The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-06
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES,

WASHINGTON NOTES.
AFTER having considered the question
of the constitutionality for long tim
the house Judiciary committee has de
cided to report a resolution directing al
investigation to be made into the Pink
erton system.
DURING the investigation of Pension
Commissioner Raum, recently, a seen,
occurred in which that gentleman ant
Representative Enloe figured.
THERE has been posted in the pres
gallery of the house a request to thu
standing committee of the press CORES
pondents asking them to inquire int
the circumstances and causes for the
dismissal of James R. Young, late chic
executive clerk of the senate
IT is considered not unlikely that the
new cruiser No. 12, commonly called the
Pirate, will be christened the Washing
ton. She will be launched from Cramps
shipyard about July and the secretary
of the navy will have until then to de-
eide on the name of the ship for the ma
tional capital or for New Orleans,
Brooklyn or Pittsburgh. No matter
what the ship is named, she will always
be unofficially referred to as the Pirate.
That title has stuck to her ever since
an engineer officer used it one day in
conversation with party of newspaper
correspondents.
Mr.. BLAND has introduced a resolu-
ton in the house instructing the COM
mittee on ways and means to report a
bill imposing an income tax sufficient
to meet all the expenditures for pen
Bions; and also bill to repeal all taxes
imposed upon currency issued by au-
thority of the states.
A BILL has been reported to the house
appropriating SOS, 900 for the erection of
a monument to William Henry Harri-
son, the grandfather of President Har-
rison, at North Bend, O.
1t has been arranged that the ratifica-
tions of the Behring sea treaty of arbi-
tion between the United Satets and
Great britain shall be exchanged at
London instead of at Washington
as originally contemplated. The
change is made in order toexpediate the
final act of the negotiations. The Hon
Robert T. Lincoln, United States
minister to England, has been en-
powered to act on behalf of the United
States and Lord Salisbury will act for
her majesty's government.
THE house committee on railways and
canals has authorized favorable re-
port on Representative Dalzell's bill ap-
propriating $4,000 to pay the expenses
of survey of a route for ship canal
to connect the waters of Lake Erie from
point at or near Erie, Pa, with the
Ohio river at or near Pittsburgh.
T. JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, of Massachu-
sets, has been nominated to be envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
ti&ry of the United States to France.
! CONGRESSMAN ALLEN, of the house In
dian committee, declares that the
Cherokee strip cannot be opened before
next spring, but that it will be done
then.
THE following is a list of senators
who have been appointed to serve on
the executive committee of the national
democratic campaign committee: NJ. C.
Butler, of South Carolina: A. H. Col
quit, of Georgia: J. S. c. Blackburn. of
Kentucky; J. X. Jones, of Arkansas; W.
b. Bate. of Tennessee; c. J. Faulkner.
of Virginia: David Turpie, of Indiana:
Rufus Blodgett, of New Jersey; J. 5.
Barbour, of Virginia, and r. Q. Mills,
of Texas.
SECRETARY FOSTER has sent to the
house estimates for deficiency appro-
priations aggregating s191,O52 on ac-
count of the postal service submitted
by the sixth auditor February IA, 1891,
and not heretofore transmitted to con-
gross