Items of Interest April 17, 1902 Issue

Items of Interest

The United States Government will spend $6,600,000 on the St. Louis Exposition. The first appropriation made by Congress was $5,000,000, which is to be returned out of the receipts of the exposition company before any dividends are paid to the stockholders. Four hundred and fifty thousand dollars was appropriated for the erection of a Government building, and the cost of installing and maintaining the exhibits exhibits will be upwards of one million dollars.

A bill has been introduced in the Senate which appropriates $250,000 for the erection in Paris of a building to be known as the American National Institute. Senator Depew says there is need of such a building in Paris where American prize students could carry on their studies under the supervision of our Government. This would facilitate their studies and at the same time keep them loyal to their native land.

President Roosevelt has selected Eugene F. Ware, a prominent lawyer and writer of Topeka, Kan., as the successor of Commissioner of Pensions Evans. It is understood that it is the President's desire to appoint Mr. Evans minister to Spain if Bellamy Storer, the present minister, resigns, but if Mr. Storer does not resign some other place of equal character will be offered to Commissioner Evans.

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