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"HYOMEI" CURES BY INHALATION It is nature's own remedy carried to all parts of the head, throat and lungs by the air you breathe. It can be taken at all times and in any {dace. There is no danger, no risk. YOUR MONEY IS REFUNDED IF IT FAILS TO RELIEVE. "Hyomei" Kepular Outfit, $1.00; Trial Out fit. 25c. Extra bottles "Hyomei," 50c. "Hyo uiei" Balm, a wonderful healer, 25c. "Hyo m. i" Dyspepsia Cure, 50e. Sold by all drug gists, or sent by mail on receipt of price. THE R. T. BOOTH CO., 20 and 81 Auditorium Building, Chicago, 111. SPM Wf SUBMIT AMERICAN PEACE COMMISSIONERS RECEIVK INSTRUCTIONS FOR GUIDANCE WIDE LATITUDE IS PROMISED ViilUml States Will Treat With Spain us a Conqueror With the Con quered DiNpoNillon of the Phil ippine* the Only Problem With Which American Representative** Will Have to> StraKKle. J L 1. The retention of the island of Luzon. 2. Special trading privileges for Americans in the other Philippines, probably on the same basis aa Span ish merchant*. j 3. Spain to promise such govern- I ment in her Philippine posses-ions as will free the natives from barbarous oppression. i r WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 14.— 1t is now concluded that the American peace commissioners will leave for Paris with ibove as the chief propositions for a basis for their negotiations. The plan is tn hold a joint meeting of the cab- Inet and peace commission Thursday night for a discussion of the details of the plan and alternative propositions. I in- United States will treat with Sj.ain as a conqueror with the con quered. This much is established, and the commissioners will be clearly instruct ed to this effect. Cuba and Porto Rico will not be eulijterLs of negotiation, except mci JRJ.^ "y^o'o weeds in every -sttf^SKte*ll IfO?o\iv3 was everplant- A , TW Wfflfl $T €£*>.°-fe ed in which '?r ffW\L> Vtf?>is*C weeds did not 5?,Tp J(P*^ selves. 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It acts directly on the Jungs through the blood, driving out all impurities and disease germs, and building up new and healthy tissue. It restores the Jost appetite, makes digestion and assimi lation perfect, invigorates the liver, puri fies the blood and fills it with the life-giv ing elements of the food and tones and builds up the nerves. It sustains the ac tion of the heart and deepens the breath ing, supplying the blood with life-giving oxygen. Medicine dealers sell it. "A doctor, who is considered an expert on lung troubles, told me I had consumption and could not live long," writes fclra. James Oatficld, tj Mary Strer.*, Hair.ilit&n, Ont., Can. "Three bottles cjf Br. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery cured me completely." Free. Dr. Pierces Common Sense Med ical Adviser. Send 21 one-cent stamps to cover mailing only for paper-bound copy. Cloth-bound 31 cents. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. dentally. They were disposed of by the armistice, and the futUTe govern ment of Cuba will be established by the United States without reference to Spain's demands or wishes. The Philippine question will be only partially open to negotiation. That is to say, Manila bay, with the capital of the island, Cavite and the Corregidor islands, must remain as the absolute property of the United States. The serutiment of the cabinet is that, while the bay is the important thing, military and commercial necessities would probably involve the whole isl and of Luzon, and this is likely to be the minimum of the American de mands. The cabinet is nearly if not quite a unit on this point. As to the rest of the Spanish islands there is some slight difference of opin ion. It is agreed by the president and his advisers that the natives are not capable of self-governmenfc now ariC probably will not be for generations to come, so that the idea of an independ ent government with an American pro tectorate would be too much in the nature of a niney-nine year lease to be feasible. The cabinet was also apparently agreed that Spain's misgovernment of the Philippines was p>ractically the same as that in Cuba, and hence that the reasons which rendered necessary its abolition in the West Indies were equally potential in the China seas. SPAIN'S SLIM CHANCE. There is nearly unanimity of opinion that none of the Philippines shall re ! vert to Spain. The disposition of the I islands outside of Luzon is still open. It is felt that the United States could not afford to select a part of the con quered territory likely to be pecuniar ily profitable and then shrink from the burden