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Auditor Cornell Speaks In Language Most Plain to Mr. Armstrong. -OVERHEAD INSURANCE.” It Will Mot lie Permitted to lie Written In Nebraska—The President of the Mshattsn Company Roundly Roasted toy the Auditor of Nebraska. Auditor Cornell Is after P. B. Arm strong, president of the Manhattan Fire Insurance company of New York city. In a letter, which is herewith given, he intimates that the company of which Mr. Armstrong is president xnav lust as well retire from business In Nebraska as not and the sooner the better as far as the auditor is con cerned. The 'difficulty arose over the writing of the “overhead” insurance on large properties by which the home office of the company saved commissions to lo cal agents and also evaded paying a tax on the premiums to the state. Aud itor Cornell has for some time been in correspondence with several com panies in regard to the matter and they have almost to a one agreed to dispense writing insurance in that manner. The auditor in writing to Mr. Armstrong says that in securing a license for 1898, his company agreed to suspend writing that kind of pol icies and from correspondence which he has had he rather thinks this was not done. While Nebraska has no res ident agency law, the auditor intimates that an agreement should lie lived up to. He explains things in the follow ing manner: P. B. Armstrong. President Manhat tan Fire Insurance Co.. New York City —Dear Sir: Citizens of this state have frequently called my attention to the practices of eastern insurance com panies doing business in Nebraska, in having insurance on property here, written through Chicago and New York brokers and agents, entirely dis regarding their legally licensed agent3 in this state. Our statute provides that ■"insurance agents shall render the lid of net premiums" for taxation; it is therefore urged that when Nebraska agents do not receive the premiums, ■our assessors do not meet with tlip men who receive them, and these premiums for that reason generally escape taxa tion in this state. This caused me to send a circular letter to eastern com panies early this year, requesting that before I re-licensed them for 1898. they should agree to stop this overhead ■writing, and have all the Nebraska in surance written by Nebraska agents, who could under the law. “lie personal ly holden for taxes on the premiums.” All hut. two companies agreed to stop the practice and many of the compan ies spoke of it as a had practice, which they were very happy to see discon tinued. If Nebraska had a “resident agency lav/” there would have been no need of trying to effect this agreement Between the state and the companies, Mr. II. F. Neefue, secretary of your ■company, answered my letter under date of April 12. 1898, as follows: “It is not our intention, now that we have ■a commissioned and duly authorized agent in your state, to write business there, other than through such agent." I regarded this as all in good faith on your part and accepted it as a con tract between your company and the state. I then sent you your license for 1898. on juiy zz, isss, 1 caned attention to your violation of this agreement by Insuring property in this state through New York agents. I asked if you would have the kindness to cancel this in surance and have it re-written through your Nebraska agents, so this state could tax the premium. Your reply to me under date of August 9. to say the least, is rude and in several respects It is false. You intimate that "compan ies pay into your treasury, taxes upon all such premiums received for this overhead insurance." You had our law in hand when you wrote this and knew its falsity quite well. Neither your company nor any eastern com pany you may mention, pays taxes on premiums into our state treasury. You convey the idea that you "sent the bulk of our insurance covering the ■Cudahy plant, to our Omaha agents to be written,” and they refused to write 1t because you placed the rates too lowr to please them. The truth of the mat ter is that the New York brokers con trolling the line of insurance in ques tion. placed the insurance with your New York office and your office then sent same to your Omaha agents to liave the policies written: hut they re fused to write the policies for the rea son that by doing so they would ma terially help the New York brokers to continue to keep the enormout line of insurance carried by the Cudahy Packing company away from the Oma lia local agents, who are as justly en titled to the business, as the stat« is to the taxes on the premiums. Your