Show CAPITAL TOPICS j I Todays statement of the condition of the treasury shows Available cash balance bal-ance 23TS66492 gold reserve 158549774 Tho house committee on Interstate and foreign commerce has set Saturday Dec 18 as the day for a hearing of the anUs anU-s lplng bill Senator Davis chairman of the committee commit-tee on foreign relations says he expects to get the Hawaiian treaty up for consideration consid-eration within ten days Representative Pearson of North Carolina Caro-lina has dejr signatures to thi paper circulated among the Republican members of congress for a conference relative to the civil service law I Professor Phillip B Alger one of the foremost ordnance experts in the government govern-ment service sustained an accident while examining one of the new naval rifles and i came very near being fatal General J W Foster in charge of the Bering Sea negotiations has taken up the general subject of wider treaty relations with Canada and is in close consultation with a delegation of prominent fishmer Chants from Gloucester Mass |