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FOR 20 CENTS.
Our "ITors# Fair" •njrravlnd proposition hav-
tm been withdrawn, as we have a limited num.
Iber remaining on hand wo propose to dispose
M them at 20 cents each, postpaid.
Those dosfrlng to avail thcmselvos of the ofTor
and Hecuro this justly colebratod picturo will do
veil to order promptly, that the supply may
not he exhausted when their ordor is received.
Make remittances payable, and address ail
letters and communications to
A. H. BELO & CO.,
Publishers,
GALVESTON, TEX.
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—IN—
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LEVY
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$1 00 and 50 cents.
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tome around to see yov, please send us
pour open orders and we will fill them
promptly with as good selections and
Vt prices as low as if you were in our
store buying for Cash.
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gents, and you are in a hurry, please
mire us at once at our expensp and we
wU see that you are waited upon at the
Shortest possible notice.
Our idea is to adapt ourselves to our
customers' circumstances and desires
find try to'pnake it convenient and pleas-
ant for them to deal with us.
lMCLEVELJKCo
HOXJSTOlsr,
COMMERCIAL
TRAVELERS,
ATTENTION!
We horo tor sale an acournte
RAILWAY MAP
OF THE STATE,
Comniled and Completes to Sent, 1, 1887,
Price, 10c. By Mail, ISo.
Every mile of Railway In operation Is
shown; all Railway Towns upon each
line appear, and distances are given with
accuracy. A Table is also given show
lng the towns in Texas having a popula-
tion of 1000 and over.
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GALVESTON OB DALLAS. TEX.
GUST. JJEYE. F. KASTAN.
llaviug been appointed State Agents for the
world-renowned New fork Cigar
Factory of
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•foe shall carry a line of his Goods which we
fcan recommend as perfect in workmanship,
quality and attractive get-up, combined with
Moderate price. We have now in stock the
following brands:
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guaranteeing satisfaction. Respectfully
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k
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jou samples.
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6 PER CENT PER ANNUM
TO ALL CUSTOMERS.
{^"Correspondence Solicited.
Galveston, February 1, 1690.
THE ONLY WELL MADE
WELL FINISHED
WOOD SPLIT PULLEY
IN THE MARKET.
To avoid trouble use no other.
Simpson, Hartwell & Stopple,
HOUSTON, TEX.
Our stock Is the most com-
plete in ihe south.
FALL RIVER PRINT CLOTH.
The Blgccst Week's Sale on Record—Low
Prices.
FALL River, Mass., Feb. 18.—Print cloth
sales have been larger during the past week
than was ovor known in a week's business
iu this city, the total being 691,000 piecos,
all but 37.000 pieces being 'or future deliv-
ery. In spite of this activity it.carries no
joy to the stockholders' hearts, sinco prices
have been on a basis of 3,'.^ cents for regular
6-4 goods. Cotton is 11% cents. Very few
of the mills have much on hand, and at the
prevailing prices there is not much prolit
in cotton cloth manufacturing. Three rea-
sons probably have brought about this phe-
nomenal week's sale. There is a belief that
the production for some time has been moro
than stated, and much larger than the de-
mand, which if once proved would carry
prices down. Second, a hope is entertained
by a few people, however, that cotton will
go lower instead of higher, which would re-
sult in a fair profit nt 3! i cents for cloths.
Third, talk among manufacturers of reduc-
ing wages, which, it aocepted, would give a
profit, or if opposed, as it surely would be,
a curtailment in production and a boom iu
prices. From tho fact that most of the
largest sellers are mills with short cotton
supplies, it looks as if tho last idea had had
most influence. Six print cloth mills have
sold 350,000 pieces of the 004,000 total. Tho
mills now have nearly 3,000,000 pieces—two
months and a half's production—sold
ahead. The largest previous week's sale on
record is 603,000 pieces for the week ending
November 21, 1885, when cloth sold for 3>sf
cents anil cotton cost 9% cents, and the fol-
lowing week cloth fell to 8% cents.
