Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-06-13
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE president on the 9TH announced
the appointment of Attorney-General
Olney as secretary of state and Judson
Harmon, of Cincinnati, as attorney
general.
BLANKS are prepared at the treasury
department at Washington for use of
persons who have claims against the
government for the refund of the in
come tax. The refund will be made
under section 1920 of the revised
statutes, which authorizes the com
missioner of internal revenues on ap-
peal to refund all taxes enormously or
illegally collected. Every dollar of
the income tax already collected will
be repaid to the persons from whom
the collections were made.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has denied
the application for pardon in the case
OF George M. Van Leuven, who was
convicted in the North Iowa United
States district court of violation of the
pension law and sentenced December
Is to two years imprisonment and to
pay a fine of $1,000. The president
said: This conviction was 1eniently
treated by the courts and I do not
think the representations as to his
health are sufficient to justify his par
DON"
THE pension case of Judge D. Long,
of Michigan, has been determined by
the court of appeals at Washington,
the commissioner of pensions coming
out victorious. About a year ago the
commissioner reduced Longs pension
from SIS to $50 per month and the dis
trict court claimed the commissioner
no onfh0rffry 70 do h11f ho ~
of appeals holds that pension is not
a vested right and the commissioner
had perfect right to, review the acts
of his predecessors.
A SEMI-OFFICIAL statement was re-
ceived at Washington on the from
the leaders of the most influential ele-
ments in Cuba showing that the war
expenditures were becoming so enor-
nous and the sugar and tobacco indus
tries so Improbable that they believed
general uprising would result from
the hard times caused.
Mrs. CLEVELAND, and her two chit
dren left Washington on the 5th for
the presidents summer home at Gray
Gables.
IT is not generally known that ex-
Minister ThurSton maintained that the
annexation of the Hawaiian islands to
the United States should not disturb
existing social and political relations
in Hawaii, so far as the suffrage of
certain inhabitants. of the so-called
Hawaiian republic was. concerned.
Considerable attention has again been
given lately in the state department to
The subject, and an investigation con-
Quoted demonstrated; to the satisfac-
ton of the president that the PROPOSE
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annexation was now more impractica-
BILE and unwise than ever before
THE statement was published at
Washington on the 5th that ex-Secre-
tary Elkins, of West Virginia, had an
nounced Harrison for president and had
declared that the Depew harmony din
ner in New-York was the real inaugu :
ration of the boom for the ex-presi-
dents denomination next year.
THE president removed from office on
the 5th c. P. Morton. democrat, OF
Maine, auditor in the treasury for the
navy department, for writing letters
to persons in his state rejecting on the
president and Secretary Carlisle
IT has been found in the dispute
over pensions that the United States
supreme court has ruled that the war
did not close until August 20. 1896
ATToRNEY-GENERAL OLNEY has de.
cided that bidders for government
work cannot plead mistaken ideas and
withdraw from contracts.
Col WILLIAM R KING, of the enpi
nee- corps, who has been commandant
at the engineer school at Willett's
Point, has been assigned by the secre-
tary of war as engineer in charge OF
E. the improvement of the upper Nfissis
sippi, to succeed Col. McKen zie. ordered
to Washington.
THE national bank circulation for
the month of May showed an increase
of over 81. 0O0 600 over May, 1894
GENERAL NErvv..