The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-20

the silver dollar was temporarily, and the de-
monetization was within the definition given
by Webster in his dictionary, his second dehni-
ton, withdrawn from the currency"
BARLEY-Farmer, Petaluma. Cal. In 1888
the import of barley in the United States was
1o,S20566 bushels, of the value of$S OPS, $40;
in 1891, 5,07s,733 bushels, 1929, 500; in
1892, 8, l46,3 1923 bushels, 81 ,592 ,040; IN 1898,
1870, 129 bushels, 1921 sos; in 1894, 791 ,061
bushels. 1888, 744i in 1895, 2,116,S16, value
1867, TAB.
The BLAND RIIL,-W. F., City. The bill by
which the silver dollar was remonetized, COM
monty called the Bland bill, was passed in the
House DIV a vote of 164 ayes to "a noes, ninety
two members not voting. In the Senate it
passed by a vote of 4S to 81. After 1t had been
vetoed by President Hayes 1t was passed over
his veto by the following vote: In the House,
Republicans and 81 Democrats; in the Senate.
by % Republicans and "a Democrats, against
10 Republicans and Democrats.
''NoTHING NEw"-subscriber City. The cor
rect quotation is: "The thing that hath been,
1t is that which shall be, and that which is
done is that which shall be done, and there is
no new thing under the sum-" 1t is TO be
found in the Bible. Ecclesiastes i:9. Solomon
Is commonly credited with the utterance OF
this and other sayings taken from the same
canonical book of the Old Testament. The in
scription with which it commences is: "The
words OF Kohelet Hebrew for preacherl, the
son OF David, King IN Jerusalem" A number
of students of the Bible dou BIT the authorship
as being Solomon'a
FREE CoINAeE-E. E. Old, City. 1t is moi
astonishing that at Democratic headquar.
tors you should have been told that nc
provision had been made to prevent, in case
OF silver Democratic success, foreign silver
from coming to the United States to be ex
changed Tor gold and that none was necessary
as no foreign country has any considerable
amount OF silver 10 spare. That Is the answer
given to deceive. The ratio in the great ma
Jority OF the foreign countries is IA TO l.
There Is no means OF telling how much silver
England would be willing to exchange fol
American gold at any ratio should there be
unlimited free coinage.
RECONCILIATION AcT-J. c. D.. Forest Ranch
Cal. 1t was not silver but the standard dollar
that was remonetized by the act of February
%, 1878. This act provided also for the pur
chase by the Secretary of the Treasury of sill
yer bullion at the market price of not less tina n
$2,OOO,oOO or more than $4,000, 900 worth pei
month ana cause the same to be coined
monthly as last as purchased into dollars
From 1873 to June so, 1893, the amount Of
silver dollars coined was $423, 299, 169. BY
the act OF 1895, November l, the purchasing
clause as regards silver only was repealed Il
dld not repeal the coinage of silver dollars
Silver dollars are now being coined under in
structlons issued from the Treasury Depart
ment last January.
INSIGNIA AND FAcrNes-M. J. B., City. The
insignia OF rank of the officers of the United
States army is as follows: General, a shield
between two stars; acknowledgement, three
stars; maior-general, two stars; brigadier-gen
eral' one star; colonel, eagle; lieutenant
colonel, two silver leaves; major, two GOLD
leaves; captain, two bars; first lieutenant
one bar; second lieutenant, no bar. Thu
facings of the different branches of the servie,
are; Infantry. white; cavalry, yellow; artil
lery, red; engineer corps, scarlet; signal corp
ana stan, BLACK ordnance departm Mt, claret
| quartermaster department., buff; commissar,
department, gray; hospital corps, green. TIT
cadets at West Point wear gray uniform
and the same facings as in the regular