Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-04-30
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 22d
approved the joint resolution appoint
ng Messrs Franklin. Henderson, Bea1
ind Estelle members of the board OF
managers of the national soldiers
oome.
ABOUT 300 men met at Washington
On the 22d for a conference to promote
international arbitration. Ex-Secre
tary John w. Foster, the temporary
chairman. made 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
ar bitrament of war. Andrew Carnegie
sent a letter inclosing a check for
81, 900 towards expenses and said that
arbitration for nations was sure to
come las that the sun will continue to
shine"
A DEPUTATIoN CT the New York
State bar association presented Presi-
dent Cleveland on the 21st with me.
mortal recently adopted by that body
for the creation of an international
court of arbitration. There was an in
formal talk of half an hour on the sub
ject.
THE house bill providing that all the
public lands within the state Of Mis-.
souri, which have not heretofore been
offered at public sale shall hereafter
be subject to disposal at private sale in
the manner now provided by law has
passed the senate. Actual settlers are
to have preference right,
THE repu blicaus 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
bitra ton 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 a great sea
power she must esta blish navy twice
as large as any two European powers.
Resolutions were adopted for a 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,
they claimed would give them control
of the Chicago convention
THE United States government has
called Spain to account for the outrage
committed on DIR. 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 becam law with
out his signature.
1T was stated at Washington on eX-
cellent authority that the national ad-
visory board of the A. P. 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, Olney, 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.
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