MI OX FI I S I N JAIL. the punishment ' cjv'dN MB- OEBS. . R i Director* Will Serv* MO.. —The D.cl.lon of .. W««i--TI>» »-* »-*■ ' s,rik,, ,i,i(l Court Injunction* "" set rorlh-No Que.tlon Strike Leader. Planned ,„clal l.««le.."«« 4 i . striker. Sentenced. ' ' 13. — “Guilty as !‘ r-u-ts the fin,ling announced > . Euite.l States Circuit Judge ' Woods aga.ust President . V Debs and all of the direct American Uailwny union, ' i0f contempt of court in vio .[,0 strike injunction last sura Woods, after announcing his 1 '! ,-i.d that it was uot in accord ■ -h procedure in such cases to , the defendants to say why :v0 should not be passed, but in ‘.'je the court would allow it was sentenced to six months r ' county jail. The others on sentenced to three months ‘ Vsccpt Me Vane, who wus re e,i because there was no evidence ui't liiai. T , , ccci.lintr the case Judge Woods an'exhauslive decision cov every point in the case, nlWoods, referring to the posi 0f the defendants in respect to a,.. ,h,iy 2, 1S!)0, that it was 1 at capital” and dangers ,„s,.,! to result from vast aggre capital and not of force violence, or wholly against trusts it,.: at organizations of labor in i on wriiil: t is clour that a further and more ■ ircheii'iive purposo came to be ■‘•■ta'ned and was embodied in the i'Y.s-m of enactment. Combina j,.-c condemned not only when , ,,;0 the form of trusts, but in Actor form found, if they be in reint 'if trade. That is the effect words “or otherwise.” I have , r;: t that this statute in so far as . .leveled against contracts or I,illations hi tiie form of trust ii any lunu of a “contract char ,hu\iUl he limited to contracts ivudi nations such, in their gen* i eiiariieteristies, as the cotart? e (Kdiircd unlawful. But to put seen limitation upon the word si.iracy is neither necessary, nor, 1 think, permissible. To do so ah! deprive the word of all signifi ce. Any proposed restraint of ,le though it be itself innocent, if , to lie accomplished by conspiracy, in awful. That this case is one of .ita.de character is clear, and as I Ici'taml, lias not been questioned r un-el—their contention being l r. ithcr by this statute nor upon lend principles in the east within jurisdiction of a federal court.” nggestions calculated to incite to s of violence or intimidation were ituined, the judgment declared, in nr of the telegrams which were it rr.vr the name of Debs for which, withstanding the averment of hr answers to the contrary, it was ionger possible for any of the ien.’.ants to deny some measure of p T.sibilitv. idle right uf men to strike peacea '■ and the right to advise a peacoa •tr::;e. which the law did not pro ne impossible, were, the judge d. not questioned, but if men eu e i into a conspiracy to do any un it'd thing, amt in order to accom sh their purpose ordered men to go ;1 strike, knowing that violence i wrong would be the probable out r.v. neither in law or morals coujyd v rseape responsibility. Pull n ears in use upon the roads were trr.T.entalit cs of commerce, and it ' " ' - 'hat from the time of the an nil IV me at of the boycott the Amer n l,;u!\vay union was committed to "'i'p racy in restraint of interstate iiir.'-re,:. in violation of the act of b -' 1 and that the members of '' ,l''°niation and all others who “y;111 l'le movement became crim ,!lV rf:'P°nsible each for the acts of I dons in the furtherrnca of the “I’m n purpose whether intended by II be officers became re V '■* o, the men and the men oie oiheers. ■ lini h:is been said, but without ■; n.e jud-o closed, “of the ' f die workmen at Pullman, ne,u between the Pullman the railway managers to _;'-uHires, and ffenerallv of cor -1 &R,,,"“n‘l arr°irance. but r t, H "t urn these things, what ' -lels mirrht have been iin ■ 'tlJrT'"’'1."”11 be- could fur . P’satieaUou nor palliation i£,r m.-ii”P a u’ty to d*s°r to .nalm’Said ^at they l ' f" > that thee haef’?rate SPeech ? P»s. ns .ibtJd0?e"o wro, n r,as,;~* tlK>y • i sentence Ju,i„e iVr ?“U!isu a -•« « i 111 c:’"Omp,. mile, w .«■ tT !‘u should like very m \ -'v-t"feEa the lead "'"r" resJn'w? law 1,reak. ii®1 Ken whobfenas lead Pnnishod" rL°,‘k,wed tl .'-•S' hie taan ~ ttahs was m ar‘»f markeVa!'-011’"- He - an,Uc aa l Po T'^uisen ‘ ;e jud, felt e !■ l:‘e r.thws ~,te between 1 a!i defonda. , Pnnishm a“ts es-ctit D would be three months in jail, and against Debs six months. The defendants did not appear par ticularly crushed bv the punishment. Debs whispered a few words to his sister, who sat near, and they both luughcd heartily. Howard and'Hogan exchanged smiling glances and Keli her grasped his attorney’s hand and appeared to offer congratulations. It was evident that all had expected much heavier sentences, and all wore looks of relief. The court announced that the pun ishment was not to take effect for ten days, in which time the defendants’ attorneys will prepare an appeal. The prospective prisoners after a short consultation with their attor neys left the court rr-oui. INCOME TAX PECULATIONS. Rules Laid Down for Guidance by the Treasury Department. Washington, Dec. 15.