Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-01-06
THE WORLD AT LARGE
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE senate and house sub-commit.
tees on Indian affairs on the 9th con
sidered the Curtis bill in joint session
and will urge that the bill be passed
this session.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, Locomotive
Firemen and other railway orders are
in Washington working diligently to
defeat the nomination Of Judge PaXson
for interstate commerce commissioner.
SECRETARY WILSON, of the depart.
ment of agriculture, will try to get
from congress enough money to estab'
lish inspection by microscopists on an
elaborate scale of all butter, fruits and
other farm products going abroad.
The report said to have been started
by ex-Secretary Vanderlip that Secre-
tary Gage had rendered his resigna'
ton to President Mckinley in conse-
quence of his Cages financial views
has been denied by Mr. Vanderlip.
MANY members of congress have re-
ceived protests from their constituents
against Commissioner Evans proposal
to publish "a list of pensioners.
AT this session of congress a strong
effort will be made to amend the in
terstate commerce law and give the
commissioners more power to enforce
its decree.
SAMUEL GoMPERs, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has re-
piled at Washington in an open letter
to Secretary Cages recent letter TAX
ing exceptions to resolutions passed
by the federation with reference to the
Gage financial bill. Mr.. Gompers
scores the secretary's currency scheme
and says it would mean financial rule
by the banks.
THE president has signed the bill
passed by congress prohibiting the
killing of fur seals in the waters of the
North Pacific ocean"
THE crop bulletins of the department
of agriculture next spring will be CEN
tered more largely upon the collection
and discrimination of exact facts re-
garding crop areas than in guesses on
conditions, thereby reversing the prac-
tice which has prevailed for many
years. The reports will have a less
disturbing influence upon the specula-
tive markets and will be of more real
value to the trade and to producers.
A DISPATCH received at the interior
department on the 8Oth announced
that the government of the Seminole
nation of Indians had ratified the
agreement recently entered into be-
tween the Dawes Indian commission
and n similar body representing the
Seminoles. The agreement must now
be ratified by congress to become eff
fective.
The commissioner of pensions has
been giving some attention to prop
osition whereby the services of pension
attorneys engaged in the prosecution
of claims before the Office may be dis
pensed with and their work done by
government officials, He thinks it
would be a great saving to both PEN
sioners and government,
SECRETARY LONG has submitted to
the house naval committee a draft of a
bill to secure the attendance and testi-
mony of civilian witnesses before ma
val courts-martial without giving the
naval courts undue authority.
The next development in the rela-
tions of the United States government
with Spain will be instructions to Min
lister Woodford to insist on the pay
ment of the Ruiz claim. The case has
been put in readiness in the state de-
partment and the note relating to it
will go in within few days. The
sum of $4,000 was first asked by the
widow of the man who was murdered
in Cuban Jail, but this was scaled
down to $4,000 by the government
CONGRESSMAN MCCULLoCH, of Arkan-
sas, advocates legislation by congress
to establish in st. Louis q depository of
all the surplus gold and silver in the
United States treasury. He thinks it
possible, although improbable, that
New York and Washington might be
captured by combination of European
powers, but that all the land forces of
the United States could be modified
at st. Louis before an invading force
could reach there and the wealth of
the government would thus not be in
so much danger.