Show THIS FROM WASHINGTON Time Senate has agreed to take a veto next ThunKluy on the amendment offered by the Committee on Foreign Relations to the IlayPaunccfoto treaty The value of the total number of pleceii of stamped paper Issued to postmortem I I during1 the last fiscal year was i76S7771 a net Increase over the Issue of the previous pre-vious year of 7KGlll The report of the Third Assistant Post mnslerGeneral shows that tIme total receipts re-ceipts from all sources of postal revenue during tho year amounted to 102354579 while the expenditure reached 107710iG7 Nicaragua and Costa Rica have announced an-nounced their willingness to grant a leaso to the United States for a period of 200 years of tho territory necessary for time construction of the projected Nlcaraguau t canal The terms are regarded as mod crate I S There were over 20000 cases of typhoid fever among the troops encamped within the limits uf the United States from May until September of 1S9S according to a report of SurgeonGeneral Sternberg It became epidemic In all camps largo and small North and South The PrcMldont In a special message sent to time Senate recommends that the Mexican Mexi-can Government bo paid 2GOO for thin heirs of the victim of mob violence in Texas Time recommendation is made from motives of humanity and without reference to the question of liability of the Government of the United States Col T F Weston Assistant Commis saryGeneral of Subsistence has been nominated to bo CommissaryGeneral of Subsistence with rank of BrlsadlerGcn ernl Capt Frank B McTCenna Forty seventh Infantry U S V First Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Fifteenth Infantry U S A to bo InspectorGeneral of Volunteers with rank of Major Tho complete report of the deep waterways water-ways commission was sent to the House of Representatives by Secretary Root The project Is one for a deep waterway between the Great Lakes and Allantlo tidewater The estimated cost of a twen tyonefoot waterway la given at 200 SSOCO and one of a thirtyfoot waterway at 53172SI6CO |