—The secre tary of the treasury yesterday ap proved the regulations prescribed by the commissioner of internal revenue for the enforcement of the collection of the income tax under the late tariff act. Under the regulations provided and approved pursuant to law, every citizen of the United States, whether residing at home or abroad, and every person residing or doing busi ness in the United States, who has an annual income of more than $3,500 shall make a full return of the same, verified by his oath, to the collector of internal revenue of the collection district in which he resides, or, if not a resident, in which his business or property from which income is re ceived, is situated, on or before the first Monday in March of each year. The first return under the law shall be made on or before the first Monday in March, 185)5, and shall include all income from every source, received in the year 181)4, from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of De cember in said year. Guardians, trustees and all persons and corpora tions acting in any fiduciary capacity aw required to make similar returns for all minors, wards or beneficiaries for which they act. The gross gains, profits and in comes returned by persons shall in clude: i irst—Gross profits of any trade, business or vocation, wherever car ried on. Second—Rents received or accrued during the year. Third—Profits from sales of real estate purchased within two years. Fourth—Farming1 operations and proceeds. Fifth—Money and value of all per sonal property acquired by gift or in heritance. Sixth—Premium on bonds, stocks, notes and 'coupons. Seventh—Income from trade or pro fession not by stated salary and not heretofore enumerated. Eighth—From salary or compensa tion other than that received from the United States. Ninth—Undivided gains and profits of any partnership. Tenth—Interest received or ac crued from all notes, bonds or other securities. Eleventh—Interest on bonds or coupons paid of any corporation. Twelfth—Dividends from corpora tions. Thirteenth—Income of wife or minor child or children. Fourteenth—All other sources of income not above enumerated. Corporatloni. The exemption of §4,000 allowed to persons is not extended to corpora tions, but the return must cover all net profits without exemption. The annual return of corporations must include: First—The gross profits of all kinds of business. Second—The expenses exclusive of int ercst, annuities or dividends. Third—The net profits without al lowance for interest, annuities or dividends. Fourth—The amount paid on ac count of interest, annuities and dividends. Fifth—The amount paid in salaries of §4,000 or less to each employe, and the name and address of each of such employes. Corporations are required to keep accurate books of accounts, and may be requested to allow collectors to inspect the same in verification of the returns. If the annual return is not filed with the collector in the time required by law, the corporation making default shall forfeit a penalty of §1,000 and 2 per cent a month on the tax due until paid. Some Corporation!* Exempt. Certain specified corporations foi charitable and like purposes and cer tain savings banks, mutual insurauce companies and building and loan as sociations are exempt from income Collectors are required to examine the articles of incorporation and busi ness methods of corporations claim ing' exemption and which are not within the class specially exempt to cause return to bj made for taxation as in the case of other corporations. The tax due from salaries of officers and from pay of employes of the United States will be deducted from the first excess payment over .84,000 by paymasters and disbursing officers in paying the same and will be paid over to tlio collectors. l’enaltles. Severe penalties are imposed on all officers and other persons who make known in any manner or any fact or particulars contained in or relating to any return of any taxpayer or any fact as to the source or amount of the income of any such person. Collectors are strictly directed by the regula tions to strictly enforce this pro vision. As all original returns are forwarded to and filed in the office of the commissioner of internal revenue, the opportunity for exposure of the facts protected by this provision will be greatly reduced. The tax on incomes for 1894 will be due and payable on or before the first day of July next, and if not paid at that time the penalties will be at tached for non-payment. The col lection of the tax when delinquent will be enforced in the same manner as in case of enforcement and collec tions of other taxes under the inter nal revenue laws of the United States. The days are never long enough for the man whose heart is in his work. PENSIONS DISCUSSED. AND INCIDENTALLY THE IN COME TAX. 8oma of the It.aprMln Party Leaders Cross Swords on These Leading Ques tions—The Motion to Strike Out tlie Income Tax Lost—William Waldorf Astor Denounced and Defended— Ureckenrldge Makes a Short Speech— Other Proceedings In the Lower Mouse. Washinoox, Dec. 14.