The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-30

accept dictation of this kind without
being furnished with the requisite in
formation from the State Department,
and without knowing what passed be
tween the President and this man Rod
riguez in the Blue Room of the White
House." The episode attracted consid-
cradle attention throughout the coun-
try.
The Attorney General of the United
States has completed negotiations, by
the direction of and with the approval
of the President, which will result in
immediate steps for the foreclosure of
the government lien on the Union Paci
fic Railway. The Reorganization Com
mittee has guaranteed that the United
States shall receive for it's claim and
for the Union Pacific sinking fund not
less than S45, 754,00O in cash. This is
equivalent to the principal of the sub
sidy bonds, with interest. The sum of
S4,500.000 cash was on Thursday of last
week deposited with New York trust
company as security for the performance
of the agreement. The legal documents
will be presented to United States Cir
cult Court Judge Sanborn. of st. Louis.
who has jurisdiction in the case.
THE Senate Committee on Finance re.
ported favorsbly the nominations Of
William S. Forman. of Illinois, to he
Commissioner of Internal revenue, and
William Grow McCreary. of st. Louis, to
be Collector of Internal Revenue for the
District of Missouri. Confirmation had
been opposed because both men were &C.
tive in the Sound Money Democratic
campaign.
THE Committee on Foreign Affairs of
the House of Representatives voted
unanimously to report the resolution in
troduced by Representative Smith, of
Michigan, calling on the State depart
ment for information upon the present
status of the treaty by which the United
States and Great Britain are restrained
from building or maintaining war ves-
sells on the great lakes.
The arctic circle gave to Chicago the
most uniformly cold days Sunday and
Monday the city has ever experienced.
The weather bureau has no record Of
winters day in Chicago in the past when
the Thermometer registered nearly 13
degrees below at noon. The variation
in maximum and minimum of cold dur
ing the day did not exceed four degrees
and the record of early Monday morning
shows temperature as low as IS or 20
degrees below at the Auditorium tower.
In the streets and where the wind was
most felt Thermometers registered from
2 to four degrees lower than did those
of the weather bureau. The storm was
brewed in British America last Thurs
day night with intense cold. 1t crossed
the upper Mississippi Valley Friday. and
Friday night was REINFORCED by Sec
ond blast of cold from the same region.
The storm center remained at Medi-
cine Hat Sunday night unbroken, and
with high barometer of 1852, some
thing unprecedented for that region.
The highest velocity of the wind regis.
tered Sunday was thirty-six miles an
hour. The local barometer was 3O.42.
The full force of the wave will not be
broken before Tuesday, and cold weather
with heavy snow during the week is ex-
pected.
THE cold wave extends over nearly all
of the United States east of the Rockies
and west Of Ohio. A "Texas norther"
is raging at Abilene. The thermom.
eter on Monday was only 20 above at
Memphis and the suffering intense. The
wave is expected to reach the eastern
coast by Tuesday night. The northwest
and the central States have not suffered
from such a wave in a decade.
DR.. WALTER WYMAN, surgeon general
of the United States Marine Hospital
service, has been making special study
of the black death Or huhonic DIaoua