, 1899-12-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
GOSSIP OF THE WHITE HOUSE
AND THE DEPARTMENTS.

i''tli WHIT lnal nHu Ahnliihi
Dewey for n storm center does not
seem to have affected his popularity
among the poultry growers of the
country, for they sent him enough
thanksgiving turkeys TO have fed his
whole fleet.
A statement issued by the War De
partment shows that the total receipts
from all sources in the island of Cuba
during the month OF October We're
81 .423, G5O.7T. The total receipts OF
the island from all sources during the
last ten months We're Sl2,lOS ,66o.3o'
the average per month being Si,2lO,-
S6G.53.
Representative Payne of New York,
who succeeded the late Representative
Dlrslcy as chairman of the committee
on way and means and is now one of
the leading aspirants fot the honor of
floor leader of his party. predicts that
there will be no tariff legislation n
no modification of he present war
taxes ut the coming session of Con
gress.
The convention providing for the par
tition of Samoa was signed at the State
Department Saturday by Secretary
Hay, DIR. Won Holleben, the German
ambassador. and Lord I'auncefote. the
British ambassador. The friction that
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past week was suddenly removed and
the matter Is now ready for ratification
by the enate
For thirty days the families of the
administration will abstain from all
social pleasures out of respect to the
memory of the late vice president. Tho
ladies of the Cabinet have withdrawn
~acceptances of several dinners, and n
numbe of interesting affairs have been
abandoned. All the houses of men,
bcrs of the Cabinet will be closed un-
til the LIST of January.
1t Is announced at Republican nation
nj committee headquarters here that
over half the members of the national
Republican committee have been heard
from and have expressed themselves
as favoring Chicago ns the place for
holding the next convention. and June
as the month. There seems 10 be no
doubt that Senator Hanna will retire
from the craftsmanship of the national
committee.
The President has designated Abel
bert +. Hay to proceed mt once TO
South Africa as the representative
of the State Department and take the
place of Mr.. Mncrum. the present Unit
ed States consul mt Pretoria. The Stnte
Department has yielded to Mr.. Ma
crum's repeated appeals to he relieved
and he will not await the arrival Of Mr..
Hay before quitting his post. Mr.. Hay
is the son of the secretary of state.
Daniel Talon. lord mayor of Dublin,
accompanied by his private secretary,
Mr., Kennedy, arrived in Washington
Wednesday. Tonight. by appointment,
the mayor and his secretary. accom-
panied by Hon. DOminick Murphy of
Washington and Commissioners Pow
DERBY of the immigration bureau. visit
ed the White House and spent Il half
hour in conversation with the Prcsi-
dent. The lord mayor will leave the
United States for home Saturday next.
Postmaster General Charles Emory
Smith in n general order to-day for
mnlly declared all mail mnttcr passing
between the United States and Puerto
Rico, the Philippine archipelago and
Guam subject to the United States
domestic classification, conditions
ana rates Of postage. The same system
applies to all mail matter sent by or
addressed to persons In the United
States military, naval or civil service
in Cuba or Hawaii.
Contracts for the six new 3,5OO-ton
cruisers We're awarded to-day nj the
navy department in accordance with
the recommend. .tions of the board of
construction, M to each of the follow
ing firms: William Il. Trigg of Rich
mond, Lewis Nixon of Elizabethport.
New Jersey, the Bath Iron Works of
Bath, Maine. the Union Iron Works of
San Francisco, California, the Fore
River Engine Company of Braintree.
Massachusetts, and Neatie X Levy of
Philadelphia. Tie latter are to build
the cruiser Denver,
The Chinese minister was n visitor Mt
the state department, and 1t is surmlsed
that his call upon Secretary Hay was
attributable to the recent European ca
Diagrams which nave disturbed him by
their free expression of n purpose TO
regulate the affairs of his COUNT on
the part of Europe and America. The
answers of the European governments
to our request touching the open door"
have not yet been received. so tina the
President will be obliged to make this
matter the subject of n special message
to congress and to treat ii in the most
general manne in his regular message.
Members of both Houses of Congress
are receiving largely signed petitions
of sympathy with the Beers. which
ask that Congress shall Interfere to
protect them from the rapacious policy
of Great Britain by insisting upon an
arbitration o. the questions nj issue.
While Congress has nothing To do with
the foreign affairs of the country, and
is expressly forbidden To interfere with
them. there will doubtless be- an effort
to respond in some measure to public
sentiment 10y the Introduction and the
possible passage Of II resolution Of sym
patty.
The Democrats of the House of Rep
r~csentatives. nj their caucus held in
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