The Red Cloud chief., 1898-02-18

been passed by the senate.
senator Murphy declines 20 discuss
the action taken by the New York leg
i%slaturc cenSuring him for his vote on
the Teller financial resolution.
Senator Thurston has secured the
passage in the senate of the bill pro-
viding for rebates to settlers upon the
Otoc and Missouri Indian lands.
Ambassador to Turkey Angel has
written to Regent Butterworth of the
university of Michigan stating that he
would resign, and return home in time
to assume his duties as president of
the university.
Orders have been sent to Captain
Sampson. in command of the North
Atlantic squadron off Key West. To
send the torpedo boat Cushing To IIa-
vana with stores for the use of the
Maine. IL will leave in Il day or two
and will return rs soon rs the stores
are delivered.
senator Allen secured the insertion
of the Indian appropriation bill of an
item providing for the removal o!
headquarters of the Omaha and Win
ncbago Indian reservation to some
point nearer the railroad. such now To-
cation to be selected by the secretary
of the interior.
The error In sending in the name Of
j. w. johnson As register in the land
office ut Lincoln. by which his name
was made out H. John" instead e
Joseph. has been corrected by the
president by the sending in of another
nomination. The old one will he with
drawn, and Joseph w. johnson will hG
substituted in its place.
At the close of his three days speech
in opposition to Hawaiian annexation
senator Pcttigrcw was cordially con-
graduated by many of the senators.
including some of the opposition. upon
the t~horoughncsS with which he had
gone into the subject and the ability
with which tc had presented the OPP
position TO annexation.
The p~ostotficc department has mott.
fled Representative Mercer That the
new postotlicc building at Omaha can
be formally taken possession of by the
p~oStotficc authorities by the 18th of
the present month. There have beer
many delays and poStponcncnts in the
contemplated removal of the old Office
into the new. hut al arrangements
can now he made for this date.
Gen. William Booth of London
founder of the Salvation army. otficiat.
ed as chaplain at the opening of the
Scnatc's Thursday session. Mr.. and
Mrs. Booth-Tucker. the son-in-law and
daughter of General Booth. were in the
gallery during the prayer. Previous
to the meeting of the senate the entire
party held Il brief reception in the
vice presidents room.
Pension Commissioner Evans has re-
ceivcd SS19 from "A pcnsioncr in San
Antonio. Tex. The pCnsioncr believed
he had not properly received it and
hence returned il to the government.
Commissioner Evans as%certaincd that
the pensioncr was honestly entitled to
the ~money-Sl2 per month for deaf
ness-und directed the entire amount
returned.
The secretary of the interior. having
been advised that the purchase money
for the Union Pacific railroad has been
paid in full, has directed the commits
sioner of the general land office to sub
nit for action all lists Of lands select
ed by the company for lands under the
main line grant opposite the road from
Omaha for this company heretofore
confined to such as had been actually
sold To settlers by the company.
Extensive preparations are being
made in Washington for the convcninR
of u pure food congress. The object
of this gathering will be to bring
pressure to bear for the passage of an
anti.adultcration law to supplement
laws passed by the various states to
protect citizens from frauds in the
passing of upon them of articles OF
food either ~unwholc>Omc or under
names other than those which they
should bear. The movement is in the
line of the bill introduced by the late
Senator Paddock of Nebraska and To
which he devoted three years of his
time in Washington. He succeeded in
securing its passage in the senate, but
il was defeated in the house through
the efforts of q powerful lobby.
The state department gave out for
publication the substance of the cable
gram sent to General w oodford. our
minister To Madrid, in reference to
the de LONE letter. The statement IN
as follows: There has appeared in
the public prints a letter addressed by
the Spanish minister to Mr.. Canalejas.
This letter the minister admits was
written by hlin. III contains express
sions concerning the president of the
United States of such II character as to
end the minister's usefulness as a rep
rescntativc of his government in this
country. General Woodford therefore
was instructed at once to say to the
minister of state that the immediate
recall of Mr.. Dupuy de LONE is ex'
pected by the president"
Representative James Hamilton
Lewis, of the state of Washington,
has rome to Ottawa, Canada. to en-
deavor To induce the Canadian author
tiles to send into the Klondikc mining
region an Official authorized TO issue
miners licenses. At present it is nee
essary for American miners who desire
to work in Canadian territory to go To
Victoria. u c., to obtain their licenses.
Many of them fit at that point and
proceed to their destination on Cana
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