The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-03-25
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
AT both war and navy departments
news censorship is taking on war time
rigor. No employe is allowed to dis
cuss even routine orders. and Chief
Crowninshield. of the bureau of navi-
order denying all newspaper corre-
spOndents entrance to state, war ana
navy departments.
NEWS has been received that the sec
rotary of the interior has decided the
contest case of Henry Linn in favor
of the TOWNSHIP settlers of Perry. Linn
had filed on the land, which was adj
jacent to Perry. Ok, as homestead
property. Settlers overfiowed on to the
100 acres and built what is now the
most substantial part of the town.
Linn sought to enforce his homestead
rights.
SENATOR THURsTON arrived in Wash
ington on the 18th with the body of
Mrs. Thurston, who recently died in
Cuba. The body will be forwarded to
Omaha, Neb., where interment will
take place.
A POLL of congress was made the
other day on the question:: Are you
in favor of ad journment before the re-
port of the Maine disaster is received
and before a settlement of the Cuban
question is made?" with the following
result: Nays, house and senate, 2O7;
yeas, house and senate. s.; non-commit.
tai, house and senate, SO.
AN air of suspense pervaded the navy
department at Washington on the
18th, due to the approach of the time
for the report on the Maine disaster.
A cabinet officer expressed the belief
that the report would require careful
consideration by the president and his
cabinet before being made public.
AT the cabinet meeting at Washing
ton on the 18th almost the entire ses-
sion was consumed in the discussion
of the Cuban situation, but no plan of
action was definitely decided on pend
ing the arrival of the report of the
Maine investigation.
The post office department, a New
York dispatch of the 18th stated.
claims that postal cards having print
ed matter on the backs of blank forms
for orders, and on the face the address
and business of the firm, constitute
an advertisement and is a violation of
law.
JERRY SIMPSON, the populist congress
man from Kansas, gave out a statement
at Washington on the 10th that he did
not believe that there would be war
between this country and Spain, be-
cause of the influence of the bondhold-
ing class against it, and that no matter
what government was set up in Cuba it
will be one that guarantees the pay
ment of Spanish bonds issued and
based upon Cuban revenues
A DISPATCH from Key West. Fla, on
the Goth stated that the court of in
guiry into the Maine disaster was not
then ready to make a report. but the
notion prevailed that synopsis of the
findings of the court had been sent to
Washington.
IT was stated that the war depart
ment proposed to put Gen. Wesley
Merritt in the field to take charge of
the Cuban expedition in the event of
hostilities with Spain and to place the
western division of the national guard
as Gen. Merritt's reserves, holding the
eastern division for coast defenses.
MRS. IDA b. WELLS BARNETT pre-
sented to President Mckinley on the
21st a set of resolutions adopted at a
mass meeting in Chicago, denouncing
the recent murder of colored post
master in South Carolina. The presi-
dent informed Mrs. Barnett that the
authorities were doing all in their
power to ferret out and punish the
members of the mob who committed
the crime.
The National Business Mems league
has petitioned the United States sem
ate for tariff commission. The peti.
ton was Endorsed by the principal
business houses in st. Louis, Kansas
City, Boston and elsewhere.
GENERAL NEWS
JAMES MCSToCKARD shot and prob
ably fatally wounded his wife's sister,
Mrs. Turnkey, at Geneva, O., because
she harbored his wife, who had fed to
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