The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-05-04
THE COST Of THE WAR.
An Approximate Calculation Places
the Total Expenditures Up to
Date at $275, 100000.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
Mr.. J. g. johnson, of Kansas, Designated
to Act During the Absence of Chair
Jones-Currency Recommenda-
tIons-Atkinson's Pamphlets stopped
Creek Nation TownsItes.

man Jones-Currency Recommends
tIons-Atkinson's Pamphlets stopped
Creek Nation TownsItes.
Washington, May Am approx
mate calculation places the total ex-
penditures Of the treasury on account
of the war with Spain, from the be-
ginning of the war preparations in
March of last year up to the present
time, at S275, 900, 900. 1t is impossible
for the treasury officials to form even a
rough estimate of what the war will
eventually cost in the pay of increased
pensions and miscellaneous charges on
the treasury. The pension eXpendi-
lures are expected to be heavy in pro-
portion to the number of men engaged
and the duration of the war and on ac-
count of the large percentage of sick
ness that prevailed in the army of Gen.
Shafter. Much will also depend on
the duration of the Philippine cam
paign. The expenses of the navy are
rapidly being reduced to a normal
basis, but the Philippine campaign is
still keeping the war department eX-
penditures up.
The Democratic National Committee.
Washington, May 2.-Before sailing
for Europe to-day Senator Jones adj
dressed the following letter to Mr.. j.
q. johnson, national committeeman
from Kansas, designating him to act
for the democratic national committee
during the absence of the chairman:
Democratic National Committee April %
Hon J. G. Johnson, Peabody, Kan: My Dear
Sir: Being compelled by the condition of my
health to go abroad for some months and Mr..
of he ruyn Fr1{ft pa hain nh
sent in Alaska, take the liberty of rogue sting
that you shall act as secretary of the national
committee until Mr.. Walsh's return, which l
understand will be some time next year, and TO
give such attention to the affairs of the national
committee as the organization of the party, etc.
as in your judgment and discretion, may be re-
quired. Very respectfully,
JAMES X. JONES Chairman
Currency Recommendation.
Washington, May at is under
stood here that the republican caucus
committee has agreed on a report to be
submitted to the general caucus in De
cember. 1t is said the conferees have
not gone beyond the recommendations
of the president on the financial ques-
ton, but will content themselves with
recommending a reduction in the tax
on circulation, the increase in amount
up to the par value of deposited bonds
permission 20 organize banks with only
S25, 900 capital in small towns and the
principal recommendations of the pres
ident holding in trust greenbacks re-
deemed in gold and issuing them again
only in exchange for the gold they rep
resent. So far as can be learned, the
ideas of Secretary Gage aud the Indian
apolis conference on asset banking
have not been adopted.
Atkinsons Pamphlets stopped.
Washington, May 1.-The postmaster
general has directed the postmaster at
San Francisco to take out of the mails
for Manila three pamphlets issued by
Edward Atkinson, of Boston, vice pres
ident of the Anti-Imperialistic league.
This order does not apply to the circu-
lation of the pamphlets by mail in this
country, but bars their dispatch from
this country to the Philippines, discon-
tent and even mutiny among the sol |
diers being stated by the department |
to be the design of these publications.
The three pamphlets are specifically |
described and in no circumstances are
they to be forwarded by mail to the |
Philippines.
Creek Nation Townsites.
Washington, May 1.-The interior |
department will not for some time to |
come appoint an appraiser of townsites |
for the Creek nation in the Indian ter
ritory. All the available funds for
this purpose have been consumed for |
appraisers and surveyors in the Chiclza-
saw and Choctaw nations, and there |
will be no money to pay for the work |
of appraising townsites in the Creek |
nation until congress makes another
appropriation. An appointment, it
had been expected, would be made i'm
mediately.
President Mckinley Back in Washington
Washington, May 2.-President Me
kinley and party returned to Wash
ington this morning, reaching the
white house at TAO o'clock There
were in the party only the president.
Mrs. Mckinley, Secretary Courtelvou
and the members of the white house
staff who accompanied the president
throughout the trip. The presidents
first act after reaching the executive
mansion was to call on Vice President
Hobart. He found Mr.. Hobart inn
proved and gaining strength.
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Dreyfus to BE Released.
London, May 1.-The Birmingham
Post learns that the French govern
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