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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
pEY GOODS MARKETS.

New York. Oct. 1.-THE dry goods .itua-
ton Is stiiI featurel-ss. Dismal Monday
weather acted as a damper on store trad
ing and local, jobbing and retail houses
reported business TO be very light n all
departments. Mail orders were also small.
There are no open reductions in any grsds.
In weolen aad wo-sted goods trade demand
is well sustained for this season and prices
are kept up. Spring dress goods are be-
ing opened IN many quarters Other lines.
such as silks and lsces. are in far demand
at well sustained prices. Staple cations
are quiet in nearly al grades. Print cloths
are quiet at 2i1c, prints are generally vita
out change
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
Oklahoma at the Head Of the LIS, n Cot
ton Condition

Washington, Oct. 11.-The cotton re-
turns 70 tle department u agriculture in
d-ca.e an average condition on October
Of 20 as compared with 7s.3 on Sep
TENDER l. a decrease OF SO points The
average condition October l. 1885. was
co. and the average condition on Octo-
bar /. fo- lie las; ten years IL 745. There
has been further decline more OF less
marked in every cation producing s,a:e
the declioe in North Carolina being II
points, n Tennessee l.; in South Cara
Ina. Georgia. Florida and AThansas II;
IN tie Indian Te--lt9-y S. II Alaos ma.
Mississippi and Missouri :: in Louisiana
AMI Texas aid IN Oklahoma ; poin.s
Florida Is tie only safe IN va.ch 1zs
secllne Is 10; attributed wholly O. in
large part - the icns-conCnu.i d-ouxa
The complaints Of rs top crop" o. 90
Al exc4p1icnsily small one. a-a at-los.
universal and re reports OF small boas
AMI saori Staple are very numerous The
only favorable reports are those which
-e!s-e 70 he c3niiuons to- picking,
R5!ca are. IN the main everything TIA:
coU-d D. desired. The ays-sg.z by states
are ss tollows: Virginia %. North Cz-7-
ma -, S1I-1 Carolina .; Geor..a 20.
F.or.la g: Alabama =. MISSISSIPPI "A:
Louisiana =; Texas 81: Arkansas -:
Tennessee 6. MissoI-i "A; OA1zao-aa e.
Indian Territory s..
Washing Ok 1i--Tas Oc-o5e- -
pl-t .: tis "a c!sacian % toe deSz-.-
nsa o. sg-lc1,tcre SHOWS the average
condition % ec-n OF Octo5er - have
.5ssn II az compared Min 7s.3 OF Sep
ten5sr !. win sos Oh Oc,ooe- l. lass.
and IS ne average for re as: ser
Yeas. There has seea su improvement
during che month. S pants :. Maryland.
and n Iowa q. TIE o.he- t-zt. .ae-e
has ss>a . decline q : pains IN Kz=-
sas, . n Neo-aSka. Il CEto, n H.
nos. II MssscIr1. znd esner1l Sec!.n-
n E.e southern SKIES
TaS preliminary estimate :. ta- y.s.t
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
WOOL NARKET

London, Oct. 1.-THE wool auction sales
were continued today with a good attend
ance There was spirited bidding for all
good woods. Faulty stock was not 80 ir-
regular as Saturday. Secured realized fun
rates. while locks and pieces suitable for
the continent turned against the buyers.
American buyers bought a few Queensland
mer!nos at led. Abe purchases aggregate
about $3.50 bales. though not FOR shipment.
Cape o. Good Hope and Natal wool ruled
firm. with Natal greasy selling az "a
The offerings today aggTe gated I2.sii bales
OF which 1000 were withdrawn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
UNCLE SANS STRONG BOX
What 10 In 1t, What Has Come In and
What Has Gone Out