BROWNWOOD.
Ail ei-Hxpress Employe Indicted and
Locked Up In Default of llail.
Brownwood, Tex., Feb. 18. — Walter
Jones, the man who had charge of the
Wells-Fargo express office at Brownwood
on the night of tho 13th of December, 1880,
when tho office was robbed of $7000 which
was being sent to tho First National bank
of Brownwood, has been indicted by tbo
grand jury now in session, and was arrested
last night, and in default of bond went to
jail. »
NEW YOUS. SPECIAL R3PORT.
New York, Fob. 18.- Atchison gross earn-
ings for the first week In February increased
over $120,000. Tho net for Decern nor -will show
a big gain
Tho earnings of tho St. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas for the second week In February in-
creased $11,000.
The trunk lines will notaidnoroncouragethe
western roads iu anv of their cut rates, and
they show their position by withdrawing all
through rates to St. Paul and quoting only rates
to Chicago. The trunkB will be large gainers
by the western littbt.
Gould anil Sage now own all the Missouri
Pacific floating debt, for which they will bag
the assets. ...
Bonds doll. The sales Include $3000 Interwfi-
tional 0s at 76; $9000 Texas arid Paciflcs at 93H;
$70,000 incomes at 39: $.10,000 St. Louis, Arkansas
and Texas seconds at 25H.
Atchison stock, 33.
Sterling declined Mic; documents, $4 81Vi; ac-
ceptances, $4 81»4; Brown's bills sold at $4 KM.
Silver, B5&
Money. 5.
It is expected that tho senate financo commit-
tee will recommend increased purchases of sil-
ver bullion, but no increase in coinage.
Efforts aro makini: to hasten the deoision in
the Houston, Ea3t and West Texas appeal.
Coffee dull and nominal.
Sugar very quiet; granulated, 6.31c.
Cotton declined on want of encouragement
from Liverpool and tho rofusal of outside spec-
ulators to come in. , , ,
Clews' circular says: The heavy sales of cloth
in the o 8t last week have a more Important
bearing on tho trade than at first supposed, in-
asmuch as a majority of the sales wore made
for future delivery as far as October at the low
price of S^c per yard. ,,
B. M. Moke, R. Hanschke, Mr. Siddall and A.
B. Frank of San Antonio, J. S. Taylor and II. C.
Schofield of Dallas, A. Smith of Austin, Sam
Strauss, B. F. Clayton and G. Murphy of Cle-
burne, \Vm. .Tune and M. Pitlnk of Tyler, W.
II Taylor of Fort Worth and E. litaiu and VY.
L. Foley of Houston are here.
THE CAPITAL CITY
Concerning the National Guard
of the United States.
ADJDTANT-GEN'L KELTON
Contradicts Some of tlie State-
ments Made by Foraker
at Cincinnati.
A VERY HEAVY PENSION ITEM,
Bat One Which Does Not Indicate Such a
Great Increase in Kxpenditures as
Would Seem to Be Apparent.
DEEP WATER FOR GALVESTON.
Tlie Commerce Committee Agrees to Re-
port Senntor Colco'a Bill with Amend-
ments — The Expendlturo to lie
•Limited to a Million a Year.
Washington, Feb. 18—[Special]—The
senate commerce committee, which basin
charge the bill introduced by Sonator Coke
to appropriate $0,200,000 to obtain deep
water at Galveston, in accordance with the
suggestion of the board of engineers, met
this morning in executive session to take
final committee action on it.
Mr. Houston of San Antonio was at hand
to present his views in regard to Aransas
pass. He was introduced to tho committee
by Senator Coke.
Senator Frye, who is chairman of the
committee, asked him it his remarks were
to be In reference to the inclusion of Aran-
sas pass as a beneficiary in this bill, and
being answered in the affirmatlvo said the
committee did not desire to hear any more
on that subject, as Arausas pass would not
be included. He also said that a bill includ-
ing Sabine, Aransas and Galveston was an
impossibility.
