Debates and decrees in a changing year 19th century roll
A patchwork of items covers debt reductions, metal prices in tin London, and U S policy. It notes a debt drop of 1.3 million, tin price dips to 525 per ton, and a signed law altering treaties with Montana tribes. It cites Illinois pardons for Chicago anarchists and church state clashes, licensing shifts in Pi s burgh, and a potential land price rebate under Cullom. Also wool markets, editorials, and a Senate move to curb misrepresentation under the Interstate Commerce Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cullom
Senate
Brown
Hoosier Democratic tangle prompts old lineup jibe
Senator McDonald of Indiana criticizes Governor Gray in a remark likening him to a horse leech and Oliver Twist, urging a harmony mission to resolve the Democratic rift in Hoosierdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDonald
Indiana
Gray
Oliver Twist
House Debates Tariff Tinkering Bill Introduced by Mills
The House discusses a tariff tinkering bill by the gentleman from Texas Mr Mills with many speeches heard. No vote time is set, and the Solid South is expected to support the measure while a split North may kill it after the enact ing clause. If approved by the House the Senate will likely defeat it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Mills
Senate
Bill To Pensions For Surviving Veterans Proposed
The House considers a bill empowering the Interior Secretary to add to pension rolls surviving veterans who served at least ninety days in the late war. Pensions would be $1 per month for each day of service. The measure also funds 1,500 additional clerks in the pension bureau and Adjutant General offices to update the rolls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Interior
Pension Bureau
Adjutant General
General Conference Opens in New York Methodist Meeting
The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church meets at the Metropolitan Opera House with bishops and delegates from all states and foreign countries. Enrollment includes 288 ministerial and 175 lay delegates, and the address notes membership rising from 1,750,534 to 2,093,435 amid calls for potential south north unification and broader consolidation. Contested delegates from Montana attract particular interest, including a dispute over John E. Richards of Butte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church
New York
North
Metropolitan Opera House
Rowan
Union
Montana
Riggin
Shannon
John E. Richards
Butte
Fuller's Nomination as Chief Justice Shocks and Satisfies
President Cleveland nominates Mellville Wenton Fuller of Chicago for Chief Justice. The Senate is expected to confirm. Fuller, born February 13 1833 in Augusta Maine, is an eminent constitutional lawyer long active in Democratic politics and known for facing top jurists in the Supreme Court and National Conventions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Mason and Dixon
Senate
Mellville Wenton Fuller
Chicago
United States
Judge Fuller
Augusta
Maine
Bowden College
England
Phelps
Bangor
Hartvard
Supreme Court of the United States
Fuller
Edmunds
Thurman
Supreme Court
Wool market stays quiet with buyers cautious
Bradstreet reports wool markets quiet to last Saturday with prices at least 1 cent per pound lower than two weeks earlier. Buyers delay purchases due to tariff uncertainty and need, while dealers await spring clip at lowest rates. new clip quality described as excellent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradstreet
Sexas
Treasury report on 191? entertainment fund for medical congress
The Secretary of the Treasury transmitted itemized accounts of expenditures from the $10,000 appropriation to entertain delegates to the International Medical Congress held last September. It shows $1,120 unexpended and no money spent on liquor, despite prior claims that $6,000 would go to that purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
International Medical Congress
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Congress
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Col. J. Be-goods
the Methodist Council
Esse
Lvet
Iirealeks
Nottingham
Eliel Brothers
L. Kaufman
D. J. Hennessy & CO
Butte Dry Goods
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