The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-28
Department of Agriculture Preparing
a List of Articles which VIII BE
Barred from This Country.
RULE FOR NATIONAL BANKS
MORE PROMPT REPORTS OF THEIR
CONDITION REQUIRED.
Measures of Interest TO the Postal
servIce-PowderIy to Be Provided
with Another Office.

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this government will pursue in meeting
the new exclusion law Of the Germans,
all the measures that appear to be prac-
ticable probably will be adopted. The mat
ter so far is only in the preliminary stage,
but to-day it progressed so far that facts
and figures bearing on the trade and the
articles Of import from Germany which
may be available for imposition of similar
restrictions are now ready for submission
to the President and his advisers. The
Department of Agriculture has been gath
ering these facts. and a list of articles are
found to be treated with borax or other
preservatives, against which has been laid
the charge that they are injurious, has
been completed, and the question of policy
will be given serious consideration very
shortly. The articles that first Will be
considered along this line are sausages,
wines. beers and delicatessen. A large per-
centage of these, among other things.
nave been found to contain personalities
such as might cause them to be barred on
the same theory as that adopted by the
Germans. The United States has been
excluding for some time articles contain
ing ~salicylic acid and another acid clearly
proved TO be injurious, but the enforcement
Of these conclusions undoubtedly will be
made even more rigorous. The German
view Of the Righteousness of borax will
be accepted and used for meeting their
concessions, and other regulations in all
probability will be adopted barring stuffs
treated with other pr~eservatives. What
ever restrictions on articles are decided
on. II is likely that Germany will be not
specifically referred to, though the ar
ticles selected will be such as affect mostly
the imports from Germany.
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Controller Of the Currency Ridgeley has
mailed to all the national banks a dupli-
cate set Of blanks for report of condition,
with a circular letter requesting them to
preserve the blanks for use in forwarding
their reports Immediately on notice through
the press that a call for a report has been
made by the controller. without awaiting
the receipt of the usual notice and blanks
by mail. Heretofore it has taken the con-
troller's office about five weeks from the
date the call was issued 10 get out a sum-
mary Of the reports of the banks, and
complaint has been made that this delay
destroys in a measure the usefulness of
the figures for statistical purposes. The
fault. however, the controller says. has
not been with the office, but has been due
TO the failure of a few banks TO forward
their reports promptly, thereby preventing
the completion of the abstract until the
delinquent reports were received.
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The declaration by the President that so
long as he is in office no deserter will find
favor with him has excited the interest
of organizations of war veterans as to
what will become of the widows of soldiers
who deserted, afterward enlisted I'm other
commands and drew pensions for this latter
service. The matter was presented to him
to-day by Gen. John Z. Donahue, past ma
tional commander of the Union Veteran
Legion and national chairman of the COM
mittee on pensions of that organization.
General Donahue commended the stand
taken by the President with regard to de-
serters, but wanted TO know his views as
TO the soldiers widows. The President re-
piled that i'm all cases of the character men
toned brought to his attention he would
carefully consider the circumstances and
where possible give the widows the benefit
of the doubt.
Senator Lodge to-day introduced an
amendment to the postofice appropriation
bill making an appropriation of $4,000 for
pneumatic tube mail service for next year
and authorizing contracts for this service
for four years at an annual expenditure
not TO exceed 100000.
Senator Cullom introduced a bill instruct
ing the postmaster general TO make con-
tracts for pneumatic tube service i'm cities
and limiting the annual cost in each city
to 4 per cent. of the gross postal revenues.
The Postofice Department to-day an
nounced the completion of important ar
for the extension of the inter
national money order business of this gov
ernment An agreement has been arranged
with the kingdom of Greece whereby money
orders will be exchanged between the two
countries. In addition the post agent of
the limited States at shanghai. China. has
been authorized to issue domestic money
orders payable at any money order office
of the United States, Canada, Cuba and the
Philippines, and at any money order office
of the United States orders may be pro-
cured drawn on the postal agency at
Shanghai, China. which thus is substantial
" made a money order office of the United
States. The postal agency at Shanghai has
been conducted for many years, but here
tofore it has not been practicable TO estab-
lish a money order service there.
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COMMISSIONS General OF Immigration
Powderly, whose term of office expires soon,
will be rendered some other position in the
government service. The statement was
made to-day from an authentic source that
the President has decided TO provide for
him elsewhere. A number of Mr.. Powder
lev s friends have talked with the Presi-
dent in his behalf and pleaded e~Xtenuating
circumstance in many of the matters for
which he has been criticised.
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The House committee on military affairs
met to-day TO consider the bill for the re-
lief of the heirs of General Fitzjohn Por-
ter and decided 10 take final action on
Thursday, April 10.
Following the direction of the general
meeting of the representatives of the coun-
tries party TO the Pan-American confer
ence. the executive council has selected
oct. /. next. as the date and New York
the place for holding the first general con-
ference on the subject Of coffee culture and
marketing. Oct. 10 the conference. on SAN
itary regulations for the ports OF all Ameri-
can nations will be held in Washington. and
on Nov. 1 the conference intended TO secure
a uniform system of customs regulations
for the American nations will meet at New
York. II is the intention of the projectors
of these various conferences that the gov
ernments taking part in them shall be rep
resented by highly trained experts i'm the
different branche SO that the diplomatic
representatives will not figure TO the same
extent as they have in the general congress.
A six-inch plate. representing group two
of the side armor for the battleship Ohio.
to-day passed a successful test at the In
dian Head proving ground.
The Navy Department has set forward
the date Of completion for the armored
cruisers South Dakota and California to