Mr. Houston then filed his views, and Mr.
Frye suggested that he had better take them
to the house committco on rivers and har-
bors, which was then in session.
Mr. Houston said ho had a duplicate, and
Mr. Frye ordered his clerk to filo the copy
presented for referenco when the river and
harbor bill proper would come before the
committee.
Mr. Frye further said in connection with
his statement that the committee did not
desire to bear anything in regard to Arau-
sas pass at the present time, that if Mr.
Houston would come before the committee
In three or four months, whon it was con-
considering the riyer and harbor bill proper,
it would be glad to hear him.
When the committee adjourned It was as-
certained that it had unanimously agroed
to favorably report a substitute for the
Coke bill. Tho substitute is as follows:
the substitute.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of
America in congress assembled, thai, for
the purpose of securing tho work of im-
proving the entrance to the harbor of Gal-
veBtpn, Tex., the secretary of war, upon the
report of the chief of the engineers, is hereby
authorized in his discretion to draw a war-
rant or requisition from time to time upon
the secretary of the treasury for such sums
as may be necessary to do such work, not to
exceed in the aggregate $6,200,000, the
the amount determined as necessary for the
completion of the same, as shown in tho ro-
port of the chief of engineers for the year
18S9; provided, however, that tho amount
so drawn from the treasury shall not exceed
$1,000,000 in any one year, and that an item-
ized statement of said expenditures shall
accompany the annual report of the chief
of engineers. The amount required for the
completion of this work is hereby appro-
priated out of any money in the treasury
not already otherwise appropriated.
senator coke's diligence.
Senator Coke is on tbo committee on
coiamerce and has been diligently and un-
ceasingly at work to get it through the
committee oversince the matter was sub-
mitted to it. As a member of the commit-
tee he could make no speeches in open^s-
sion, as he occupied a kind of judicial posi-
tion to listen to the speeches of others. He
at the beginning took the ground that as
the Texas legislature had agreed, and aB
the rival points had agreed, to submit to
the report of the engineers, there was but
one thing to do, and that was to push the
matter along on the engineers' advice. It
is unnecessary to state how great his in-
fluence has been. The work shows it with
the report, which has been ordered to be
printed, and tho argument of Secretory
Dana of tlie deep water committee.
other notes.
The argument of \ W. Houston in favor
of Aransas pass is better than the argu-
ment of General Comstock for Galveston
and of Adolphus in favor of the Hauptor
Willet pier plan or outer harbor.
Tho only difference between tho original
Coke bill and the substitute i3 that the lat-
ter interdicts the expense of more than
$1,000,000 a year. Senator Coke is much en-
couraged and belieTes strongly that he will
get the bill through the senate. It will
perhaps not come up before three or four
week?, as there are many bills preceding it.
current capital topics.
tiji5 oklahoma dill.
Washington, Feb. 18.—[Special] — Tho
Oklahoma bill consumed all tho timo of
the hotlse to-day, and from the votes cast on
preliminary matters it looks at present as
if the bill would go through just about as
it came from tho committee.
Judge Haro made a speech in opposition
to tho court features of the bill, and had
rfiad by the clork a protest against tho court
features by Governor Byrd of tho Chickasaw
nation.
Mr. Mansur of Missouri stated on the
floor of the house that the territorial com-
mittee had a letter from the governor favor
ingtbe establishment of a court at Purcell.
Mr. Perkius also stated that he had a tel-
egram from Governor Byrd favoring the es-
tablishment of a court at Purcell.
The whole matter will have to go to a
conference committee. If it is done tho
friends of the bill in tho house will probably
put Messrs. Springer, Struble and Perkius
on tho committee to represent them. They
are the strongest friends of the court fea-
tures. The friends of the bill aro jubilant
over the strength shown for it in tho house.
rivers and harbors.
