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Washington Stock Exchange.

Saies-Regular call. II o'clock noon-Capital Trac-
type at 1s 10 at ism 10 at h 49,
10 at isa 10 Ca, at Isl Greene Copper 100
at sseo at riS Ss tS ot
lO.!2. 500 at 107la, 5000 at 1917, IS 1000 at
thaier Tnotype 10 al 1s4 buyer 1o csptai
Traction, 20 at 11Ts, 20 at lis. 20 at lis, Is at
,o railroad Bond--Capitai Traction As. 1o7 bid.
i97Ss asked Metropolitan 5s. 12Oh bid 1872 asked
petap los 4 bid 100 d sS Ms'S
i2o bid Columbia IS. l0S bid The Washngt ton
Miscellaneois Bondsowashinrt aShS Cas- Co g. So
res A, lilo bid, lis asked. Washington Gas Co. Gs.
Ie s ,B b. ls 10 BID ill., s asked ei u ELECTRIC Light
tric Light Cert Indebt. 6s. 19th bid. 1o5h asked.
G sa9 and Potomac Telephone os. los bid
bid. Washington Market Co. LIST 6s. 10SIs bid
Masonic G Hall Association $50 4as S. los bid lo
Trnst, 200 bid 20 asked; American Security and and
posit, 20 bid. Union Trust and Storage lOi bid
lo6 asked. Washington Savings Bauk, los bid, II5
Railroad Stocks-Capital Traction, 117Is bid. 117&
asked. The Washington Railway and Electric Co
National Bank stocks-Bank of Washington. 800
bid 40 asked. Metropolitan, rs bid rs asked
bid Second iss bid citisens u lse bs, co,1@ mo
h h5 l So bid Capital $50 bid 100 asked West
Insurance Stocks Firemen's, 25 bid. Franklin. As
~ piu, Oh ASKED NOrcOran, o.
bid Potomac, 6s bid. 20 asked. Arlington, 20
bid, 80 asked: German American. 265 bid Ma
tional Union, ~ bid, 81 asked. Columbia IL bid
II asked. Riggs; bid. sla asked: Peoples. 8
bid, 6La asked. Commercial 5 bid 5u asked
Colonial, 100 bid, 120 asked.
Title Insurance Stocks-Real Estate Title, 50 bid,
% asked =, Columbia Title. As bid. Washington
Telephone and Graphophone Stocks-Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone. 50 bid. 60 asked. AmerI-
fpe sS asd Ame
Gas Stocks.Washington Gas, 20 bid, 70h asked.
Georgetown Gas, 30 bid.
Type Machine Stocks-Mergenthaler Linotype. 1874
bid. 1915 asked. Lanston Monotype. 12A bid, I2M
asked.
Miscellaneous StocksmGreene Con. Copper Co..
2lA bid. 2S1s asked Washington Market Is bid.
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat. 175 bid
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THE HOUSE.

Without preliminary business the House
today went into committee of the whole
and resumed the debate upon the CorIiss
Pacific cable bill.
Mr.. C0rliss supplemented his speech of
Yesterday in favor of the bill with a few
additional remarks. in the course of which
he declared that he had learned within
tweuty-four hours that not a foot of the
proposed commercial Pacific cable had
yet been laid
Mr.. Richardson (Ala.) then took the floor
In opposition 10 the bill In opening he
called attention to the speech OF Mr. Cam
non yesterday. in which the latter showed
that the appropriations for the next fiscal
year already exceeded the estimated reYe-
nues by SOL 100000, and urged this as the
nrst reason why the government should
not enter upon the expensive work of build
Ing a cable TO the Philippines.
Mr. Richardson WHILE replying to the ar
sumentS of Mr.. CorliSs submitted. Sester-
day undertook 70 score Mr.. Corliss by COM
menting IN a sarcastic vein upon the synop-
Sis of the latter's speech. which. he said
had been distributed before its delivery in
which Mr.. Corliss was described as saving
certain things with dramatic erect" etc.
Mr.. CoTliss asked IL the Attorney General
mad not refused to consider the contract
which the Commercial Cable Company had
offered to make.
Mr.. Richardson replied that the Attorney
General and other government officials had
the company was proceeding to lay the
cable under the post roads act In expla-
nation OF the reason the cable was being
buht In England, he said that the English
Company were building a cable which they
guaranteed for two. years. No other COM
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POST CHECK CURRENCY BILLS.
Reports Of Special Commission Submit
ted to Congress.

