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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20
nrn.or,n county Land Advancing.

Alvin. Texas. August l9.--There v Z
brisk demand for land In the eastern hale
OF Brazora county at the present times
both for renting and purchasing. ana 9
fall. As a result the land owners are shoy-
ing up the price. Most OF the inquiry
comes from North and Central Texas. .
very desirable class OF people to have II
tho coast country.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20

The railroad commission has siven no.
tice to all persons Interested that II will
on Tuesday. August 81 at its office In
Austin. take UP and consider the matter
OF an amendment to general tariff Of class
rates No. 1. under which the maximum
class rates applying from and 10 Colorado,
a station on the Texas and Pacific railway.
shall be made to apply from and to San
Angelo aud Kerrvillc,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20

Atlanta. Ga. August ie.w. s. Brand.
Superintendent Of the Georgia railway, las
been Indicted by tho grand Jury " reKa,b
county for the violation OF the State law
In the running OF freight trains on sup6ey.
The offenses are alleged to have been COM
mttted on February l. Ia ald 81 OF this
year. The attorneys for the county, are
now In correspondence with the ofasials
of the road with a view to agreeing on q
date for trying the case
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20
Heavy wooI shipments.

gle Pass. Texas. August 10. -Messrs.
x Palmer today shipped $4,000
as of wool to the market in New York.
erday Mr.. o. Woodruff shipped l6o,-
'cunds of wool TO New York. This is
largest shipment Of wool from this
for several years. Both shipments
OF the best quality OF wool.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20
KICKED IN TILE HEAD.

V. ID. Walk. blacksmith at J. n. G0din'n
Ghop on Pearl street, was kicked In tho
Load by II mule he YVES attempting 10 shoe
IBIS morning. Mr.. Walk was un onScous
from the wound for several minutes. and
for while II was feared tho wound would
prove fatal. but nsc'ousness returned
from rcstorativ,s administered by Or A.
j.. Calhoun, and Mir. Walk had recovered
sufficiently to get about late tbls after
noon.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20

y. Woody. st. Louis; August Bri-
San Antonio; Jake Wolff. San An
h. II. wilkins. Dallas; VIM. J. Tau,
l.. Brown. st. Louis; C. r. Cor
BOSTON: G.. l.. Leake, Fort Worth;
A. Herr. Galveston; James H.
St. Louis: Richard Lord, Calves
H. Young, Galveston; w. M. Mapp,
Charles: Mrs. Fl. Carlton, Waco;
Turner. Waco; Ed. Couture,
tleans; A. D. Clapp, New YORK; u.
len. New York: j. F.. Bauman, Koch
N. Y: e. C. Smith. city, F. l..
| Booth. Texas: Charles Knowlton,
Texas; w. C. Knight. BoonYille.
II. j. Coin. st. Louis; ii. Z.
)ncinnati.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20

Round Rock-Sin Killer Griffin In hold
Ing forth to large congregations. composed
of white aud black.
Goliad--Rev Denton closed an interest,"
ing revival at Charco last Sunday night
aud will begin camp meeting at Middlo,
town next Saturday. Rev. Mr.. Bowen ct
Rockport will assist him.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20
Texas Mexican Earnings.

Austin, Texas, August 19.-The Texas
Mexican railroad today paid the comptroller
s55,95, tax on its passenger earnings for
tho quarter ending June go 1897, Total
passenger earnings for quarter S559i,51.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20
Pensions for Texans.

} OF July 81
lditionai-Aifred C. Elkins. Commerce.
OF August .
lginai widow. etc.--Mary L. Heavin,
y City.
/ Of August B.
|einal widow. eic.-Minors of Thomas
bard, San Sabe.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20
southern Pnciflc Ofacinls Coming.
General Manager Kruttschnltt and Mon

oeutIat Muuuetl hfutSCuHitt anu Nuu-
arrive in Houston today from San Fran
cisco. The officials were on tho San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass yesterday. Mr., krutt-
schnitt is merely making a trip over the
lines and Mr.. Van Week Is returning after
accompanying MIR. Mahl TO ihe Pacific coast
several weeks ago
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20

known railroad man, has gone 10 Boston
TO complete arrangements with a syndicate
OF Canadian capitalists to establish sys.
tenn OF electric railroads In Kingston.
Jamaica.
The company u to build twenty -fivo
miles OF tracks In and about Kingston.
About $1,000 900 IL 10 be invested.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20
HIND County yalues.

