The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-04-28


| Gently tried to get an expression from MIR. Hill
| upon the silver question, and wrote him long
| letter, which was published in all the newspa-
pers, but Mr.. Hill paid no attention to the
letter. But this unexpected roll-call forced
| the New York Senator to finally show his hand.
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Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, who says he
is an ''Indocrat" in politics, introduced bill
in the Senate on Wednesday, April 20, looking
| to the procurement of thoroughly elastic
currency. By this measure it is proposed to
establish composite dollar which will meet
all the requirements of trade The bill pro-
poses to designate so much of wheat. rye, oats,
corn, barley. beans, potatoes, cotton, wool, but
| ter, cheese, eggs, -four, sugar. lard, pork, beef,
tobacco, salt, leather, hemp, lime. cement,
| cotton-seed meal, hay. brick, lead, pig-Iron.
| coal and copper. as shall be conveniently near
one dollars worth of each in the New York
market. so arranging quantities that the sum
| total of the value of 80 articles shall BIO $50,
and that -thirtieth of the sum total of such
articles shall be termed the composite dollar
of the United States"
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Washington has been provided with what
will be an attraction to the old veterans during
the Eucampment This is the scenic represen-
| taton of the famous Gettysburg battle. Tho
! cyclorama is in the building at the corner OF
/ Fifteenth street and Ohio avenue, just south
| of the Treasury Department. The third day
of the battle is represented, generally known
as Pckett's charge, and represents the charge
at the time of the death OF Gen. Armistead,
where the rebellion is said to have reached
highwater mark. The platform is supposed to
stand npon the ground occupied by the artillery
under Gen. Hunt. The shattered house where
| Gen. Meade's headquarters Were the old well
| where the soldiers are drinking, and the ricks
of straw in whose shade he wounded soldiers
are lying and the shed where the Surgeons are
at work form a most realistic picture. Seen
| through rift in the smoke are the wrIthng
forms Of men upon the ground. A bursting
| shell lights the scene for an instant; dead men
cover the ground; guns, ETC., are scattered
| here and there upon the foreground. The per-
spective is splendid, and the foreground is so
constructed that it is impossible to distinguish
| where it leaves OF aud the painting begins.
The officials of the Postofice Department are
dumbfounded at the wholesale reductions made
BY the House Committee on Postoffices and
Postroads in the estimates for the postal SER
vice for the year ending June 30. 1893. The
total cut from tho estimates made by the De-
partment is $4,000 600, which is distributed
among all the branches of the service. The
anathemas which follow this action of the
House Committee are generally directed to
"Objector" Holman, who, while not connected
with the Committee on Postofiices and Post
roads, is believed to have inspired the reduc-
tion. A prominent official OF the Postofice
Department says that if the reduction recon-
meuded by the Committee should finally pre-
vail all Of the contemplated extensions Of the
Postal service by the Postmaster-G General would
have to be abandoned, and the special service
for the Worlds Fair at Chicago would depend
upon separate action by Congress in the prem
ises, as, in view OF the cut, there viii not be
sufficient funds to extend the service in any
respect beyond its present bounds, either as to
railway mail service, free delivery, or other
wise. The appropriation for the Department
proper is also very meager, and no addition to
the present clerical force is anticipated, not
withstanding considerable expansion has been
recommended by Postmaster General Wanna
maker.
Two stalwart Indians of the Washoo tribe
stalked up to the front door Of the White
House one day last week, deposited two large
bundles, which they had been toting, on the
the steps, and rang the bell. They were dressed
in half-wild and half-civilized costumes, one
being an old man Of so, while the other was
| quite young, the latter looking as though his
hair had been cut with circular saw. When
Capt. Dinsmore opened the door the young
man, who spoke good English, said they had
just arrived from Nevada, and had come straight
to the White House. having been informed
that they would find eating, drinking. and
sleeping accommodations at the Mansion for
the asking. Dinsmore explained that the Man
| sion was not a hotel for the accommodation of
| the public, bat was the Great Fathers private
wigwam and suggested that the red men ap-
! ply TO Gen. Morgan, Commissioner Of Indian
. Affairs, who would undoubtedly find accommo-
datious for them. While they were talking
! Mrs Mckee, the Presidents daughter drove
! up and alighted from her carriage and it be-
came necessary TO remove the old man and his
! bundle 10 one side, so that she could get into
| the house. They were without money, and
had, they said, important business at the In
| terror Department, bat were averse to calling
on Gen. Morgan. They finally went in search
Of Senator Stewart, of Nevada, saying they
were constituents of his, and they picked up
their bundles and trudged towards the Capt.
| tol.
Secretary Noble, Of the Interior Depart
ment received dispatch on Friday, April 81
from Gov. Seay, Of Oklahoma, which says that
ali is quiet here; not riot, not gunshot
wound in all this Territory. Churches are
| already being built in the new town. All the
officers civil and military, SO far as known,
have done their whole duty, No complaint
has reached me from any source" This news
was very gratifying TO Gen. Noble. for the
opening Of such q vast territory as vas the
Cheyenne and Arapal:oe reservations TO settle
ment usually is attended with bloodshed and
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