Gilpin observer., 1899-07-20
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
AND DEPARTMENT NEWS./

III reSiSHlnS tne treaSureSnp OF INT
Lafayette fund. Comptroller Dawes
submitted list of states and the
amount contributed by the school chill
dren of each. Over $4,000 was col
lected. Colorado contributed $205.6S.
Admiral George Dewey has filed in
the Court of Claims his claim for
bounty growing out of the battle of
Manila bay, May /, 1898. The secre-
tary of the navy has referred to this
court Il number of these claims for ju-
dicial consideration.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden has promulgated a ruling per-
mitting the inclosure of coin recep-
tacles for subscription purposes with
all second and third class mail matter.
Their mailing with publications under
the usual rates has heretofore been re-
fused.
Reports to the comptroller of the cur
rency from the national banks of Colo
RADIO show that the average reserve
held is 41.31 per cent. Loans and dis
counts amount to $20,517, 1896, gold
coin to $4.245, ,3S2.15 and total specie
to $695, 1929. Individual deposits are
$39,SSS,377.71, and the total resources
$5S,3T4, ,616.4S.
The Navy Department has received
the first half of an order for 100 new
machine guns of a new type. the most
powerful in the possession of any gov
ernment. They are one-pounders car
rying an explosive shell and can fire
$50 shots minute. They are cooled
by water jacket, and it is said that
they can put fifty shots into the head
of n barrel at half mile in a quarter
of minute.
Admiral Crowninshield, chief of the
Bureau of Navigation of the Navy De
partment, will go to England the lat
ter part of the month to make special
| examination of the system of English
naval barracks, with Il view of adopt
ing similar system in this country.
Instead of barracks the United States
has used receiving ships. The expense
attached to maintaining these vessels
is great In view of the shortage of
officers at the present time the receiv-
ing ship problem demands a solution.
The monthly statement of the ex-
ports and imports of the United States
shows that during June the imports of
merchandise into the United States
amounted to SCI, ,6S6, ,20S, of which $685.
SS1,331 was free of duty. For the year
the total imports of merchandise
amounted to S697, ,01T ,3SS, of which
over $300,000,000 was free of duty.
The exports of domestic merchandise
during June aggregated $594, ,S2S, ,I32, n
gain of about S2,O00,0O0. For the year
the exports amounted to 81 ,227 ,433, ,425,
n decrease from last year of $4,03S, ,9O5.
The stream of immigration to the
United States during the fiscal year
just closed was larger than during any
corresponding period since 1896, and
was almost 100000 more than during
1898 Commissioner of Immigration L.
V. Powderly has just concluded the
compilation of returns from the va
rious ports of the country, giving the
| number of aliens who landed there
during the last twelve months. The to-
tai was 314,611, as compared with
9,299 for 1898, 230. .S32 for 1897, 343,-
267 for 1896, 25S,5 ,53G for 1895 and 1885,
631 for 1894.
The following was received at the
War Department Tuesday: Manila,
July 1S.-Adjutant General, Washing
ton: Continued rains and cyclonic
storms impede business in the harbor.
The Colorado regiment sailed on the
transport Warren yesterday, Privates
Horn and Wilder. Company G, being
left on the sick list In addition 131
discharged men of various organiza-
tions took passage. The California
regiment, ON the Sherman, arrived
from Negros. The vessel must be
coaled and await subsistence of ty-
phoon now prevailing. OTIS"
Officials of the War Department ex-
press themselves as pleased with the
progress made in the organization of
the ten new regiments for service in
the Philippines. The colonels for the
Twenty-eighth and Thirty-fourth regi-
ments have not been appointed yet, and
recruiting for these regiments has not
been actively taken up. AS soon as
these selections have been made 1t is
estimated at the War Department that
the recruiting totals will be greatly
swelled. Army officers figure on the
enlistment of a good many of the vol
unteers who have returned or are en-
route from the Philippines. 1t is be-
lieved that many of them. after short
visit home, will re-enter the service.
Secretary Gage has left the city
rather unexpectedly for New York for
the purpose. 1t is stated, of making a
final appeal to the members of the Sen
ate finance committee. now meeting at
Manhattan Beach. for the retention of
an out and out gold standard feature
In the proposed measure under consid-
Grafton by that committee. 1t is stated
that he has word that the Senate COM
mttee Is not disposed to accept the
House measure. which makes an un-
equivocal declaration for gold. and
that the members instead are propos-
ing another straddle. Secretary Gage,
ns is well known. wants complete
and emphatic declaration for gold by
the committee, President. Congress,
and the national Republican conven-
ton.
The eleventh statistical report OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
/. the year ended June 30. 1899, shows
thnt there arp oOJ7 rnilwnys in thp