Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21
CABINET PROBLEM
Maj. Mckinley Looking About for a
Secretary of the Treasury.
THE ARBITRATION TREATY.
international Silver Coin PropoSed-In'
trudors to he Elected from the Chero-
kee Country--Voted 20 Override
VctO-Tho Twelfth Caucus.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-Mr. McKin-
ley has reached the point where he can
go no further in his cabinetmaking
until he has filled the place Of secre-
tary of the treasury. For that he has
under consideration Senator Shelby NJ
Cullom, of Illinois, and Charles Emory
Smith, of Pennsylvania, the editor OF
the Philadelphia Press. The cabinet is
nearly complete. Unless some recast-
ing is made necessary by declinations
or circumstances which cannot be fore
seen five of the eight places are now
practically filltd. These selections are;
Sherman, OF Ohio, for secretary OF
state; Long, of Massachusetts,, for Sec
rotary of the navy; McKenna, of Cali
fornia, for secretary of the interior;
Goff of West Virginia, for attorney
general, and Wilson, of Iowa, for sec
rotary of agriculture. The war and
the post Office selections wait upon the
treasury problem. They are in meas
ure dependent upon that solution. AL
ger is not the certainty that some news
papers have represented. If Cullom is
named for secretary of the treasury
that will end consideration of Payne,
of Wisconsin, for postmaster-general.
There are three cabinet places to be
filed, and how they shall be filed Mr..
Mckinley has not determined in his
own mind. Even if Senator Cullom
goes in as secretary of the treasury,
Charles Emory Smith will be proba-
bility for one of the other places.
General Arbitration Treaty.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-It is learned
at the state department that the only
official advance toward the consumma-
ton of a general arbitration treaty
made by any European nation save
Great Britain was that contained in a
resolution of the French chambers
adopted in 1895, favoring the conclusion
of permanent treaty of arbitration
with the United States. A copy of this
was supplied to the state department
by United States Ambassador Eustis,
and this was gracefully acknowledged
by President Cleveland in his annual
message to congress in the fall Of the
same year. Beyond this no steps were
taken to negotiate n treaty, and the
subject has been allowed to remain in
allegiance, just as the first suggestion
of an arbitration treaty with Great
Britain remained Enacted upon for
more than year The consensus of
opinion among those who have been
watching the matter closely is that no
vote on the treaty will be reached this
session, and if the Mckinley admins
tration wishes to withdraw it and
modify it to suit the senate and then
present it again it can do so. II it is
not withdrawn it will be greatly
amended and modified before the sem
ate will agree to it, even if it agrees to
it at all.
International Silver Coin Proposed.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-The move
ment for common coin, upon which
to do business with countries on sill
yer basis, has taken form. A resolu-
ton has been offered in the house with
this end in view 1t provides that the
president "be authorized and requested
to enter into negotiations with the
governments of China, Japan, the sew
eral republics and colonies of the west
ern hemisphere, the Hawaiian islands
and the Dominion of Canada, with a
view of securing a uniform standard Of
value in trade and commerce.. This is
the idea advocated warmly by the
Arthur administration. 1t is what Mr..
Blaine hoped to see come from the Pam
American congress. 1t is the subject
which prompted the assembling of the
international American monetary con-
ference in 1891. In that conference all
of the American republics were in ia
D0r of common silver coin for trade
pTIrNOses. The United States delegates
asked Gelay. Three of these delegates
were for tbe proposition, Two were
tnOn-commitNs because the Harrison
administration was in doubt about the
practical effect Of the plan at that time.
Cherokee Country EIRctments.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. --- Secretary
,Francis is preparing an order for the
ELECTION from the Cherokee country of
all intruders who have not complied
GVSAh the provisions of the law
passed by the last congress in regard
10 thaFH This law required that they
should appear before the Dawes com
mission within 90 days and give salts
factory proof of their citizenship. If
ithe decision of the commission was
against them they were allowed so
days in which to take an appeal. This
time has now expired, and all of those
persons who have been declared not
entitled to citizenship will be ordered
to vaeate the Cherokee country before
February 10. Secretagy Francis de-
sires that they should have dHe notice,
SO that they will not commit tbs t9lly
of planting crops under the impression
that they are not to be disturbed of
their occupancy.
Voted to Override Veto.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-The house
committee on Judiciary yesterday voted
to recommend the passage of the bill
over the veto of the president making
a new division of the Eastern judicial
district of Texas, which WAS recently
returned without the presidents APP
prevail
The Twelfth Census.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-A bill provid-
;,c, foy folyinnr Aba 10Th oanSus Of tho