The Meeker herald., 1901-10-12
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

President Roosevelt has appointed
Joseph J. LANCER Of Nebfaska 70 -
c0os1 at Solingen, Germany.
Ad5utant Gsneral Corbin tails -
President that within another year tbs
military forces In the Philippines. can
Be reduced from 1900 TO 25.O00 men
Orders have been issued cOnveuing
boards of army officers to examine and
report upon the Notifications neces-
sary In the Philippines and Hawaiian
slands.
The acting secretary Of war has tax
en- adverse action on the proposition to
send the transport Egbert to Cape
destitute miners.
A new counterfeit $40 treasury note
has reached the secret service bureau.
1t d . photo photographic production
Of two pieces OF Japan Tissue between
which red and hue silk hbre has been
distributed. The work u poorly
done aud the seal Is brick-red. The
lathe work IL lost and the back OF the
nots 10 q muddy green. The note In
hand has the check letter b, series
1880. portrait Of Webster, Lyons, reg
lister; Ellis H. Roberts. treasurer.
The census bureau report ON the cot
ton zinned, in the United States, just
issued, shows the crop Of 1900 TO have
been 10. 400, 148 commercial bales. an
increase Of $40, ia, or more than eight
per ceAt. IN excess of the 1900 crop.
Texas grew .thirty-four per cent. Of the
entire crop OF 1900 and 0ne-fOurth of
the worlds crop Of that year. Its
crop Increased thirty-tEree per cent.
over 1859, the 1900 crop being $685.
60G commercial bales and the 1850
crop 2,6na, 555. East Of the MlssissiI'-
pi production decreased.
In order to Insure the protection Of
Cpban coffee planters against the In
p6rtation Of HrazilIan coffee through
the United States and Porto Rico. an
order win be promulgated by the War
Department providing duty on coffee
going into Cuba sufficient to prevent
such inportstions- Some time ago
the inpeffatioh OF Porto Edcan coffee
into Cuba was allowed In the interests
Of the Porto Rican growers, but some
fear Is expressed that Cuban interests
will suffer by the Indirect importation
Of coffee from South America.
The bureau Of construction and re-
pair Of the Navy Department has re-
ceived Official reports as to the present
status of four vessels named for Rocky
Mountain states and cities now build
ing at different yards. The armOred
cruiser Colorado, which ID being CON
structed at Cramp Il Sons yards, Phil
adelphia, has reached five per cent.
degree Of completion; the protected
cruiser Denver, ut Neafie & Levy's,
Philadelphia, Is now fifty-fiye per cent.
the monitor Wyoming, at
the Union Iron Works, Is seventy-five
per cent. finished, while the Nevada, Mt
the Bath Iron Works, Is ninety one per
cent, tinished.
Walter Wellman, writing to the Chi
cago Record Herald, says that the
members cf the Cabinet are assured
that President Roosevelt II going to
follow the policy Of his predecessor
and keep close to Congress" Moth
ing in the nature Of new departure
VIII b undertaken til It has been care
fully canvassed with the party leaders
In 10th hcvses OF CongreaA Nothing
NV W43 b proposed that ID pot res
seeahly cure Of success In the national
This applies to tho canal
treaty with Great Britain as well -
10 reciprocity with Cuba and with 9th
er countries. Months ago President
asked Secretary Hay to con-
suit with senators about the proposed
new treaty with England anent the
isthmian canal. His wishes were fol-
lowed, and the reGalt is strong prob
ability, amounting almost to moral
certainty, that during the coming SEES
sion canal treaty will be submitted
and ratified.
At q recent Cabinet meeting one Of
the phases OF public business called to
President Roosevelt's attention was the
manner In which money is piling up
In the treasury. Secretary Gage re-
ported that the recent call of bonds
had proved to be but a drop In the
bucket, and that money is accumulate
Ing at rapid rate In less than three
months Of this fiscal year the excess
of receipts over Expenditures has been
100000. Notwithstanding the re-
ducton Of taxation, the change from
year ago is remarkable. At this date
In 1900 the expenditures for the fiscal
year were slightly In excess Of the re-
ceipts, The receipts Low are within
$3001O00 as great as they were last
year, while the expenditures are $780,
100000 smaller. In other words, the
expenses of the government are now
nearly $2,OOO,OOO week less than
they were at this period last year.
President Roosevelt evinced great inter-
est b the figures which Mr.. Gage pre-
scented to him, and there was some dis
cussion of ways and means of rellev-
ing the treasury of its glut of money.
Incidentally Mr.. Roosevelt has made It
known - members Of the Clbinet that
he wishes each Of them to manage his
department largely upon his own re-
sponsfbility, solving BY himself Ques-
lions which have been usually present
ed to the President and the Cabinet
for Judgment.
me United States Department Of
Agriculture will soon Issue 4 cofnpre-
hensive report on Irrigation In Califor-
MA, which embodies the Arst attempt
at cooperation by the federal govern
snent with an iudieidual state In the
solution Of the Irrigation problem. The
investigation chronicled by the report
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