Greenyille. Texas. August 1.-THE tan
rolls Of Hunt county for the year 1887, Just
completed. show total valuation Of So
155 6s5. an increase over 1895 Of stl7.000.
Total tax will amount to tsl,720. There hAa
been an increase Of 800 voters during the
Iyear.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20

from Waco, Corsicana, Fort Worth and In
termcdiate points along tho road, and an
immense crowd is expected. There are al
ready moro than 600 visiting colored people
Ia tho city.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20
Lumber Merchant. In Houston.

w. X. Dunlap. general freight ann
passenger agent Of the Mexican Intcrna-
tional. accompanied by Sam Parks and
Newton r. Wilson. lumber merchants OF
Monterey. Mexico. were in Houston yea
teriay. guests at the Southern Pacific head
quarters. Mr.. Parks will ship to Mexico
two million feet Of Texas pine lumber dur
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-20
ANOTHER FACTORY IN PROSPECT.

James W, Callahan, president Of the CAL
J HIN Manufacturing company of Wash
- K on. La. spent yesterdiy in Beaumont
aud the rumor is that he is contomplat ing
locating here MIR Callahan Owns a lsrgl
ash. coor aud blind factory in Washing
| ton.
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TEs $3.50 AND 500
DAY. JAMES LAWLOR. PRO

ctt.
/ Beckham. Goliad; Miss G. Cay
iss NJ. Camp. Groesbeeck; Mrs. 7.
arland, Port Lavaca; Andrew An
Detroit; w. +. Karges, Evansville;
Savers and wife. Gonzales; II. n.
Temple: C. p. Curtis, Corsicana;
Groce. Victoria; C. T.. Hooper. Cal
C. w. Silver. Chicago: George r.
Midway Farm; F.. w. Haskell,
port; John e. Knight, Houston; Il.
bpingtcn. Houston; j. NJ. Ferguson,
b: Allen Cameron. Galveston' Rob
rnefeld. Galveston; Mrs. VIM. NC
!. Austin: w. II. Land, New YORK
Hubbard, Tyler; A. p. Cochran,
York; James Adam. st. Louis; sam
Monterey. Mexico; Newton r. VIII
tonterey. Mexico; +. W. Bond, ST.
Louis l.. Loeb. Chicago Z: H.
Louisville: w. A. Allen, New
| IL. N. Openheimer. Austin; t e.
city: e. j. Teearden, St. Louis; j.
)nklin. Waco. j. J. Conklin, Dayton;
IMcCampbclI, Goliad, Texas, ID. sta
4. C. Wilson. Moody; +. l.. Chap
Cuero; II. l.. DeWolf, Waco.
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Yesterdays cottnm Receipts.

The Houston and Texas Central, SO ;h>
ern Pacific and Aransas Pass yesterday
brought in AGO bal Ct cot ON II Hous-
ton, the Central taking the lead with 1888
tales. There was a satisfactory increase
er Wednesday The receipts via the
different roads were:
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THE NEW
p THE NEW
HUTCHINS {:
3G4BtRana HOUSE
HlffR W. T. and j. T.
u l1tSfSySyE5S Boyle, proprietors.
GRxsHg$RHW Rates, $500 and
z S2.6O per day.
lS7RS3S 4. p. a. head

70 Irwin, Galveston; Ben Campbell
!. A. Warden. Bonner, Ark; b. f.
]. Warden. Ohio; II. T. Thomas. New
5; w. l.. Zettis, city, Seymour ha-
Face; James r.. Masterson, Wharton
Davidson, LAGRANGE; I. G. Mont
!. Waco; Harry v. Steen, Calves
~. l.. Mcbride. II. Tooke. r. H.
San Antonio; w. H. Bickweil, New
A. NJ. MacRae. Lake Charles; H. j.
Kansas City; George X. Koernerr'
hore; 81 ksrd, city; s. ID. Arnold,
w. II. Land. New York; J. l.. Pick
Jan Antonio. G.. Finlll'n, Dallasf DR..
barnett, J. M, Alderman, Navas lta;
Hall. San Antonio; II Il. Morris. San
10; Glen Bassett, III hmond.
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THE HOTELS.
CAPITOL . :.
. HOTEL

