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The record-union., 1896-07-31

the larger dividends paid to owners, the
percentage of the gross receipts which
is consumed in taxes Is substantially
the same with them as with us. The in
crease in gross receipts in the United
States in the past seven years was S92,
401 ,633 and the increase in taxes in the
same time was S13,S14,771, an increase
OF 1915 per cent. of gross receipts, while
there was an increase of 54.31 per cent
in taxes. The increase of income from
operations before deducting taxes was
SO, 72S, 564, so that there had been an
increase of $4,0S6, ,207 more in taxes
than in income.
In the same time there had been an
increase in Great Britain of $59, 799,-
900 in gross receipts and of Sl5,562
140 In net receipts before deducting
taxes while the taxes had only in
creased S3,239, 100, leaving a net in
crease of S13, $50 above the in
crease in taxes. These figures were all
from the reports of the Interstate Com
merce Commission
The Governor asked what effect
strikes had, In the opinion OF Mr. Mel
lersh, on the value of roads.
Mr.. Mellersh said that the late strike
had driven away millions OF capital
and prevented II from coming to this
country. Europeans think that If we
permit such things to go on we are not
civilized and that their money is net a
safe investment here. The men who &c
on such strikes and destroy property,
as was done at that time, should be
punished. The State will not recover
from the effects of it for the next five
years.
The Governor asked what he consid-
cred the loss of wages to the laboring
men at that time to have been, but Mr..
Mellersh answered that he had never
| figured on it, He had been Informed
that the Southern Pacific Company lost
over a million dollars, and he knew that
the farmers and fruit raisers lost sc
much that 1t will take them years to
recover from it.
Changing the subject, he said that he
| had recently read an article in stand
ard paper, in which the assertion was
made that $500 persons annually made
a European tour. They were mainly oil
| the class who do not earn the money
| they spend and 1t was calculated that
the average amount spent by them
abroad and taken out of this country
would amount TO at least S1O,UOO,UOO
Last year all the gold produced was
only S49,000,000 OF which California
produced S14,000,0 600. Nearly twice as
much money as all the gold produced
was taken out of the country, there
| fore, and spent abroad How much
good II would have done and what ar
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
THE PROPORTIONS REVERSED.

The extension of the civil service re-
form in the department of agriculture
has been rivaled only by that in the
government printing Office during this
administration; and that in the num-
ber brought within the scope of the re-
form more than in the completeness
Of exemption from non-competitive ap-
pointment. When Secretary Morton
took charge of his department on
March 8, 1898, there were 2,497 employees
of all grades in it. OF these SOS were on
the classified list, from which number
80, either excepted from COM
petitive examination or subject to nom
competitive examination, are to be de-
Quoted, leaving the number fully under
the law COG, or 25 per cent
The number of employees has been
reduced to 2,0l9. largely through the
attempt to abolish the seed distribution
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
BURNED TO A CINDER.
Hut There Was Enough Left of the
Check to Make 1t LeSibIe.

Hut There Was Enough Left of the
Check to Make 1t LegibIe.
San Francisco Bulletin.
Many curious stories have been told
concerning bank checks. Some of
these relate to the largest drawn and
others to the smallest. One of the
largest checks ever drawn in this CITY
was at the time that the capital Of
the Nevada bank was increased from
$5,0OO,0O0 to $10,000,000. This check
was by Flood & O'Brien for $5, 900, 900.
AS to the extreme, checks have been
drawn to the value of a single cent
Other stories relate to the circuit made
by checks before they are finally TAX
en- up and destroyed. Some of these
migrations have covered different
states hundreds Of miles. In these
journeys checks have gone over
ground several times. Checks are
wonderful money sayers-that is, thew
save the handling of vast sums of
money every day. They also serve
TO minimize the loss of money from
mistakes, thefts or other causes.
But one of the greatest curiosities in
the check line has just come to light
IN this city. A lady brought it to the
Bank or California to be cashed. 1t
was in paper. box, and had to be
handled very carefully, for it was in
TWO pieces, and both were burned to
crisp. There was not a decipherable
word on either piece. The lady said
the bits OF crisp paper represented a
check for $125, which she had received
IN letter. The check. she said, was
drawn by the National bank of D. o.
Mills, of Sacramento. She had re-
moved the letter from the envelope
and thrown the envelope on some live
Goals In the crate. Upon reading the
letter she found reference to an in
closure Of a check for the sum named,
and turned to the fire in the CRATE with
sore disappointment. The fire had
done its work. The crisp paper lay
on the Goals. She carefully removed
the same, placed it in a box and hur-
ried to the Bank of California to get
the money before the pieces were fur
ther crumbled
After listening to the story the off,
GERS Of the bank made a careful ex-
animation of the burnt paper and by
the aid of powerful glasses they were
able to make out portions of words
from the pen impressions made on the
paper. There were enough of these
lines left to show that ELLA" had been
written, and part of the word 'hun-
dred was also made out, with two
or three letters Of the name of the
bank. These discoveries correspond
ed with the story Of the lady. and
the bank officers then communicated
the circumstances to the National
Bank of D. o. Mills & Co., of Sacra-
mento, and asked for a duplicate
check in behalf of the lady. This was
forwarded, and the money was paid.
The circumstances disproved the
charge about the curiosity of women.
Had there been more curiosity about
the inclosure of the envelope the trou-
BILE would have been avoided. The
practical application of the story is,
to be careful that what you throw
into the fire has no further value for
YOU
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
MULTIPLYING DEPARTMENTS.

