The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-05

| the star witness in the case, and some
| of the other informers are of no more
savory character. Nevertheless Ep-
ping will lose his job and may also go
! to the penitentiary.
Railroads in the East pay little at
tention to the anti-pooling decision of
the supreme court, and are going right
along forcing roads into traffic agree
ments that enable them to put up
freight rates. The Baltimore & Ohio,
which is in the hands of the receivers
has been forced into q traffic agree
ment in spite of the fact that it is un-
der the control of the courts.
The government is once more upon
a pay-as-you-go basis, the receipts for
May having been $6Ss.13 in excess of
expenditures. This, however, is not
the result of change in the tariff laws
or return of prosperity, but O result
of threatened tariff legislation that
have caused importers to bring in
large quantities of dutiable goods be-
fore the tariff is raised. This month
will probably show deficit.
According to the estimates of the
director of the mint there were pro-
duced in the United States during the
year 1896. $53. .0O0, 600 gold.and 81, 7,900,-
600 fine ounces of silver. and with all
this production of precious metals, our
volume of circulating medium decrease
over $50, 100000, owing to the heavy
export of gold. There must be some
thing wrong with our system of money
or trade when such results as this
occur.
Death is rapidly thinning the ranks
of the old soldiers, and in few more
decades nearly all those who fought in
the trenches from 1851 to 1865 will be
numbered with the silent majority.
It is said that the Grand Army is losing
membership at the rate of 100 per day;
that is final tap sounds for some old
soldier every Is minutes. Each
memorial day records the thinning out
of the ranks, and the old veteran who
takes part in memorial service next
Monday will have no assurance that
his comrades will not be called upon
to decorate his grave next year.
Ex-President Harrison presented
gavel, made of different woods, to
Presbyterian assembly in Indiana, the |
other day. "The oak" he said, ''re-
presented the Calvinistic framework of |
the church; the poplar, the free civil |
government fostered by the church;
the black walnut, not painted nor /
hidden, stood for the church's love of
finish, or individualism; the birch,
III dropping branches and clinging |
leaves typified the sheltering of the /
church for the lambs of God, and the
maple, with it's message of sweetness,
stood for the retiring moderator and
his sermon"
The action of the U. S. court at
Washington instructing the jury in
the case of the government against
Henry C. Havemeyer, president of the
American Sugar Refining Co., who
was on trial for contempt, to return a
verdict OF not guilty was about the
most high-handed act court has at
tempted of late. However honest the
court might have been, IL gives ground
for the belief that the Judge was cor
rupted by Havemeyer's money. 1t
will now be in order for Judge Bradley
to dismiss the cases against the other
sugar trust conspirators, and license
them to bribe all the senators they can
since he has said their acts shall not
be investigated.