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Lfl LlLuII l.m.i uL.ILl., ..a ! Published every Tuesday and Friday r by the ' . , . STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO 266' Commercial St Salem, Or. I R. J. HENDRICKS, Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, in advance $1 00 Six months, in advance... .......$ 50 ; SUBSCRIBERS DESIRING THE AD- 4ies of their paper changed must itat the name ot their former postofflce, ! well as of the offlca to which they wish the paper changed. Thi fine weather is giving the Twice-a-week Statesman's subscrption") lists another boom. If the Southern Pacific uild a line to Tillamook bay from Sheridan, we think a way will be found to connect Salemi "with this direct road to' deep water," by the construction of a spur, or a motor railway, to Derry. i Our cannery and evaporator will take care of the vegetables and fruits of this section, to the full extent of its capac ity, -first, tSiis year; and it may bclp to get pork products and other things ready for distant and near-by markets after this is done. ; We are glad to note that the wheel mcn are in favrof paying the bicycle tax. Pay it, and keep oh paying it from year to year, and- wonderfully "beneficial results wiH accrue. There fwill be good bicycle paths, and these win onng gooti roaas. Wc are glad to note that lew hop contracts are being made. There is nothing in contracting; excepting for the buyer, in case the market rules higher than the contract price. It is a gamble,' in which the growler puts, up all the stakes, or very nearly all. There can be no-good' reason for any Republican in Marion county re fusing to vote the Legislative ticket straight, and the same applies to most of the balance of the ticket. It is i'm. portant that Oregon should have a Republican Legislature at the session of next winter. There is. a United States Senator to elect. The smallpox :n the iive.ru Oregon towns is being stamped o u. The Pen dleton East Oregoniun reports that "there is practically no smallpox in Pcndicton." If more attention fad been paid to vaccination there would be no smallpox at all; nor 'would the disease have ever got such a start. THE T EXT BOOK COM M 1 SS ION. "'..It is provided by the law passed by the last Legislature that in the month of January next the Governor shall ap point a State Board of Texflook Com missioners of five members, who shall tnect on the second Monday of next July and adopt textbooks fof the pub schools f Oregon for. six years. This is .going to bring up a matter of great public concern, and a very dif- Cl 1 . . -rt .i a . , lltUll OI1C II Will WlliIUl UOlfUl 1C the occasion of a great deal of dissatis faction and scandal, no matter what iien mav be selected by the Governor, ami no matter -what changes may be made in tfhc textbooks, or if no changes at all are made: This -is certain, on account ot the fact that Jhe company that ha the present contract for furnisbing the text books in this state is under the same management chat has been wi'h it for a long time in the past. This manage ment has- been the occasion of great scandal for years. 'It has sought to control politics ui this state, to serve its own ends, and it has interfered in many ways in the emctency 01 tne public service. It has been frequently tbarged with corruption, and it is generally believed 'that these charges are true. It will therefore be necessary lor all connected with this important work to exercise the utmost care in aH of its details, in order to be free from -suspicion, - and to protect flic public from abuses that would otherwise surt ly arise. -and that , will no doubt be charged with or without foundation. The trail of the crpcnt must, if pos sible," le obliterated and kept out of, fcioflitatwl out of fact. : ..- ,f Under the present conditions, it would be hard to dcvic a system whose workings would be? without abuses, either real-or charged. 'Probably the system tbat has been given the sanc tion of law will be as effective and sat isfactory as any that could be devised. Anyway, it is the. system under which we are to work for the time being, at least; -so we must put up with it and make the best of it." 1 NO SCHOOL OF DIPLOMACY NEEDED. t Every now and then somebody as scrts that our international interests would be promoted by a body of pro fcssional diplomatists, and that, it might lie well for our federal govern ment to establish at Wasiiington ia Whool in wbich young men shotdd be trained Tor diplomatic functions. The assertion is based on the assumption that, in European countries, diplomatic ' .;.e are . ...ri.