The Red Cloud chief., 1898-02-11
CONGRESSIONAL CHAT
WEEKS DOINCS OF NATION-
AL


Noted Briefly.
In nsfour-hour speech Monday. SEN
ntor Teller talked for Hawaiian an
neXation.
G.. A. Atkinson of Lincoln has Sc
cured a $4,000 position in the depart
mcnt Of justice.
The house committee on labor has
reported favorably the bill for n ON
mission to inquire into the conditions
of labor, agriculture. etc.
The attention of the senate this
week will be devidcd between the
Hawaiian annexation treaty appropai-
alton bills and the right of Hon. II.
w. Corbctt to a seat in the senate
from Oregon.
Mrs. Lane, the daughter Of ex-Sen-
ator blackburn of Kentucky, who was
accidentally shot some time ago. is
much worse. She recently suffered u
setback. from which she barely raj
lied. She takes practically no nourish-
ment, and it is feared never will re-
cover
The populists in congress have com
bl'l'' III vi I y
alive Bell of Colorado as chairman of
the joint caucus, Representative Shu-
ford of North Carolina as secretary
and Senator Harris of Kansas rs chair
nan of the congressional committee.
. The president has formerly rendered
to w. j. Calhoun of Danville. H., the
position of interstate COM
mission made vacant by the expira-
ton of the term of Judge Morrison,
and Mr.. Calhoun has notified the pes
idcnt of his willingness to accept.
The house committee on public lands
has submitted "A favorable report on the
bill known as the free homes bill.
which opens to free homestead settle
mcnt lands acquired from the Indians.
An amendment is made committing mill
tary reservations from the operations
Of the bill.
Mrs. Frederic Emory, chief of the
bureau of foreign depart
ment of state, has been temporarily
designated as director of the bureau
of American republics and took charge
of the bureau recently. She will hold
the position until IA successor to the
late director Joseph =. Smith is named.
The United States supreme court
has adjourned until February 81. The
anxiously awaited decision upon the
Nebraska maximum freight rate case
was not handed down before the recess
was taken. If il is not given out at
the next meeting of the court, the
chances are decidedly in favor of an
even division of the court and that an
other hearing will be called for.
Senior Mcron, the Argentine minis
ter, and Mr.. Hoshi. the minister from
Japan. the other day in Washington
signed n treaty of amity commerce and
navigation in behalf of their respective
governments. The signing of the treaty
is significant, inasmuch as it probably
will result in the establishment of
diplomatic relations through ministers
to each country.
Judge Strobe visited the interior de-
partment and made a request that the
government cause a resurvey to be
made of a strip Of land in Frontier
county, Nebraska, said to be ninety
one rods wide and six miles long either
because it was never properly sur
veyed or IL so the rnc had been
lost. Judge Strobe was promised that
an investigation would be made to Us.
certain the facts in the case.
The most elaborate entertainment OF
the present official season marked the
welcome of President Dole of Hawaii
at the White house Tuesday evening,
The decorations were extremely beau
tiful and in the most perfect artistic
taste. In the east the president
and Mrs. Mckinley, the vice prcsiden,
and Mrs. Hobart. the guest of honor
President and Mrs. Dole. and the mem
beers of the cabinet, received the Other
guests for n short time before repair
ing to the table.
Ambassador White of Berlin, by ca
bic To the state department. has con
tirmed the press reports of the modifi
cation of the decree of the German
government relative to the importa
ton into Germany of American fresh
fruits. 1t is said that there is nov
nothing to do OF M part but to watcl
, the workings of the decree as a mean
of testing the spirit in which it wa.
conceived; whether it was framed will
the single purpose of keeping on
diseased fruit or whether it was not
mere prcteXt to prevent the competi
! ton Of our fruit with that of German
production.
> The monthly statement of the pub
!. lie debt, issued February /, shows tina
I the debt, less cash in the treasury, n
: the close of business January 81
amounted to 81, OH ,7Oi .33s. an incrcas
: for the month of Sl2.5s0,77l. This in
t crease is accounted fu by the decreas
in the amount of cash on hand. Tn
debt is recapitulated ms follows: In
:, terest bearing debt, Ss47, 3G5, $40; deb
on which interest has ceased since mi
turity, 81, 32s $40, debt bearing no In
terest, 1886, S7s,774. Total, 81. a35,573
y l2+. This amount, however, does nc
u include 1851 ,2l3, o33 in certificates an
treasury notes outstanding, which ar
!. offset by IN equal amount of cash /
the treasury. The treasury cash
"a classified as follows: Gold $500, SCI So
silver, S5l0,5l5, 100; paper, 500, 452, O9'
bonds, deposits in national banks. dii
bursting officers balances, etc. Sal 1913
a 1870; total. ss53, los, 0os, against whic
le there are demand liabilities outstant