and responsibility of bringing a civilized system of government to the whole group. One plan, which Secretary Gage is supposed to father, is that Spain might be given nominal sovereignty over the outside Philippine group under a treaty guaranteeing equal commercial advan tages to all nations, Spain included. This would result, It is argued, in gradual changes in government until the islands are fitted for self-govern ment. In opposition to this it is said that there would be endless confusion if Spain had the shadow but not the sub stance of authority, and another war j would be necessary, for then the out | side Islands of the Philippine group would bear the same relation to Luzon commercially that Cuba now does to the United States. At the opening of the war President McKlnley believed that a coaling or naval station would be a satisfactory outcome of Dewey's victory, but since then he has become more or less im pressed with the manifest destiny of the United States. Had the war terminated the Fourth of July, the minimum of the peace commissioners would have been a coal ing station and the maximum Manila bay. Now the minimum is undoubt edly Manila bay and the maximum the Philippines, Caroline and Ladrone islands. The question of manifest destiny is a potent factor in the instructions to the commissioners. The president feels, it is said, that the commercial, politi cal and strategic advantages of the Philippines begin and end in the island of Luzon, and he would be quite will ing to retain the hide and throw away the tail, except for the apparent self ishness of such action. LATITUDE OF COMMISSIONERS. The instructions will be more or less elastic for obvious reasons, for, if the United States assumes the control of Manila bay or the island of Luzon, it becomes at once a party to the con cert of nations in the Orient, and hence the commissioners may find, after their arrival at Paris, that, although they might be willing to give up the other islands, to do so would provoke Eu lopean entanglements which could be averted by putting all the islands un der the American flag. If the United States leaves to Spain a shadowy sovereignty, other Euro pean nations would at once insist on being made parties to the agreement to protect their commerce. For these reasons the instructions to the commissioners will be elastic, the cable being depended upon to shape the American policy to meet changing conditions. Senator Davis, who has arrived in Washington to meet the president and his colleagues on the peace commis sion, was not at all inclined to discuss the question. The senator went far enough, however, to say he believed the United States commission would be able to return to the senate a sat isfactory report. The Minnesota sen ator was very discreet when approach ed upon the Philippine question. He believed, though he would not make broad statements for publication on this point, that the United States would gain a very firm foothold on these islands. NORTHWESTERN AXXIAL. ItH Report Filed With the Railroud and Warehouse < 'omniittMlon. The Chicago & Northwestern railroad filed Its annual report with the state railroad and warehouse commission yesterday. It has only 414.47 miles of line in this state, being the Winona & St. Peter road, with a branch from Rochester to Red Wing] and fractional miles adjoining the state line at Winona and Elmore. Its 5,030 stockholders, however, are in terested in the operation In all of 5,085.62 miles of road. They hold $41,420,365.97 of com mon stock, on which a dividend of 5 per cent was paid last year, and $22,370,954.5(5 preferred stock, on which 7 per cent was paid. Stock of other companies held or controlled by the Northwestern is reported at $2,617,500. There was issued during the last -year $664,088 of new stock, but none of this was ' for rash. The largest block, half a million, was for the acquiring of new properties. In Minnesota the passenger earnings were $440,894.13 and the freight receipts $1 555 - 208; other receipts brought this to a total of $2,000,792.2(5. The income of the whole line, however, was $36,320,38. r ).7}. The oper ating expenses were only $23,010,381, or but f.3.30 per cent of the income, although when Minnesota's mileage is charged with its pro-~ portionate cost of the operation of the road the expense amounts to 93.91 per cent of the income in this state. The total cost of the road is figured at $144,648,803.23. and its equipment at $33,668 --316.11. to which some miner items are add ed to complete the total investment repre sented. In Minnesota the road had 1.332 employes whose