Washington, Oct. 1.-THE annual re-
port Of The treasurer of the United States
will show that on July 80, 1896, the total
available assets OF the treasury were
$50, SIS, 321, and on June 80, 1897. they
had increased to S874, 764,377. OF these
sums S30s 354, AS was available on June
SO, 1896, and s2s3, 295. 424 on June 80, 1897,
for the strictly fiscal operations of the
government. On June 50. 1895, s54l ,33o,si3
and on June so, 1897. 1891, 4eS, s53 was held
on deposit against outstanding certiti-
Gates and treasury notes. In addition 10
the net ordinary revenues. the treasurer
received SIS, 44s. go in deposits for the re-
rirement OF national bank notes. and
81, 25o in refunding certificates for CONVEX
sion into bonds, SO thai the total income
available for The fiscal operations Of the
year was S363,173.s25 AS against this,
there was disoursed. besides the Ordin-
airy expenditures, the sum % 81. S,502
on account of bonds and fractional. cur
rency, and the further sum OF 81 .092. S55
in the retirement OF national bank notes,
making a total OF sSSS. 245.0 The net
loss Of available cash arising from these
operations. therefore, was S25,01l, 0Sl. In
the issue Of paper currency the opera
tons o. the year. which amour. 10 1914
s4s. eco, was exceeded only in one year
1Se2-and then only oy a narrow margin.
The redemp;ions. amounting 10 $3.50, no.
e20, were also relatively higher. The
presenta ton Of national bank notes for
redemption increased % such proportions
as D overtax the capacity Of the force
employed in counting and asserting and
required considerable advances 10 be
made on: OF the general funds OF the
treasury. By an increase OF the force,
however. the arresrage OF work was
oroush. up before The close OF the year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
FLkCTRIc BITrERS.

Electric Bitters is medicine suited FOR
any season. but perhaps more generally
needed when TIE languid. exhausted feel
ing prevails. VIXEN the liver is torpid and
sluggish and the need OF tonic and al
tera,ive Is teli. A prompt uss of this
medicine has often averted long and per-
haps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine
will act more surely IL couateracting and
freeing the system from the msia-ial
7,oison. Headache. Indigestion, Conssipa-
Ion. Dizziness yield to E.ect-ic Bi:teys
Ea, and s. 90 per bottle a, Geo. Van wer-
denis pharmacy, s2s North Main street.
and G. Behring's drug store. northeast
corner Topeka and Douglas avenues
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12

4 few weeks ago the ethor was taken
with q very severe cold tass caused him
% De n a NOS n sersble c3n1tl1n- II
xas undoubtedly . bad care % a grippe
and recognizing = - dangerous he took
immediate steps - 5rias about SPEEDY
cure From me Advertisement o; Chsus-
5erfa.n's C51ga Remedy and TIE many
good recosnnen1.; Srs inc4ude3 t5er-ln.
We e5nc.15ed 20 make a frs trial = ne
redicfne 70 say that q VAS sztlsfac-
tory Il "a results. - putting y ysTy
mildly. iaSee4 l. acted Ike mage ard
N resI- vas a sg~s1s za1 D--mzasn;
ere. We have 10 hesi ;ancy - recon-
u.e11.ng tbs erce..e-t Cough Rem-sy
% anyone afflicted wlrs = couEa o. CA
n any fo-Tn--Tns Banner ., Lss--iT.
Llo-r-vtoEa. Sa-ylso3 TIE = ard %
cs-s sizes f5r sac ~ D-UExa,s
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
COFFEE ANu sCGAK MARKETS

New York. Oct. u-Coffee-Optons open
ed steady. with prices unchanged 70
points lower; ruled generally weak. but
more active under liquidation and short
seiNng following Disappointing cables and
heavy receipts az Rio and Santos
closed steady. with prices unchanged 10
10 points ne; decline; sales $50 bags. IN
GLIDING October S.so December. 81 ~;
March. $6s5Gs.70 Spot coffee-R.o quiet;
Nc. : invoice. t77sc, jobsns. Ts.c; mid.
stesdy. Cordova. lolz9isi3c. Sales, $50 bags
Central American; SO bags Maracsibo-
suEar-Ra* steady; fair refining. s-ls:
centrifugal Sc test, Sac; refined firm
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
GREAT SYMPATHY STRIKE
Federated Trades Will Como to the Rescue
of the Engineers

London, Oct. 1.-THE secretary o. the
Federated Trades, comprising thirty i'm
portan. industries. announces that the
executive committee has definitely de-
cided 10 call out its members in sym
patny with the struggle OF the engineers
against their employers on Friday next,
when, it is estimated, total Of 100000
men Will be out OF work on account OF
the great labor dispute.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
Arkansas City.
From the Daily Traveller.

