The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-10
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
r.. News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CURRENT political rumor is to the ef
feet that movement is on foot in Pennsyl.
vania for electiny Gen. Grant United States
Senator from that State, as successor tt
Senator Wallace. 1t is said that the strong
opposition developed to Quay, the Cameron
candidate, bids fair to result in the election
of Galusha A. Grow, and that the name Of
Gen. Grant will be brought forward in the
Cameron interest il thought necessary to de.
feat Grow.
The Missouri Supreme Court has
rendered decision in the Ford Craig Con-
gressional contest in the Ninth District, COM
manding the County Clerk Of Ray County to
certify UP to the Secretary of State the vote
Of Ray County as 1t appears on the poll
books of the different precincts of the county.
This gives Ford q majority of two votes, and
entities him to the certificate Of election. 1t
is said that Craig will make no contest.
REPRESENTATIVE EvART w. FAIR,
of the Third New Hampshire District, died
of pneumonia on the 30th.
JUDGE E. B. TAYLOR has been elect
ed Representative in Congress from the new
Nineteenth Ohio District, to fill the vacancy
in the present House caused by the resigna-
ton of Gen. Garfield.
THE following are Id brief the prin-
cipal features of Secretary Sherman's an
nual report: The Secretary takes occa-
sion in this, which he deems probably his
last report to Congress, to present an histor-
ical review of resumption and its effects in
promoting the trade and general prosperity
Of the country. He refers to the large num-
Der of outstanding bonds which are about to
mature, and strongly recommends the pres
ent Congress should pass funding act fix
ing the rate of interest at 3 1-2 per
cent. He favors taking away the legal
tender character of the greenbacks
and funding them in q short.time
low.rate of interest bond. The gold
and silver circulation he maintains can, with
the national bank circulation, be made to
meet all the current demands of trade. He
strongly recommends the discrimination of
the standard silver dollar and its recoinage
into coin of equal value with the gold dol
lar. He enters largely into the silver ques-
ton, particularly increasing the weight Of
the dollar, thus accomplishing the double
standard.
GEN. FRANCIS A. WALKER, Superin.
tendent of the Census, has submitted his reg
rllar annual report to the Secretary of the
Interior. He says that although the work of
taking the tenth census is substantially com.
plete, returns having been received from all
but seven of the total number of 81, 265
enumeration districts, it will probably
be two or three weeks before the office will
be able to present complete statistics of the
population of the country, and he therefore
considers it advisable to postpone to future
report all mention of the results of the
enumeration, and also all discussion of the
methods in use as we'll as any suggestions
which may require to be made of changes in
the census law with reference to future
enumerations.
THE Electoral Colleges of the several
States met on the LIST day of December, as
prescribed by the United States
law, and cast their votes for Presi-
dent and Vice-Presidcnt. In Georgia
there seems to have been some mis-.
understanding regarding the date fixed for
the meeting of the Electors, and as a conse.
quence the vote of Georgia was not cast on
the day named.
FATHER JULIAN BENvo1T, pastor of
St. Peters Catholic Church, Fort Wayne,
Ind, one of the oldest and best known pas
tors of the State, died suddenly Of apoplexy
on the I'd.
THREE Election Judges of Manches-
ter, Va, have been arrested on o charge of
refusing to receive the votes of number of
persons, mostly colored, at the recent cleo
ton. Their defense is that the parties did
not show proper capitation papers.
The Ohio Presidential Electors, after
casting the vote of the State for Gen. Gar
field, visited him in a body at Mentor.
The Revenue Department has sent
Col. Ferdinand Meyer, Supervising Agent,
to Louisiana, to officially investigate the
case Of Lanier, Deputy Collector of the Fifth
District, who claims to have been bull.
dozed while performing his official duties.
SECRETARY SEIZURES report saws
that nearly half a million acres of land is be.
ing cultivated by Indians, and he urges the
issuance of individual patents for farms.
A SECRET conference of Greenback.
ers was held at Des Moines, Iowa, on the LIST,
Gen. Weaver presiding.
The Grand Jury has presented in
dictments against Kenward Philip and the
publishers Of the New York Truth for utter.
ing criminal libel upon Gen. Garfield.
Samuel S. Morey is also indicted for per-
jury.
The Tariff question is likely to come
to the front IS an important factor in the
organization Of the new House. Mr.. Kasson,
of Iowa, who is q candidate for Speaker, it
is said will be opposed by the Tariff interests
on account of his pronounced position in IA.