Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-05-18
WASHINGTON BUDGET.
Pan American silver rCOnventiOn-Be-
ginning Monday the senate Will
Meet at 10 In the Morning
Other Notes.

Washington. May 18.--Several hundred
delegates are expected to be present at
the convention of the Pan-American BIZ
metallic league, which meets in this city
on Tuesday. They will come largely
from the west and south with possibly
few from the east; four from Mexico, two
from the Central American states and two
from Brazil. Delegates are also expect
ed from New Zealand. This will make
the third convention of the league, the
previous ones having been held at Dem
yer, Colo, and Ogden, Utah. What the
league is striving for is to lay the founda-
tion for the adoption of silver dollar
that will pass current between the United
States and the Central American coun-
tries, which, it is figured, will result in
stimulating business relations between
them.
LITERALLY INTERPRETED.
Attorney General Olney has ruled that
Chinese merchants doing business in the
United States on Nov. 3, 1898, whether
under their own names or not, do not
come within the provisions Of the third
paragraph of section of the act of date
above given. All such merchants, it is
held, as were here when the statute took
effect may return to the country should
they leave it.
APPROPRIATIONS.
The legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill has been completed by
the appropriation committee. 1t carries
the salaries of all government officers for
the coming year. The whole amount
| recommended in the bill is $21, ,101, 1928,
being reduction under the estimates of
| 81, ,2O8, ,687, and reduction under the ap-
preparation for the current year of $780,
| 1893. The whole number of salaries spe-
officially provided for in the bill is 10,11O,
being 1868 less than the number estimated
| for, and $50 less than the number pro-
yided for in the law for the current year.
MIR. pREsToN's 8 VIEWS.
Mr.. Preston, the director of the mint,
| is in favor of the scheme to establish a
branch mint at Denver.
Mr.. Preston thinks this is the accepted
time for Denver and Colorado to bestir
themselves and secure the big mint. Mr..
! Wolcott's bill is now sleeping in pigeon
hole, and SO far has not even been re-
ferred to a subcommittee, but agitation
should bring it out. The government is
now paying 1925 per $1,000 for trans.
| porting bullion from Denver to Phila'
delphia, and expects that De1t year the
total cost of transporting it will reach
100000. OF course this would be saved
/ by locating coinage mint at Denve:
Mr.. Preston said that the fund from
which this expense was paid was about
exhausted, and for the remainder of the
fiscal year he would require the bullion
depositors to pay their own expressage
to Philadelphia, and an order to that
effect may be expected very soon.
Az Ex-coNGREssMAN DYING.
Ex-Congressman Jno. B. Clark, of
Missouri, is lying in a critical condition
at private hospital in this city. week
ago he was compelled to submit to a
serious surgical operation for kidney
troubles. While his physicians express
hopes of his recovery his condition is
such that his family has not yet been ad.
! mitted to his bedside.
SENATE WILL MEET AT 10 Am.
Without discussion or debate the senate
adopted the resolution introduced last
night by Senator Harris fixing the hour
for meeting, beginning Monday next, at
10 o'clock in the morning.
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