The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
GENERAL TOPICS.
Brief Paragraphs of Important
National Affairs.


determined Tuesday TO make IA definIte
effort to organize the Senate Commit.
tees.
A committee Of the Cigarmarkers
international Union has made for.
NAL protest against the tobacco duties
in the Dingley tariff bill.
The arbitration treaty was discussed
in the executive session of the Senate
Mr.. Hoar proposed an amendment
exempting territorial questions from
the operations of the treaty.
Pension Commissioner Evans an.
nounces that he is in favor of the
liberal construction of the pension
laws
1t is thought that the nominations
of General Draper, of Massachusetts,
to be Ambassador to Italy, aud Andrew
| d. White to be Ambassador to Ger.
many, will be sent to the Senate to.
/ day.
Major-General Wesley Merrill will
succeed Major General Thomas II,
/ Ruger as commander of the Depart.
ment of the East.
The story that Mrs. Cleveland had
the Dolly Madison spoons melted over
has been officially denied at the White
House.
There will probably be a great rush
of immigrants to the United States in
advance of the adoption of restrictive
legislation.
Senator Foraker introduced railroad
pooling till in the Senate.
An amendment to the tariff bill will
be adopted to-day providing for the
collection of duties ON all goods i'm.
ported subsequent to April 10.
The Secretary of the Interior has is
sued a requisition on the treasury for
$40, 347 900 for the next months quar-.
terly payment of pensions.
President Chauncy +. Black an.
nounced the executive committee of
the National Association of Democratic
Clubs. The committee will meet inI
Washington on April 18th.
1t is said that formal application for
annexation to the United States will
be made by the government of Hawaii
through its minister at Washington,
The committee on legislation of the
Indianapolis monetary convention
waited on Speaker Reed and talked
with him concerning legislation for
currency and banking reform.
The Postoffice Department announc
ed that offensive partisanship on the
part of postmasters would not be re.
garded as sufficient cause for removal
-Four Democratic members of the
House will vote tor the Dingley tariff
bill, three from Louisiana and Que
from Texas.
No wine, it is understood, will be
served at White House dinners during
the Mckinley administration. Mrs.
Cleveland never offered wine TO her
guests at her luncheons.
Foreign nations have been invited
by President Mckinley to send war.
ships to New York to take part in the
naval pageant at the Grant monument
ceremonies on April 9th.
In sermon at st. Patrick's Church,
Washington, Archbishop Ireland said
that the Pope is progressive and has
adapted the human forms of the church
to new surroundings. Those who re.
sisted his direction in America were
declared to lie in rebellion.
President Mckinley attended din
ner of the Gridirou Club given in honor
of the President and his cabinet
TIE House ON Saturday disposed Of
five pages of the tariff bill A few
amendments reported by the Ways and
Meaus Committee were agreed to.
Secretary OF State Sherman is con.
fined to his room by an attack of rheu.
matism.
The President on Monday sent to the
Senate the nomination of Charlemange
Tower, of Pennsylvania, to be minis.
ter to Austria-Hungary. William s.
Shallenberber, of Pennsylvania, was
nominated TO be Second Assistant Post
master-General; Thomas Ryan, of Kan
sas, to be First Assistant Secretary Of
the Interior, and H. Evans. of Tenn
essee, to be Commissioner of Pensions
A total of 50, 900 letters has been re-
csived at the Postoffice Department
making applications for appointments
1t is asserted that the Ways and
Means Committee will introduce an
amendment to the tariff bill, making
the rates go into effect on April 2nd.
w. A. Pledgar, colored Republican
leader, of Georgia, is an applicant fol
the consul-generalship at Kingston, Ja
maica, aud presented his claims to the
President on Monday.
President Mckinley has determined
to continue horseback riding rs form
of exercise, and on Monday rode out
with General Miles.
Leopold Meyer, of Chicago, has APP
piled for appointment as Ambassador
to Germany.
Representative Spalding, of Miclt
gau, introduced in the House a joint
resolution for the annexation of Hawai-
to the United States.
The open session of the Senate We'd
nesday was productive of another Gu
ban resolution by Mr.. Mills, of Texas,
calling on the Committee on Foreign
Relations for a report on the obligations
assumed by the United States in insist,
ing that Cuba should not be annexed
to any European power and should re.
main subjec to Spain. The Morgan
resolution ealing on the President lOl
Gen. GOmeZ's letters went over Ins
rest of the day was spent in executive
session on the arbitration treaty.
The House passed the Dingley tarlu
bill. The vote on final passage was
ayes 205, nays l22, present and 10!
voting 81, q majority of So. Speaker
Reed directed the clerk to call his name
at the end of the roll-cail, recording
his vote for the bill. An amendment
was adopted fixing Thursday, April !,
as the date on which the bill should =
into effect, against the protests oil lns
Democrats, who contended that II was
retroactive and unconstitutional.
The State Department ANNOUNCES
that no one has been selected to tahs
! General Lees place as Consul-General
at Havana. General Lee may be ~
sisted in the Ruiz investigation by JONI
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