average compensation was $2 per day' It carried 416,281 passengers, of whom three were slightly hurt. It killed no passengers Two employes were killed and there were flvo fatalities aside from these. One was killed in a runaway, the horses being fright ened by the cars; another was killed while trying to get on a moving train, and the others were trespassers on the company's right of way. The road has been carrying heavy interest charges, the total outlay for this, after de ducting receipts properly counter-chargeable being $7,035,427.93. The cash and current assets of the com pany are reported at $6,962,480.44 and its liabilities at $4,272,875.97, leaving its cash assets $2,689,604.47. The company expended during the year $2,937,446.86 for construction and depots, etc., and $298,714 was spent for new cars for its freight business. RAILWAY NOTE*. Edward A. Batwell, business manager of Lincoln J. Carter's "Chattanooga" company, was in town yesterday arranging for the tour of hi« company over the Northern Pacific to the Pacific coast. Oscar Vanderbilfs office, during the past few days, has been strongly suggestive of a theatrical booking agency rather than one of transportation, no less than nine managers and agents having swarmed in upon Mr. Vanderbilt yesterday for their routings West. J. 0. Pond, general passenger and ticket agont of the Wisconsin Central, spent yes terday in St. Paul. He was accompanied by A. R. Horn, division superintendent of the company at Stevens Point, and returned last evening to Milwaukee. The Time to Take No. 6 is twenty minutes after eleven p. m. every night. Boston and return, $20.00 by the Soo Line. THE ST. PAUL GI,OBE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 1898. SILVER HAS ITS DAY MONETARY CONFERENCE LISTEN'S TO HON. CHARLES A. TOWNK, OF MINNESOTA MONEY IS PURCHASING POWER The Contention Upon Which Mr. Towne Baited His Argunieiit In Favor of the Coinage and U*e of Silver us Standard Money Co ordinately "With Gold Senator Allen Welcome* the SllverlteM. OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 14.— 1n taking the chair to preside for the silver day at the monetary conference, Senator W. V. Allen, of Nebraska, voiced a hearty welcome on behalf of his state to the champions of all sides of the money question who had met to discuss the merits of their respective claims. Alluding to Horace White's reference to his speech against the Cleveland bond issue, he said: "I said then, and say now, that there was not the slightest authority in the statutes of the country for that bond isf-ue, but the American people are too generous, as well as Just, to stand upon a technicality, and they will pay them dollar for dollar for the money received. "I cannot conceive how a man can be a gold monometallist who wants justice and to see men enjoy the fruits of their labors. If a man desires a small vol ume of business and the resultant spoliation of business by the creditor class, I can understand why he will de fend the gold standard. I wish this be bate could be repeated in every city, village and "hamlet in the country, but to me it is hard to conceive there should be any controversy over what constitutes money. Money is a creation of law (loud applause from the silver ites), and this has been the doctrine of all authorities on finance from Aristo tle to the present day." MR. TOWNE'S ADDRESS. Hon. Charles A. Towne, of Duluth, ex-congressman from Minnesota and chairman of the National Silver Re publican committee, delivered the open ing address on "The Coinage and Use of Silver as Standard Money Co-Ordi nately With Gold." Mr. Towne said in part: The era of ambiguity is past. The recent state conventions of the Republican party have with marked unanimity declared them selves unreservedly for the gold standard! and we encounter in these debates the avowed defenders of that system, not its apologists, but its champions. I congratulate the "National Sound Money league" on it 3 courage and candor. Let me, however, pre sume to recommend a still further exhibit of candor, and following the example of its English prototype, it change its name to the "American Gold Standard Defense associa tion." Mr. Town subdivided his address into eleven propositions, as follows: "Money is purchasing power," "Stability of value the test of good money," "Falling prices an evil," "Appreciating money neither sound nor honest," "The gold standard unsound and dishonest," "There was every reason to anticipate the results of demonetization," "The effects of demonetization were fore seen and foretold." "Vain efforts to break