Ihe bill Of Senator Frye to create a.
department of commerce and manu-
factures, with a cabinet officer at the
mead OF it, is the natural successor of
that by which the department of ae.
rlculture was so erected. 1t comes for
ward at an opportune time, because
1t promises to the faithful that if thew
are successful at the coming election
there will be a lot more spoils to dis
tribute. That is it's only excuse for
pelng. The wonder is, not that such
a department should be suggested now.
but that there have not been half q
dozen or more created in the last +an
years. There was never the slightest
excuse for adding to the number of
executive departments as established
early in our history. 1t is just as ra-
tional to make a department of com
merce and manufactures as it was to
make one of agriculture. 1t will be
just as rational, if that should be done
to make another department of fish
cries, and one Of mining, and one of
labor, and one Of education, and finally
to get down to a department of bar
Der shops and bath rooms.
The whole idea of the proper scone
ana junction of an executive depart
ment was lost sight Of with the first
transgression Of the proper rule. and
the way was opened to a scramble
among an business interests in our
complicated industrial and commercial
system for representation in the cab
met, and the paternA care of the GEN.
tral government. There is no reason.
no economy, no common sense, in any
such arrangement. All that the gov
ernment has any right to do. and
much more than that, for commerce
and manufactures, it does through the
agency of the regular departments.
The success of Mr.. Frye's bill would
carry with it the creation of another
cabinet office, the establishment of
lot of additional red tape, the appoint
ment of some scores or hundreds of
new chiefs of divisions and subordi-
mates, and big appropriation for the
use Of these new dignitaries 1t moves
directly away from the line of SIM
plicity, reform and economy. 1t is
paternalistic, and therefore properly
Republican. 1t might be made potent
instrument for the manipulation Of
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16

protected interests, and for fastening
more firmly upon the people the sys-
tenn Of legalized robbery for their bene-
fit. 1t has not single public aspect
that can command honest praise. 1t
ought to be killed without question or
debate. But since we opened wide the
doors to this kind of exploitation by
establishing department of agricul-
ture, there is no telling where or when
the process will end.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16

humbug and the looping off Of sine
cures for political favorites. OF these
1,4S9 are In the classified service, an
increase of 145 per cent But four of
these arc excepted from competitive
examination, the remaining $50 not in
the classified service being laborers,
workmen and charwomen. Where,
prior to Secretary Morton's incum-
bency, but 25 per cent of the employees
were subject to competitive examina-
tions for appointment or promotion,
now all but about rs per cent are so
subject, and these areVof class of no
value to the place hunters or the poll
ticianS 81
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16

dacity, their unscrupulousness, have
gained mastery of the party organiza-
ton. With such spirit controlling the
voters of a nation kakostocracy is
not only possible, but inevitable. The
despotism OF the boss is no less in
degree nor worse in quality than is
that of the absolute monarch, while it
is not tempered by assassination" or
by responsibility either. The hope of the
republic lies in the spirit Of Democ-
racy which inspires resistance to all in
vasions of individual rights and car
ries that resistance to victory.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
WITH INTENT TO AMUSE.

