The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-15
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

CONGRESSMAN REED, of Maine, has z
financial plan which he has offered a,
a substitute for the administration
bill. 1t authorizes the secretary OF
the treasury to issue bonds to redeem
greenbacks and when there is a deficit
to issue certificates of Indebtedness tc
pay current expenses.
THE senate committee on Indian af.
fairs has reported favorably the house
bill granting the Oklahoma Central
Railroad Co. right of way through
the Indian territory and Oklahoma
with some slight amendments, the most
important of which is that the road
shall begin at a point at or near Sep
ulpa, !. T., and go by way of Chandler
and Oklahoma City to a point on the
Red river at or near the west line OF
the kiowa and Comanche reservation.
THE president has approved the bill
creating the rank of lieutenant-gen-
eral in the army and has nominated
Gen. Schotield for the place.
President CLEVELAND on the 9th an
nounced his decision as arbitrator be-
tween Brazil and Argentine in the
boundary dispute between the two
countries over the Missiones territory.
1t was in favor of Brazil.
CoNsUL-GENERAI MAX JUDD. at Wen
ma, has informed the department of
state that the Imperial Society of Agri-
culture has decided to hold an interna-
tional exposition of agricultural imple-
ments and machinery at Vienna from
Nav to next, offering an excellent
opportunity for the introduction of
American farming implements.
SENATOR ALLEN has introduced a
bill in congress requiring that here
after all gold and silver coin kept by
the government for the purpose of re-
deeming silver certificates and treas
ury notes shall be kept in the vaults of
the treasury department and at no
other place and that all redemptions
of these notes or certificates shall be
made at the treasury department and
at no other place.
THE president transmitted to the SEN
ate OF the 9TH report from the secre-
tary of state giving the correspondence
with Germany and other European
countries concerning the effect of the
present tariff law on the commerce of
the United states with those countries
with reference to the duty on sugar.
SENATOR CoCKRELL, from the COM
mittee on appropriations, has reported
the Indian appropriation bill The to-
tai appropriation made by it is IS, s29,-
zoo
THE president entertained the MEM
bers of the supreme court of the United
States and of the court of appeals of
the District of Columbia at dinner on
the eth.
A MANDANUs has been issued against
the commissioner of pensions to en-
force the restoration of the pension of
e72 a month to Judge Long, of Michi-
gan.
THE senate has confirmed Gen. Scho-
field as acknowledgement of the army.
The president sent message to con-
gress on the Sth announcing that ar
rangements had been concluded to is
sue bonds of the United States. pay
able in thirty years after date with 4
per cent interest. amounting to SG2,-
100000, for the purchase of gold coin
to the amount of So, 900, 600 to restore
the gold reserve to 500, 900, 900. The
government mad the option for ten
days to substitute bonds payable in
gold bearing 3 per cent. interest in
stead of the coin bonds.
SENATOR LODGE by request has in
troduced bill in the senate to provide
for the issue of Sl,25O. 600, 600 worth of
bonds payable in gold coin at ~ per
cent. interest to run for from ten to
twenty-five years.
THE national department of agri-
culture has announced that the amount
of grain and garden seeds to be dis
tributed was not large enough to APP
preciably relieve distress or aid the
needy in the drought-stricken districts
of the west.