—The liouso yesterday entered upon the consider ation of the urgency deficiency ap propriation bill. The bill contained two disputed items, the appropriation for special pension examiners and that for the collection of the income tax. The former appropriation opened the door3 for a debate on the conduct of the pension office, espec ially the practice of summarily sus pending the payment of-alleged fraud ulent pensions and the debate on the income appropriation was especially lively, but the motion to strike it out was defeatedby a vote of 54 to 127. Mr. Sickles, Democrat of New York, amid a roar of Republican applause, repudiated the charge of wholesale frauds made against pensioners, and declared his unalterable opposition to the appropriation unless it could bo authoritatively shown that the pen sion examiners provided for by it were employed in aiding, iustead of embar rassing, deserving claimants. After some further debate on the subject of tliis appropriation by Messrs. Coombs and Daniels, New York, Ringham, l’a., Tracy, Now York and Grosvcnor, Ohio, Mr. Bart lett, Democrat, Now York, got the floor and opened the discussion of the income tax appropriation, lie was earnestly opposed to this vicious tax. The bill ho had introduced for its repeal he knew would never see the light of day, and the opponents of that tax must make their fight against the appropriation necessary to make it operative. In the course of a hot colloquy with Mr. Bartlett (N. Y.) that followed, McMillin attacked William Waldort Astor. The latter was warmly de fended by Bartlett. Mr. Henderson. Iowa, and Mr. Coch ran, New York, both stated they con sidered a debate on the merits of the income tax unprofitable. Both hoped that the elections had furnished an intellectual awakening on the Demo cratic side which would result in the repeal of “this odious tax.” After a short speech by Mr. Breck inridge, who was in charge of the bill, in which he defended the income tax, attributed the late Democratic disaster to divisions among the lead ers, and predicted that tho younger Democrats who suffered defeat last November would return to congress and power along with a purified party, general debate closed and Mr. Bartlett moved to strike out the ap propriations for the collection of the income tax. Defeated 54 to 127. HONORS TO THE DEAD. Queen Victoria l’ay* 1'enonal Tribute to Sir John 'lliompaon's Hotly. Windsor, Dec. 14.—Shortly before midnight a .requiem service in honor of the late Sir John Thompson, pre mier of Canada, was held in the room of the Clarence tower, in which the body was first deposited. The Rev. Father Longinotti, a Roman Catholic priest of Windsor, officiated. Sir Charles Tupper, the Canadian high commissioner, and Lord I’clham Clin ton, the master of the queen’s house hold, and other high officials, were present. Dliy command of the queen the pro cession was in the nature of a state ceremonial. The laurel wreath which the queen placed upon the cof fin will be taken to Canada. The au tograph upon it read as follows: "A mark of sincere respect from Victo ria.” Queen Victoria has given instruc tions that everything possible be done to make the funeral a national event. Scores of telegrams have been sent from the castle to Canada, and the queen expresses the greatest sympa thy with the family of the deceased premier aqd with the Canadian peo ple. i U4IUHK appropriiiuon liius. Washington, Dec. 14.—When tho house met to-day Mr. Cochran’s motion to recommit the ur gent deficiency bill with in structions to strike out the appropri ation for the income tax was defeated —yeas 49, nays 103. Tho bill was then passed without division, The fortifications bill was then ta ken up and passed without division after a tame debate utterly lacking in interest. The house again resolved itself into committee of the whole to consider the pension appropriation bill, but, on Mr. Grout's representation that several Republican absentees desired to speak on the subject of pen sions, the bill was laid aside after Mr. Pickier had confused himself for half an hour, and at 4 o’clock the military academy appropriation bill was taken up. More Officers Wanted. Washington’, Dec. 14. — Senator ! Bate, chairman of the board of visi- j tors to the West Point Military ■ academy, to-day presented the re port of the board to the senate. It ; takes a strong ground in favor of a change of the law which will increase ! the number of cadets to 4(59, or one I cadet for each senator or represents- j tive, and twenty for the president, 1 instead of the present number, which | is about 350. _ | An Actrem 1 oisonoc. Indianai’oi.is, Ind., Dec. 14.