Lets see, a clock is supposed to run fas-
ter in winter than in summer, isn't it?"
"Yes-days are shorter, you know"'-Ex-
change. ..t3
More Rapid-''By the way" asked Battle
and Murder, "what has become of the pale
horse?" Death grinned an osseous grin. 'I
am using the trolley cars now. Cincinnati
Enquirer. rt
The Mark rk-Down.-tA'Mann.." she bitterly ex-
claimed, lis dominated by the almighty dol
spirit, 'by the almighty ninety nine cents"
Detroit Tribune. $50
She-How old would you say I was? He
Um-well l should say you were old enough
to know better than to think would answer
a question like that.-Fun.
"Did you marry me for love, Harry?"
what makes you doubt it?''
''Well, you see, it might have been merely
because you needed protection from other
women. Chicago Record.
Ralph-Your father is going over on the
same steamer with me. l think I'll wait till
we get half way over before 1 ask him for
Heen-Oh, you needn't wait. You will find
him half seas over any afternoon at the club
Exchange.
''What is the reason those stockings of
mine are not darned?" asked the Emancipated
Woman, as she started down town.
81 beg your pardon, dear" said the New
Husband, apologetically, 'but 1 burned my
fingers so badly ironing your shirts that
cannot hold a darning needle."-New York
World.
At a Hotel-Guest Ito waiter)-'I can't eat
this SOUP Waiter takes it away and brings
another kind of soup. Guest-'I can't eat
this soupP' Waiter, angrily, but silently. for
the third time brings another kind. Guest
(again)-''I can't eat this SOUP Waiter, fur
ious, calls the hotel proprietor. Proprietor
Ito guest-"Why can't you eat this SOUP"
Guest lquietly)-'B Because I have no spoon!'-
Texas Siftings.
Jinks-Today l pleasedsa pretty woman by
telling her that a certain red-faced snub-
nosed, baldheaded mortaltlooked like her.
Winks-Get out! t9
. Jinks-The red-faned is snub- -nosed bald
headed mortal was her ffirst baby.-Toronto
Rural Cannadian II B
"I have here one divorce notice and one
marriage announcement, said the editors as
sistant; si:als "What caption shall I put over
run them together and head them Brakes
and Couplings T" renlied the editor. who once
had charge of the railway department-Judge.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
Moneys the Matter With Ham.

Washington Post
-, Agann, atsa 1t appears, there is something the
mater with Hanna. A few days ago a load
ing republican organ in Mr.. AIHson's STATE
;speakl1g In the interest of Mr.. Allison's pres
l1entlai wen al car candidacy. made complaint of the
book to boost the Mckinley boom The met
that ina. broke out in the West has spread to the
East East Pennsylvania. the bailwick of 0uaV
10 s4i4S iowa the Allison bailiwick, in hoWling
a. llama. The Philadelphia Inquirer calls The
stent1on of Mark Hanna to the fact that bis his
pontlcal methods are resented" The Inouire
eT eT makes the point blank charge, that Mr.
asking contributions of the great manufactur-
ers In aid of his favorite. 1t is within the
absolute knowledge of the Inquirer that he
Mas, Mas tpled T TO collect funds in Pennsylvania
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
1T is INTIMATED THAT CIEvN.
LAND MAY SEND ONE TO CON-
GRESS THIS WEEK.
OPPOSITION TO RECOGNITION
MAY DELAY ACTION ON THE
CUBAN RESOLUTION FOR
SOME TIME.
DUPONT CASE NEXT IN SENATE
Tariff Debate a PossihjIitv IN +ho
House-Weei<'s Forecast for
Congress-.

