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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1895
Page
2
A sweeping critique anchors on municipal reform and inspector accountability while warning about professional corruption. The piece laments New York and other cities, urges financial oversight, and cites cases from insurance and banking to public mismanagement and unsafe practices across sectors.
Washington Jan 16 The house ways and means committee moves to report Mr Wilson's bill to remove the one tenth of 1 cent a pound differential on sugar from bounty countries. Protests from Germany Austria and others cited. President had urged repeal and Secretary Gresham argues the differential breaks most favored nation treaties.
In Wasuiseros January 15 a treasury finding that Spain pays an export bounty on sugar raises fears it could block a near completion of an agreement with Spain to restore American exports to the minimum tariff. Officials explain the bounty applies only to sugar produced in Spanish possessions, refined in Spain, and exported.
January 16 report from the United States minister in Argentina William L Buchanan states the new tariff bill has passed congress. Due to friendly ties and tariff commission efforts, major reductions favor United States products, notably yellow pine lumber, with about 260000 dollars in annual duty removed, boosting demand.
Washington January 14 officials report a new currency measure with executive approval to be introduced in about two weeks as the first bill’s confusion fades Read Also a counterfeit ten dollar legal tender from 1863 series 1880 with Webster portrait and pink seal surfaced in the west and is of poor quality The Louisiana delegation urged relief for immediate losses of sugar producers and planters caused by the McKinley tariff repeal prior actions.
Washincrox Jan 16 The house judiciary committee voted seven to six to report a resolution for the impeachment of Judge Ricks of Cleveland Ohio. The party line split was nearly even with one Republican for impeachment and one Democrat against it.
Senator Coke backed a bill for a light at the end of Galveston south jetty. The measure requires the president’s signature to become law.
Proceedings in the House show Speaker Crisp noting the resignation of Representative Black of Illinois to become United States district attorney for the northern district of Illinois. Debate over the oleomargarine bill continues with votes showing a quorum but no action before adjournment. In Wasmiхor Arkansas Senator Jones plans a currency bill tied to the Faulkner compromise, proposing 100 million in bonds, silver coinage concessions, and silver certificates for sub 20 denominations, with leaders predicting limited chances of passage this session.
Wasu nidos Jan 14 Mr Hatch committee on agri culture seeks to extend the Wilson original package liquor law to oleomargarine in original packages. The bill faces a filibuster and goes over as time expires. The house passes a pension codification bill. Washington Jan 14 Rep McMillion Tennessee introduces a resolution seeking treasury records on Behring sea fur seals since 1889, contracts, claims, revenue loss, Paris arbitration expenditures, and Samoa treaty costs.
The House appropriation committee finished the sundry civil appropriation bill for fiscal year 1895. It totals 35,540,021 dollars, about 7,843,793 dollars under the committee estimates. Chairman Wilson called Ways and Means to meet at 10 a.m. to discuss revenue measures including a beer tax proposal and a one tenth of a cent sugar duty cut.
A St Louis Chronicle report recounts John Pergason and others praising Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. They describe relief from chronic rheumatism after weeks, noting improved sleep, reduced pains, and regained strength. The pills are advertised as a blood and nerve restorative available nationwide.
The Thirteenth ward of Allegheny City faces a string of crises and odd deaths as several aldermen fade away. Joseph Losink died suddenly, Welty shot himself, Valentine Gast died after Easter, and F. J. Hepp faced a rocky swearing in before resigning. Also: a jumping bean fad from Mexico stirs curiosity as worms within beans become butterflies.
An early note reports Very Very Thin Electricity has surpassed the gold beater’s record by producing gold foil five to ten times thinner than standard leaf. Joseph Wilson Swan demonstrates foil created by plating gold on copper with electricity and dissolving copper with perchloride of iron. Chamberlain S D notes an artesian well eight inches diameter and 670 feet deep could power a mill and electric plant, while a subterranean lake was struck sixty feet deep. A farmer from Newton Maine sues the school board over water use from his well for eighteen years.
A cutter demonstrates a combined knife and fork for people with one arm. It is a small knife with a shorter but wider blade, turned up at the end, and features three prongs.
Fifteen to twenty drops of oil added to water in fire pails prevents evaporation. The discovery states that this small addition costs little and eliminates the difficulty of water loss during firefighting.
Reports detail a burglary on Rampart Street stealing cash, a revolver, and a silver watch from Phillip Fury, plus multiple Louisiana incidents. Sugar refineries at Keystone and St Johns face grinding issues, a drowned laborer near Lake Providence, and a murdered suspected man near Alexandria. Nebraska relief aid expands with trains promised by Illinois Central, while New Orleans groups push for bloodhounds and firehouse cutbacks.
An aged, fragmented ad and text sweep through seed catalog and mercury warning lines. It references Danvers onions, Spryed seeds, and variety offerings from Salger Seed Company in La Crosse Wisconsin, inviting orders by money order and promising free catalogues.
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