ARRIVALS.
Rates. $50 to
$500 p . r day:
s xt y elegant
r o o III 8, Wrtn
bath. l. o r g Q
sambls rooms.
Centrally locat-
ed. Best accom-
modations for
commercial men
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WILL START ANOTHER SURVEY.

l.. Il, Boadlc. che engineer u tho Gulf
and Interstate railroad, also chief engineer
Of the Galveston. BRACES and Southwestern
railroad. has returned to beaumont, Mr..
Boadlc has been absent several months To-
eating and surveying The route OF the lat
ter road from Galveston 10 san Antonio.
ile hHs finished that work. and oh Satur-
cay Will leave on horseback to make u
!, conhcilcring survey of the proposed ex-
tension OF The Gulf and Interstate from
beaumont to Altxanirla, La. or Natchez.
Miss.
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Electric Roads in Kingston.
New York, August 19.-H. NJ. Whitney,
brother Of VIM. G. Whitney, ana wssE
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-10

bly,, by statute, from the withheld
earnings of all the teachers. This is
the sort of experimenting with state
socialism that politicians in monarchial
governments may coquet with as Bis
marck has in Germany and as Mr.
Chamberlain has in Great Britain. 1t
is foreign to republic and destruc-
tive of all right democratic ideas.
Pens1oning by the state out of it's
own resources should be confined strict
ly to those who have been incapacitat-
ed for self-suppoEt by service in behalf
OF the state. No man who has en-
gagged in any form of public employ for
a salary or wage, and who has not
suffered bodily injury therefrom, MAX
ing him dependent upon charity, has
any claim upon the treasury that ought
to be allowed or even mentioned. When
it comes to suggesting pension fund
to be collected BY force from the earn
ings Of employees Unfortunately, we
reach most atrocious form of pater-
nalism. If the employees in any branch
Of public service, national, state or city,
choose to form an association, con-
tributing to it voluntarily from their
earnings, and drawing from it, under
proper regulations, a support after re-
tirement, that is their business and
their right. But the average citizen in
republic Is man with whose pri-
vate affairs no interference must be al
lowed. He is free to choose his own
occupation; and, after choosing. the
obligation rests upon him to provide
out of his compensation, whatever it
may be. for his own future support
To levy upon such employees uniform
tax for benefits in which most of them
would never participate would be only
another of those forms of robbery by
statute that are dear to the heart Of
paternalism.
1t is the exception and not the rule
for such employees to spend their whole
lifetime in one occupation. Frequently,
those who are least deserving of such
benefits would be the ones to be sup
ported at the cost of others who had
lost all title to share in their own con-
tributions by a change of vocation.
The whole proposition is an attempted
invasion by the state of the domain
that should be sacred to individual eff
fort, and tends to weaken and deteri-
crate character apd effort. Most forms
of pensioning are. bad enough, but the
involuntary pension, drawn from forced
exaction upon employees, already, as
a rule, too poorly paid, is worst of ALL
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-10
"THE WOMAN TEMPTED ME-.

Very naturally Chairman Cannon
the odium and responsibility of max
ing appropriations that exceed those
made by any former congress, even that
famous one, the Fifty-first, which had
the Indictment Of a bumper year and
the stimulus of the last hot rush of
extravaganza preceding the collapse of
1893. 1t is very human impulse, this,
to find a scapegoat for ones own mis-
takes, foibles and foolishness, and a
very common one. 1t takes more
stamina, more moral courage than the
majority of men, or women either. pos
sess to stand up and say, L am alone
to blame for that. Ever since old
Adam ate the apple because the woman
tempted him, erring man has tried to
dodge the consequences by showing
that he would have been guiltless had
not some other one led him into temp
tation.
So Mr.. Cannon excuses the SUPRA
billion dollar congress that has lust
completed it's otherwise inconseuuentiaI
existence, by laying upon the cxecu-
tive departments the blame for the fol-
lies of the appropriation bills, because.
forsooth, their estimates of the sums
needed for their several departments
were larger than need be; and he finds
consolation in the fact that the ap-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-10
BAD NEWS FOR THE HORDE of
HUNGRY REPUBLICAN OFFICE
SEEK ERS.
LEGISLATION COMES FIRST.
AFTER THE SPECIAL. SESSION THE,
APPOINTMENTS WILL BE CON-
SIDERED.
ways and Means Committee Will
Not Keep Congress Waiting for
the Tariff Act.