WASHINGTON, March 15.-The indi.
cations are that the Cuban question
and the Dupont election case will con-
tinue to claim the greater share of the
attention of the senate during the pres
ent week, though other matters will
be undoubtedly considered at different
times. An agreement was reached two
weeks ago, before the Dupont case was
taken up, that the bill for the settle
ment of the accounts between the
United States and the state of Arkan-
sas should be made the unfinished
business for tomorrow. If this agree
ment Is observed, it will, for the time
at least, displace the Dupont debate
Ihere is also an understanding that
IN case 1T is made apparent that the
CUBAN matter can be speedily disposed
or the managers for Mr. Dupont will
not stand in the way.
Senator Sherman is exceedingly de-
sirous of getting the Cuban reso111tions
out Of the way at the earliest prac-
tlcaple time, and will press considera-
tlon. The senators who are opposing
the consideration are, however, not in
cllned to fall in with this design, and
there is now no prospect of an imne-
date vote on the conference report. IT
is 1ntimated that the president is likely
TO send message to the senate on the
cuban question in response to Senator
Hoar's resolution of inquiry, and if he
should do so, it unquestionably will
have influence either in retarding or
eXpedit1ng final consideration of the
question in the senate
senator Lodge will be heard tomor-
row on the immigration bill. and Sen
ator Pugh on tariff and silver. Sen
ator Morgan probably will make the
next speech on the Cuban question, in
reply to Senators Hale, Hill and Hoar-
and Senator Chandler will lead off the
debate in the Dupont case when its
consideration is resumed.
IN THE HOUSE.
A variety of matters make UP the
programme for the week in the house.
Tomorrow is committee suspension day
under the rules, and several bills will
probably be called up and acted upon,
among them the Oklahoma homestead
bill. The bill for the reform Of the
administrative features of the tariff
law, which has been carefully formu-
lated as a result of extensive hearings
before the ways and means committee.
will be brought forward on Tuesday,
AS the administration of the custom
laws is largely technical matter con-
cerning which there is little general in
formation, the bill probably will be
passed in day unless a general tariff
discussion is precipitated This is not
at all unlikely, in view of the political
activity in the country. The naval ap-
preparation bill will follow. The whole
question of the expediency of adding
to the new navy is involved in this bill.
and its possibilities as a subject for
debate are very wide. 1t is not be-
heVed that it can be disposed of EAis
week, but if, by chance it should, the
report of the elections committee in
IaVor OF unseating Mr. Boatner from
the Fifth Louisiana district will be
called up.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
DID NOT KNOW "CUsH DAVIS"
Questioning the Responsibility of
MinnesOta's Presidential Candi-
date. u,

New York SUM- 49,
Tim Burns is sergeant-at-arms for the Re-
publican national committee. subcommit-
tee OF the national body and Tim had been
IN ST. Louis making final arrangements for
the wigwam in which the convention is to
De held. One of the subcommittee related
as follows at the Fifth Avenue hotel last
hignt hg an experience of Tim in the Southern
MOTEL which is to be the headquarters of
dates:
Hotel Clerk-Mr. Burns. I have received a
telegram, signed &c. K. Davis" asking that
sponsible person?
Tim-Who?
Hotel Clerk-C. K. Davis Do v know him !?
Is he responsible?
Tim-Who did you say?
he straight?
Tim-Why, you laundering chump. c. X.
DAVIS is Senator Cushman X. Davis. Mime
sofas candidate for the presidency. Is he
responsible? Well, he owns half Of Mime
sofa, and If he lives long enough will have
mortgage on the other half.
Hotel Clerk-For the Lords sake don't
let this out, will you?
Mr.. Burns didn't let It out. but one of
the subcommittee did.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
A Time to Speak Out.
Milwaukee Sentinel.

MILWAUKEE, Sentinel.
Republicans who believe the time has come
for the adoption of an honest and outspoken
the proceedings of the Ohio state convention.
held yesterday, with disappointment, if not,
indeed, with chagrin. 1t is the same old make
shift of the politicians which has done duty
SO many times; designed, of course, to catch
the votes of the silver states, and at the
same time, hold the votes of states, like Wis
consin, which demand that the basis of
on which the business of the commercial
world is transacted. allowing at the same time
the largest possible use Of silver consistent
with the maintenance of the gold standard.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
A FOOLISH QUESTION.

