Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-04-19


Saturday was gala day in Wash
ington, made in honor of the Pan
Americans. The day was perfect
one for street pageantry, and the
Government showed the members Of
this international American Congress
some specimens Of the United States
soldier as he appears in the regular
service and in the National Guard, in
the infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
The streets were alive with martial
music and bodies Of blue cloth clad
and russell leggined soldiers, and a
great crowd Of people attempted to see
the review Of the troops made by the
President and Cabinet together with
the Pan-American delegations. A
rather poetic and pretty incident of
the affair was the presentation to each
country represented in the Conference
of an American flag made Of American
woven silk.
This Conference, by the way, which
has been in session here for so many
months discussing the spread of com
merce, the march Of progress and
liberty on the Western Continent and
kindred international subjects, expect
to conclude its labors on the 18th in
slant. That is the day fixed for the
delegations to start on their tour
through the Southern States.
Among important reports Of its Com
mittees that have been submitted to
the International American Conference
and adopted by it, is one that recon-
mends that reciprocity treaties be
negotiated between the several republics
of the American hemisphere, each
making tariff concessions, so that the
peculiar products Of all of them may
be introduced free into the others.
This report is in the same line as the
amendment suggested by Secretary
Blaine to the Committee on Ways and
Means of the House of Representa-
tives
The committee Of the conference on
banking thinks that commerce could
be greatly extended by facilitating
direct exchanges between the money
markets of the countries represented in
the conference. Ii may not be gener-
ally realized that United States mer-
chants who import goods from South
and Central America make these i'm
portations almost entirely through the
use of English bankers credits.
Therefore the committee suggests the
passage by the United States Of a law
Incorporating an international Ameri-
can bank with ample capital and
giving the citizens of the several coun-
tries in the conference the privilege of
taking shares in the bank pro Iata to
their foreign commerce.
On Saturday, the President decor
ated Francis Joseph, the inventor of
the life saving car, with a gold medal
Congress had decided he should have
it as mark of National esteem for
ingenuity that had saved already
thousands of lives There was bnt lit
tie ceremony attending the presenia-
ton, which took place in the blue room
of the White House The President
made short address and told the in
ventor how much pleasure it gave him
to place the medal in his hands,
After an investigation of great care
and accuracy, the special committee of
the Nation Reform League estimates
that more than one third of the entire
time each Congressman is consumed in
securing officers for his constituents.
And upon the strength of this, the
League warmly commends the bill
recently introduced in the House re-
lative to the appointment of post
masters as fourth class officers.
The Senate is still worrying over
those two disputed seats involved in
the Montana election cases, nor can
it be predicted when it will be done
with them. The discussion has become
monotonous, but whenever vote on
the main question is imminent, some
Senator will take the floor and renew
the debate.
An interesting hearing was held on
Friday by the House committee on
Agriculture upon Representative But
terworth's bill to prevent dealings in
options and futures. The brokers who
deal in grain and cotton were here
from Chicago New York and New
Orleans, to defend the system and pro-
test against the passage Of the bill.
They argue that by the present method
Eastern money moves the Western
crops, and that destroy the business of