The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-06
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
SENATOR STEWART, of Nevada, has
Issued a card to the effect that he left
the republican party more than two
years ago because that party was IN
favor of the single gold standard and
is now populist.
THE secretary of the interior has is
sued requisition on the secretary of
the treasury for SO, 22l, 600, to be used
in the quarterly payment of pensions
on April 2.
A BILL to provide for the free and un-
limited coinage of silver has been intro
duced in the senate by Mr.. Stewart
(rep.), of Nevada, and laid on the table
for the present
FIRE broke out in the waste room of
the terrace of the senate on the 2Sth-
1t was quickly extinguished, but the
smoke caused considera bic excitement
in and about the senate chamber.
COMMENTS by the silver men in the
senate and house make it evident that
free coinage bills will be introduced
and attempts made to pass them as
result of the seigniorage veto.
The president sent message to the
house on the 29th vetoing the bill for
coinage the silver seigniorage.
REPRESENTATIVE COCKRELL, of Texas,
is deluged with letters, memorials and
resolutions from the citizens of north
Texas urging him to do everything in
his power to secure a ratification of the
sale of the Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache lands.
GEN. WHEELER recently stated that
he would, at the request of the MEM
bers of the committee on territories,
urge Speaker Crisp to agree to day
upon which Oklahoma's claims to state
hood could be considered. There is
grave fear expressed on the part of all
those interested in statehood for the
territory that all legislation would be
so delayed that nothing could be ac-
complished.
Mrs. ]. ELLEN FOSTER was at the
capitol with her delegation of wage
earning women from New England to
ask for hearing before the senate
committee on finance on the tariff bill.
She was granted an interview by Sena-
tor Voorhees, the chairman of the COM
mittee, who received her courteously,
but declined on behalf of the commit
tee to give the delegation an opportun-
ity to be heard.
RUMoRs that the silver men will at
tempt to secure an amendment to the
.ariff bill by adding a provision for
free coinage were denied by senators of
all shades of opinion.
SPEAKER CRISP has notified Gov.
Northen by telegraph of his declina-
tion of the appointment of United
States senator for the unexpired term
of the late Senator Colquitt- In his
telegram Speaker Crisp says a very
large majority of the democratic mem
bers of the house have united in the
request that he continue to serve as
speaker for the remainder of the ses-
sion. and sense of duty impels him to
decline the appointment
SECRETARY MORTON, of the agricult-
ural department, in reply to inquiries
about the rainfall experiments and
controlling precipitation by means OF
explosions has sent out a circular stat
ing that the results of the lombard
ment of the skies for water did not in
spire the hope that any method of con-
cussion could be made commercially
successful in precipitating moisture
from clouds
WORTHY and humane men are as
sembling in Washington to advocate
the passage of the Cummings bill for
the protection of animals in transit al
sea
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND'S veto of the
silver seigniorage bill has resulted in a
proposition for a national convention
of the west and south to form a now
political party based on the demand
for the free coinage of silver.