Show National Financial Affairs WASHINGTON D C Sept 13The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ended September 1 was 661253 The issue during a corresponding period last year was 599395 Shipments fractional silver coin since September 1st amount to 447885 The Treasury Department Depart-ment has decided that thread used in the manufacture of gilling nets is properly dutiable as linen thread at the rate of 40 per cent ad valorem regardless of an apparent ap-parent change in the trade name since the passage of the act of 1883 to seine or i ling twine which under that act was subject sub-ject to a duty of 25 per cent ad valorem From the last statement by the Mint Bureau it appears that silver dollars coined under the Bland act have reached a total of 239000000 which is about equal in amount to the gold coin and bullion held by the Treasury |