The Secretary of the Treasury today for
Warded to Congress the majority and mi
nority reports of the joint committee Of
postal and treasury officials appointed to
consider pending Post check currency bills
The majority report says that the estimate
of c. w. Post the author of the system
proposed, that $1,000, 100000 of business
might be transacted annually under the pro-
posed system makes a volume too enormous
to be regarded as probable. This might be
reduced to one-fourth, land yet" says the
committee, the contraction of the currency
would be hardly less than terrible for all
classes of business
Just to the extent the Post checks are
used, according to the majority report,
they would each for a period Of from one
to two weeks, cause contraction. and as ac-
cording to the theory this process would
be continuous, the evils especially to retail
traffic and to people handling small sums
of money would attain gigantic magnitude"
The majority recommends the adoption
Of postal note like that used in Canada
as an ally to the money order. Those who
signed this report are Treasurer Roberts,
W. B. Ridgely, controller of the currency;
Robert j. Wynne. first assistant postmas-
ter general. and Gen. w. S. Shallenberger.
second assistant postmaster general.
The minority report is signed by E. c.
Madden. third assistant postmaster gen.
eral, and Capt. Henry E. Castle, auditor
for the Post Office Department. 1t combats
the statement that the system would cause
contraction of the currency, and says that
thousands of dollars are now constantly in
transit either by mail or express. without
appreciate contraction and that whatever
danger there might be of contraction could
be easily provided for.
The minority commends that the Cana
dian postal note system advocated by the
majority would involve difficulties and
complications in the office Of the auditor
for the Post ~Office Department greater
t1,a Dos t<,S,a
besides not meeting the present require
ments of postal traffic. The minority re-
post states that the Post check currency
system has such intrinsic merits that no
minor departmental objections should be
permitted to obstruct its adoption.
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EXTRACTION WITH CUBA.
Negotiations for q Treaty Likely to Be
Opened at Once.

1t is probable that Mr. Squiers, the Amer
lean minister to Cuba, win be called upon
at once to open negotiations with the Cuban
government for an extradition treaty. While
it has been decided that nothing can be
accomplished toward the negotiations of
the full fabric Of treaties required with
Cuba under the Plat amendment until Con-
gress has taken some action upon the pend
ing Cuban reciprocity provision, yet it Is
felt that delay in the negotiation Of an ex-
tradition treaty will speedily. make Cuba a
sink for American criminals
The treaty will probably be essentially
different from the standard forms for the
reason that it is likely to he cast upon the
lines laid down in the special act passed
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DISCUSS SHIPPING COMBINE.
Cunard Line May Not Join in Forming
CORPORATION.

LONDON. June 1.-THE newspapers here
continue to discuss the British shipping
combine as though the project had assumed
much more tangible shape than is yet adj
mitted by those who in position to
know the facts In the case.
The Westminster Gazette today intimates
that the Cunard line Will not join in form
ing the proposed Canadian British line and
says the colonial secretary, Mr.. Chamber
lain, favors subsidizing the latter project
rather than the Cunard plan. which is more
specially directed against the Morgan ship
ping combine.
According to the Westminster Gazette the
capital Of the Canadian British line will be
40, 900, 900, of which fs.5GO,0O0 will be ex-
pended on six twenty-five-knot vessels and
a dozen freight steamers. Including 100000
subsidy from Canada, the promoters. it is
added. anticipate total subsidy of $780,
900, besides an imperial guarantee Of inter-
est on the capital amounting to 100000
yearly. The Westminster Gazette further
asserts that the negotions for guarantee
of the interest on the capital are so far
advanced that the only point at issue Is
whether it shall be "a per cent or per
cent.
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MANY OFFICIALS AWAY.
Most of Them Are Attending the West
Point Exercises,

Many prominent officials of the govern
ment are out of town today. most of them
being in attendance at the centennial cele
bration at West Point. The result is that
many offices are filled by substitutes. In
the absence of the President, Secretary
Hay, as the premier of the cabinet. is viz
tually in charge of the government at
Washington. Assistant Secretary Sanger is
acting secretary of war and Assistant Sec
rotary Darling is acting secretary of the
navy. Other temporary vacancies in the
War Department are temporarily filled as
follows: Col Andrews is acting adjutant
general. Col. Patten as quartermaster gen.
eral, Col. Dunn as judge advocate general,
Col. Sniffen paymaster general, Col.
Knox inspector general, Col. Mackenzie
chief of engineers, Major Scriven as chief
signal officer. etc.
Gen. Weston. commissary general, and
Gen. CroZier. chief of ordnance, were the
only bureau officers at their desks in the
War Department today.
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sHIPBUILDING COMBINE.
May Have Effect on Award of Con
tracts for Naval Vessels,