remarks that l have joined an Insurance trust to assist in oppressing the people of this state are very silly nnd unworthy of the president of any great corporation. The people of Ne braska do not need the assistance of outside corporations to keep their pres ent state officers from onpressing them. I stand enjoined by the federal courts now and have been so enjoined for many months because I was con sidered too active in enforcing anti trust and anti-combine laws relating to insurance agents. You intimate that you will withdraw from the state if I Insist that you live up to your agreement of April 12. The quicker all persons nnd corporations that do not regard the sanctity of a contract withdraw from the state, the better for the people of Nebraska. It Is plain you obtained your license for 1898 under false pretenses. It cannot be returned any too soon. Parties at 'South Omaha and New York can man age their own affairs, hut they must also manage to pay the taxes due this state so long as I am insurance com missioner. To this dnte Nebraska has been an exceptionally fine field for eastern in surance companies. If the next'legis lature enacts a strict “resident agency law" and imposes a severe tax upon premiums, imprudent men. like the president of the Manhattan Fire In surance company, can feel that they [ are to blame for it all. The Spectator, the ablest insurance Journal in the world, in its issue of August IS, speaks as follows: "Our sympathy for Pres ident Armstrong is very much weak ened by the unwarranted statements in his letter to Auditor Cornell, Arm strong is by nature and education an iconoclast, more successful in tearing down than in building up, still ho might refrain from attempting to prej udice the business that he relies upon for a livelihood.” You believe "there are forty other companies doing overhead insurance” in this state, and defrauding Nebraska of her Just revenue. If I can secure a list of such companies I will show you that I treat all alike. If your state ments are true in this regard, the auleker Nebraska puts laws on her books to compel insurance companies to deal fairly, the better it will be for all concerned. When I wrote you July 29, 1 made a similar request of the Traders’ Fire Insurance company of New York. Their answer is worthy of honorable men. quite different from yours. They agree the state hes rights which they will resnect. Such a spirit of fairness is appreciated. You have the bad grace to give pri vate corr^snondence to the press and take special pains to send it to the western papers. I will save you the trouble this time by giving this letter out mvse'f. Very truly yours. JOHN F. CORNELL, Auditor of Public Accounts. Per SAMVEL LICHTY. llurlky In the lumulrv. Ex-State Treasurer J. S. Bartley, says the Lincoln Journal, has been as I signed to laundry work in the peniten tiary by Warden Leigh. Bartley was suffering from a bad case of granulat ed eyelids when lie entered the prison [ to serve a twenty years’ term. He had been receiving treatment long before his trial, but after his sentence was af firmed by the supreme court his even became worse and it wa3 reported that he would be unable lo perform hard labor. The warden did not make the assignment until the prison physician examined Bartley and gave him a phy sical rating. Recently Bartley’s eyes began to improve. The change was s > marked that, some ventured the opin ion that. Ills eyes had not been given proper treatment while he was in the Douglas county jail. It is said this is the belief of the penitentiary physi cian. While some believe the story and pretend to assign a motive, others are satisfied to give their opinion of doctors in general and assert that many of them would dislike to cure a patient too speed lv when t*e patient evinced a desire to pay rood round feps for treatment. Bartley's deportment is much the same as it was while he was in the Douglas county jail. He continues ro attend strictly to his own business. He has no cell mate, has received no vis itors end seldom communicates with others. His work in the laundry is said to he satisfactory. He helps wash and iron. The washing is done by ma chinery and it is a part of his duty to place the garments in the machine and remove them at the proper time. The ironing is done after the old-fashioned manner, with bis, heavy flat irons. Some skill -’nd muscle is required in the operation. Garments belonging to convicts and guards go through the laundry and Bartley handles his share of them, whether they he coarse striped goods or fine white shirts. He still wears