The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-25
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.


The house ways and means commit
tee has decided to report to the house
Mr.. Wilson's bill to remove the one
tenth of l cent pound differential OF
sugar imported from countries giving
an export bounty, which has ELECTED
protests from Germany, Austria and
other nations, and the repeal of which
was recommended by the president.
REPRESENTATIVE BRYAN, of Nebras
ka, has introduced bill in congress tc
provide for the coinage of the seignior-
age.
SENATOR DAVIS has reported from the
committee on foreign relations bill
providing for government of any ter
ritory which might by concession or
otherwise become the property of the
United States. The bill authorizes
the president to appoint commission
Of not less than three nor more than
twenty-five members, who shall estab-
lish form of government for the ac-
QUESTION.
The printing bill signed by the pres
ident has clause in it reviving the
franking privileges. The provision
was never referred to when the bill
was before either house and senators
and nemb bers were equally surprised
when informed of it
The hearing before the house terri
torial committee on the Oklahoma
statehood bill closed on the 10th.
Those who spoke included Chief Har-
ris- of the Cherokee nation; J. West
Park, delegate from the Chickasaws;
j. S. Stanley. representing the Chicka-
saws. and A P. MeKellop. They op-
posed the proposition to include in a
bill giving statehood to Oklahoma any
portion of the Chickasaw country and
any territorial form of government for
the Indian territory.
DEMOCRATIC members of the house
banking committee have adopted a
resolution asking the president and
Secretary Carlisle for a consultation to
suggest some simple bill for the relief
of the, treasury upon which the war
ring factions can unite.
CONGRESSMAN MONEY has introduced
a bill to raise revenue by an increase
of tax on retail dealers in liquors. The
tax on such dealers is fixed at $50, and
every person who sells foreign or do
mestic distilled spirits, wines or malt
liquors, in less quantities than five gal
Ions of the same, is to be regarded as
retail dealer.
An examination will be held in Wash
ington January % for watchmen, mes
sengers and assistant messengers.
Missouri and Kansas are on the list of
states from which eligibles may come.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the five civilized
tribes of Indians were heard on the nth
by the senate committee on Indian af-
fairs. They opposed any arbitrarV
change by the national government in
the method of controlling affairs in
the Indian territory, urging that the
Indians held their possessions through
treaty rights and that they were com
petent to attend to their own affairs.
SPEAKER CRIsP's physician has or
dered him to take a vacation. He has
been suffering from neuralgia of the
heart and the affection has induced
serious disturbance of the hearts
action recently. so that continuance
of the duties of his Office dangerously
affected him.
THE report of the experts of the
Dcckery commission recommends
scme radical changes in the land
laws. The most important is the
repeal of the section of the act of
1890, which provides that any person
who contests an entry of land and Sc
cures its cancellation, paying the cost
of proceedings, shall have the right to
enter (,yithout qualifying even) the
land covered by the previous entry.
A PETITION praying for consular in
spectiOn of immigrants before en-
barkation, signed by several hundred
citizens of Lawrence, Kan, was pre-
sented in the federal senate on the 18th
by Mr.. PETER
UNITED STATES ASSISTANT ATTORNEY
GENERAL THOMAS has decided that
newspapers violate the anti-lottery
law who publish lottery drawings or
results of guessing the number of
beans in a jar or seeds in a watermelon.
CHAIRMAN MCGANN, of the house la
Dor committee, has proposed to Labor
Commissioner Wright a plan Tor the
issuance of monthly labor bulletins by
the bureau.
ATToRNEY-GENERAI. OLNEY has under
consideration a plan to reduce the
number of places of holding United
States courts in Oklahoma. Atpresent
court is held in twenty-five places, and
it is proposed to cut the number to five,
viz, Kingfisher, El Reno, Oklahoma
City, Guthrie and Perry.
GENERAL NEWS.
THE warship Philadelphia has been