Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-03-12
PUBLIC HEARINGS.
Those Interested in Reciprocity
Treaties Invited to Washington.
TIE SILVER REPUBLICANS.
They Are Said Co Have Determined Their
Line of Action at the St Louis Con-
VentIon--Benato Proceedings
Land surveys.

under cOnSlQeraJlOn BeVerhl OILS reldJ'
ing to reciprocity and commercial
treaties will have a series of public
hearings at the capitol in Washington,
commencing Monday, March 10, and
closing Saturday, March II, to which
all persons interested in those subjects
are invited to appear. The committee
desires practical information concern
ing the operations of the reciprocity
treaties that were negotiated by the
last administration and the eff
feet of their repeal; also con-
corning the obstacles in the tar
if or customs regulations of foreign
countries tending to retard the extern
sion of our export trade. The inquiry
will be confined to those two points.
Persons desiring to appear before the
committee will address Hon. A. j.
Hopkins, chairman. The committee
has also mailed about 5000 circulars to
merchants and manufacturers actually
engaged in the export trade asking
series of questions designed to elicit
information that will be valuable in
considering future legislation. Similar
circulars have been sent to commercial
and industrial organizations through
out the country for the purpose of OBJ
tanning the public sentiment on these
questions. Tho information received
in reply to these inquiries will be COM
piled in report for the use of con-
gress.
The Silver Republican, Course.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE free
silver republican senators, or that por-
ton of them who left their republican
associates and refused to take up the
tariff bill for consideration, have
reached decision that it will be the
part of wisdom to send delegates to
the republican convention at st. Louis
although a powerful element of the
party in the mining states advise that
silver men break away from the
republican party and ignore the ST,
Louis convention entirely. 1t is sug-
gested that delegations, as usual,
be chosen, and that each of
the delegations shall be headed
by the senator who cast his vote on
February 10 against the consideration
of the tariff bill, because it was sepa.
rated from silver. Each one of these
senators, according to the programme,
will be selected by his delegation as a
member of the committee on platform,
and will make an earnest fight for the
adoption of sixteen to one free coin
age plank Such a plank having been
refused by the convention, as it is al
most certain to be, the delegations
from Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana
and Nevada will leave the convention
and refuse to participate in the pro-
ceedings. They will then return to
their constituents and advise the re.
publcans in their states to nominate q
local republican ticket, but to support
either the nominee of the silver party
for president or to name electors who
shall vote for the candidate most ia
vora BILE to silver.
senate Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, March 1l.-During the
morning business "A joint resolution
was introduced by Mr. Allen and was
referred to the committee on for
cign relations, authorizing and re-
questing the president of the United
States to cause a thorough and rigid
investigation to be made into the man
ner in which the war between Spain
and the belligerents in Cuba is being
conducted. The joint resolution ap.
propriated $4,000 for the expenses of
the inquiry.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Mr.. Chandler for an inquiry by the
committee on civil service into the eX-
penses of the senate for the past year
was reported back favorably and placed
on the calendar
Mr.. Hoar was recognized on his reso-
luton postponing the entire Cuban
question until April and directing the
committee on foreign relations to make
inquiry in the meantime. At two
o'clock Senator Hoar. without finishing
his speech, asked that the resolution
90 over without prejudices, Mr.. Platt
and others desiring to debate it, Mr..
Morgan objected and under the rule
the resolution went to the calendar,
from which it cannot be taken except
by vote Of the senate.
The consideration of the unfinished
business, the Dupont election case,
was then resumed.
investigation OF Land Surveys
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE belief
that those having charge of the survey
of the lands in the Indian territory
were dilatory in their work has pre-
vailed for some time past in certain
quarters and the complaints which have
arisen have resulted in a proposition
for a senatorial investigation. Senator
Hausbrough introduced n resolution in
the senate yesterday that the secretary
OF the interior be directed to report to
the senate at the earliest date possible
the progress and result OF public land
surveys in the Indian territory uuder
the direction Of the geological survey,
together with the acreage and mileage
surveyed and the cost per acre or per
rue, uaG O,Eor information bearing
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