FROM me Daily IraveleT.
Geuia. the town where every one can
50 and rest, has had a relief from the
usual dullneS and monotony. 1t has
had sensation in the shape Of suicide.
Miss Mary Steel. an unmarried lady,
aged 80 years, died Saturday morning
from the effects of taking big dose Of
arsenic. She wanted 20 die as 1t was TOO
rnuca trouble TO live. She took the ar
senic Friday night and Saturday death
relieved her Of earthly troubles She was
buried Sunday by Duff & Repp at the
expense Of Sumner county. The 6eceas-
Ell had no relatives but was living with
O family at tIeuda. She had attempted
suicide three times before.
Mrs. Harrtng Barringer, through her
attorney, c. T. Atkinson, has brought
suit against the Thompson Livery com.
pany TO recover 81 900 damages. The
case is the outgrowth OF a recent runa-
way accident. Mrs. Barringer, Mrs.
Wolf and Mrs. Martin were riding in
Mrs Wo,fs buggy on Third street. Cap
tain Thompson, Frank Thompson, J. G.
Adkins and c. NJ. Scott were in surrey
IN the Fourth ward looking al come
property. They got out Of the rig, and
went in 70 look at a house. The rig
was left in charge Of c. NJ. Scott. While
they were gone Mr.. Scott went 20 look
at another house. While he WIS gone
the horses got loose and ran away. They
ran into the buggy in which the three
ladies were riding and the collision was
a hard one. The buggy belonging 20
Wolf was badly broken and the ladies'
rvara all b-I,ise5 conSi5a-a h1v hrt M.
seriously. Mesrs. Thompson. Scott and
Adkins nave repaired Mrs. Wolfe's bug
81, but that was not satisfactory 70
Mr.. Barringer. She is now asking dam
ages 10 the extent of 81 900.
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n Towns About
Wellington.

"eHluStOos
From the Daily Journal.
Harry Jordan spent Sunday in Win
field.
Will Schaffer is up from his claim in
the strip.
Harry Jordan has secured q position
with L. c. Newton.
Mics Mary Anderson visited relative.
in Wichita yesterday.
Miss Mary Wear OF Kansas City is Wis
iting with Mrs. L. E. Smith.
JOIN W. Haugh-y will 90 OF Topeka
tonight to attend L o. o. f. grand
lodge.
r. E Carrothers leaves for Topeka this
evening TO attend he grand lodge, /. o.
@. T.
Two additional engineers and another
fireman are expected here to halp out
during the cattle rush
Mrs. William Simms reurned yester-
day morning from Kansas City, where
she attended the carnival
A flock % crares flew over TO the south
tnis morning. The oldest inhsoitant says
this means cold weather.
Frank Smell returned from Kansas
City Saturday evening. where he spent
the week seeing the sights Of the car
nival.
Lyman c. shull was granted a divorce
from nis wife, Alice A. Shull, In the dis
cict court this morning. The parties
live at,U Ill.
Richard McN1ullen, guardian Of WIFE,
lam 81 Hare ct al. has fled his annual
account in probate court II shows
balance :ot :SsS.7o.
District court adjourned today until
the first Monday in November, which
viii be the les: day of the September
term at this place.
]. F. Spencer. who returned from Kan
sas City this u,oraing, says rain fen yes
terday and last night all the way be-
tween here and Kansas City.
Mrs. J. NJ. Griff1ce and daughter re-
turned this morning from Kansas City,
where they went TO visit Mrs Grifice's
sons and witness the carnival.
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Abou, Racing the Defender

Cannes. Oct. Ill; is announced ma.
he presiden, Of the Defender syndicate
has notified the FrenGl Yacht club ths.
the American zach; Defender. which de-
feated Lord Dunr2ven's Vsikyrie III. in
he las, series Of races for the Americas
cup. VIII take psrt in The Cannes regatta
IN the early part OF 1898.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
LIVE STOCK NARKGc.
CHICAGO.

