Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-03
Crippled COMMERCE
Commerce Of Colombia In De.
plorable State Since the Rev.
dictionary Movement.
Much Of the Coffee Crop I'm.
gathered Because Of Lack
Of Labor.
Exports Are Cut Short Because
Transportation Facilities Are
Not Adequate.

1 Stule department mas received, unQer
date of August II, a long report from
one of its representatives in Colombia,
which brings out the crippled COM
mercial condition of that country ow-
ling to the revolutionary movements
within and without. The report says:
/ The commercial situation here Is
more depressed and more difficult for all
kinds of legitimate transactions than
1t has been since the beginning of the
civil war now in progress; from the
gathering of the crops to the shipping
thereof, great difficulties, in many cases
linsurmountable, are encountered. The
majority of the coffee crop has re-
manned ungathered because laborers
could not be secured. OF the crops
gathered great deal remains on the
plantation or is. deposited elsewhere
because beasts can not be secured to
ship 1t to the Magdalena river. Other
large quantities of coffee remain at
river points awaiting shipment. The
coffee in hand. which for various reas-
ons can not be forwarded for export, is
SpOhcIl VI Wy IluIlQieuS VI tHOuSlltuS
of bags. A great deal of this coffee
was bought by foreigners or taken by
them in payment for debts, before the
imposition of the present duty of 60
cents gold per 100 Kilograms (220.46
pounds) and before the heavy increase
in freight rates from the interior to
the coast had taken place. All this
coffee today represents heavy loss. 1t
Is insisted by those familiar with the
business that coffee from the interior
OF Colombia can not stand the present
charges against 1t. Hides are held in
large quantities and can not be shipped
for the reasons that prevent the ship
ping of coffee. Quantities of hides,
representing large values, have SO de-
Perforated as to become worthless. In
some instances this has resulted from
the impossibility of obtaining poison
for their preservation, and in others
because they already had been so heav-
lily poisoned that they would stand no
more. The inability to ship hides is
particularly vexatious to holders be-.
cause of the present high prices of
this article of export in the New York
market. Hides, unlike coffee, would
easily stand the present heavy freight
and other charges against them II they
could be got to New York. Many Am.
erican houses are heavily interested In
the present large holding of Colombian
hides and coffee. some of them directly
as holders and owners. others as cred-
itors OF Colombian holders and some in
both respects. There is no means of
foretelllng how soon the present
a 1,n
Those most interested are not basing
their calculations on earlysrelief.
Railway Legislation.
Washington, Oct. 3.-Railway legisla-
ton In this country is incomplete, espe-
cially as to stock issue. joint arrange
ments and provision for emergencies,
according to a report issued yesterday
by the Industrial commission on rail-
way regulations under foreign and do
nestle laws. The report points out ex-
straordinary differences among the laws
of some OF the states. In indicates, too,
that our laws do not recognize differ
sences in Importance of different rail-
roads; do not provide for adequate adj
ministratiye machinery, qualifications
and powers of commissioners, and lack
power to compel compliance with the
laws and other essentials of regulation.
A characteristic of railway legislation
in the United States. the report says, is
the great extent to which special legis-
laion was persisted in after general
laws had been enacted by the respective
legislatures. Some railways have been
organized on the basis of special char
tiers many years before, altho when or
ganized there We're general laws and
constitutional provisions prohibiting
special franchises.
Receipts and Expenditures.
Washington, Oct 3-The monthly
statement OF the government receipts
and expenditures shows that for Sep
TENDER, 1901, the receipts amounted to
s44,454 422 and the expenditures s32,210,-
73G leaving surplus for the month of
ST., 1236S6. The receipts, by items, are
given as follows:
Customs, $19.100,G13; decrease, as COM
pared with September, 1900. $4,000.
Internal revenue, s22,433,053; de-
crease, 1921, 400.
Miscellaneous, s2,s4O.755; increase, $780,
$50.
The disbursements charged to the war
partment amounted to s6,356,65 de-
crease $780, coo; navy. s5.651,641, in
crease $1,000, 900; pensions, ss,694, 1892, de-
crease $1,000, 900.
The monthly statement of the director
of the mint shows that the total coin
age executed at the minis of the United
States during September, 1901, was S.
100, 40l, as follows: Gold, s4.100.177; sill
yer, $3,S99,524; minor coins, $3.50, 700.
CALL AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Japanese Minister Received by Presi-
dent Roosevelt DR.. Hatoyama