Show BY SEU FEU WESTERN UNION LIKE GI GION ON jan 3 the secreta secretary ry of the treasury today to day directed the removal of A B scriba froni from the office of bonk examiner ataw at new york he refused to resign at the request of toe tae comptroller ot ol the currency V P snyder the newly appointed examiner left deft washington saturday with instructions to take charge cliar w of the office this morning in the senate tomorrow to morrow after tile the reading of the journal senator cullom will formally announce the death of his collean colle agns and the senate will adjourn as awal aloarn rk of respect to his memory on OB wednesday at 2 possibly bly earlier coltom will ask the senate to proceed to the consideration ol of tile the in ter state commerce bill and there is a general impression that the measure will be taken up and will form the chief topic of discussion thereafter tafter until it is disposed of THE unfinished BUSINESS of the senate is that providing for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations while the bill to prohibit members of congress to act as a attorneys jor for subsidized railroads as S comes with the accrued rights of f a 4 long postponed special order it is not improbable that these measures especially the latter will command some portion of the morning hours of the senate and one or both may thus be disposed ot of during the week it is not expected that any appropriation bu bill will be ready for consideration b by the senate this week it is expected that the legislative week in the house will by the discussion of the appropriation bills and the measure reported from the committee on agriculture providing for the creation of a department of agriculture and labor there Ther egre are four appropriation bils bilis now upon the ahe calendar the indian bilut military illary il tary academy diplomatic Diplo maile and consular insular and pensions 4 none of these measures is likely to give rise to exter extended ded debate except possibly the diplomatic and aad cons consular ular hill bill owing to ao gits its radical change as compared compare with former bills and its increasing ap measure may become an OBJECT OF ATTACK nearly all the inca measures which have been made special orders are likely to be pressed lor action at the first opportunity port unity that may offer when tue ane house is not engaged in the consideration of appropriation bills bilis in addition to the bill for the creation of a depart beut of agriculture and labor already mentioned the list includes the dunn free ship shipping vi bill the pacific railroad Kail road fundin funding 9 bil lf the oklahoma bill and the bill for the reorganization organization He of the navy Depart department mem towards the latter part of the week it is expected that a conference on the electoral count bill will report an agreement and request the house to take final action chica will probably be granted senator aldrich chairman of the senate committee on transportation routes to the seaboard authorizes the publication of the report of that committee upon the subject of railroad freights in the united states and other countries the study of which for the purpose of settling certain questions pertaining pertain ins inz to INTER STATE COMMERCE has long been in progress by ills his committee the appointment of the senate committee upon interstate inter state commerce somewhat modi modified fled the work originally mapped out by the committee on od transportation routes to the sia boards and that committed committe decided not to take testimony as it was au an theorized zed to do but to conduct a special line of inquiry to ascertain certain if possible the relative progress of the various grain producing countries comi tries the complete report makes pages of sprinted printed matter and contains many valuable tables and much information on the subject of transportation gathered f from rom nearly every country in the world 1 the first table presented indicates indiee tes the progress of the united states for a generation thirty three ree years ago we produced loo bushels of wheat and about bushels of corn twice in repent years we have 1 reached bushels of wheat and in 1885 the corn crop reached a fivefold five tive fold increase in wheat and a threefold three fold increase in corn the increase in other cereals has not been so rapid no nor r are they regarded by the committee as so IMPORTANT AN INCREASE as in iii wheat and corn cora tn ta the export trade the committee says wheat has already ranked first in value and in 18 1 8 haa added to the value ot oi our national production pr a fum eum equal to four times the value of the exported corn and corn meal d dui ur ing alie same period it is shown by the tables tatt during the ten years en ending ding witti with 1882 the average annual receipts ol of cereals of all kinds at these ports have been b en in round M figures agures gures a bushels I 1 an attempt was made by the committee to ascertain the rates aratea of f height from the principal pal intermediate itei mediate points to tiie the seaboard seab oAid and also from after mediate points to ohp the principal cities of the various baates the investigation was conducted in the hope of ascertaining ceita certa ining the facts in regard to the dille difference