The advocate., 1897-06-16

tion which has not acted in the matter Is
the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers.
This will bring all railway organized labor
into one central organization.
In case before the Interstate Commerce
Commission in which the Chicago & Alton
Railroad was defendant, and the Chicago
Live Stock Exchange was plaintiff, Mr..
Brown, counsel for the road, made a strong
argument showing that the Exchange was
trust and its existence was in violation Of
common law and Federal statutes. He
asked that the case be dismissed on the
ground that the Exchange was not legal
corporation, and should have no standing
In court.
In a speech in the Senate last Thursday
Senator Tlllman OF South Carolina said
that what the farmers need is not more
farmers, but tariff which would no longer
rob the farmers we now have. The farmer
asked an export bounty to overcome the
robbery OF the present system, and Sena.
tors sit with stony silence expecting the
farmer with the mortgage gnawing on his
hoe, not to know that they refuse to give
relief. He asserted that the farmers
would not be deceived and that million
followers Of the plow will settle with these
Senator'S at the ballot box. He declared
that since the war the South had been
treated as an Ishmaellte and, with the
farmers generally, had been bled for the
benefit Of New England.
Washington dispatches state that Secre-
tary Gage Of the Treasury Department has
commenced to put In operation his scheme
to retire the greenbacks and that he has
locked up over $6O,0OOOOO Of them since
March 4. In outline the scheme will en-
brace the gradual retirement Of the green
backs and the substitution OF National
bank notes therefor; allowing National
banks to issue to the full limit, instead of 90
per cent as now; reducing the tax on Ma
tional bank circulation from / per cent. to
one.fourth OF l per cent, and limiting the
denominations Of bank notes and all other
paper money to $40 and substituting silver
for all below $40. There will probably be
a provision for branch banks, and there is
a suggestion that State and municipal
bonds may be used as basis for not to ex-
ceed 80 per cent. Of the note circulation.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is authority for
story that a syndicate Of millionaires Is
arranging o deal to make millions out Of
the Cuban trouble. Spain now has a
heavy bonded indebtedness. Some $780,
600, 600 OF these bonds can be secured for
20 cents on the dollar. The syndicate
would get an option on these bonds and
then get Spain to recognize Cuban indie
pendence In consideration Of the assump
tion by the United States Of these bonds.
The plan will give TO the island Of Cuba
United States protectorate,, The guaran-
tee Of these bonds by our Government
would bring them to par and the million.
aires would make $40 900 out OF the
deal. Those behind the deal are men who
contributed literally to the Hanna slush
fund, and they expect to secure the CO.
operation of as many public officers as
possible. 1t does not seem possible that
such deal could be worked but II 1t can
ever be, 1t will be during the present Ad
ministration.
Consul General Lee of Havana, Cuba,
has made report to the State Department
on the Ruiz case. The report states that
Ruiz was arrested on false charge, that
he was given no opportunity to prove his
innocence, that he was in solitary contine-
ment for 351 hours, the treaty limit being
seventy-two hours, that his death was