The Navy Department is watching with
some interest the process of formation OF
the new shipbuilders' combine treated IN
the news dispatches. The department mas
outstanding contracts with several of the
concerns mentioned as prospective members
of the combine. 1t is the impression that
these contracts are not likely to be affected
But if Congress follows it's current policy
respecting the limitation upon the award
of contracts to the allotment of one, OF AT
most two, ships to one contracting con-
Germ, there may be complications in future
awards. The pending naval appropriation
bill contains this limitation upon the award
of contracts for the six new ships pro-
vided for in the B1l. and 1t will be for the
department to determine whether it should
adhere strictly to the letter of the law. in
which case no more than two ships could
go to the entire combine, or rather TO re-
gard it's spirit, which contemplatGs such
limitation only In the case of each ship
building yard.
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NEW CHILEAN CABINET.
Change Of Ministry Said to Have No
Political Significance.

Mr.. Norman Hutchinson, United States
charge at Santiago, Chile, has reported to
the State Department under date of May
10. the formation of the new Chilean cabi-
net headed by Senior Don Ramon Barros
Luco, secretary of the interior. The change
of ministry is Of no political significance
says the consul, as the president of the
cabinet. in making his appearance in con-
gress, stated that his program was the
same as that of his predecessor. The Tor
cal ministry resigned within a few days Of
receiving a note of confidence from con-
gIess. not because it could not count upon
a parliamentary majority. but because its
members felt that they were not personally
popular. A novel feature in official reports
of this character Is the inclusion by Mr.
Hutchinson Of portraits Of the new cabinet
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Personal Mention.

Mr.. H, H. BFpen sand wife of. Savannah,
Ca, and Mrs. i. A. sWood of New York are
at the Shoreham. 81 s.l.. -
Mr.. J. M. Henson, Of Albany. N. Y, and
Mr.. E. w. Cottreu of Detroit Mich, are at
the Arlington. yss.....-...
Mr.. c. J. Norwood Of Lexington, KY, and
Mr., A. B. Jenkins of Hartford, Conn. are
at the New Wilartk ,.
Mr.. j. A. Springer of Havana. Cuba. and
MI. F. w. WAGNER OF Charleston, S. g..
are at the Raleigh -
DR.. Milton s. Ireland has returned to At
iantic City, after a.,week's visit with rela-
tives on Capitol Hill.
Col. Weston Flint. librarian Of the public
library. has vbeen confined. to his bed for
ten days by g somewhat serious case of
blood poisoning caused by slight wound
in his left hand while handling some old
books. He Is better and his physician ex-
poets him to be out soofl
Mr.. ]. II. Hayden. MI. B. C. Hayden Mr.;
George Edmund Foss. Mr.. H. C. Marrow
and Mr.. Jose C. Abren are stopping at
Chevy Chase Inn.
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GEN. BRUGERE's RESPONSE.
Returns Sincere Thanks for the Presi-
dents Latest Message.

Touching at Lisbon on the return voyage
from the United States to France, Gen.
BruGere. the head of the Rochambeau gov
ernmental commission, was met yesterday
by Mr. LoOmis. the American minister to
Portugal AS there was some doubt as to
whether Gen. Brugere had received before
sailing from Boston President .Roosevelts
felicitous message, already published. that
message was cabled to Mr.. LOOMS with in
structions to place it in the hands of Gen.
Brugere at Lisbon. Today the minister
cabled to Secretary Hay as follows:
Lisbon, June IL.
Gen. Brugere. with marked feeling.
begged me to convey to President Roose-
welt his heartfelt thanks and to say he
shared the Presidents belief that great
good will result from the visit to America
and the splendid feeling it had developed
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The Panama Hat Fad.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News
1t hardly seems possible that there should
be time for revolutions or even the eating
of meals in Panama from the Industrious
manner in which the market Is flooded with
genuine Panama hats. 1t Is said by some
of our nervous. highly organized Americans
that the climate of the tropics, particularly
the kind of climate that can be found with
out looking for 1t on the Isthmus Of Pan
anna units men for work. 1t gives them an
overpowering desire to lie In a hammock
and smoke cigarettes while they plan for
three days work for tomorrow to make
up the difference This, however is mani
festly incorrect. Every man, woman and
child within $50 miles of the isthmus must
work day and night and on legal holidays
in order to supply the demand for hats.
The world is crying for Panama hats and
the Central Americans appear to be fully
equal to the occasion.
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Building Permits Issued.

