The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-17
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
AT the recent meeting of the nation
al advisory board of the A. P. A. at
Washington it was decided, so it was
reported, to press the name of Con-
gresham William S. Linton, of Michi.
gan, as its choice for president and to
arrange for vigorous campaign.
RECENT poll of the democratic
members of congress showed 3s in favor
of the nomination of ex-Gov. Boies, of
Iowa, at the Chicago convention, 81 for
Gov. Mathews, of Indiana, and IL for
Cleveland. Those refusing to express
themselves were supposed to have Cleve-
land leanings
A PRETTY young woman, who speaks
with foreign accent and represents
herself as the widow of Cuban patriot
recently killed, has been receiving do
nations from certain senators and rep
resentatives who are in sympathy with
the Cuban cause. A member who had
given her money subsequently dis
covered that she was Kate Gray. a no
torious female sharper of Philadelphia
A CHICAGO Times-Herald's Washing
ton special on the 10th stated that Sem
ator Cullom had written letter with
drawing from the presidential contest,
but had not decided when to make it
public. As soon as the Reed and ALI
son managers heard that Senator Gull
lom had written a letter of with.
drawal, they drove in hot haste to the
senator's house and implored him not
to take the STEP The senator may
hn IN rix- 20
at an early day.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has made a
formal proposition to Spain that the
good offices of the United States be &C.
copied in meditation between tina t
country and Cuba The proposal was
made in cablegram of instructions to
our minister at Madrid. The note
brings to crisis the relations between
the United States and Spain, which
have been unsettled since the outbreak
of the Gu ban rebellion.
MEMBERS and senators at Washing
ton, it was reported, were receiving
thousands of letters asking for seeds
The letters will be answered by send
ing the seeds just as soon as the secre-
tary of agriculture will make it posi-
BILE to do so. 1t was estimated by the
secretary that on or before May he
would be able to resume the seed busi-
ness.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
stated that there was no longer reason
to doubt notwithstanding roundabout
denials, that Secretary Olney, in his
communication to the Spanish govern
ment had offered the mediation of the
president between Spain and Cuba
The offer had been made, according to
report, as delicately and pleasantly as
it could be conveyed in words.
SECRETARY CARLISLE, ex-Secretary
Whitney, Secretary Lamont and others
: were parties in a conference with the
president at the white house on the
night OF the 18th, at which the presi-
dent made known his intention to give
to the public within a few days a let
ter regarding his relation to the COM
ing democratic national convention.
He said that he was going to announce
that his name must not be considered
for further honors and that the future
of the party depended upon its adher-
enee to the vital principles of tariff re-
form and sound money.
THE Turkish delegation at Washing
ton has received from the sublime
porte a cablegram stating that the
government did not intend to expel
the missionaries and Catholic priests
if they attended peacefully to their
own business and did not place them
selves in open hostility to the laws in
the Turkish eunire
RAMON o. WILLIAMS has resigned as
consul-general to Havana and Fitz-
hugh Lee. of Virginia, has been ap-
pointed to succeed him.
REPRESENTATIVE ALDRICH, of illinois,
gave out a statement at Washington
on the 18th of Mr.. Reeds strength. as
compared with that of other candi-
dates, the summary being as follows:
Reed, Ill; Mckinley. 169; the field, 166;
doubtful, IS; total, 1914 No note was
made of the four delegates recently
elected in South Carolina, because the
legality of that convention was ques-
toned, and in any event they would
belong to the doubtful column.