The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-21
WASHINGTON NOTES.

THE president on the 18th issued an
order extending the civil service laws
to the internal revenue service. The
new order goes into effect ut once and
viii embrace storekeepe-s. gaugers and
clerks in the offices of collectors.
a BULLETIN has been issued by thf
agricultural department at Washing
ton giving the results of an exhaustive
investigation of hog cholera.
SENATOR MITCHELL, of Oregon. has in
trOduced bill in the senate providing
for the adjustment of the death penal
ty in the army and navy and in places
where the United States has exclusive
jurisdiction. except in cases of murder,
assault, desertion to the enemy in time
of war and aggravated mutiny.
THE president and Mrs. Cleveland
have abandoned their country home al
Woodley for the season and moved into
the white house.
COMMISSIONER LAMoREAyX. of the gen.
eral land office. has framed a bill for
the action of congress to constitute a
land court to hear and decide all con-
tested land eases.
THE secretary of the treasury has ap-
proved the regulations prescribed by
the commissioner of internal revenue
for the enforcement of the collection
of the income tax. Every person in
the United States who has an annual
income of more than $500 must make
a full return of the same, verified by
oath, to the collector of internal reve-
nue. OF the collection district in which
he resides.
REPRESENTATIVE DATEY. Meyer and
Price. of the Louisiana delegation in
congress, have introduced bills to pay
sugar producers of the United States
on all sugar manufactured in 1894 the
bounty provided for in the Mckinley
act and also on all sugars produced in
1898, in so far as it has not been paid
up to the time of the repeal Of the law.
REPRESENTATIVES of the conductors,
engineers and firemen of the Southern
railway system were in secret session
at Washington. their grievance being
that the Southern refused to enter into
the same contracts which they had
with the Richmond & Danville before
it consolidated with the Southern.
Grave fears were entertained of a
strike which would tie up the whole
system and seriously affect every bust
ness interest in the eastern states of
the south.
The Judiciary committee of the
house have agreed on numerous
amendments to the anarchist bill as
passed by the senate. The main
amendment gives the foreign inspec-
ton of immigrants to United States
cOnsuls under the direction of the state
department instead of treasury inspect
Ors, as proposed by the senate bill
Another amendment requires every i'm
migrant to have certificate from the
United States consul at the port from
which the immigrant embarlls.
By vote of nine to eight the house
committee on banking and currency
decided to report Secretary Carlisle's
plan for a revision of the currency.
SECRETARY MORTON has determined
this year to devote his quota of free
seeds, amounting to one-third of the
whole. to the farmers in those western
states that have suffered so severely
through last seasons drought.
THE postmaster-generaf has declared
the American Mutual Benefit society,
of st. Louis, fraud.
THE house committee on post offices
and post roads has concluded to recon-
mend that $4,000 be appropriated to
be used in chasing bandits who hold
up mail trains. The last session al
lowed $4,000 for this purpose and
some of the members on the floor of
the house Will ask that $4,000 be al.
lowed.