San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-02
WASHINGTON r
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, June 20, 1891.

lrIOm Our heguldT correspondent.
WASHINGTON, June 20, 1891.
The President is working diligent-
ly in order to get the executive BUSH
ness in such shape that he can spend
Independence day with his family at
Cape May Point, and unless some
thing now unforeseen shall occ ur he
will leave here on Friday and will
not return for several weeks.
At the close Of business at the
treasury department Saturday after
noon there was q cash surplus On
hand, exclusive of the twenty odd
million dollars on deposit with the
national banks and about the same
quantity OF fractional silver in the
the treasury, So, 506, 293. By adding
these sums together there is q sur
plus of nearly $50, 000, 900, which does
not look much like that deficit Of
which imaginative democrats have
been making q nightmare for some
time past.
At the last Cabinet meeting of the
government work for several months.
to come was mapped out. The last
silver act leaves it discretionary with
the Secretary of the Treasury whether
any part of the silver bullion pur
chased each month shall be coined
into standard silver dollars, but as
the mints will be kept busy for sew
eral months in coming the trade dol
lar bullion and the old defaced
fractional silver currency now in the
treasury as provided Tor ny act of
congress, it vas decided t. deter the
question of the continuation Of the
coinage of silver dollors until fall. 1t
was also decided that the statement
of the cash in the treasury should,
after July l, be made in the form
which was used when Senator Sher-
man was secretary of the treasury.
This is q compliment to Senator Sher-
man, as well as q return to the com-
mon sense methods which were In
vogue when he was at the head of the
treasury department., and it is gener-
ally commended.
Secretary Rusk has informed Sena-
tor Paddock, who was here In search
of Information, that he has unofficial
information that the governments of
both Germany and France have de-
cited, in view of the recent establish
no. by the agricultural department
Vt microscopic examination of portions
VI every carcass, to admit free of all
restrictions American dressed pork,
and he expects that the official de-
crees will be promulgated In both
countries before the first of next Oc-
tober.
Everything is in readiness for the
official transfer this week of the
weather bureau from the War depart
ment to the Agricultural department..
r. 10 nvNaataA chat nan ErnaIxy tho
present head OF the Signal Service,
and several OF his sciep tific assistants
will for a time assist in running the
bureau.
Mucn interest is felt by the scien-
tihc staff of the agricultural depart
ment in the experiments which have
been recently made here to produce
rain by exploding artificial gases in
the air, and they believe that it will
prove q success. 1t Is soon to be
practically tested in the arid regions
of either Texas or Kansas, and then
we shall see whether science can con-
troll the rainfall.
For some time the Ordnance de-
partment of the army has been try
| ing to find a suitable carriage upon
| which to mount the new twelve'inch
breech-loading rifled mOrtars intend
ed for harbor defense. AT last 1t has
succeeded, and q contract has been
made for eight ca rriages of the Rus
| sian type which has stood the recent
severe tests at Sandy Hook, with q
Providence r. l. firm, which control
the American rights of the pstentees.
Sll 800 is to be paid for each OF these
carriages for the first eight, but If
seventeen more Of them are ordered
within one your they are 70 be fur
nished at 1879 each.
Ex-senator Ingalls, delivered a lee
ture today before the Glen Echo Chau-
tauqus now in session just above
Washington, on the banks of the Po-
tomac river. and from the large crowd
which went out to hear him, it is evil
| d mt that he has lost zone of the
drawing qualities which have so often
jammed the senate galleries in days
gone by.
II the Informal conference with
Canadian officials on reciprocity
which the president set tor next
October, is not declared of, which 10
thought to be among the probabili-
ties, the Canadians will probably
discover that they have not helped
their cause any by making public
| informal communications between
| Secretary Blaine and Sir Juliaisn
Pauncefote on the subject, which
those gentlemen had agreed should
be considered confidential. The
Canadians have also misrepresented
Mr.. Blaine In order to make it appear
that the proposition first come from
him. r.
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