-ied ot.'.y to iat: . .-. pecially , trained for the purpose, and that, byi neglecting to follow their ex ample, the United States is placed at a disadvantage in negotiations. That the assumption is not .warranted by facts wiH be clear lo any one who reads an article on Dipkmacy as a Profession,' contributed by a "Diplomat"' to the last number of the London National Review.- ' ? -V 1. -X The writer of this article . begins by pointing out fhit the field of diplomacy has ben: signally narrowed during the at .half century, and is likely to be stflj further curtailed What he has "in mind is the extreme rapidity with which negotiations can, be now carried s on, owing to the enormous extensions of the! facilities of tonrmunication; t'hat is to, say, the spread of tne postal system ana ' the! establishment of the electric telegraph. AVhen rhe long distance telephone shall have come into general use; the minimization- of the functions entrusted to diplomatists sent to foreign countries will be complete. The consular officers of flic future shduld be; business- .men, rather than professional diplomats. The recent ap pointment of H.j B. Miller, of Oregon, to an important post ' in- China, ; is. a good one in this respect. Mr. Miller will look out for trade for American products in that country. The princi pal need we nave tor state uepartmeni officials in foreign lands is as sort of international drummers of trade; as the advance! agents of expansion of our commerce, it important mat oniy suj:h should be I sent to rbe Oriental countries now. We need greater mar kets I more than we need diplomacy in j fact,! as suggested above, the latter can be attended, to from the central of fice in fWashingfon. UNCALLED FOR. 'When Mrs. 'Flax-Talker Lord s cv gubernatorial husband was banished, as' United States "minister plenipoten tiary and envoy j extraordinary" to the Argentine Republic, such comica, papers as the Oregon ian and the 'Tele gram congratulatonly chuckled over "the distinguished honor to our state and it si. illustrious son. One man in Oregon, who knew something of South America, said: "Well, $-Hanna s Bill has given the Lord a -goldbrick. The accuracy of his diagnosis is shown by t&e telegraphic ; announcement, that 'Mrs. Lord is on her way back to Ore- eon, in high dudgeon and disgust, de claring that the; salary her liege lord gets will not enable mm to keep hi? family I decently ; in. the Argentine capital. The position is utterly worth less. There is r neither honor nor money in it. and it onJy serves as a son of diplomatic penal colony to rid suc cessive! administrations of nuisances and pestiferous nobodies. The Dalle? Times-jMountaineer. The above clipping is' taken from a marked paper forwarded to the States man. .! ,' i It is almost indecent (Mrs. Lord worked hard and faithfully for Oregon, in attempting to get Max growing and treating on a firm basis. And the time will cpme when ber efforts will be ap preciated, for the I time writ be when this industry will bring millions of dol lars a' year into the Northwest, to be paid to growers and laborers here. Ii Will be part or all of the forty millions of dollars that annually. go from thi Country to foreign lands for the man ufactures of flax, while all the natural Conditions arc here present for the growing of the flax: fibre equal to any tbat can be produced in the best known Hax districts of the Old World. And jthe fibre of the plants that furnish the (seed for. oils, and other purposes will be fashioned , into grajn bags, to take the place of the jute bags that now come! from the other side, of the globe in India. (Mrs. Lord deserves credit rather than ridicule. And, furthermore, there! was no intention tojgive ex-Gov ernor Lord a "gold brick in assigning him ko the 'honorable post in the next jmost important country of South America. There are many men who would be glad to get such a "gold brick." However, the country and its custom may not suit Mr. Lord. He fs an Oregoniah, and used to the best conditions of the finest country on earth; so this is quite possible. And if heldcsires to return home, the feeling is nothing but a natural one. ' LEASEHOLD HOMESTEADS. We reprint in another column, from the Pacific Homestead, fhe farm paper published in this city, an article from the pen of Hon. John M into, of Salem, m which is included the draft f a proposed law for leasehold home steads in rhe arid regions, on lands suit able ! for pasturage purposes only - or chiefly. , . V ' .