Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-10
THE WORLD AT LARGE
Summary OF the Daily News.
wAsHINGrON NOTES

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 40.
SPEAKER REED, of the lower house
of congress, has received a number of
letters from cranks threatening his
life if he does not allow the house to
take action on the Cuban resolution.
Mr.. WHITELAw REID, who has been
appointed as the presidents special
representative at the queens jubilee,
may go 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 SPECIAL to the Chicago Chronicle
from Washington on the I'd stated that
the republican managers would at
Tempt to pass a currency reform meas
ure as soon as the tariff bill is out of
the way.
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.
IT was said at Washington that the
democratic members of the house ways
and means committee had formulated
an antitrust sugar schedule, which
they would offer at the proper time as
a substitute for all propositions in that
line. 1t was said to give more pfotec-
tion than either the Ding1ey or Aid
rich schedules and at the same time
enable consumers to supply their de-
mands cheaply.
THE judge in the court at Washing
ton on the 1st ordered the jury to bring
in a verdict of acquittal in the case of
John E. Searles, the sugar trust wit
ness, holding that the questions asked
by the senate committee were not with
in the jurisdiction of the committee.
SECRETARY BLISS, of the interior de-
partment, received on the 1st the ap-
plication of Maj. Thomas Anderson, of
Topeka, Kan, for pension agent, to
succeed ex-Gov. Click The applica-
ton was. Endorsed by probably 10. 900
names and the paper that contained
them weighed. close to 80 pounds.
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 a represen tative of the Associated
press he said that all talk about au-
tonony 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 I, 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
: 140 persons were aboard.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY signed the sun
dry civil bill on the 4th.