Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-19
AFFAIRS OF STATE.

| HeAvy OiBOursemontS Cut Down tno Aroe0-
ury Balances-Shaving and Consolida-
tfons in the Consular Service-Immense
Production Of Cotton-A Republican
Contestant to Be Seated in the House.
WASHINGTON, March 18-Recent dis
bursements have reduced the Treasury bal
ances to $29,65l S25, OF which $12,6ll, ,2Ol Is on
| deposit with National banks, and $l5, 0c0
is in subsidiary and minor coin. The Ma
tfonal bank note circulation is now SIS, ,OOO,
600. an increase of nearly $s0,0OO0OO since
July last All the ~ per cent bonds held by
| National Banks to secure circulation nave
been surrendered with the exception OF a
lot of ST., 500 belonging to the First National
Bank OF Leoti, Kas., which is going into vol
untary liquidation.
SENATOR CASEY, from the Committee on
Agriculture. to-day made a favorable report
on Nh. Sherman's bill authorizing and re-
quiring the Secretary of Agriculture to hx
uniform standards of classification anu
| grading for wheat, corn, oats, rye and
barley. The committee added an amend
| ment 80 as to provide that in Interstate
| trade or commerce in grain, If the consignor
| or his authorized agent so directs, pubic IN
| spection, classification or grading shall not
be required nor made when the grain IS con-
| signed to its owner or his authorized agent,
| or to a mill or private storehouse, or for de-
| posit in a special bin, public warehouse, or
| to purchaser, or If consigned to market
where the usages of trade recognize the sale
| OF grain by sample, when the consignee shall
| direct its sale in that way.
| SENATOR GEORGE, from the Committee
on Agriculture, to-day reported to the Sem
! ate substitute for Mr.. MitchelPs bill FOR
! the encouragement of silk culture. The
substitute provides for the establishment in
/ n Tod tot Nf nnt
| exceeding five silk experiment stations, to
be part of the agricultural experiment. sta
| tions now established. Five thousand dol
! lars is appropriated for each station.
REPRESENTATIVE MCKENNA, of Cali
| fornia, whose nomination as United States
| Circuit Judge was yesterday confirmed by
| the Senate, will resign his seat in the House
| of Representatives, to take effect Monday
next He will Immediately write letter to
| this effect to the Governor Of California.
THE President signed the commissions of
the nine new Circuit Judges this afternoon.
at once, so there may be no unnecessary de-
lay in their entering upon the discharge of
their functions.
The diplomatic and consular bill as COM
pleted by the House Committee, consolf
| livia, and that to Colombia with that Of
Ecuador, the salary being fixed at $4,000
each. Guatemala and Honduras, now one
mission, is divided and Guatemala united to
Venezuela at 81 500, and Honduras Joined to
the mission to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and
Salvador. The Danish mission is Joined to
that OF Sweden and Norway, and the salary
left at 81, 800.
THE combinations by the Senate to-day,
were as follows William B. Gilbert, of
Oregon, United States Circuit judge for the
Ninth Judicial Circuit; Samuel II. Gault,
Postmaster at Rogerville, Tenn.
THE receipts from internal revenue
during the first eight months OF the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1892, were 800, ,667, ,2S3,
increase of 50, ,7OO, ,07s over the receipts during
the corresponding period oflast year.
THE House Committee on Rules to-day
decided to recommend an investigation by a
committee of the House into charges re-
lating to the granting and resembling of
certain leases in the Yellowstone National
Park.
THE State Department has been informed
of the resignation of Jules Wegmann, Vice
Consul of Switzerland, at Chicago.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY GRANT has re-
covered from the grip and was at the War
Department. this afternoon.
THE Treasury Department to-day pur-
chased 4s7, coo ounces OF silver at sosol5 and
1922.
THE March report of the statistician of
the Department of Agriculture, issued to-
day, shows that the production of cotton of
the world exceeded the consumption more
I hall
enarges the excess in 1884, quitting the mar
zets, increasing visible stocks during the
past year more than l, 100000 bales and re-
ducing the Liverpool price of middling up
land from 6 1-16 pence in January, $780, to ~
pence in january, 1892. 1t states that in two
years this country has produced an excess
above normal requirements of more than
100000 bales ana indicates a heavy re-
duction breadth as the only possible remedy,
otherwise the agriculture of the South wifi
suffer worse than Western agriculture ever
has. 1t declares that the cotton States must
be agriculturally self-sustaining and that
new crops must be introduced, as the agri-
cultural population has outgrown the ca
pacity of cotton to support 1t.
THE President sent to the Senate to-day
the following nominations: Charles H. Al
drich, of Illinois, to be Solicitor General,
vice William H. Taft, resigned. Judge W.
H. Taft rendered his resignation as United
states SOl1ClCOr General To-Day, anu MADE
preparations to assume his new duties as
Judge OF the Circuit Court of Appeals for
the Sixth District.
The Secretary Of State has received
dispatch from Mr.. Beale our Minister to Te-
heran, saying that it appears the recent po-
litical disturbances in that country have
entirely ceased, ana that the safety of for
eigners there is now assured.
THE House Elections Committee this
morning decided by vote OF to / to
recommend the seating of Noyes. the Re-
publican contestant in the New York cleo
tion contest, and the unseating of StockwelI,
the Democratic sitting member.
The President and Mrs Harrison enter |
rained the following named persons at
dinner this evening: Senator Allison.
Senator and Mrs. Squire, Senator and Mrs. |
Casey, Senator and Mrs. Warren, Senator |
White, Senator and Mrs. Perkins, Represent
ative Grout, Representative and Mrs. |
Funston, Representative Hopkins, Of |
Illinois, Representative johnson, of |
Indiana, Representative and Mrs. Storer, |
Mrs. Folger, Assistant Secretary of State |
Wharton and Mrs Wharton, General John |
G. Parlle and Mrs. Parke, Hon. Shellabarger |
and Mrs. Shellabarger, and Hon. James NJ. |
Tyner and Mrs. Tyner.
Another Relief Vessel to Russia.