Postmaster General Payne, in his estimates for appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1905, calls for an aggregate of $168,085,770 for the postal service and $1,511,050 for the Post Office Department proper at Washington.
On October 5 in Boston a reception and banquet was tendered the Honourable Artillery Company of London by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston.
A law recently enacted by the Philippine Government provides that one hundred native young men shall be sent to the States every year to be educated and fitted for positions in the insular civil service.
Secretary Root has been in correspondence with Governor Taft regarding the construction of a system of railroads in the Philippine Islands, amounting to some six hundred miles.
