The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-18

ards has rendered an opinion in which he
holds in effect that the time limit in the
proviso in Paragraph Isl of the tariff act of
July "a, 1897, which says that the refined
metal produced from imported lead ores
must be re-expOrted or the regular duties
paid thereon within six months from the
date of the receipt of the ore, must be
reckoned from the date the ore was re-
ceived at the smelter, and not from the
date the ore was received at the port of
entry.
Representative Richardson. of Tennessee.
to-day introduced two more antitrust reso-
buttons, one against the American Steel
and Wire Company and the other against
the Federal Steel Company.
The House committee on public lands to-
day favorably reported bill abolishing the
payment of SIPS an acre on lands taken up
by settlers under the desert-land act. The
committee also reported favorably bill to
refund $1.25 per acre to persons who have
located under the presumption or home
stead laws. and who have committed their
entries by cash payments at $3.50 per acre,
where the lands located were within a rail-
road grant and the railroad was never
built.
United States Minister Hunter is return
ing to his post with instructions to renew
his request on the government of Honduras
for settlement of claim of indemnity
account of the killing by a sentinel of the
young Pittsburg man, Pears, a little over a
year ago. .
The War Department has purchased from
the North American Mail Steamship Com
pany the steamship Columbia for use as a
transport on the Pacific The Columbia
has been chartered by the army transport
service from last August up to a short
time ago, when she was released. She is
in San Francisco harhor.
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training vessels. She will be overhauled
and fitted out for that purpose at the Bos-
ton navy yard at an estimated cost of
$4,000.
In the House Mr. Kahn Dem.). of Cali
fornia, called up a bill to provide for the
purchase by the Keeluk Packing Company
of strip of land in Alaska used by the
company for the past twenty years. The
bill was passed. Mr.. Burkett of New
York, then presented resolutions in memory
of the late Monroe l.. Hayward. senator
from Nebraska. Tributes were paid to Mr..
Hayward's memory by Messrs. Burkett,
Mercer, Stark, Sutherland and Neville, of
Nebraska, and Mr.. Hull of Iowa. The
usual resolutions were adopted and the
House, as an additional mark of respect, at
LIS o'clock adjourned.
To-day's statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund. exclusive of the
s15OOOO,OOO gold reserve in the division of
redemption. shows: Available cash bal
ances, $157, 1893; gold, s96,64O.399.
During the past three months the Patent
Office issued 735 more patents than during
the corresponding period of the preceding
year 1t is said that if this rate of issue
is maintained the total number of patents
issued this year will be greater than that
of any twelve months in the history of the
- -. n
Der will reach 26.0oo The issue of trade
marks, designs and prints has also In
creased. The receipts of the Patent Ofice
for January and February showed an in
crease of $4,000 over the same months OF
last year and IL the rate of increase is
maintained the total increase for this year
will be $4,000. The receipts OF the Of
flee during the week ended March 10 were
$500
The Photographic Office has taken steps
to have the United States steamship Iro-
quois make a search for the missing Nor
rell island while she is engaged in the sur
vey for cable route in the Pacific Sew
eral reports have reached the office TO
show that ships have sailed directly over
the place where the island was charted.
The officers say this may be owing to
mistake made by the early recorders, but
they will verify the fact.
In report to the State Department.
Consul Halstead, at Birmingham. England.
says that trusts are created there without
attracting public attention or causing
alarm. and although no trouble is taken to
keep the fact from the public. 1t is ex-
tremely rare that a voice is raised against
such combinations. These remarks are
based on the recent formation Of wall
paper trust with a capital Of nearly $780,
100000 Dealers are required to buy all
their stock from this combination and to
sell no other for q period Of about ten