Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-18
INTEREST ON BONDS.
GOVERNMENT RELIEF AFFORDED
ny MS PREMATURE PAYMENT.
Mr.. INGALLS, ON RAILROAD BUSINESS
Testimony of Chesapeake and Ohio
President Before the Industrial
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Money
Reform I'm Cuba and Porto Rico.

WASHINGTON, L. c., october IL
Special -The Secretary Of the Treasury
has received a number Of applications for
The anticipated interest on the bonds
promised in the circular recently issued
by misunderstanding Vanderlip. The
applications are not expected 10 reach
large amount, however until blanks have
been sent TO the national banks, to be
filed out in making applications for the
anticipated interest. The Treasury is con
tinulng 10 aid the money market by pay
ing out more than is collected in taxes.
The excess Of expenditures for october IS
$685. The deficit for the month is due
10 a considerable extent 70 the drafts of
the Post-Ofce Department for 100000
towards covering the annual deficiency
These drafts come at irregular intervals,
and make considerable difference in the
ordinary run Of expenditures.
CENSUS OF CUBA AND PORTO RICO.
Preparations for the census Of the peo-
pie OF Cuba and Porto Rico under au-
ihorlty OF the War Department, are well
under way. The War Department Off
rials have had some consultations with
Bureau. and have followed their recon-
mondations largely in making up the
blanks The supervisors from cuba were
Ina WASHINGTON for some days, and went
carefully over the ground of their duties.
The census for cuba will begin in Few
DAYS. and that for Porto Rico early next
month. The returns will follow In many
respects the population schedules of the
United States census, but some questions
will be added and others win be omitted.
The returns, when they are tabulated
will afford the means for determining the
educational qualifications of the Cuban
people and how they are divided between
spaniards and Cubans.
COLONIAL MONETARY AFFAIRS.
II is pretty generally conceded now
that the legislation 10 be enacted at the
coming session of Congress for the gov
eminent OF the newly-acquired colonies
will contain some provisions looking 10
a reform i'm the monetary anairs OF these
possessions. a high Treasury Official in
discussing this matter to-day with the
Dispatch correspondent, gave IL as his
opinion that this would be essential,
though TO what lengths the reforms in
this connection would so he was unpre-
uared 10 say. 1t would be equally as
dangerous TO disturb their monetary sys-
TENS as II would be 10 interfere
with our own, since such changes would
necessarily affect the value OF things
and provoke commercial troubles. on
the other hand, it will be necessary 10
give those colonies, particularly Porto
Rico. q perfectly stable currency-one not
susceptible TO fluctuations and change.
II was the belief of this official that Con-
gress would be asked TO enact special
laws on this subject. and in that event II
was not improbable that a very much
larger use OF silver would be necessary.
The white metal Is now the only medium
OF exchange in the Philippines, while In
Porto Rico. which is nominally a double
standard country, gold Is seldom SEEN
THE PHILIPPINES AND SILVER.
II II should be determined, this Off
cial said, 20 leave the Philippines on a
silver basis, the Mexican money now be-
ing circulated there will be Withdrawn,
and in its stead there viii be issued
United States silver coins specially de-
signed for circulation on those islands.
While this was as far as the oihcial
alluded 10 would consent TO discuss this
matter. Il is believed here that the ad-
minIstration is getting in readiness, for
reasons OF political expedioncy, TO throw
this sop TO the silver people, by way or
piacating them, and winning them over
10 tts new-fangled doctrine Of expansion.
MR.. INGALLS, ON RAILROADiNG.
The Industrial Commission to-day con-
tinued the Investigation into the transport
tation question. NJ. II. ingalls,, OF Cmcin-
natl. president of the Cleveland, Cincin-
natl. Chicago and ST. Louis railroad and
also OF the Chesapeake and Ohio railway,
was the witness.
Mr. INGALLS, said that he had been con-
nected with tho management of railroads
since 1870. There are at present 10000
men in the employ OF the systems In
which the witness was Interested.
The witness had no knowledge of an
agreement between his roads and other
systems whereby a blacklist is main
tanned. A man who Is discharged from
one division cannot be re-emplOyed on
another division of tho same road with
out the consent Of the general manager.
The witness stated that he believed in
giving the employees one day off in Il
week. and he Is opposed to Sunday work.
in Virginia there is a law prohibiting all
except perIshabie and passenger traffic on
Sunday.
This law, he said. is evaded by placing
car Of hogs or cattle on q freight or
coal train. On the Chesapeake and Ohio
railway hospital service has been es-
tablished. supported by voluntary contri-
buttons OF the employees, who pay a
stated portion OF their wages to H. In
case Of accident a man who has contri-
bu.ed is taken 20 the hospital and treated
until no has fully recovered without
charge other than the contributions he
has made.
FOR PROFIT-SHARING.
The witness believed that general