Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-24
Shaw and Armstrong Confer
With Roosevelt on Mexico
and China's Requests
ARE SEEKING OUR COOPERATION
Both Countries Anxious to Secure
More Stable Exchange in their Re-
spective Monetary systems-com-
mittee Investigating the Coal Trans
portation Makes the Report.

qualify soon as assistant secretary
of the treasury. and a sub committet
of the house coinage committee, con.
Sisting of Representatives Boutelle
Southland and Cochran, had a confer
ence with President Roosevelt Monda.
concerning the means of putting int
effect the proposition transmitted b.
the president to congress on Januar.
% in special message. Presiden
Roosevelt's message conveyed to con
gress a report from Secretary Ha!
with accompanying notes and mem
oranda from the Mexican ambassador
and the Chinese charge d'affaires.
Mexico and China are seeking thu
cooperation of this government II
such measures as will tend to restore
and maintain a fixed relationship be.
tween the moneys of the gold stand
ard countries and the silver uSint
countries. 1t is not asked that thu
United States modify its monetary
system and IL is stated distinctly tina
there is no movement in contempia-
ton for the restoration of international
bimetallism. The particular desire 1:
that measures be adopted that VIII
prevent the great fluctuations in ex-
change which now occur in trade with
silver using countries. Citizens of The
United States now have investment:
in Mexico alone aggregating more than
half a billion dollars. The earnings o.
these enterprises have suffered a SER
ious fall in the value of Mexican money
This fact, it is suggested, brings home
to this country the desirability o.
adopting some means to insure the sta
bility of exchange.
After considering the subject care.
fully 1t was the opinion of the parties
TO the conference that it would be wise
Tor congress to confer upon the presi-
dent power to appoint three commits
soners of the United States to par
ticipate In any international confer
ence on the question of stability OF ex-
change that might be arranged. 1t is
expected that an effort will be made
at the present session to leave thai
authority to the president.
Coal Transportation.
The subcommittee of the house
on merchant marines ane
fisheries that went to Boston to invest
igate the subject of coal transporta
lion reported to the full committee
Monday the results of the hearings
held The report of the sub-commit
tee recited, among other things
"The evidence taken satisfied the
sub committee that there was no ques-
ton as to the sufficiency of tonnage fol
water transportation. The sub-com-
mittee invited testimony and sugges-
tons from all parties interested. There
was no evidence before the sub-com-
mittee that there was any deficiency IN
the matter of water transportation be-
tween the terminal coal ports and New
England Nothing appeared that woul
justify favorable report on the res
olution that gave rise to this inquiry
altho it is true that during its penden-
cy there had been a material chang.
in conditions"
The committee reported also that n;
deficiency existed in the matter of ter
minal facilities.
The report reviews the conditions
found from the evidence to have exist
ed but upon the question as to whether
any understanding between the Goa
roads and coal operators existed the
subcommittee expresses no opinion
Owing to the fact that the session is sc
near an end the sub committee finds II
to continue the investiga-
ton.
New Department.
A .nl,o,,,o fn,. Tho nj % tim nf ~, :
new department of commerce and labor
has been laid before congress by Secre-
tary Cortelyou in the estimates trans
mitted to that body thru the secretary
of the treasury. In addition to the
twelve branches of the public service
to the new department from
other departments which have been APP
for Secretary Cortelyou asks
for appropriations for salaries aggre-
eating s669,690. The salaries cover the
office, the bureaus of cor
porations and manufactures and subor-
dinate divisions as follows:
Secretary's office twenty salaries,
s3S, O2O: under the chief clerk, seven
ty-one salaries, $4,000; appointment
division, twenty salaries, S6.160; divis-
ion of mails and files, twenty-one sal
aries, $4,000; division of stationery,
nine salaries. s12,360; library. seven
salaries, sS,340; office of solicitor, elev-
en- salaries, s1S,100; bureau of corpora
ton, 116 salaries, $150.000; for compen-
sation of special examiners in the fed,
s296.96C; bureau of manufacturers,
twenty-one salaries, s30,9S0; in connec-
ton with the new duties imposed on the
bureau of statistics, $3.50. Secretary
says in his letter that provis-
ion should be made for the payment
rent fiscal year for such officers and
employees as qualify before July /, 1905,
but he says that the bureaus of corior-
ations and manufactures probably will
not be perfected until some time during
the next fiscal year, so that he con-
cludes that s669.69 will be sufficient for
the remainder of this and the next.year.
In addition to the salaries are estimates
of $4,000 for rent; $4,000 for contin-
gent expenses: $150.000 for travelling
expenses of examiners, 100000 for
and binding Gncluding s250,OoO
for the census office). In his recon-
for a building for his de-
partment Secretary Cortelyou urges
that the future growth of the denart-
ment be considered. He dwells Oh the
of many II the department
buildings. and asks for 100000 for the
building, exclusive OF The site.
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Rocky Mountain Tea, the system puri-