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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
WRESTLING WITH THE TARIFF.
The Demands of Senators From Diff
ferent Sections Are Amusing.


Washington, April 15.-The republican
finance today held an all-day session at
the capitol to afford an opportunity to
senators of making suggestions on the
tariff bill.
Among the senator's who called and
had conferences with the committee were
Messrs. Quay, Sewell, Elkins, yelling
ton, Perkins, Shoup, Pritchard, Baker,
Harris of Kansas.
Senator Plat of New York also spent
some time with the committee, but he
appeared to be listener rather than a
participant in the proceedings.
Senator Quay had only brief confer
ence and devoted himself especially to
the rates on carpets and mating, upon
which he urged a rate of duty which
would insure protection to the industries
of this country against the products of
China and Japan.
Senator Perkins was given an extended
hearing on the fruit schedule. He pre-
scented the committee with samples of
both California and foreign currants and
raisins, and asked for an increase of the
rate on Iante currants, bringing it UP to
2 IL cents per pound. He also suggested
a duty of a cent pound on oranges and
lemons, instead of three-fourths of cent,
as fixed by the Dingley bill.
Mr.. Perkins suggested a sub-schedule
on beet sugar, providing for a duty of
1 cent per pound on sugar testing 20 by
the polariscope, and increasing to 1 ~
cents for 30 test. A more favorable re-
ception was given to the suggestion for
a drawback duty on imported tin cans in
which fruits and salmon are exported.
This suggestion appeared to meet with
favor.
Mr.. SewelPs suggestions pertained to
almost the entire list of New Jersey
manufactures, and he filed briefs bear
ing upon all of them. He suggested
notifications of the chemical schedule.
He also presented request of the silk
manufacturers for n uniform 80 per cent
ad valorem duty and of the pottery
makers for a compound duty on pottery
products.
There were several remonstrances
against the Dingley rates in his papers.
In one of these was protest from the
paper manufacturers to the effect that
the proposed rates on bleaching powder
elaborate of lime) would be ruinous to
them; and from the wire men against the
rate on iron, and still another from the
watch makers on watch movements.
Senators Baker and Harris of Kansas
asked for a duty of So per ton on
gypsum in the west sufficient to supply the
wants of the entire country. With ref
erence to cattle importations they repre-
scented that the cattle were needed to con-
sumo the grass crop &c the west and that
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Dawes Indian Commission.

Washington, April 1J.-Thc president
had under consideration the question OF
reorganizing the Dawes Indian commits.
son. There are five members, each OF
whom draws salary of $4,000 per an.
Dan. For the present only two changes
are contemplated, and these are expected
to be announced this week. One of the
aiIpolntees will succeed Mr. Cabanis of
Atlanta, Ga. There ARE mary applica-
tons, but appointments will be deter.
mined finally within few weeks. Ex-
Delegate Flynn of Oklahoma is being
vigorously pushed for one of the commits
sionerships.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
JOHN H. SMITH DIED.
He Was Shot at His Home In Waco,
on the 3rd Inst.

Waco, Tex, April 15.-(Special)-Ja
III. Smith, who was shot Saturday, the
Bird inst, at his home ON North -Four
teenth street, died at o'clock this morn
ing. The symptoms supposed to be fa-
vorable observations yesterday are now
known to have been premonitory of the
approaching end. The corpse, when
viewed officially by Justice Bayliss Earle,
was much emaciated. Smith belonged to.
the order of Maccabees and his remains
were taken charge of by delegation of
that order. His funeral will be largely
attended. The testimony taken Mt the
inquest, the report of the experts and
the statement made under oath before
Justice Earle by Smith will be submitted
to the grand jury.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
JOHN L. MEANS BUSINESS.
His Manager EndenvOring to Ar
range a Match With Fity,