- ; : ;- It seems to us that the proposed law would be a good tbing. It , would en courage the settlement of wide re gions that arc now almost without .value or benefit to the courtry. and the build ing of thousands of comfortable homes in sections that are now given over al most wholly to solitude. The measure proposed would bare all the necessary safeguards against monopoly of the land or of nature's, most precious gift in flic region for which4' it is designed, tliat is, . the water courses. Tlie draft was; made by Mr. Minto, a Jic states, at the suggestion of a Senator f rhe United States, and . it will probably be proposed in Congress, in substantially its present form, in the whatw of a biil for enactment as a fed eral statute. The matter is worthy of consideration and discussion. , Oregon has many thousands of acres oi l.ir.J 01" tl.e descrvi.on noted, in t'be eatcrn and southeastern por tions of the state. In some way or other, these lands should be reclaimed and brought into the service of civili zation and the: way suggested promi ing of! beneficial results. ; , 1 v y WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, The time has come wben the people must rally; to the support of Willam ette University, if tbe institution is to co ahead and take advantage of its oonortunities. 1 It now has the tmd i- vided support of its great patronizing church. Portland University is prepar ing to turn over ; its, unfinished work and the results of its accomplished la aln institution, and rbis" leaves a( clear field, : 'But if. there is to be growth, if tflie opportunities; are to be grasped, there must b . oreliminarv . effort on- the part of the people most . interested. Sa lem must take the kad. She is' asked to complete the strbscriptions to ' the $10,000 xnsergency ftrnd; one-third 'pf the amount to be paid annually, 'This will relieve the institution of pressing burdens and give la nucleus and foun dation for further work. Then can fol low the increase and creation of en dowment 4nd building Junds. Wc think toe people of this city, the bome of the bonored institution, can ill afford ;to refuse this initial help: They can ill afford even to allow the work to lag. In fact, they cannot af ford it at all. The sum asked is not a great one-tbreie and a third thousand dollars a year for three years. No one in the community need give individu ally a large sum. f the burden assumed is participated in generally; though we have some Who could well afford to contribute generously. We hope tq see the work pushed for ward now, and without halting, and may there be a general and generous response.-; , ' I We print oil this page a clipping from ifhe New York Press, on the Clark case. It is in line with the comments of the leading newspapers throughout the country. Is Oregon going to lower her standard and her standing in the estimation of the people of this coun try whose good opinion she needs, by going into the class with tbe "mort gaged" states; by sending a man'to tbe United States' Senate, at the session- of the Legislature of next winter whose sole claim (as was Clark's) is his great wealth? We are confident that the hon ored manhood of Oregon will assert itself and revolt against this pro- gramme. Perhaps thel Italian prunes of rhe Willamette valley are injured. It is too early to tell the full extent of the damage. But the apples are all rigbt. The Statesman has for years urged-our orchardists to set out more apple trees, and especially winter apple trees, and we think this advice is still good. The apple is the staple of the Oregon fruits. It is the fruit tbat has made the name of Oregon famous, and will continue to add lustre to tis fame. Willis S. Duniway bas been made secretary of the Republican State Cen tral Committee. This is an excellent selection. 