St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
GENERAL NEWS.
Surplus Of Pension Funds.

When the annual report OF the COM
missioner of pensions is made public it
will probably show that only $135 .0OO,-'
900 of the $40, 100000 appropriated
by congress was expended last year, and
that the balance was turned back into
the treasury. Commissioner Evan does
not doubt that this action will be the
subject of further criticism against his
administration, and that he will be
charged anew with hostility toward the
old soldier. In explanation Col. Evans
said:
II had no knowledge until a very short
time ago that there would be surplus
in my bureau this year. The clerks in
my bureau adjudicate the cases an
promptly as they can, and no one ever
asks whether there is enough money is
the appropriation bill to cover all the
pensions issued or whether there would
be surplus.
When l appeared before the appro-
priations committee and asked for $14O.-
100000, Chairman Cannon asked me if
thought that sum would suffice. / told
him did not know, and that regarded
the pensions appropriation bill as merely
a letter of credit. If the pensions issued
by my department during the year ex
ceeded the sum given me by congress the
deficiency would have to be made good
the next year. tit did not use up the
entire appropriation l would turn it
back into the treasury. The amount of
money at my disposal cut no figure in
the work of my bureau, and every man
who was entitled to pension during the
past year has received it.
| 1t seems that l have $5,000,000 left
this year. Next year l may be $5,000,-
| 900 short"
Longest Trolley System.
The traction lines now controlled by
the Everett-Moore syndicate make the
largest trolley system in the world. The
direct mileage is $50 miles, and with its
feeders and auxiliaries amounts to about
1000 miles. 1t passes through terri.
tory containing a million and half
population.
The syndicate also has secured control
of the Toledo electric light plant. In
Toledo a new suburban passenger sta
ton will be erected.
E. w. Moore, in an interview on the
extent of their present railway holdings.
said: 1--WE own or control every mile OF
street and suburban tracks between
Warren, O., and Port Huron, Mich, with
the exception of the property controlled
by the Pomeroy interests and the Little
Consolidated Street Railway of Cleve-
land. The Toledo street railway prop
erty was purchased by us while in New
York last week. The consideration was
$11 100000. At the same time we pur-
chased the Rapid Railway company of
Detroit, and secured control of the To-
ledo, Fremont & Norwalk railway. The
price paid for the Rapid railway was in
the neighborhood OF 100000.
Oar Greatest Year.
The greatest year in the history Of the
country, as the government measures
the years, will come to an end the last of
June. The close of the fiscal year, June
80, shows that during the preceding 1 2
months the United States has enjoyed a
foreign trade, counting both exports
and imports, of about $2,335 100000
These tremendous figures, almost too
vast to be brought within the con-
seriousness, exceed by $90,000,000 the
totals OF the preceding year.
In other words, the foreign trade OF
the United States has during the past
year gained $7,5O0,O00 a month over
that OF the preceding year, although that
was generally supposed to be near high
water mark. The exports for this year
will be about 100000. all in
crease of $10O.0O0,000 over 1890. The
imports will be about $685., 100000, a
loss of 500 900 from 1900.
The final figures for this year will show
balance of trade in favor of the United
States amounting to about $665, 000,-
900 against balance of $545 600 00tor
the year ending June 80, 1900 The
greatest balance of trade the United
States has ever had in their favor was in
1898, when the figures were $615, 000,-
900. This years record will go that
great sum $50, 600, 900 better.
Senator Kyle's Successor.
Gov. Herreid at Pierre, S. D.. has ap-
pired term Of the late United States Sen
ator Kyle. Mr.. Kittredge is native Of
New Hampshire, having been born in
Cheshire county, March &c, 1861. His
early education was obtained in the
public schools, and when seventeen years
: old he entered Yale university. He was
graduated in 1882 and at once began
the study OF law in the office of Judge
Veazey at Rutland. In 1884 he entered
the Yale law school and was graduated
in 1885, being admitted to the bar by
. the supreme court Of Connecticut in June
of the same year. He removed to Sioux
Falls, S. D., in 1885, and entered into
partnership with c. H. Winsor, one o
the leading attorneys Of that place. Mr.
Kittredge early manifested an interest II
state politics, and for long time was
| ex-senator R. F. Pettigrew's trusted
lieutenant In 1896 the two parted or
! the money question. Mr.. Kittredge wa:
the republican national committeeman
from South Dakota in 1892 and 1896
He is unmarried.
Receipts for War Revenue Law.
A statement prepared at the lnterna
Revenue Bureau shows that the tota
receipts from the war revenue act iron
, July 10, 1898, the date the act went into
, effect, to May 81, 1901, amounted t.
, 21O,053, 1868, as follows:
= Schedule A documentary
stamps) ....................''..'.' @loo fz<,oF4
Sche dule B proprietary
= stamps ...........'.',.....''''.. lo'Szs, L 81
| ....,..,,.................... 97,717,97'
4 Snecial taxes..........,........... 1905, 63,
| Tobacco. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 4I,zlf,IS 81
S,oSt % II
1 Cigars ... .............."............ 9,1S0,02