The leader., 1898-01-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
Personal AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE senate and house sub-commit-
tees on Indian affairs on the 27th con-
sidered the Curtis bill in joint session
and will urge that the bill be passed
this session.
REPREsEN TATIvEs of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, Loco
motive Firemen and other railway
orders are in Washington working
diligently to defeat the nomination of
Judge Paxson for interstate commerce
commissioner.
THE nomination of S. N. d. North, of
Massachusetts,, for census superintend-
ent will be made as soon as legislation
providing for the census has passed
congress.
IT was announced at Washington
that the report of the monetary com
mission will be published in a short
time and it will present comprehen-
sive plan for dealing with the legal
tender notes, the banking system and
existing silver coins. A bill carrying
ont the recommendations of the COM
mission will also be prepared and be
ready for publication in few days
after the report.
A SPECIAL dispatch to London on the
2sth from Shanghai said that the
japanese feet, fully equipped for war,
was awaiting instructions near Goto
island, and that japan would GER
tainly oppose permanent occupation
of Port Arthur, China, by Russia.
MANY members of congress have re-
ceived protests from their constituents
against Commissioner Evans proposal
to publish 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
it's DEGREES.
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. Va1derlip
WORD was received at the office of
George Gould in New York that
Countess Castellane, formerly Anna
Gould, gave birth to a son on the Goth
in France.
SAMUEL GoMPERs, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has re-
piled at Washington in an open letter to
Secretary Cages recent letter taking
exceptions to resolution 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 British admiralty has requisi-
toned three of the fastest steamers
used by the Pacific Railway company
and each has been supplied with for
midable armament in case of emer-
gency. The requisition proves that
| the British government looks upon the
| situation in China as an emergency OF
the gravest character.
CONGRATULATIONS were sent to Will
liam f. Gladstone on the Goth, it being
the SSth birthday of the British states
man, who was -sojourning at Cannes,
France, on account of neuralgia.
THE president has signed the bill
passed by congress ''prohibiting the
killing of fur seals in the waters of the
North Pacific ocean,"
GEN. GOMEZ, the Cuban ms urgent
general, was recently interviewed and
said that for Spain to offer autonomy
to the insurgents was an insult; that
the insurgents were fighting for indie
| pendence and, although they would
| welcome the Intervention of the United
States, they can, if let alone, achieve
their independence unaided.
The next development in the rela-
tions of the United States government
with Spain will be instructions to
Minister Woodford to insist on the pay
ment of the Ruiz claim. The case has
been put in readiness in the state
department and the note relating to it
will go in within few days. The
sum of SIS, 900 was first asked by the
widow of the man who was murdered
in Cuban Jail, but this was scaled
down to $780, by the government.
CONGRESSMAN McCULLoCH, of Arkan-
sas, advocates legislation by congress
to esta blish in st. Louis 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.