Show I WASHINGTON NOTES I Yesterdays statement of the condition of the treasury shows Available cash balance 27477t > G20 gold reserve 1fiG I 902114 Tho senate in executive session confirmed I con-firmed Colonel J H Patterson Twentieth 1 infantry to be brigadier general and j I James Fuller McKinley to be second lieutenant I lieu-tenant of cavalry The change in the head of the Interior I department is expected to occur the mid 3rtl imigf terh die of this month iC1o definite I I word has been received from Ambassador Hitchcock the newly appointed secretary A number of ladles prominently identi I fed with the Daughters of the Revolution v < cro before the house committee on I military affairs In reference to the bill proposing A permanent corps of nurses for the army While no ollicial award hits been nJPde I rte of the bid for the repatriation of the Spanish prisoners In the Philippines 1 has practically been decided to gve the contract con-tract to the Companle Transatlantique otherwise known as the Spanish Transportation Trans-portation company Most of the time of the house during the three hours session I today was consumed I l Ion sumed In filibustering against a relief i hill on the private calendar The filibuster was finally successful and thehouso d I jo rned without taking up the bil The conference report on the diplomatic appropriation ap-propriation bill was adopted |