The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-05-01
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
ABOUT 300 men met at Washington
on the 22d for conference to promote
international arbitration. Ex-Secre-
tary John w. Foster, the temporary
chairman. made a speech in which he
thought the problem not easy of solu-
ton. but that English-speaking nations
ought to find different way of set
thing their disputes than by the blood
srbitrament of war. Andrew Carnegie
sent a letter inclosing a check for
$1,000 towards expenses and said that
arbitration for nations was sure to
come las that the sun will continue to
shine"
THE republicans of the United States
senate in caucus on the 23d decided in
favor of an early adjournment after
the appropriation bills are passed.
CONGRESSMAN MONEY, of Mississippi,
and Congressman Hall, of Missouri,
had personal encounter in the room
of the committee on naval affairs at
Washington on the 23d. Mr.. Money
called Mr. Hall liar when the latter
struck the former and then each picked
up wristbands and threw them at one
another, Mr.. Money being struck and
having an ugly cash cut behind his
ear.
THE conference for international ar
bitration at Washington closed on the
23d with a mass meeting at Aliens
opera house, in the course of which
President Eliot of Harvard, severely
arraigned the policy of President
Cleveland. Carl Schurz stated if the
United States wanted to be great sea
power she must esta blish a navy twice
as large as any two European powers.
Resolutions were adopted for perma-
nent system of arbitration and urging
President Cleveland to take such steps
as will best conduce to that end.
A WASHINGTON dispatch stated that
the gold money democrats would work
hard to capture the delegates from
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, which
they claimed would give them control
of the Chicago convention.
THE United States government has
called Spain to account for the outrage
committed on DR.. Jose Manuel Del
gado, an American citizen, on March
4, in Cuba.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND having failed
to Sign the agricultural appropriation
bill on the 25th it beca me a law with
out his signature.
II was stated at Washington on ex-
cellent authority that the national adj
visory board of the A. 2. A. would
soon meet again to pass upon the re-
ligious records of the men whose
names have been mentioned for the
democratic presidential nomination.
The records of Cleveland, Carlisle. Rus
sell, Pattison. 0lney, Bland, Boies,
Tillman, Matthews, Campbell and 9th
ers will be gone over and the order
will be notified which of these men
are Objectionable and which can pass
muster.
A WASHINGTON dispatch said that
the movement to make Secretary
Carlisle the candidate of the sound
money democrats for president was
taking a shape which led his friends to
believe that he would be practically
the only candidate before the Chicago
convention.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH has COM
mended to the encouragement the
dismissal of the suit against the Bur.
Hngton & Missouri River Railroad Co.,
to recover about 5o,o 600 acres of land in
Kansas and Nebraska, enormously
patented to the road, upon which 2,OOC
homesteaders have settled, the settlers
having acquired bona fde title &c
the lands.