range n MHtch with Fttx.
Boston, Mass, April 15.-Shortly after
John l.. Sullivan returned from Carson.
City his manager, Frank L. Dunno,
posted $1,000 with a Boston paper to bind
a match with Champion Fitzsimmons.
Up to date no notice has been taken of
it. The Sullivan people mean business,
it is claimed, and this money will be with
drawn and placed with some New York
paper. Manager Dunno. who is sick and
unable to go to New York. has Nm.iow-
cred Nelse Innis. sporting editor of the.
Boston Herald, to go to New York and
challenge Fitzsimmons over again in BE-.
half of Sullivan. Dunno will make n
5000 side bet that Sullivan win wins.
Sullivan is anxious to fight Fitz in March
of next year to a finish and for the
largest purse offered by any club, Mr..
Innis will be in New York tomorrow to
see Fitzsimmons and demand an answer.
Whatever money is put up will go into
the hands of AL Smith, who was the
stakeholder in the Fitzsimmons-Cor
match
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
White House Visitors.

Washington, April 15.-There was n
large crowd of visitors at the White
House again today. Senator Hanna of
Ohio and Senator Proctor of Vermont
called early and were in consultation
with the president for some time. The
visit was of more than ordinary import
ance, but both the senators declined to
make any statement. Among others who
saw the president were Senators Baker
of Kansas, Gallnger of New Hampshire,
Carter of Montana, Quay of Pennsylva-
mia, Burrows of Michigan and Nelson of
Minnesota.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
No Idea of Retaliation.

Mexico City, April 15.-The reports
published in the United States that the
Mexican government intends, in case of
the passage of the Dingley tariff bill,
instituting retaliatory measures, will be
authoritatively denied by the Mexican
Herald tomorrow.
Certain provisions that the bill will, if
enacted into law, bring American capital
here and will rebound to the benefit of
tho country. The government can await
the action of the American congress with
perfect lack of apprehension.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
NOTHING TO prevent War
GEAR NICHOLAS SAYS NOTHING RE-
MAINS BUT TO LET GREECE AND
TURKEY FIGHT 1T OUT.
THE FRONTIER FORCES COMPARED.
A Reorganization of the Respective
Forces of Greece and Turkey
Stationed Along the From
tier-Turks Strongest.

Vienna, April 15.-It is said here to-
light, on reliable authority, that Gar
Nicholas has declared that nothing now
remains but to abandon Turkey and
Greece to their fate and leave them to
measure strength. His majesty is re-
ported to have added. emphatically that
if Turkey now declared war it would be
exclusively due to provocation by Greece.
Greece would be regarded in Austrian
official circles as the actual assailant.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
The War Credit Bill.

Athens, April 15.-In the chamber of
deputies today the premier, M. Delyan-
mis-. replying toa question on the subject,
said that merely semi-official negotiations
had been commenced between Turkey
and Greece on the subject of Crete. He
denied that any power had attempted to
prevent direct agreement being reached
between the two countries. The bill
granting the government a credit of %
100000 drachmas ga, 100000 for the
ministries of war and marine, then pass
cd its first reading.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Penry Ordered to Mare Island.

Washington, April 15.-The navy de-
partnient is in a ferment over an order
to Lieut.. Peary, the arctic explorer. to
leave New York navy yard and take his
station at Mare Island, Cal. The Off
GERS friends are engaged in raising Il
fund in New York to defray the ex-
penses of another expedition to be CON
Quoted by Lieut.. Peary into the far
north, and it is feared this order will
seriously affect their plans.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
TWO Deputies Killed.

Kansas City, April 10.--A special to-
the Star says two deputy .marshals were
killed in fight near Pawnee, l. T., with
gang of outlaws. The marshals are
said to have had an outlaw, Ed New.
comb, under arrest, when they were atis
tackled BIZ four members of the gang
who attempted to liberate him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22

it was more economical to move the
cattle than the grass.
Senator Elkins and Wellington APP
peared in support of the Dingley rate on
coal, which there is an effort to have re-
duced.
During the day number of republican
senators from the inter-mountain states
met to agree upon plan of cooperation.
Ihey reached no definite conclusion ex-
cept to stand together in their demands on
wool, hides, cattle, lead ore and other
Rocky mountain products.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Bryan Rakinr I'm shekels.

