It is understood that almost the only
subject discussed jvas tile pending
bowl -issue. Several prominent New
York bankers were here, among them
J. IMerpont Morgan and, while they
bad not seen either the president or
Secretary Carlisle, it is understood that
t heir views on Him situation have been
convey id to the president. No author
ita.tive stti-tement of tlte eheraeter of
tlie caibinet dbwtusaNm cam lx* made,
but it Is believed that: no final action
was determined upon. It is understood
tirait negotiations wiitlli representative
London bankers are In progress wMb
indications of consummation. The
purixwe of tlie ad inimfetrirtion Is, it is
understood, to place the entire issue
of I tomb* .with London bankers, who
would pay for them with London gold
and time avol-d, for tlie present at
least, the necessity for paying out, gold
; ji exdlraiige for legal tenders. It is
believed that tlie atmounemnent of tin*
sale of bonds will Ik* made at an
early day.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Mr. Chamberlain, the leader of the
British unionists, is a strict prohibi
tionist when he Is preparing or doiD
ering a great speech.
Dr. Arthur O. Webster, of Clark
university, won the first prize of $l,OOO
in the International competition for
the best treatise on electricity.
Mrs, George Gould is described as
being “very gracious.” Well, almost
any woman could afford to be “very
gracious ’ if she had the assured posi- j
tion awl unlimited pin money of Mrs.
Gould,
ITesident Faure. of the French re
public. has a traveling exjiericncc of
this country, having seen consider:!Me
of it during a brief visit. He knows
What it is to be gone through by a
sleeping car porter.
TUfclß FATE SEALED
SEVERAL BILLS ACTED ON BY
COMMIT!'FES,
T'llK LIBRARY MEASURE FAVOR
ABLY CONSIDERED.
