The Grit-advocate., 1903-03-13

bVhOA oA iioIl Iui 'hNi lNhAsihS W u
init at seCond-class rates certain pub
lications issued by the Bates & Guild
company of Boston and the Houghton-
Mitflin company, also of Boston.
The monthly comparative statement
Of the government receipts and eXpen-
ditureS shows the total receipts for
February 1903 to have been SAB 3.O2S, -
and the expenditures $31.75O. .1i9. leav-
ing a surplus for the month of s5,27T,-
43o. as against S2,GG0,i4 surplus for
February, 1902.
Rear Admiral A. S. Crowninshield.
commanding the European squadron
has asked to be placed on the retired
list of the navy under the provision
OF the personnel law. Admiral Crown
inshieId is now No. 20 on the list of
rear admiraIs and his retirement will
place him in the first grade. where his
retired pay will be $5.G25 per annuIn-
His retirement will promte Captains
Cook and Harrington to be rear ad-
mirals
Gov. w. r. Merriam. director of the
census has placed his resignation in
the hands of the President 1t will take
effect May 18th. Governor Merriam re
signs to accept the vice presidency of
the International Mercantile Agency of
New York. and will remove from
Washington to that city. The lnterna-
tional Mercantile Agency is corpora
ton organized for the purpose of rat
Canada.
Captain Barclays assignment to COM
mand the Puget Sound naval station
will take effect June 1st. He will be-
come a rear admiral soon after that
date. Captain Cook will be promoted
to be al admiral upon the retirement
of Admiral Crowninshield. March 10th.
Captain Harrington. who stands num-
ber two on the list OF captains. has
been assigned to the Norfolk navy
yard and will become an admiral at
the same time as Captain Cook.
General Davis. commanding the
troops in the PHILIPPINES. cables that
the transport Thomas sailed from Ma
nila March 9Th for San Francisco. with
Brig. Gen. Frank d. Baldwin, Brig.
Gen. Morris c. Foote, 5S2 enlisted men
Of the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-seventh,
Thirty-hrst end Thirty-sixth com
panies, coast artillery. and the Four
teenth and Fifteenth batteries of field
artillery, thirty-siX sick, 1lS casuals,
three insane and 1888 discharged SOL
diers
The amendment to the sundry civil
appropriation bill, providing for the
appointment by the President of a
commission or the use OF other means
to bring about an understanding be
tween this country and the silver
standard countries as to an equitable
ratio between silver and gold monies,
remained on the bill and became a
law. 1t is generally understood that
the President will open negotiations
with the countries in question. with
view to getting them to go into such
conference. The appointment of
commission will probably come later.
One hundred thousand dollars is ap-
prOpriated to defray the expenses OF
the Investigations.
The secretary of war has sent to the
Senate records of courts martial held in
the Philippines since the military oc-
cupation of those islands by the United
States, including the eases of General
Smith and Major Glenn. The tran
script also covers the opinion by the
attorney general in the case of Capt.
c. NJ. Brownell. Sixth infantry, charged
with ordering the punishment which
resulted in the death at Banate of Fa
ther Augustin. in which the attorney
general found that BrOwncll could on
ly have been tried by cOurt-martial.
and that now that he is out of the ser
vice and peace has been proclaimed in
the Philippines. he is not subject to
trial by a court of that character.
A Swede who gave his name as z.
Berg of Providence. Rhode Island,
tried for an hour to see the President.
He was urged by the White House at
taches to reduce his communication to
writing This he endeavored to do.
but failed. One of the secret service
officers interviewed him and found
him possessed Of hallucinations. Berg
said that several years ago he had in
formed the United States government
that the Spaniards had intended to
blow up one of his battleships, and
wanted the President to see to it that
he received sloG,O00 for the informa
ton Berg was persuaded to return to
Providence and there place his claim
in the hands of a lawyer
The number of bills introduced dur
ing the t'ifty-seventh Congress aggre
gated II 800. of which 3.9lS We're re-
ported and more than 1000 passed.
The House calendar is clearer at the
close o. this Congress than 1t ever has
been before. only seventy-eight bills
remaining undisposed of. In the Fifty
fifth Congress 2.214 bills were reported
and ,473 passed. In the FiftysiXth
2.7S7 were reported and 2,204 passed.
The nearest approach to the number OF
bills introduced in the Fifty-seventh
was in the Fiftieth Congress. when H.
339 were brought in and the greatest
number reported was in the Forty
ninth Congress, the aggregate being
4,1S1. The number of private bills
passed by this Congress have been ex-
ceedingly large Fifteen members of