Cincinnati o., April 15.-William J..
Bryan, at Music hall tonight. addressed
1000 people who paid % cents and so
cents admission. His lecture was on
bimetallism and was delivered under the
auspices of the Ohio Valley Bimetallic
League. After the grafton he was given
banquet by members of the league.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22

ance, who flocked to see them. Mr.. Rip
ley was asked: do yeu intend to be
ing?" lI ft{i Ff8
He replied: IL will remain in Austin
one day. / want to find out what all
this means. l haven't been able to get
it through my head yet what it is all
about. l am seeking information"
This afternoon the officials inspected
the Santa Fe property here, and left to-
night for Austin.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
SANTA FEE OFFICIALS COMING.
President Ripley Wants to Know
What It's All About

Galveston, Tex, April 15.-(Special.)-
President Ripley of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe, Paul Morton, the third vice
president, and John Placer, superintend-
ent of motive power and machinery Of
the system, arrived here this morning in
special car. This morning they were
at the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
building, consulting with the officials and
receiving various local men of import
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Mrs. NobIes' Execution stayed.

Washington, April 15.--Judge Harlan
allowed writ of error today in the case
of Elizabeth Mobiles of Georgia. who is
under sentence of death on the charge
of murder and who was to have been
hanged next Friday. 1t was represented
by Mrs: Mobiles counsel that she is in
sane. The allowance of the writ will
operate as a stay of proceedings and will
postpone the execution.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22

tion on the plains in Thessaly, the pres
ent position is untenable, owing to the
constant attacks of the Greek insurgents
VINO have entered the Turkish lines by
stealth, and also in consequence of the
excitement among the troops, and es-
pecialiy the Albanians. The Turkish
ministers, it is announced, have informed
the sultan that war should be declared
against Greece. The sultan, who objects
" war, has not yet replied to the recon-
mendatiOn of his ministers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Nellie Kncebes Not Sold.

o. Berlin, April 15-Bethel, or Nellie
Kneebes. the trotting mare seized at the
time of the arrest of her owner, Robert
Kneebes, of Nebraska. U. S. A., on the
charge of ringing" was to have been
sold today at public auction.
The upset price was 10000 marks.
There was no bid, however and the mare
remains in the possession of the authori-
ties
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Decided to Arbitrate.

Paris, April I'm. Hanitoux, the mill
lister of foreign affairs, informed the cab
met today that convention had been
signed between France and Brazil for
the purpose of arbitrating the question
of Guiana territory in the dispute be-
tween the two countries.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Minister to Turkey Confirmed.

Washington, April 15.-The senate to-
day confirmed the following nominations:
Jas. B. Angel of Michigan. minister
to Turkey; George ID. Meikeljohn of Ne
braska, assistant secretary of war; Isaac
Seligman and Leopold Seligman, of the
firm of Seligman Bros, at London, to be
special fiscal agents of the navy depart
ment at that place.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Austrian Boats Fired Upon

Canea, April 15.-Austrian torpedo
boats were fired upon today by the insur-
gents near Kiss;mo while chasing Greek
blockade runners. There has been sharp
fighting around Gambia between the
Turks and the insurgents.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Can Not Attend the openinr.

Washington, April 15.-President Nc
kinley today decided he would be una
BILE to attend the Nashville exposition
on the, opening day, May /, but will
formally notify the authorities that he
will visit the exposition after adjourn
ment of congress.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
SITUATION is ACUTE.
On the Thessaly FrOntier-Sultnn
Urged to Declare War.

London, April ia special dispatch
from Constantinople says that in the last
encounter between Greek irregulars and
the Turkish regular troops, the latter
lost 240 killed and wounded.
The dispatch adds that Edhem Pasha,
the Turkish COMMUNICATIVE chief, has tel
egraphed to the Turkish authorities at
Constantinople that unless he is ordered
to cross the frontier and take up posi-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
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CHARGED with Murder.

CALDWELL Tex, April 1G.-(Special.)
Last night Sheriff Curry returned from
Marlin with Bob Davis, negro, who is
the Brazos bottoms last Saturday.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Revolt in Honduras.

Washington, April 15.-United States
Consul Little telegraphs from Teguci-
galpa, the capital of Honduras. that
revolution has broken out and that the
republic is now under martial law.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Big British Boat Arrives.

