The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
 THE conferrees gave up all hope on the 17th of agreeing to any tariff bill, and it was said formal notice to that effect would be served on the two bodies. The split was over free raw materials and the senate sugar sched- ule. One of the senators stated that it would either be the senate bill or noth- ing.
 THE president on the 17th signed the bill to permit Utah to hold constitu- tional convention to be admitted into the union as a state.
 THE house has concurred in the sem ate amendments to the bill extending the time for making final proof on en- tries under the pre-emption act.
 A BILL to amend the constitution, with provision as to the hours of labor, has been introduced in the sen ate by request by Mir. George. It was referred to the committee on immigra- tion.
 REFRESHMENTS SPRINGER has asked to have his bill for national board of arbitration, which was referred to the judiciary committee, transferred to the committee on labor, which has charge of two similar bills.
 A REPUBLIC was proclaimed in the Hawaiian islands on July 4. Sanford B. Dole, the provisional president, is the first president of the new republic.
 THE tariff bill conferees had no hope of agreeing, it was stated on the 18th, and will make a brief report to the two bodies to that effect. The bill as whole was disagreed to by the house conferees, although the sugar ques- tion was the main point of difference.
 A LONDON dispatch says that Presi- dent Cleveland has offered to mediate in the Corea question.
 THE senate committee on territories has decided to recommend the admis- sion of Arizona and New Mexico as states, and instructed the sub-commit- tee which has the bills in charge to make favorable reports at the meeting of the full committee.
 A LETTER written by President Cleve- land to Chairman Wilson, of the ways and means committee, on the tariff con- ference, was read publicly in the house on the 10th. In it the president states that every democrat knows the tariff bill in its present form falls far short of what the party wants; that party pledges must be upheld; that no meas ure can accord with democratic prin- ciples that does not provide for free raw materials. In speaking of sugar, the president says that in taxing it for proper purposes and within reasonable bounds there is no danger of running counter to democratic principle. The president winds up by saying that democrats of the country plead earnest ly for the speedy completion of tariff legislation, but they demand that no stress of necessity shall cause the aban- donment of democratic principle.
 THERE bids fair to be deadlock be- tween the conferees on the agricultural bill over the senate amendment carrying S1,OOo, 900 for the extermination of the Russian thistle in the Dakotas. The thistle appropria- tion is the largest addition made to any of the regular house bills and the committee on agriculture is talking defiance of the senatorial raise.
 A PETITION to congress praying for the impeachment of Attorney-General Olney was signed by every member of the A. R, U: at Cheyenne, Wyo., on the 10th and will be circulated among the citizens by committee from the union. Both male and female residents of the state will be requested to sign. All other branches, it was stated, through out the country were taking similar action.
 AT mass meeting of laboring men held at Chicago on the 2Oth Eugene V. Debs was nominated for president of the United States.
 Gov. WAITE, of Colorado, has an- nounced that he is not candidate for the United States senate. The demo- cratic state convention has been called for September 3, one day before the populist convention, with a view to a mixed ticket and having it indorscd by the populists. Gov. Waite was opposed to this plan.