The Lamar register., 1900-12-12

additional appropriation of 100000,
making Tho limit of expenditures $780,
900.
For the postoffice at Leadville the
supervising architect of the treasury
recommends an additional appropria-
ton of $4,000. For Salt Lake, $780,
900 additional and for Helena 100000
additional.
Delegate Wilson of Arizona has in
troduced bill creating judicial dis
trict of the territories of New Mexico.
Arizona and Oklahoma, with three ap-
pellate judges, one to be selected from
each territory.
The canteen prov Ision in the new
army bill Is likely to cause a great deal
of contention. Instead of being pro-
hibition of the sale of liquor it pro-
vides that no army officer or soldier
shall sell liquor.
The report of the secretary of the
treasury shows that the coinage exc
cuted during the fiscal year was: Gold,
$107, ,937 i 10; silver dollars, S1S,244, ,9S4; !;
subsidiary silver, So, SIG, $40. 10; minor,
$2,243O17.21. Total, S141 ,3O1 ,96O.36.
The commissioners to the Paris Ex-
position, with about forty of their
friends, We're given n complimentary
excursion by steamer on the 9th instant
to Mt. Vernon and return by Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Il. Walsh of Colorado.
Senator Warren has introduced bill
providing that all honorably discharg
ed soldiers. sailors and marines of the
United States shall be admitted to gov
ernment hospitals free of charge. A
like measure was introduced i'll the
House by Representative Mondell of
Wyoming.
Agent Nicholson of the San Carlos
reservation informs the Indian bureau
that he las tailed his Indians and
finds none absent from the reservation.
Commissioner Jones is now certain
that the recently reported hunting ex-
cursion of 200 Uavajoes and Apaches
was myth.
Senator Hanna, chairman of the Re
publican national committee, has Of
fered to John Jay Edison, Il prominent
business man of Washington. the chair
manship of the inaugural committee.
Mr.. Edison accepted the tender, and
will take charge of the Inauguration
ceremonies.
According to the report of the secre-
tary of the interior, the number of In
dians who regularly receive ra1ions.
usually twice month, is 45.2I0.
Among them 912 on the Southern Ute
reservation in Colorado who cost the
government an average of S13 per
capita for rations during the year.
President De Young and Thomas Il.
Walsh of the Paris exposition commits
sion called upon President Mckinley
to-day and presented him n gold badge
on behalf of the commission to be
handed to Mrs. Mckinley with their
compliments. The badge is one of the
finest pieces of workmanship produced
by Partisan goldsmiths.
The House passed the Grout oleo-
!. margarine bill by n vote of 1876 to 81.
The substitute offered by the minority
of the committee on agriculture which
imposed additional restrictions on the
sale of oleomargarine to prevent its
fraudulent sale as butter, and in
creased the penalties for violations,
was defeated by vote of lib to ITS.
The President wrote his message
with his own hand. As usual he had
memoranda furnished from the several
executive departments. He did not,
however. clap the manuscript into his
message as most of his predecessors
have done with n few erasures and in
terlineations, but he carefully rewrote
every line submitted by his Cabinet
ministers and other officers of the gov
ernment.
In relation to the lynching in La
sale county. Texas, October 8, 1895, of
Florentino Suaste. Mexican citizen,
the President. in special message
sent to the Senate recommends that
the Mexican government be paid $1,000
for the heirs of the victim. The rec
ommendation is made from motives of
humanity and without reference to
the question of liability Of the govern
ment of the United States"
Among the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas +. Walsh mt their reception to
the Paris Exposition commissioners
were: Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs.
John W. Foster, Secretary Wilson,
Senator and Miss Cockrell, Mrs. Fora
ker, Miss Pauncefote, Mrs. Harriet
Lane Johnson, the Argentine minister
and Madame Wilde, Mrs. Burrows, the
Japanese minister, Mrs. Grosvenor, the
Chinese minister, Judge and Mrs. Ken
ma and Perry S. Heath.
According to Secretary Cages report
the highest quotation in the London
market for silver SO.925 fine during the
fiscal year was SO.62612 in United
States money per ounce fine. The low
est quotation was SO.5S365. The aver
age price for the fiscal year was
$O6OO17. The bullion value of the
United States standard dollar, at the
highest price for the year, was SO4S426
and the lowest SO.45141, and at the av-