The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-07-07

moved from American pork, he succeeded in
pursuading the DahisIi Hovernment to abolish
similar restrictions against our great National
product. Mr.. Carr talks entertainngly about
Denmark. 1t is a good country and a charm
ing people, They are especially well inclined
to Americans and treat our people with pro-
found hospitality. Il They take life easy. do the
worthy Danes. have never yet seen man,
woman child in Copenhagen, or anywhere
else in Denmark, that appeared to be in q
hurry. The climate Of the Capital is superb,
and it is the waFmestl place in Winter and
coolest in Summer l ever knew. There is very
little red-tape about the Governments way of
conducting business When the Minister of
| the Interior, in fulfllment of his promise to
me, was ready to issue the order that allowed
our swine products to come in, he simply wrote
three limos on sheet Of paper. called for
messenger to take it, and the affair was ended"
| Mr.. Heard, of Missouri last week submitted
a conference report on the Bill to establish
uniform system of highways in the District OF
| Columbia, outside the cities of Washington and
| Georgetown, to which great deal of opposition
| was manifested, and after discussion Mr.. Heard
was asked to withdraw the report. This he
| refused to do, and when the matter was put to
vote the committees report was voted down.
Mr.. Blount of Georgia, attacked the report
with vigor, declaring that it opened the way
for an extravagant expenditure of money. MIR.
Heard defended the report, stating that the
question was simple one and did not provide
for the expenditure of any money from the
National Treasury whatever, the cost Of tho
improvements was to be assessed one-balf on
the AUDITING property and one-half on the rev.
enues of the District. The report of the COM
| mittee was non-concurred in.
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Newspapers throughout the country have
been announcing the bankruptcy of tho Worlds
Columbian Exposition at Chicago the report
| stating that there was no money in the Treas
| ury, and not even O postage stamp on hand.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Nettleton,
who represents the United States Treasury
Department in it's relation to the Exposition,
when his attention was called to these reports,
said that in his Judgment the publication,
without the accompanying facts, was misead-
ing and calculated to do mischief to the Ex-
position. He also said that Congress has
hitherto appropriated definite sum of money
to meet the current expenses of the National
Commission, these expenses being chiefly in
connection with the holding of occasional
meetings the travelling expenses of the men,
bers of the Commission, and a few salaries at
their Chicago office. During the fiscal year
just ended these expenses have exceeded the
years appropriation by few thousand dollars,
and certain disbursements necessarily await
the passage of the new appropriation bill now
pending in Congress. The term bankruptcy"
has no application to the case, and the condition
of this special appropriation has nothing to do
with the finances of the Worlds Columbian
Exposition itself or with the progress of the
work.
Some time ago the silver question was sprung
very Unexpectedly upon the Senate, when the
House bill amending the Arizona funding act
was presented in that body. There was
lively debate at the time over the clanse in the
bill which required the interest the bonds
to be paid in gold. This clause was stricken
out on motion of Senator Kyle. Of South Da-
kota, and caused Arizona officials lots of
trouble Capt. Christy, Treasurer of the Ter
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have the clause which had been stricken out
put back in the bill, because capitalists would
not take the bonds of the Territory unless the
bill contained the clause. 1t now appears that
the conferrees have reached an agreement
the question, and think they have very clev-
erly avoided the issue. 1t was discovered that
the orig nal funding act required the interest
on the bonds to be paid in gold coin or it's
equivalent in lawful money, and SO they in
serted in the pending bill in place of the OBJ
noxious clause the words interest payable
semi annually under the old law"
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The Union ex- Prisoners of War Association
of the District Of Columbia held a business
meeting ON Thursday evening. to make ar.
rangements for grand Reunion of the
National Association of ex- Prisoners of War,
during the National Encampment in Washing
ton in September. The National Association
of ex Prisoners Of War is large body Of men,
and although they also members Of the
Grand Army, between 1000 and 5000 delegates
of ex prisoners are expected at their Reunion,
if estimates can be made from the number of
letters already received by Maj. L. P. Williams.
1t is proposed that the District of Columbia
Association will receive and entertain their
fellow prisoners, and this meeting was for the
purpose of making the necessary arrangements.