The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-12-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph ard Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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THE nomination of Charles @. Dawes.
Of Illinois, to be comptroller of the
currency, was confirmed by the senate
CARL ScHURz was reelected presi-
dent of the National Civil Service Re
form league at the meeting at Cincin-
natl on the 18th. A resolution was
passed scoring the attempts of con-
gressmen to repeal the civil service
laws.
DELEGATE CALLAHAN will make an
effort this winter To convince congress
that Oklahoma is deserving of state
| hood.
THE A. Il. OF l.. convention at Nash
Vile, Tenn, on the nth adopted reso-
lutions for the government ownership
of telegraph lines, against antiscalp-
ing legislation, for the appointment
of factory inspectors and for an amend
ment to the constitution depriving
courts of the power TO set aside laws
made by the people. The proposition
To create national department of
labor was indcrsed and the fedora
tions stand against the principle of
compulsory arbitration was reiterated.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has informed
| Chief Sargent, of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, that he will ac-
cord hearing to labor leaders before
n new member is selected to succeed
Col. Morrison on the interstate com
merco commission.
THE nomination of Attorney General
Mckenna to succeed Justice Field on
the supreme bench will not be acted
upon by the senate until after the
Christmas holidays.
Gov. JoNEs has commissioned Miss
Emma Wilmington, of Hot Springs, as
an honorary colonel in the Arkansas
reserve militia. This Is the first APP
pointment of the kind ever made in
the state.
SENATOR CHANDLER, of New Hamp-
shire, has published a letter in which
he deprecates any action on the cur
rency question and advises congress To-
await the progress of international
bime tallism. lie thinks it will be
political suicide for the republican
party to do anything on the subject at
present
THE commissioner OF pensions ap-
peDred before the senate committee on
civil service, which is conducting an
investigation into the operations of
the civil service system, and gave testi-
mony adverse to the system. lie
thought some reform would have to be
enacted or the country would have the
intiction of civil service list.
THE house committee on currency
will have something more to consider
besides the financial scheme of Secre-
tary Gage, every member having plan,
which will be perfected during the
holidays, and all phases OF the cur
rency problem being treated.
JOSIAH M. QUINCY, democrat was re-
elected mayor of Boston on the 2lst.
THE civil service law was considered
at the cabinet meeting on the 2ist and,
while no definite policy was outlined,
it was determined to maintain the
principle of the law.
DELEGATES of the Cherokee and
Creek Indians at Washington held a
conference on the 2lst and decided on
a course of action on January 1, when
the tribal courts are to be abolished.
They will instruct the tribal courts to
sit as usual and II they are stopped by
the United States authorities the case
will be carried to the supreme court
for decision as to the constitute tional-
:ty of the law.
The president has determined to
carry out his original purpose of nomi-
mating Charles p. Bryan, of Illinois, to
be minister TO China. The nomina-
tion will be sent to the senate after
the holidays.
Miss LIDA HERBERT, the daughter of
ex-Secretary Herbert, committed sui
eide at Washington by jumping from
window. She was respondent because
she had met with an accident by fall
ing from her horse which promised to
cripple her for life.
GEN. A. b. CAMPBELL, ex-adjutant
general aud ex-chaplain of the states
prison of Kansas, committed suicide in
a hotel at Chicago by taking morphine.