The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20
For Officers and Men of
Dewey's Fleet.
AMBASSADOR CAMBOK
To he Wade an LII. I'D. by Harvard Unis
versity for Services I'm Bringing About
Pence With spain-Manager Of Ar.
buckle Company Tells Industrial
Commission About War Between His
Company and the Sugar Trust-Costof
Trap.portIng Spanish Prisoners.

Washington, June 1.-THE French
ambassador, M. Cambon, is about 10
receive from the university Of Harvard
the degree of LII. D., in recognition
of the distinguished public services ne
performed in the negotiations wnicn
restored peace between the United
States and Spain.
The navy department today received
the LOO bronze medals authorized by
for the officers and men who
participated in the battle of Manila
bay. The medals are handsome pro-
ducts of he jewelers. art, n face show
ing a bas relief of Admiral Dewey,
while the reverse shows the localized
head of the American sailors.
THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
The industrial commission held only
an afternoon session and heard but
one witness today. J. n. Jarvie, OF the
firm of Arbuckle & Bro, and manager
of the firms sugar refining business.
MIR. Jarvie's testimony was brief. He
was easy and courteous in his attitude
toward his inquisitors, refusing but one
question, that of how much it cost his
to refine sugar. He said ne
did not wish to give information or
that sort to his business competitor.
Mr.Jarvie put the necessary margin be-
tween fifty and sixty points ITO allow a
profit on the business. He said When
his firm started business in 1893 this
margin was about ninety. It had drop
ped as low as thirty-tWo and was now
about fifty. He explained the entrance
of the Arbuckles into the field by
saying that in 1893 they secured a ma
him for weighing n packing sugar
and undertook to sell package sugar
to the wholesale trade. They bought
from the American Refining Company,
but found they could make no profit In
that way and so started their own FAC
finery. He said the tariff d~ifferentlal
Of one-eighth OF a cent a pound on re-
fined sugar did not figure in the DuSl-
ness Just now. Domestic competition
was so sharp as to, keep out all for
eign sugar. Asked if the removal OF
the one-eighth cent would effect the
business now, he said he did not know
enough about the foreign trade ito say.
Mr.. Jarvie said there had been many
overtures from the sugar trust to set
tie the differences with the A~rbuckles,
but they had all been made for stock
iobbing PURPOSES and consequently
there a been nothing in them.
In speaking of the coffee business, in
which the American Sugar Rehnery
ndu Lie HASA~,
Mr.. Jarvie said that while there had
been a decline in prices, it would not
be fair to lay it all to competition, as
there had been a great increase IN COT
fee production all over the world, last
years crop growing from 11,OOO,4 44 to
Is, 000, 900 bags.
Asked. if he could suggest any plan
that would lessen the present destruc-
tive competition in the sugar business,
witness said that the fight could only
stop when the one big concern decided
to be onten with less than 100 pen
cent of all the business in the country
When asked how long the rival com
panies could keep on selling sugar a.
a loss, Mr.. Jarvie replied cheerfully
tina he thought a concern supplying "
per cent. of the g sold in this coun'
try would lose more under those con-
ditions than the firm supplying the otn,
er 10 per cent. and that he had the IL
per cent. end of the bargain now.
COST OF TRANSPORTING SPANISH
PRISONERS.
A representative of Caballes & Co.
the firm which contracted for carryins
home the Spanish prisoners from the
Philippines, appeared at the war de-
partment today and had a consultation
with Quartermaster Genera Luding
ton relative to payment for that ser
vice. Claims involving about 81, 800, 0O(
are involved. There have been takeI
home to Spain about $1,000 soldiers and
There are others yet to be sent from
the Philippines as soon as their release
is procured from the Philippines. Nc
money has been paid, owing to a fail
IRE to adjust
M'KINLEY TO VISIT NEW ENG.
LAND.
The president and Mrs. Mckinley will
leave Washington late tomorrow after
noon for Holyoke, Mass, where they
go to attend the commencement exer-
cises of Mount Holyoke college at South
Hadley. Their niece, Miss Grace Nc
Kinley, will graduate from that inSti
tuition this year. The trip will occupy
from ten days ITO two weeks. The weel
will he spent largely in attendance upor
public and private functions arranged
by the presidents New England friends