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Show .;irs from irj siiisqtos trromOur lUsulw t.ttf"Tattil.l I Wasiiixutox, Oct. 12, ItW Tho Vreildent and his cabinet li derottsl considerable time to Cliliw natterr slnrr his return to WakhlngTo tlilf week, kill there has Uen verv Hfl' made ptihlir, eirept that the answer this gnverninent to the proposal' Frame for dealing with China bad bce prepared and forwarded. Therels abeu as wide a dl'lerriire between the or-iunanfmembeisnt or-iunanfmembeisnt the admlnlitraW' and of thofcheld by Kuropean membrri of the diplomatic corps on the present status ol affairs in China and theott-look theott-look for a settlement asexliled pievlw to the rescue ol the foreigners In I'ekTn. Then, as now, this government truitjjj China, while the European dlplointM distrust It now as much as theyM then. Memlicrs of tho administratis hold the opinion Hint the reluialof JJj Chlntee government to return to Telli will not delay the negotiation!, wnJ the diplomats think it will, and llisUj will Iw weeks, crliapt months, befen the negotiations are started. Mlnlijtl Crongtr bus ssnt to Washington IM names of n doteu Chinamen nf pronj inenoe who deierva punishment for par tlclpatinn in the Uoxer troubles, binTks Chineie government hai only ordtrtd the piinlihmenl of three of them. Iff Gen. John It. llrooke, commftndcgfci tho Uiliiary department ol the east lu his annual report to tho War Dojitlr, ment, made public rills week, mac's I strong plea for the reorganization ?UI army on iiiMlern llnei. He says BTTr many years pist tho general olfl&t of the ami) have shown the utrosimfor an Increaie which will place thefrMiy ou au elllcleut bails and enabliTtti perforin Its duties wltli credit tffictl and to tho satisfaction of the pjfcn. The, yentt slnet; thejcnrnrnencefcyog therrnlsW wtm?teroMR:Lel yond doubt ihe neeeislty for areonU- liatlon whli.li will enable this nallelfo maintain tho position In which itnw finds Itielf placed, to that In cajnf at war the army may form the bulwark. bind which the volunteer army mate created, as bus always been done In ir countrt. by organising theneonle." Kvcr since their lntro.lin.tlon the has been a controversy among sri; officers as to tlio advantages of t) costly disappearing gun carriages c coast fortification";. Tlie Hoard of Ol dlnamo nnd 1'ortlflcatloiis has taktn hand in tlio control ersy by iscommeud lug to tho Secretary ol War that nomor disappearing gun carriages be made. The llurenu n( Kngruvlug and l'rlnt ing Is now employing the largest work1 Ing force In Its hlstnr) 2.SC0 eiHuol It is also turning out mote worktlnu ever before, the present dally vers Ulng 200,000 slut-la of lutsrmtl revenf stamps, 40,000 iheett of poitsge stamp! 8,000 sheets of national hank notes, lot on a sheet, 72,000 sheets of silver rn tlflmUs and 6,000 sheet! ofmiiosllti I com work. Rear Admiral Sampson came to Wait . Ington this week to hold Aconferend with Secretary Ixng, on some inatltn connected with the Iloston navy jtri I where he Is now stationed, nnd he aa to weak nnd 111 that a ntval surgea I was ordered to accompany him hsckt Ration, lilt health, which list r been good for lev eral yenn, leeiut t t getting w one all tho time. There it awldo dl(Tcmice oloj'InlH on conipuleory arbitration of labor die 1 putoi among those whoso poiiileM would linn to tnablo them toforiuu, intelligent opinion. The lnduttrU! I Commission has been hearing erldcM Ion iMthsldetof tlio qtiestlon, but if l I testimony has been conclusive eiltff way to any member of tho cqicmlstM. 1 It has not been to the average outildt. Mr. John 8. Kelley, I'resident cf ll United Journc)ineii numbers and U"" fitters Association, of Chicago, ttrocft recommended compulsory arbllrttlonV hi testimony before the Couiuiiiilai wlillo Mr. Joseph O, Smith, aiueuil of the New Jersey State Hoard ol Ary tratlon, wai equully as emphatic sgslfji It, and that It the way the testluion has been g ing miM tb0 ,al,jwt has Usn before the Commission. Tl.e Secretary of the Navy had an-I an-I othr conlereace this wesk with officers ol the steel eonnaniet which have the facilities for making armor plate, whU h 'iled with the snbmlstlon of proposl-,"001 proposl-,"001 and ouoter-prcoslllont which uttal officials sy are so near together that 11 fy rrgard It as certain that an ejrseiutnt will toon be reached and that I BO government armor-making plant will estalhihed under the authority con-'rsd con-'rsd on the Secretary by Congress. tiirusn cotton manufacturers are Ruling alarmed lor fear that something Alfhlculoiriheir supply ol raw mater-lal. mater-lal. wMch coms almost entirely Ironi iUli country. The U 8 Conml at Anna-Vg.Uernuny, Anna-Vg.Uernuny, reports to IheDerart-ntnl IheDerart-ntnl of State that the German Colonial Iiioclallcn hss recently sent A petition Wilis Imperial chancellor, asking tbat Sfiry mum he uted to lutoduce cotton roamg Into German colonies where sstl and climate favor. The conml 1 MJed "If, for some reason Germany , slonld le cut off for one )ear from her j wtlos mpply tliero would ItAcrltlsof t lialcultble consequences, Germany, I rsnee and Kogland have never forgot-I forgot-I tti the days of the civil war, when their j (Won supply wai cut off by the block- al tithe Southern filatei " |