North Park union., 1900-04-06


Rico, the Philippines and Cuba on Its
hands,"
The House committee on public lands
has reported a bill abolishing the pay
ment OF 81 .25 an acre on land taken up
by settlers under the desert land act.
The committee also reported favorably
a bill to refund $1.25 per acre to per-
sons who have located under the pre-
emption or homestead laws, and who
have commuted their entries by cash
payments to $3.50 per acre where the
lands located were within n railroad
grant and the railroad was never
built.
The Senate committee ON appropria-
tions has reported the urgency defi-
cheney bill, carrying an appropriation
of $4,000 for continuing the work Of
the geological survey In stream gaug-
Ing in the arid and semi-arid states.
This work has been suspended by rea-
son of the exhaustion of the appro-
prlation caused by extra work Of the
survey during the drouth period In Cal
ifornIa. photographer Newell of the
survey states that when the new ap-
propriation is available considerable
work will be done In Colorado and Wy
oming.
After spirited discussion, extending
over three days, the Loud bill relating
to second-class mail matter was recon-
mended by the House to the committee
OIL postofiice and post roads. The ma
jority In favor of the motion to recon-
NIT wns 80 decisive that 1t is regarded
as unlikely that the measure will mp
pear again during the present Con-
gress. Mr.. Loud said after the vote
was announced that this wns the third
time and out, 80 fnr as he was con-
cerned The vote on the motion was
14S to 90, with 10 present and not vot-
ing. The bill Is intended to exclude
from the second-class postage rate all
books and pamphlets.
The division of Issue of the comp
troller of the currency's office is send
ing new currency to national banks at
the rate Of more than a million dollars
q day, and will continue to do SO until
the full amount which the banks nre
entitled under the new law has been
furnished. Under the old law national
banks were permitted to take out cir
culation to the maximum of ninety per
cent. of the par value Of the bonds de-
posted with the Treasury Department
The amount Of bonds to secure clrcu-
lation Is about $24OOOO. The new act
permits the banks to take out circula-
tion to the par value Of these bonds,
thus emitting them to about $24. .OOO, 900
in excess Of that they have heretofore
enjoyed.
Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer of the
United States, says that under the new
currency law nearly $12,OO0,OO Of sill
yer bullion must be Immediately pur-
chased by the mints for the coinage Of
10, 25 and 5O-cent pieces. The new law
requires that the subsidiary silver shall
hereafter be kept at 800 0OO, 900. which
is an Increase of $24, ,OO0, 600 1924 ,574,-
$50, for the amount outstanding on the
LIST Of the month was $40, ,425, Alb. The
same law provides that hereafter all
currency under the denomination Of
SO shall be standard silver dollars or
certificates issued upon them. There
fore all Hreenbacks and other notes of
81, $2 and IS are to be retired and sill
yer certificates substituted for them.
This will require the coinage Of about
12O, 900 600 new silver dollars within
the next year or two.
The conference on the Puerto Rican
appropriation bill have agreed upon a
compromise measure, The Senate con-
ferees receded from the Senate amend
ment limiting the appropriation to the
revenues collected on Puerto Rican i'm
portntions until the first of last Janua-
~ and restored the clause In the House
bill applying to future revenues, read
ing as follows: Together with any
further customs revenue collected on
importations from Puerto Rico since
Januray 1, 1900, or that shall hereafter
be collected under existing law" The
provision in the Senate amendment
specifying the purpose for which the
money shall be used Is retained, but an
that 1t shall be for the "afd and relief
OF the Puerto Ricans"
The Republican peace committee met
after the adjournment of the Senate
Thursday and practically ratified the
oIfer Of Senator Foraker In the Senate
to separate the House Puerto Rico tar
iff bill from the Senate governmental
bill, and to take a vote ON the House
measure. The peace committee 10 will
ing that a vote should be taken upon
the House bill as first passed by that
body, provided 1t becomes apparent
that It is impolitic to attempt to amend
1t, but m effort will be made to ascer-
tain whether the House will consent to
any modification. Some of the Repub-
lican senators think the bill should be
30 changed ms to provide for the con-
tinued exemption from duty of the ar
tcles which were exempted by the
Presidents order. They also fnd the
House bill deficient In that 1t falls to
provide any means of collecting the
duty which It imposes.
After brief and spirited debate the
House on Saturday took the last con-
gressional step In completing the Puer-
to Rican relief bill, agreeing to the
conference report by a vote of 1876 to
81. The bill turns over to the Presi-
dent for the use of Puerto Rico, about
-. .O00, 600 Of customs receipts collected
on Puerto Rican goods up to January
1st last, and such amounts as may here
after accrue, until otherwise provided
by law. The debate lasted but an
hour. but In this time the whole range
Of Puerto Rico legislation was dis
GUESSED. An important bill passed dur
Ing the day, appropriating $4,000 for
designs for a suitable saemorinl
IN Washington to Ulysses 8.
Grant, this being the first step In n
movement to secure an arch similar
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