Gilpin observer., 1901-10-03
.WASHINGTON-GOSSIP

Joseph ]. LANCER of Nebraska to be
consul at Solingen, Germany.
Adjutant General Corbin. tells the
President that Within anC. der year the
military forces in the Philippines can
be reduced from 42,O00 to 25,000 men,
Orders have been issued convening
boards of army officers TO examine and
report upon the Notifications neces-
sary in the Philippines and Hawaiian
islands.
The acting secretary of war has talk
ell adverse action on the proposition to
send the transport Egbert to Cape
Nome, Alaska, for the relief of alleged
destitute miners.
A new counterfeit $40 treasury note
has reached the secret service bureau.
1t is a photo photographic production
of two pieces of Japan tissue between
which red and blue silk fibre has been
distributed. The work is poorly
done and the seal is brick-red. The
lathe work is lost and the back of the
note Is muddy green. The note in
hand has the check letter Il, series
1850, portrait of Webster, Lyons, reg
lister; Ellis Ii. Roberts, treasurer.
The census bureau report on the cot
ton ginned in the United States, just
issued, shows the crop of 1900 to have
been O,40614S commercial bales, an
increase of S40,114, or more than eight
per cent. in excess of the 1899 crop
Texas grew thirty-four per cent. of tho
entire crop of 1900 and one-fourth of
the worlds crop of that year. Its
crop increased thirty-three per cent
over 1899, the 1900 crop being 3,5S6,-
50G commercial bales and the 1879
crop 2,65S, ,555. East of the Mississip
pi production decreased.
In order to insure the protection OF
Cuban coffee planters against the i'm
portaton of Brazilian coffee through
the United States and Porto Rico, an
order will be promulgated by the War
Department providing duty on coffee
going into Cuba sufficient to prevent
such importationS. Some time ago
the Importation of Porto Rican 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 is being con
structed at Cramp ~ Sons yards, Phil
adelpha, has reached n five per cent
degree of completion; the protected
cruiser Denver, at Neatie " Lcyy's,
Philadelphia, is now fifty-tive per cent.
completed; the monitor Wyoming, at
the Union Iron Works, is seventy-five
per cent. finished, while the Nevada, at
the Bath Iron Works, is ninety-one per
cent. finished.
".It ttr1ev to hn
cago Record-Herald, says that the
members of the Cabinet are assured
that President Roosevelt is going TO
follow the policy of his predecessor
and keep close to Congress" Moth
ing in the nature of n new departure
will be undertaken til it has been care
fully canvassed with the party leaders
in both houses of Congress. Nothing
new will be proposed that is not real
sonably sure of success in the nationai
Legislature. This applies to the canal
treaty with Great Britain as well as
to reciprocity with Cuba and with 9th
er countries. Months ago President
Mckinley 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 result is Il strong prob
ability, amounting almost to moral
certainty, that during the coming ses-
sion n canal treaty will be submitted
and ratified.
At recent Cabinet meeting one of
the phases of public business called To
President Roosevelts 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 drop In tho
rnt hat 10 Int
ing at n rapid rate. In less than three
months of this fiscal year the excess
of receipts over expeditures has been
S14,OOO,OOO. Notwithstanding the re
duction Of taxation, the change from "A
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 now are within
S3,OOO,OOO as great as they were last
year, while the expenditures are S10,-
100000 smaller. In other words, the
expenses of the government are now
nearly S2,OOO0oo IL week less than
they were at this period last year.
President Roosevelt evinced great inter
est In the figures which Mr. Gage pre-
scented to him, and there was some dis
cusslon of ways and means of rellev-
Ing the treasury of its glut of money.
incidentally Mr.. Roosevelt has made Il
known to members of the Cabinet that
he wishes each of them TO manage his
department largely upon his own re-
sponsbllity, solving by himself qucs-
tlons which have been usually present
ed to the President and the Cabinet
for judgment.
The United States Department OF
Agriculture will soon issue n compre-
henslve report on irrigation In Califor-
mia, which embodies the first attempt
at cooperation by the federal govern
ment with an individual state in the
solution OF the irrigation problem. The
investigation chroniced by the report