Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-21
WASHINGTON NEWS BUDGET
President Mckinley Makes Two APP
pOintments-Author of Discrimi-
mating Clause.
A BLOODlHIRSTY CRANK APpREpENDgD
President Ratchford of the United
Mine Workers Talks on the
Strike, Which is Practical
ly Settled.

Washington, Sept. 2l.-The president
today made the following appointments
VIM. K. Herzog of Illinois, to be consu
at Zeitlan, Germany; Francis H. Wilson to
be postmaster at Brooklyn, N. Y.
SENATOR ELKINs THE AUTHOR
Washington, Sept. Ex-senator Elkins
of West Virginia, has acknowledged thai
he is the hitherto unknown author of the
mysterious paragraph in the tariff bill
putting penalties upon goods carried
into this country by foreign transporta
tion companies. In the interview, he
said: "There was no trick about it at all
simply worked to succeed. OF course
was not going to tell those opposed to
the scheme about it,"
CRANK ARRESTED.
Washington, Sept. 21.-Joseph Bloom
field Jackson, said to be crank from
Meridian, Conn.,, was arrested last night
at the door of the White house after max
ing an unsuccessful effort to enter the
executive mansion. jackson was heavily
armed. He has been in the city several
days, and has made mysterious boasts of
what he was going to do to different
high officials of the government. He also
sent letter to local newspaper con-
tainibg similar threats.
PRESIDENT RAToHFoRD TALKS.
Washington, Sept. 21.-M. d. Ratch-
ford, president of the United Mine Work
ers of America, who is here to attend a
special meeting of the officers of the Fed
- NJ mil
about 1000 miners resume work in the
bituminous coal fields of the central
states. The strike generally ends today,
and the mining situation is not likely to
become disturbed again until the begin
ming of next year, when we hope to set
tie the wage differences Rmioably, without
the necessity of strike. The fight will
continue in all fields against the operators
who refuse to meet the rates. The great
est trouble will be found in West Vir-
ginia and in some portions of Illinois. l
am still hopeful, however, that the pro-
duoers in those fields will conform to the
change and put their mines in opera
tion."
THE NEW TARIFF.
Washington, Sept. 21.-Attorney Gen.
eral McKenna today announced his opin-
ion in the matter Of section No. % of the
new tariff law. He holds in effect that
goods coming directly into the United
States from foreign countries through
Canadian ports are not subject to the dis
eliminating duty of 10 per cent, and also
holds that foreign goods shipped from
countries other than the British posses
sions in British vessels are not subject
to the discriminating duty. Two ques-
tions were asked the attorney general;
The first was in effect as to whether the
discriminating duty of 10 per cent, pro.
vided for in section 20, should be assessed
against an invoice of tea from China,
which arrived in Vancouver in British
vessels, and was thence shipped through
Canada to Chicago; the second was
whether the discriminating duty should
be assessed against cargo of manganese
ore from Chill, which recently arrived in
a British ship at Philadelphia. To both
of these questions the attorney genera
answers IN the negative.