Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-17
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
SECRETARY OLNEY, it 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 all
homes the past year was 40, AS. AS
greater mum bers of old soldiers apply
for admission to the homes each year
he urges additional provision for their
accommodation.
A 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
said that Delegate Flynn has had
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
few days and that the reservation
would be soon thrown open to settlers.
A RECENT Washington dispatch said
that a movement had been inaugurated
among prominent ex-confederates1 look
ing to the erection at Richmond, Va,
of handsome monument in honor of
Jefferson Davis
osTMAsTER-GE71ERAL WILSON has
made his annual report, which shows
an excess of expenditures over receipts
of IS, 1877, OSS for the last fiscal year. He
characterizes the loss sustained by the
ranking privilege as indefensible and
shows that of 34s, 9ss, 64s pounds. of Sec
ond-class matter handled, over SO, 34s, 800
pounds were county free.'' He makes
many recommendations, but says the
United States is behind no other coun-
try in their postal facilities.
THE Washington Times says 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 year
ended June 80, 1896, prepared by its
statistician.
The United States encouragement
has made his report to congress and ex-
presses his satisfaction at the new sal
airy system which displaced the old fee
system. He points out two defects in
the criminal laws and thinks that
new crimes act should be passed at
once. The antitrust laws are also de-
fective, he says. The Union Pacific
railway middle is also commented on.
AN emphatic protest has been made
by the Turkish government 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 to 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 N marking the boundary line
between the two countries.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
stated that the treasury portfolio was
offered by President-elect Mckinley to
Congressman Dingley. of Maine, and
the latter had accepted it. This infor-
nation was derived through a channel
directly traceable to Mr.. Ding1ey him.
self. Equally reliable information
gives the state portfolio to Senator Al
lsop; the post office portfolio to Payne.
of Wisconsin, the navy portfolio tc
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
SAG, $50, CSC. &c. Eor the ensuing year
the commissioner estima ties the ex-
penses of the internal revenue service
at 81, 369. O90 Over 1000 liquor licenses
were issued in Kansas
A DISPATCH from Washington of the
18th stated that a treaty between the
United States and Great Britain to
arbitrate all differences, present and
prospective, had advanced to such a
stage that the document may be signed
by both contracting parties within
three weeks and be ratified by the sem
ate before the close of the present ad.
ministration.
GENERAL NEWS.
DAN CREEDoN, of Australia, fought
Dick O'Brien, of Boston, at the Broad