Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05
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Warrington, Political, Foreign
and Genera Domestic
Happenings Of Note.
Telegraphic News Of the World
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Of Busy Readers.
WASHINGTON MENTION.

quested and got the resignation OF
Maj. S. S. lockwood, assistant CHIEF
of the weather bureau.
The committee on territories will
begin investigation of the four terri
tories, now knocking for admission
to the sisterhood of states, early in
June.
The president has appointed
George VIM. Caruth, of Arkansas, to
be minister resident and consul
general of the United States to Portu.
gal, to succeed Gilbert A. Pierce.
tits stated on semi-onicial authority
that W. Duff Haynie, of South
Dakota, who has been an unsucccss-
full applicant for several offices, will
be appointed first assistant post
master general.
AT a cabinet meeting Secretary
Carlisle brought up a proposition
from New York bankers to supply,
under certain conditions, the treasury
department with gold. 1t was very
thoroughly discussed and finally re-
jected.
President Cleveland has made more
changes up to today than he had
eight years ago when the same time
had been spent in the White House.
According to some authorities, he
has made more than any executive
since Grant.
Senator Roach says that in case
the senate does not vote to give him
the Investigation he has asked that
he will either make a statement
upon the question of personal privi-
lege or give a statement to the
newspapers.
Secretary Morton has dismissed
Robert r. Brannon, captain of the
watch in the weather bureau, who
was found guilty of loaning money to
employees in the bureau at usurious
rates, and various other i%nfractions
of the rules. Thomas p. Ellsworth
of Indiana was appointed to the
vacancy.
Col. Hughes East, of Yankton.
Is. D., is said to have made a shit
with Secretary Morton in the minor
office he now holds in the agricultural
department. 1t is now believed that
he will be soon promoted to the
position of executive officer of the
weather bureau.
Senator PETER announces his COM
mittee to investigate the low price of
wheaC and other grains will meet
in Chicago, go direct to Minneapolis,
June 5, there to make an exhaustive
investigation. He then expects togo
to the Dakotas and down to Omaha,
Kansas City and Chicago.
The statement of the president as
to the administrators position on
finances seems to put an end to the
danger of a financial furry. Under
Interpretation of that statement the
gold reserve will be treated as so
much cash in the treasury: so a rise
or fall of a few millions becomes a
matter of light concern.
Assistant Attorney General Colby
has forwarded to Prot. Mark Harring-
ton, chief of the weather bureau, the
formulated charges against him and
other officials of the bureau for
alleged malfeasance in office. The
charges include misrepresentation of
facts: the shielding of unworthy en-
ployes: evasion or the violation of
the civil service law: in%etficiency,
maladministration and improper
diversion of public funds.
Unless some unforeseen reason for
postponement should occur. the
international monetary conference
will reconvene at Brussels May 80.
All the commissioners have rendered
their designations, and but one of
them-Henry w. Cannon, president
of the Chase National bank of New
York city-has been reappointed. 1t
is understood Senator Jones of
Nevada has been requested to with
draw his resignation.
Ext Congressman Frank Hurd of
Toledo, o., has reached Washington,
and with E. H.. Harper of Terre
Haute, Ind, will bring the recent
decision of Judge Kicks in the
famous Ann Arbor cases before the
supreme court for review. The pro.
ceedings will be by habeas corpus to
secure the release OF Engineer Len.
non, who was convicted under Judge
Kicks ruling and sentenced to prison.
Messrs. Harper and Hurd, while
hopeful of securing reversal of the
action, are not unprepared to see ii
confirmed: and in that event they
will at once begin preparing to pre-.
sent the subject to congress next
fall.
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