Chicago. Oct. L-Cattie-T1ers was a
fairy active demand for cattle sn1 good
cattle soI5 quite sstisfa ctor!y- Ia. only
weakness v.s n the common cr0ves.
which moved % rather SONY ana were
% cents i1ver. Sz4es were OF Ssss
ot S-Na4.0 FOR common - rather go5c
prime Shipping cstti. y ss3c eerlzr1 az
the scales al a SSS.i9 T1s s;ock.T All
feeder trade Vas fairy active a. y-.css
ranging from 3 Sos 81 Native butchers
AID Gamers stuff sod 5.its- tasE nigh
awe S-en expected St-h sSns range cat
tie offered Texas cate 5-oG<af re
~ f3r steers feeling ve-terrs ssi3 chief
y a. ,ssE4a. and Gaming Steers a;
= ga -
EoEe-Tae-s ~ss a much bet;e- Ssna-d
90 legs than Eas witnessed mss. O. as,
xecs s.f tAe cSe1Egz v--. We tzks5
q an sve-ar- s6vzDcs % cearz p-- -
2SUr<. SAFES rsye 81 ar ertT.1s rage
0: E&Esz-io fsT ire pccrssi g 80 ssst
zo<s E-11 Ire bE-k q =. sss.s >; 81
$40 PCS s,E layg-ly a. C-ssE2A Tse
hogs v--e largely GO Do1r c2sa,y
S1-sp-T5s-@ vas . .z--ly sct+v> 1e--a-1
.o- sss>c. Az PRES we're stszey 1o-
.aos. gzsc ls.s Sa.sp SD =: = sDSs C
.or aztvss. aid e - fsr x.E.@-ns Lszos
re-s more active and e.vei,p@3 rco-s
strength saies rsnxt1s a; & 5e<5 ~ .or -
-oc-ss- - S5sSS - &C. 80 Sest -at.rs
saeep So 90 h.ra as .sz cozzo- saesD
we're SIS ard lssysly = cents I5vsr
Reos.p-s-Cz:tis, zoo. hsE.. : .as. ssses
= GO
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CATTLE.
IA lLlt-C t.dlE
RESENTATIyE gAIFs
sbipp-r-

Springer Bros. % Clearwater had II
a mixed car a. 1cg8 su3 cattle.
Adam HUfos uer o. Eg.yans Vas Up with
a mixed lca3 u cattle and nsTs.
J. y Norris a Furisy stepped OF here
on hs pay home with three car loses q
feeders.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS

The following Official range OF prices On
grain and provisions al Chicago IS furnish
ed by tire Chr.stie-S rect Commission c.,
Board OF Trade Room. Sedgwlck Block.
Wichita Kan:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12

Every man thinks he never was as foolish
as the boys ne sees around HIM.
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KANS FTTY-

Es-szs C4ry. O. IA-CzItse-E2scf. -
ltos. 2sE- r-z1ss s,e2@g. o;1srs seas
- a Esazs Joze- Texas stee-E- --szz =
Tezas eva = I--S. zzfsss f.@t-s. - -
CID. -asvs esps A. z@SS-s z 5Z1Z
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
WICHITA MARKETS.
TATTvE SALES.

HOGS.
Wichita. Kan. Oct. y, Ise7.
Hogs-Stesdy
DILL, r-..-.r- ~ L. q.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
NOTBEFORE NEEDED
DID THE RAIN COME DOWN IN TIE
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.

