The silver lance., 1899-06-09

| Postmaster General Smith has order
ed that postmasters in paying advert1s-
ing accounts attach to the voucher tne
publishers affidavit that the rates DO
not exceed the commercial rates charg-
ed to individuals, with the usual dis
counts.
The President and Mrs. Mckinley,
with the friends who accompanied
them, reached Washington at $50 p.
m Saturday The stay Of twelve Gays
at Hot Springs was one almost entirely
of rest The outing has been OF great
benefit to the President and he resumes
his official duties thoroughly rerresned
and invigorated.
Many applications have been mace
to the war department requesting tnat
all useless cannon captured IN the III
ippines be turned over to the states as
trophies of the regiments making the
capture Uuder the terms OF the peace
treaty all obsolete cannon in the fnii-
ippines are to be turned over TO the
Spanish government.
The semi-annual meeting of the trus-
tees of the American university was
held Friday at the Arlington hotel.
Bishop Hurst announced the gift or
1000. Bishop McCabe reported
SIPS, 900 as recently subscribed for the
endowment fund. Bishop McCabe
was elected vice chancellor. President
Mckinley and Arthur Dixon or chi
cago were elected to membership In
the board of trustees.
In all the public land states, comprls-
ing most of the territory west OF the
Missouri, where unapproved surveys
| have been made, examiners from tne
| General Land Office are now at WORK
to report on these surveys. The force
| hac 1nI fhnf on
the work last season in order to eXpe-
dite the examinations, secure an early
| approval of the surveys, and allow set
| tiers to make earlier filings in the va
rious land Offices
The contest in Salt Lake City, utah.
over the site for the public building Is
becoming interesting. The Mormons
have offered the government free or
charge plat of ground ,2SS feet square
near their temple as the site for the
new building and the gentiles have
come forward with a lot 205 feet
! square, in an equally desirable lOca-
| ton, which the government may have
for 81. The officials of the Treasury
Department are now considering the
offers
The secretary of war has ordered the
commanding officer at Fort Wingate,
New Mexico, to dispatch an adequate
force of troops Immediately to the
Moqui Pueblo Indian villages in Ari-
zOna to assist in overcoming resistance
to the work of disinfecting and quaran-
timing the villages where smallpox is
prevalent. Secretary Alger says that
with careful vaccination there will be
little danger to the troops, as they will
be used only to enforce the orders of
the agent.
The German ambassador, DIR. Won
! Holleben, called at the State Depart
, ment recently and had talk with Sec
retary Hay, in the course of which, it
is understood. reference was made to
the opening day of the sessions of the
peace conference at The Hague. Some
of the structures on the probable course
of Germany before the conference
which have appeared in print, has
caused considerable irritation, as they
are felt to misrepresent the aims and
purposes Of Germany.
The commissioner of internal revenue
has issued an order directing that all
deputy collectors of internal revenue
shall give their undivided time and at
tention to the government. The action
is based upon reports that deputies
have been engaged in other business
and have performed services not re
quired by the collectors of internal
revenue. Commissioner Wilson takes
the view that the deputies, if they
wish to engage in outside work, must
resign their government positions.
In an opinion in the case of the First
National Bank of Concord, N. H., VS..
Edward Hawkins, receiver of the In
dianapolis National Bank, Justice Shl-
ras has decided that one National
bank cannot lawfully acquire and hold
| tho nf anOthar aS ar
and in the case of such a purchase,
the bank is not estopped from denying
its liability as an apparent stockholdef
for an assessment on stock ordered by
the comptroller of the currency. The
opinion of the lower court was re-
versed.
Chief Justice Fuller, in the United
States Supreme Court, has handed
down the opinion of the court in 1853
cases involving the right of as many
individuals to citizenship in the Indian
tribes of Indian territory. The cases
involved the constitutionality of the
law creating the Dawes commission,
which had passed upon the application
for citizenship of the persons affected.
Without entering upon an examination
of all the cases involved the court held
the law to be valid and therefore af-
| firmed the findings of the courts below
| in all the cases in question.
The navy department has just re-
| ceiyed from Commander Todd of the
Wilmington an interesting account of
the remarkable voyage of exploration
up the Amazon river made by that
vessel in April last The Wilmington
was instructed by the navy depart
ment to push on up the great river
and ascertain how far it was naviga-
BILE. Commander Todd reports that he
ascended to Yquitos, in Peru, which is
about 2, 100 miles up the river. This
| voyage WAS made as he saws against