The Forrest City times., 1896-12-18
THE WORLD AT LARGE
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

SECRETARY oLNEY. 1t was reported,
has under consideration treaty of
annexation of Hawaii TO the United
States
w. b. FRANKLIN, of the board of
managers of national soldiers homes.
has made his report and SAYS
the whole number cared for at ali
homes the past year was 40, 44s. As
greater number of old soldiers apply
for admission to the homes each year
he urges additional provision for their
accommodation.
CLOSE friend of the president-elect
at WASHINGTON said that Powell Clay
ton would succeed Mr. Ransom as min
lister to Mexico.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9th
number of interviews with the secre.
tary of the interior regarding the
opening of the Wichita reservation
and felt confident that the allotting
agents would be appointed within a
few days and that the reservation
would be soon thrown open to settlers
RECENT Washington dispa ten said
that a movement had been inangurated
among prominent ex-confederates look
ing to the erection at Richmond, Va. t.,
of handsome monument in honor of
jefferson Davis
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL WILSON has
made his annual report, which shows
an excess of expenditures over receipts
of So, 1877, 0sS for the las. fiscal year He
characterizes the loss sustained by the
ranking privilege as indefensible and
shows that of GAS, 9ss, Gas pounds Of Sec
ond-class matter handled, over 81 34s, 500
pounds were county free" He makes
many recommendations, out SAYS the
United States is behind no other coun-
try in their postal facilities.
THE Washington Times saws that
Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Maine, is to be
the next secretary of state.
THE interstate commerce commission
has issued preliminary report on the
income and expenditures of the rail-
ways in the United States for the wear
ended June 30, 1896 prepared by its
latisticlan,
The United States attoruey.general
has made his r. port to congress and eX-
presses his satisfaction at the new SAL
airy system v hich diaplaced the old fee
system. lie 20 nts out Two defe t. in
the criminal laws and thinks that a
Few crimes act should lie rassed at
once. The antitrust laws are also de-
fective, he says. The Union Pac fic
railway middle is also commented on.
AN emphatic protest has heen made
by the Turkish against the
language used in the presidents mes.
sage TO congress respecting the massa-
ere of the Armenians and the general
conduct of the government toward the
Christians in the empire. The situation
was said 10 threaten the rupture OF
diplomatic relations between the
United States and Turkey
THE United States senate has rati-
fed the treaty with Mexico extending
the time for marking the boundary line
between the two countries.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
stated that the treasury portfolio was
offered by President-elt Mex nley to
Congressman Dingley, of Maine, and
the latter had accepted il. This infor.
nation was derived through channel
directly traceable to Mr. Dinglev him.
self. Equally reliable information
gives the state portfolio to Sena or AL.
lison; the post office portfolio to Payne.
of Wisconsin, the navy portfolio &c
Bliss, of New York. and the attorney.
generalship to Day, of Ohio.
THE commissioner of internal reve,
nue. in his report states that the re.
ceipts from all sources for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1896, amounted to
STAG, $50 ESQ 66. Eor the ensuing wear
the commissioner estima ties tine ex-
penses of the internal revenue service
n 81, 10000. Over 2,0o0 liquor licenses
were issued in Kansas.
A DISPATCH from Wa ,hington of the
18th stated that a treaty between the
United States aud Great Britain To
arbitrate all differences present and
prospective, had advanced to such q
stage that the document may be sirned
by both contracting parties within
three weeks and lie ratified by the SEN
ate before the close of the present adj
ministration.