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. 1 1 1 GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. : Bj 1 derision of Judge James . Creigbton ol the Sangamon Circuit court In Springfield yesterday the . plane of John It. VergUS and Attorney Lay. lit ] Monro to void appropriations of more than *iMK»o.-ikio made by the last legislature and tie up several departments of the state government were given a reverse. Judge Creigbtons decision upheld the j legislature In most of the appropriations under attach and also established as legal ■ departure made by Governor Dunne in vetoing parts ol Items in appropriation bill. Through this manner of veto Governor Dunne had saved nearlj ,o00, lo th in caters. Judge Creigbton declared unconstltu ti mil the act ol the legislature appropriating 0, j iMio to its own membership to pay railroad Bun - to ami from Si ringfk 1!. tin decision holds op salaries of state oaseera amounting to 31,171 a yr.v: because they ware nii appropriated according to legls ; iative technicalities. They were Included In the 1 omnibus bill, whereas they -hould have been In ■pedal acta. A mileage till of .oou for Lieutenant Governor 0Hara also was knocked out. one of th.- Immediate roeal effects of Judge Creigbton* sion will be practically to paralyse the grain Inspection service on the Chicago board of trade, ac cording to Cook county members ol the legislature. Salaries of the three appeal Inspectors were knocked out. These inspector, are :ho court of last resort in I determining the grade of grain shipped Into the Chicago market. Fourteen deputy grain inspectors, , most of whom were assigned to the Chicago district, also were knocked oat of their salaries by the , courts decision. , A considerable falling off In the consumption of tobacco and li.pioi-s in the twelve months ending June 30, is Indicated by the preliminary report of , Commissioner of Internal Bevenue Osborn for the tiscai year, made public ai Washiugtou Friday. Th commissioner reported that the ordtaary lot rnal revenue collections from these sources ware 5, hilii.JJl less than for the preceding fiscal year. It was the decrease In liquor taxes which furnished the so-called ordinary collections, .hat were responsible for the larger part of the decreases In total ordl nary collections noted by Commissioner Osborn. These collections do nol Include the special taxes imposed by the emergency reveaue law enacted last fall. The ordinarj collections on distilled spirits Ill off 1.024,164 from the total la the preceding year. The 1 dlections on fermented Hq-Dors was ,466,243 less. The commissioners report sheers that the quantity of distilled spirits on which t txes wen paid in the last year was approximately 15.000,000 gallons 1-. than in the fiscal year 1914. The total number of gallops for the year was approximately 124,000,000. Apparently a nun. her of persons wl 1 hitherto had smoked cigars resorted !■■ rigarets last year, as a means of saving money. The production of cigars decreased nearly 700.000.000. while the number of igarets ran reused •.-;. 00.0 10. The price of th. English pound sterling In Lbe New ork foreign exchange market fell on Friday to the lowest ngure on record. It was quoted lis worth .63%. as compared with a normal value of ,8065. This is a discount of 23 cents in the pound, or per cent. Back of this fall in the quotations lies a straggle between the greatest financial interests t 1 transfer the center of world finance from Loudon to New fork. This takes tin form of a demand by New York bankers that bills of exchange, which f« centuries have been drawn on London, be drawn on Sew Tork hereafter and be figured in American dollars Instead of in BngUsb i in Is. The suggestion made there ;s that the i.ritish hanks— nol necessarily the British government—arrange to establish in New York a huge credit balance, which they could easily do by sending over their American securities. But this, bj just what tin Ltiglish banks ,1 not wis,; to do. Il would rob them of the Immensely profitable com- , missions thai all the world has been compelled to pay London on laternatlona] transactions of every character. From Bona, Bulgaria, yesterday a dispatch says: An inspired statement appearing In a publication rolled by thi government contains the announce-n -Hi that if conditons affecting Bulgaria should todified by the granting of Bulgarian territorial demands, to such an extent as t- call for intervention In the war. the government will convoke parliament Immediatel . Tl !s statement was elicited by the a. Hon ot the opposition in parliament, which baa been resopnsible for the publication of statements condemning the attitude of the government as rontray to the Interests of the eountry. In making its reply, the government publication explains Hint it is the intention I I te cabinet to adhere to its policy of neutrality except in the event that the rights "filched from Bulgaria" nnder the treaty ol Bukharest, after the so: 1 ii I Balkan war. are restored. "But, Should . 1 nd 101 s 1 .. so m dined as to dt maud intervention," the si.iiemen; concludes, "the government will Immediatel] summon parliament." The Berlin Vorwaerts, in discussing the new German war loan, directs attention to whal i- char acteriaed ss the alarming financial situation which Germany must face at the conclusion of he war. After the war. says the paper, the Imperial ihbt and pensions alone wDl lemand an annnal expend!- tin-.- of al least two and ■ half billion marks . 25,000,000. or n Httel ifss than the united or- dinar; and extraordinary imperial expenditure for 1012. In other words, the income of the empire ! hitherto will only suffice t-i ] ly the Interest on the national debt. For all other expenses new sources of taxation oust be created. Whoever remembers the taxation controversies of 100S and 1908 ran easily imagine Into what internal political diffi ;l tics the war is leading us. According to a dispatch rrom Borne tie Italian front has been divided by Keneral Cadorna, the . immander-ln-chief, Into twt wide sections each conducting a vast enveloping movement. Trieste is the objective In one case, and Trei t i.- the other. 1 he action Is developing in each theater in a ain e a iii] tie pi ■ di termini .1 1 lans. tti pi rl the front state that con. ::,n* progress is being made, although movements are slow. General Cadorna . hi s given Instructions that as little damage as pes- sible be Inflicted on the towns in the paths of the Italian armies. ! At Washington it is rumored in diplomatic circles thai l r. Heinrich F. Albert niay succeed Count von Berns orff as I rman ambassador. 11 is _ ally known thaft Dr. Albert is. In fact, a direct representative of the German emperor and is res ed with extraordinary powers. He is compared to Benjamin Franklin as a diplomatist as far as bis mission to this count rj is eoneerned for Be retlj he j, engaged In Important and far-reaching n.-.- ■ tiations, as though be « ere endeavoring to meet some momentous crisis in the fatherland. - Twelve Canadian battalions of infantry are to be placed in England for final trailing, according to j an announcement made at Ottawa yesterday by the military authorities. The troops will be re- . garded a- reinforcements to be called for service in France or Flanders, as required. The twelve battalions have been selected from all parts ol Canada and are the best-trained corps in the di-vision. They contain about 15.000 our soldiers. This draft will ..ring the number of men Canada ha- sent to England to 109,000. Hull the widow a itl two children of the late John Condon are named as benefl lari - In bis will which was filed for probate Friday. The will dis-poses of an estate estimate.! ai 60,000. 1 insisting f persona] property valued ai 75,000 and real estate -am to be worth *5,000. The children ire Mi-. Marguerite C. Wright ol Germantowa, Pa.. , John St. Cond n. Mrs. Mar.. A. Condon, the w id w, 1- run ed executrix. 1 D. Long, forme: st : in- of the navy and former governor of Massachusetts, i- seriously ill at his home in Hingbaiu. Mass. The nature of his 11 ui.b has not been dl dosed. The attending phy- sjcian s.,:,i Mr. Long bad own in • ovi ,1 nt and thought be would recover. Thi patient was brought to lllmrham Thursday from bis summer 1 me at Buckfh 11. Mi .
