Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-11-10
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE thirty-second annual conven-
ton of the American Institute of
Architects convened in the banquet
hall of the Arlington hotel at Wash
ington on the 1st-
TIE post office department has or
dered an innovation in the postal serv-
ice by the experimental establishment
of post Office on Wheels" to operate
in the vicinity of Westminster, Md.
One important feature of the contem-
plated innovation which. if successful,
will be extended generally, is that it
will have money order and registry
facilities
PRESIDENT GoMPERs, of the American
Federation of Labor, has sent letter
from Washington to state branches of
the order in reference to the bill to
create an eight-hour day for all gov
eminent work, whether done by the
government or by contract, in which
he says that the executive council in
structed him to request them to wait
upon senators for the purpose of Sc
curing promise from them that they
will favor the eight-hour bill at the
coming session of congress in Deem
Der.
THE request of the First Colorado in
fantry to be returned from Manila to
the United States was not granted by
the war department.. It was stated by
officers of the army that such requests
had been frequent from soldiers of vol
unteer organizations who enlisted to
fight, but did not enlist for garrison
duty. Nothing can be done, the Off
GERS say, until congress meets and pro-
vides some kind of force to take the
place of the volunteers.
THE sale of the Transmississippi ex-
position stamps has more than realized
the expectation of the post office de-
partment. Up to date about So, 900, 600
worth of them have been sold. Prob
ably about $3.50, 900 of these have gone
to collectors. The department will
continue to issue the exposition stamps
up to December 81.
The monthly statement of the di-
rector of the mint shows the total
coinage at the United States minis
during October to have been S. 800, Sal,
as follows: Gold, SIS. 1sO, 900; silver, S.
S54, 191; minor coins, 500, $50.
THE United States treasurer's report
TO the secretary of the treasury for the
past fiscal year states that the net or
binary revenues of the government
were $405, 321, 335, while the net Ordi-
nary expenses were SAB, 36S, $50. Up
to the close of the fiscal year the in
crease of expenditures on account of
the war was S43. 041. 733 for the war de-
partment and $24, 1862, 43S for the navy
department. The expenditures of the
war department for the four months
OF July, August, September and Octo-
Der were $107, $50, 36S and of the navy
department SGT, 459,577
The secretary of the interior re-
eieved unofficial advices on the Sd that
the Creek Indian nation in the Indian
territory had ratified the agreement
reached between it's commissioners
and the Dawes Indian commission in
the reorganization of the Indian ter
.itory.
THE war department has issued
general order for the movement of
troops to Cuba. The first troops will
ieaye on or about November % and
will comprise a brigade under Brig
Sen. Carpenter. The brigade will be
sent to Neuvitas and Puerto Principe.
THE president proposes making a
recommendation to congress that the
civil service rules be so amended as to
give preference in appoin tments to vet
Grams of the Spanish as we'll as of the
civil war.
A LETTER has been laid before Sec
rotary Alger at Washington, written
by Col. Carbonne. of the Cuban army.
in which the writer gives a pathetic
account of the distress of the insur-
gent soldiers. many of them dying at
the very gates of Havana for want of
food. Secretary Alger promised to
look into the matter.