The leader., 1897-02-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mall.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

The ESemi-centennial of the New York
Academy of Medicine was celebrated
on the Goth, President Cleveland max
ing the principal address.
1T was said to be understood among
Massachusetts republicans in congress:
that John ID. Long, of the old Bay
cepted the office of secretary of the
navy in the incoming administration.
A CHICAGO News Washington specia
on the 1st said that a special session OF
the senate to meet March or 5, imme
diately on the Inauguration of the new
president, was now on the cards, but
the house, it was believed, would not
meet until March Is.
THE position of commissioner of pen
sions will be rendered to Gen. DanieI
E. Sickles, according to information
from Canton to a member of congress.
THE tariff bill is expected to pass the
house and reach the senate by April Is.
A New York World special from
Washington on the I'd said that James
5. Eckels, comptroller of the currency.
had decided to retain his office until
his term of five years was up in April,
1898.
1T can be definitely stated that j.
Addison Porter, of the Hartford Conn.
Evening Post, will be private secretary
to President Mckinley. A private tel
egram from Mr.. Porter to a friend in
New York stated that he had accepted.
WASHINGTON gossip on the Sd said
that ex-Congressman Bellamy Storer,
of Cincinnati, would be appointed first
assistant secretary of state under the
Mckinley administration.
JUDGE JOSEPH MCkENNA, of San
Francisco, has been selected secretary
of the interior, SO President-elect Nc
kinley told a delegation of Missouri
ans who went to Canton, O., on the 2d
to urge Maj. William Warner, of Kan.
sas City, Mo-, for the place.
A WASHINGTON dispatch on the 4th
said the understanding among senators
was that the general arbitration treaty
would not come to a vote at this ses
sion of congress. No one doubts that
it will be debated, but the opposition
makes no secret of its intention to con.
sumo so much time in discussion that
| a vote cannot be reached.
THE Connecticut Legislature voted
down a resolution calling upon con
gress to recognize the independence OF
| the Cuban republic.
REV. Dir. john A. BROOKS, well.
known divine of the Christian church
and prohibitionist candidate for the
vice presidency in 1888, died at Mem
phis, Tenn, on the Sd of heart failure
superinduced by paralysis.
SECRETARY CoBURN, of the state board
Of agriculture of Kansas. Washing
ton dispatch of the 4th said, is to be
assistant secretary of agriculture. The
place will be formally rendered him
very soon.
JUDGE X. w. LAMoREAUX, of Wiscon-
sin, commissioner of the general land
office, stated that he will, on March 4.
send in his resignat ion to President
Mckinley. He has already sent his
family all his personal effects to his
home in Wisconsin, and he expects to
follow them about March 10.
SECRETARY OLNEY has received from
President Eliot, of Harvard university,
an invitation to fill the chair of inter
national law at the institution after
the expiration of his term of office in
the state department and the secretary
has taken the offer under considera-
ton.
The senatorial deadlock in Oregon
was unbroken on the 5th and as each
contestant stood firm it seemed prob
able that Oregon will have but one SEN
ator for the next two years.