The Monte Vista journal., 1900-03-31
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Whist csasrsss y ooias.-Nsess Froa tAe
white Heuss aad Tie Departments.

Chnirmnn Brosius of the House com
mlttee on banking and currency has
submitted the report on the bill to give
greater safety to national banks, by
restricting the making OF loans and
overdrafts to bank officers.
Senator Davis OF Minnesota has In
troduced substitute for the Puerto
Rican bill which provides for free
trade between the United States and
Puerto Rico, and extends the internal
revenue laws with amendments over
the island. The act is declared provis-
ional and shall not continue longer than
March l, 1872.
Under the currency act recently
passed 1t Is possible to refund $4,000.
600 Of bonds. More than 200 charters
have already been applied for for
banks of $4,000 capital in towns OF b.
600 population, and comptroller Dawes
thinks the total will go up TO 800 before
the end Of the month. The applications
come mostly from agricultural towns
In the middle west. Iowa leading.
Chief Willis l.. Moore of the Wealth
er Bureau has issued an order prohib-
iting persons connected with the ser
Vice from smoking cigarettes during
Office hours, and stating further that
those who smoked cigarettes ut any
time would be mentioned In the conf
dental reports which are made quar-
terly to him by chiefs OF the several
offices and divisions throughout the en-
tire service. He doesn't object to
cigars and tobacco. but says that Gig
nretfes unfit n man for work In that
line.
After spirited discussion. extending
over three days. the Loud bill relating
TO secondclass mail matter was recon-
mended by the House TO the committee
ON postotfice and post roads. The ma
jority in favor Of the motion TO recon-
NIT was SO decisive that ii is regarded
ms unlikely that the measure will ap-
pear again during the present Con-
gress. Mr.. Loud said after the vote
was announced that this was the third
time and out. so far ms he was con-
cerned. The vote on the motion was
las to 96. with IL present and not vot-
ing. The bill Is intended to exclude
from the second-class postage rate all
books and pamphlets.
After several conferences Monday be-
tween General Wheeler and officers Of
the administration. 1t was announced
that the War Department had tempo
him on waiting orders. This action
retains General Wheeler in the service
OF the United States until opportunity
Is had to determine whether he shall
he given an active command, made the
subject Of special retirement act. or
mustered out Of the military service.
II Is stated that he would not be OBJ
ligcd to retire under the rules OF the
regular establishment until next fall.
so there Is still opportunity for the gen
cral to see service again II he desires.
Ellis II. Roberts, treasurer OF the
United States. says that under the new
currency law nearly Sl2.OnDOO OF sil.
Yer bullion must he Immediately pur-
chased by the mints for the coinage OF
10. - and 'ttcent pieces. The new law
requires that the subsidiary silver shall
hereafter be kept at slO0n01S. which
Is an Increase OF SoI,GS,GD ,soI ,5I4,-
$50. for the amount outstanding on the
LIST OF the month was x15. .i25.@l3. The
same law provides that hereafter NIL
currency under the denomination Of
$40 shall be standard silver dollars or
certificates issued upon them. There.
fore all grecnOacks and other notes Of
81. :: and - are to be retired and sil-
yer certificates substituted for them.
This will require the coinage OF about
12D.OOO.10O new silver dollars within
the next year or two.
Mr. Foss OF Illinois. who is acting ns
chairman OF the committee on naval
affairs during the disability Of Mr..
Bouicll.. has prepared the biggest mp.
propriaiion bill ever offered TO the
House OF Representatives for that
branch Of the service. Its total Is SIS
100000 In excess OF the highcs, prev.
ions record. II provides for two Il.ODO-
ton baitleships at a cost Of S3.GDO,OOO
each, exclusives OF nrmor or nrma-
ncnt: three swif, twcnty.two-knot ar
morcd cruisers OF 5000 tons. TO cost f..
10000 each. and three twenty-five
knot unnrmorcd cruisers Of Goo tons,
to cost el.llo.UO each. In addition TO
this $l2.opo.oo Is appropriated TO con.
time the construction OF vessels al
ready begun. Two new dry docks At
brooklyn and Norfolk are provided for.
ns large as any In the world. and q new
building for the Naval Academy, to
cost f2.aO,OO.
4 visitor at the white House. refer.
ring to the lnck of chnplalna with the
volunteer regiments In the Philippines
aud elsewhere. says that Miss Helen
Gould of New York IL maintaining
MIN" or ten chaplains In the army at
her own expense. Thc~. men are not
officially recognized as chaplalns, but
as ministers and Y. ". &. 4. workers.
They voluntarily and unoiiicinily do
practically the sim" work. Miss Gould,
| II Is stated. pays cnch one Of thcr.. men
$40 "a month and his expenses. Tn.
latter amount to morn than salaries In
the Philippines. II IL thought that Miss
Goulds monthly payment is something
Ike &2.Ob. She has been maintaining
| these Christian worker. sine. last fall.
when III. regiments ir,t began going
Ia III. Philippines and the attention
was brought TO the failure Of Congress-
to provide for the chaplaias. Her great
work Il not generally known. ns all her
deeds of this kind arr done In the mos,
| quiet way.
After brief and spirited debate the
House on Saturday took the las, con.
grr-sionAl step In completing the I'ucr.
to Itlcnn relief bill. agreeing To III.
conference report by vote Of la5 10
~. The bill turns over to the Urr.,.
dent for the usc Of Puerto Ilco, about
t..unnp OF customs receipts collected
on Puerto Rlcnn goods up to January
Jet lnst.snd such amounts ns may here.
after nrcyIe. until otherwise provided
by law. I'll. debate lasted but an
hour. but Ia this time tho Who'll" rang.
| cu.scd. An imipria.t hin passed dur.
Ing the day. appropriating eiOND for
designs for n suitable memorial
| In Washington 10 ulr~.cs n.