The houso committee on rivers and har-
bors throw open its doors to-day to speak-
ers. Professor Haunt explained in detail
the engineering features of the outer har-
bor, or pier plan, of obtaining deep waterat
Padre island. Ho maintained there was no
point on tho Texas coast at which deep
water could bo obtained by this process ns
at Padro island. He stated further that ho
did not think an inner harbor could be ob-
tained nnywhora on that coast excopt at
great expense. He thought that to obtain
deep water at Galveston six or seven mill-
ions of dollars would havo to be expended
and then it could only bo maintained by
dredging. He wa3 followed by Willet, who
explained the cheapness of his pier plan,
compared to the othor plans, and the com-
mercial advantages that Padre island would
offer. Both men thought deep wator could
be obtained by the pier plan for a million
and a half.
another postcffice f.ow.
Another postoflico row has broken out at
Fredericksburg. A widow woman was re-
moved and her successor had only one in-
dorsement from the town. Letters havo
been pouring in to Congressman Sayers,
who has beon to see Wauamuker about it.
The late appointee was indorsed by Major
lie Gress and Wanamaker refuses to recon-
sider tho appointment. There is no hope
for the retention of the lady.
census matters.
The cc"<us office has not come to any con-
clusion as to the method by which it will
arrive at tho indebtedness of the country as
provided by tho amendment to the census
law. It is understood, however, that young
lawyers will ba appointed to search the
records and that the records of democratic
congressmen, from the south particularly,
will bo solicited by Porter. This is a good
time for young attorneys who want the
places to confer with f.heir congressmen.
relief bill.
Coko introduced a bill for the relief of
Fred Harnhard and others of Colorado
county for cotton destroyed by tho federals.
There were 1010 bales destroyed, and the
price asked is $124 20 per bale.
dank affairs.
Hezorve agents: National Bank of Com-
merce of St. Louis for the First National
bank of Stephensville, National Bank of
Commerce of Kansas City for the City Na-
tional bank of Belton.
pensions.
Reissue: Philip, Simmons, Netta.
Mexican widows: Margaret, widow of
Asa Bank3tone.
tostal notes.
Postoflices established: Cutnming, Tom
Green county, Joseph H. Kellis postmaster;
Clarks, Oklahoma county, Indian Territory,
Grant T. Johnson postmaster.
Postmasters commissioned: Winfred S.
Cobb, Encinal; Gideon Smith, Jr., Mul-
berry.
patents.
Thomas L. Eomor, assignor of one-half
to C. Schuwartb, Olmus, cornplanter.
William T. Fletcher, Beaumont, lumber
kiln.
Lcroy B. Henry, Austin, cultivator.
John W. Peeler, Calvert, Tex., corn or
cotton seed planter.
army affairs.
tr.oup.lf.some claims disposed of.
washington, Feb. 18. — The supreme
court of the United States has put an end to
some army claims that have been the source
of considerable annoyance to vrar depart-
ment and treasury department officials for
many years. The cases were those of the
supernumerary*officers who were dropped
from tho army nt the time of tho weeding
out in 1871. The law of 1870 calling for tho
reduction of the army required that tho un-
desirable officers should be dropped on or
before January l, 1871. That day being Sun-
day the ordor discharging the supernumer-
aries was not issued until the following day,
January 2. This has been the causo of all
the contention. Those concerned claimed
that the law had not been compliod with-
in tho time specified and hence the order of
discharge was null and void. A test case
claiming pay from the da* given was
carried up through tho court of claims to
tho supreme court, which has decided that
tho intout of the law was too plain to admit
of its defeat by a mere technicality, and
hence the action of the court of claims dis-
missing the claim was affirmed.
west point academy.
