Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21

Summary Of the Daily News.
WAsHINGTON NOTEs.

EE PUBIC ldnOS COi0In1GCCo Oh CIlC
house has taken up the bill to allow
parties who had committed claims prior
to the opening of Oklahoma to make
fling on claims in the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe country and Beaver county.
The bill will be favorably reported.
THE secretary of the treasury and
Mrs Carlisle gave a dinner on the 18th
In honor of the president and Mrs.
Cleveland. The decorations were white
roses.
THE contract entered into by Secre-
tary Carlisle for another issue of bonds
has been made public. Besides the
secretary's signature to the document
it is also signed by August Belmont &
Co., on behalf of Messrs. N. M. Roths-
child e Sons. London, and themselves,
and by j. p. Morgan & Co., on behalf
of Messrs. j. S. Morgan & Co., London,
and themselves.
THE president has signed the army
appropriation bill and the act author
izing the appointment of cadets at the
naval academy.
SENATOR HENDERSON on the 18th
corroborated the report that he would
become the general solicitor for the
Burlington & Missouri river system
after his retire ment from the senate.
SECRETARY CARLISLE sent to the SEN
ate on the 18th reply to the resolu-
ton asking for information as to what
portion of the gold reserve in the treas
ury January 1, 1898, had been used for
current expenditures, and how much
of the fund realized from the recent
sale of bonds had been SO used, and the
amount required to replace the money
so used.
CARROLL D. WRIGHT, United States
commissioner of labor, has transmitted
to congress his eighth special report.
Its title is the Housing of Working
People
THE Metropolitan Methodist church
at Washington was becomingly deco
rated on the 18th in honor of the con-
vention of the w. C. 7. U. The prin-
cipal object of the gathering was to
call the attention of congress to the
polyglot petition which had arrived
after journey around the world and
bore the signatures of more than g.
OOO, 900 people of all nationalities.
SENATOR KYLE's bill for sinking arte-
sian wells in arid districts in several
western states, including Kansas, has
been favorably reported by the special
committee to which it had been re-
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Roach and Washburn.
A LETTER from the secretary of war
transmitting to congress an abstract of
the militia force of the United States
showed the following facts: Missouri
Organized strength, 2,O96, including
officers and men: citizens available for
military duty, $50, 900. Kansas-Organ-
lied strength, ,724; available, 100, 900.
The total of the militia of the United
States is 116, $780, and the available force
unorganized is reckoned at 9,5S2, SO6
SENATOR PERKINS, from the COM
mittee on education and labor, has re-
ported his bill for the creation of an
industrial commission of twenty-one
persons, which is intended to arbitrate
labor difficulties. The committee pre-
sents a written report, in which it es-
Inmates the aggregate loss to all con-
cerned on account of strikes during
the past six years at sos, 556.s59.
THE white ribboners at Washington
on the 10th discussed the special needs
of the w. c. T. U. in the national cap
ital and how those needs could be met
Great enthusiasm was created by the
reading of a telegram from Missouri
stating that the house and senate COM
mittees of that state had reached q
woman's suffrage bill.