The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-13
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily Newa
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The treasury department purchased
the other day $4,000 ounces of silver at
S0.S723@. $40.
A BILL has been introduced in the SEN
ate entitled "a bill for the protecting
of the silver mining industry" 1t pro-
vides that the secretary of the treasury
in the purchase of silver under the pro-
visions of the act of 1890 shall purchase
such silver bullion only as is produced
from mines within the United States or
from ores smelted within the United
States.
COMMISSIONER CARTER, of the general
land Office, will probably resign his Office
about the end of the present fiscal year.
SENATOR PETERS friends fear that
he will soon be compelled to abandon
his senatorial duties for a time and
place himself under skilled oculist in
either New York or Philadelphia. His
eyesight is becoming more impaired
every day and unless he submits to a
course of treatment blindness may en-
sue.
The senate naval officers committee
reported an amendment to the naval
appropriation bill appropriating s25O,OOO
toward the construction of dry dock
at Algiers, La, and purchase of land
therefor. The secretary of the navy is
authorized to contract for the con-
struction of dock, the cost of which is
not to exceed SS4s, O00
SECRETARY NOBLE has decided the
case of the townsite of Hennessy in the
Kingfisher, Ok, land district. The
case came before the department on an
appeal of John w. Creech from the de-
cision of the commissioner of the gen.
eral land Office, cancelling his home
stead entry. The secretary sustains the
action of the commissioner and directs
that the TOWNSHIP board be permitted to
perfect title to the land on behalf of the
townsite
THE committee on foreign relations
reported an amendment to the sundry
civil bill increasing the amount for the
enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
act from $50, 900 to 100000.
GEN. FRANK WHEATON, the lately ap-
pointed brigadier general, has been or
dered to keep himself in readiness to
command the department of Texas on
the retirement from active service, June
1 next, of Brigadier General D. S. STAN
ley. The officer promoted to succeed
Gen. Stanley as brigadier general will
probably be assigned to command the
department of the Columbia.
THE senate committee on commerce
ordered a favorable report on the bill
authorizing the secretary of war to
have survey made for a ship canal
connecting Lake Erie and the Ohio river,
for which purpose $4,000 was appro-
priated.
JOSEPH NJ. KENDALL has been sworn
in as representative from the Tenth
district of Kentucky to fill the unex-
pired term of his father.
Two reports from the Judiciary COM
mittee GU the joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the constitution to
provide uniform laws on the subject of
marriage and divorce have been made
to the house. The majority report adj
verse to the resolution was made by
Representative Oates and Representa-
tive Ray presented the minority report
REPRESENTATIVE SCoTT, of Illinois,
offered for reference in the house a res
olution calling for an investigation of |
the National Cordage Co. and its trust |
methods, and requesting the attorney
general to inform the house whether any |
information is furnished the department |
of justice on the subject of such char
acter as will authorize him to institute |