Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-29
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

IHE cdD1neC meeting on the SUtu
svas very brief. only the president.
Secretary Gage and Attorney General
Griggs being present. The president
suggested that the departments get
their reports ready soon, SO that he
could begin the preparation of his
message.
IT was reported that Secretary Long
will recommend to congress that the
enlisted strength of the navy. now TO-
600, be increased to 10000, in order to
meet the growing needs of the navy.
JOHN SHERMAN, ex-secretary of state,
was i'll at his Washington home on the
Goth. suffering a relapse after an at
tack of bronchitis
The secretary of the treasury on the
Goth received letter signed ga Citi-
zen," Topeka, Kan, containing a draft
for $500, which the sender stated should
be credited to the conscience fund.
The Washington correspondent OF
the New York World said that Score
tary Alger recently verbally rendered
his resignation to the president as
secretary of war if he thought it best
that he should leave the cabinet.
Whether or not the resignation will
be accepted was said to be undeter-
mined. Secretary Alger, when asked
about it, denied the truth of the re-
port.
THE navy department has ordered
400 sailors to be sent to Admiral
Dewey's squadron at Manila. The
men are to take the place of sailors
whose terms of service have expired.
Col. THEODORE ROOSEVELT has COM
municated to the war department his
views on the conduct of the Santiago
campaign. 1t is said to make highly
interesting reading. comprising as it
does all of Col. Roosevelt's observa-
tons from the time the transports left
Tampa up to the day of the rough
riders arrival at Montauk. The report
was written on the suggestion of Sec
rotary Alger himself.
ACTING SECRETARY RYAN, of the in
terror department.; w. J. Little, super
intendent of the Hot Springs reserva-
ton in Arkansas, and the attorney
general, held a conference in Wash
ington and discussed the report of
Will J. Zevely, of Missouri, on the
practices pursued by many of the
quack doctors at the springs, who, it
was charged, victimized many of the
patients. 1t was proposed to appoint
a government commission to investi-
gate the alleged abuses.
SECRETARY GAGE does not feel at
present that he will be justified in
recommending any reduction in the
revenue. He realizes that the customs
and internal revenue receipts under
the old law will not be sufficient to
meet the needs of the government t.
There is, however, likelihood tina
many inequalities and annoyances in
the tax law will be modified or re-
pealed.
THE president has completed the
commission of nine members to inves-
tigate the conduct of the war depart.
ment.
REPRESENTATIVE COCHRAN, of Mis-
souri,, took to the war department. a
large petition asking for the muster
ing out of the Fourth Missouri, now
at Camp Meade. It contained the
names of about 95 per cent. of the
regiment. In addition to the petition
from the men of the regiment, Mr..
Cochran also had petition from 25.-
900 citizens of his district, requesting
the mastering out of the regiment.
The war department has taken the
matter under advisement