'Mr. Duniway is a clean and brainy young man. The people of Sa lem .where he i well known, have con fidence in Mr. Duniway, and they are always glad to bear of his preferment. THE J UDGMENT AGAINST i CLARK. (New York Press.) It is most fortunate tbat the vote in tlie Senate Investigating Committee is unanimous for the unseating of Senator Clark as he must be styled untfl the title is actually stripped from him. There is now no possibility of a pro longed wrangle in which the argument of a partisan motive for his punishment would be freely used and its lesson per verted wilb nearly 'half fhe people. There can , be no possible misconcep tion of the merits of the case. It is bribery proved to the hilt for the first time in the history of the body to which h is to be feared more than one bribe giver has found his way., It is sbown at last not ' that a seat in the Senate cannot be bought, but at least that it is. not always safe to buy i It is perhaps late in the day to make the example. In most even of the new er states the period of the bonanza benator t passuig. Nevertheless the vote will beta facer for all rfioe who rely on rbe use of money in all kinds of politics, from primary to Presidency electron. Sit will be a check to politi cal pessimism and cynicism such as we do not recall. This map's income is ociieved to nave been the largest west of New York. The fact that out of it he could not purchase real political honors and that its lavish outlay , has brought him nothing but fears and cares in defending his counterfeit trlory and then disgrace in losing is likely to cause a considerable revision of the estimated ways to eminence. It will oc cur to a good many Americans to whom it has not occurred before that corruption wins not more than honesty-. I , V.--.'-.v A criminal i prosecution should, of course, follow the expulsion. It cannot be brought in Was"lvingtot, and prob ably the Montana state court possess exclusive jurisdiction. If so it is cer tainly their business to begin a purifi cation of their Commonweal ib. From the. character of at ; least ' one oi -the Judges. as brought out in the bribery proceedings, it is not too much to ex pect that they will tk. their duly. CONSANGUINITY. Th Qre w hile graciously ; ct B decendng' to "supnort ' Iht Republican ticket, finds fault w':h thj"-- stat- ccti vention because it fai!eJ jtJ commend the 'oniy Pacific court Senator who; had the crirage" 'tct vote against tli- Puer to Rican tariff bilL Inferentially, 'this is a condemnation of the: course of Rep resentatives -Moody and -Tongue, arid Senator (McBride, aod ari implication that they- were 4acking in courage to express their honest convictions. The Republicans of Oregon, by their dele- gates in convention, have votes of" Messrs. Tongue and Senator McBride, by indorsed the and Moody, renominating the ..two formerj w'bile the only indorse mcnt yet "accorded Senator Simon comes from the Portlard Chamber ibf Commerce and; rthe Oregonian. Ws jto Senator Simon's -motive for bis vote, there migbt'- be two opinions. Ordi narily it is fair M assume that a Senator votes from' motives of fhe public good, and the assumption- might be permitted to -hold in' this case; were it" not for th fact that the Great Bulldozer goes out of it-s way . to ascribe improper motives to all wbo disagree with ijf, and. especi ally to Senator" McB ride, 'against whom it seems to 'have an- indecent hatred, carrying it to the extreme of deliberate lying in regad to tbe importance pf his committee assignments. JTherefore it is well to investigate, and ' ascertain wiether it is not possible that some other term than "courage" "and1 some other motive than justice for the down-, trodden Puerto tRkans is applicable: to and responsible for Senator Simon's op position to th Republican majority and his alliance with the Democrats and the '-small men" of the . Republican minority. p . . Who are these "Puerto Riicans" who are interested in the removal of the duty or tobacco (for jnstjance). and how does . the bill affecti them? "The Tobacco Leaf," a trade paper published in New York, devoted to thie interests of the wholesale and retail tobacco trade, contains the following:. advertise ment in its issue of April j4tb: The Cream of the 1900 Crop is Ours.. The Steadily -Increasing! Sale of Our Porto- Rico Tobacco Has Necessitated the Securing of Two Additional Packing! Houses. All -Our Tobaccos Are packed in Ha vana Style Only. Levi, Blu mensteil & Co., 1 18-1 jo Maiden Lane, New York. Warehouses in Porto Rico at Caguas and San Juan. , Consanguinity may have tn-uidr to do with Senator Sir had some ng to do witn- oenatof simon s, vote. "Blood is thicker titan ;water, and it is ohly naturalthat Simon sboiilI have a "friendlv feefing for Levi and be easily influenced" to see the Injustice" of the demand for free trade wirb those suf fering Puerto. Ricans of I118-120 Maiden" Lane, New York, and so he (. towered aloft in, the 'Senate and ("courageously" voted against bis Republican colleagues, and- allied himself (not for the first time) with the opposition.