The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-12-31
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
AN agreement has been reached be-
tween the leaders of the senate and
house at Washington which practical
ly secures the passage of the Hawley
bill to increase the army by two regi-
ments of artillery.
IMMEDIATELY after the holidays dele
cations in congress from several states
will get together for the purpose of or
ganizing, if possible, for the passage
Of an omnibus public building bill.
There is an urgent demand for public
buildings in many cities and towns and
bills for their construction are now
pending to the amount of no less than
$50, 100000
A PENSION has been granted to the
widow of Knud Knudsen, a soldier
who was killed in the late war, by the
Washington authorities, the back pay
Of which aggregates over $4,000. The
woman has never left Norway.
PRES IDENT MCKINLEY has decided to
appoint Owen L. w. Smith, of North
Carolina, as United States minister to
Liberia, Africa. Mr.. Smith is a negro
lawyer and Methodist preacher.
BY direction of the president Secre-
tary of State Sherman has issued an
appeal to the people of the United
States for aid to relieve the suffering
people of Cuba. All money, provi-
sions, clothing. medicines and like arti-
cles of prime necessity can be for
warded to Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, our con-
sui general at Havana, and they will
be admitted duty free. Gen. Lee will
cooperate with local authorities for
the proper distribution of such relief.
THE gold reserve in the treasury at
Washington was $16O, 1867, 463 on the
a5th. This was the highest point
reached since September, 1890.
AN agent of the interior department
has been investigating the reported in
vasion of the Wichita country in the
Indian territory and says there are no
people camped or gathering along the
line at certain points and the whole
scheme is to get dupes to pay $3.50 for
a certificate of membership in a myth
ical colonization company.
ACCORDING to a Washington CORE
spondent of the New York Herald,
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, of the
committee on foreign relations, said
that it would be impossible for the
United States to remain complacent.
should European nations undertake
the dismemberment of China.
A NEW order, the enforcement of
which it is believed will expedite the
disposition of pension claims now
pending, has been issued by Commits
sioner Evans, of the pension office, as
follows: thereafter claims for in
crease of pension will not be considered
within IL months from the last action
allowance or rejection"
The senate and house sub-commit-
tees on Indian affairs on the 27th con-
sidered the Curtis bill in joint session
and will urge that the bill be passed
this session.
THE nomination of S. N. D. North, of
Massachusetts. for census superintend-
emit will be made as soon as legislation
providing for the census has passed
congress.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, Locomotive
Firemen and other railway orders are
in Washington working diligently to
defeat the nomination of Judge Paxson
for interstate commerce commissioner.
IT was announced at Washington
that the report of the monetary COM
mission will be published in short
time and it will present a comprehen-
sive plan for dealing with the legal
tender notes, the banking system and
existing silver coins. A bill carrying
out the recommendations of the COM
mission will also be prepared and be
ready for publication in a few days
after the report.
. GENERAL NEWS.