the force of conclusion," "Present condition intolerable," "The restoration of silver the only alternative," "The United Slates alone can maintain the parity at 16 to 1." Whatever else money may be defined to be, it is purchasing power. Referred to a particular commodity this purchasing power expresses itself as the price of that com modity. But the purchasing power of money extends to all commodities. It can there fore be truly expressed only by reference to all commodities. In other words, the pur chasing power of money is indefinable, ex cept in terms of average prices. Money in its origin and on principle is a mere con venience In connection with things, but those interested in adding to its value as meas ured by things have succeeded in making it more important and influential than all the productive functions of society combined. Monometallists take the bank-counter view, the mere physical simplicity view, while bl metalllsts take the other— that of the essen tial meaning of money as measuring other things, with its ultimate and intimate eMal cal and social significances. Stability of value, or the nearest prac ticable approach to it. is the test* of good ness in money. This is generally admitted. The physical simplicity school assume?, gold in advance as the nerfeet standard, as changp less and invariable, and then gauges the stability or Instability of everything else, including other forms of money, by com parison with gold. By the other view, how ever, stability of value means constancy of exchange relations to other things, invariabil ity of purchasing power. It is submitted that the latter meaning is the only one that com mends Itself to common sense. Since value is exchange relation, stability of value means stability of exchange relations, or, as ap plied to money, of purchasing power. Falling prices are an industrial, economic, political and social evil of almost unparallel ed proportions. They discourage industries, drive money from activity into idleness, from the channels of trade into the bank vaults, reduce wages and throw laborers out of em ployment, make property unproductive and therefore worthless, destroy equities, ln rreapp the burden of taxes and all flx^d charges, ruin debtors, pile up wealth in the hands of the few, encourage the formation of trusts, monopolies and combines, make producers the prey of middle-men, Ptr<j*?then the hold of the merely rich upon the po litical machinery of the state, stiflo the spirit of liberty among the masses, multiply Immorality, and, if long enough protracted, inevitably lead to the overthrow and deimli tlon of the very fabric of popular govern ment. If, according to the premises, money is pur chasing power over things in general: and if the value of a money unit consists in the amount it possesses of this purchasing power; and if falling prices are, in the ways we have seen, inimical to industrial progress and so cial happiness and thus ultimately destruc tive of liberty, it follows that a money sys tem that furnishes such a unit Is both un sound and dishonest; and if during any period the average level of general prices under goes a progressive fall, this fact itself is an Indictment of the money system in operation. The gold standard, dating approximately from 1873, has furnished the nations attempting to use it with a money unit which, since that date. In spite of short temporary . periods of relative stability and with even "slight o<ea siori declinations toward its former com modity equivalents has, upon the whole, con stantly risen in value until the purchasing power of a unit weight of gold Is today ap proximately 100 per cent geater than in" 1873. Thl* Indisputable and portentous fact of the tremendous appreciation of gold is the central point of this great controversy Rightly apprehended it is alone absolutely destructive of all claims on the part of the gold standard to be considered a satisfactory money system. Any such claim Is confronted with the Insuperable fact that during the ex istence of that system it has given the gold using world a most unstable measure of value —one 'that has nearly doubled in twenty-five years. The gold standard and permanently higher prices are impossible companions. The continuance of that system means a con tinued Increase in the purchasing power of the dollar, and, which is identically the same thing, a protracted fall of general prices. GOLD STANDARD EXPERIMENTS. At present the experiment of the gold standard is in a state of Incompleteness. To go on with it to the logical conclusion of the gold valuation system la a practical