The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26
NEWS.
March Internal Revenue Collections
-Griscom Going Back to Turkey.

The secretary of the treasury last evening
purchased $4,000 short term A per cent
bonds at 1l3.5l39.
LLOYD Griscom. United States secretary of
legation at Constantinopie. who is now on
leave I'm this country, has decided TO return
TO Constantinople at the expiration of his
leave.
The postmaster general has appointed
George c. Sholes. a railway mail clerk, who
is now with the United States military pos
tai service in China TO be postal agent in
charge of that service.
Yesterdays statement of the treasury
alliances I'm the general fund. exclusive OF
the $l5O, 100 gold reserve III the division
OF redemption. showed: Available cash bal
ance. sl54lSl.924; gold, $94,7 9,OC9.
Representative Grosvenor. of Ohio, who
of the Ohio delegation in Congress TO the
Pacific coast, was at the White House yes
terday. He said the arrangements for the
trip were practically completed. The party
will travel in a Pullman and private car.
They will leave Cincinnati May 3 at 1880
p m
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
awarded to the Phillips Seed and Implement
Company, of Toledo. o., the contract for
furnishing the seeds to the government
during the next season. and has made q
radical change in the administration of thu
seed distribution service by placing the
entire work i'm charge Of Prof. Il. I. Gallo
way as director of the bureau of plant in
Gustry. The Phillips company's contract
calls for about $500 u and the work will
begin about Nov. 10.
The postmaster general to-day received a
report from Superintendent Robinson. of
the United States postal station in China,
confirming the previous announcement that
no mail from there was lost when the
steamer Rio de Janeiro sunk at the en-
trance to San Francisco bay on Feb. 10 last.
Inquiry through the imperial Japanese pos
tai authorities showed that all mail re-
ceived at Nagasaki that might have been
forwarded by the wrecked steamer had
previously been dispatched by a military
transport TO the United States and none
was sent by the Rio.
The plans of operations of the geological
survey for the next fiscal year were an
nOunced yesterday. Numerous parties are
engage in geological. Typographical, hydro
graphic and other lines of survey work.
An important feature will be an investiga-
ton, IN cooperation with the coast and
geOdetic survey. of certain unmarked parts
OF the northwest boundary between the
United States and Canada. The line will
be rerun and temporarily marked by iron
posts in certain localities. 1t is planned to
. make a reconnaissance of the whole line
from the summit of the Rocky mountains
The monthly statement of the collections
of internal revenue shows the total re-
ceipts for March. 1901, were $24. $50, 7i5. a de-
crease as compared with March, 1900, of
$295.9S5. The receipts from the several
sources of revenue are given as follows:
Spirits. 1929. 466. an increase of s121. S67; to-
bacco. $4.69l ,23O. a decrease of 500, 1879; fer
mented liquors. s.. $50, SAL, an increase of
S179, 9sS; oleomargarine, $1S9, 1874, a decrease
OF $35,2S7; special taxes not elsewhere
miscellaneous. $4.0S5, rs, an increase of
s92. 5l9. For the last nine months the re-
ceipts were $32S, 525 less than for the CORE
spending period last year.