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Show BONDS AREISSUED To be Sold iu Small Lots Throughout the Country. CARLISLE IS CRITICISED. No Party In Time of Peace Can Successfully Success-fully TJrs Before the People the Increase In-crease of the National Debt-Queen Lil. Will be Assassinated If Restored. Washington, Jan. 18. Now that Secretary Carlisle has taken action on the bond question, there is a feelinz of relief anions the treasury officials who have deeo. viewing with uaeasines9 the invading of the gold reserve. The' printing will be pushed rapidly. The bonds can hardly be ready for delivery before February 1. They will bear interest in-terest from that time. Among the large crowd of callers on Carlisle today was a New Yorker, who bad come to announce, personally, that he was willing to lake the whole $50,-000.000 $50,-000.000 in bonds- A request for his name was refused. The aggregate amount of offers received before the circular was issued was $51) .000X00. All offers eo far made have come from persons per-sons and firms in New York city. One offer to take $100,000 at 118 has been received. It was announced tonight that Sec:etary Carlisle would not make Tnhii t.h names of Dersons offering to take toe bonds, the amount subscribed sub-scribed for, or the figure offered them. To make public figures, would give late bidders an opportunity to offer better terms than those offered by the earlier bidders. It is Baid, unot ficiallv, that the $50,000,000 offer was a minimum premium of 117.223. There is said to bo no likelihood of the acceptance ac-ceptance of this or any similar offer, as it is the secretary's desire to make the loan a popular ore, to which the public generally may subtcribe. On this thewrv it is proposed to encourage offers lor small lots from all secuonB of the country rather than to have the entire loan taken by a lew dealers, in large blocks. The idea naturally includes in-cludes the hope that small denomina tions will be taken in preference to the larger ones. This would involve the Issue of a great many more bonds, it iB believed, from orders already received, re-ceived, that the total offerings will aggregate ag-gregate nearly $200,000,000, and that the price will reach 120, making the bonds practically bear but 2 per cent. Leading members of the house judiciary judi-ciary committee are disposed to criticise criti-cise the secretary's action, in view of the fact that the senate has before it a resolution designed to prevent the issue is-sue Of bonds. Holman takes a decided position against the bond iBSue. "It " absolutely abso-lutely certain," sail he, "that this! government can get along without a dollar increase of the bondtd indebtedness. indebted-ness. It can be done by reducing the expenditures and by additional revenue reve-nue derived from the pending taritt bill. In my opinion, no party, in time of peace, can successfully urge before the people the increase of the national debt and the bonded indebtedness.' LIL, MAY BE ASSASSINATED. The Hawaiian minister at Washington, Washing-ton, Lorin A. Thurston, says the members mem-bers of the government are not alarm -mi at the threat of Lilioukalsni, as she 13 powerless and her talk is treated as the utterance of an angry woman. Her threats, however, lost her the allegiance allegi-ance of manv loval men who denounce the queen for rejecting the proposition to grant amnesty in case she is re-b.ored. re-b.ored. She cannot be restored except! bv force and there is little probability of that. The talk of her Becunog an army in Canada js treated as a good ioke.- I know nothing of a protectorate protector-ate being established. The present government is amply able to take care of the state. I don't anticipate any trouble with the United States. The annexation question is lost sight or in the restoration policy, but it will come up again in the islands. The feeling is as strong as ever in favor of annexation: annex-ation: in fact, among the natives, it is growing. "I go direct to W ashington ashing-ton to resume my official position, he BaVilliam W-iterhouse, of Cedar Rap . ids, Iowa, brother of Henry Water-house, Water-house, of the provisional government, who returned from Honolulu with Minister Min-ister Thurston, talked freely on the situation in the islands at the time of his departure, and, according to Water-bouse, Water-bouse, the 6pirit of the provisional government is one of defiance to the United States in particular and to all governments in general He further says if any attempt had been made to restore the queen, she would have been assassinated. "This fate," he eaid, "awaits her and she knows it, thounh it has not b-jen given official recognition." |