, 1900-12-13
WHAT is BEING DONE AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

making the limit of expenditures $780,
600.
For the postofice at Leadville the
supervising architect of the treasury
recommends an additional appropria-
ton of $4,000. For Salt Lake, $780,
600 additional and for Helena 100000
additional.
Delegate Wilson of Arizona has in
troduced n bill creating n judicial dis
trict of the territories of New Mexico,
Arizona and Oklahoma. with three ap-
pellate judges, II to be selected from
each territory.
The canteen provision in the new
army bill Is likely to cause a great deal
of contention. Instead of being n 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,
S107 ,937 ,110; silver dollars, SfS,244 ,9S4;
subsidiary silver, S12,S7G.s49.15; minor,
S2,243,O1T.21. TotaI, Sal, 301 ,9G0.36.
The commissioners to the Paris E1-
position, with about forty of their
friends, We're given n complimentary
excursion by steamer on the 9th instant
to Mt. Vernon Inc return by Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas i. Walsh of Colorado.
Senator Warren has introduced a bill
providing hat all honorably discharg-
ed soldiers, sailors and marines of the
United States shall be admitted to gov
hospitals free Of charge. a
like was introduced in the
House by Representative Mondell of
Wyoming.
Agent Nicholson of the San Carlos
reservation informs the Indian bureau
that he has 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 Il myth.
Senator Hanna. chairman of the Re
publican national committee, has of
fered to John Jay Edison, a 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 rations,
usually twice n month, is 1920.
Among them 9T2 on the Southern Ute
reservation in Colorado who cost the
government an average of Sl3 per
capita for rations during the year.
President De Young and Thomas f.
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 II of the
finest pieces of workmanship produced
by Partisan goldsmiths.
The House passed the Grout oleo-
margarine bill by q vote of 1876 to %.
The substitute offered by the minority
of the committee on agriculture which
imposed additional restrictions on the
sale of olcOmargarinc to prevent its
fraudulent sale as butter, and in
creased the penalties for violations,
was defeated by n vote of ll3 to IT'S.
In the estimates FOR appropriations
presented to Congress for the ensuing
year, the following western items APP
pear: Irrigation Investigations, $4,000;
Denver mint expenditures, S3I $50;
Leadville public building, 25,OoO;
Grand Junction Indian school. $50. T2J;
Pueblo Indian school, S2T $50; Albu-
querque Indian school, sos. 100.
In relation to the l~ynching in La
sale county, Texas, October ., 1895, of
Florentino Suastc, Il Mexican citizen,
the President, in n special message
sent to the Senate recommends that
the Mexican government be paid $1,000
for the heirs of the victim. The rec
o"mmendation Is made from motives of
humanity and without reference to
the question of liability of the govern
mpnt Of fine limited STATES"
Among the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Il. 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 Pauncefotc, Mrs. Harriet
Lane johnson, the Argentine minister
and Madame Wilde, Mrs. Burrows, he
japanese minister, Mrs. GrOsvenor, the
Chinese minister, Judge Ii Mrs. Ken
ma and Perry $. Heath,
According to Secretary Cages report
the highest quotation in the London
market for silver SO92j fine during the
fiscal year was S0,G2G12 in United
States money per ounce fine. The low
est quotation was $O.5S365. The aver
age price for the fiscal year was
SO.6OOl7. The bullion value of the
United States standard dollar, at the
highest price for the year, was SO.iSi26
and the lowest SO.45141, and at the av-
eraGc price, $O.1Gil9.
The House passed the army %reorgani-
cation bill by n vote of lGG to 1873.
Three Democrats, Hall Of Pennsyl-
vanla and Underhill and Slayton of
New York, voted with the Republicans
for the bill, and Mr.. Mccall Qtepubli-
can, Massachusetts, with the Demo
Gratis against it. otherwise it was n
strict party vote. The adjustment of
the army canteen and prohibition of
| sale of liquor 10 soldiers under any con
ditlon was carried by II large majority.
The clause providing for promotion
and retirement of Generals Shafter,
Lee and Wilson was stricken out.
Supervising Architect Taylor has
submitted To Congress an estimate of
additional appropriations required to
| complete the various public buildings
of the country. For the Denver mint,
the original appropriation for which
800. EEsuA IAl g.. -..LYn.I 90. 81