The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19
WASHINGTON NOTES.

D Treasurer Gilfillin received thousand dol
lars, contributed by citizens of Lyons, France,
to the Garfield hospital fund.
Foreman Dickson, of Star Route notoriety
has been held in the sum of 81 500 to appear
before the Grand Jury.
Senator Frye proposes to amend the pending
Internal Revenue bill SO that unbleached cot
ton cloth for bleaching may be imported into
the United States from Canada without pay
ment under the bonds to be given in double
appraised value thereof, to be withdrawn and
exported after said cloth shall have been
bleached.
Chief Engineer Wells, of the Navy, has
been found guilty by court martial of as
saulting an enlisted man and sentenced to be
publicly reprimanded in general orders by the
Secretary of the Navy.
Grant and the Mexican Minister, Romero,
were before the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations for two hours one mo ming lately,
the commercial treaty between Mexico and
the United States being under consideration.
The terms of the treaty were fully discussed
end explained by the Commissioners from the
standpoint OF the reciprocal interests of both
countries. Grant remained closeted with the
members of the Committee quite while after
Romero had retired. The treaty as already for
INFLATED relates to mutual concessions in the
nature of allowing importations free of duty,
by each country, of certain stated products of
the other.
One hundred and five clerks were discharged
from the Census offices at Washington recent
"; one hundred and fifty clerks remain.
There is money enough to pay salaries for
thirty days. If an appropriation is not made
by that time the entire Office will be closed un-
til June first.
The Secretary of the Treasury has tele
gram from Capt. L. n. Stodder, commanding
the revenue cutter Oliver Walcott, dated Vic
toria, British Columbia, January 10, as follows:
.tReceived communication from the Prime
Minister of British Columbia asking assistance
at the Fort Simpson Indian trouble No British
naval vessel in these waters and assistance is
urgent. Secretary Folger sent an answer as
follows: ''Hevenue steamer Walcott will be
permitted to be present at Fort Simpson and
prevent violence, but 10 force is authorized,
unless to repel attacks against the whites,
then only on written request of the British
Columbia authorities"
Ex-Minister E. B. Washburn was badly hurt
a few days since BY being thrown from horse.
Secretary Lincoln, it is said, is suff ering
from an unusual embarrassment. No one has
applied for the Office Of Assistant Secretary of
War. The position would seem to be very
desirable, and ordinarily there are
plenty of people pushing themselves
forward for positions about which
SO much can not be said. The salary is nearly
equal to that of Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, and the dignity of the place would
rank with corresponding position in the
State Department and above that in the Inte-
rior or Postoffce Department. STILL no one
wants it or has applied for it.
A large number of applications from cattle
men have been received by the Secretary of
the Interior, asking ror leases to tracts of
land in the Indian Territory. The Indians, it
is claimed, favor the scheme, but the Secre-
tary, it is understood, does not favor leasing
the lands, claiming that the large cattle farms
would shut cut the small dealers.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
authorized Mr.. Densher 10 offer a resolution
In the House asking the President to make a
more liberal treaty with the German Empire.
The action desired, among other things, is to
account for certain American citizens having
been forced to bear arms under the existing
treaty.