Athens, April 15.-The British first
class battleship Nile has arrived at Pha-
lerum, near the Piraeus.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
Father Kneipp Seriously Ill.

Berlin. April 15.-Father Kneipp, well
known throughout the world through his
famous water cure. is reported to be Sc
riously i'll at WORKSHOP.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22

Boston, April 16.-Judge Morton Of the.
Suffolk supreme court has decided that
Ada Richmond has not established her
rights as widow to contest the will OF
John Stetson, Jr. The decision wasi
made public today.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-22
To Work Up n Trade in the Orient.

Washington, April Ex-senator Hans
brough of North Dakota has introduced
bill authorizing the appointment of
committee of three to introduce and pop
ularize the bread foods of the United
States among the people of the Orient.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-20
Utilizing Waste Beans and Peas.

We seed dealers at the beginning of
every season have more or less of
beans and peas on our hands, whose
percentage of vegetation is too low to
make them of any value for seed pur-
poses, while they are too good to
throw away. These are usually util-
lied either by selling them to the
grocerymen, who handle them as col
ored beans, or to the farmers to feed
to sheep. In my own disposing of
them I have usually had them ground
and then fed to my cows and horses.
AS beans are apt to cling to the mill
stones (so my miller tells me), they
are ground with two or three times
their bulk of corn. My horses will
not eat the bean meal, while the cows
relish both bean and pea meal. Either
of them is exceedingly rich feed, hav-
ing a larger proportion of the flesh
forming constituent (protein) than
corn, while peas are also valuable for
fattening animals, as our Canadian
neighbors well know, though inferior
in this respect to corn. The fat made
from peas is winter in color than Chat
from corn, as can be readily seen by
comparing Canada fattened turkeys
with those raised in the States. As a
milk producer, bean meal is great
favorite with those dairymen who are
so fortunate rs to be able to obtain q
supply of old beans at as low figure
rs corn sells at. Like all very rich
al, "a cd 1Nt-ttI
discretion; a wise proportion, 1 incline
to believe, is but little more than can
be safely fed of cottonseed meal if the
feeder intends to keep good COW.
There is another kind of bean and
pea waste which l have been using
more or less for the last forty years
that believe is but rarely used to
the best advantage; indeed, in many
cases it is not used at all. but con-
signed to the dung heap. 1 refer
to the waste from new beans and
peas. That of which 1 have spoken
previously is the waste caused by age,
the peas and beans being as sound as
ever, but simply too old; that which I
now speak of is the waste picked,
riddled and winnowed out of them to
make them in condition to be sold as
seed. This waste is made up of the
half beans and peas, and that small
grade which passes through the wires
OF the sieves used in racking and,win-
moving, and the sprouted, skin
cracked, rotten or otherwise defective
ones which are hand picked out. This
class of waste is confined mostly to
the growers and the Wholesale dealers
in beans who contract for the crop
just as winnowed, and do their own
sorting and hand picking. Such
waste cannot be ground, as there is
too much foul stuff among it to make
1t healthy food.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-20

There ought to be no trouble in
keeping mineral fertilizers until spring
in good condition for drilling or put
ting in the hill if you put it in dry
place. So far from losing its effective
ness we think the phosphate will be
more effective than when it came from
the factory. We have often used new
phosphate and have generally found it
30 moist that it is hard to drill, but
when kept six months the phosphate
will be dried out, and while less in
weight will for that reason have its
fertilizing properties in more concen-
trated form. We usually kept bags or
barrels of phosphate in room adjoin-
ing the horse stable. No doubt the
sulphuric acid in phosphate united
with the ammonia from the horse
manure. But if we had this to do
over again we should mix the phos-
phate with either COW or horse manure,
trusting that its sulphuric acid would
unite with the ammonia of the manure
pile and with the lime of its original
compound. 1t is possible every win
ter, we believe, to thus mix phosphate
and manure together and reduce them
both to a condition of fine powder.
Such fertilizer will, we believe, be
more effective on any crop than either
the manure or the phosphate used
SeparnteIy
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-20

