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THE RURAL NEW-Y0RKE1 
MARCH i 
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HOME NEWS. 
to such an inquisition into their indebt¬ 
edness, and there is considerable doubt 
whether Congress has a right to order it. 
The erreat majority of farmers, are, how¬ 
ever, in favor of the measure .It is 
understood that the sub-committee of the 
Ways and Means Committee which is 
preparing the tariff schedule for agricul¬ 
tural products will report in favor of a 
fair duty upon barley, eggs, dressed poul¬ 
try and nearly all farm products upon 
which no tariff is now imposed. That on 
horses will be increased to 80 per cent. 
It is said that the duty on Sumatra leaf 
tobacco will be increased to $2.The 
market rate for a Congressman’s share of 
seed at Washington is §70, and there are 
reports that several representatives from 
cities have been selling theirs.The 
rush of settlers into the Sioux Reservation, 
thrown open to settlement the other day 
by the President’s proclamation, still con¬ 
tinues. It is estimated that over 40,000 
settlers have already entered the “Prom¬ 
ised Land.”. 
An Extended Popularity. — Brown's 
Bronchial Troches have been before the 
public many years. For relieving Coughs, 
Colds, and Throat Diseases they have been 
proved reliable. Sold only in boxes. Price 
25 cents.— Adv. 
Saturday, February 22,1890. 
The extradition treaty with Canada has 
been ratified by the United States Senate, 
but several amendments in favor of politi¬ 
cal outrages will have to be referred to the 
British Government for ratification, and 
will cause a delay of some months. It is 
not retroactive, so the rascals of either 
country now safely sheltered in the other, 
will not be imperiled.The 
trusts are dying; are they ? At Covington, 
Kentucky, the National Starch Company 
has just been incorporated It embraces 
all the starch factories in the country except 
one. It’s an iron-bound trust which will 
lower prices to producers of corn and pota¬ 
toes and raise the price of starch to every 
washerwoman in the land. There is a duty 
of two to per cent, on foreign starch_ 
.A Pasteur Insti¬ 
tute, for the preventive treatment of hy¬ 
drophobia and for the study of contagious 
diseases, has been established in New York. 
Dr. Paul Gibier, a French scientist, is to be 
the Director.The 
North Dakota Senate, by a vote of 21 to 
eight, has adopted the Australian election 
system, and the House has passed a bill of¬ 
fering a bounty, during five years, for the 
production of potato starch and beet sugar 
in North Dakota.Friends of the 
Louisiana Lottery Bill are reported to be 
still at work lobbying among the North 
Dakota legislators; they are also circulat¬ 
ing petitions throughout the State to get 
signatures in sunport of the measure. They 
now offer the State 8250,000 a year instead of 
875,000 previously offered. As the State is 
very much hampered for funds, the tempta¬ 
tion is enticing, as the donation would great¬ 
ly lighten taxation. If the schemers fail in 
North Dakota they intend to try Montana.. 
. .In round numbers, the costof the pension 
list for next year will be 8100,000,000. 
. The Grady mon¬ 
ument fund now amounts to 820,000. 
. .Philadelphia at last is having a grain ex¬ 
port boom : 75 tramp steamships have 
just been chartered to load grain there for 
Europe—aggregate capacity over 4,000,000 
bushels.There’s a growing agita¬ 
tion for a division of California on the line 
of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This 
would mean one Democratic and one Re- 
E ublican State, instead of a State now 
•emocratic in State and Republican in 
National elections. 
.Judge Drake of British Columbia, has 
decided that the United States have no 
jurisdiction in or over Behring Sea any¬ 
where beyond three leagues from land. It’s 
hardly likely the decision will be accepted 
as a final settlement of the trouble. 
The Farmer’s Alliance of Kansas is circu¬ 
lating petitions throughout the State pray¬ 
ing the Governor to convene the legislature 
in extra session to extricate the farmers of 
the State from “very great financial embar¬ 
rassment” by passing a law giving the mort¬ 
gager of a homestead at least two years dur¬ 
ing which he may occupy and redeem it 
after the sale of the mortgaged premises, 
and by providing also for a stay of execu¬ 
tion of all judgments on promissory notes 
and mortgage bonds, etc., for a reasonable 
time after judgment, without bond. An¬ 
other petition calls for a special session to 
amend the railroad laws and compel com¬ 
panies to lower their transportation rates . 