impos sibility, while it is equally out of the "ques tion for the world to remain in its present monetary condition. The gold standard in its simplicity contemplates the abolition of every other kind of money of full debt-paying power except gold alone and the use of vari ous forms of credit based on gold in the or dinary transactions of business. We may see an indication of this intended consumma tion in the various schemes of "Monetary Reform" recently proposed and now pending in congress— the so-called Gage plan, that of the "Indianapoliß Sound Money Conven tion," and that embodied in the McCleary bill— all of which share the aim so distinct ly announced by the secretary of the treas ury, "To commit the country more thorough ly to the gold standard," and agree in their easential provisions. They contemplate th« retirement of all forms of government paper money, or greenbacks and treasury notes, and the reduction of our standard silver dollar into a mere promise to pay in gold. The inevitable result of such a course would soon be the absolute di*use of silver for money except as small change, the melting and sale for use in the arts of about half a billion of silver dollars, and the contraction of our circulation to such a quantity ac should be furnished by our distributive share of the world b gold, plus such a paper circulation as the banks could keep actually redeemable in gold. The par of exchange among nations can be restored in only one of two ways: Either by the universal adoption of the gold standard, so that all nations shall use a common meas ure of one metal, or by the restoration of genuine bimetalli«m, bo that all nations may possess a common measure composed of the Joint volume of. both, gold and silver. But the universal adoption of the gold standard is impossible. To my nothing of the folly of attempting its extension to India, its es tablishment in all Its rigor, even in Europe, would produce auch a cataclysm o{ disaster and misery, due to the enforced annihilation of hundreds of millions of dollar* of silver and silver-supported paper, with their superim posed credit, that a social chaoß would super vene, compared to which the Dark Ages would seem like an Arcadian, era. We therefore reach the conclusion that the only way to reach a par of exchange between gold and silver is by restoring., to silver the full money opportunities of which it has been deprived by law; by again -authorizing "the coinage aud use of silver as. standard money co-ordinate with gold." "We contend that by opening the mints of the United States to the frbe' coinage of sil ver as well as of gold at I<J to a the fall of prices would be stopped. This i» admitted by our opponents. Their fear Js Qf an alleged 'fifty-cent' dollar, and a 'fifty-cent' dollar is only another name for a hundred per cent rise of average prices, but tiie rise would not be so high, nor anything Jike it. The 'fifty cent' dollar cry is only a campaign catch phrase. No economist would bofcerly indorse it. The introduction of Bilver into competi tion with gold would deprive the latter of its monopoly of measuring values. Jtud register ing Drices. The endowmeai of Bilver with all the dignity and power of gold would greatly add to its demand. The effect would be that gold would fall towards silver and silver would rise towards ? goldP, the result being a gradual elevation of average prices that would eventually reach a compromise about half way between their present level and that^icom which they fell, or an advance of about 25 "t»er cent. "But we are told that all the gold in the country, estimated at over $650,000,000, would be driven out of the country if the mints were opened to silver. There is no more grotesque figure of speech in frequent use today than this of the gold advocates which represents the alleged expulsion of gold. It is as if the first few silver dollars that should percolate through the mint were in stantly to seek out the frightened and un resisting $650,000,000 of gold, seize it by the collar and physically eject it from the coun try. The process is not that. The gold could not go any faster than it was displaced. Why has not our gold gone already in fear of the $500,000,000 of silver we now have? The an swer Is, because there is a demand for the gold here in addition to the use of the sil ver, and our scale of prices is so adjusted to the international range of low prices as to enable us to hold it. As prices began gradually to rise under the operations of our free coinage law, the first effect would be to make this country, according to the familiar