The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-04
WASHINGTON NOTES.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-The Mississippi
river commission, of which Col Comstock
of the corps of engineers U, S. A.,
is chairman, has made its annual report OF
the work Of improving that river accom-
plished during the past fiscal year. The
| commission makes the following estimate
of funds required for the fiscal year end
ing J-ne 80, 1892: For salaries and ex-
penses of commission $4,000, for surveys
| and examinations of the Mississippi river
from the head of the passes to its head
waters $l5o,0OO,. for improving, the river
from the head of the passes to the mouth
of the Ohio river 100000, for work at Hck-
man, KY, -$l11,23 at Greenville, Miss
$3.50, 900, at Vicksburg, MISS :, $l75 900, at
Natchez, Miss, 10000, at New Orleans
5000, 0O0 and in Red and Atchafalaya rivers
S350,0O0. The amount expended in I'M
rovemenis on the river from June 1889 to
800, was 81 496.l2S.
VIEWED FROM TWO sTANDPoINTs.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2-In connection
with the presentation of the conference re-
port on the river and harbor appropriation
pill in the house today, Chairman Cannon
OF the committee of appropriations, made
AN exhaustive statement touching ex-
session of congress. He said that $4i 2, 134,-
86l is properly chargable against the proba-
BILE revenues of the government for the
fiscal year 1891, and when deducted from
the latter, shows surplus of S65, ,279, ,475.
Following Mr.. Cannon Representative
Savers of Texas presented a statement
from his Democratic colleague g on the com
mittee. 1t said that. if to the appropria-
tions of the present congress we add the
a Hatif ftfN,,
estimated by the secretary of the treasury,
to-wit $ln1 62S ,453, we will have an aggre-
gate of appropriations for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1891, of $46l ,844,779 as
against $450,5l4,357 revenues, including
postal receipts as estimated by the secretary
of the treasury, thus making an excess OF
appropriations over revenues of $11, ,4S0, 442.
SENATOR ooKE's BILL.
WASHINGTON, Sept. "A bill introduced
by Senator Coke of Texas to-day provides
that hereafter no national banks shall is
sue circulating notes, and that within six
months each national bank shall deposit
money with the United States treasurer for
redemption of its circulating notes; the
bonds now deposited for this purpose shall
be returned; United States legal tender
notes shall be issued in place of bank notes,
and authority is given national banks to
loan money on real estate.
THE BARRUNDIA AFFAIR.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-1he president re-
ceived last evening cablegram from the
widow and children of the late Gen. Bar
rundia protesting against his assassination
by the Guatemalan authorities while pas
senger on an American steamship, and
calling upon him to exact reparatiOn for
the outrage of which they are the incon-
solable victims. The telegram was referred
to the state department for investigation
and report.
Acting Secretary Wharton said this af
ternoon that no official information in
regard to the re ported attack upon Minis
Ter Miner by the daughter of Gen. Bar
rundia had been received and he is in
clined to think the affair very much exag.
gerated.
That the president is taking personal
interest in the case of Gen. Barrundia the
Guatemala exile who was killed on an Amer
lean vessel while resisting arrest is sindicated
by the fact that at todays meeting of the
cabinet he sent for the telegram received
from Barrundia's widow and children ard
read il aloud to the cabinet. He stated
that the matter was now being investigated
by the state department and that he ex-
pected soon to be i'll possession OF all the
facts in the case.