The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-12-06
THE WORLD AT LARGE
Summary of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The repu blIcan senators were in eau
sus for half an hour after the senate
adjourned on the Cd, but adjourned
until Wednesday without taking any
action on the reorganization of the
senate. Mr.. sherman was elected
chairman of the caucus and Mr.. Du
b0is secretary.
The monthly treasury statement OF
the public debt shows that on Novem
Der 80, 1895, the debt, less cash in the
treasury, amounted to S94s, AZ, GIL, an
increase for the month of SO O46, 503,
which Is accounted for by the decrease
OF 50. 54l, GIL In the cash in the treasury.
THE silver conference called at
Washington on the Cd was a disap.
Pointment to its projectors. The only
senators who attended were Alien,
Kyle, PETER and Stewart, populists;
Tillman, democrat, and Pritchard,
Mantle and Teller, republicans. Sen
ator PETER was of the opinion that the
party ties were too strong to hope to
organize a silver party in the senate.
The secretary of the treasury on the
I'd transmitted to congress the esti-
mates of appropriations required for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1897, as
furnished by the several executive de-
partments These aggregate S+1S, o9l,-
D73 The appropriations for the pres
ent fiscal year amounted to S4l2, ?53, 264.
THE report of the interstate COM
merce commission of the railway casu-
alties for the past year shows that
Ii Cd a
were injured. The number of passen-
gers killed during the year was 324 and
the number injured was 1904
Observation-Disclosures WILSON has an
nounced that he will enter the race for
congress next year in his old district
in West Virginia.
The deficiency in revenue as report
ed by the United States treasury for
the five months of the present fiscal
year ended November 30 amounted to
1900, 600 against S29, OOO, 900 for year
ago.
THE secretary of the navy has made
his annual report to President Cleve.
land, in which he strongly urges the
increase of the navy. I'VE are not in
want of ordinary unarmored cruisers
or of gunboats," he says, but we are
lamentably deficient in torpedo boats,
and we certainly need more battle
ships" The entire expense of the
navy department for the year ended
June 80, 1895, was Si2, las, $40. of which
more than half was for the pay of the
navy. The appropriation for the cur
rent year is 500, 334,O2 and the esti-
mate for next year 500, Sill, l66.
SECRETARY OF WAR LAMONT has sub
mitted his annual report to President
Cleveland. The,feature of it is a show
ing of the hardness with-which the
plans for coast defenses are being
carried out The expenses of the war
department for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1898, were $50, 9s7, 80. The
appropriation for the current fiscal
year was $40, 400, 81 and the estimate
for the following year. S5i, a45,64S. The
number Of enlisted men in the army is
@5,706 and the effective list is placed
at 90, 5sA The army, the secretary
said, was better fed, clothed and
housed than ever before.
SECRETARY HoKE~ SMITH, of the in
terror department, in his annual re-
port to the president dwells upon the
necessity of eliminating politics from
the management OF Indian affairs and
making all Indians self-supporting
and citizens as soon as possible, freed
from the paternsl care of the govern
ment, by allotting them lands. After
reviewing in detail the work of the
land office the secretary takes up the
question of the disposition of the arid
lands and preservation of the forests
and suggests the advisa 6ility of patent
ing the lands to the states after IL is
fully determined that the selections
made by them under the Carey act are
arid lands