—Lulu Leslie, a dancer with tho Bessie Bonehill company, playing an engage ment in th’s city, is unconscious, with little hope of recovery, tho result of an overdose of belladonna. She has been suffering with severe headaches and sent a bell bov for anti-pyrinc. | The boy returned with belladonna, j which a" druggist’s boy had given him by mistake. Miss Leslie swallowed five grains of the drug. The druggist discovered the mistake, but not until Miss Leslie had been overcome with the effects of the poison. MORE FINANCIAL VIEWS, Letter From nn Mhor Wlio le Against Carlltle’e Plan. Washington, Ix-o. 14.—When the house hanking and currency commit tee resumed its hearing to-day, there was a bare majority of the coinmltteu present. Letters woro read from W. U. Dannn, editor of tho Commercial and Financial Chronicle, anil U. 11. Ferris, vice president of the bank of New York. He said: "There seems to be no good reason why existing national ^anks who nave United States bonds on deposit with the comptroller, should uot be allowed to continue as thoy are, until th, ir charters expire or the deposited bonds are paid off. Nection 7 of Mr. Carlisle's bill seems like forcing tho banks to do whut they have uot been consulted about." After a sharp passage at arms be tween Representatives Walker and Warner as to tho order in which tho witnesses should be examined, in which Mr. Walker complained of crit icisms by Mr. Warner, William C. Cornwall of lluiYalo, president of the New York banking association, was introduced and read a carefully pre pared paper on tho currency problem. Ills recommendations were as follows: 1. Tho greenback and treasury notes should be redeemed and can celled. The liability of tho govern ment ns regards monoy was to stamp upon gold and silver their fineness and weight. A government has no right to issue paper with nothing back of it, and to make it a legal ten der—to create a currency and by an act of law force tho pooplo to take its full value without regard to the intrinsic worth. 3. The vacancy should bo filled with bank notes. The best currency of the best nations to-day is mainly bank notes which are a first lion upon the assets of the bank. These assets arc commercial possessions, repre senting tho product of tho brain and muscle of millions of people. To lit tho vacancy created by tho retire ment of tho legal tenders nntionnl banks should bo allowed to issuo notes to a percentage of capital, with out bond security, tho notes to bo a first lien upon the assets of the bank, including tho double liability of stockholders, with a guarantee fund made up by all the banks, tho gov ernment continuing to guarantee and redeem all notes as at present. 3. To perfect the system further and make out the complicated and delicate problems attending this, an impartial expert commission should Uf apjIUllUL'U. Mr. Cornwall said that he thought that the treasury ootes outstanding should be redeemed, but he would perform this redemption with low rate bonds. lie also said that he did not consider that part of Secretary Carlisle’s plan relating to retirement of treasury notes suflicicntly definite. A return to state bank notes would bring about a revival of counterfeit ing, now reduced to a minimum. \V. Dodsworth, editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, who next appeared, first laid down these,prem ises: 1. That the bond form of guarantee has been found incompatible with the elastisticity of issue. 3. That said guarantee leaves no sufficient margin of profit to the issuer, and consequently prevents issuing. 3. That bonds themselves must, in a few years mature and be retired. That the governments engage ment to pay the notes is an illegiti mate exercise of federal power. 5. That owing to obtrusivo re straints, the volume of notes cannot be readily augmented to meet public emergencies. 0. That the arrangements for in suring current redemptions of the notes fail of their purpose, thereby keeping the volume rigidly inflexible at the seasons when it should auto matically contract or expand. 7. That for these reasons the na tional bank circulation has shrunk to one-half of its former volume, while the public requireinncts for money have been recognized. Mr. Dodsworth said that it was manifestly desirable to adopt a course least calculated to disturb existing banking arrangements, but that the power of issuing notes should be con ceded to the banks operating under the state laws, conditioned upon the terms that they should conform to the terms of issue imposed upon the national banks, thereby securing to all bank3 a uniform circulation. Any course short of this would be not only a political injustice but an unwar rantable discrimination against a class of banks in every way deserv ing the privilege, and upon whose op erations the business interests of the country were largely dependent. 