The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-24
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
CONGRESSIONAL

Summary OF the Daily news.
CONGRESSIONAL
In the Senate on the 18th, after the re.
ports of committees and Introduction OF
several bills, the House Electoral Count bill
was laid aside and debate resumed upon Mr.
Morrills tariff resolution. After lengthy
discussion the resolution went over for
further debate. A message was received
Re g poWdney. " Of New YORK. YORK; a
committee to attend the funeral was APP
pointed and the Senate adjourned. Many
bills and resolutions were introduced IN the
a bill by MIR. Lawler looking to the use of the
treasury surplus for repairing the coast de-
fenses. The Speaker laid before the House
a communication from the Secretary of the
Treasury relative to the collection of Gus
toms duties, and the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 14th the House
amendment to the Electoral Count bill was
non-concurrcd in and n committee of confer
ence appointed. A bill was introduced
amending the Oleomargarine law. Senator
Edmunds then addressed the Senate in Op-
position to the bill repeating the Tenure of
Office act, after which the Senate went into
executive session. The House, after the
report of committees. went into Committee
of the Whole on the Sundry Civil bill. debate
on which continued until adjournment.
In the Senate on the 18th tie report of
the Conference Committee on the Interstate
Commerce bill was the occasion of quite a
debate, but the report was finally ordered
printed, to be called up Tuesday. Senator
Platts resolution for open executive ses-
sions was taken up and by vote of 81 to 81
laid on the table Senator Beck's resolution
prohibiting Senators and Representatives to
act as attorneys for subsidized rail-
roads was taken up. the question being
on the substitute reported bv the Ju-
dietary Committee. long debate fol-
lowed. and without final action the Senate
went into executive session In the House,
upon motion of Mr.. Warner. of Missouri, Il
bill passed bringing the cities OF Atlanta,
Galveston. ST. Paul. Minneapolis. Indianapo-
lis Kansas City and Omaha under the pro-
visions of the law requiring National banks
in certain cities to retain sum equal to p
per cent of their circulation. The House
then went into Committee of the Whole on
the Sundry Civil bill. When the committee
rose the House adjourned.
AFTER the introduction of bills in the
Senate on the 10Th Senator Blair offered a
resolution, which was adoped, instructing
the Committee or Finance TO inquire into the
propriety of reporting bill providing for a
rebate on certain imported materials used
for manufacturing other articles for export.
The calendar was called and the Senate
finally took up the bill to repeal the Tenure
of Office act. Pending debate the Senate
went into executive session. The House. in
committee, resumed consideration of the
Senate bill for the allotment of lands i'm sew
passed. The bill also passed providing for
the deficiency in the public pr nting Office.
In Committee of the Whole the Sundrv Civil
bill was further considered and finally rec
commended for passage. Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 18th petitions were
presented for the reduction of the lax on
oleomargarine. The Senate then took up
and passed the bill for the retirement and re-
coinage of the trade dollar The Senate
PASSED the House bill to extend the postal
free delivery system. After passing several
bridge bills the Senate took up the bill re-
pcalinc the Tenure of Office act and passed it
by vote of 30 yeas to - nays. After an
executive session the Senate adjourned until
Monday After routine business ia the
House, the Sundry Civil bill was taken up
and passed. Several private bills passed and
at the evening session eighteen pension bills
were passed. Adjourned.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
CHARLES ROBINSON, the war Governor OF
Kansas, has been appointed by the Presi-
dent superintendent of the Haskell Indus
trial School for Indian Children at Law
renee. vice Arthur Grabowski, resigned.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th saws:
There is still no tidings of Congressman
Reid, OF North Carolina, about whose finan-
cial affairs very serious stories are in cir
culation. The latest report is that he has
hypothetical his salary half dozen times
over to ''curbstone'' brokers, and by this
means raised as much as $4,000. 1t is re
ported that he has gone to Canada.
The Senate bill for the admission of
Washington Territory has been amended
to include Montana by the House Commit
tee and will be SO reported.
CONGRESSMAN PETERS, Of Kansas, has in
troduced a bill to provide for the deposit of
gold or silver coin or bullion as q security
for National bank circulation.
The friends of the late General W, s.
Hancock have, as q tribute to his memory,
raised sum Of money to purchase home
for his widow in Washington.
An order will shortly be issued by the
President adding Southern California to
the Department of Arizona, under com.
mand of General Nelson Miles, and re-
moving the headquarters from Prescott,
A. T., to Los Angeles, Cal. This will give
General Miles command Of the whole Mex
lean frontier, from Texas to the Paci fic.
IT is not expected in Washington that
any more calls viii be made in the near
future for three per cent. bonds.
THE EAST.
The Third Avenue Surface railroad, one
in New York, has decided to adopt the ca
appointed to visit Chicago and other cities
and study the system.
INLAND Bros. & LANCE, wholesale deal
ers in woolens, New York City, are in
financial troubles with $4,000 liabilities.
They were once from Chicago.
The schooner Francis L. Cooper from
Port Louis, Mauritius, reports that on the
9TH, 40 miles south of Sandy Hook, she
saw steamer afire, heading for New
York. At noon she appeared to explode
and the horizon was covered with a dense
smoke.
THE Boston municipal election resulted
in the reelection of Mayor Hugh O'Brien
Complete returns gave the following vote:
O'Brien, Democrat, q, 3S7; Hart, Eepub-
Ican. is, l79; McNeill, Labor, 1864.
The case of Cyrus W. Field against
James Gordon Bennett, of the New York
Herald. for libel, in which Field obtained
a verdict for 5000, has been dismissed by
the British Court of Appeals.
The Mexican Central Railway Company
has asked the New York Stock Exchange
10 list its capital stock SIS, 10000 and S.
123,0O0 income bonds.
WILLIAM SToRER, who has been engaged
in the commission dry goods business on
Church street, New York, for many years,
has suddenly departed, leaving his credit
ors mourning to the extent of $4,000
Storer was over seventy years of age and
blind, but it was thought he reached Can.
ada all the same.
HoN. HAMILTON FISH and wife celebrated
their golden wedding in New York on the
18th.
MCQUADE, the doodle" alderman of New