glasses to protect his eyes, but his poor sight does not appear to in terfere with his work, lie has never made a eomnlaint to the warden and he observes the rules of the peniten tiary strictly. Nebraska Medals for Fruit. Superintendent Youngers of the Ne braska fruit exhibit, says the Omaha Bee, is furnishing some conclusive evi dence that this is not the first exposi tion where the state has been in the lead in the way of showing first-class fruit. The evidence is in the form of bronze and silver medals, all of which are in a case close to the fruit tables and under loci: anil key. The first medal Nebraska won on its fruit was P.t a horticultural exhibit in Baltimore in 1871. This was on a gen eral exhibit. The next was in Boston in 1873. and was riven on account of the largest variety of pears being shown by any one state. At that time Nebraska had forty-three varieties on exhibition. The first prize was award ed in 1870, at the Centennial, when the slate was given a m°dal for tlie best collection of grapes. Prior to this tim • (he state h°d won medals at Boston and Philadelphia, where it had shown its fruits. Hot and Dry. The weather of the past wepk, says the last Nebraska crop bulletin, has been much like that of the week which preceded it and the results have been much the same. In the northern coun ties the week has been very favorable. Corn has matured rapidly and has not suffered from the hot. dry weather. The yield will be reduced somewhat in most other counties as a result of the heat and lack of moisture. Threshing from shock is about finished. The weather has been so favorable that very little or no grain has been dam aged in the shock. Fall plowing is well advanced, but the ground is now getting too dry and plowing has about stopped. A very little wheat and rye have been sown, but generally seeding will be delayed till after a rain. Killed nt Manila. Osceola dispatch : There have been so many reports in relation to the death of William Lewis and people here were so anxious to know the truth that a tele.fiani was sent to the war department to have the mystery cleared up, and yesterday Postmaster Campbell received a reply from Secre tary of War Meikeljohn saving that 1 William l5. Lewis was killed while in ' the trenches before Manila. on the night of August 2 by tlx* bursting of a shrapnel! thrown by the Spaniards into the trenches. Dennis Grimes of Saunders county, stopped to care for his horse, when the animal, presumably maddened by the fiies. gave a vicious kick, the blow grazing the right sida of Mr. Grimes' head, severing one ear. The blow, had it struck Grimes snuarely, would have caused instant death. Buffalo county is harvesting an ttn ! usually large crop. ic _ □ Eighty-Three Volunteer Organiza tions Ordered Discharged. THIRTEEN REGIMENTS TO STAY They Will Probably He Retaln«Hl In the Service tntll Next Spring—No Western Troops In the 1.1st — Mostly Pastern and Southern Regiments for Garrison Duty. Washinotojt, Sept. 5.—A statement prepared at the War department shows that including to-day eighty-three of the organizations in the volunteer army have received orders looking to their being mustered out of the service. This number includes fifty-three regi ments and a number of minor organi zations, such as batteries of artillery, independent companies of cavalry, etc., and probably represents almost one-third of the approximated 220,000 men called for by the President in the two proclamations issued by him. The appended bulletin was issued by the War department to-day announc ing the additional regiments to be mustered out of the service. Adjutant General Corbin said that in ull prob ability few if any other troops would be ordered relieved from duty at this time. The bulletin of the organiza tions to be mustered out follows: First United States volunteer cav alry, “Rough Riders,” at Galveston. Texas; Ninth Massachusetts infantry: batteries b, C and I). First Maine ar tillery; Companies A, It, C and I), Sec ond Washington volunteer infantry; District of Columbia infantry: First battalion, Nevada infantry; Third, Ninth and Fourteenth New York in fantry; Second New Jersey infantry; First Massachusetts heavy artillery. In connection with the orders mus tering out the above named regiments it is significant of the government's in tention to retain many of the volun teer troops in the service that orders were issued transferring thirteen regi ments from their state camps to the various camps of mobilizat ion through out the country. It is understood that the orders were issued with a view to the retention