1 Regarding the proposal of Secre tary Carlisle that banks should be re quired to keep a reserve on account of deposits, Mr. Dodsworth said that when banks were pressed by emer gencies they had more respect for their interests than to hesitate to disregard the statute, which meant that in practice the reserve law would fail of its purposes. Some panics would have been wholly avoid ed had banks been free to use their money resources according to their discretion. In closing, he sug gested six redemption districts, the comptroller to recommend a bank as agency in each of the divisions by groups of states: New England states, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia; Southern states, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin. West Virginia, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Pacific states ami other Western states and territories. The president and Mrs. Cleveland have abandoned their country home at Woodley for the season and moved into the White I^ ■. Oklahoma Farmers Improvident. Guthrie, Ok., Dee. 14.—Oklahoma fanners have been feeding1 so much wheat to stock that the supply is run ning short and a number of mills in the territory have shut down for lack of wheat. This is forcing prices up and Oklahoma will be compelled to buy outside to supply the demand. 1IIH for the right-of Way. Washington, Dec. 14. —Senator Cockrell has introduced a bill grant ing the right-of-way through the In dian territory to the Kansas City, Oklahoma and Pacific railroa 1 com pany. REFORM IN CURRENCY A CHICAGO BANKER SETS FORTH HIS VIEWS. d» Finds Many Thins* In ■•crotnry Car •II*'* Plan lla Cannot Approve—Declares that the Country I* Not Keady to Ac cept the ltecnminandatloni of the >>«• retary of the Treasury—Opinion Ex pressed that the Ilaltlmore rian I* Preferable. The Onrreney Question. (Vabiiinoton, Doc. la.— A letter wot read from Lyrann J. (luge, the banker and financier of Chicago, at the opening of the henring of tho house committee on banking and cur rency to-day. lie had boon invited to appear before the committee but was unable to come. Referring to tho recoiumondutions of tho president and secrotary of the treasury, ho says: "Agreeing with tho criticisms made by theso otlicers of tho govern ment us to the present weakness of our situation and tho groat desirabil ity of separating the government from direct ropunsibillty ?or the cur rency issuos, 1 am persuaded tliut tho country is not roady to accept their recommendations as to tho inothods proposed. In making any change tho method should be so simple that all can comprehend it, and it should bo seen that the incidental ef fects would not bo in any direction disturbing to trade, eominerco and in dustry. I believe tho "llaltimoro plan" carries tho true principles of a credit currency, but wo cannot reach it by any one stop and years may in tervene before it cun be, realized. in tho meantime tho way for the government to stop our currency bus iness an.I place the burden of redemp tion on tlie banks is plain. Author ize the issue of saM),000,001) of two and one-hulf per cent bonds payable at such time us congress may elect, (twenty-five years if de sirable) to bo offered to sub scribers at par. Accept in pay ment United States legal tender notes or treasury notes, tho same to be can celled. Amend tho national bank act so that banks can obtain notes is sued to the face value of bonds depos ited as security for circulation. Re duce tho tax on circulating notes to one-null oi l percent. This itone, national bank notes would make pood the vacuum caused by the retirement of government notes. In fact there wotUd bo somo expansion under it to bo followed later by some contraction through forced redemption of bank issues if it be true, as some claim, that tho volume of tho circulating medium in tho United States is largerthan can be maintaineil and that the outflow of gold is nature’s method of equal izing things. If this be so, if contrac tion through the exportation of gold or by a retirement of a portion of the paper money be u logical sequence of our situation, then in that case, tho government being safe from demands the banks with circulation outstand ing, would bo obliged to bring their issues within narrower limits. Hut nil this would work itself out and need not bo dwelt upon at length now. The problem is this—to take tho government out of the note issuing business. 1. Without contracting tho currency in the process. 