- In other words, in Order to accommodate' Levi he betrayed bis party, just as he did in bygone days to accommodate Bar- ney, whose surname is Goldsmith, and his motive was just as potty. Tobacco Leaf," in is editorial col- .1 . trmns, commenting upon a section ot the bill giving miporle's certain; priv ileges, says: ; It is not conceivable jthat tlie House, or the committees'througli whose hands tlie bill rmrst eventually pass, will in terfere in' any way witlji this just pro-vis-ion, which we believe was SE CURED BY, THE TIMELY AND INTELLIGENT ACTION OF ONE OF OUR LEADING f ORTO RICO TOBACCO IMPORTING FIRMS." Is tbere any stranger (testimony need ed as to the' motives behind rlic at tempt to defeat the Puerto Rican tariff bill? And it: was partially successtul. The reduction from ..251 to 15 perl cent. of the regular tariff was! a present- of an immense amount of money to tlie Pu erto Ricans of Maideh Lane,. , New York, who farm the tobacco farmers of the island; of Puertd Rico, and did the latter noj good whatever And Senator Simon had the. magnih- ' J e f cent "courage to voie in iayqr 01 knocking off the other 15 percent. E. H. FDAGG. BRET H ARI E S TRICK ON LA BOUCHER E. f n Harirtti 1avc1 a toke on i,; fr;nii Hfnrv labouchere. editrtr of Indon Truth. 'Disguising him self as a mendicant Harte took on; of bis poems to him and asked that it be purchased and primed.: - " "Such rot as man ; ycnea ; utoou- Sfhilling. You look ' dfstressed. Get fomcthing to eat. then go to wotk at manual labor. You can never be a poet. Don't attempt; h. You will starve to death." ,- - j . - - t,-flf was time for .Harte to. remove bis disguise arut Ibouchere nearlyfamted. Thcpoem had been primed in Truth had. in .fact,- been printed all over the world. andi we all know Bret Harte is a,; successfnl; wrker; . 1 1 t- v--.. t -f :Laboucbere was angryj die bad been cleverly tricked and failed to see that it was tunny. Itswas a long time beiorie be would be friendly witH, Harte: (Washington Letter, j t - : ' 1 ... . , 1 ; r. ' f President; McKinley has been elected art associate Tuember of. the Whittier Home association; of Amctbury: Mrs. McKinley has been a member of the association for some time. Pacific Homestead. Salem. Or. Best farm paper.- lotted weekly. $i a year. cou;:agl: . .. .. -1 -- . .......... for Infants v ------ t t Castoria f harmless snbsti tute for Castor OH, Pare coric. Drops and Soothing Syrups. Lit is -lleaant. It. contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic ' substance, i It destroys "Worms and allays FeverishneHs. , It enres DIarrhosa and "Wind Colic, r It reUeves Teeth Inff Troubles and cures Constipation. It reflates the Stomach and Bowels, glvinff healthy and natural sleep. The Children's x'auacea The Bears the In Use For DOVE COLLI DED WITH EN- GINE.- A dove, winging its flight over the tracks of the' Southern Railway near Julietin. Monroe county, collided with a passenger train going in the opposite direction at a high rate erf speed yester day afternoon. Tlie bird s body plunged rhrough the glass window of the cab. Its beak, -sharp as a ncedde's point, pierced the right eye of Engineer Charles Wallace and the surgeons say it destroyed the engineer's sight tem porarily and' possibly permanently. The dove was killed by the sudden contact with the cab window. Its quiv ering body fell on the iron floor of the engine cab after striking the engineer and .was picked up by the fireman. So great was tbe momentum of tbc train and the dove's body that the glass window was not smasbed by the blow of the collision. Tlie hole through which the bird washurled was clean cut, like that made by. a bullet fired through glass. ' f The wounded "engineer was brought to .llama, this morning to have his eye treated. .Atlanta Journal. THE NEW SLANG FROM LON DON. New York fashionables now borrow their slang from Ijondou. .American isms are considered vulgar. In'what -is called good society on this side such phrases as 'bounder." not quite a cad, but a fellow who is not a gentlemen; "crummy," meaning the reverse of cranky; 'quid," for roll of money, and J"a regular tofT" for a wouW-be swell, are common. New York World. CARRIED TO EXTREMES. 