Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-09-28


and surgeons who attended the late
President Mckinley at Buffalo and for
the payment of his funeral expenses
This was the course pursued after the
death of President Garfield. What
these expenses will amount to in the
case of President Mckinley cannot be
stated even approximately, as none OF
the bills have yet been sent in. In the
case of President Garfield congress ap-
propriated in all $57,500. Of this amount
$4,000 was for the payment Of the ply
sicians, and $4,000 for the funeral ex-
penses. The total expenses in the case
of President Mckinley will probably be
fully as great, for though the bills OF
the physicians will not be so large as
they were in the case Of President Gar
field. who fingered for more than two
months after he was shot, the expenses
of the funeral are expected to be larger.
The latest menace to the financial
side of the cotton-growing industry,
seems to be from Egyptian cotton, not
STO"H ISypl, OuS III o0i O"a SooeAA
west Experiments at the government
station in Arizona are proving, without
q doubt, that Egyptian cotton can De
successfully grown in the Southwest.
An acre planted at the experimental
farm near Phoenix, is producing crop
of unexpected luXuriance, with a fibre
that is long, silken and strong, and
much stronger and better staple than
the American cotton of the Southeast
ern states. The experiments have been
made under the direction Of the depart
ment of agriculture, in conjunction
with similar work in Florida, Missis
sippi, Louisiana, Alabama and the Car
olinaS, but reports say that in no other
place, except on a small tract in lower
Florida, has any success been attained.
So successful have been the results
with the experimental crop in Arizona
that paintings will be made next year
in a score of places in the southern
part of Arizona and New Mexico. In
old Mexico, too much interest has been
aroused, and the government will make
trials with it in the state of Sonora.
In his annual report to congress
next December, Secretary of the Treas
ury cage will recommend that an ap-
preparation be made to enable the Sc
cret service bureau to employ men for
the suppression of anarchy, just as de-
tecuves are now engaged to run down
counterfeiters. The secretary. it is un-
derstood will ask for s250,000 for the
maintenance of the bureau, as against
100000 which was appropriated last
year. The law under which the secret
service exists specifically limits its ope-
rations to the suppression Of counter
feiters. There is nothing in the law
which even authorizes the detail Of Sc
cret service men as personal body
guard for the president Of the United
States or any other public official. The
law does not contemplate the running
down Of anarchists, and whatever work
of that description is now being done
by the secret service men. is practical
ly not in conformity to the statute un-
der which the bureau is operated. 1t Is
for the purpose of extending the useful
ness and authority of the bureau that
Secretary Gage intends to recommend
a substantial increase over last years
appropriation. He will urge that the
law be framed in such a way that anar-
chy conspiracy against the life of the
n, ,rL,
raj officers, be put on the same basis
as counterfeiting, so that the secret SER
vice may conduct It's investigation in
such fields.
Coffee, sugar india rubber, fibreS.
tobacco, fruits and nuts. gums, cotton,
spices. cabinet woods, indigo, cork, dye
woods. sponges, barks for the manu-
facture of quinine and numerous other
articles from the tropics. now form a
large proportion of the imports Of the
United States. and despite the reduc-
ton in prices in many cases the total
values are steadily increasing. Add to
this the sub-tropical products such as
manufactured silks. tea, rice and other
articles of this class and the grand to-
tai aggregates more than $l,000,0O0 for
each business day of imports of char
acter which cannot, or at least, are not,
ut present produced in the United
States in sufficient quantities to meet
the requirements of our poulation. In
sugar and coffee the United States is
the largest consumer of the world, and
in many other OF the tropical products.
such as manufactured silks. india rub
Der. fruits and nuts. and spices, we are
among the largest importing nations.
In coffee, owing to the reduction in
price. the figures Of l90l-$62. SCI ,000-are
not as large as those of some earlier
years. notably 1894 and 1898, though the
uuant.iy imported exceeds that of ear
lier years. OF sugar the quantity i'm
ported in 1901 is valued at $S7,55l 900.
Says an Albany. n. Y, dispatch Of
Monday: The Commercial Pacific Gable
company, with Il capital stock of $780,,
coo, was incorporated here today by the
following gentlemen: Jonn w. Mackay,
Clarence II. Mackay. Edward &. Platt
Albert Beck, George G. Ward, Albert
=. Chandler and VIM. W. Cook Re-
specting the purposes and prospects of