The Springfield herald., 1899-06-16

ITeSluellt McNlnleN mas uccepleu tlie
Invitation extended to him by Henry c.
Payne, on behalf of the merchants and
manufacturers of Milwaukee, to visit
that city in October.
The War Department will loan can
non captured from the Spaninrds, one
gun to each state, to be cared for by
monument associations, G. A. II. posts
or corporations, If the states borrowing
them will pay all transportation eX-
penses.
After consultation with the secretary
of the interior, Commissioner Hermann
of the General Land Office has decided
to refuse the request of the wool grow
ers of Utah for modification of his
former order prohibiting the grazing
of sheep on the Uintah reservation in
Utah.
The regulations allowing the volun-
teers to purchase the arms and equip
ments which they carried during the
Spanish war will be continued in the
case of the volunteers returning from
Manila. They may purchase the
Springfield rifles at $40 each and the
revolver and equipments at the same
price, while the other portions of the
outfit are sold mt cost.
The officials here are quite hopeful
that some good may come out of the
Peace Conference at The Hague. The
arbitration proposition submitted by
the United States has met with much
favor, and, although it may not be
adopted in the form it was proposed,
the officials here are confident that the
congress will not adjourn without
adopting some sort of an arbitration
plan.
Diplomatic relations with Spain,
broken off April 2l, 1893. were formal
ly resumed last saturday. when Pres
idcnt Mckinley greeted Due d'Arcos,
the newly accredited minister to the
United States. in the blue parlor of the
White House. simultaneously in Ma
drid, Bellamy Storrer, the new United
Stntes minister to Spain. was being
presented to Christiann, the Queen Re
gent, during the legal minority of his
Catholic majesty. Alpionso NIlI:
If Senator Hanna is chairman of the
next National Republican campaign
committee it will be against his pres
ent intention and desire. Mr.. Hanna
has already Informed his close friends
that he does not care to take charge
of the presidential campaign. His rea-
son, as his friends state it, is entirely
based upon the state of his health.
He is by no means well man, and is
to sail in n few days for Europe in
hope of gaining physical strength.
Mr.. Oxnard of Grand Island, Nebras
ka. who is the chief lobbyist of the
beet sugar interest in Washington, as
serts that nine new sugar mills are
now being erected in the state OF
Michigan alone, with capital that was
formerly interested in lumber, and de
clares that S25.OOO.O0O will be put into
the industry the coming year. While
this rapid development is going on II
is scarcely probable that the Senate
/ will ratify any treaty that encourages
competition.
The conl production and consump
ton of the world the past fifteen years
is presented In tables just prepared by
! the treasury bureau of statistics. These
show that while the United Kingdom
| is still the largest coal producer in the
world the United States is close sec
| ond. If the present rate of gain Is con
| tinued this country will soon becom,
the leading coal producing country o
the world. The coal production of tn,
! United Kingdom in 1897 wis 2O2, 600,
COO: that of the United States 10000.
| UNO CollS, TtTIlliLS- Dl,VDp.DOo tOuS. uHt
! France, 30,O0OGO0 tons.
The contributions to buy Admira
Dewey home in Washington com,
in slowly and in very small amounts
The fund now amounts to about $4,000
and the committee is anxious to rails,
100000. 1t is making appeals through
the press. but somehow the public doe
not respond ms literally as was ey
pected. Several real estate agents her,
have offered large sums of money pro
vided the committee would agree t,
purchase certain pieces of property
but it declines TO engage in real estat,
speculation and hopes that Dewey's re
turn will revive interest in the move
ment.
The secretary of state and Mrs. Ha,
entertained the new Spanish ministe
and Duchess D'Arcos Thursday nigh
at n brilliantly appointed dinner. a
which We're present several of the mos
prominent members Of the diplomats
corps and n few personal friends of tn
host and of the guests of hoEor |
was the first appearance of the min
lister in official society since his an
pointment and "A particular effort wa
made that this initial entertainmen
should be pleasant The decoration
were in green and white, an immens
bed of orchids filling the center of tn
table.
The appointment of Gonzales d
Quesada. who has been the active maj
of the Cuban junta in Washington, n
a representative of the Cubans Mt tn
capital of the United States, is gen
orally approved. His methods an,
statements since he came to Washing
ton at the beginning of the Cuban re
bellion have not always been in stric
accord with the highest ideals of MOI
ality. but he has worked with grea
| zpnl and ahilitN in hnhnlf of Liz fnllou