Colonel Wilson and Captain Williams,
superintendent and quartermaster respec-
tively of tho military academy at Wes
Point, have urged the subcommltteo on
military affairs having charge of the mili-
tary academy appropriation bill to allow
the estimates made for new buildings and
repairs to tho old ones at West Point. Col-
onel Wilson also wanted the leader of the
military band made a commissioned officer
and the band reorganized. Colonel Wilson
is not favorably impresaed with the per-
formances of the West Point band, and de-
sires that the cadets shall receive a better
education in militar^music than is now
given the®. 0
young soldiers encouraged..
As a further means of encouraging
"young America" to a high state of pro-
ficiency in military studies the secetary of
war has decided to publish annually in tbB
United States Army Register the names of
cadets standing at tho head of their re-
spective classes of all the state colleges and
universities at which regular araiy officers
nro detailed as instructors. Throo will be
taken from each college graduating twenty
cadets, two from each graduating between
ten and twenty, and ono from each gradu-
ating less than ten. As nearly fifty colleges
havo officers as instructors there will be at
least a hundred names incorporated in the
Register for this yoar, which is now about
ready for issue.
the national guard.
WnAT ADJUTANT-GENEIiAL KELTON SAYS.
New York, Feb. 18. — A Washington
special says Adjutant-general Kelton of
the United States army had his attention
called yesterday to a speech delivered in
Cincinnati Saturday night in which ex-
Governor Fornker said that in 1887, when
the fisheries question was tho topic of the
day, the war department had written to
him, together with other governors, asking
him how many soldiers he could rush to the
Canadian fvoutier. "The governor Is all
wrong about it," said General Kelton, "and
besides he has no right to say anything
about it, because thecommunication, which
was addressed to all tho governors, was
confidential. Wo had some suspicion at
tho timo that the purposo of the suggestion
might be misrepresented, and so we mado
it confidential. The question was not how
soon any state could mass Its militia on the
Canadian border, bnt simply how well each
state had its militia under control, and how
soon it could be assembled in good military
order at some given point in each state. It
was only a suggestion. The federal author-
ities had no power to give an order.
"The war department simply wanted to
get all reliable information that it could aa
to the capability of the state militia. It is
well to remind the militia onco iu a while
that it is intended for possible practical
service, and it is the duty of tho war de-
partment to know what s»i vice it could de-
pend upon getting in an emergency. In
some state* practical tests were made, and
reports made in response to tho suggestion;
other states havo not mado either practical
experiments or reports. It was not in or-
der," said General Kelton, smiling, "to put
the state militia on a war footing. The
war department simply wished to give the
national guard throughout tho country
something practical to think about, and
sent out these letter? asking them the hy-
Eothetical question of how many men could
e massed at certain given points. It was
done to test the intelligence and activity of
the national guardsmen, and to stimulate
their interest in the actual science of war.
The war department was not contemplating
an invasion of Canada."
the cherokee outlet.
president's proclamation.
Washington, Feb. is.—Tho president has
issued the following proclamation to-day:
Whereas that portion of the Indian Ter-
ritory commonly known as the Cherokee
strip or outlet has been for years in occu-
pancy of tho association o£ white people
under certain contracts said to have been
made with the Cherokee nation in the na-
ture ot' a lease or leases for grazing pur-
poses; and
Whereas an opinion has been given to mo
by tho attorney -general concurring with the
opinion given to my predecessor by the late
attorney-general that whatever the right of
title of said Cherokee nation or of the
United States to or in said lands may ba, no
right exists in said Chrokee nation under
the statutes of the United States to make
such leases of grazing contracts, aud that
such contracts are wholly illegal and void;
and
Whereas tlie continued use of said lands
thereunder for grazing purposes is preju-
dicial to public interests, now therefore I,
Benjamin Harrison, president of tho United
States, do hereby proclaim and give notice:
1. That no cattlo or live stock shall here-
after bo brought upon said lands for feed-
ing or grazing thereon.