in the service, perhaps, until next spring, of the organizations named in the orders. The regiments included in the orders are as follows: Third Georgia, from Gritlin, Ga.. to Jacksonville; Fifteenth Minnesota from St. Paul to Camp Meade, Middle town, Pa.; Fourth New Jer.ssy from Seagirt, to Camp Meade: Kighth in fantry (regulars) from Fort Thomas. Wash., to Lexington; Fifth Massachu setts from South Framington, to Camp Meade; Thirty-fifth Michigan from Island llaven. to Camp Meade; Third Mississippi from Jackson, Miss., to Lexington; Two Hundred and First New York from Hainstcad, to Camp Meade; Third North Carolina from Fort Macon, to Knoxville, Fourth Kentucky from Lexington, to Knoxville; Third Ala bama from Mobile, to Jacksonville; Third regiment United States en gineers from Jefferson barracks, to Lexington; and First Territorial regi ment from Tucson, Ariz., to Lexing ton. TO ABANDON CAMP WIKOFF. Kegulars to He Ordered to OarrlHon* — The Twentieth to Fort Leaven worth. Nkw York, Hept. li.—A dispatch to the New York Tribune from Washing ton says: Orders were prepared at the War department to-day for the practical abandonment of t amp Wikoff at Moutauk Point. All the volunteer regiments now there will soon start for their homes and will receive fur loughs us they are mustered out. while most of the regulars, as soon ns they have recuperated sufficiently, will re sume duty at the posts which they garrisoned before t he war began. The orders for the regulars may be issued to-morrow. The Twentieth infantry will go to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. PANDO FLED WITH MILLIONS. A Vhst Sum Taken by the General In Ills Secret Departure From II avail a. Nt:w York. Sept. 5.—A dispatch to the New York Herald from Havana says: Having successfully done every thing In his power to convey the im pression he was sailing for Spain by way of New York on the steamship Philadelphia, Thursday, lieneral Pan do, instead, secretly started for his native land about ten hours later on the French steamer Notr.. Dame <111 Salut, it is said, with £.“,400,000. The secret was so effectually kept that very few persons here have any knowl edge of it, and all the Havana news papers announce Pando’s departure on the Philadelphia. The Only ''Official Caj*'* on Record. Washington, Sept. 1.—The alleged overcharging by stewards on board transports as stated at the quarter master general's office, is said to be one single instance where a steward charged a soldier twenty-live cents for a sandwich. No other complaints of the kind have been made at the quar termaster’s department A Young Girl In Trouble. St. Johki'h. Mo., Sept. ,r>.—1 la Tot man, a Cameron girl IT years of age, was arraigned before Commissioner Pollock to-day, charged with opening and destroying mail not her own. Mrs. Linda Totman. the girl's mother, entered a plea of guilty for her daugh ter, and the young defendant was bound over to the federal grand jury. Mrs, Mary Totman of Cameron, an aunt of tho defendant, is the one whose letter was tampered with. A check for £10 was taken from the let ter, the signature forged and money obtained and spent by the girl in having a good time. Hail for 31,000 was furnished. SPANISH ARMS CAPTURED. •J3,t3» III lip* and 3.500,000 Cartridge* Surrendered at Hantlago. Washington, Sept. 5.—Colonel H. P. Hortip, the chief ordnance officer of Santiago, has forwarded to tiie war department a complete list of the ord nance captured from tho Spaniards. The number of rifles and carbines cap tured far exceeds the expectations o.' the authorities in Washington. The list ns received by General Flagler, chief of ordnance, is us follows; Rifles: Spanish Muusers. IR.PO* Argent . *-,! Remington. 0.I1S t 'urhines: Mausers. 813 Argent. 81 Remington. 33t. Revolvers. Ammunition for small arms: Mauser rifle cartridges .1.510,909 Argent rifle cartridges. 471.30) Remington rifle cartridges. .. 1,140,0)0 The worthless smnll-arin ammuni tion amounts to 973,000 cartridges. Forty-four smooth-bore siege guns and five inortars were also raptured, to gether with the following rifled guns: Bronze, 3t); east-iron, 10; steel, h. Projectiles captured: Solid shot, spherical, 3,551; shell, spherical, 078; shell, cylindrical, 1,871); shranutji. cylindrical, 437. NAVY TO KEEP 20,000 MEN. >'o drpat Fall ini; € MT From tin* lVar j Quota to He Allowed. Washington, Sept. 5.