As the Drouth Was Widespread and Long
the Weather Records, So Il the Stimuli.
taneousness and Suddsnncss Where
with j, Piuyius Addresses himself to
the Task of Fracturing the vertebral
Column of 1t-All Dried-Up Areas
Soaked Thoroughly
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12

Ess.en. Tszssr. a. szsa as ss@Tsa-
"a. "a U-s.rss Hzrss a. Eas4s-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12

Liverpool. Oct u-W1eat-So. > red
western winter. steady. Is 81; No / PED
northern spr-ng. new. steady, 1s H.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12

New York. Oct u--Money on call steady
a. 212G2s. per7s cent; last loan. per cent:
closed al per cent. Prime mercantile pa
per. f4dS per cent. Sterling exchange,
eas.er. with actual business in bankers
bills at sis4i4 Es4Sr5 for demand, and al
1882. a.. S21s for 30 days: posted rates. s4S3
Gi-8ie, ard Ssiz: commercial bills. HsL
Silver certificates 5,15.ls; bar silver, 57c;
Mexican dollars, l3i2c.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-31
A RosE-MAp TOWN.
Where the Houses Are Covered with
beautiful blossoms.

Where the Houses Are Covered with
beautiful blossoms.
Pasadena makes speciality of roses,
and recently closed n two days festival
of roses. From first TO last it was a
magnificent proof of the extent to
which San Gabriel's 5 gardens have been
devoted to the culture OF the queen of
flowers. Nothing but roses were per-
missible, and the limitation seemed to
have not the slightest effect toward
the diminution of the decorations.
When the show was over the pretty
town was literally smothered in roses,
pet Of crushed and broken buds and
blooms, while the air was heavy with
their fragrance. Pasadena introduced
another striking novelty in holding its
battle of roses at night under the glare
of the electric light. The parade of
the daytime was marvelously beauti-
full and gorgeous, but that at night left
it far behind. The effect of the lights
on the moving masses of flowers was
enhancing in degree impossible to
describe.
/. For the two days of the carnival the
town was simply rose-mad. Houses
and store fronts, in and off the streets
where the professions moved, were
hidden by banks and festoons of the
richest flowers. Decorators layished
the choicest varieties on the arches
spanning the main streets and on ropes
stretched from every vantage point.
And yet, after twas all over, the visitor
would not have known, from looking
at the gardens, that there had been
any spoliation of their treasures.
Bushes and clambering vines by near
ly every fence and gateway and on the
house fronts were laden as heavily as
in any season. Pasadena had wasted
roses by the million and did not feel
the loss.-N. Y. Times.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-31
stuffed Onions,

Take one or more large Spanish
onions. Skin them. Place them in boil
ing salted water, aA1 simmer steadily
for half an hour Then carefully re-
move some Of the center 80 that there
is hollow Fill in this with finely
chopped meat, mixed in equal qnanti-
ties with bread crumbs. Season this
stufing with finely chopped parsley.
herbs, pepper and salt. Then bind
together with enough beaten egg 70
keep IT from cr11nlbling. When you
have carefully filled in the onions, put
them in pan with good stock or grav W,
to come more than half way up tho
onions. Simmer till they can be auita
easily pierced with 4 thin skewer. They
will take about an hour; then lift them
out. Keep hot Reduce the stock by
boiling it quickly with the lid of ill
only half of it's left; then strain il
over and pound the onions. Boston
Globe.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-31
ATTACKS ON THE QUEEN.
Vtcforia's Numerous Escapes from
Assassination.