rence of rates charged for long hauls fand and short hauls and to throw light upon the vexed question of long and short hauls in le lation to this inquiry the committee sat if the returns from which the above summa ly is constructed may be relied on and the committee has been bean careful in selecting electing only returns that appeared upon their face correct THE RATES CHARGED for local freight ire are evidently levied anthe on the somewhat general principle of what the will bear in massachusetts achu annen the terminals are taken into consideration the cost of transporting orting a bushel of wheat is more nearly equable than in any state represented in the summary in massachusetts achu in 1883 it cost 46 cents to transport a bushel of wheat it 61 i t miles the cost in connecticut tor for transport ing the same quantity of grain sixty two miles wits was seven cents in pennsylvania sylva uia sixty miles 42 cents and in ohio sixty miles five cents ot 01 course the conditions way may not have been the same farther west we find kansas s paying 42 cents per bushel for transporting a bushel ot of wheat sixty mites miles while Cabi california ornia 3 3 cents miles excellent work has been done in all that appertains to through rates but heretofore noa noart tempt has been made to collect comparative para tive statistics of local rat rates A glance at the above summary esil also brings out tile the fact that the same saine gratifying REDUCTION has not taken place in local fares dur bag phe the years covered by this inquiry a as 3 in through rates in some cases there has ben been a reduction but in tile the majority maj of instances the rates have remained substantially the same continuing on the subject ot of local f freights the committee says in massachusetts the rates have steadily declined since 1874 on every road included in the table in wisconsin missouri Misi outi minnesota nebraska and california the samp same general facts are afe brought out and reference to all published tables in the appendix x is necessary in order to obtain a correct idea of the extent of the and the roads on afi which the reduction has been most moat satisfactory reliable statistics on oa local rates of freight eight are geme generally rally needed to aid in an intelligent understanding of this important branch of the transportation question turning from the united states to foreign countries the committee shows the production aid and consumption of cereals in europe and brings out ahe fact that the increase ine in population tio has been relatively much greater in a proportion to the great grain producing countries than it has been in grain buying centers the united kingdom appears to have p u ABOUT TWO THIRDS ot of all the wheat ot of the united states ekpo expo exported arted during this perio daud therefore special attention has bus been given to glands En supply of w wheat heat for this purpose a table was prepared giving the summary of the wheat imported ed into the united kingdom great britain and Ire ireland laiad from various countness coun count tHes nes during the period of seven years year from 1836 to 1842 inclusive and the decades froia f 1019 1 1843 to 1882 1889 inclusive showing the total importations of wheat and the proportions furnished by the united states russia germany british north america egypt france denmark and all other countries in commenting on this table the committee says A glance at this summary not only shows the rapid agricultural ri growth of the united states and its importance as a food export 1 ing country but it also presents some of the economic changes that have taken place in europe in the first period the united states supplied less than 10 ter per cent of the wheat imported into the UNITED in the last period it supplied nearly 54 51 per cent from less than thaia one adne million bushels it increased inci eased hy by a series of leaps and bounds to bushels excepting the rapid growth of imports ot wheat from india which does not appear to a this table india being classified under all other coun aties ti tt ies there is no instance in economic history of a growth so rapid imports russia during the same period though they have increased in amount have not advanced greatly relatively in the first peri odthe v were nearly 10 per cent in the second they had somewhat increased in the third they had receded again again in the fourth they advanced considerably and in the fifth period they had receded more rapidly then tile the increase between the third and fourth periods tue the imports from germany have decreased from the second period actually as well as relatively lat ively while relatively the percentage sicking pet fel cent next nest to 24 alq and IS 18 per cent and lastly ly toa to i per cent the rhe crysta izat tion of the german empire the rapid increase of the population the cha change e from an agricultural condition to t that 1 at of diver diversified sided industries all suggest themselves as reasons for this decrease INT IN GERMANY the population is overtaking the food producing pro prod dueing being capacity of the country the committee reproduces tables f from rom what Is known as the windom report which is a summary statement of wheat including wheat and nour flour imported into the united king dorn from 1860 