trying to secure class legislation such as is given noother industry ill the world.
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One of the interesting features of the Jefferson County Normal is the lectures delivered by prominent men. This morning at II o'clock Dr. R. X. Hall delivered a very profitable address on school hygiene. pr. Hall is one of our best known young physicians and Is thoroughly pre- pared to talk on this subject. He was listened to with the closest at tention by the teachers present, many of whom sought his views on varior school questions.
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Cotton Belt Route.

Cheap rates to Stuttgart, annual meeting Women's Foreign Mission ary Society, Stuttgart, Ark, June r to 9, 1896. For the above oc- easion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets at one and one-third fare on the certificate plan. Dates of sale: Certificates issued June 16 to T only will be hopored for return tickets at reduced rates. Return limit; Agent Stuttgart will honor DO certificate presented after June 25, 1896.
 F. W. LABEAUME, J. W. FARLEY,
 G. r. X "A. Agen
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 Michlgan's Experience.

In 1892 it was nip and tuck between the Democrats and Republicans ill Mich igan. In 1894 the Democrats put dis tinguished and popular man up for gov ernor on straight Is to l platform, making that the issue. and the majority against him was l06, 392. h less than six months there happened to be another state election, and the Democrats still clung to Is to l, and in midyear con test, as it was, the majority against them amounted to so, 407. That was enough for them. This year they tie themselves to sound money.
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How to TelI Good Moner.

Henri Cernuschi is an eminent polit- ical economist and an able advocate of international bimetallism. He is often quoted by free coinage advocates who would never accept his test for good and bad money. It is as follows "lt is by the ordeal of fire that money can be tried. The coins which, being melted down, retain the entire value for which they were legal tender before they were melted down, are good money. Those which do not retain it are not good money n
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debtors the creuLois o this general suppto there are not more aos'o
 creditors depofs and strange dntrodden the country but are the debtors of this country are raoaos mercantile corpora lions n of mortgage indebtedness or Pennsylvania Illinois and Massa ns and mostly great states Less than wo-hIshs or The or mortgages who the rich dors? Deposos III say and stockholders Ill building
  members winch cations The amount to the credit or each Of
 
 S1 800 Poor people $30O If free conage about S0O ana oVoo GOO debtors will s650 each sound currency will ioss attending the
 of to boat, and which of the should boat there can be but little doubt as result
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The case of State vs. Mckinney, which occupied the attention of the Circuit Court all day yesterday, re- suited in conviction. The defend ant was charged with grand larceny aud his punishment fixed at five years Imprisonment at hard labor in the State penitentiary.
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 Waning Agriculture.

In 1874 there were 3, $50, 300 acres of land devoted to the growing of wheat i'll Great Britain and 18S, I'll acres in Ireland. h 1895 only LAT, 641 acres were thus cultivated in Great Britain and 36, 529 acres in Ireland. During the same period the area of permanent pas ture increased in Great Britain from 13, ITS, 412 acres ill 1874 to 16, 61O, 563 acres in 18a5
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Desirable Tenants.

Are you chess player?" asked the landlord of a prosperous tenant. ''I much prefer to have my houses occu- pied by chess players. "
 No, am not a chess player, and can t account for suck singular prefer enee.
 s'It is simple enough. Chess players move so seldom and only after great deliberation. !"
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Whore 1.o,es wou1n Be Strong.

Horace Boies Of Iowa is the leading free silver candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Boies is tie bighearted patriot who declared not long ago that wages are toohigh ill tb s country, and tbat the best way to r9- dpee them is to adopt the free coinage of silver. Ho would poll all immense workingman $ vote.
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All Kinds of Reasons.

Not only does every consideration of honor and patriotism command us to stand for sound currency, but considera- tions of expediency as well. There is : probable presidency in sound currency. There is nothing but disaster in free sil- yer.-Utica Observer.
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Masters Walter Hudson, Curren Nichol, Dan Taylor, c. O. Blackwell and George Adams returned home last night from Fayetteville where they have been attending the Ark ansas Industrial University.
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Mrs. k. Il. NJ. Mills left to-day at l:35 D. m. for Stuttgart where she goes to attend the Womans' Mis- sionary meeting of the Little Rock conference.
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Maj N. T. White, II. Mccoy, II. r. Westbrook, Arthur Murray, A. Brewster, NJ. Currie. Peter Byre, Prof l.. F. Quinn and J. w. Adams returned from Little Rock last even wherethey attended the State con ventiOn.