The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-27
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.


REPRESENTATIVE DUNPHY, of New
York, has introduced bill fixing tn
pay of letter carriers in cities of NOR
than 75 600 people at: For the first yea
of service, 5000; second year, $500; thir.
year. 81, 600, and fourth year and there
after, 81, 200. In cities of less than IS,
600 people the pay is to be for the frs
year, s6OG: second year, $500, and thirt
and thereafter, $1,000.
SENATOR PALMER has introduced /;
bill repeating the state bank tax, bu
prohibiting the issuing of money by
state banking institutions or by any
other corporation or person except ma
tional banks
SENATOR CoCKRELL has introduced q
bill which extends the homestead land
grant acts to include all members of an
organization called the Missouri home
guard, who served ninety days, and
been honorably discharged 1t vail
dates all homestead entries heretofore
made by members of this organization.
Mr.. MEYER stated authoritatively to
the house coinage committee on the
18th that his bill for coming the seign-
forage and for the issue of low interest
bonds had the approval of Secretary
Carlisle and in his judgment would DE
signed by the president.
TIE course of Secretary Carlisle in
deposing from Office certain officials of
the treasury who held Office under civil
service laws is to be tested in the
courts the supreme court of the district
of Columbia having been applied to for
a mandamus compelling the secretary
to reinstate Eugene A. Adds, over
whose case there has been some very
spicy correspondence between the civil
service commission and the secretary
SECRETARY GRESHAM has received a
brief cablegram from Minister Thomp-
son at Rio, confirming the report of
the sinking of the Aquidaban by the
government torpedo boat; the sur
render of Mello and /, 200 men, with his
ships, to the Argentine government at
Buenos Ayres and announcing that the
rebellion is ended.
HoN j. 7. JARVIS has been appointed
and has accepted the United States sem
atorship to succeed the late Senator
Vance, of North Carolina.
THE president on the 10Th sent to the
senate list of Isl army officers nomi-
mated for brevet rank as a reward for
gallant and distinguished service in
Indian campaigns
THE demonstration of the Working
mems Protective Tariff league against
the Wilson bill was begun in Wash
ington on the Goth.
C. II. SToLL, one of the ATTORNEYS for
the defense in the late Pollard -Breck-
inridge suit, has written a sharp letter
to Judge Jere Wilson, leading counsel
for the plaintiff, refusing to accept his
retraction of charges made against
Stoll in connection with the alleged
forgery of the famous black border let
ter introduced at the trial, charging
Judge Wilson with deliberately stating
what he knew to be untrue and strong
ly intimating that a duel would be nee
essary to afford him (StolD ample sat
isfaction. Judge Wilson treated the
matter very indifferently and charac-
terized the affair as nonsense.
Col A. c. FISK. president of the
Pan-American Bimetallic league, has
decided to call a convention of the
league at Washington for May %. The
people of the United States, old Mexico
and South America are asked to send
delegates
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has written a |
letter to Chauncey f. Black, president |
of the National Association of Demo !
cratic clubs, on the future purposes
and present needs of the organization. |