—The enlisted force of the navy is to lie maintained at its full strength and as fast as va cancies occur through discharges and the expiration of enlistment periods I they will be tilled. The number of men enrolled in the navy during the war with Spain reached 'J4.000, includ ing about 4,o k) naval militia. The return North of the Santiago fleet, and that on patrol service, re sulted in the mustering out of over 400 regular seamen, whose terms had expired, and who had no desire for further active service. Many ships have on their list sailors who will also leave the government service in the next month for the same reason. To keep the strength approximately up to :.' ),o n enlistments have beeu di rected to begin again at recruiting stations, and so anxious are hundreds of well-equipped men to join the navy that no difficulty will be experienced in soon having the quota filled. NO PARADE OF MILES' ARMY. riic Volunteers lrri»in Porto Iltcs to Ho t sent to I lielr Monica At Oner. Washington, Sept. 5.—(leneral Miles and his army of between 4,000 and j r>,000 volunteers, now on the way to this country from Porto Uieo, will not : parade in New York city or elsewhere as a body upon their arrival. The of ficial announcement of this fact was made ut the War department, to-day. When the transports arrive in New York harbor they will he met by officers with orders for the troops to proceed directly from their ships to the trains, to be sent immediately to their state camps, preparatory to he* ing mustered out of the service. MAINE WRECK STILL THERE. llavuna Authorities K.tabllah » Patrol About tlie Hulk In tlie Harbor. Nkw York. Sept. 5.- A dispatch to tlie New York Herald from Havana says: Within the last few days the authorities have reinstituted the sys tem of patrol boats about the Maine wreck as maintained before the war, intending to show the commission their determination that American property shall be fully protected and, incidentally, that they do not regard I the cause of the disaster as determined i and intend to give no opportunity for ! the manufacture of evidence. I For the New Naval Hospital. Chicago, Sept. ft.—A dispatch to the ' Chicago Record from W ashington says: i The surgeon general of the navy has ! asked for proposals, to be opened Octo- 1 her 12, for .be construction of a model naval hospital at Mare island, Cal., under a congressional appropriation of $100,000. The plans are of the most modern type, conforming to the latest hospital practice at home anil abroad and provide for indefinite expansion. The Netjro Hail Kitieil t'uur Women. Dai.I.as, Texas, Nept. ft. — From the confessions of "Dobie" Joe Malone, the negro hanged here yesterday, it is be lieved that he participated in four or five murders. Two years ago he. killed Mrs. Durham near Dallas, and ha and another negro killed three white wo men at Eagle Rake, near Houston, about three years ago. 1 • iv cm or Itlack Wants His Men Kclii-vetl W'asiiiSept. ft. — Hovernor , lilaek was hii early eallerat the W ar department this morning. As a result of his personal inspection and obser- j rations, the governor recommended the mustering out of the Third, Ninth and Fourteenth regiments of New York volunteers in addition to those prev- , iuusly ordered out of the service. A liamtu* II »tel Man Kill* lllmself. Osawatomih, Kan.. Sept. !».— C. A. Furr, proprietor of the Central hotel : at this place, shot himself last night. He recently came here from Lane, Kan., and had just recovered from a severe sickness. His mind has been affected at times since coming here. Missouri Day Probably <>lreu l'p. Omaha, Sept. 5.—Missouri day at the exposition will probably have to 1)0 given up. The commissioners have been unable to secure the desired rates from railways. 1 _ r Heat and Rain to Blame for Fever and Starvation at Santiago. DOCTORS SICK LIKE THE REST. lie Says the Wounded Were W’ell Cared For—Muddy Roads Kept Hack Hatton* | — Had Too IdttleTIme to Fi|tilp If of* pltal Ships Properly. New York, Sept. 3.—The New York World prints an interview with Gen eral Shatter, in which tho general is represented as saying: “At Santiago wo had to deal with things as they ure, not as they should l>e. Of course there was sickness. It wa» inevitable in a summer campaign. Hut nobody was neglected. Tho doctors were scarce at first, but we had boat loads of them as soon as they could get there. Doctors got sick liko the rest. They were overworked and exhausted. Hut their ability is unquestionable. Look at the low per eentage of deaths from wounds. It was never lower in any war. Why, in the civil war I lay on the battlefield myself until my wounds were in a horrible condition, and that was right near by, not down in a malarious, sub-tropical country, far away. “The men who ordered a summer campaign in