The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-10-05
FROM THE
CAPITAL
Interesting Washington News
by Our Regular Cor
respondent

Unlike other American cities, Washing
ton presents a busy and animated APP
pearance between half past and
O'Clock in the forenoon. AT that time 5o.-
O00 children are pouring into the scnoo
houses; 10000 or more clerks are filing or
to the various departments hundred or
over of push-cart men, their small
wagons loaded down with tropical and
California fruits, are dispensing to all
quarters of the city from the great GEN.
trail market, while the streets are throng-
ed with the carriages of important Gov
ernment officials upon whose shoulders
the weight of empire rests. 1t is a scene
typically American. AS the Archbishop
of Canterbury said at the cathedral fas:
Sunday, when a sea of $4,000 up-turned
faces greeted him, the pulse of this grea,
nation beats high and fast in Washing
ton, thrilling the stranger from the tight
little island, with a strange feeling or
awe.
Your correspondent -a:.ec at the resi-
dence of the Bishop of Washington. the
host of the primate of all England. 1t
is pleasantly situated on a terrace over
looking Massachusetts, avenue and
Thomas circle. and within a stones
throw of the statue of Martin Luther.
Ie hoped to have a confidential little
,hat with his grace from England. but
was seriously informed that the prmate
positively declined 10 see any newspaper
man. All he would say was that he
had been very much pleased with every
thing he had seen and heard, save, or
course, the accident to his train at Yves.
as part of the rush and strenuousness
of American life.
In many respects it is unfortunate that
newspaper men" have such poor rep
utation in Washington. Possibly the vel
lowness of a few. or the disposition to
make the most out of nothing by some
shun them on the part of high digni-
taries who otherwise might say many
agreeable things. There are legations In
Washington, and private houses, too,
where newspaper men, are regarueo
with fear and trembling. At one tire.
some years ago. a rather forth-puttins
the official receptions and wrote up what
ever she saw or heard. Mrs. Waite, wife
of the chief justice, remarked to yous
correspondent that she was afraid 10
open her mouth whenever she saw THIS
daughter of the quill in her mouse. Anc
when a gentleman was about to be pre-
sented TO the Korean minister, the secre-
tary of the legation asked: What Is
your position in the government" a
am a newspaper man." was the answer.
''Oh!' he exclaimed THAT will never co;
he Korean minister is mortally afraid
of newspaper men, The gentleman;
was finClly presented as a doctor OF
medicine!
1t will not be the fault of the present
administration if those who wish for m
formation regarding the progress of the
United States do not obtain it. An i'm
portant work has just been issued by the
Government, compiled by the Bureau of
Statistics, being the annual review of the
foreign and internal commerce of the
United States for the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1884, and an estimate for the
current year. The summary contains
many statements regarding the COM
merce, finances, production, transporta-
ton. etc, of this country, and supplies
the latest and most complete information
possible. The population of the states
the wealth per capita was s1.235S6. The
public dent per capita has fallen from
$76.sS in 1865 to sll.Sl today. The larges,
amount of gold coined In any one year
was Sill ,3i4 .220. in 1899. 1ne gold now in
circulation amounts to s6i6,5s63l9. The
number of national banks today is $685.,
as against but Sc In 1868.
In the matter of imports into this
country 1t Will surprise some to learn
that Notwithstanding our great agricu,-
tural and stock-raising resources. we i'm
ported last year food and live animals
20 the amount of s2l2. 2.o57.2ss. and it is es-
timated that this year the imports of tins