The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-05-06
IN CONGRESS-.
During the Week the Tariff Bill viii Be
Reported in the Senate.

rAs House win Keep Up the Three DayS
Adjourn nmsnts-Currency Controllers
Statement Shows Gain In Nation.
nj Bank Note Circulation.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-The. senate
will resume business in earnest Mon
day. and the week bids fair to be one |
of important results. According to
agree ement a vote will be taken on |
the arbitration treaty on Wednesday.
It is also quite probable that the COM
mittee vacancies will be filled and that
the tariff bill will be reported to the
senate.
For the rest Senator Morgan proba-
bly, will call up his Cuban resolution,
the sundry civil appropriation bill may
be passed and Senator Hoar has given
notice that he will move to have the
committee on rules discharged from
the further consideration of his amend
ments to the rules for the Limitations
of debate.
There is great uncertainty as to the
fate of the treaty, and 1t now
looks as if the margin would
not exceed two or three
votes whatever the result may be.
There are a few unascertained votes
which will decide the result. canvass
made Saturday shows 40 votes certain
for the treaty and 25 certain against
it. The 30 votes in OPPOSE
ton are sufficient to defeat 1t.
but the opposition do not know just
where these four votes can be found.
There will be considerable sparring
over the treaty before the vote is TAX
en-, but no prolonged debate is ex-
pected.
The consideration of the sundry civil
appropriation bill has been postpone
until Senator Allison, who will have
charge of it in the senate, could be
present.
If Senator Hoar fulflls his promise
to bring up the question of the amend
ment of the rules, his motion will be
stubbornly resisted by the democrats.
Those of them who favor the changes
proposed will not assent to them on
the eve of the tariff fight
The new senator from Kentucky,
Hon. w. ]. Deboe, probably will be
sworn in Monday.
The house programme contemplates
adjournments for three days from
Monday and Wednesday. Should the
conference report on the Indian appro-
priation bill reach the house it will be
considered. A suggestion to take &C.
tion in the bankruptcy bill passed by
the senate is being thought over and
may reach some definite shape before
the close of the week.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-The report OF
the director of the mint shows that
during the month of April the total
coinage at the United States mints
was $40, 41O, ,0sO' OF this amount S.
500, 400 was in gold, 81, 635, 900 in silver
and S74, $50 in minor coins. OF the sill
YER coinage 81, 400, 900 was in standard
dollars
| WASHINGTON, May 3.-The monthly
statement of the controller of the cur.
rency shows that on April 80 the total
circulation Of national bank notes was
S2S2, 800, 244, a gain for the year OF
Ss, 700, 800, and loss for the month OF
5000, $50.
The circulation based on United
States bonds was $2os, 7es, $40. q gain
for the year of $5,365, 80, and a loss
for the month OF 5000, 153.
The circulation secured by lawful
money was $24, 033, ,695, an increase TO,
the year of 50, 835, ,5s9. and an increase
for the month of S92, 5O3
The amount of United States regis
tered bonds on deposit to secure circu
lating notes was S232, 749, 800, and t<
secure public deposits, SIG, 1913, 900.
The first regular mail service author
lied for an entire year in Alaska ha'
been contracted for by the post offic'
department, the service being from
from Juneau to Circle City, 300 mile'
each way. The contract calls for on
round trip month beginning July
1897.
William F. Salter, of this city, Is tn
contractor, the contract price beinl
$1,000.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-Prof. Henr.
G. Bryant, of Philadelphia, has had a
interview with Secretary Long and ex
planned to him the plans of his pro
posed expedition for the exploration
of Mount St Elias in Alaska. His puI
pose is to start very soon in compan.
with an expert from the United State
coast and geodetic survey, and wit
the aid of several of Peary's men to 81
plore thoroughly the country in tn
rear of the big mountain. Secretar
J Long promised to furnish the part
} letters to Lieutenant Commander Sy
: mopds, commanding the Pinta, tn
only ship which the government maiI
tains all the time in Alaskan waters
J SO that in an emergency the gunboat'
people might come to the assistance {
the explorers.
The president Saturday ordered th
suspension for four days of the mai
! date sentencing Joseph Dunlop, pr
t. prietor Of the Chicago Dispatch to tw
> years in the penitentiary for sendiu
, obscene matter through the mails. M
. Dunlop made personal appeal to IL
president for this length OF time
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