2. That all cattlo and other live stock now
on said outlet must be removed therefrom
no later than October 1, 1890, and so much
sooner as said lands or any of them may be
or become lawfully open to settlement bv
citizens of tho Uuited States, and that all
persons connected with said cattla com-
panies or associations must not later than
the time abovo indicated depart from said
lands.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand aud caused tho seal of t'no United
States to bo alfixed.
Done at the city of Washington this, the
17th day of February, in tho year of our
Lord 1890, and of tha independence of the
United States of America the 114th.
Benjamin Harrison.
By the president.
James G. Blaine, Secretary of State.
census printing,
great quantity required.
Washington, Feb. 18.—Tho announce-
ment that tho government printing office is
engaged in printing 20,000,000 population
schedules for the use of the census bureau
gives but a faint idea of tho enormous
amount of printing required for the enu-
meration to take place next June. Station-
ery Clerk Ketcham estimates that the sta-
tionery already ordered would fill a room
three blocks long, thirty feet high and forty
feet wide. In addition to the population
schedules now being printed 10,000,000moro
will be ordered in a few days. This will
require 200tons of paper, which is now be-
ing delivered at the rate of 30,000 pounds a
day. Twenty million blanks for statements
of recorded indebtedness will ba required,
7,000,000 or 8,000.000 manufacturers' sched-
ules and 2,000,000 agricultural schedules.
These blank!! aro all about 9x11 inches in
size. Six hundred different kinds of circu-
lars have already been printed, the average
number of copies of each being about 20,000,
or in round numbers 12,000,000 miscellane-
ous forms. Besides the printed matter mill-
ions of sheets of other paper are needed,
one single order being for 100,000 blank
cards for the use of the electric tabulating
machine. By the use of this machine it is
thought that a saving of throe-fourths of
the expense of computing the returns re-
ceived from tha supervisors and onumara-
tors will be saved. A part of this station-
ery will be ser.t through the mails, aud fof
that purposo 75,000,000 free delivery en-
velopes have been ordered. These figures
give, Mr. Ketcham says, only the amount
of preliminary printing ordered. When
the census is being taken aud tho returns
are being computed much additional
printed matter will be used, and the
printed census records will consume more
paper than is required both to get ready
for and take the census.
postal telegraph.
the committee considering it.
The committes on postoffices and post-
roads to-day continued its consideration of
the subject of limited postal telegraph ser-
vice. The meeting was public and Post-
master-general Wanamaker, A. R. Chand-
ler, president of tho Postal Telegraph com-
pany, and D. H. Batas, formerly identified
with telegraphic interests, were present.
The session of the committee was occupied
in questioning Mr. Wanamaker and Mr.
Chandler concerning the bill prepared by
tho postmaster-geuoral.
pension matters.
appropriation bill reported.
Washington, Feb. 18.—Tho pension ap-
propriation bill for t ie next fiscal year,
which was reported to the house to-day by
Representative Morrow from tlie committee
THE SOUTHERN
COTTON OILCO
Eoustou, Tex.
HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR
Cotton SoecL
E. W. ^MPSON, Manager
or (y" jprintlons, carries S93,427,401, belnc
less than the estimates and $1,668,701
jve than the bill for tho current fiscal
year, though there is an estimated deficiency
of $21,598,834 in pension expenditures for this
year, so that tho bill Is really $4,930,073 leas
than tho expenditures will be this year.
senate finance committee.
a silver ihll agreed upon.
Washington', Feb. 18.— At tho meeting ot
tho senate finance committee to-day tho
various silver aud currenoy bills that liavo
boon roforred to it were under considera-
tion. The discussion covered the whola
range of the financial situation, but the sil-
ver question was tho principal topic. All
tho republican members of the committee
were present and Messrs. Harris and Vance
of the minority.
Tho discussion is said to have demon-
strated that thero was little if any variance
of views upon the manner in which silver
coin should ba treated. There was a prac-
tical agreament that a bill should be passed
authorising the secretary of tho treasury
to increase tho purchase of silver, store it as
bullion and issue certilcates upon it. It ia
expected that the details of a bill covering
thesa propositions will bo draftod at tho
next meeting of the committee.
the deep water PORT.