Rlcardian formula, 'a poor place to buy In and a good place to sell in.' Our im ports would tend to increase and our exports to decrease. By and by there would be more demand in New York for foreign exchange in payment of our purchases abroad than could be offset by bills drawn against our exports. Exchange would lise to the 'specie point," and, unable longer to pay in goods, we should settle the balance in gold. This process would continue until the international level of prices was restored and our money volume and prices were in equilibrium. It would be complete long before the loss of our present stock of gold, unless there is somewhere sil ver that would be minted here and pass into business sufficient in amount to replace the entire quantity of yellow metai in the coun try. That there is such an amount of silver that could and would be available for the purpose, I deny. If there is an available 'silver flood' to replace three or four hundred millions of dollars of gold, certartnly our gold standard friends ought to he wUllng to show us where it. Is, and just how it would get in its deadly work. Until they do so we shall rest serenely content in the confidence of our great country to restore and maintain a system of bimetallism. Let *her but take the initiative, and it will at once become the interest and object of every great state in Europe to support her action. >j "Our country's power is rising. The next great conquest of commerce is Ui the Orient. The exploitation of China IS 'an -impossibility without the establishment : of a stable par of exchange between ourselves acfl that coun try, nor can we make it profitable if her de veloping forces are to continue to receive the progressive stimulus afforded by a fall ing exchange." AFTERNOON SESSION. The principal speakers at the after noon session of the eurrenoy conference were George Fred Williams, of Boston, an ex-congressman and formerly a member of the congressional coinage committee and then a believer in the gold standard, and Congressman C. N. Fowler, of Elizabeth, N. J. He was followed by Anson Wolcott, of Indiana, who reviewed financial leg islation with a purpose to show that it had been destructive of the circulat ing medium; Judge Joseph Sheldon, of Connecticut, who upheld the quantita tive theory of money; President Thomas E. Willis, of the Kansas Agricultural college, who discounted the value of academic opinions on e&onomic ques tions generally. Then Congressman Fowler occupied the platform for half an hour with a defense of the gold standard. GOV. CLOUGH RESPONDS. MtiiiieHotu'a Chief Executive AstiiNts in Lafayette Memorial Movement. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.— Hon. A. H. Revell, vice president of the Lafay ette memorial commission, accompanied by Robert J. Thompson, secretary, Sec retary of State Day and Comptroller Dawes, who are also members of the commission, called upon the president today for the purpose of engaging his co-operation. The plans are now that Oct. 10, the diate of the fall of Yorktown, be recog nized in all the schools- and colleges of the United States as Lafayette day, when exercises and collections will be made to raise the funds for the monu ment. The governors of all the states and territories have been appointed honor ary vice presidents of the monument commission, which is itself composed of j twelve prominent men of the country. The governors have responded liber ally. Among those supporting are Gov. Wolcott, of Massachusetts; Gov. Bushnell, of Ohio; Gov. Atkinson, of West Virginia; Gov. Devine, of North Dakota; Gov. Lowndes, of Maryland; Gov. Hastings, of Pennsylvania; Gov. Cook, of Connecticut; Gov. Johnson, of Alabama: Gov. Holcomb, of Nebraska; Gov. Wood, of Montana; Gov. Grout, of Vermont; Gov. Barnes, Oklahoma; Gov. Clough, of Minnesota; Gov. Culberson, of Texas, and others. The superintendents of schools throughout he United States will be made auxiliary commissioners. Commissioner General Peck cabled the Washington officials that the mon ument idea was creating great enthu siasm with the entire press and officials of Paris. The Time to Take No. 6 is twenty minutes after eleven p. m. every night. New York, N. V., and return, $23.00 by the Soo Line. