The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-06-11
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.


THE tariff reform committee OF The
Reform club has established headquar-
tiers in Washington and intends to
maintain an organization till the close
of the pending tariff legislation. Rep
resentatives from different trades and
industries will be present in advance
of the debate which is to take place in
the senate on each schedule, so that
ample opportunity for discussion will
be provided.
OVER 1000 applications had been
fled in the state department up to the
Sd for consular positions and the num-
Der of such appointments at the dis
posal of the president is in the neigh
borhood of 14O.
Mr.. WHITELAw REID, who has been
appointed as the presidents special
representative at the queens jubilee,
may 60 from London to Madrid to be-
come our minister to Spain. He was
said to be the presidents first choice
for the place now, with ex-Secretary
Tracy as second choice.
A TELEGRAM received at the Indian
bureau at Washington on the Cd from
Agent Stouch at the Tongue river
reservation announced the arrest and
delivery to the sheriff of Stanley, the
Cheyenne, whose admitted murder of
Sheepherder Hoover precipitated the
Indian trouble here. The authorities
believed that the excitement would
soon subside.
CAPT. w. d. SMITH, of the Cuban
army, spent considerable time on the
4th with the senate committee on for
eign relations. In a brief interview
with representative of the Associated
press he said that all talk about au-
tonomy and Spanish reforms for Cuba
was so much breath wasted. There
was not man in the Cuban army who
would agree to accept anything short
of absolute independence.
COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY
BOWLER has rendered his resignation
to Secretary Gage, to take effect before
July l, on which date Mr.. Bowler ex-
poets to leave with his family for Eu-
rope.
a SPECIAL train of nine finely-ap-
pointed Pullman cars left Washington
on the 4th over the Pennsylvania road,
carrying the Universal Postal congress
on its trip around the country. About
40 persons were aboard.
President Mckinney signed the sun
dry civil bill on the 4th.
a BILL has been introduced in con-
gress donating the military reservation
of Fort Omaha to the state of Nebraska,
and the state will establish a school
for the education of its own and young
men of other western states in the arts
of war. The more enthusiastic pro-
motors of the scheme declare with much
emphasis that the proposed school will
be to the west what West Point acad-
envy is to the east.
THE Endorsements of Maj. I. J. An
derson for the office of pension agent
at Topeka, Kan, were presented to
President Mckinley on the 5th by Con-
gresham Curtis, of Kansas. The in
dorsements are marvel 1t was said
that 90 per cent. of the soldiers of the
state had Endorsed Anderson.
REAR ADMIRAL SAMUEL P. LEE, re-
tired, the last of the commanders of
great squadrons during the civil war
died at his home near Washington on
the 5th from paralysis.
CONGRESSMAN JOSEPH w. BAILEY, of
Texas, the house leader of the dem
ocracy, has come out fatty for the re-
nomination of William Jennings Bryan
for president in 1900.
SECRETARY GAGEi is preparing fnan-
cial measure to be submitted to con-
gress next winter. In pursuance of
l. .
leading bankers and merchants invit-
ing suggestions for reforming the cur
rency.