4
vtctoria's Numerous Escapes from
Assassination.
On June % Queen Victoria, who is
now in her seventy ninth year COM
pleted reign of GO years. In doing this
she has had TO surmount dangers which
do not beset ordinary mortals.
In spite of the queens amiable and
irreproachable character and her un-
varying and scrupulous regard for the
constitution of her country, she has
been the subject of several attempts on
her life They have all failed entirely,
but at least three of them came near to
doing harm. The queen showed consid-
cradle personal courage on these occa-
sions.
The first attempt was made by Ed
ward Oxford, on June 10. 1s40 He dis
charged a pistol at her majesty when
she was going up Constitution hill. The
man was quite mad, and after being cap
tured was sent to Bedlam and thencelte
Dartmoor, where, after 35 years, he was
transported to Australia, where he set
up in business as house painter.
Nearly two years later, on May 40,
1912, and almost in the same place, John
Francis fired at the queen. Hewas sen.
fenced to death for this act, but was
afterward reprieved and was trans
ported to Tasmania.
The third attempt was made on July
3 by deformed youth named John
William Bean, but his pistol missed fire.
He was imprisoned for IS months I'm
Newgate.
Again, in May, on the 10th, IN the year
1s49, and third time on Constitution
hill, William Hamilton fred at her mai
esty. lie, however, was only sentenced
to transportation for seven years for
this act
In the following year Lieut.. Pate COM
mitted another outrage, but he had no
&snrderous intent. just as her majesty
was leaving Cambridge house Pate
struck her over the face with a cane,
and, like Hamilton, was sentenced to
transportation for seven years.
The last occasion on which anybody
attempted to injure her majesty was
two days after the Thanksgiv for the
recovery of the prince of Wales, when
n young man named Arthur 0'Gonnor
approached her majesty's carriage IN
the courtyard Of Buckingham palacu.
and threatened the queen with pistol.
John Brown, who was then her maj
esfy's closest personal attendant, seized
the youth and took the revolver from
him, which was found to be unloaded.
IN. x. Journal.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1897-07-31
oBLlGING TIE czAR.
How High English officials Violated
the law of Their Country.

the Law of Their Country.
Englishmen have recently learned
with angry surprise that, at the re-
quest of monarch, for whom they
feel something the reverse of affection,
the foreign Office and treasury officials
entered three gears ago into success
full conspiracy to violate the lawWhich,
OF all on the English statute books, was
supposed to be the most like those OF the
Niedes and persians. When the father
of the present Russian emperor died,
there was on deposit to his credit in the
Bank of England cash and bonds
amounting to considerably over 81, ,00o,-
900. This, of course, like the personal
estate of every Englishman, and of
every foreigner with property in Eng
land, was subject to heavy death
duty. The young czar had natural
disinclination for contributing to the
revenue of a foreign country, SO his
representative in London was directed
to ascertain if there was not some way
OF escaping the tax.
An appeal to the comptroller of Leg
opinion that the money would have to
be paid, but this was accompanied with
a promise to see whether q precedent
for exemption could not be found. In
vestigation disclosed that in every pre-
vious instance of the kind, and they
were numerous, the tax had been col
lected to the last farthing. This was
discouraging, but, for reasons not
stated, the cabinet was determined to
grant the czar's request, and SO way
out of the difficulty was invented.
The Bank of England people inti-
mated to the treasury that they were
willing to hand the property over to the
new czar, without requiring letters of
administration to be presented (the OBJ
tanning of which would have involved
the payment of the duty), provided the
treasury would take no exception to
that course. Accordingly a written
communication was sent to the bank,
stating that so far as the treasury
was concerned the bank was author
lied to transfer to the present emperor
the property belonging to his late inn
perial majesty" The money was there
upon released, the English taxpayers
lost the benefit of Sc 10 shillings out of
every 6 100 which the late czar had on
deposit in England at the time of his
death, and the young czar had been
pleased at their expense.
The committee which has just been
Investigating this episode does not ex-
press any opinion on the propriety of
making concession for the sake of
what it calls international comfy, but
the report declares with some energy
that when the treasury decided to coun-
tenance what was not only "extra-
statutory but actually against the
law, and by executive act to dispense
with payment to the exchequer which
it had no power to remit, it should have
communicated the facts OF the case to
the comptroller and auditor general,
who could, if he thought necessary,
have brought them under the notice Of
parliament. No such communication
was made, and the whole affair was
wrapped in secrecy, and now the enes-
tion is whether ANYBODY can be held
responsible for the amount of the duty.
IN. Y. Times.