The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-12-09
PATRIOTS AT THE CRIB.
Gossip Cleaned at the National Capital
Tho Interstate Commerce Commission.

Gossip Cleaned st the National Capital
The Interstate Commerce Commission.
WASHINGTON. Dec. s,-Conflrmations:
L, B. Kinney, probate judge OF SEWER
county, Utah ito correct an error IN the
name) and &. w. Bryant, receiver OF pub
lie moneys at Los Angeles, Cal.
The annual report of the interstate
commerce commission recommends a
number OF amendments, The first Is
that there be added TO section 3, a provis-
ion that the facilities TO be offered by
common carrier shall include due and
reasonable receiving, forwarding and de-
livery by every such carrier at the request
Of another common carrier OF through
traffic at through rates.
Second, an amendment 10 section 10 re-
moving antiquities in the language and
making the criminal remedies clearly APP
plicable TO a corporation when COM
mon carrier as well as its officers and
agents. A further amendment is also in
dispensable, the commission says, provid-
ing for the service Of criminal process
on the corporations and bringing them
under the jurisdiction of the courts.
The commission also recommends a
change in section 20, SO as to enable II 10
obtain reports from common carriers
when desired and call for reports from
companies owning or conduting terminal
facilities or rolling stock, etc. The recon-
mendations made in the previous reports
are all renewed. The commission says
the difficulty in obtaining direct eviden ce
from parties who, by means Of participa-
ton i'm illegal arts have knowledge Of
the particulars of the transactions is in
yariably very great, and suggests an
amendment TO meet this defect.
The treasury department to-day pur-
chased 5000 ounces Of silver at from
sl02.s to Sl03.50. The amount of four per
cent. bonds accepted to-day was 81, ,59l 900
for which a disbursement Of about So
$4,000 in money will be made.
Secretary Tracy said this afternoon in
view of the conditions he would accept
additional offers for fours at a reasonable
price, of sufficient amount TO make the
total purchases 100000, for which he
said the expenditures would be nearly
Sl0,000,OO0 The secretary said further il
was manifestly impossible, under the ex.
isting conditions, for him 10 use the frac-
tional currency now in the treasury in the
purchase Of bonds for the reason that il
at ncewill be returned TO him In ex-
change for greenbacks and leave him
with deficiency instead of a surplus.
There is now about 100000 of frac.
tional currency in the treasury, of which
all but s2,0OO,0OO is in silver half-dollars.
As il is legal tender TO the amount OF SIC
only, It is not regarded as a part Of the
available cash balance. The secretary
said he would like very much 10 get il
into circulation, but certainly should not
do so at the expense of the limited avail
able surplus.
Bland to-day introduced bill authoriz.
ing the secretary of the treasury TO pre-
pare new series Of legal tender notes OF
greenbacks which, when the ordinary
revenues of the government are not sufil
cient To meet the requirements, he is tC
pay out in sufficient sums TO meet all de
mands and dues.