Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-04-09
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
. CONGRESSIONAL.
The Proceedings OF the First Session.
The expected debate on the resolution for
Inquiry into recent bond issues did not
take place in the senate on the 31st ult. The
post office appropriation bill, carrying $685.
100000, was considered in part. In the
house a bill was introduced requiring rail-
roads running night service to accommo-
date the poor class Of passengers with
sleeping berths at very cheap rates. The
sundry civil bill was further discussed.
Senator Call (Fla.) offered joint reso.
luton in the senate on the LIST directing the
sending of an adequate naval force to
Cuba to put an end to the barbarities and
lnstructing the president to notify Spain
that the United States will forcibly inter-
vene unless murder and outrage cease
The post office appropriation bill was fur
Their considered. In the house an amend
ment to the sundry civil bill providing for
the purchase and repair of the house in
which Abraham Lincoln died was adopted.
The post office appropriation bill served
to bring out some sharp discussion in the
senate on the I'd on the propriety Of abol-
lShtng country post offices and absorbing
them as branches Of city offices. After a
speech by Senator EllkinS advocating SUBJ
sides and other means OF extending Amer
lean commerce on the seas the bill went
over The Indian appropriation bill was
reported. In the house the sundry civil
bill was passed, as was also bill to re-
imburse A. p. Brown, late postmaster at
Lemars, Ia. for losses sustained by rob-
berry.
The senate was not in session on the 60
1.-THE house revived the agitation on the
question of Cuban belligerency in connec-
ton with the conference report Of the
Cuban resolutions. Mr. Hit Oily spoke at
length in favor of the insurgents and Mr
Boutelle CMe) argued against the reso!u-
lions. Speaker Reed made ruling that q
majority of the members of the house WHO
are living at the time any question Of a
quorum comes up shall constitute a quo
rum for the transaction OF business. At
the evening session private pension bills
were considered.
The United States senate was not in seq
sion on the fourth. With the exception Of
an hour given over to miscellaneous bust
ness at the beginning of the session, the
entire day and night sessions were devote.7
to discussion Of the wisdom, expediency
and justice of adopting the resolutions
recognizing Cuban belligerency and ten
dering the friendly offices of the United
States for the settlement Of the trouble.
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Dayton, O., celebrated the Tooth an
niversary of the foundation of the city.
All traffic at Duluth. Mlnn., and Su-
perior, Wis, was blockaded by snow
storm, and in St. Pau! street car lines
we're tied up
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of William A. Little, of
Georgia, to be assistant attorney-gen-
eral. vice John Hall, resigned.
The public debt statement issued OF,
the LIST showed that the debt increased
e5,274,7s0 during the month of March.
The cash balance in the treasury
was $s74,969,947. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to $942,342,253.
A train on the St. Louis & San Fran
cisco railroad was held up three miles
cast of Lebanon, Mo-, by three masked
men and the express safe blown open
and robbed of $1.277.
Over eight inches of snow fell
throughout the greater part of Col
orado. 49,.
Easter and Allie Anderson and their
three children. together with two
horses, were drowned by freshet in
Powelps river IN Lee county, Va.
From smelter returns for the first
quarter it was predicted that the gold
production of Colorado for 1896 would
reach $30,00O,O0O.
The two boilers of the Planters oil
mill at Greenville, Miss, exploded,
wrecking the mill property and killing
five men.
The president has signed the act re-
pealing the statute prohibiting the ap-
pointment to the army and navy of per-
sons who held confederate commissions.
The west-bound express train on the
Baltimore e. Ohio railroad fell into the
hands of gang of train robbers just
east of Garrett, Ind, but they were
driven away without securing much
booty.
The monthly statement of the comp
troller of the currency shows the total
circulation Of national bank notes to be
1921 ,227, 8O5, an increase for the year of
$13,777.661.
Reports from every county In Ohio
indicate the smallest wheat crop ever
produced in the state. Is rg &5 ssi'
. During February 1892 immigrants
arrived in New York, an increase of
about 65 per cent. over the arrivals dur
ing February, 1895.
Ten persons periShed by suffocation
in Brooklyn IN. w tenement house
fire.
Reports from northern Wisconsin
told of complete snow blockade on
many railroads. The drifts were from
ten to twenty feet deep.
Jose Ramon Del Vale, prominent
Spaniard who resided in Matanzas,