Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-12-27
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

SENATOR Villas has given notice of
an intended amendment to the sundry
civil appropriation bill to provide for
an international commission to inveSti-
gate and report upon the feasibility of
a canal large enough to accommodate
ocean-going ships between the Atlant tic
ocean and the great lakes, to consist of
three members, to be appointed when
Great Britain shall appoint a like num-
Der for Canada.
REPRESENTATIVE CULTIVATE, of Ohio,
has introduced a bill reviving the grade
of acknowledgement of the army;
also one appropriating $50, 900 for a
statue of Gen. Grant on the east front
of the capitol alongside the statue of
Washington. The bill reserves the site
on the opposite side of Washington's
statue for the statue of Gen. Sherman.
THE president has left Washington
for weeks hunting trip along the
coast OF South Carolina.
THE senate judiciary committee has
commenced the consideration of the
bill by which it is proposed to establish
judicial courts in the Indian territory.
LABOR COMMISSIONER WRIGHT has
drafted a bill for the national arbitra-
ton of strikes. It is modelled after the
interstate commerce act.
A CONFERENCE was held at the treas
ury department on the goth between
Secretary Carlisle and Chairman
Springer, of the house committee on
banking and currency, relative to
amending the Carlisle currency bill
now before the house. The subject
was gone over fully, and as a result
Mr.. Springer will propose a number of
i
of the objections advanced against the
bill. substitute measure was also
thought likely.
REPRESENTATIVE GROW, of Pennsyl
vania, has introduced bill to amend
the national banking act. 1t author
ICES the deposit of legal tenders instead
of bonds to secure circulation. The
circulating bank notes are to be ex-
empt from taxation and are to have
the same form of redemption as the old
national bank notes.
SENAToY Quay has introduced a bill
authorizing the secretary of the treas
ury to purchase the land contained in
block 20 Of Columbia heights, a suburb
of Washington, as site for residence
of the president of the United States.
The bill limits the price to So per foot
and the total appropriation to 81, OOO,-
600. Representative Richardson, of
Tennessee, has introduced a similar
bill in the house.
IN view of the prominence in the
United States of Labor problems, the
state department has just published
statistics, gathered from consular re-
ports from Germany, relating to labor
insurance, voluntary and compulsory,
in that country.
The substitute for the Carlisle cur
rency bill introduced into the house
is substantially a new measure, al
though some of the sections of the
original measure are retained in the
new bill.
Mr.. CURTIS, of Kansas has favorably
reported from the house Indian affairs
committee the bill authorizing the
Kansas City, Oklahoma & Pacific Rail
way Co. to build through the Indian
territory.
MINISTER DENNY has cabled the state
department that the Chinese govern.
ment has appointed two police com
missioners who will proceed at once on
their mission from Pelzin to the Japan
csc capital.