Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-25
ID COIN SILVER. $10,O0O,OOO Is All That Will
 Be Coined.
 s.-a &. ALL THE GOLD EXHAUSTED
The Object Is to Keep the Mint Forces at
 Work.
HARLEsToN DELEGATES HARD AT WORK
They Seem Determined to Get Sub-Treas- ury There-The Naval Militia Move- ment Is Growing Steadily-Lou-
 isiana Has Big Battalion.

Washington, Jan. 24.-Secretary Car lisle has directed Mint Director Preston to prepare to coin standard silver dollars at the Philadelphia and New Orleans hints. The amount of coinage to be ex- ecuted has not yet been determined, but probably not more than 7,0o0000 stand ard silver dollars will be coined.
 The seigniorage will also be declared and coined, and this will not make all told more than $10,oO00O0.
 Two things will happen as the result of this decision to coin standard silver dollars, viz: the reopening of the New Orleans mint on small scale and the continuance of coinage operations at the Philadelphia mint. MT. Preston says that by Tuesday night next all the gold bullion at the Philadelphia mint will have been coined, and he does not think that any gold bullion will be transferred from the sub-treasuries or hints else where to Philadelphia at present. As the appropriation for coining is we'll nigh exhausted, the force at Philadelphia would have been furloughed without pay unless the coinage of standard silver dollars, for which he had a sufficient ap-
 
 There was, he said pressing need for the coinage of subsidiary silver, and as soon as the necessary money was pro- vided by congress this class of coinage would be resumed
 The naval militia movement is grow ing steadily, according to information received at the navy department. The department has been advised that the Louisiana naval battalion has been or ganized with sixteen commissioned of f1cers, twenty-one non-commissioned of ficers and 155 seamen, and that despite their disbandment by order of Governor Altgeld, the Chicago battalion has att tained an unofficial organization of 300 men. fe -.t @ u 4 The department has also been informed that the governor of North Carolina has revoked the commission of Commander Francis Winslow, United States navy (retired), as commanding officer of the North Carolina naval battalion. Some dispute over the manner of rendering accounts was the basis for the governors action. P" I'iaplsf 'r' fi = .r=
 A delegation from Charleston. s. C., appeared before the house ways and means committee today and presented the claims of their city for the establish ment of a sub-treasury of the United. States. James M. Seignous, director Of the Bank of Charleston, gave the bank ing statistics of the city. Representa- tive McLaurfn of South Carolina dWeIt upon the importance and volume of the. cotton trade of Charleston and compared Its business with Savannah. The latter place as port received little more mon-s ey from the cotton trade than Charles ton. Port Royal, Wilmington and other Carolina ports, however, shipped consid-. ble amounts of cotton. They took this much business away from Charles. ton, for which that city, however, had to furnish the capital When this was ta-i ken into consideration Charleston out ranked Savannah Charleston was the business center of the Carolinas and was the best port between New Orleans and Baltimore for the establishment of a sub- treasury. Messrs. John D. Murphy, J. s. Murdock A. H. Mowry. J. P. O'Neill and w. H. Welch, business men of Charles ton, were present, but did not speak, pre- ferring to leave their case in the hands of MT. McLaurin, a member of the ways and means committee, who intends to make his fight for Charleston in the com mittee when it takes the proposition up.
 After leaving the ways and means com- mttee the delegation appeared before the committee on public buildings and grounds in support of the bill to grant the city of Charleston, s. C., the old post office lot and building for the commercial bodies of that city.