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coke's bill will be reported favorably.
Washington. Feb. 18.—The senate com-
mlttto on commerce to-day agreed to report
favorably Mr. Coke's bill appropriating
$6,200,000 for tho construction of a deep water
harbor at Galveston, with an amendment
providing that the expenditure shall be at
the rate of ft,000,000 a year. Thischango
was suggested by the engineer department
of tho army, under direction of which tho
work is to be prosecuted.
general washington news.
a heavy pension item.
Preparation of an urgent deficiency ap-
propriation bill has been begun by tho
house committee on appropriations. The
largest item in this deficiency bill will b«
about $21,500,000 on account of pensions.
This large deficiency, however, doos not In-
dicate such a great Increase in expenditures
for pensions as would seem to be apparent
ou the f;vco of the statement, tho expendi-
tures for the vear eudiug July 1 next being
with this deficiency appropriation includ-
ed about $97,000,090 againat $95,000,000
last yoar. After the appropriation for
pensioiis for the present fiscal year had been
made ou the basis of the regular appropria-
tion for the previous year it was found nec-
easary'to make a deficiency appropriation
of about $8,000,000 for tbo previous year.
Subsequently it was found that oven with
this deficiency appropriation the expendi-
tures would exceed tho appropriation, and
tho commissioner of pensions, waiting uutlt
aftor the presont fiscal year had begun,
drew oil tho appropriation for the Iscai year
now running for almost $7,000,000 to pay
pension claims accruing during the previous
year, the effect being roally to lessen tho
appropriation for the present fiscal year by
an amount approximating 87,000,000.
wants to be investigated.
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt
wont up to tho capitol to find out why tho
committee appoiuted to investigato the com-
mission has not begun to investigate. Ha
saw Mr. Lehlback of New Jersey, tho chair-
man, and several othor mombeis of the com-
mittee, and told them ho would like to havo
soniethiug done. The committee has voted
to tales up tho charges against the present
commission first, aud Mr. Roosavolt told
Mr. Lehlback that they could be disposed of
in half an hour. Ha said ho wanted a thor-
ough investigation, and no wlshy wasby
milk and water report.
"If the charges agaiust us ara true," said
ho, "we Hre infamous; if they are not true,
the people who make them are Infamous,
and I want the committee to say whether
they aro true or not, and not bring in any
half hearted rep-rt that they aro 'not
proven,' or anything of that kind."
Thecommittee will probably go to worlC
on the matter very soon.
compromise naval bill.
It is probable that a compromise bill for
the Increase of the navy will be agreed upon
at au early date, which will include ships of
the classes recommended by Secrstary Traoy
as well as a number of monitors advocated
by SenatorChandlor. It is doubtful whether
tho secretary can obtain an appropriation
for mora than three or four of the eight
high froo board battleships he asks for, and
tho bill will probably include au equal num-
ber of monitors. In the matter of unarmored
ships it is understood that a majority of tho
houso committee favors building moro
small gunboats, and the bill will probably
include two of these vessels of 1000 tons dis-
placement, and possibly one or two fast
cruisers of 3000 or 400J tons. No opposition
in either committee is expected to the secre-
tary's recommendation for five first-class
torpedo boats.
treasurer huston's denial.
Treasurer Huston was questioned to-day
in regard to tho published report that ho
has decided to retire from h s present office.
Ho said the.'e was absolutely no truth in
tho report so far as tho present timo is con-
corned, but that of course bo could not toll
what he could do in the future, say a year
from now.
threatening vengeance.
There are several noted North Carolina
colored politicians in town. They hang
around the capitol and relate their griev-
ances against the Harrison administration.
They allege that the administration does
not give them anything, and that tho
colored member of tho house from North
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