Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-06-04
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WAsHINGToN NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
A RUMoR was going the rounds at
Washington recently that Senator Tel
ler's name will be presented at Chicago
by the free silver delegates 1t was
said he would bolt at the st. Louis con.
vention as soon as a sound money plat
form was adopted and would lead the
free silver men in that course.
IT was current gossip at Washington
on the Goth that Senator Brice had
abandoned all hope of carrying sound
money delegation from Ohio to the
democratic national convention.
THERE promises to be so much con-
troversy over the general immigration
bill recently passed by the house be-
tween the house and senate that there
is little prospect of its enactment this
session.
THE president signed the bill on the
eth which necessitates years resi-
dence in q territory before getting
divorce.
SENATOR GoRMAN, it was said at
Washington, was trying to get free
coinage democrats to nominate Vice
President Stevenson for the presidency
at Chicago and declare for the free
coinage of gold and silver, but leave
the ratio to be determined by congress.
THE price of drawings at the patent
office will be reduced after July.
GEN. WEYLER has promulgated an
edict in Cuba suspending for one year
all civil processes against planters, and
creditors will not be able to secure
payment of interest or foreclose any
mortgages they may hold. The au-
thorities at Washington were going to
protest against the edict, which will
injuriously affect American interests
in the island.
THE republican senators held a eau
Gus on the Goth and decided upon the
order in which bills on the calendar
should be taken up as follows The
filed cheese, alcohol in the arts, fruit
brandy, immigration, five per cent
bond bill. labor commission, election
of senators by the people, bankruptcy,
contempt of courts, courts in Indian
territory, reorganization of the North
ern Pacific Railway Co., Alabama cleo
ton investigation, animal industry
and New Hampshire war claims.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND sent a mes
sage to the house on the Goth vetoing
the rivers and harbors appropriation
BILL stating, among other things, that
the bill was eXtravagant and especially
unsuited to these times of depressed
business and resulting disappoin tmeut
in government revenue and also that
many of the objects for which money
was appropriated in the bill were pal
pably for the benefit of limited 1ocali-
ties or in aid of individual interests.
THE president approved the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill on the Goth.
J. ]. Mort, chairman of the national
silver party, has issued an address from
Washington, urging all friends of the
party to push the work of organization
with all possible vigor. the purpose
being to unite for action all believers
in the restoration of free silver and
prosperity"
THE post office department at Wash
ington is daily in receipt of complaints
about letter carriers in the west-par.
ticularly in Missouri. Kansas and Tex
as-making the occupants of houses
come out to the sidewalk to get their
mail.
GENERAL NEWS.
THE 3Sth general assembly of the
United Presbyterian church of the
United States convened at Xenia, O.,
on the 2Sth. Rev. James White, of
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