La Junta tribune., 1900-12-08
|vSHINGTON NEWS.

PsssssaAl A0niFs - lnpostaat Public
AasaesAsas-Geeeral Nsus asd GoAssp-
he total customs receipts at all the
Ms In the United States Is stated by
supervising agent to be S2ss4 .7I9,-
D. and the expenses 1.l35.OO
The report of the secretary OF the
treasury shows that the coinage exc
ted during the fiscal year was: Gold.
Oi .a3s 40: silver dollars. S1S,2i4 ,ss4 !;
99bsidiary silver. x12.SIG. $40. 10. minor.
243.0l7.2l. Total. xii1 1.30l .!si0-36.
Delegate Wilson OF Arizona has in
a bill creating judicial dis
met OF the territories OF New Mexico,
Arizona and Oklahoma. with three ap-
pellate Judges. one 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 pro-
pibition of the sale of liquor, 1t pro-
rides that no army officer or soldier
shall sell liquor.
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 cf charge a
like measure was introduced in the
House by Representative Mopdell of
Wyoming.
In the estimates for appropriations
presented to Congress for the ensuing
year. the following western items ap.
pear; Irrigation Investigations. $4,000:
Denver mint expenditures, $37, ,4Jo:
Leadville public building. 25.O0O:
Grand Junction Indian school. $50. .725:
Pueblo Indian school, $o1 $50: Albu-
querlue Indian school, $5S, 100.
h The battleship Iowa. flagship of the
Pacific station. in company with the
Philadelphia, has been ordered to leave
San Francisco for the usual winter
cruise southwark. 1t is stated that
there liz no particular political purpose
Sn the cruise. but conditions along the
isthmus are disturbed, and 1t Is regard
cd as good policy to have the United
States flag shown in that quarter at
comparatively short intervals.
The President wrote his message
With his own hand. AS usual he had
memOrapda furnished from the several
executive departments. He did not,
however, clap the manuscript into his
message as most OF his predecessors
have done with a few erasures and in
teriiHsitions, but he carefully rewrote
every line submitted by his Cabinet
ministers and other officers Of the gov.
ernment.
Representative Brosius of Pennsyl-
vanfa, chairman OF the committee on
banking and currency. has introduced
in the House Il resolution to authorize
the control Of the currency under the
Limitations of the act of July IL, 1882,
to extend for a further period of TWEEN
ty years the charter of any national
banking association which shall desire
10 continue Its existence after the ex
piration Of Its present charter.
Senator Wolcott's bill. which he in
{. troduced In the last Congress to create
a tenth United States judicial circuit
has been reintroduced by Senator
Thurston. The bill proposes creating
a judicial circuit to include Kansas.
.Nebraskn, Colorado, Wyoming. Utah
and Montana, with two circuits and
ethree district Judges. The measure is
strongly urged by ull the representa-
tiyeS from the states interested.
According to Secretary Cages report
the highest quotation In the London
market for silver $O.925 fine during the
fiscal year was $O.62612 in United
States money per ounce fine. The low
est quotation wns $O.5S36J. The aver
Aage price for the fiscal year was
$O.GOO17. The bullion value OF the
United States standard dollar, at the
highest price for the year, was $0.4S42d
and the lowest $O45141. and at the av
,erage price. $0.4G419.
= In his annual report to the secretary
OF the treasury, the supervising special
agent states that during the season OF
1900 22.47O sealskins were taken, and
is has been reported that the lessees
took smaller seals than have ever be
Fov. IN knn which II la thn1JVhf
will result in a diminished catch during
the next year. The seal life in 1899 is
reported to be twenty per cent. less
Than In 1S9S which is attributed to the
effect of pelagic sealing.
The first formal social function of the
season at the White House occurred
on the night of December 9Th. when
the President and Mrs. Mckinley gave
a dinner to the commissioners OF the
United States to the Paris exposition
and their ladies' The table was set in
the state dining room. which. with the
east room and the red. blue and green
parlors, had been appropriately deco
rated for the occasion. The Marine
band furnished the music.
Representative Shafroth made a
speech in the House against the pend
ing army bill. He contended that as il
was claimed by the Republicans that
an emergency existed in the Philip
pines for the passage Of the army bill.
that temporary measure should have
Aeen presented instead Of one for the
per1nnnent increase of the army. A
bill providing for n standing army
should be framed with relation to the
needs for such an army in times of
peace, for that is the condition Of our
country nine years out Of ten.
Representative Mondell Of Wyoming
was given a hearing by the sub-com-
mittee on rivers and harbOrs and urg-
ed the incorporation in the river and
ha rl,of llfll nf an amendment aDDrOnri-