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the /"*2» //fF7T* /z'* Signature of (~&ULf^yt ficOCO&4/&{ No. 6 ; Shoes at all hours in the ; day at our storer it refers Jto rt " MRS. JENNESS MILLER'S ! Dress Reform Shoes. They '< are equal to any/s6^oo shoe made. They cost you but Lovering Shoe Co. Northwestern Agency. PRODUCE THE PROOF RAILROADS VERIFY THE ACCU RACY OF FIGURES IN DAKOTA RATE CASE SEVERAL WITNESSES HEARD Some Figure* About the CouNtrac tion of Some of the Brandies Cout of Ekirth Per Yard State ment Showing the Local I'iishch m-r EoruinKH in North Dakota at the Four-Cent Rate. All the auditors of the Northern Pa cific and the Great Northern railways were examined yesterday In the North Dakota rate case hearing, which was continued at the Northern Paciric^ffice yesterday. Their testimony was intro duced by the railway companies to prove the accuracy of estimates of coat of construction, operating expanses and receipts previously submitted by tne companies weie correct M. P Martin, audiur of the Northern Pacihc Railway company, was called by Mr. Bunn, and In reply to questions said he had been auditor of tihe com pany practically since 1879. Mr. Martin identified a number of ta bles as having been prepared in his of hce, and said he believed them corre-t In every rtepect. Several were com piled by himself. One of these tables shows the average yearly increase and decrease per cent of the railway He admitted that the table was an esti mate based upon several years' busi r.tss and not upon the entire period of the railroad's existence. A. S. Morton, auditor of disburse ments of the Northern Pacific railway, testified that he had supervision of all expenditures of the company. He also identified tables of expenditures pre pared by himself or under his direction. He believed the tables to be accurate, though it was possible that they might contain errors. He knew that errors of fact could creep into accounts, but while it was possible he did not think it probable in the case of the Northern Pacific. H. C. Taylor, auditor of freight re ceipts of the Northern Pacific, was next called and was shown a number of exhibits previously introduced, being transcripts from office accounts. He said he believed they were accurate, as they were prepared in his office under his direction. The figures showing the local business in North Dakota, he said, were obtained from t<he records. Thtse showed that the decrease of revenue consequent upon the application of the reduced rates fixed by the railway com mission was 22% per cent. George Sheriff, auditor of passenger receipts of the Northern Pacific, identi fied tables showing receipts from his department, and said that they were accurate to the best of his knowledge. The loss on receipts, if the commission er's rates were applied, would be 15.94 per cent. The rate in North Da kota was 4 cents per mile, and the br-ard rate was 3 cents per mile. The Minnesota rate is 3 cents per mile and the Montana rate is 5 cents. The round trip rate in Dakota was 7 cents until last October, 1895. when it was reduced to 6 cents per mile. Mr. Sheriff said the local passenger business on the branches was less than on the main line. On the branches, as a rule, mixed freight and passenger trains are operated. R. M. De Lambert, general store keper and auditor of motive power ac counts, said he had charge of all the books and papers of the motive power department. J. L. Cramer, auditor of disburse ments of the Great Northern Railway company, testified regarding tables of operating expenses previously submit ted. He said the statements were pre pared under his direction; that they were accurate, in his belief, as a mis take in such accounts was not possi ble under t"he system of bookeeping in the Great Northern office. The witness said that, while supplies were pur chased by the purchasing agent, he frequently questioned vouchers sent to him, when the prices for supplies were greater than the market value. He checked accounts for labor. A separate rate of pay is shown on the p-ay roll for each laborer. There was no doubt that the money issued for the payment of laborers was actually expended for that purpose. "Of course," he said, "I don't go out on the Une and see every tie and rail laid. That would be impossible." F. E. Draper, auditor of freight ac counts of the Great Northern railway, detailed the method of keeping account of freight. The tonnage carried, he said, is ascertained from the way bills which are received from the agents. An exhibit showing tonnage and rev enue of business between stations in North Dakota under actual tariffs and proposed commissioners' tariffs. The months selected were January, February, April, July, October and November, 1896. These tables showed that during those months the freight traffic of the Great Northern amounted to 20,828,150 pounds, from which a rev enue of $41,961.67 was received. Under the commissioners' rate the