a fever-infested country are responsible for the natural and un avoidable consequences. None of our wounded was allowed to lie on the bat tle field as 1 was in the civil war. Nothing of the kind happened. Anaes thetics were plentiful. “It was the heat that was so deadly, and the rains. Right in the midst of the most torrid heat a shower would fall, it would drench everybody with out cooling tlie air. In a few minutes, under the sun again, every man wouid be steaming. Men of the strongest constitutions succumbed. “Our first case of yellow fever de veloped at fell Ganey. Hut tlie army was ripe for it and it spread liko a prairie fire. Many a man had yellow fever who will never know it. And to tell tin* truth it is not so dangerous as tlie calentura or heat attacks that un acelimated men have in the malarial regions of Cuba. Why, it is a common thing for a man's temperature to rise from normal to 105 in a few hours. That means death in most cases. It can give cards and spades to yellow fever in the game of death I'd rather have yellow fever. NOT FIT FOR FIGHTING IN IILAT. “Our men were all unaccliinated; they never had faced su.*h constant beat Many of them ha I never slept out doors before they went into camp. How could they be moulded into proper material for such a climate and such a campaign? It couldn't be done. These men you see coming back with the thin bodies and the yellow faces are suffering from the parasite of the low fever of the Santiago plateaus. “We at the front did not wait to let the fever have its run. We wanted to save life. Now tlie problem was to save tlie most lives possible. We had never had a foreign war since 1812-lb The United Stales lias no hospital ships It was not a question of using what was best, but wlv.t we had. We used the transports that brought tho troops down. “if I could have had a few more weeks to equip hospital ships the con dition would have been better. If the war had continued we would have stayed right there, fever or no fever. Tiie sudden ending of the war was un expected. I made it an invariable rule to send home twenty-five less men on a transport than she hud brought south. That was a fair view to take. “I am satisfied with the Santiago campaign. When it is fully under stood, all its difficulties, it will receive just place in military history. We were hurried off to Cuba. We landed and could not have got our stores back on board ship if we had wanted to. When the invasion was planned it was obvious that it must be a rush. Such it was. “And it was a success—complete and unequivocal. Many things were done, it is true, that were forced upon us by the exigencies of the hour, but the means employed, even under such dress, proved to be wisely ehosen. I was compelled to do a great many tilings that under different circum stances would not have been consid ered. HE SIZED THEM UP RIGHT. “I sized up the Spaniards correctly. For example, at San Juan 1 was sure they would not come out from their works ami attack us. The El Ceney light 1 had hoped would be finished at 10 a. in., but it took until 5 o'clock, and 1 rather feel now that it was for the best. Had we taken tiic city of Santiago that night only the garrison then there would have surrendered to us. Whereas, later, all the troops in the region surrounding were included. The men outside of Santiago, July-', could have gone to General Panilo. 1 knew that the war was over as soon as Toral spoke to me about surrendering the troops in the Eastern province. 1 almost fell over. “We never had on the fighting line at any one time more than 13.090 men. And with these we captured 117,000. “Nine thousand Spaniards were for tified in tlie best intrenched position I ever saw. Indeed, the intrenchmcnts were of such a character that shelling with the guns we had did not do them serious damage. Where a 13-inch shell from our ships dropped into a house in the town it demolished the dwelling; but all the occupants were gone.” “Did Cervera's men help in the San Juan fight?'1 was usked, to clear up a mooted point. “Yes, indeed. Ha had 1,000 men whore from his fleet in ths battle of July I. 11 is chief of staff, Husamentc, tvas killed. Ifis marines anil sailors suffered severely. Cervera put them ill back on board July 2, and the next lay tried to get t.o sea. “The Spaniards were down to their last bit of riee when they surrendered, but they declined on the lirst day to accept rations offered them. They said that American charity humiliated them: hut I noticed that they came around the second day A MUDDY ROAD TO I1LAME. “Why was your food supply short