The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-14
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
A. c. TANNER, acting commissioner
IF Indian affairs, has recommended
deficiency appropriation of 81, 700 for
the revision of allotments on the Otoe
reservation, Oklahoma. The work is
being done by Helen P. Clarke.
SENATOR MASON will soon prepare
and introduce bill in the senate for
special appropriation for a corn ex-
hibit at the Paris exposition. He
hopes by this means to second the eff
forts of our representatives in Europe
in widening the murkets for this ce-
real. In the fiscal year ended June,
1897, the United States exported 54,-
900. 600 bushels of corn and 1000, 900
barrels of corn meal.
A SPECIAL to the Chicago Tribune
from Washington on the 9th said that
Spain was considering a formal re-
quest to the United States to use its
good offices to stop the fighting in
Cuba, all efforts of Spain to bring the
subordinates of Gomez to surrender on
the basis of home rule having proven
futile. The Cuban republic, it was
said, will insist on formal recognition
before undertaking any negotiations
with the United States. There was a
belief that the public announcement
Of the acceptance of this country as
mediator will result in instant revolu-
ton in Spain.
THE military committee of the house
recently returned to Washington from
a trip to the Vicksburg battlefield and
agreed to favorably report a bill for
making it national military park.
WASHINGTON dispatch said that
Pension Commissioner Evans was re-
ceiving many letters from commanders
Of G.. A. X. posts commencing his
stand to bring about certain reforms
in the pension roll.
The legislative committee of the
American Federation of Labor has is
sued an address to congress asking
laws for an eight-hour work day on
public contracts, to stop the indiscrim-
mate use of writs of injunction, to
lessen the competition of convict labor
and to restrict undesirable immigra-
ton.
COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY
DAWES has appointed John P. Cum
ningham, of Lincoln, Neb., bank ex
aminer of Kansas.
Hazen, of the secret service bureau, to
devote all of his time to the capture of
the maker of the plate and the plate
itself from which the new 500 coun-
terfeit silver certificates were printed.
THE secretary of the interior has is
sued advertisements inviting bids for
the leasing of the grazing lands of the
Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian
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years from April l, and for lands on
the Wichita reservation in Oklahoma
for one year from April l.
A DISPATCH from Washington on the
10th said that it was no longer posi-
BILE to conceal the fact that the contri-
buttons in aid of Cuba were practically
nothing. Secretary Sherman said: II
am sorry to say that up to date it looks
as if the people of the United States
were not, after all, SO very much in
terested in Cuba"
A DISPATCH from Washington on the
10th stated that the board of ordnance
and fortifcation had recommended the
immediate building of government
powder factory as, after the warships
of Uncle Sam had fired away all their
powder, which they would do in a ten
hours battle, there would not be
enough in the country to supply them
for q 30-minute combat, and it would
take year, with the present facilities,
to produce enough for another ten
hour battle.
SENATOR CHANDLER, after a confer
ence with President Mckinley on the
10th on the subject of bimetallism,
said: 1.-THE president stands firmly in
favor of international bimetallism as
promised by the st. Louis platform.
He considers the negotiations with the
European powers only temporarily sus.
pended on account of the peculiar con.
iition of affairs in India and the presi
dents intention is to again send his
ENJOYS to Europe as soon as the condi
tons are favorable for continuing
negotiations"
GENERAL NEWS.
AN engineer on the Mexican Nation
al railroad was shot and killed in hi.
cab for the purpose of robbery and