building permits have been issued as fol-
lows:
Francis Y Higdon, one two-story and
cellar frame cottage. cath street between
Frankfort and Emporia streets, Langdon
Park; cost STeo.
Robert Berberich. one one-story addition.
NO. liza LIST street northwest: cost. 500.
NJ \. Regain. Improvement and REPAIRS
No. 635 H street northeast; cost. $50.
Miss ). Summey, one one-story addition,
No. 920 18th street northwest; cost. $50.
Cora l. Peters. additional story on pres
ent one. No. 2210 1ith street northwest;
cost. 81, 600.
ChaS. W. King. one three-story and cell
lar brick dwelling, No. 1861 NJ street north
west; cost, 81, 800.
John II. Magruder and others. one wooden
shed on south slice of Walton street between
3Ist and sd northwest; cost, 500.
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Charge of False Pretenses.

Thomas b. Stuff about forty-two years
of age, who gave his occupation as a tele-
graph operator. was held by Judge Kim
ball today to await action by the grand
jury on charge of false pretenses. Stutz
pleaded guilty to the accusation, and will
have to remain in Jail until the case is
called, in default Of real estate security in
the sum of 500. Stutz called on Mr.. c. ii.
Childs, GA 18th street northeast during last
March and repre- scented that he was in the
employ Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company and wanted to buy a watch. He
was given timepiece valued a $40. prom
Using to return later and pay for ii. That
was the last seen of Stutz until he was ar
rested by Detectives Tyser and Trumbo
several days ago. The watch, which had
been pawned for So, was recovered.
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POWERS 0BDURATE
ATTITUDE REGARDING THE
CHINESE INDEMNITY.
Dispute Over Rate of Exchange of
Silver-Willing to Scale Down the
Original Claims.

Up to the present moment the United
States government has not been able to in
duce a single one of the powers signing the
treaty of Pelkin to accept its views as to the
exchange value of the amount of indemnity
to be paid by China. Ever since the treaty
was signed silver has been dropping In
price. The Chinese government contends
that the indemnity payments are to be
made upon the basis of exchange at the
date of signature of the treaty, and In this
contention the United States joins. The
effect of the depreciation Of silver and the
increase of the rate of exchange, II the
Chinese contention is denied, would be to
practically increase by many millions the
actual amount of the indemnity to De ex-
torted from China. and it Is feared here
that If the attempt Is made to insist upon
the present exchange rates China will be
taxed beyond her ability to bear. and there
will be riots and internal revolutionary
troubles far more grave than the Boxer
uprising and likely to end in the dlssolu-
ton of China as nation.
Scaling Down Claims.
A cablegram received today by Secretary
Hay from United States Minister Conger
at Pekin confirmed the reported acceptance
by the resident foreign ministers there of
the general proposition of the United States
government for a pro rata scaling down of
demnty on account of the Boxer uprising:
1t is understood, however, that England
and Japan do not share In the reduction,
for their accounts clearly establish the fact
that their legitimate and actual expenses
were even more than their indemnity
claims, while the other nations party to the
agreement had made themselves rather Hb-
era1 allowances in fixing the total of their
claims. In this state of affairs Secretary
Hay himself suggested that it would not
be fair to expect England and Japan to
share in the cutting down process. which
was necessary to bring the aggregate of The
claims of the separate nations within the
total of $50 600 600 taels which the powers
had agreed originally to accept from China
as payment in full for all losses.
United States Sets the Example.
The reductions are, after all. not ex-
actIy pro rata for to set good example
and induce the other powers to be generous
the United States government undertook
voluntarily to reduce it's claim of 100000
by 81 ,000,0 900, which was one-tenth of the
required to be reduced. That left the other
nations to divide up the s9,0o0000 reduc-
ton among themselves, so that In the case
of the largest claimants their loss would be
sensibly less than that voluntarily as
sumed by the United States.
1t is stated that, while the agreement re-
ported by Mr.. Conger today is gratifying
and marks a sensible advance toward a
final conclusion of the Chinese indemnity
negotiations, it does not affect the more Sc
rious and difficult issue presented by the
demands of a majority of the powers for
settlement of the indemnity on the present
exchange value.
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Cardinal Gibbons Special Guest.

Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore. Nd, who
was in this city yesterday in attendance on
the commencement exercises of the Convent
of Visitation, was rendered a dinner last
evening at the rectory of st. Stephens
Catholic Church. Rev. p. ]. O'Connell be-
ing the host. Among the other guests pres
ent at the dinner were Rev. DR.. Daugherty,
81. president of the Georgetown Univer-
sity; Rev. DR.. Fink. president of the Con
zaga College; DIR. Malone and the Rev
Fathers w. s. Caughy and L. q. Smyth,
assistant pastors of St. Stephens Church
After the dinner Cardinal Gibbons returned
to his home In Baltimore.
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Says Husband Deserted Her.

A young woman, the mother of a child
nineteen months old. called on Capt. Board
man this afternoon and complained that
her husband, John Andrew Phillips. had
deserted her. He went away from their
home at sos Sth street southeast yesterday,
after drawing his money at the navy yard.
where he was employed
According to the statement of the young
woman, her home was in Charles county,
Md. when she met Phillips. nearly three
years ago. He was then a soldier detailed
at Fort Washington. After his term of en-
listment he moved to this city and was
appointed TO position in the navy yard.
Mrs. Phillips told Captain Boardman that
she had been left without any means Of
livelihood. Her husband told her he was
from Illinois.
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Standardizing Ship Fittings.

The naval bureau Of construction for a
long time has been endeavoring to bring
about what is known as standardization
of ship tittings-that is, certain set types Of
ships parts which will serve for any YES
sci, and do away with the great confusion
which results from fitting OF divers shapes
and sizes. Several firms in this country
have now taken hold OF the situation and
are turning out standard water-tight
doors. bolts and many other sorts of ship
fittings and they are finding the govern
ment ready and anxious to take all they
can produce.
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Luxury in College Life.

From the Philadelphia Times.
There is some danger that undue luxury
in college life may cause deterioration of
it's influence in this country. The harm has
already been done to large extent in Eng
land especially at the University of OK
ford, where the exorbitant collegiate ex-
penses indicate the cultivation of a more
prevalent taste for sybaritic indulgences
than for the practical attainment of learn
ing. The increased expense of college liv-
ing is not of itself so serious an evil as the
changed standard of college life which in
most cases 1t implies. When the university
was first known. early in the middle ages
and for hundreds of years afterward the
idea of the acquisition of much serious
learning was associated with simplicity of
lodging. dress and fare. 1t has always
been rightly supposed that luxury does not
sharpen the wits.
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ARMY Orders.

Major H. S. Foster. 18th Infantry. has
been relieved from recruiting duty at In
dianapolis and ordered to join his regi-
ment.
Second Lieut. B. H. Kerfoot. artillery
corps has been detailed to recruiting duty
in New York city.
First Lieut.. Rhinelander Waldo 18th In
fantry, has been relieved from recruiting
duty at New York and ordered to join his
regiment.
Contract Surgeon r. H. Pierson at SYRIA
cuse, n y, has been assigned to duty at
Fort Columbus n Y.
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any would guarantee a cable for thirty

pany would guarantee a cable for thirty
days ne said.
VI. Mackey of the Commercial company
guaranteeing that the company would build
an all-Amercan cable and not touch upon
foreign soil. The objection to the project of
the Commercial company because the cable
was not built by American labor. he said,
would not stand investigation. He produced
figures to show that only II per cent of
the cost of a cable was expended for wages.
Mr.. Shaclileford tMo) supported the bill.
He argued that a government cable was
necessary to protect the public from private
mNnnnnlN.
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GOV. HILL RENOMINATED.
Secretary Shaw Addresses Maine Re-
publican Convention.

PORTLAND Maine, June 11.-GovernOr
John F. Hill was today renominated by ac-
clamation for a second term by the repub-
lican state convention.
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie NJ Shaw
was present and made an address. in which
he discussed tariff reform and the alleged
crueities in the Philippines possible is
in the fall campaign
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Local Patents Issued,

Letters patent have been issued to the
following residents Of the District of Co.
lumba: Charles A. Ball, fitting for steam
heating systems; William L. Beet, grain
separating machine; George W. Boyd, drip
attachment for dispensing apparatus:
Thomas II. Edmonds, bicycle package car
rier: John t. Schaan, writing machine
carriage