The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-01-05
ALL ABOUT TOBACCO.
No Two Interests Are Agreed Upon
Schedule OF Rates.
Decisions Handed Down by
/ Supreme Court.
Petition Of Sugar Broker Chapman Granted.
Other Rulings.

Other Rulings.
Washington, Jan. 5.-Tobacco and
manufacturers thereof. being schedule
+ Of the existing tariff law, was the
subject Of the hearing before the COM
mittee on ways and means yesterday.
The many varied branches of the
business were represented. the native
growers, importers, manufacturers
using native goods using Havana, and
those handling the Sumatra product.
Between these classes there was much
discord, no two OF them being agreed on
any schedule Of rates, and contradicting
one another on questions relating to the
effects OF the present law. to rates OF
labor and cost Of production and manu-
facture.
The National Association Of Tobacco
Manufacturers was represented by a
large delegation, with its president,
Moores Kron Of Cincinnati, for spokes-
man. The association asked for duties
of 551s cents a pound on all imported
leaf tobacco, of not more than 55 cents
on all unstemmed tobacco, and IS
pound, with rs cents ad valorem, on i'm
ported cigars.
Under any higher rates they declared
their business would be ruined.
The principal representatives Of the
growers were Michael Tobin OF Bald
winsville, ~. Y, and }. +. Van Duyer
of Horse Heads, N. Y. They asaserted
that the native growers had made no
money under the Wilson bill, and asked
for rates higher than those of the Nc
Kinley act.
George j. Smith of Kingston, N. Y.
spoke for the users of Sumatra tobacco,
and p. Gumby, formerly collector of the
port OF Tampa, for the Florida manu-
facturers OF Cuban products. 1t was
represented that only per cent Of the
Havana tobacco used as wrappers paid
duty as such under the Wilson tariff.
Others who spoke were ex-Mayor
Frederick Schroeder Of Brooklyn, II. s.
Frye, Windsor. Conn; L. II. Neudecker,
Baltimore; J. 1. Ellison, New York. and
George Richardson, st. Paul.
Supreme Court Decisions.
Washington, Jan. 5. = The United
States supreme court reconvened yes
terday after a recess of two weeks.
Among the cases under consideration
was the petition Of Elverton X. Chap
man, the New York broker, for writ
Of habeas corpus in the cases in which
he was tried in the courts of the Dis
trict Of Columbia on the charge of re-
fcsing to answer questions put to him
by the senate sugar trust investigating
committee in 1894. The application was
made in Chapman's behalf by ex-Sena-
tor George F. Edmunds. and the court
issued an order granting leave to file
the petition. making it at the sugges-
aion Of Mr.. Edmunds, returnable on
March % next.
1t was also ordered that in the mean
time Chapman be admitted to bail in
the sum Of $1,000. In this petition
Chapman claims that the questions
which he declined to answer and for
which refusal he was Indicted, tried and
found guilty, were questions relating
to his private business, whuch he was
not bound to answer; because they were
made with the view of an unlawful
search into his private affairs in con-
travention of the fourth amendment of
the federal constitution.
The court, in an opinion by Justice
Peckham, affirmed the decision Of the
supreme court of Florida in the cases
of +. r. Osborne, who was arrested,
tried and imprisoned on the charge of
violating (by acting agent for the South
ern Express company a state law re-
Quiring a license for the operation of
express companies in that state. Os-
borne brought the case to the supreme
court on the allegation that the law was
unconstitutional, but Justice Peckham
said in his opinion the law did not violate
any provision of the constitution.
An opinion rendered by Justice
Brewer in the case Of William G. Ford,
rJr., and Louis p. Levy, VS.. the Delta
pine Land company, decided the owner
ship of 200 different tracts of land, in
Guiding 112,160 acres in nine different
counties in the state Of Mississippi. The
lands were acquired by the Pine Land
company upon tax sales for levee i'm
provements which the former owners
uesisted on the ground that the lands
(which had formerly been granted to
the Memphis, Holly Springs and Mo-
bile Railroad company were exempt.
The case was appealed from the circr't
court for the southern district of Mis-
sissippi by Ford and Levy, the decision
there having been averse to them.
This verdict was yesterday affirmed.
= "A petition for writ Of habeas corpus
for Edward Eckart was filed by Rublo
"A. Cole. Eckart Is serving q life SEN
'tence In the Wisconsin penitentiary
on the charge Of murder, and has al
ready served Is years. He complains
that his conviction was irregular and
without due process Of law. AIS.
The court also rendered a decision
through Justice Peckham in the case of
ALBERT L. France and others involving
the anti-lottery law Of 1895. France
and his fellow.appellants were con-
victed in the district Of Ohio on the
charge Of conspiring to violate this act,
and the verdict Of that court was re-
versed. E.
Another Monopoly. EE ir
! Detroit, Jan. 5.-Tom L. johnson Of
Cleveland, president Of the Detroit Citi-
xens Railway company il now I'm con-