, 1899-08-10
WASHINGTON NEWS.

olS,Opo. winch Is slightly in excess or
the estimate of the officials made N
month ago.
The annual preliminary report of
the commissioner of Internal
for the fiscal year ended June /. 1899,
shows that the receipts from all sour
ces OF internal revenue for the year
aggregated S2T3,4S4. $50. making an in
crease of S1O2, GIT ,T63 over the receipts
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1898.
Mr.. Elihu Root took the oath of Of
hce as secretary of war at 0:45 n.
m. last Tuesday. The ceremony
occurred in the large office of
the secretary of war, in the presence
of Secretaries Gage n Hitchcock,
Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn. n large
number of army officers in uniform
and other employees and officials. The
oath was administered by Judge Cole
of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia.
Secretary Long has taken notice of
some rather personal exchanges Of
opinion between the naval bureaus in
the course of official business. Before
he left the city III the LIST he addressed
an identical note to each of the bu-
reaus, construction. engineering and
equipment. directing attention to GER
ain extracts from official letters thai
were not proper and warning the bu-
reau chiefs that comments similar to
those contained in the extracts were
entirely unnecessary and tended to re
tard and prevent the transaction of
business by provoking retaliation.
Director of the Mint Roberts esti-
mates the gold output of Australia for
the present year at S1O.OOO.O00 in eX-
cess of that for 1898. He says Austral-
in will doubtless continue to have trade
obligations to settle with England.
Since the prospects point to n continu-
ance of the balance of trade between
this country and Europe being i'll our
favor, 1t is my opinion hat England
Will go right along sending us consign-
ments of Australian gold direct. We
shall have all the gold we need. Our
position is that of n creditor. but if
the other countries are willing to make
it worth our while, we may make other
terms.
Major General Lawron is to have
command of all the cavalry troops in
the Philippines when the active cam
paign opens in the fall. The plan of
campaign decided upon by Major Gen
'''' ~ IL II vi vi
cavalry than in the last campaign. He
already has in the Philippines the en-
tire Fourth cavalry. He has been au-
thoriZed to organize one of the provis-
ional regiments in the Philippines as
cavalry and eight G 'panles of the
Third cavalry are under orderS for Ma
Mia. Ii is probable that other regi-
ments Will be sent out. so as to give
General Lawton n strong cavalry force.
"Thre, new cases of yellow fever in
the Soldiers Home mt Hampton and
n DEATH" Is the official report re
ceived by Surgeon General Wyman
from DIR. Wasdin. the yellow fever ex-
pert, on duty mt the institution. Add
ed TO DR.. Wasdin's figures previously
sent To DIR. Wyman, this makes up to
date forty eases in all which have oc-
Cured at II home, of which eight
have proved fatal. Surgeon White tel
egraphed DIR. Wyman tina in his opin-
ion there was little doubt that there
had been some fever infection in the
neighboring village of Phoebus, but
the surgeon general said tonight that
this dispatch had not ~ followed
by any evidence of II positive character
from that place.
Secretary Gage has under consider
faiAl'iA INV IAi'Hll'Il VI tltNltllIlG VII llta
proposals for building the superstruct-
ure and the interior finishings of the
Cheyenne public buildings. He is in
doubt whether TO reject the bids. all of
which are higher than the appropria,
ton, or TO award the contract to the
lowest responsible biddcr-G. w. AT
kinson y Sons of Colorado Springs.
and rely on Congress to appropriate
the extra money needed. The Treas
ury Department, it seems, miscalcu-
lated on the foundation. which cost
$4,000 more than the appropriation.
The last Congress vas asked to make
good the deficit. and failed to do so.
Therefore the secretary hesitates to
commit Congress beyond the appropri-
alton.
OF thcr remarkable growth in our
portationS of manufactures during the
fiscal year just ended, that of the man
features of iron and steel is the most
striking. The total increase in our eX-
ports of manufactures during the year.
as shown 10y the figures of the treasury
Burelu of Statistics, is. in round mum
DerS. SlS,uOO,OOO, and of Ibis increase
N53,OOo,ouO Is in manufactures of iron
ana steel. The total exports of iron
and steel and manufactures thereof in
the fiscal year 1881 were S93.715.g51.
against ~SIO,l0G,SS5 i'll 1898. SJ7.40T.-
81 In 1897. SIl, 1Go.S7T in 1896, $50
Nn.9S9 in 1899. and S2o.22O.2GI in 1894.
The imports of manufactures of iron
and steel continue To fail. having been
during the year but S12.OaS. 239. against
S25.33S, lO3 In 1896 and S53,544.312 in
1891.
The director of the mint has nearly
completed his estimate of the worlds
gold production for the year 1SaS. The
data mt hand seem to warrant the con
clusion that the production will amount
10 mt least S2OI,OOO.OOO. and possibly
S2o1, 100000. Africa leads all other
countries with $4,000. 900. with Aus
tralin second. with $50. JOO.OOO, and the
United states third with SGl.IG3. 600.
Russia Is credited with S25.OOO.OO0,
Mexico with %S1O,OOO,0OO, and Canada.
including the KlOndikc. with Sl4.OOO.-
900. OF the Sil,OOO.OOO credited to
Canada in 1898 about S@1O.OOO.0OO came
out of the klondikc, and in the estima-
ton of the production of the United
States the last year S2.2Ji.OOO came
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