, 1901-05-02
WASHINGTON S

reduced to 10000 men.
1t is probable that several regiments
of our troops will be kept in Cuba for
ut least Il year yet.
Secretary Root has accepted the plan
urged by General Miles for an army
of 10000 men-a regiment for each
million of population.
The Navy Department has received
n letter from Admiral Remey, in COM
mand of the Asiatic station, making
known his purpose TO be present at
the ceremony attending the erection
of n monument to Commodore Perry
at Kurihama, Japan, on July 4th.
Attorney General Knox, by direction
of the President, has called all Off
cials who have been connected with
the Oberlin NJ. Carter cast to Wash
ington for n secret conference to de-
termine upon active measures to be
taken for the recovery of the money
Garter is said to have embezzled.
The monthly statement of the collec-
lions of internal shows that
the total receipts for March, 1901,
were $4,000, 745. n decrease as COM
pared with March, 1900. of S295,933.
For the last nine months the receipts
were S32S.525 less than for the cor
responding period last year.
The Cuban delegation saw President
Mckinley twice Thursday. At the first
meeting there We're expressions of
friendship. At night the members of
the delegation We're guests of honor ut
n state dinner at the White House.
The real business which brought the
delegation here was not transacted, the
President saying to the delegates that
he would confer with Secretary Root,
who would net as his representative
in conferences over the Cuban situa-
ton.
The biologists of the Department of
Agriculture are not yet prepared to say
whether the Introduction of Belgian
hares into the United States will be Il
nuisance or n blessing. In Australia
the introduction of ordinary rabbits
proved so disastrous that the govern
ment was compelled to take the mat
ter In hand and use h army TO eX-
terminate them. Some fear has been
felt lest the introduction of the Bel
gian hare should result in n similar
danger to this country, and h gov
eminent biologists are now making
anxious observations. 1t is claimed
that the Belgian hare is purely n do
nestle animal, incapable of sustaining
life without the aid of man. This ques-
ton will soOn be decided. however. in
southern California, where the indus
try of raising hares for their pelts was
taken up two years ago then ban
doned as Improbable. The hareS were
turned loose. and are now in what may
he called n wild state. The experts
are watching them. and particularly
noting the rate at which they multiply.
uu,a tfAr.a, n,, f1.pf flanN- fan " 1.a
come Il nuisance in that warm climate,
but it is not believed they will ever
endanger the agricultural interests of
the northern states because they can
not endure the old winters. AT any
rate, the experts of the department
ARE withholding their opinion until
they have made further observation.
The plan of operations of the geolog-
ical survey for the mex fiscal year
has Just batn announced. Numerous
Iarties are IL be Sent to all sections
OF the country to engage in geological.
typographical, hydrOgraphiCai and
other lines of survey work. An i'm
portant feature will be an inyestiga-
ton. in cooperation with the coast
and geOdetic survey, of certain un-
marked parts of the Northwest bound
AIRY between the United States and
Canada. The line will he re-run and
temporarily marked by iron posts in
certain localities. 1t is planned to make
II reconnaissance of the whole line from
the summit of Ii Rocky mountains
westward. GeOlogiSt Bailey Willis,
with II party, will make II %reconnoi-
snnce of n strip ten To fifteen miles
wide along the south side of the bound
AIRY line in Idaho and Montana TO de-
tnErnfnn it, nnnInUiru1 f.ntnpnS and tho
condition of the boundary monuments.
Other biologists will make surveys
from the Colorado westward to the Pa
citic coast. Parties will be detailed to
cooperate in typographical surveys
with the states of New York. Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Maine, West Virginia and
North Carolina. Director Walcott will
make special Investigations in the
Rockies in Montana. Investigations
are planned of the cluys and clay work
ing industries of the country and also
of the cement industries. Assistant &C.
ologist Adams will investigate the gas
wells of Louisiana. Other investtga-
tons will include the lead and zinc de-
posits in southeastern Missouri, gold
deposits in Georgia and the d%evonian
and carboniferOus strata in New York
with reference 10 coal, oil, gas, clays,
etc.
Mr.. w. L. Curtis writes to the Chi
cage Record-H Herald that the commit
tee from the Cuban constitutional
convention have been very much i'm
pressed by their reception here. and
particularly by the gracious
of the President. They can scarcely
find words sufficiently strong and COM
p~rehensire TO convey their appreciation.
Only one of them had ever visited the
United States before, and none had
ever been in Washington. They antic-
ipated n cordial welcome and cour-
teous treatment, but they We're not pre-
pared for so much ceremony and at
tention. They say that they had al
ways supposed the Americans were
cold-blOoded and brusque and indiffer-
ent to those amenities of life which
hnNn SO high a Nnlnn To the Lnllm