Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-03-23
WASHINGTON LETTER
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.


ment indicate that the stock of wheat
in farmers hands on March l was
ia, 900, 900 bushels, or 2SS per cent.
of the volume of the crop of 1893.
This is nearly 81, 900, 900 bushels less
than the average for the past eight
years. The corn in producers hands
is estimated at $50, 900, 900 bushels
or &c. 4 per cent. of the crop of 1898.
This proportion Is less than for any
year in the past five, except 1891. The
official and commercial estimates OF
the worlds wheat crop for 1898 makes
it 80, 600, 600 bushels less than the
preceding year. The final estimate
will probably still further reduce the
total for 1893, as the preliminary es-
Inmates for Russia and Germany are
generally reduced by the final estl-
mates,
The MoNTGoNERY ACCEPTED. Sec
rotary Herbert took the greatest
pleasure i'll signing the papers which
added to the navy IL new ship, named
after the capital of his own State. He
sent letter to the Columbian Iron
Works in Baltimore, formally accept
ing the Montgomery, and directing the
builders to deliver her az soon as pos
sibie to the Government at the Nor
folk Navy Yard She should arrive
there in day or two, when work will
at once be commenced to place her
armament and stores on board, and
make her ready for active service. 1t
is thought she can be commissioned
by the middle of April and join the
North Atlantic Squadron. Command
er Charles H. Davis, who escorted the
Infanta Eulalia of Spain through the
country last summer, will command
the new ship.
For FAILURE IN CONTRACT Post
master General Bissell has informed
the president of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company that the contract
between the government and that COM
pany for the transportation of mails
between New York and the Isthmus of
Panama and between San Francisco
and the Japanese and Chinese ports
under the late subsidy law will be can
oelled on April /, for the reason that
the company has failed to comply with
its provisions. The contract provides
that for the first two years the company
shall send steamers every ten days,and
that afterward, for eight years--to the
termination of the contract-they shall
send steamers once week. The
weekly sailings should have COM
menced on Jan. |, but in reply to re-
peated notices the steamship company
has confessed its inability to comply
with the requirements. Therefore the
postmaster general has ordered the
contract cancelled. The Pacific mail
steamers will continue to carry the
mails, hut they will receive the regu-
lar sea postage only, instead of Il sub
sidy of 81 mile travelled.
LIGHTS FOR BosToN HARBoR. The
House Committee on Commerce has
agreed to report fayorably on Mr..
O'Neirs bill authorizing the con-
structing of hghtship with fog sig
nails to be established to the eastward
of Boston Light, and for the estab-
lishment of range lights in Boston
| harbor.
SNAP FOR HIGH OFFICIALS A gen.
eral order just issued by Secretary of
the Navy Herbert, consolidstes the
naval training station, naval war col
lege and torpedo school on Coasters
island and the naval torpedo station
on Government island, Newport har-
Dor, r. /. The consolidation will
eventually become choice assignment
for officers of high rank.
To REIMBURSE New YORK. Mr..
Cummings has introduced in the house
bill appropriating over $4,000 900
to pay to New York city the principal
and interest of money advanced in
defense of the Union.
THE BEHRGNG SEA MIDDLE. 1t is
understood the present bone of con-
tention in the Behring sea matter is
whether the modus vivendi is to be
extended another year. The British
government takes the position that
until by legislative enactment the de-
cision of the Paris tribunal is carried
into effect the modus vivendi remains
in force. The United States, on the
contrary, contends that when the Paris
tribunal reached its decision, the mod
us vivendi after the expiration of the
season expired, and that from hence
forth whatever was done by the two
nations in protecting seal life in Beh-
|
sion of the Paris tribunal.
| WoN'T TAKE THE LEAD. The agita-
ton in England and Germany in favor
of renewal of the international mon
etary conference does not escape the
vigilance of this administration. 1t is
considered as good sign, and it is
believed in the end will be productive
of important results. The position of
this government in regard to the re-
assembling of the monetary confer
ence has been very clearly defined by
Secretary of State Gresham in his of
fetal communication to the Belgian
government. In effect he said that,
while the United States would not
take the initiative in reassembling
that conference, it stood ready to join
in its deliberations upon invitation of
European powers. While there is
much diversity of opinion among gov
erhment officials as to what legislation,
if any, should be passed by the United
States favorable to silver as unit OF
money value, there is unity of senti.
ment favorable to disposing of the
silver question, if possible, by an in.
ternational agreement. GEvRTR.
La Bretagne Ashore.
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