WASHINGTON, March ALI of the
officers Of the new cabinet have indi-
Gated purpose to go very slowly in
making changes Of the personnel in
their departments. This not very
cheerful news to office-seekers has been
communicated directly to many of the
aspirants, who have been unable to re-
press their ambitions, and to add to
their discomfort 1t is iutimated in some
quarters that there are to be very few
changes in office, save where the in
cumbent insists upon immediate retire
ment, for some time to come This NAV
De on oVer-eStimate Of the conserva-
tlsm displayed by the administration
put 1t is recalled that Mckinley be-
1ore his inauguration, held to the view
that the change of office with ali it's
accompanying confusion and disar-
rangement of business should not be
undertaken until the tariff bill is en-
acted. This view is brought freshly
10 mind by the statement made TODAY
that prominent assistant secretary
III one OF the executive departments has
oeen asked to remain in his place for
five months.
1t is expected that tomorrow John
hay VIII be named ambassador to Great
Brltain, and Horace Porter. Of New
\ ork, ambassador to Paris. and that
there may be a few other nominations.
including Powell Clayton, of Arkan
sas, as minister to Mexico.
One Of the most important missions
tne president will have to fill will be
tnat OF minister to Spain In view of
the CUBAN 1nsurrection this post is one
demanding the exercise of great tact
ana Skill and the indications are that
MT Mckinley will go very slowly and
aellberate in changing our minister
there. Few of the thousands of appIi .
cat!ons for office mention the post.
Whlch seems not to be in great de
mand, and 1t is certain that UP to Sun
for it, - 1i111iO
PRESIDENT Mckinley has definitely
settled upon ]. H. Brigham, of Ohio.
Ior assistant secretary Of agricultura
ana the nomination doubtless will he
sent 10 the senate within a few DAYS
N Mr. Br1gham is master of the National
orange 1 he is a war veteran, has fig
urea considerably in Ohio politics. and
IS an old friend of the president.
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this reason. that 1t is probable that
the tariff has been for the last time
the decisive issue in a national cleo
ton. But already the aspects of this
change command the attention of ev-
cry man Our expenses go on
increasing. Our revenues, whether
the tariff be high or low must
decline with the decrease in imports of
manufactured goods. How shall this
deficit be made up? The difficulty that
now besets the treasury of raising
money to support the government will
not be cured by a new tariff bill. It
is a permanent difficulty, rising, not
from the German act but from the fact
that our material progress has brought
us to the point where we must lay taxes
primarily for revenue and not for pro-
lection. Protective taxes will not bring
in receipts, except In surely diminish
ing quantity.
so 1t is one of those curious changes
with which political struggles and the
war Of economic issues are filled. that
the Republican party, planted on the
issue Of high protection, finds itself con-
fronted, at the moment Of its accession
to power, with the necessity Of devising
system of tariff for revenue ONLY"
One of its leaders, who has howled
loudest and longest against a tariff for
revenue, and proclaimed the iniquity Of
taxed breakfast table, now suggests
to his associates in the house that they
must consider the probable necessity
OF putting duties on tea and coffee, in
order to keep the treasury from bank
ruptcy. tariff for revenue is in sight,
not because one party supports or an
other opposes, but out of an inevitable
necessity. 1t is the great coming eco
nomic event that now casts its shadow
before.
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INVOLUNTARY PENSIONS.

