Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-04-09
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON Mules
THE senate committee on privileges
and elections has decided to allow $500
and 81, $50 respectively to Clagget and
Davidson, who have figured as contest
ants for seats in the senate and to al
low $4,000 to Senator Dubois to meet
his expense in defending title to his
seat.
Hon. CHARLES d. DRAKE, late chief
Justice of the United States court Of
claims was found dead in his bed at
Washington, ID. c., on the morning OF
the LIST, ut the advanced age of eighty
one wears. His death was wholly I'M
expected and without warning.
SECRETARY OF STATE BLAINE resumed
work ut the state department on the
I'd.
THE straight-out alliance men in
congress will start newspaper in
Washington. 1t will be the political
organ of the party.
EIGHTY free coinage men arc said to
have formed filibustering combine in
the house.
Hon. WHITELAw REID. United States
minister to France, returned from Paris
on the steamship La Champagne on the
ri. Mr. Reid had. with him the re-
Ciprocity and extradition treaties be-
tween the United States and France.
TIE public debt statement for the
month of March shows aggregate OF in
terest and non-interest bearing debt
s91f .026. 52S. LA decrease of $780,
$3.50 during the month. Aggregate OF
debt. including certificates and treasury
notes, 81 500, 125. 577.11. Cash balance
in the treasury March 81. 1892, sl32. $685.
SS4. O6-increase during the month OF
$73G,G70.17.
TIE indications are that there will
he no naval review in honor OF the
worlds fair next year.
SECRETARY NOBLE has made decision
in the case of Quental Grant against
the Northern Pacific railway in which
he holds in favor of Grant. The land
involved is located near the city OF
Spokane Falls, Wash, and is said to be
very valuable. The case has been be-
fore the department for nine years.
THE offers of silver to the treasury
department on the 4th aggregated $780,
900 ounces. The amount purchased
was $4,000 ounces as follows: Sixty
thousand ounces at S0.S73; 434, 900
at S0.s7S5.
The president sent the following
nominations to the senate on the 4th:
Medical director, John Mills Brown. to
be surgeon general and chief of the bu-
reau of medicine and surgery with the
rank of commodore; James Is. Greer. to
bc a rear admiral; Capt. Henry A. Erbe,
to be commodore.
THE president has declined to inter-
fere with the sentence of Clinton Z.
Dixon. convicted in Nebraska of murder
and sentenced to be hanged April 81,
1892.
MINISTER EGAN has been granted
leave of absence to visit the United
States and McCreery will act as charge
d'affaires until the minister returns to
his post at Santiago.
MIR. WHITELAw REID, recent United
States minister to France, called on the
president on the 5th in company with
Secretary Blaine. He presented draft
of the extraditicn treaty concluded with
France and it will be transmitted to the
senate for action.
THE United States commissioner OF
Indian affairs has recommended that
all lands in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
reservations lying south of the town.
ship line between townships thirteen
and fourteen be attached to the Okla
homa City land district.