lieforc ban Juan?” "1 had to act quickly and shovo my men right into the Held, because I knew they were growing weaker and weaker every hour. We hid plenty of rations, unloaded at the shore, but there was only a single road hub deep in mud, over which they could ho brought to the front, and if we had a thousand army wagons we eould not have got the provisions where they were needed. The pack trains saved us. They were invaluable.” “What is the conditiou of .Santiago to-day?” was asked. “It is in a fair state of health,” re plied Ueneral bhafter. “Under the military governorship now k exist ence it will soon be cleaned and made thoroughly healthy. It is a pretty town, hut the surrounding country is in a state of wreck. You can't imag ine the destitution of the island of Cuba.” "Did you see any rceonceutrados?" “Only a few. 1 fear that most of them are dead. Hut the death rate in bantiago had dropped from eighty a day to thirty-iive, and most of the deaths arc of old people or children who had not recovered from the starv ation which they had endured.” CAVALRY MAY HE NEEDED. "You asked me about tho use of cavalry in Cuba, and I reply that if we have to go down there aud tight tho Cuban guerrillas, wo shall want tho cavalry beyond question. Otherwise not. 1 hope that small garrisons of infantry scattered over the country will surtice." “How about the western part of tho island?” was tho next inquiry. □ “Havana will certainly be guarded and everything possible will be done to render the city healthy and revive its prosperity. The Western provinces are ready for agriculture and crops can lie put in any time.” Ueneral bharter was fully informed regurding tho controversy between Ueneral Miles and Secretary Alger. He ivas surprised and said it was the first hint he had of anything of the kind. He knew nothing about tho cauvits or tho merits of the contro versy. “What troops arc left to garrison Santiago?” "Tho only troops of tho Fifth corps that were loft were the Twenty-fourth infantry, the remainder of the Ninth Massachusetts, about 100 recruits and the last of tho sick and wounded. These were to have left on the day af ter the Mexico sailed and are to reach here to-morrow or next day. This completes tho withdrawal of the army of invasion, which was composed of the Fifth corps. The garrison duty is in other hands. The Fifth army corps’ flag will fly over Camp Wikoff to morrow.” WON BY AMERICAN ROADS. Differential PaMnngvr Kates Defused to tile Canadian Pacific. Washington, Sept. 3. — The Inter state commerce commission, by a de cision to-day in the matter of the pas senger rate disturbances of the Can adian Pacific railroad, involving tho propriety of differential passenger rates between Kastcrn points aud the Pacific coast, held that tho Canadian Pacific is not entitled to the differen tial contended for. The case is one of the most important that has been be fore the commission for a long time, the American railroad lines and tho Canadian Pacific having been engaged sii mouths nr more in a war In pas senger tariff between the Hast and tho West. Cuban* Nut at Work. Havana, Sept. 3.—Advices from Guines, this province, say that tho work of the field is not being resumed. On the contrary, there is groat indif erence shown by the inhabitants of the interior. It is almoit too lata now to prepare the ground for the sow ing season. Thus, instead of an im provement, this section will show a continued poverty, giving risa to tha inevitable thefts und robberies in the town proper, where many houses have recently been built. Our Imports From Porto Illrn. Washington, Sept. 3.—A complete report on the importation of sugar and molasses from l’orto Rico in the fiscal year 1S97-98, as well as the quantities for 1895-90, lias been forwarded to the Treasury department from New York by Supervising Examiner of Sugar Jacobs. lie shows that for the past fiscal year the importations from l’orto Rico were: Sugar, 911,584,411 pounds; duty. $1,393,705; value, $1,854, 015. Molasses. 1,371,823 gallons; duty, 141,221; valuu. $289,183. For the year 1895-90, the imports of raw sugar were 34,397,473 pounds. Andris's I’nluhda~ U> Moot. Vienna, Sept. 3.—An imperial de cree 1ms been issued summoning the Reichstag to meet September 20. This will lend to the resumption of constitu tional rule in the empire which was suspended a few months ago because of the riots in the Reichstag. The question of the union of Austria and Hungary is still to be settled. Can't Agree on Commission. M a null). Sept. 3.—The deadlock over the appointment of the peace commis sion continues.