Some time ago the G l o b e, in COM
menting upon the declaration of Sen
ator Tillman and some other Demo-
Populists that they were going to the
Chicago convention this year, and that
if it did not adopt a free silver resolu-
walk out of it, denounced this position
in the severest terms. 1t said that to
do this sis to renounce all party 10y
atty, and to make party government
and party existence impossible" Re-
ferring to our article the Martin Coun-
ty Sentinel asks the following ques-
ton: eff the national Democratic con-
vention adopts platform favoring the
free and unlimited coinage of gold and
silver on q basis of 16 to 1, independ-
ent of foreign nations, will the G o b e
accept the verdict, reverse its posi-
ton, and give the proposition an honest
and cordial support?" We had sup
posed the query to be a mere jest; but
since the Sentinel continues to harp
upon 1t, we will state for it's benefit
some considerations that ought to be
self-apparent.
In the first place, the proposition
which we laid down was applied to
prospective participants In the national
convention of the Democratic party
1t is a rule of political action, recog-
nized universally among honorable
men, that when a man accepts the
office of delegate to a political conven-
tion he is bound by decision of it's
majority, fairly arrived at. That prop
osition was the basis Of our discus
sion, and is the criterion by which the
actions and words Of such men as Mr.
Tillman and others, who declare in
advance that they will bolt if they can
not rule, should be judged. If a man
is chosen as delegate to the national
convention, accepts the honor, and par
ticipates in its proceedings, he must
feel bound, in honor, to support what
ever position might be declared to be
Democratic doctrine by a fair vote Of
the majority.
Every man of any party who acts
only in his capacity Of private citizen
reserves the right of Independent ac-
ton in an emergency. We have, for
example, no quarrel with the Individual
Democrat who has made up his mind
that he will not support a resolution
either for or against free coinage. We
think that such action tends to- dis
union and defeat, but 1t is an inaliena-
bic right Of the citizen. If he is a
sensible man and a good Democrat.
he will keep such opinion to himself,
In the hope that the emergency which
he fears may not arise; and with a
knowledge that for him to declare in
advance of the meeting Of a conven-
tion what it must or must not do. in
order to command his support, tends
to strife, raises an equally bitter and
determined opposition on the other
side, is undemocratic and unpatri
otic. r-.l...- ..t...
1t might have occurred to the Senti
mel, we should suppose, that it asks
the G b e to do that which we have
blamed others for doing. 1t is a Gu
r1ous lapse of acuteness in our es-
teemed contemporary to demand that
the q o b e assert in advance what
1t Will do or will not do if the national
convention acts or refuses to act in
a certain way, Immediately after call
ing others to a sharp account for pre-
cisely that impertinence.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
METRIC SYSTEM ONLY.
Committee Wants Congress to Make
1t Legal.

WASHINGTON, March 15.-Repre-
sentative Charles w. Stone, of Penn
syiVania, chairman of the committee ON
coinage, weights and measures, tomor-
row Will submit to the house the unani-
nous report of the committee in favor
OF the adoption by the government of
the metric system of weights and
measures. The committee recommends
that the system be put into exclusive
use in the departments of the govern
ment at such a future date as will al
low adequate preparation for the
change. and at the end of a fixed time
thereafter be recognized as the only
legal system for general use For its
beginning in the operations of the gov
erhment the Ist of July, 1898, the begin
ming Of the fiscal year, is named: and
for its adoption for use in the nation at
large the beginning of the twentieth
century, Jan. l. 1901
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
He's Small but Good.

New York Sun.
The admirers of eloquence and of the Hon.
William Henry Eustis, of Minneapolis, see
with grief that he is the favorite candidate
OF the Minneapolis committee of one hundred
for governor. Committees of 100 or 500 or
70 are often composed of very desira-
BILE persons, whose names look we'll on the
back of checks and in other important places,
but in actual political force they usually count
about as much as a carload of mummies would
or wax works show. Mr.. Eustis has gifts
of speech, and his spirited performance of
the difficult part Of the Fire King at the ice
carnival" showed that he is a genius of
much ferVor and intensity. He deserves
better than to fall into the hands of COM
mittee of one hundred. He is small but good,
as the guide books say of some of the hotels.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
A Plausible Prediction,
st. Louis Renublic

Gold is like anything else on which men
place an exchange value. A small surplus
supply can sometimes make a big break in
valuation. Once the cheapening process sets
IN, nobody cares to hold the commodity long
There is more profit in selling than in buy
ing: The effect on American politics may be
sufficient to keep in power for twenty years
the party which inaugurates the next presi-
dent. On steadily rising commodity market
especially if attended by general rise in the
wage market, business will seem highly pros
porous. Trade will be bolder Enterprises
will be undertaken with confidence. Land
values will rise rapidly.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
Truthful Vow, but After st. Louis.

1t is fortunate that these great journals are
so frank in describing the characteristics of
the faction in the Republican party opposed
to each. The proposition of one is that the
agents of Mckinley are going up and down
the land bribing Republicans to vote for him
In the national convention. The assertion of
the other appears to be that the foes of Nc
Kinley are going up and down the land doing
precisely the same thing. From each point
of view the Republican politician is described
to be purely venal. to be absolutely purchas-
able. Probably both newspapers are correct,
and the man who bids high, with money or
with Offices, will carry the convention.