The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1899-01-05
CHIT OF THE CORRIDORS.

| LII. Won IlOiicDcn, Tie GERMAN AmDd SIS a
dor, has lost no time in calling upon the
officials at the State Department, in con-
formity with instructions relative to re-
ciprocal tariff arrangements. He has also
talked with Mr. Kasson, the special pleni-
potentiary in charge of the reciprocity and
trade arrangements. The officials decline
| to discuss the Ambassadors visit but it
is known that he brought assurances at
variance with some of the newspaper
statements touching the relations of the
German Government toward the United
| States. The reciprocity negotiations with
| Germany came to halt some months
ago, and the reported instructions are
probably in the line of renewing these
negotia tons.
| Mrs. May Wright Sewall of indianapolis,
! President of the National Council OF
Women, has been in washington making
| arrangements for the third triennal meet
| ing of the Council, to be held in February.
The session will last fortnight. Mrs.
Sewall said: The work of the Council is
well mapped out in it's standing commit
tees, and we have just added two new
committees-on domestic relations under
the law and on the care of dependent
and defective children The former com
mittee will codify all existing State laws
relating to marriage, divorce and the do
| nestle relations generally, and try,
through the National Council, to have
some general and adequate legislation on
the subject" ~ q
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establish the values Of current money in
Cuba. According to the Spanish system
gold coins of that country have been re-
ceived generally only at considerable
premium. In some instances the intrinsic
value Of some Of the Spanish coins have
been disregardeh and fictitious value
substituted. These Irregularities will be
done away with and a just value based
upon mint valuations will be substituted.
| The customs and other dues in Cuba will
| be received in American money, or at it's
proper equivalent in Spanish money.
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| The American Federation of Labor has
opened war on Claude NJ Johnson, the Di-
rector of the Bureau of Pr nting and En-
| craving. He was put in by President
d.
Meredith, veteran who served in Presi-
dent Harrison's regiment, to make place
for him. The Federation of Labor. by a
series of resolutions adopted at Kansas
City, declares Mr.. johnson an enemy to
organized labor, and charges that, in
violation of the law, he has put in steam
presses to print notes and bonds, instead
OF having this wori. done on hand presses.
The result is inferior work, and less Sc
curity against counterfeit ing. Mr.. John
son denies all the allegations. He claims
TO be friendly to organized labor, and saws
that the only new steam presses which
have been put in have been employed
printing postage and internal revenue
stamps.
In spite OF his radical Republicanism
Mai. Mckinley always had a large number
Of warm personal friends among the South
ern members when he was in Congress.
and they have kept up their friendship.
Southern Representatives, are much more
| frequent callers at the White House than
they We're during Cleveland's Administra-
| ton. Among these is even the redoubtable
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina. who
is very often seen at the Executive Man
| sion, and his terrible pitchfork seems to
have been forgotten. Last week the Presi-
dent took leave Of two of his old friends.
who retire from Congress after long serv-
ice to become Governors of their respec-
tive States-Wm. A. Stone, of Pennsyl-
vania, and JOS. d. Savers, of Texas. Each
| received an equal measure of the Presi-
dents heartiest wishes for success in his
new duties.
The revenue receipts of the Government
for the last half of 1898 were the largest of
any similar period since 1865. They were