Mesa free press., 1898-12-30

between the two countries. An effort
was made at Paris to secure an ar
rangement with the Spanish commits
sion looking to the revival of the old
treaty until it could be replaced by
another, but this having failed. no me-
gotiations for new commercial treaties
viii be undertaken before the ratifica-
ton Of the peace treaty.
A special from the St. Louis Repub-
lie from the City of Mexico saws that
U. =. Gillett, the absconding Kansas
cattieman, and his attorney, c. r.
Iroxei, left for Vera Cruz, where they
Will take a steamer for South Amer
lca. Ihelr ultimate destination is the
argentine Republic, where Gillett
says ne will go into the cattle busi-
ness. detectives are still following
tnem, but they have no power to make
arrests, and can do absolutely moth
ing TO prevent the departure 10 Vera
Cruz.
The New York Herald, having made
canvass of more than 500 of .ba
leading newspapers Of the United
States on the question Of territorial
expansion, shows that a.. pronounced
majority is in its favor. Briefly stated.
the result is as follows: South. for 56,
against Ga; West, for 126, against 81.
New England, for 81, against AZ. Mid
die states, for IS, against 36. The vote
In California stands: For, Republicans
3, Democrats l; against, Democrats L.
Independent 2. In New York State. SO
favor expansion and 13 oppose it.
One of the questions which will
come before Congress for solution in
the near future is that of the restora-
ton OF American shipping to it's for
mer supremacy upon the high seas.
The actual tonnage of our merchant
marine is today less than it was in
1903, when the population of the coun-
try was about 100000. This condition
ought not to exist. If it be within the
power of Congress to restore the pres
tlge OF our carrying trade by legisla-
ton, the needed legislation should be
enacted without unnecessary delay.
One of the most sensational cases
ever tried in Iowa has been taken
from the Federal court docket at Du-
buque by the order dismissing the in
dictments returned six years ago
against r. e. Graves for alleged false
returns to the Treasury Department
on the condition of the defunct Com
mercial National Bank. Graves was
president of the bank at the time of
the collapse. He was convicted on the
charge and received a five-year SEN
tence. Graves has since been under.
$4,000 bonds, residing on the,~ Pacific
coast
In report to the State Department
Commercial Agent Stern at Hamburg
predicts that the United States will
soon pass England in the value of ex-
ports of machinery to Germany. The
present year shows even a falling off
in the case of England, while the i'm
ports OF American machines show an
increase of rs per cent over last years
figures. In. 1898 the imports of the
United States of these goods into Ger
many did not amount to the sixth part
OF the amount of the English, while
today they. are equal to 60 per scent OF
the latter.
The flour trust scheme is dead, SO
far as Minneapolis mills are con-
cerned. says a dispatch At meeting
OF representatives of three leading To-
cal milling concerns-the Pillsbury-
Washburn Flour Mills Company, the
Northwestern Consolidated Company.
and the Washburn- Crosby Company.
it was unanimously agreed that none
of the Minneapolis properties should
go into the Mcintyre consolidation
scheme, and that no further attention
should be given to the matter. The
mills at Milwaukee and Duluth will in
all probability follow the lead of the
Minneapolis millers.
On the first of January, the Della
ware and Hudson Canal Company's
railroad between Carbondale and
Honesdale, Pa, will be abandoned.
This fact is of more than local inter-
est, because this is the oldest COM
plete railroad in the United States,
and because it is a gravity road. 1t
was completed in 1928, and on it was
used She first locomotive used in this
country The locomotive was soon
abandoned, however, and the cars
have ever since been run by gravity
and stationary engines. The engines
are located at the top of inclined
planes. From the top of one plane to
the foot of the next the cars run by
gravity, being then hauled up the
planes by the engines.
At the meeting of the National
Board of Trade at Washington last
week, the report of the committee on
reciprocity and export trade came up,
and resolutions were adopted recon-
mending that the reciprocal treaties
should be negotiated, especially with
the countries of the American conti-
nent, also complete reciprocal treaty
relations between the United States,
the Dominion of Canada, and the col :.
ony of Newfoundland; favoring the
enactment of the Loud bill, or some
similar legislation amending the pos
tai laws relative to second-class mat
ter, and resolution favoring the es-
tablishment of system of postal saw
ingS banksA The board adjourned To