The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-09
wAsHEHGTON NEWS.

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York, who came here to collect money
which he imagined President Cleve-
land had defrauded him of. IsaacS,
who is evidently crank, said that
"a, 600 was due him by the government,
and that the President had retained it
for his own use. He intended going to
the white house with bull dog and
demanding of the President that he
settle up accounts.
DEBT STATEMENT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The follow
ing items are taken from the public
debt statement to-day: Total debt
principal, 81, 693, III ,232; interest; e.
Ola ,219; total 81 200, 19I .451; decrease of
debt during month, S15, 1897 800; de-
I'll, 655; total cash available for reduc-
ton Of the debt 1904, 749 1913; total cash
In the treasury as shown by the treas
urer's general account $3.50, 292, 1886.
LATELY HEARD OF HER.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Representa-
tive McShane, of Nebraska, denies
that there is any truth whatever in the
story telegraphed from Omaha to
western paper that he is q suffer for
the hand of Mrs. Mcnamara,
dashlng young widow of that city. He
| says he never heard of her until he saw
her name in the newspapers.
SUSPENSION APPROVED.
! WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The Presi-
dent has approved the suspension of
Jesse Lee Hall from the Office of agent
for Indians of Kiowa, COmanche,
Wichita agency by Inspector Mar
cum.
DENNIS KEARNEY TALKS.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Dennis
Kearney Of San Francisco talked to
the house committee on foreign affairs
an hour this morning in support of the
Cummings bill, prohibiting Chinese
would be nothing for 800
children in the San Francisco
schools to do if something was not done
to stop the inflow of Chinese, as no
white person would learn trade fol-
lowed by Cinnamon. MIR. Kearney dis
played q map of Chinatown. in the
heart Of San Francisco, and pictured
the manner in which the inhabitants
that in nine blocks in Chinatown
there were sixty-seven houses of pros
titution, one hundred and fifty gamb-
ling dens, and opium resorts innumer-
able. During his argument Mr.. Kear-
ney became very earnest in his denun-
Citations of the Chinese and almost VIC
lent against those who opposed the alb
solute prohibition of Chinese immigra-
ton.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2@The inter-
state commerce commissioners to-day
received from the Beatrice, Neb.,
board of trade, a complaint against the
Union Pacific Railroad Company. the
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad
Company in Nebraska, the Chicago,
Kansas & Nebraska Railroad company
and the Omaha & Republican Valley
Railroad Company, alleging violation
of section of the interstate commerce
act in subjecting Beatrice and its
locality to undue and unreasonable
prejudice and disadvantage in favor of
Omaha, Lincoln and Hastings, Neb.,
and their localities, by charging a
much higher freight rate in proper
and st. Louis to Beatrice than from
those points to Omaha, Lincoln and
Hastings.
APPROVED THE ACT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The Presi-
| dent to-day approved the act making
appropriations to supply the defici-
encieS in appropriations for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1887, an act max
ing appropriations to carry into effect
provisions of the act of March 2, 1887,
in reference to the agricultural sta
lions.
SWEDISH GOVERNMENT DECLINES.
WASHINGTON, February 2.-United
States Consul Elfwing at Stockholm,
has informed the state department
that the Swedish government has de-
clared against the importation of pork
| from the United States unless it is we'll
sailed. The consul says that the order
is founded on report that a hog pes
thence is raging in the United States.
REPORTED FAVORABLE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The bill
authorizing the reconsideration of the
claims of all soldiers and their heirs
i who may have been denied the bounty
of 500 granted by the act of April %,
1872, under any construction of the
act which has since been modified or
reScended, was to-day reported favor
| ably by Senator Cockrell from the COM
mittee on military affairs. It limits
the benefits to be derived from the bill
to soldiers who enlisted prior to July
| %, 1851, under the Presidents procla-
nation of May 8, 1854.
ABOLITION OF IMPORT DUTIES.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Mr. SpOOner
presented a petition from the president
of the johnson & Fuller Manufacture
ing company of Madison, Wisconsin,
| for the abolition of all supertluous i'm
port duties, and said that no agricultu
raj machinery would be imported if the
duty were wholly discontinued.
IN REGARD TO 81 AND 81 CERTIFICATES
The United States treasurer to-day
issued the following notice in regard
| to the issuing of 81 and 81 silver certi-
| ficateS: THE treasurer of the United
/ States will issue silver certificates of
| the denominations of 81 and 81 in re-
turn for national bank notes or for
/ United States notes or silver certi-
hcates mutilated or unfit for circula-
ton only received for redemption I'M
der the regulations now in
force as heretofore, the charges
for transportation to Washington on
national bank notes in sums or multi
pies Of 81 900 will be paid by the gov
eminent. The charges on the United
1 States notes and silver certificates for
warded for redemption or exchange
will be deducted from the proceeds Of
the rSmittaDceS at contract rates, I'M
less prepaid and charges for return in
| new silver certificates to be paid by
consignee at government contract
rates. a copy of this notice will be
mailed to every bank and banker in
the United States with a view of meet
/ ing the demand for these small notes.
Representatives of the letter car
riers of the United States were before
the senate committee on education and
labor to-day in favor of the bill to ex-
tend the operations eight hour law
| to letter carriers.
Phillip Joseph (colored) director
! general of the proposed colored peo-
| ples' national exposition to be held in
| November next at Atlanta, Ga, was
again before the committee and pre-
sented letters commencing the project
from prominent gentlemen of the
country. He also submitted
an argument favoring an appropriation
Of $40 600 by congress towards the pro-
posed exposition.
The secretary of the treasury has re-
ceived a letter dated Fitchburg, Mass,
enclosing 25 cent silver piece which
the sender desires to have placed in
the treasury to the credit of conscience.
A note transmitting the coin says:
To whom it may concern:
Once upon a time some thirty years
: ago in aspirit of evil-mindednesso or per
hans because could though even at the