'Teacher What in the world do you mean by writing in -your history paper that "cessation of hostilities was wel comed by the particitrousers?' Tommy W'y. i thought you told us last week to. always '.say "trnsers" in stead of "pants." Indianapolis Press. THE PLANET VENUS. Fresb Contributions to Our Knowledge of That Celestial Boly. ... , A new volume of the "Annals of Harvard Observatory" contains some valuable contributions to existing knowledge of the planet Vcmis. These contributions are from' the Harvard ob servers at Arequipa. Peru, headed by Professor AY". H. Pickering. In the clear atmosphere at Arequipa a bigh monntain station, the best opportunity is given for the study of the brilliant planet now radiant in the western sky at evening. Oil Saturday morning we made some suggestions concerning ,the probable condition oi the planet from personal observation. The conclusion then stated -wa that Venus is enveloped in a dense covering of cloud indicatiiTg a great amount of water on the-planet. It was-reasoned that only cloud or a water surface would rellect o much light as Veii"s reflects. As observation' reveals no surface markings of consequence it was to be assumed that the real surface is not visible and tbat the cloud cov ering alone is seen. The observations itv Tent tend to confirm this view, but they go lu'ich larther. The Literary Digest of lat week-con-' tained a summary of the Peru observa tions with- comment by. Garret P. Ser viss. Professor Pickering notetl the great refractive power of the planet's, atmosphere above the cloud layer and concluded that the atmosphere must be denc. According to his calculation tbc atmosphere of Venus must be several-times more dense than that of the earth at ;ea level. This atmospheric dcnity would favor the suspension of watcT-and other vapor above the planet, a condition that probably obtains. Pro fessor Pickering likens the condition of Venus in her dense cloud covering and heavy atmosphere to that of fhc, vapor wrajjped earth millions of years ago. In other words, Venus is broiling and laying down her coal measures, or may be stiil in her Silurian age. waiting for the animals and plants of the carboni ferous erav It the nebular hypothesis is fairly correct.' Venus is one of the latest children , of the sun nebula, and. as a consequence of latness, is, not so far developed a the earth. The olw-ervations at Arequipa li not srstain the thpory bue recently ad vanced thajt the axis of the planet's rotation is horizontal to the plane oi the orbit. The Harvard- observers find that the axis of rotation is perpendicu lar to the plane of the orbit. If the axis is perpendicular there arc no changes of seasons on the planet. . ( ; The great density of the planet's at mosphere and ,t the heavy covering of clqud are certainly excellent indications of an earlier stage of growth than that of the earfh. But the presence of a vast; amount of water on a body near the sun might explain the pbenomcnon ot, dense; clouds and possibly that of a deep, heavy atmosphere. I Until these Peruvaip observations were maIe little more ! had been learned about "Venus than was known; to. the early astrono mers wbo looked at the planet with their c'tmbrons instruments, sixty feet long. These instruments, of- small aperture and long focus, .were the best and Children.' iuo juuuivrs You Have Always Bought Signature of Over 30, Years. o errr. that could be . devised for ov ercoming the difficulties caused- by the planet's intense brightness.