revenue would have been only $36,212.48, a loss of $5,749.10, or 13.7 per cent. F. H. Parker, auditor of passengre receipts of the Great Northern, testi fied that the reports of passenger re ceipts came from 1.500 to 2,000 men and that the tables showing such receipts submitted several months ago, were prepared from such reports. He was certain they were correct, for he check ed them up himself. Chief Engineer Miller, of the Great Northern, was recalled and submitted tables of earth work and bridges on the various branches of the Great Northern in North Dakota, as well as the main line in that state. On the Church's Ferry to St. John's the mileage is 55 21 miles, average paid to the contractor 2 1 cubic yards added by the company. The amount of earth work removed by contractor on Langdon branch was 15,700 yards per mile at fourteen to sixty cents per yard, and $35,450 for bridges. The road bed on the branch lines ta fourteen feet. From Grand Forks to Mitchell 14,000 yards per mile of earth work was drtne by contractors, and on the Castleton to Mayville line the company put 20,000 yards per mile. 16,920 yards of earth per mile was re moved on the Anita branch by con tractors, the nrico being from ten to twenty cents. On the St. John's branch the price paid was thirteen to twenty cents. As originally graded by the contractors the work probably cost $2,000 a mile. More grading was done by the company after the contractors completed their work. The Bottineau branch cost about the same, but the Langdon branch was heavier work and cost nearly $3,000 a mile. On the Hope branch 16.920 yards of earth work \va« done per mile by con tractors. The line is 28.07 miles In length. The company has since done a good de<al of work on that branch as well as others. On the main lino be tween Grand Forks and Minot 14.000 yards of earth work per mile was done by contractors, and the comipany has since reduced the grade from a 1 per cent to a six-tenths grade or from fifty-two feet to the mile to thirty-one feet to the mile. The road here has been widened. The price paid for earth work was eighteen to twenty cents per y*ud. At present the same work could he done for about thirteen cents a yard. At the conclusion of Mr. Miller's tes timony Mr. Grover said he would rest his ease, but it was agreed that tho case should be left open until tc>n days before the date set for the final argu ments. Mr. Bunn, for the Northern Pacific, then Introduced a statement showing local passenger earnings in North Da kota at the four-cent rate, and the sev en cents round trip rate for the v»«-^ The time to take is ii. 20 p. m. BOOKS .SSU. STPA HkA O Mit.im Y<i 9- BUTTER c^,, CRE £LWJ R i™{ R l.^ CLOTHING -SSSSSSr* THE £BitX B /J oa CLO TMMTIZZSXZr L WPJimtt 00 - DRY GOODS G^rrr schuneman & evans. Sixth and Wabasha. DRY GOODS £££•»« rag Jolden rule 7th, Bth and Robert Streets. DRY GOODS TZ'Z"™ habighorst & go. y " Cor. Seventh and Wacouta Sta. DRY GOODS ssr- MAN£Hi!ELRJR,OS FURNITURE smith &farwell go. viifiif viim age for large, uew catalogue. Sixth and Minnesota. FURNITURE $&&« wallblom furn. & carpet go. "' * %*#**• Ilousefurnishiugs. 400, 402, 404 and 4O(i Jackson. 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The figures were as follows: One Way. Round Trip. Four Cent Seven Cent Year Rate. Rate. 1894 . $55.69 F. 96 $36,347*57 1895 " 110,936 76 39.14176 1896 "' 131.60 T. 1C 12,052 01 1897 85,290 40 Totals $413.529 28 $87,54144 James Bayard, assistant general freight agent of the Northern Pacific, read a lengthy statement -regarding the freight movement .in Norm- Dako ta. There was a large movement of local freight in that state, He 'said, un der the distance tariff: The distance tariff on lumber applies as far --west as Jamesville, he said. The terminal tar iff would not apply to many points in North Dakota and " Minnesota.- He criticised in detail the testimony given by J. T. Phelan, secretary of the rail road commission, some time ago. "The rate per ton mile," he said, "shown for the commissioners' tariff not only leaves out of calculation all car-load traffic, which forms the great er proportion of the whole, but elimi nates entirely from consideration the volume of traffic and also the question of average distance which it is hauled. For the purpose of making these aver ages a unit of one ton was used, and the result is only an average rate per 100 pounds for such distance. To ob tain the rate per ton niile, the volume of each class of traffic must be con sidered as well as the distance which it was transported. 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