Arizona silver belt., 1900-04-19

the excess would certainly not fall be- low s90, ,000, 900 if the present stamp taxes are kept in force,
 The senate has agreed to take final vote on the right of NJ. s. Quay to a seat in the senate, on April 24,
 The Philippine commission sailed from San Francisco for Manila on the 1 tranSnQrt Hancock last Monday.
 President Mckinley signed the Porto Rican tariff bill on the 18th inst, We suppose it was his "plain duty
 Since the date of the Spanish war the United States government has paid S25, ,000,0O0 for government trans port service.
 Adiutant General Corbiu has pre- pared statement showing the strength of the troops in the Philip pines on the first of April. A. cording to this statement there were on the date stated 63,jSj officers and men there.
 Aomiral Dewey denies the report published in a New York afternoon newspaper to the effect that he intend cd to withdraw his candidacy for the presidency, that he had never given any one whatever any such informa- lion.
 \ S,a,tle, Wash. dispatch reports rush of miners from the camps along the American Yukon to the new Koyo. kuk diggings. A conservative man from koyokuk stated that the new diggingS will average $50 a day to the man. The two best gulches are known as NcKinl y and Bryan.
 The New York Journal has put in three new Hoe presses which the man. ufacturerS say SurpaSS in completeness and perfection any presses heretofore made oy them. The capacity of the three presses iS 2sS,G00, eight page papers per hour with colored covers. These presses cost S2Oo,00O. and the Journals entire battery of seventeen presses represents an investment of Sl,OOO,0 900.
 In view pf the recent decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury that the uncXpended amount of the sum appro- priatcd by Congress in 1899 to charter two vessels tO carry fUGdStuflS to India was available Secretary Hay having decided that the present famine was d continuation Of that of lSg7 Judge Advocate Lemley tclegraphed Pay Di- rector Deniston at New York to ascer- tain the terms on which he could charter vessel tO carry out to India the roodStufrS that have been collected at New York
 Mrs. Dewey is absolved from the charge of having influenced her George to announce himself an aspir- ant for the presidency. The New York Journal prints the following as Mrs. Dewey's denial: ''l was told correspondent says 1 am responsible for my husbands con. senting to become presidential can didate So far from this being the case, 1 attempted to dissuade him, re- alizing the grave anxieties and re- responsibilities surrounding a candi- date
 Representative Levy of New York introduced a resolution, which after reciting the statements that thirty of ticers and men of the army in the Phil ippines have committed suicide, and that more than 400 are now confined to insane asylums, and that serious charges have been made against of iicials in the transport, commissary and quartermaster's services, calls upon the secretary of war for informa- tion, and authorizes the speaker to ap- point an Investigating committee if the house thinks necessary.
 A wealthy Japanese silk grower when in san Diego recently stated that this section was far better suited tO silk worm culture than any section of the country he has ever visited. The Chamber of Commerce began to look into the silk industry. It was found that France provides a season for the silk worm of but fOrty-two days, while in San Diego four crops of cocoOns can be raised each year, and the season lasts 240 days. The Cham Der of Commerce is now devoting its energies to silk culture. Five thou sand mulberry trees will be distributed at once. and arrangements have been made for the purchase of large quan- tity of silk worms. Mrs. Williams, who is known in the Department of Agriculture at Washington as an ex- pert on silk culture. is now resident of San Diego. and she asserts that the industry will thrive there better than in any other section of the country.
 Dpsnitp thp efforts of the Rppuhlican