Wyoming proposes to tax every unmarried 
man of 35 82.50 a year for the luxury of re¬ 
maining bingle. Last year in¬ 
toxicants cost the people of the United 
States81,000,000,000. A bout 880.000,000 went 
for wine and the remaining $920,000,000 
were pretty evenly divided between beer 
and spirits, with a margin in favor of the 
former. This would be over$16.66 for every 
man, woman or child in the country or 
about $75 apiece for each grown-up person. 
A deadlock in the Iowa legislature, which 
has prevented all legislation since the open¬ 
ing of the session and wasted thousands of 
dollars of the people’s money has just come 
to an end by a compromise by which the 
offices are about evenly divided between 
the Democrats and Republicans. Gov. 
Larrabee, of Iowa, has in his message come 
out strongly against the saloon and in 
favor of Prohibition.The Demo¬ 
cratic Lower House of the West Virginia 
legislature has passed an Australian ballot 
reform bill; the Republican Senate has 
voted down a motion for its immediate 
consideration.The Senate Bill provid¬ 
ing for the collection of statistics of farm 
mortgages has passed the House with an 
amendment making the answers to census- 
takers obligatory. Many farmers object 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, February 22, 1890. 
After 15 months’ study of the labor prob¬ 
lem, the Emperor of Germany has come 
out strongly in favor of better compensa¬ 
tion for the working classes and a fairer 
apportionment of the results of their toil. 
He has sounded most of the European 
governments as to whether they would ac¬ 
cept an invitation to send delegates to a 
great Labor Conference to be held at 
Berlin, but it is doubtful whether any 
of them would consent to do so. For 
years the labor question has been promi¬ 
nent in Germany, and national insurance 
associations have been formed to guaran¬ 
tee superannuated workingmen a liveli¬ 
hood, they themselves contributing a part 
of the premium during their vigorous 
days, their employers another part and 
the government another, the amount of 
the annuities payable in old age or during 
incapacity from sickness or accident being 
graduated for different classes of workmen. 
In spite of these efforts of the government, 
however, violent and wide-spread strikes 
have been frequent and the spread of so¬ 
cialism has been rapid. Elections to the 
Imperial Parliament, or Reichstadt, are 
being held, and it is thought by 
some that the Emperor is trying to win 
over the workingmen’s votes; but it is 
likely this is only a secondary consideration. 
Bismarck strongly favored the national 
workingmen’s insurance scheme, but if he 
does not oppose, he fails to indorse the 
new imperial labor programme. On ac¬ 
count of increasing infirmities from age, 
and want of cordial agreement with the 
Emperor on certain important points of 
domestic policy, it is likely that the “ Man 
of Blood and Iron’’will soon resign his 
office of Chancellor of the Empire and be 
succeeded by Herr Boeticher. The Empe¬ 
ror also severely condemns the ill-usage the 
soldiers frequently suffer from their officers, 
and urges stringent punishment for such 
offences. 
In England the voluminous report of the 
Parnell Commission to Parliament appears 
to give satisfaction to all parties. Sub¬ 
stantially it acquits the Parnellites of the 
personal charges made against them, de¬ 
clares the Pigott letters forgeries, and main¬ 
tains that neither Parnell nor his associ¬ 
ates aided in the Phoenix Park murders or 
sympathized with the perpetrators of the 
horror. On the other hand, it declares 
them all guilty of supporting boycotting 
which it calls a criminal outrage, and the 
Land League, which it characterizes as an 
illegal conspiracy. It goes at wearisome 
length into the details of the various 
charges and metes out acquittal or condem¬ 
nation in various degrees to the different 
parties accused. The Parnellites and other 
Gladstonians maintain that all the origi¬ 
nal charges for the investigation of which 
the Commission was created have col¬ 
lapsed, and that the accused have been found 
guilty on counts afterwards interpolated. 
Indeed most of them take pride in tne parts 
they have played in the Land League agi¬ 
tation. They say that if the Government 
supports the finding of the Commission on 
these counts it ought to insist on a vote 
expelling them from Parliament, but they 
dare it to do so. Beyond bitter debates in 
Parliament no action is likely to be taken 
there except the passage of a vote of thanks 
to the Commission by a strict party vote. 
Both the great parties, however, will draw 
IttijsrcUanmts gulvjcrtii&ing. 
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