The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-04-03
AHERICFS PATRIOTIC SIH8.
They Propose 70 Get 100000 Names 70 &
Financial Pe6Hos.
IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY
An Urgent Memorial 10 Grant Relief 70 the
WhItes-COnsressional Proceedings
Sugar Growers Want 70 he
Protected.

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organizers, and they have been ep.
pointed in every state It Is the duty
OF the vice presidents to organize
lodges and secure signatures to a t'psti.
ton and protest" The petition viii
set forth to congress that there Is 80
money in this country, and that the
workingmen are every day getting
poorer 1t viii recite that the per
capita circulation Is less than $50.
when it ought to be $50. L will ask
congress to pass d bill authorizing enc
secretary of the treasury 20 Issue g.
coo, 600, 600 of greenbaeks and 60 ocin
all the silver and gold bullion ia the
treasury, aud to grant free coinage "a
everything and everybody. The pro.
test will allege that the secretaries O.
the treasury, aided and sbetted by the
presidents, have for years deliberately
taken piles Of greenbaeks and burEel
them to keep them from circulating
and to make the people poorer.
1t is proposed to get 5000 600 signs.
lures to the petition to congress. Tn.
members of the order say that col
greSs could not resist such O iarr
number of the people of the countr.
II It did so, the members say, there
would be another invasion of Was
ington by gigantic army of men
hundred times larger than that o.
Coxey
Congressional Proceeding.
WASHINGTON, april la bill was 81
troduced by Mr.. Butler, of North Ca
lima, in the senate to-day and REFER
10 the finance committee provide,
that payment of notes, bills, chez
etc, shall be in legal tender money. 9,
respective of any stipulation ia toe
contract He explained that his 0 !.
ject was to stop gold mortgages a. 4
gold notes. 1t did not affect existin
contracts. A committee Of c0afereRt
was ordered on the legislative sppra.
priatiOn bill Dir. Call, Of Florida, ID
PRODUCED a joint resolution reeitin
"the continual violations of the USAGE
ia war in Cuba, inhuman and bruta.
outrages on men, women and ehil.
dren," and directing that 81.
adequate naval force of the
United States shall be immediately
sent to Cuba, as will be sufficient e
protect b. force Of necessary the citi.
zens of the United States in Cuba. It
was laid on the table.
The Dupont election case was then
considered.
The house went into COMMITTEES Of
the whole on the sundFy civil appropri-
alton bill
The IndisB Territory.
WASHINGTON, April. lin the earlier
part Of the session there was shown
strong disposition to pass a townsi.e
bill for the Indian territory. The
pressing necessity for legislation
which would enable the white eommu-
mites to acquire title, set up local self.
government and tax themselves for
schools and other purposes was con.
ceded. The session is nearly ended.
Nothing has been done to press the
townsite bills and it looks as Il moth
ing will be done. The prospect Tor
anything more than the continuance
of the Dawes commission, with au-
thority to make up the rolls Of indians
in the territory, is discouFaging. In
view of this situation, Clarence B.
Douglas, representing the territory,
yesterday laid before the Indian COM
mittee Of the house an urgent memo.
rial, asking that some msasure be de-
vised 10 grant relief from the present
existing condition Of things ia the ter
ritory
a Pension Decision.
WAsHNGTOS, april 1.-Aeting ssere.
tary Reynolds, OF the interior depart.
ment has rendered a pension decision
Of some importance 70 the effect shat
when a soldier diss leaving q widow
and minor children ader the ags Of
le years surviving b. such children
may, after attaining the age Of 10 and
where the mother dies without pay
ment 10 her Of any part Of the pension,
spply in their own right and receive
the same pension as the father Wcald
have been entitled to had he been To-
tally disabled, to commence from the
date of his death and continue unta
they respectively arrive at the age o.
Is years. This holding is a reversal Of
decisions previously made. A iasge
number Of claims wiz be favorabiy 81.
feeted By this decision.
ConeeEaIDg ImElgEauta
WAsHKGp0S, April L-Seereiery
Carlisle has approved q supplemental
agreement entered into by the various
Canadian railroads aud steamshipifLes
and Commissionef-Gsneral Stump. II
the United States immigration buls2a,
which provides that ali Immigrants
destined to the United States provided
for b. the original agFesmspt who
shall not have been listed On tee nllis
fest supplied t0--e United stssss is
sPeeteT 81 the port ~ entry and els1
within so DAYS fEem the date 81 5tAse
arrival ct eny eHeor The peE.@ assfef
il the agreement shall zpHis Cos ca
hiission issc o. entzr fhs lsFtsd
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