The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-24
new GOVERNOR
WILLIAM H. HUNT WILL OCCUPY
EXECUTIVE MANSION AT
SAN JUAN
SUCCEEDS CHARLES H. ALLEN
Appointment Is Promotion, as
Gov. Hunt Is at Present the
Secretary of Porto
Rico
FREE TRADE PROCLAMATION

WASHINGTON, July 23.-William H.
Hunt, present secretary of Porto Rico.
mas been selected to succeed Gov Charles
| II. Allen, upon the retirement OF the lat
ter from the insular government Gov.
| Allen brought with him to Boston all of
his household effects when he came from
San Juan, and he does not expect to re-
| turn to Porto Rico. The formal announce
| ment of the selection of Gov Hunt Is
| withheld until the regular appointment is
made, and this cannot be done before the
expiration of the leave of Gov. Allen next
| September
THE NEW INCUMBENT.
William H. Hunt, who has been selected
to succeed Charles H. Allen as governor
! of Porto Rico, was born in New Orleans
Nov. 10, 1857, and is the fourth son of the
late William II. Hunt, Of Louisiana, who
| was secretary of the navy in the cabinets
| of Presidents Garfield and Arthur, and
minister to Russia. Judge Hunt received
| his education at Yale college, but on ac-
! count of Ill health did not finish his
| course. In 1896 Yale conferred upon him
| the honorary degree of master of arts
| When he was twenty-seven years of age
he was elected attorney general of the ter
| ritory of Montana. He subsequently NOV
| ed to Helena, and in 1888 was elected a
member of the legislature, where he serV~
ed as chairman of the Judiciary committee.
| He was a member of the constitutional
| convention in 1894 which framed the con-
stitution of the state when 1t was admit
| ted to the Union, and also held important
| judicial positions In Montana.
| When Gov. Allen went to Porto Rico he
was requested by President Mckinley to
| become secretary of the island, and to
| assist Gov Allen in organizing the new
| civil government.
FREE TRADE.
Free trade between the United States
and Porto Rico will be proclaimed Tues
| day Attorney General Knox is preparing
| the proclammations which will be issued.
! Two proclammationS will be issued. the
first declaring the establishment Of civil
government in Porto Rico, and the second
the establishment of free trade between
the United States and the island.
Although civil government has existed
+, for many months in Porto Rico, Gov AL
len, up to the time he went to Canton on
Sunday, purposely withheld the formal
notification of that fact from the presi-
dent in order that the moneys collected
| under the Foraker act might not be
| placed at the disposal of the Porto Rican
| legislature, but could continue to be used
for the benefit of the island under he d.
rection of the president. The effect OF an
earlier notification would have been
proclamation by the president recogniz-
ing the establishment of civil government
and the turning over TO the insular treas
urv for the use of the legislature OF all
moneys thereafter collected under the
Foraker act.
NAMED BY MKINLEY.
The president today made the following
appointments:
War-Eruest 2. Newson and Perry Sill
yer. chaplains in the army; Harry r.
| Lemen. assistant surgeon volunteers,
rank of sergeant; second lieutenants or
infantry, Frank II. Burton, William IS.
! Oracle Samuel B. Mcintyre, Samuel A.
Price. Harris Pendleton Jr., Peter Vre-
denburgh Ernest II. Agnew, Charles ".
| Barber, Alpha T. Easton, Campbell w.
Floke, Clarence M. Furay, Robert n.
Crinstead, William S. Mapes, John +.
Trent. Benjamin r. Wade, Frederick 3.
Young; first lieutenants of cavalry, Del
phey T. E. Castel, Alvan c. Gillem,
George e. Lowell, Henry M. Morrow.
! Sam Van Leer; second lieutenants of
| cavalry, Lawrence S Carson, William
H .Clopton Jr., Frank B. Edwards,
| Thomas NJ Knox Sebring G. Megill,
Archie Miller, Frank T. McNarny, Or
| lando F. Palmer, Bradley ]. Wootcn,
Edward G. Wells, John S. E. Young;
second lieutenants, artillery corps, Dan
Fuller, Benjamin H. Kerfort Ralph M.
Mitchell, John c. Ohnstad, Carroll Pow
er, Francis w. Ralston Jr., John M.
| Shook Blanton Winship
State-Lewis A. Martin, West Virginia,
! United States consul at Ciudad Porfirio
Diaz, Mexico.
TREASURY STATEMENT.
Todays statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the S150000,00O gold reserve in the divis-
ion of redemption, shows: Available cash
balance, $169, ,O54,536; gold, $97, ,4Ol ,O13; sill
Yer, $25,961, ,715; United States notes, S13,-
257,575; treasury notes of 1920, $1O7,9 ,9O4; ma
tional bank notes. $S, S,993, ,562; total receipts
this day, $l,7S6,903; total receipts this
month, $SS, ,62S; total receipts this
year, $3S,S56,52S; total expenditures this
day, s1Sl6,OOO; total expenditures this
month, $4%,1S5, 600; total expenditures this
year, $13, 135, 600; deposits in national
banks, $1O1, So, $50.
The secretary of the treasury today
purchased $4,000 short term per cent
bonds at S11S.O515 and Sc, COO 5s at S1O9 1920