There are two ways by which it can
be utilized, by feeding to sheep just as
it is, leaving it to the instinct of the
animal to reject the rotten peas, or by
feeding it to pips, in which case it re-.
quires some manipulation. Ny first
experience in utilizing beans was with
the hand-picked waste of the wholesale
grocers. Purchasing about twenty
bushel of these at about twenty five
cents bushel, / put the quantity
needed for the next days feeding in
soak over night, the next day cooked
them with a quantity of beef scrap un.
til they were soft, and while the mass
was scalding hot thickened it by STIR
ring in meal. L fed several pigs
through the winter wholly on this,
with the exception of daily throwing
in of uncooked Hubbard squash. The
animals did fairly well under this reg
linen. but the gain from the invest
ment was not sufficient to warrant a
repetition. The beans, after soaking
for twenty-four hours, were so i'm
proved in appearance that with very
little hand picking they were usually
in good condition for family use, the
defects being mostly but stains on the
surface, which were removed by the
water. When, therefore, beans are
high priced, the poor man might save
a penny when he can buy this class by
the barrel at the usual price at which
they are sold, viz, about one cent a
quart. The pea waste which is left
from those / raise for seed purposes, a
mass of halves, small sized, skin
cracked or rotten peas, have been
able to utilize with results that were
much more satisfactory; for whereas
hogs, if not brought pretty near to the
borders of starvation, will not eat
beans unless accompanied with other
food, they always welcome peas.
My way of preparing them is first to
soak, or rather sink them in water,
when the rotten ones rise to the sur
face and are easily skinned off. By
pouring the peas into the water rather
than water on to the peas, and in
either case giving them a little stirring,
| find am able to secure large pro-
portion of the rotten ones. After soak
ing the peas twenty-four hours the
water is drained of, and | boil them
to q soft, pulpy condition. In the
eagrowing countries L understand it
is the practice to feed after they are
soaked and swollen without cooking,
but rs the waste am handling is old,
and as l utilize heat that would other
wise be wasted, Iprefer to cook them.
My hogs, which average 200 pounds
live weight, eat heartily six quarts
each of this waste, measured when dry
daily, and grow like weeds, weighing
considerably more than one of the
same lot kept by my neighbor, who
feeds his on the mixture of cornmeal
and shorts. AS the peas fed would
otherwise be thrown on the dung heap,
the cost of feeding them is merely the
labor attending it.-J. J. H. Gregory
Marblehead, in New York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-20

In Pennsylvania they have a law
which makes the retailer of intoxicat-
ing drinks responsible in damages for
any injury that may result from such
sale. A day or two ago verdict was
rendered in suit at Pittsburg for
$6338 in favor OF the wife of a man
who procured liquor in the defend
ant's saloon, and while intoxicated was
run over by freight train, losing a
leg 1t was shown at the trial that
the liquor was sold to the plaintiff s
husband after warning had been given
by her to the saloon keeper. If the
law under which this verdict was had
were general in its application through.
out the country. suggests the San
Francisco Chronicle, possibly We
should have fewer cases of intoxica
ton, as it would make saloon keepers
more careful in dispensing liquors to
persons who had already had enough.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-12-20
Boy in the Bundle.

An Iowa boy recently passed through
an experience which he will not forget
if he lives to be 100 years old. He is
only five years old, and one day, when
his father went to the wheat field to
drive the harvester, he took him along
and perched him on the high seat at
his side.
For time all this was very inter-
esting, but presently the little fellow
grew tired and began to squirm and
complain. And then, just as his father
was leaning over to look more closely
at some of the machinery, off tumbled
the little fellow to the conveyor. He
shrieked just once and his ia her tried
vainly to stop the horses. But before
he could even slacken the speed the
boy had been driven up through the
elevator canvas with half bundle Of
wheat. the binding twine had twisted
swiftly around his neck and legs and
he was rolled out on the wide carrier
securely bound in wheat bundle. He
was almost choked, and there was q
tiny bit of skin torn from his shoul-
der, but otherwise he was unhurt
when his father cut the string and
helped him up again. But worse
frightened boy would have been hard
to find. Chicago Record.