The Lamar register., 1902-09-10
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
GOVERNMENTAL PROCEEDINGS

ODUu VI NIplltlh'
Chaffee an order has been issued rear
ranging the Philippine islands into
three departments. The department of
Luzon is to be commanded by Gen.
James II. Wade; the department of Vi
sayas by Gen. Il. ]. Wint, and the de
partment of Mindanao by Brig. Gen.
Samuel S. Sumner.
The receipts of the Treasury Depart
ment for the month OF August ex-
ceeded the expenditures by $5,955,s12,
an unexpectedly large surplus. The to-
tai receipts were $4S.605.S12 and the
expenditures $40, $50, 900. For the same
month of last year the total receipts
We're $45. .394, 12J, and the expenditures
S39. 1851, ,497, surplus of a little over
$6,00O,OO0.
Brig. Gen. William II. Forwood,
surgeon general of the army, retired
August 9th under the age limit. He will
be succeeded by Gen. Robert NJ.
O'Reilly. General O'Reilly was recent
ly in charge of the medical department
corps of the department of California
and was the official White House ply
sician during the two terms of Presi-
dent Cleveland.
United States Minister Bowen at Car
acas, has forwarded to the State De
partment under date of August 2nd a
plaintive plea for the poor people in
that capital who are suffering great
misery as the result of the protractcd
war now in progress. The special plea
Is made by Rev. Il. s. Pond, the senior
American missionary in Caracas. In
his appeal Mr.. Pond says that in his
experience he has never known any
thing to compare with the widespread
and hopeless poverty of the present
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of busi-
ness August Both the debt, less cash in
the treasury, amounted to S9GS,O9132l,
n decrease for the month of So.S1SGiG
This decrease is principally accounted
for by corresponding increase in the
cash on hand. The monthly statement
of the government receipts and eNpen-
ditures shows that for the month OF
August the total receipts We're SiS,-
COG, ,S12, as follows: Customs, S2G,jSl,-
231; increase as compared with Au.
gust, 1901, about S5,1O0,O0O; internal
revenue, S1T,525, 1868. decrease S4.5OO,-
600: miscellaneous, S4.49S,213, increase
S2.667 900. The expenditures for the
month We're S43. 1850. leaving sur
plus for the month of So, ,402.2O2.
The opportunities for the appoint
ment of women in the CLASSIFIED cvll
service as whole are not tlattering.
The chief examiner says: AT present
hut few women are ordinarily appoint
ed to the general departmental and
government printing services. except
in the Indian service. the bureau of en-
craving and printing and the position
of skilled laborer in the government
printing office. However. u small num-
her of women clerks and stenograph-
ers and typewriters are appointed each
year. The opportunities for women ell
gibles from the eXapinations for the
different kinds of teachers in the In
dian service are very good. Quite a
number of appointments are also MADE
in the Indian service from the trained
nurse and matron examinations.
The Navy Department had received
from Commander McCrea of the Mach
las n mail report under date of Cape
Haytien, August 16th,- setting out in
detail the steps taken by that officer to
prevent Interference with the world S
commerce as result of the bitter in
surrectionary struggle now in progress
in Haytien waters. 1t appears from the
commanders report he took under Dls
charge the commerce of nearly all or
the European countries, in addition to
that of his own. His attitude toward
Admiral Ilillick, the insurgent COM
mander, as revealed in the report. is Sig
nificant as indicating the adoption of n
stronger policy than has been pursued
heretofore in the treatment of South
and Central American revolutions,
which injuriously affect the commerce
of the world.
In accordance with the suggestion of
Secretary Shaw, national banks in the
large cities are preparing to increase
their circulation by the deposit Of
bonds. Since n few weeks ago. when
Secretary Shaw asked the banks To
prepare to meet any emergency by In
creaslng their circulation, the banks
have notified the comptroller's Office
that they want to stand ready for au
increase of S12.25O,OO0. n large por-
tion of this currency is now being
printed at the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing and will be ready for the
banks as soon as the deposit is made.
The increased circulation will not be
taken out at all unless the banks are
satisfied the money will be needed in
trade channels to relieve the situation
in New York or elsewhere. The Si2,-
100000 does not include the circulation
being taken out by new banks and by
j regular banks in different parts of the
country. which have not been commun-
icated with.
! 1t is the opinion at the War Depart
ment that Governor Tafts remarks at
the Board of Trade banquet in Manila
respecting the employment of labor Oh
plantations, will form the basis of a
suggestion to Congress at the next ses-
sion that the act extending the Chi
nese exclusion laws to the Philippines
be amended. 1t is contemplated to re-
move the ironclad restrictions which
now exists. and clothe the Philippine
Commission with power TO regulate
the entrance of Chinese labor. The