-r-Rochcster Demo crat and Chronicle. - WASHINGTON 5 CORRESPONDENCE . j WASHINGTON, D. C, April 12. -While it is imirobablc that any legis lation looking to an increase of pay for postal clerks will he .adopted at thi session, jt is possible that -some . act may get through regulating their hours of work. Senator Gear, of Iowa, has introduced and will 'push 'a bill provid ing that clerks in first and second clas-, offices shall be required to work not exceeding forty-eight hours during the six .working days of' each week, and not more than eigbt bours during -any one day, and such number of hour? oi Sunday as may be required by the in terests xt the service. Legal holidays . arc to be counted eight hours without regard t6 the time actually einploved. If any clerk or employe is employed lor a greater number of hours he is to be paid extra in proportion to his salary as fixed by law. : , Tlie credit" of the United States is now the best of any nation in the world at any time in the past. Tlie recent . at $106, i wbich makes . the interest on 7 .them only .0175 per cent. In strong con trast is English credit, the recent loan 01 Ulai country urawmg uearij mice per cent, on the market price. During the seventeen days since the passage--of the act 5 and 4 per cent, bonds to the value of $210,000,000 but of- a pos sible $840,000,000, oirts'tanding have been rr 1 1 .- 1: .-.!. , per cents. At least $25,000,000 have : oeen onered oy private .inuiviuuai. which shows 'how hard it is to find well paying investments. The report of the naval com mittee submitted w it'll ' the . na val appropriation bill, points out. that the United States stood Nj. 20 in the list of naval powers seventeen -years ago. " Since then it has spent for new ships .$98,529.51 r.85. and the yc sel now under construction will cost $02,570,610.23. It now ranks foiirtb among the naval powers of the world England' first. France second. Rus- j Germany fifth. It is ahead of Germany today only, by 2.7.P. tons a crt'i.-cr a'bout the hzc of fhe Atlanta. "Tlie Convmissioner of ilnternal Reve nue has called for bids for supplying his oftice with paper to be used in print ing the internal revenue stamps Tor the next fiscal year. The quantity required under the contract contemplated by this circ"lar wilf be about 1.000.000 pounds, and will be white, green, or such other color not-more expensive, as may at any time be prescrjlxNl by the Commissioner of Innernal - Revenue; with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, but the coloring material used must not 'be such as to lc injurious to persons handling the piper. ' llie Agricultural bill ha " been re ported to' the House. It carries $4,116, 400, 1eing-$390,778 more than the law for the current year. An additional al lovancc of $40,000 for seed distribution is granted .m the petition of 225 members of fhe Houc. j Senator Kyle of South Dakota, chair man of the. industrial Commission, has returned from the South, where the commission his been taking testimony reirardinH1 lalxr conditions . Mr. Kvle is much surprised at the trade develop- ments there. "I predict." be said, "that within the next to years the South will be a rival oi New England in manufac turing. I was informed in Anniston. 'Ala., that a firm there was shipping a trainload of sewer pHcs to Cluna and Japan, every w-eek. Had it Wen cotton goods I would not have been so aston ished, but I never thought the trade in sewer piping wotrid be so brik. The manufacturers are3 Shipping bundred of tlunisands of dollars' worth of cotton goods to the Orient, and in some case the whole supply of the mill is used in this trade." The President ha"s notified' Congress that be has returned $403,030 to the Mexican government, being the""an'iouni unpaid tender the .award of tbc arbttra tr of fh It Abra 'Mining CompanyH Nearly eignt years ago. Congress passel an act directing the 'Attorney-Genera; to bring suit, to the Court "of Claim, tp' determine-whether the United State bad not won this arbitration by fraud on the part of -tlie claimants and to return the remainder of the amount to Mexico if "such should prove to. be th case.. -;.'. , i :., ;- More -money per capita, more gold. more silver, and a larger total of -money in circulation than ever be lore is tin summarization 1 of the "Circulation Statement". issued by the Treasury De partment for April 1. 1900. For the first time in 'the bistory of the. country the per capita circulation has crossed tne unf, am; the year 1000 carrien the total ' for the first time past the two-billion-doHar line, while rhe amount of vol-a and gold certificates in circula tion is larger than at the corresponding date of any ptevtous year. . - ";-V: ' : : ; - -i' Twicc-a-week' Statesman, $1 a year.