The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-02-03
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The president has BOnina ted John
". Grigzs. the present governor Of
Sew JERSEY. TO be attorney general
Gov. BAKSEs went 70 Washington
the other dsT 10 help secure the pas
sage of the free homes bill. giving Ok
labona settlers their claims under the
old homestead isw without requiring
the payment of from 81 20 20. which
would mean . ssving Of SIS. O0o. 90 to
the settlers Of the territory.
z Z PKEsToS. director Of the mint
has resigned and George Z Robinson.
iof Fort Dodge. Ia. has been nomi.
mated 70 succeed him.
CoxsIDEEABLE comment was created
in Washington on the 2sth. principally
because Of its probable effect on the
hnt-headed SpzniardS by the an
noUneemeBt that the United States
waTship Maine had been ordered TO
Havana IL was said az the navy de-
pzriment tha; the movement was in
the line Of = resumption Of free inter
course of United States naval vessels
In CBban waters such as prevailed
prior to their withdrawal on account
of the outbreak Of hosiilities
The president has nominated Charles
/ II. Duell. of New York, to be commis-
sioner Of patents
Four hundred delegates were pres
snt at the opening of the monetary
convention at Indianapolis, Ind, on
the 25th- Gov. shaw. of Iowa, was
elected president and spoke for more
than an hour on the gold standard and
tha ratfrarnars 90 stc nf,..tru .r-,s.
ing for an elastic currency based on
commercial assets
Ex-CoSsREssNAy LoUIs Z MCCoNAs,
the republican caucus nominee, was
elected United States senator by the
Maryland legislature on the 25th TO
succeed A y. German, who will retire
March 8. 1879.
LEADERS say that Iowa Is to be the
battle ground OF the national woman
suffrage movement A resolution is
already before the legislature submit
ting TO the people an amendment to
the constitution striking out the word
''male" from the voters qualifications
IL the cause can win in Iowa, the suf-
fragists believe that half the battle
for the greater and national woman
rights will have been won.
JosEPH McKEssA took his seat on
the bench of the supreme court of the
United States on the goth as an asso-
ciate justice. The official ceremony
inducting him into office consumed
less than four minutes and was very
simple.
| A STATEMENT Is being prepared for
congress at the state department In
which the necessity for an appropria-
tion of 81. 600. 900 for a proper repre-
sentation of the United States at the
Paris exposition in 1900 will be urged.
CHARLES 5. FAiBcHII.D. ex-secretary
of the treasury, addressed the national
monetary convention at Indianapolis,
Ind. on the Goth. Afterwards the res
olutions were discussed in hye-minute
speeches and after two hours of favor
able debate were unanimously adopted
and the convention adjourned subject
TO the call of the executive committee.
IL was decided that the committee
should carry on an active educational
campaign.
SECRETARY OF WAR ALGER was re-
ported as being dangerously sick at
Washington on the 10Th. He had
typhoid fever and the conditions were
alarming.
In a recent letter TO the state depart.
ment at Washington Consul General
Lee expressed his conviction in an un-
reserved manner of the hopelessness oi
the Spanish cause in Cuba and showed
that peace and good government can
only be restored in the island by some
outside power.
STATEHOOD legislation at this session
has been killed by the house commit
tee on territories rejecting the Ari.
zona, New Mexico and Oklahoma bills
by a vote OF eight 10 three.
THE senate committee on pensions
recently adopted a set OF rules to gov
ern its consideration of pension mat.
ters which are of great interest to peo-
Pile concerned In pensions
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY made an ad-
dress at the annual banquet of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers at
New York on the 27th. The principal
feature of his speech was about the
money question. He said the financial
plank of the ST. Louis platform was of
as binding force upon the republicans
to-day as IL was when IL was adopted
and that all our silver and paper cur.
rency must be maintained at part!
with gold.