Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-26
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THE conferrees gave up all hope on
the 18th of agreeing to anv 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 moth
ing.
The president on the 18th signed the
bill to permit Utah to hold a constitu-
tional convention to be admitted into
the union as a state.
THE house has concurred in the SEN
ate amendments to the bill extending
the time for making final proof on en-
tries under the presumption act.
A BILL to amend the constitution,
with a provision as to the hours of
Ia Dor, has been introduced in the SEN
ate by request by Mr.. George. 1t was
referred to the committee on immigra-
ton.
REPRESENTATIVE 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
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-
ton 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
appropriation bill over the senate
amendment carrying $1,000, 600 for the
determination of the Russian thistle in
the Dakotas. The thistle appropria-
ton is the largest addition made to
any of the regular house bills and the
committee on agriculture is talking
defiagce 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 a 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 a mass meeting of 1aboring men
held at Chicago on the Goth Eugene V.
Debs was nominated for president of
the United States.
Gov. WAITE, of Colorado, has an
I1ounced that he is not candidate for
the United States senate. The demo-
cratic state convention has been called
for September 8, one day before the
populist convention, with a view to
nominating a mixed ticket and having
it Endorsed by the populists. Gov.
Waite was opposed to this plan.
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