The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-28
Texas Has Hit Upon Successful
 Guarantee Plan
BANKS ARE SATISFIED
Houston Cotton Men Believe That the Proposed Guaranty Plan as Set Forth in New York Is Now
 Dead Issue

Houston, Tex, October N-(Special.)- Now that the foreign bankers have with drawn their ultimatum calling for the guarantee of cotton bills of lading by the last day of this month and have ex- tended the time until December 31, it is tho opinion of President Nelms of the Houston cotton exchange and board of trade that the question of a guarantee purchased from a foreign company at a cost of or cents per bale and which was regarded as tax upon the producer of cotton, will never be heard of again. Acting upon this belief he has appointed committee to take up with the rail- roads and transportation companies the question of the adoption of uniform vali- dation of the bill of lading. This state has law recently enacted providing for validation of shipping papers by trans portation companies and 1t is believed that If this system is put into effective operation before December 31 that the banks will be so well satisfied with the character of exchange offered that there will be no further agitation of the guar antee which has just caused such furry In cotton and banking circles.
 
 Dividing the waters of the Rio Grande river Is not so simple matter. That crooked stream has habit of chang
 ing its bed so often that 1t is currently reported it does not rest we'll at night
 Certain it Is that the irrigation companies engaged in giganio projects of watering thousands of acres of ground have ex- perienced all sorts of difficulties and Mexico has made the assertion that much nf bar tc Oohh1ad or that water rights of the citizens of that republic are not being respected and water diverted to Texas irrigation ditches Is leaving Mexican ranches as dry as a desert. The state department at Wash ington has sent W. Keblinger to Brownsville to look into the matter. As the representative of the United States 1t is his purpose to endeavor to make an arrangement with Mexico that will validate all present projects which he Gnds are legal and then to establish gov ernment supervision over the future prof ects involving the taking of water from the river The federal government claims Jurisdiction over as much of the water of the Rio Grande as belongs to this side of that stream and could prevent its use in any way not allowed by the present treaty with Mexico, but has never exercised this power. The boundary com mission is now at work upon an accurate map of the river.
 Imperial Potentate of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine Fred A. Hines has prom ised to come from his home in Los An geles to Austin, Tex, to be present al one of the most unique ceremonial ses- sons of that very unique order which has ever been heldjn this country. The Shriners will take possession of the great chamber set aside for the house of rep resentatives In the state capitol, the seventh largest building in the world and will there initiate the largest class ever taken into the Shrine In this state at one time. All of the temples of Texas will journey to Austin to participate. One of the reasons for this gigantic meeting is to complete arrangements for attend ance upon the meeting of the imperial council to be held in Rochester N. r.. next summer.
 After having completed the gorgeous new palace of the emperor of Japan, R D. Gottlieb came to Texas and Is now experimenting the construction of the ad- rninstration building and the power plant of the William M. Rice institute, the school with an endowment of sS000, GOO, which Is to be located in this city and which will be open for the first students in 1911. Mir Gottlieb talks most enter tainingly of his experience in Japan when he was chief builder to the Mikado The palace Is a $5. .o00. 900 structure and is considered one of the greatest pieces of modern architecture in the world. It Is situated within the imperial grounds and covers tract of ground 300 by 400 feet and Is of the Italian-renaissance style The builder declares he found the Japa- nese the most delightful people and most appreciative of the builders art. The Rice institute, which is now receiving Gottlieb's attention, Is the institution en- dowed by William M Rice, the aged Texas millionaire, for whose murder AL bert Patrick Is serving life sentence in the New York penitentiary. ~, 2.
 Dr. Fred J. Mayer. formerly special medical inspector of Louisiana and later lecturer on hygiene of the Mississippi state health department, has sailed for Liverpool. His mission to Europe is in the interest of the ports of Texas and he goes as special inspector for the Texas state board of health. He has been commissioned to endeavor to mini mize quarantine restrictions, within the bounds of safety, and will make for mal- report to the state, health officer upon his return. From Liverpool he will go to Belgium. Genoa and other Euro pean cities, returning by way of Barba- does, Porto Beilo. Laguira and other South American ports. Dr. Mayer has gained fame as a fighter of yellow fever m ic an advoouta of ba vnoro,,;to