The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-27
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
REPRESENTATIVES, SPRINGER has asked
30 have his bill for a national board OF
arbitration, which was referred to the
Judiciary committee, transferred to the
committee on labor, which has charge
of two similar bills.
THE tariff bill conferees had no hope
of agreeing, it was stated on the 18th,
and will make brief report to the two
bodies to that effect. The bill as a
whole was disagreed to by the house
conferees, although the sugar question
was the main point of difference.
THE secretary of the treasury has is
sued orders to the mint authorities at
San Francisco and New Orleans to be-
gin the coinage of silver dollars. Each
of the mints, together with the one at
Philadelphia, will be worked at their
normal capacity on silver dollars for
several months, presumably to the end
of the present calendar year.
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 ear
nestly for the speedy completion of
tariff legislation, but they demand that
no stress of necessity shall cause the
abandonment 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, 900 for the
determination of the Russian thistle in
the Dakotas. The thistle appropria-
ton is the largest addition made to
any of the regular hcuse bills and the
committee on agriculture is talking
defiance of the senatorial raise.
The senate sugar investigating COM
mittee has decided to investigate the
new charges of sugar speculation by
senator's made by New York paper.
A PETITION to congress praying for
the impeachment of Attornev-General
Olney was signed by every member of
the A. r. U. at Cheyenne, Wyo., on the
10Th and will he circulated among the
citizens by a committee from the
union. Both male and female resi-
dents of the state will be requested to
sign. All other branches. it was stat
ed, throughout the country were TAX
ing similar action.
THE senate sugar trust investigating
committee is devoting itself to ferret
out the origin of the rumors affecting
senators. They are of the opinion the
stories accusing senators of specula-
tion in sugar stock and of having been
influenced in their attitude towards
the tariff bill by friendly interest in
the sugar trust have had common
origin and they think they have OBJ
tanned clew which will enable them
to develop the source of all the state
ments.
1T was stated on the 22d that the
president had, in addition to Carroll
ID. Wright. commissioner of labor,
chosen Judge Lyman Trumbull. of
Chicago, and a prominent New Yorker,
who has always taken a deep interest
in the cause of labor, to serve as mem
bers of the committee to investigate
the Chicago strike.
A NEW counterfeit $50 national bank
note has been discovered by the secret
service officials of the treasury depart
ment. The note is on the National
Bank of Barre, VT, check letter A,
charter No. 21O9, bank No. 1880, treas
ury No, D56255; John Allison. register;
Z. f. Spinner, treasurer. The note is
n poorly executed pen and ink produc-
tion with a number of imperfections