The pension idea is one against which
every believer in democracy ought to
break a lance. 1t is the natural prod
uct of the abuse of our national pen
sion laws that has been carried to
such fearful lengths in the last twenty
years. The pension of disabled vet
Grams is a righteous policy and an act
of duty. The extension of that system
by politicians greedy for the popular
vote, to cover all possible cases, the
undeserving as well as the meritorious,
and the demand for a service pension
have naturally stimulated all sorts Of
people in the public employ to demand
some consideration. So we have, in
our own legislature, a bill introduced
to provide for pensioning retired school
teachers out of q fund collected forei-
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preparations actually made were some
$25, 900 less than those estimates.
This is not strictly accurate. in the
sundry civil bill, for instance, there
were items for improving rivers and
harbors amounting to some ST., 900, 0G0,
over $40, 900, 900 Of which were not rec
commended by the chief of engineers at
all, and were therefore. presumptively,
needless. In the river and harbor bill
of the preceding session a million and
a half were appropriated for work that
the chief of engineers condemned as
unworthy of public expenditure. And
still we saw Senator Allison, in charge
of the bill in the senate recommending
these disapproved appropriations be-
cause, in the opinion Of the committee,
they could be advantageously made.
But aside from the swill-tub river
and harbor bill, into which every sem
ator and representative feels he must
dip his pail, the excuse rendered by
Mr.. Cannon is not a valid one. The
constitution, mindful of the lessons
taught by monarchs who held or had
grasped the taxing power, perpetuated
the safeguard embodied in the English
constitution, and made the house Of
representatives the holder of the purse
strings of the nation. Not dollar can
be expended that is not authorized in
nI~iCr in i1Cr n QHr
ask, but it alone can give. 1t comes di-
rectly from the people, who must foot
the bills in taxes, and to 1t is given the
power to say what those taxes shall
be. Gradually and insidiously the
house has parted with it's power by
permitting the senate to virtually as
sumo its prerogative by amendments
increasing the sums allowed by the
house; but it has always been within
the province of that body to resume
and hold it's rights by refusing accept
ance Of the additions. Some day there
will come house with courage enough
to deny the senate the right to NEEDLE
with the appropriation bills of the
house and bid it take them as they are
sent or take the sole responsibility Of
their failure.
But, aside from that, it is mere quib-
bling on the part of Mr.. Cannon to
shift the blame for this tremendous ex-
penditure of tax-derived money from
the house to the departments When
we recall the insolent rejection of the
recommendation of Secretary Morton
for diminished appropriations for his
department, the sneers cast upon his
statement of economies put into OPP
GRAFTON resulting in the saving of ST.
100000, and the swagger with which
the house forced upon him an appro-
priation for useless seeds; when we
recall the contemptuous manner in
which the house OVERRIDE the veto by
the president of the stupendous river
and harbOr bill Of the last session and
damned through the profiigate sundry
civil bill of this, the cry of department.
al culDability sounds more like the
whine of boy detected with his hands
in the cooky jar.
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DINGLEY'S BILL,
1t VIII Be Ready Shortly After Con
SreSS Meets,

WASHINGTON, March 9.@Cbairman
Dlngley, of the ways and means com
mittee, said today that he expected the
new tariff bill would be ready to in.
troduce into the house very soon after
congress assemblies. Speaking Of the
report that the law might provide that
the duties assessed should go into or
feet Immediately upon the introduce
tlon OF the bill, Mr.. Dingley said that
1T would be impossible under orr COR
stltutiOn to make a law retroactive
Duties, he said, must be assessed a.
cording to the law on the statute books
at the time goods were imported The
law could provide that goods still in
bond should pay the new duty if they
had not been withdrawn from bond
at the time the law went into effect.
The committee today had under con-
slderation the sugar schedule. but
reached no definite conclusion regard
ing it. The free list schedule was com
pleted. Nearly all the remaining ar
ticles which had not been disposed Of
and which were dutiable under the
Mckinley law. were restored to the
dutiable list at a rate somewhat less
than the Mckinley rates These addi-
tons to the dutiable list include some
chemicals used in the manufacture Of
soaps and 1t may be necessary to in
crease the duty which had been placed
on soaps in the first draft of the bill
to make up for this Change as to raw
materials. The pottery schedule has
not yet been completed and there is
yet considerable question whether the
ad valorem rates of the Mckinley law
shall be restored CT specific duties i'm
posed.
The committee agreed unanimously
to impose specific duties on sugar.
They made the duty on sugar testing
Sc degrees saccharine strength, polar
iscope test. .016, about is cents per
pound Above and below So degrees
the duty will correspond, being 3-100
OF a cent more each degree above So,
and 3-100 Of a cent less for each de-
gree below 90. This will make the duty
about cent for sugar Of Is degrees or
less.
It was agreed that the discriminat-
ing duty against sugar from export
bounty paying countries should be the
net amount of the export bounty. 1t
will vary with each country as the ex-
port bounty varies. For purposes Of
reciprocity. the president was author
lied to reduce the duty one-eighth of
a cent a pound, or 1914 cents a humid
red pounds when coming from countries
which, in his opinion, give reciprocal
advantages. The differential between
raw and refined sugar was not fixed to-