The Forrest City times., 1888-01-21
WASHINGTON NOTES.

 Two bills have been introduced ID the House against lotteries.
 The fr,t cabinet dinner to the Prsi1 dent was given Thursday evening oy Secretary Bsyard.
 Lamar. Villas and Dickinson are con. rirmed. The vote on Lamar was 70 to 32.
 The members of the Corean embassy called at the state department Friday and had A short conference with oscre- sarv Bayar,l. during which 1t was ar ,snged that they should be formally presented to the president next Tues- day.
 The Paris correspondent of the Lon don Chronicle says: "A telegram from San Reno reports the discovery or a blot against the life of the German crown prince. It Is said one of the nlotters. A Socialist, has turned inform- er The police have forbidden access ,o nrouena9es in the vicinity of the villa Zirlo, where the prince resi- des
 In his speech in the Senate Thurs day Senator Hale presented statis'ic.1 showing the wholesale removals oi officeholders and denounced the pres ent policy of civil-service reform as aelusion and a snare. He also coh- lemned the President for indorsin4 Col Fellows in the New fork Dlstriet Attorney fight.
 NIT. Johnson Beggs, chairman or tne St. Louis city Democratic committee, has been to here to learn the propa. ,bility of the next Democratic National convention merting in St. Louis. MT. Beaas left for home Friday evening very much encouraged at the prospects or the convention meeting in St. Lotus, although he thinks that it will require more activity than has hitherto been evinced on the part Of St. Louis te get it.
 The president has granted 6 pardon in the case of Levi C. Pratt, convicted l in the Southern district of Iowa of pass. ing counterfeit money. and sentenced ! February l, 1888, to five years imprls' onment In acting on the case, the l president said tine convict has served | two years and was good soldier dur ! ing the war. He adds hat his sym i pathy for the convict's wife is very | great. The pardon takes effect Febru. ary l.
 The annual meeting of the board of 1 Indian commissioner was held in the | Riggs house Friday Reports frou various religious societies engaged IT mission and school work among the In dians were made. In the afternoon number of bills pending before congress- 1 were discussed, and Friday night public meeting, presided over by Rep resentative Peel of Arkansas, chairmar of the house committee on Indian af fairs, was held at All Souls chsrch.
 Mir. W. P. Coleman of Rich Hill and MT. II. II. Gregg of Joplin are at Wash ington as delegation from the lead ant zinc interests of Missouri, to confer with the Missouri delegation in refer l ence to the tariff on lead and zinc They do not desire change in th' tariff on these commodities, and art 1 willing that they should be let alone
 Missouri produces two-thirds of thu 1 zinc produced in the world. TheJ have seen several of the Missouri dele | gation, and will remain there severa
 days longer and then return home.
 The interstate commerce commission Friday decided the case of Thomas G
 Reynolds vs. the Western New Yorl and Pennsylvania railroad and c. Clin
 ton Gardner, receiver, wherein tn,
 complainant alleges that the railroad
 company charges higher rate for th'
 transportation of railroad ties from r
 tain specified points in Pennsylvania
 to certain other points in the state o
 New York, than Is charged for tho
 transportation of lumber between th'
 same points. The commission order
 tha defendants desist from charging
 greater price for the transportation O
 ties from points in Pennsylvania t
 Salamanca and to Clean, N. r., that
 is charged for the transportation o
 lumber at the same time, between th'
 same points.