The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-05-04
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
The house coinage committee, by an
overwhelming vote has decided to side
track the Meyer silver seigniorage bill
and small bonds bill and instead to
consider the Bland free silver coinage
bill
SENATOR BRIcE is authority for the
statement that compromise tariff bill
has been agreed upon which is reason
ably certain to be adopted by congress
early in June.
The senate committee on naval at
fairs has authorized the chairman to
prepare an amendment to the naval
appropriation bill to provide for the
construction of fifteen torpedo boats
for coast defense.
The Cherokee delegates have pre-
scented to the senate memorial of the
Cherokee nation against being taken
into territory or state with Oklahoma
as suggested in the McRea bill now
pending in the house.
THE Mckinley Tariff league, which
has its headquarters in Washington,
has issued call for convention of the
colored republican clubs of the United
States to be held the first Monday in
July. Each club will be represented
by two delegates and one alternate.
GEN. r S. GRANGER, Z. s. A, re-
tired, died on the 25th at Washington,
aged IS.
REPRESENTATIVE O'NEILL, of Mis-,
souri,, has introduced bill to protect
free labor from the injurious effects of
convict labor by combining the sale of
the products of the latter class of labor
to The state in which they are pro-
dueed.
UNITED STATES CONSUL MAX JUDD
in a report from Vienna says that the
importation of American trotting
horses into Austria Hungary for breed
'ng purposes has recently assumed con-
siderable proportions
REPORTS received at the geological
survey from twenty-three states and
two territories, give total production
of II, 5O7, 6O7 long tons of iron ore in
1898. This amount is smaller than that
recorded for any year since 1887, and is
a decrease of almost 20 per cent over
1892.
The Encouragement has sent to
congress the draft of bill prepared by
the department of justice for the reor-
ganization of the Union Pacific Rail-
road Co. and the readjustment of the
claims of the government against that
company.
THE estimates by the director of the
mint of the silver product of the United
States for 1898 gives total of $50, 000,
600 as against s74, 995, 900 for 1892
TnE railways and canals sub-com-
mittee of the house has agreed to re-
port favorably Representative Kiefer's
bill appropriating so, 900 for prelimi-
nary survey to ascertain the practical
bility of the construction of a canal
between Lake Superior and the Missis-
sippi liver.
REPRESENTATIVE MEYER, of Louisi-
ana, WAS reported as being confident
that his compromise proposition on the
silver question would pass the house,
Notwithstanding the action of the
Bland coinage committee in pigeon
holing it for the present session of con-
gress He will no longer address his
eHOrUS 10 the committee. out Will get
the compromise directly before the
house as a substitute to any free coin
age bill Mr.. Bland may report
SENATOR QUAY, of Pennsylvania, was
reported sick on the 27th. His affiic-
ton, it is said, is one that may take
him off without much warning.
SENATOR PETER has introduced a
bill to provide for a collection of the
debts due from the Union Pacific Rail-
road Co The bill authorizes the sale
Of the road and provides that in case
40 bid is made equal to the amount of
Indebtedness the government shall
take the property and operate the road
SECRETARY CARLISLE has made long
statement as to whether it was true
that he had taken part in conferences
for the purposes of agreeing to certain
amendments to the tariff bill. He says
he had a conference with democratic
members of the senate finance commit
tee, but that he regarded most of the
changes in the bill as unimportapt and
not affecting the measure much as a