to 1872 inclusive a and ud adds thereto a table of its own showing ow the same facts from 1873 to 1883 inclusive commenting Comment ins on OH this table I 1 the comia commatee itee says an examination of the table abo p that russia still retains the decoud position anu germany the third adt the rapid change in 11 years of british india from the thirteenth position tion to the fourth is the most noticeable feature iu in the summary mary in the next decade germany will will be practically out of the race audit and it is wore more than probable pio bable INDIA WILL CONTEST with the united states for the first position elsewhere in the report this phase of the question is discussed discus bed hed at length and many important facts relative to the cost ot of producing 11 wheat jn in india and other competing countries the rate of freight charged the prices at important points the rates ot of ocean transportation etc are referred to it will also be observed that comparing the two portions the supply from russia germany and france has decreased actually and relatively though of course it must be borne in mind that the windom committee took toek a period of 13 years a and lid this committee a period of 11 years but after due allowance for this difference there would still be a steady decrease an important ant fea ture report is the showing in tabular form tae prices of wheat for a series of years in the principal countries of the world these tables show that the average yearly price of wheat is the lowest in india ranging from 85 cents per bushel at calcutta to at pombay bombay between 1878 18 and 1883 russia comes next the average for the decade being per bushel at warsaw per bushel at st petersburg and and lt lh at odessa austria ranks third in the following order buda pest besth per bushel vienna per bushel vienna trieste and prague per buesnel THE PRICE of wheat at algiers was for tile the entire period covered in the inquiry per bushel and at beirouty in germany the prices vary somewhat according to location locacio the free port 01 0 bremen breme n appears t 4 to e enjoy doy the he lowest price per bushel e I 1 an and d curi curiously enough stettin on t the he baltic ba it ic the highest per bushel next corner comes she he grain grain centre of the reedish and westphalia manufacturing regions achenn and Colo cologne gnes with per bushel and respectively for eleven years the difference in prices is not marked between bres J iau U in lie eastern part of the empire ahil lipsic 1 in the central and stuttgart 1 I A in the e sout southern biern per bushel per bushel and per bushel respectively the central position of berlin together with the excellent railroad facilities which extend on all sides into the grain regions tends to give that city cheaper wheat the average price being for the eleven years ending in imi 1883 per bushel TU tha average prizes prices ot wheat wt at tta le principal pl gram grain ports of england was exactly 1 50 per bushel but in the appendix there are tables which show in detail the average prices of all grains in the englise maik markets maikels ets AND NANTES are arc the cheapest wheat ports in France namely per bushel and marseilles important facts are brought out in relation iori to ocean tra transportation the comparative cost of freight f from froin india russia and the united states to great britain and a table is given s slowing in comparison the ahe rates of f eight for cereals during a series of years from the three principal ports of british anda ind a the great northern and southern gou thern ports of russia and the atlantic and pacific ports of the united Sta states testo to great britain of this table the committee says in part the gheral g fact and one of the greatest importance iu to the united states is the steady decline in the cost of transportation and the probability that with the increased means to carry the freights between europe and the most important and nearest dearest ports of india Kur rache and bombay wm will continue to prosper should this tendency cont continue iDue it will not be long before the cost of carrying wheat from india to continental europe and the united kingdom will be as low as between the atlantic poi boits ts and those markets tables are also appended showing shoving the ocean freights from nearly evry every important country to england and also comparative rates of freight charges from the various countries of the world I 1 SILVER COINAGE ETC the issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the weak ending december was id uri aring ug the corresponding period of last year the shipments of fractional silver coin during december amounted to fj the coinage at the mints during december amounted to of which were standard dollars the commissioner of the general land office has notified the local land agents in kansas to advise all parties making makina applications to enter the lands heretofore here tolore certified to the state of kansas for the benefit ofa 06 the atchison topeka santa fe railroad company that such applications are wholly useless as no preferred or other right can be thus acquired it is stated that EL a large dumber of applications for these lands have been filed on upon the unauthorized statement of attorneys that more land has been certified to |