The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-06-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE National Business league sent
out on the Sd a letter from Chicago to
prominent business men in over a hun
6red different cities of the country
asking for their immediate action in
urging the United States senate to dis
pose of the tariff question before June
Is. The object was to get the letters
or memorials signed by the leading
business men of the country sent to
the league headquarters and then have
them presented to the senate as fast as
received.
OVER 1000 applications had been filed
in the state department up to the Sd
for consular positions and the number
of such appointments at the disposal
of the president is in the neigh borhood
of 14O
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.
CAPT. w. D. SMITH, of the Cuban
army, spent considerable time on the
4th with the senate committee on for
eign relations. In brief interview
with a representative of the Associated
press he said that all talk about au-
tonomy and Spanish reforms for Cuba
was so much breath wasted. There
was not a 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 1, on which date Mr.. Bowler eX-
poets to leave with his family for Eu-
rope.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY signed the sun
dry civil bill on the 4th.
THE democratic party will not force
national issues in the various state
campaigns, and, while reputation of
the Chicago platform will not be al
lowed, it will not be brought forward
as an issue paramount to anything
else" That is the statement of Ma
. tional Committeeman Frank Campbell,
of Bath, N. Y.
THE empress of Germany was report
ed as being i'll from the nervous shock
received when a number of angry men
at Berlin threw a petition into the
royal carriage which struck her in the
face.
The queen regent of Spain has con-
firmed Senior Canovas, the premier, in
his ministerial powers and the old cab
met will remain in power with the old
policy unchanged.
THERE was great excitement at vi
emma over the news that Emperor
Francis Joseph had had an apoplectic
tit, caused by nervousness at the recent
riots in the ma tional legislature.
The Endorsements of Maj. T. J. An
derson for the Office of pension agent
at Topeka, Kan, were presented to
President Mckinley on the 5th by Con-
gresham Curtis, of Kansas. The in
dorsements are marvel. 1t was said
that 90 per cent. of the old soldiers of
the state had Endorsed Anderson.
REAR ADMIRAL SAMUEL P. LEE, re-
tired, the last of the commanders of
great squadrons during the civil war,
died at his home near Washington on
the 5th from paralysis.
IT was rumored in San Francisco
that Prof. Dyche, of the Kansas uni
versity, will head polar expedition to
be fitted out on the Pacific coast this
summer
SECRETARY GAGE is preparing finan-
cial measure to be submitted to con-
gress next winter. In pursuance of
this plan he has sent out letters to
leading bankers and merchants invit-
ing suggestions for reforming the cur
rency.