Arizona silver belt., 1900-04-26

poSiUOn, polleu the democratic na- tional committee with view of as- certaining the views of its members on the new candidacy. The result was forty-two members for w. J. Bryan and six non-committal The name of no candidate except Mir. Bryan was mentioned.
 The appraised valuation of the Cor nehus Vanderbilt estate is about $60,- 000,000 The estate was supposed to have been worth Si25,000,000. It has probably been underrated to escape the inheritance tax, which on the ap- praised valuation will be only s320. 272 IS.
 The senate committee oh foreign re- lations on the 18th. agreed to favor able report on the convention between 1 the United States and Spain, extend ! ing for six months the time in which l Spanish residents of the Philippine islands can elect whether they will re- main citizens of Spain or become citi- zens of the Philippines.
 The birthday of the Rev William Booth, general of the Salvation Army, who was born at Nottingham, Eng land, in 1899. was signalized on April Is in London, by the receipt of hun dreds of congratulations from ali parts of the world and the presentation of a purse of S2O0,0 600 as the result of the collection during the self.d denial week of the Army.
 The supreme court of the United States has decided that express com panies can charge shippers for the stamp they are required to put on all shipping bills. and so make the ship pers stand the war tax. The express companies have been doing this and there has been much opposition to them on this account. Now they have good authority for making the extra charge.
 The Chicago Tribune calculates that the sj00.000 fee paid to Lawyer Meyer of that city for his services in connec- ton with the reorganization of the gas interests there is the largest ever paid to a lawyer in this country in a siug.e professional transaction. in order to establish this assertion, it is found necessary to dispute the truth of the statement that fee of Sl, ,000,- 900 was paid to Lawyer Din for his services in the settlement of the Car negie-Frick troubles.
 At Jefferson day banquet of the democratic club in Brooklyn. April l9, a letter of regret from eX-Governor Boies of Iowa was read, in which he concluded: We are at the threshold of another national campaign. and the issues upon which it is to be fought will be made by the democratic party. And what shall they be? Anti-im- perialism, anti miitarism, anti.mo- nopoly and death to trusts.n
 The following telegram from Erwin Winston, sccretare of the Anti-lm- perialistic league, was sent to Senator Hoar Congratulations. If the re- publican party rejects this tremendous appeal it is doomed. We shall follow your memorable logic, supporting no party or candidate not standing with you on this paramount question. Everything else insignificant.
 A Washington dispatch of April IS, says: The cabinet today decided upon an important programme for the gov ernment of Americas new possessions. The mooted question of having a col onial secretary as new member of the cabinet was decided on affirma- lively. A bill will be introduced in congress, probably at this session, pro- viding for this new ministerial officer, whose official title will be secretary of commerce. His main duties will con cern the affairs of Porto Rico Cuba and the Philippines.
 A Boston dispatch says: The Rev. Rockwell Clancy, missionary at Al habad, India, who is visiting his brother at Medford, says; "When the famine set in the people began to sell everything so as to get little grain for food. They took the doors from their houses and sold them, sold their furniture and farming utensils and then, when they had no longer any thing to sell, they sold their children, The boys don't sell well, and the traffic is largely in girls. | saw girls in one town just before l came away being sold for 30 cents piece
 The present importation of Japanese to Puget Sound has reached unprece dented figures, and thousands more are now afoat, headed this way. Dur ing the month of April 3,500 Japanese have been landed in Puget Sound ports and British Columbia, and of the men landed In the latter ports, fully two-thirds find their way across the border. The reason given by a Tacoma dispatch for the present rush