2. Without, inviting expansion. Secretary Car , lisle's plun is subject to the danger involved under tho last suggestion. Were the above suggestions to re ceive serious consideration, there are somo features of tho national bank net that would roquiro amend ment in order to give note holders easy and cheaper access to the points of redemption than now exists. Ite demption agents in cities should bo restored. Hut these arc details which I shall pass by.” A letter was also road from lid ward N. Gibbs, treasurer of the New York Life Insurance company, approving of the national bank system with some modification. George C. Iiutler of New Haven, Conn., then addressed the committee, presenting a currency plan differing somewhat from tho secretary’s and the llaltiroore plan. Its features included note issues up to eighty per cent of a bank’s capital; removal of the comptroller of the currency to New York, where ho is to have con trol of the specie reserve made up of 25 per cent of notes issued; a board of bank ofliccrs in New York, presided over by the comptroller of the cur rency. the erection of a suitable l building in Now Y’ork for the our ! renev bureau. j MARCHING THROUGH CHINA. j - ! The Srconl lupsnc.s Army Continue, it. Unimpeded March. Yokohama, Dec. 13.—The column of the second Japanese army sent to at tack Fu Chow lias met with no re sistance so far. The column retains communication with the force from the first army, which issimultaneous J ly advancing on the enemy. It is re ported that the Chinese are concen | trating at New Chwang. A detacli | ment of the first array is advancing on Ilai Ching east of New Chwang. This detachment has met with re sistance, but the advances continue. Field Marshal Yamagata left Antong yesterday. Itepuhllean. Sweep Ho. ton. Boston-. Dec. 13.—The election here yesterday resulted in a triumph for the Republicans, Edwin 11. Curtis, the Republican candidate for mayor, j defeating General Francis I’eabo ly. Democrat, by l.iWU plurality. R-pub licans also elected all the aldermen. Boston went Democratic two years ago bv 5.00(1 maioritv. Killed tty a School tiin. GuniitiK, Ok., Dec. 13.—An exciting race war exists in Oak Grove school district. As the children were re- ] turning home from school yesterday 1 | some youngsters roa !o odious re* j marks about a colored girl in their i company. This enraged the ga l and I she attacked the 13-year-old sou of | ; G. \V. Greathouse, tearing out his j | eyes and biting off one ear. She fol- j i lowed this up by crushing the boy’s j i skull with a rock, producing his death j | last night. The girl escaped and is i j at large. The negroes take the girl’s ! I part, and this may lead to more i trouble. ! HOQ CHOLERA REMEDIES. % Results of tli* liivtl«, ICnielutid. Windsou, Doc. 13.—Sir John Thomp son, the Canadian prime minister, atteixleil t.lio mooting of tlm privy council hero to-day anil wins sworn in as a meinhor. ilia appearance and manner slid not Rive the slightest in dication tliat lie was suffering from any illness. After attending tins privy council meeting Sir John ad journed with the ministers and others to luncheon. Shortly after this iio bocain^ suddenly ill and expired al most, immediately. Dr. Ellison, one of the surgeons in ordinary to the household at Windsor, wus sent for promptly, hut ho was unable to savo .Sir Jplm's life. .Sir John Thompson was a native of Nova Scotia. He llrstcumc into polit ical prominence in 1877, when he en tered the Nova Scotia legislature. The next year ho was made attorney general. In 1882 ho was elected judge, but ho resigned in 188,7, when lie was chosen minister of justice anil attor noy general of Canada anil was elected to the dominion house of commons. November 20, 1802, he was made pre mier on tho resignation of Sir John Caldwell Abbott. In tho ltehringsea sealing arbitration he was one of the Ilritlsh commissioners and added tj his already high reputation. A French hlalvsitian He ail. Paths, Dec. 13. — M. Auguste L. Durdcau, presiding oiHoer of tho chamber of deputies and minister of finance in the cabinet of M Casiinlr Perier, just previous to M. l’crier’s election to the presidency, died tills morning of congestion of tlio lungs. CATTLE AGAINST SUGAR. A Gigantic f triiggln Itctwncn Beef .'n tcroiits anil the Unit Coming. Wakmi.vgto.v, Dec. 13. — Word reaches here that tho vast cat tle interests of the West, rep resenting an invested capi tal of not less than Strain,odo.duj, are about to grapple in a death'oek struggle with the sugar trust, and that the direction of the fighting is to he lodged with P. I). Armour, Nelson Morris anil Swift, the Chicago kings of the meat trade. The United States is to bo the battle ground and, unless tho program miscarries, the encounter between these colossal in terests will furnish tho crowning sen sation of tlie short session of congress. Free sugar is a necessity to free ex portation of meat products to' the great consuming markets of Europe. Tlie imposition of a duty on -ugar was promptly met by the raising of an embargo against American beef by Germany and Jlcntnark. Fa mom I’en-Hnti C:mo Kml.000 met with a number of serious losses an I tne di rectors decided that in view of th s fact they would not restore the im paired capital but instead would go into liquidation. Tho assets of tha institution are $323,000, of which amount $270,000 is owed depositors.