Congress Debates Utah Pension and Wallace McKinley Fight
The week in Congress features debate over the Utah bill and Mexican pension measures. Wallace–McKinley contest resolution ends with Wallace seated after a party line vote, while the House passes an agricultural relief bill and tariff-related measures. Washington notes report party negotiations for adjournment and resignations.
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House
Dibrell
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Minnesota
Bilis
Mississippi
Wallace-McKinley
Abe Houte
McKiniey
Yeas WA Mays
Cemees
Adpecan
Kansas State News Highlights From Local Dispatches
A Kansas State news roundup reports a man killed by a horse kick at about age 55, and Levi Stow’s suicide by strychnine at Galena. It covers a Saline County attorneyship contest injunction, railroad disputes over grain overcharges, a Topeka train incident with arrests, and state officials returning from New York. Also noted are a new Presbyterian church cornerstone, Parsons bank fraud trial, Leavenworth orphan finances, tariff talks, a home entry theft in Salt Creek Valley, a Topeka hospital opening, Island Park plans, state paper bids, and civic celebrations for Lawrence founder Amos Lawrence alongside a McPherson hotel opening.
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Jordan
Levi Stow
Galena House
Galena
J.H. Brown
Wyandotte
Saline County
Washington
Justice Miller
Joseph Moore
Miller
Sheeney
Levi
Atchison
Topeka
Jackson
Topekka
Grick
Smith
New York
Labette County
Oswad
Tax Leavenworth Orphan Asylin
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Sata Pe
Robinson
Sirlicitor McCrary
Union Pacific
Giles Henderson
Found Prairie
Salt, Creek Valley
Leavenworth County
Giles
William Henderson
Downs
Lewis Hanback
Herron and Dixon
Kansas
Fitz John Porter
Arthur
Hanback
Tur
Shawnee County
Tur Atchison Hospital
Santa Fe
Valley Falls
Tur Island Park Association of
Island No. 5
Kansas River
Martin Sickinger
Carl Wartenberger
Adolph Schuele
Joseph Jost, Jr
G. G. Graves
Tite
Issa
C. R. Williamson
St Louis
Gam Brothers & Co
Chicago
Kanssas
C. C. Berke
Suneway
Hannibal Ter Bisband
Sastvns
Kansas City
Armourdale
Amos IL Lawrence
Lawrence
University At
Osborne
Brazil
McPherson
Democrats convene in Topeka choose delegates to national convention
The Kansas Democratic state convention at Topeka chose Governor Glick to head the delegation with Fenlow Perry and Madson as delegates at large. Officers were elected, and districts named their Chicago convention delegates and alternates. At large delegates later chosen by acclamation included Fenton Perry and others. The session adjourned sine die after formal resolutions.
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Perry
Madson
Chicago
H. Miles Moore
John T. Burris
Johnson County
Thomas S. Jones
Hamilton County
C. C. Black
Winfeld
Leavenworth
Jones
BD. J. van Meter
Ford County
W. H. Hamilton
Chase County
Committee On Rules and Order of
C. C. Barnes
Atchison
Ed Carroll
Janes Graham
Pottawatomile County
W. C. Butts
Jefferson County
B. J. Sheridan
Paola
W. Jones
Join
A. Smith Devi
Lane
Wyandotte
C c. Black
Cowley County
Angell Mathewson
Labette County
M. McEmery
Montgomery County
Mannin
Elk County
John Milehan
Topecka
Harry EB. Norton
Joseph E. Kraemer
Toaniloh
W. Stone
Ars
William Hendrix
Elliott
Kiley County
Joli Schuyler
Elis County
J. H. Shaffer
Jewell County
Ed. M. Harris
Lincoln
J. Webb Bertram
Decatur County
C. F. Dickenbeker
Burton County
W. F. Pettillon Ford
J. W. South
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Want
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Joseph E. Riggs
Lawrence
W. H. Coe
Doniphan
C. Beason
Sumner County
F. W. Frasius
Cloud County
John Foster
Saline County
Frasius
N. Beason
National Greenback Convention at Indianapolis Nominates Weaver
The National Greenback Convention met in Indianapolis on May 28 to organize and nominate candidates. General John B. Weaver was elected chairman with a state vice president roster and secretaries from several states. The platform urged greenback monetary reform, anti-monopoly policies, land and railroad reform, a graduated income tax, labor protections, tariff critique, and constitutional amendments on suffrage and pensions. Butler was named presidential nominee and A. M. West vice president.
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W. P. Innis
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Rhode
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Supreme Court
Congress
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