Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-11-30
THE WORLD AT LARGE,
Summary OF tho Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES

WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE postmaster.gencral bns mad,
his annual report TO the president
The receipts Of ,dc depar: meut for tn,
year ended June 30 were $40. III 90,
and the expenditures $50, 100, lie. Mr.
Wilson recommends the extension u
the free delivery service, notes tn,
abuses OF second-class mail matter ant
recommends the extension of the civi
ser vice rules wherever practicable.
THE director OF the mint has sub
mitted his report 10 the secretary o.
the treasury. The coinage during tn,
year was, gold, s43,oSA as; silver dol
lars, $3.50, oil; subsidiary silver coins
s., ll3, 400; minor coins, STE, 5pt, a tota
coinage OF s53,7i5,5i0 The estimated
product of gold and silver in tn,
United States during the calenda,
year 1901 was, gold, $50, 800, 900; silver
49,5O0,Oo) fine ounces of the CONNER
cial value Of s3i. 43a 900 and the coinage
valve Of SCI, 900. O0j.
THE report of james White. supcrin
tendent of the railway mail service
shows that during the year i07 acci.
dents occurred, in which seven clerks
were killed and I7s injured while on
duty. lie also shows that the service
is becoming more and moro efficient
each year.
The interstate commerce commission
has issued n preliminary report on the
income and expenditures Of railways
in the United States for the year ended
June 80, 1895, prepared by the s,a,isti.
clan.
COMMISSIONER STUNT, OF the immigra-
ton bureau, in his annual report rec
omnends legislation for the suppress
SION OF the padronc system and urges
The passage of an net by congress for.
bidding persons or corporations cngag-
ing in the business of procuring EN-.
ployment for alien immigrants with
out first securing n license from the
immigration bureau.
FRANCIS II. llATcu, the new Hawaiian
minister, the authorities say. does not
go to Washington to ask for n pro.
tectoratc. This statement WAS made
TO rciute well defined rumor. Mr..
Hatch will use his best endcavors TO
bring the annexation question before
the next congress and high officials
state that nothing else will satisfy the
Hawaiian government.
GovERSMENr ofli:ials have emphatic
nlly denied that there was any truth
in the statements that the state depart
ment had decided that ex.Consul Wal.
Ter had no ease or that the department
finds that his trial was fair and holds
that the United States has no substan.
tial grounds on which to base demand
for indemnity.
THE general assembly Knights OF La
Dor, which has been in session ut Wash
ington, adjourned to meet ut Rochoa,
ter, \. Y, in 1896.
The president has ordered medal
OF honor tn be awarded to james C.
Walker. late private company K.
Thirty.tirst Ohio volunteer infaetry,
for most distinguished ra,.antry in
action at Mission Ridge, Tenn, No
vemhcr oj. 1868. Al this engagement
this soldier voluntarily carried the
rcgimental flag in n charge In which
the flag received ninety-eiHht bullet
marks and the flagstaff ten.
THE representatives OF District u.s.
scmbly 10. X. Of L.. OF New York. pre-
sented charges against General Master
Workman j. Il. Sovereign, at the ses-
sion In Washington on the Goth, TO the
effect that his administration was not
In line with the best interests Of labor
and that he and his officers had COM
promised with capitalists Mr.. Sovcr.
cign defended himself warmly and nj
the close OF his speech rendered his re.
signation but by an almost unanimous
vote the assembly refused to accept it,
and adopted yote of confidence in
Mr.. Sovereign and the other general
officers.
1T has been decided to remove the
body OF Maj Gen. Winfield S. Hancock
TO Arlington cemetery, Washington.
from Norristown, Pa, where it Inns
rested since 1886. None OF the projects
tn erect monument ut Norristown
have succeeded, and the committee of
the Second artillery corps has succeed.
ed in securing the consent of members
OF tho family to the removal Il Is
planned to have tho burial In Airing.
ton to take place next spring, when a
monument to Gen. Hancock on one O!
the public squares in Washington will
lie dedicated.