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DISTRIBUTION PoLIcY.-The highest net year. ly proceeds from the sale of public lands has been $3 100000. This sum, the distribution blll of the present session of Congress, proposes to divide a. mong the states according ther federal represen taton. There are PAP representatives; so that each member would entitle the state to about $l2, 1892 la the August number of the Democratic Review, in an able commercial and financial article we find a table exhibiting the interest due annually on the pulp tic debt of each state, and the the respective states would be entitled to receive under the Dstri button bill, designed as "relief" bill.

 The interest of Alabama is $60O ,30O-her five representatives entite her to SCI ,9l5 of the public plumber. The annual interest on the New York State debt is l, ,l5S 050-her share of distribution $495, ,680. Pennsylvania interest $1, SOC, O,OOO-her ratio of distribution $S356, ,976, &c.

 Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Con- nectlcut, New Jersey, Delaware and North Carolina, are out of debt The total interest of all the states is $9, ,794,S7s.

 Florida has a debt of $3 800 900, but being ter ritory she is not included in the division motion was made in the Senate amend the bill, so as te include the territories, was voted down by strict administration party vote, with the exception of MT. Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, who voted in the nega- tive under instructions. The operation of the bill will be to add means to those states that have aseady suiciency, and will be of little service to those that are heavily in debt.