Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-07-20
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Items of Interest from the National
Capital.
Issue OF Gold Certificates Rcsumed-Pcn-
sion Dccisions-Crop Conditions-Im-
ports, Exports and linz
migration.
Gold Certificates.

WASHINGTON, July l7.-The treasury
department has resumed the issue OF
gold certificates which have been sus-
pended during the periol when the
treasury gold reserve was below $780,
100000. Since June % last, when the
gold reserve again became intact, the
treasury ha, issued about s200, 900 gold
certificates on gold presented mostly
ut United States minis. There are
now outstanding Sis.S76,00O in gold
certificates, with SIZE, $50 in the treas
ury, the reminder being in circula-
ton. Gold certificates are regarded as
the most convenient form Of gold
money. and most of these certificates
are held by national banks US part of
their lawful reserve.
Silver certificates are in circulation
to the almost complete exclusion of
silver dollars. rs the general public
appears to prefer coin representa- tivcs
to the coin itself Only s5a,0C0,0o0 of
silver dollars are in circulation. where
as more than eight times that amount
of silver certificates are in daily use,
the silver in bullion being stored in
the vaults OF the treasury.
Impnrtant Pension decisions.
WASHINGTON. July II. - Assistant
Secretary Reynolds has rendered three
decisions in pension appeal eases. In
the first he hollis that while the COM
missioner of pensions is forbidden by
law to suspend payment OF pension
pending proceedings 10 annul or re-
duce IL, nevertheless in case such PEN
sion is aunullcd, all unpaid pension APP
parently accrued NJ the date of annul-
ment becomes Illegal and must not be
paid
In the second case the secretary
holds that the law forbidding the com.
missioner to reduce pensions without
thirty days notice does not apply to
cases acted ON before It's passage.
In the third case 1t is held that us
the act pensioning the children of
soldier who are under IL years of age
expressly provides that the pensions
shall begin from the date of the filing
of the application for the pension, n
claimant who was over 10 years old
when the act wa, passed has no claim
for pension ut I'LL.
Condition OF Crops.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE weather
bureau, in its report OF crop conditions
for the week eale.l July Is, says
Drought has been broken In
Iowa and partially relieved
in Wisconsin and southern Mime.
sofa, but continues in Ohio and with
great severity over the southern hall
of Michigan. Excessive rains have de
layed threshing in Missouri, Kansas
northern Texas, Kentucky and Ten
nessee, and caused grain in shock &c
sprout.
Corn needs rain in Ohio, northern
Indiana, southern Michigan, Wiscon'
sin and South Dakota, and would b.
improved by rain in Nebraska, where
the blades are beginning to roll. lr
the southern states the finest crop OF
corn for years is promised. Frost on
Tuesday morning caused slight dam
age in Wisconsin.
Business Done Ia the Custom House.
WASHINGTON, July II. "A statement
OF the imports, exports AMI immigra.
ton of the Uaitcd States during the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1895, shows
as follows: Merchandise exported,
ss07, 593, 26l; last year, ss9l, 907, 700; mer.
chandise imported, s73l.o50,3lo, OF
which about one-half was free of duty
merchandise imported in 1894, $751;
75,Ol1, of which S372, SIS, 03i was free
of duty. The gold coin exported dur
ing the last fiscal year amounted to
500. 1871. ls3, and the imports, S35, 0si,4i9.
The exports last year, therefore, were
$40. 9si, 40 in excess of the imports. In
the previous year the exports exceeded
the imports by si.53s,9i2 The exports
of silver during the last year asgre-
gated Sio,22G,G l2, against s9,5ls, 9as in
imports. This is a slight falling of
from both exports and imports of the
previous year. During the fiscal year
1905 the number of immigrants who
arrived in this country was 276, 1876.
against 3li,Gl2 during the previous
year.